Xandra Granade 🏳️‍⚧️

Sometimes I write intimate eschatologies or words about technology and math. Sometimes I make things by burning them with light or squeezing them through a small, hot tube. Sometimes I push water with a stick while sitting in a tiny boat.

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2024-10-13 21:39:43

Learned about another friend down with COVID*.
Every time someone in my life gets COVID, I just get so angry again. This shit is actually solvable, we have the solutions, we could actually just decide as a society to stop having COVID.
*online so no exposure

2024-10-06 21:02:21

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@npub1rv4…ft5j I shutter to think what would happen if someone plugged that into an actual mini-USB port, expecting it to be an adapter.

2024-09-26 04:27:25

In the context of some locked toots, good grief I'm not sure if I'm emotionally ready for all the breathless news coverage once the AI bubble finally bursts.
Getting out in front:
- Spicy autocomplete was never going to be an AGI.
- Plagarism machines were never going to arrive at a conceptual understanding of anything, and hooking them up to chatbots was never a good idea.

2024-09-16 17:25:56

That's bold, Mozilla, given that 100% of the unwanted AI that I've had pushed on me in the past two weeks has been from you.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/148/396/161/737/730/original/5186ea148b0b32ce.png

2024-09-15 02:11:29

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Sill only 1440p, too. Why do gamers hate 4K so much?

2024-09-14 22:45:21

The fictional cultural custom of using "this is the way" as a call and response, itself a clear nod to Taoism, has been incorporated into vaguely left-wing social media groups in ways that identify the "way" and by extension the Tao as progressive praxis.
In doing so, online progressive movements have effectively stated the claim that true praxis is unknowable. In this essay I will...
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2024-09-13 22:44:00

Whoever keeps sending me spam about conferences on ChatGPT in education 8s *very* much so barking up the wrong tree.

2024-09-09 22:00:32

What I love about this study is that it's not at all about AI, it's about how robust humans are when AIs *or any other automated systems* return wrong answers.
That kind of understanding is critical *even if* considering an application where ML methods work well and can be ethically developed. It's also robust to AI hype, in that it in no way relies on technical criticisms of LLMs.
https://mas.to/@fritzoids/113097777800067093

2024-09-07 18:50:06

Complaining about "partisanship" or "polarization" is a code smell, so far as I'm concerned. It's true that the polarization isn't great, and it's true that the two-party system has fucked over US politics, but those are mostly symptoms — focusing on those tends to privilege "moderate" politics.
The most basic problem with moderation being that the more extreme the right gets, the more right-wing "moderate" gets.

2024-09-04 00:51:44

Rust is really just C with a very strict linter, a documentation toolchain, a package manager, and an alternative preprocessor.

2024-09-03 20:37:08

Heads-up: I make typos and grammatical errors on here. Sometimes I fix them. Sometimes I don't. This isn't generally my more polished writing, but tends to be more casual.
Making mistakes in casual writing and not fixing them doesn't make me a bad writer.

2024-09-03 19:31:26

You celebrate Inbox Zero, I celebrate PM2.5 Zero. We are not the same.

2024-09-03 18:49:30

Is it an isekai if the character who has been yoinked into a different world isn't the main character?

2024-08-30 07:28:45

This meeting could have been a zine.

2024-08-26 22:04:41

This is really fucking bad. How much worse are "allies" going to let things get before they start to fucking care?
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/113/030/583/459/811/057/original/1ca840dbe633b8fb.png

2024-08-16 15:40:19

Seeing more discourse about Rust again, I want to chime in with some of my personal experiences and feelings to help illustrate how complex some of this shit is, and why the C/C++ "git gud" approach to software dev can be so grating to read both as a software developer and as someone who has left that part of my life largely behind.

2024-08-15 23:09:05

If you have a list of announcements for your community space or local business, please, please, *please* make it available as an RSS feed.

2024-08-13 03:28:31

Also, fuck Chris Rufo in particular for making Seattle a worse place to live, and for trying to make it even worse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Rufo
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/952/586/144/015/131/original/707b8f738d077735.png

2024-08-13 00:36:20

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I shudder to think of all the other trigger laws on the books, waiting for the SCOTUS to unwind even more precedent.

