FoxQuirk 🦊 @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
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This takes something which could have taken them 20 minutes while they watch Netflix and turned it into 2-3 hours of painful code review stretched across 3 weeks. It's easy for you to actually cost the maintainer MORE time than they would have spent doing it themselves.
But isn't mentoring part of being a maintainer? Shouldn't you expect to sometimes spend 3 hours in code review on something that could have taken 20 minutes. Isn't that important for onboarding new project members?
Yes and no.
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This leads to two problems. First, you've forced the maintainer to do something they were probably intentionally delaying. While a bit of that is expected in the maintainer role (that's code review for you), one of the hardest parts of being a maintainer is time management, balancing code review with getting your own work done. It's precisely because these kinds of refactors look easy that it's easy to generate a flood of patches which DOS the maintainer.
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This is a bit of a #subtoot but I'm going to say it anyway:
If you're a new person to any project, open-source or not, doing "maintainer work" of re-organizing the code-base isn't as helpful as you think it is.
Go ahead and re-read that if you have to. Yes, every single project has a backlog of that sort of work. This file should be there. That include crosses module boundaries. Yes, it's a mess. Yes, it needs to be cleaned up. No, you're not the person to do it.
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What this says to me is if anyone anywhere is still using Twitter as a commercial promotion / news feed, they *should not do so*, because Twitter will be not only withholding your new posts from logged-out visitors, they will be doing so in a "silent"/misleading way. A user who gets one of your tweets and follows it to your profile, rather than seeing news, will see a random post you didn't select, *and will not realize anything is missing*. They may then assume you have no more recent news.
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Something I didn't discuss above, but is interesting:
I mentioned Twitter-logged-out users can't view links to profiles. What I didn't mention is you can still *access* profiles— — *sort of*.
Imagine someone links you a tweet, and you click the there-linked profile logged out. If you access the profile in this way, following a link from *within* Twitter, it *will* show you the profile
*Inaccurately*.
The tweets will be shown out of order (popular first?), and pinned tweets will not be shown.
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"how will i explain trans people to my kids" you see johnny, some people are just intrinsically sick as fuck and cool as hell, so they dress how they want and name themselves how they want and sometimes hack their own bodies to look how they want instead of letting other people tell them what to do
Search through a container in c++ to see if it contains a value without having to use iterators making the code look all ugly challenge level impossible
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i think we should start calling AI what it is: "Corporate Piracy".
para$$$ites have paid data hoarders to scrape whole websites, digital libraries and archives filled to the brim with copyrighted work; so they can repackage all that knowledge as if it were the serendipitous labor of sentient ghostly robots.
it's bullshit.
if unpaid sampling is copyright infringement; then scraping our social media and blogs, and passing it as their own knowledge, has to be as well.
bitch better have my money
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This is the real, human cost of mass surveillance of everyone's private digital communications.
If we actually care about keeping people safe, we need more end-to-end encryption not less.
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doctor: the great clown pagliacci is in town. go to see him, it will make you feel better. tickets start at £10.
patient: wow, thanks doctor, i will go and do that. (leaves)
pagliacci: (taking off doctor costume) hehe another sale
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Reddit users figured out that some bot crawlers scrape popular threads and auto-generate AI articles based on user comments, so they decided to create some fake hype to confuse them.
https://www.reddit.com/r/wow/comments/154umm2/im_so_excited_they_finally_introduced_glorbo/
It worked.
This is why real journalism matters.
That feeling when trying to add tests to code that mixes file reads/writes together with all the logic
Starting to realize that I simultaneously spend too much time on social media and is too inactive on social media
I also end up playing games before I work on hobby projects if I have any free time, cause idk, I wanna play games too
So many hobby projects I want to do, so little time to do them
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#introductions We cobbled together a free-to-use dialup ISP out of trash and spare parts. dialup.world is composed of four modems for simultaneous connections delivering speeds up to 33.6K.
This is currently a bunch of USR Sportsters hooked into Linux, but we are currently working on setups with Cisco gear, as well as some musings in 56K, other weird dialup appliances, and retro networking.
We also supply dialup access to the WebTV Redialed project (http://webtv.zone/) which means if you dig your WebTV out of storage and hook it into a phone line, it *just works* with no modification needed on your part!
I invite you to watch our bad ideas become reality.
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Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
