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Sooo, are you all just asleep or is something wrong with the hairy elephant?

The learning has begun πŸ¦‰
I wrote a little thing today to get used to Python. It worked, I like the 🐍 already! Have a look at my firststeps branch if you like to find out how simple substitution ciphers work.

tbh I don't get the tired / wired meme, can someone explain :o

so hi i am lian, i am adhd autistic and also a spoonie and a cripple and enby and ace. i like watching tv shows, currently i am very fond of the expanse and agents of shield.

i care a lot about social justice and i have 2 lovely ginger cats.

i am also new here and i would like to get to know more people so maybe let me know if you are interested, & please share so i can find many peoples? thanks!

I just hope her "little house" can not fall down 😨

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Look this disabled cat has a very nice home <3 with a nice place in front of the fish tank!

imgur.com/gallery/UKtKr

And of course there is always work.

I really hope I don't crash to hard.

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Ok, everythin is fine. I forgot. I have to make slides for the presentation. The void will not get me. Yet.

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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.

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Could you please not boost toots with sexual content without CWs?

Thank you -.-

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.

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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: gitlab.com/pcode/firststeps/wi

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.

🐩 🦊 🐈 πŸ¦„ πŸͺ 🐼 🐨 🐧 🐌

"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

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.
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