2024-08-12 21:11:53

As a trans woman and a former figure skater: ell oh fucking ellz.
https://mstdn.social/@ElleGray/112950425228857656

2024-08-10 20:11:19

Proxy Please: Help People Connect to Signal https://signal.org/blog/proxy-please/
!NewsShare

2024-08-09 00:11:05

WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? WHY ARE MAJOR CAMPAIGN LOGISTICS BEING WORKED OUT ON X. YOU KNOW, THE SOCIAL MEDIA SITE RUN BY AND FOR THE RIGHT WING. NO NOT THAT ONE, THE OTHER ONE.
https://www.latimes.com/politics/story/2024-08-08/2024-election-trump-news-conference-harris-september-debate
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/929/161/073/695/708/original/c524bbab4d2e83d4.png

2024-07-30 17:22:17

KOSA passed the Senate 91–3. Of those 3, two are Republicans; this might be the first time I've ever agreed with Rand Paul.
Almost no Democrats stood up to protect us, and almost every one of them actively threw us under the bus.

2024-07-29 23:10:01

Why is it always the student has become the master, and never the master has become the student? What do the Jedi have against lifelong learning and continuing education?

2024-07-26 01:54:41

Those who forget horse_ebooks are doomed to reinvent it, package it into a service, spend terawatts of power on it, and pretend like it's the second coming.

2024-07-24 16:39:11

Has anyone written about TESCREAL being a radicalization pipeline to induct nominal liberals into right-wing politics?

2024-07-21 21:30:35

I don't know what happened, but every time there was a knockback effect in #ffxiv I went absolutely flying, and party members saw me as being very far from the AoE markers. I tried running a speed test, and for some reason I was getting upload pings of over a full second.
Rebooted my router and modem, and the ping went down by two orders of magnitude. Hopefully that will allow me to actually run combat again.

2024-07-21 19:20:25

Every single person I've run into railing against "DEI hires" or whatever is some absolute fuckhead who *absolutely* would never have been hired without their immense privilege.

2024-07-20 15:22:26

"Time is a flat circle."
Me: wait, aren't *all* circles flat? By definition? Or are we living in a non-Euclidian space and no one told me? When did we move out of Cartesian coordinates, and do I still have a chance to pack my bag? AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

2024-07-12 00:30:06

Be gay, do crimes (like not advertising on Twitter).
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/07/elon-musk-calls-for-criminal-prosecution-of-x-ad-boycott-perpetrators/

2024-07-11 18:43:31

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I'd add that's even more true in specialized domains. It's absurd to hire experts in Thing G then micromanage them the whole time without any context for the technical details that make G work.

2024-07-10 23:47:33

Quantum computing is potentially quite real, but until that potential is reified it's difficult to make money of it. Inherently, even though quantum computing might work and is reasonably expected to work one day, it is ultimately speculative in its current form.
In the meantime, then, the most effective ways of making money off quantum computing are by selling parts or selling lies.

2024-07-08 17:33:52

This fucking sucks. Privacy matters, and end to end encryption is critical --- seeing a company whose done so much good work in those spaces flush their credibility away to chase TESCREAL fever dreams makes it that much harder to advocate for privacy and security.
https://mastodon.social/@protonprivacy/112750881301662641

2024-07-05 22:02:24

I swear, every pro-AI post and article I read spends more time talking about what AI "could" do, with zero justification as to why we should expect that to be true, let alone the most likely outcome of deploying LLMs.

2024-06-28 03:00:09

So many unsettling things in that debate tonight, from the two broadly agreeing that Israel should have the right to raze Palestine, through to the unchecked vitriolic racism dripping from Trump's every word.
I am perhaps most personally unsettled, though, by Trump's challenging the Proud Boys to attack Portland, Minneapolis, and Seattle.

