Jules the fairy @Jules@computerfairi.es
oh and tea, please! very queer and autistic. disability. fibre. they-pronouns.
not much tech-related tooting but feelings and everything.
I like tea but: http://ko-fi.com/A674QB4
Joined Apr 2017
And of course there is always work.
I really hope I don't crash to hard.
Ok, everythin is fine. I forgot. I have to make slides for the presentation. The void will not get me. Yet.
I am back from the post office.
It is done. I'm free.
What do I do now? O.O
This applies to boosting gnusocial (what are they calles? posts?) too.
Could you please not boost toots with sexual content without CWs?
Thank you -.-
yay @slooploon arrived 🐈
I am a bit disappointed that they didn't offer the cover to be purple, so i went for a boring very appropriate dark blue. I would have liked my computer science thesis to cause some irritated looks.
This is very sad. Purple should be an accepted color for these kinds of things.
The first time I arrived at the copyshop, I had to learn that Windows is unable to deal with multiple partitions on a thumb drive. I had to go back home (by bike), by then it was raining.
Then I went back there, prepared with only my relevant thesis data on a freshly formatted thumbdrive. It worked and the rain had stopped.
Now I couldn't go to the post office right away, because I have to wait for 1 hour until I am allowed to open the books to place my signature.
So here I am! Back home m)
btw, I added some ressources with lists of programming tasks / project ideas to the firststeps wiki: https://gitlab.com/pcode/firststeps/wikis/home
In case anyone is looking for ideas where to start.
I really have to go and print my thesis but I'm scared. It's good. It's ready. But it feels so final.
Maybe I am not very good at finishing things.
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"Just ignore them, when they are being assholes and wait. One day you will teach them something and then they will magically understand."
You obviously never had to deal with all the nice tech-dudes who get aggressive whenever someone, who is not one of the guys, knows more than them. Or is bold enough to teach them things.
This is what many of us have to deal with all the time.
You don't know it? -> Lol haha stupid.
You know more than me? -> YOU ARE WRONG I NEVER FAIL AWAIT MY REVENGE
Jules the fairy
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I expect with the popularity of Mastodon there will be pressure to add a ton of features to make it more like Facebook or whatever. This may be tempting, especially if you are a young developer and there are folks waving a lot of cash under your nose.
For any privacy related features I would pause and not rush into doing anything. If you get this sort of thing wrong then there can be a lot of bad fallout and you'll probably lose whatever popularity you might have had. A suggestion would be either to leave privacy alone and keep the fediverse as a purely public space, or to work with W3C on the ActivityPub spec to add encryption features.
A point about privacy is that if you add private keys to the servers and there are enough users then the Lavabit scenario is going to happen. Goons with firearms will show up and demand the keys, and they may be from the gubbermint or not from the gubbermint. It's better to keep the responsibilities and risks on the admins as minimal as possible.
Trying to go it alone and invent a lot of incompatible stuff isn't going to work well. What you end up with is a fractured fediverse, and lack of network effect means that users eventually return to the silos.
For any privacy related features I would pause and not rush into doing anything. If you get this sort of thing wrong then there can be a lot of bad fallout and you'll probably lose whatever popularity you might have had. A suggestion would be either to leave privacy alone and keep the fediverse as a purely public space, or to work with W3C on the ActivityPub spec to add encryption features.
A point about privacy is that if you add private keys to the servers and there are enough users then the Lavabit scenario is going to happen. Goons with firearms will show up and demand the keys, and they may be from the gubbermint or not from the gubbermint. It's better to keep the responsibilities and risks on the admins as minimal as possible.
Trying to go it alone and invent a lot of incompatible stuff isn't going to work well. What you end up with is a fractured fediverse, and lack of network effect means that users eventually return to the silos.
Jules the fairy
boosted
Plus I could upvote all the "Hello, I am a turtle"-like sentences because hello, that's what keeps me motivated
Jules the fairy
boosted
While far from addressing the underlying problems, a way to up/downvote sentences in Duolingo would be super useful. It's enough to see a sexist/heteronormative/cisnormative/annoying sentence once, let me practice that thing in a different context so I don't have to ragequit.
I eat letters for breakfast so my words don't make sense ^^
No that I had my little morning rant, I will go have my thesis printed and sent away. So I'm still in a pretty good mood (and scared, as usual).
You know, all those people who have to deal with this kind of shit don't need your advice on how to adjust to this hurtful and useless culture.
They do need you to use your mansplaining powers to educate your fellow white guys about how their attitude is creating a really bad atmosphere and is killing creativity and curiosity and is making people feel bad.
Soo, the ratio of people who just listen or contribute their experience, to mansplaining dudes who tell me to "just ignore it" (it = the awful atmosphere in tech-world that is killing curiosity and is keeping not-super-confident people from joining the club) is much better than on the birdsite.
But still... . Just ignore everything and everyone that hurts you? Wow, thank you guys, very helpful advice nobody asked for.
oh and tea, please! very queer and autistic. disability. fibre. they-pronouns.
not much tech-related tooting but feelings and everything.
I like tea but: http://ko-fi.com/A674QB4
Joined Apr 2017