2024-06-22 19:36:19

Advice for folks visiting Fremont for the fair this weekend: don't fucking wear a red baseball cap. I don't care what it says, just don't do it.
#seattle

2024-06-19 02:05:36

Odd question for fellow #Seattle folks, but do you have any suggestions for clocks in the area that would make for some nice photographs? I know of a few, like the green pneumatic one near Republican St, but curious if there's any that others that people like!
Much obliged! ♥

2024-06-17 11:04:48

One of these days I should write a quick thread about the difference between dB, dBI, and dBm. It's way more simple than it sounds, but I've not often seen good and accessible explanations.

2024-06-06 20:22:41

Yay, it's here! And just in time for @npub12ss…c7zf's talk at Town Hall this evening!
https://townhallseattle.org/event/annalee-newitz-with-lindy-west/
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/571/536/965/351/348/original/5c6cea60a2ffd130.jpg

2024-06-05 19:11:08

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I dunno, it's telling you that San Francisco.
That seems pretty accurate? After all, it's true that San Francisco.

2024-06-04 19:23:20

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Ah, that's a really good point, yeah. I'm sure there's some who are genuinely apathetic, but you're quite right to call out the need for systemic reform there as well.

2024-06-04 18:55:47

Trump indeed did encounter a different criminal justice system: namely, one that works broadly like it does in the textbooks, and that is mostly fair in the ways that we are told to believe it is fair.
That is not the criminal justice system that most of the rest of us would likely encounter.

2024-05-28 01:57:22

One thing in common between "Linux is hard" and "Mastodon UX sucks" is that there's a tension between centralized institutions making choices on your behalf and having to make those choices yourself.
That's not to trivialize --- those kinds of choices can be quite hard to make if you're not either an expert or in a community that benefits from expertise. Centralized decisions include some awful power dynamics, but also can genuinely remove some burdens.

2024-05-22 18:59:49

By way of being a bit more concrete, I want to share a personal experience of how using Linux in a world defined by Windows and macOS goes wrong for me in my own life.
I offer that personal experience in the hopes that it is illustrative of broader experiences others may have, and might elucidate the tension between "just use Linux!" and Windows/macOS being the defaults.

2024-05-22 16:36:28

"Go touch grass" is problematic because it shifts the responsibility for the enclosure and disappearance of well-maintained urban green spaces onto individuals, and fails in the same way as any other shirking of collection action onto individual responsibility.

2024-05-21 23:57:53

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@npub1pfe…e2dm You're not wrong. I'd settle for first-party drivers (not reverse engineered!) for stuff like Razer mice and headsets.

2024-05-21 23:50:03

I hate grammar checkers, and I think they've done net harm to the English language by perpetuating a prescriptive understanding of a particularly white dialect of English over a descriptivist understanding of the language in all of its wonderful diversity and variants. Ultimately, prescriptivism is at odds with art and culture.
(This is not a dunk, but taking another post as inspiration for a tangential soapbox. OP's original point is a good one, and I strongly agree.)
https://wandering.shop/@troublewithwords/112481011900904074

2024-05-21 23:44:55

Odd curiosity, but given how much money Valve has thrown into making gaming work on Linux, such that now many games mostly work on Linux, I wonder if and when gaming *hardware* companies will put more effort into Linux so that they can say "works with Steam Deck."

2024-05-21 19:50:15

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Trust me, as a neurodiverse nerd for whom suboptimality causes an almost physical itching sensation, I get it. It's tempting to put abstractions and "ideal" behaviors above actual observed behavior.
With something like Recall, that could get queer kids killed by outing them to their families.

2024-05-21 19:47:57

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"Well, people shouldn't do that" is already dubious enough when discussing dev tooling — sometimes reasonable, but always a culture smell.
When it comes to the operating system that is the de facto default for approximately *a billion* people, you've got to respond to how people actually use their devices.

2024-05-21 19:32:14

One more thought on MS Recall.
"Users" are an abstraction, and it's simply not true that they map 1:1 or even many:1 onto people. Families do sometimes, in practice, share logins on family computers.
Saying storage is user-local doesn't fully work given that the "user" abstraction doesn't neatly map onto the way people use computers in practice.

2024-05-15 21:07:41

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I fear you're right. It's amazing how quickly transphobia just becomes every other kind of -phobia, it's a really effective wedge issue right about now.

2024-05-15 20:47:40

It took less than one month for the Cass Review to be weaponized against queer cis folks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-69013002

2024-05-15 02:59:48

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@npub1pfe…e2dm It's weird, but I unironically love it. It's been kind of life changing to put a Synology up on a tailnet and use it for everything.

2024-05-13 21:03:55

Techbros seem to have internalized that the plural of anecdote is not data, but seem to have failed to realize that the plural of data is not understanding.
https://social.vivaldi.net/@RustyBertrand/112434495749042894

2024-05-09 23:41:42

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@npub1pfe…e2dm WinRT is, like so many things at Microsoft, good in paper, well-designed, then undermined by management at release and ultimately abandoned in favor of the next promotion.

2024-05-05 22:13:34

Optimism is a political value, and one that's highly contextual at that. Being optimistic in the face of overwhelming opposition is a form of radical progressiveism, but being optimistic about a proposed technology or policy by ignoring the potential or likely harm is a form of reactionary conservatism.
It behooves us to be responsibly optimistic, rather than either naive or defeatist.

2024-05-04 19:13:56

What the backlash to Kristi Noem's memoir shows beyond the shadow of a doubt is that white people by and large care more about dogs than white women, people of color, trans and nonbinary people, disabled people, Palestinian victims of genocide, or any other number of people that Republicans (and too many Democrats) are all too happy to kill.

2024-04-23 18:51:57

Who called it "Logan" and not "Children of X-Men"?

2024-04-19 18:23:39

Happy computer touching was a zero interest rate phenomenon.

2024-04-16 03:19:32

Lots of folks talking about the Supreme Court effectively gutting the right to protest, but how did I only just now learn that they *also* today gave the green light for Idaho to ban gender affirming care?
It feels like that should be a big story, too.
(Via Erin in the Morning on Substack, which doesn't allow linking to comments.)

2024-04-16 00:30:51

One last thought on xz. I don't suspect that xz was somehow uniquely vulnerable, but rather it happened to get caught. Focusing on those coincidences that led to it being detected misses the systemic issued at play.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/278/072/921/521/135/original/55c4ad393a040266.png

2024-04-12 19:32:51

Good fucking gods, the rest of the Gab AI "characters."
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/259/903/211/426/089/original/3ce14b917758217a.jpg
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/259/905/828/509/433/original/22db06ebab17d1de.jpg

2024-04-08 20:49:14

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It's ok and good to be playful. I know "adulting" has come to mean having to deal with the crushing responsibilities of life under capitalism, but... we can't survive if it's *all* bad.

2024-04-08 20:47:39

It kind of sucks that "adult toy" is a euphemism for "sex toy." Like sure, those are all well and good, but what about poseable figures that break if you look at them the wrong way, or gunpla, or ESP32-C6 dev boards, or completely impractical computers that beg to be called cyberdecks, or 3D printers, or infrared cameras, or overly fancy drones, or record players and vinyl albums, or anything that still has a floppy drive in 2024?

2024-04-08 20:06:07

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@npub1a84…wlgu Sounds like some folks in other parts of the world might make good use of then?
https://vis.social/@janeadams/112237376396180316

2024-04-07 01:30:41

I complain. A lot. It's because I'm an optimist at heart. Not only do I believe that a better world is possible, or even within reach, but that a better world lies only a few ideas away from ours.
I think there's immense value in seeing what's wrong today not as being inevitable, but things that can be changed if we care enough?

2024-04-04 21:33:07

Fuck me, fuck everything, fuck this whole climate-burning labor-killing fraud. I just want to touch computers, not constantly guard against rogue scams taking over evey aspect of my online life.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/215/088/351/238/019/original/3107ea9556654254.jpg

2024-04-02 00:47:15

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Oh, goodness, yes. I love that it even let you redefine True and False if you fought it hard enough...

2024-04-02 00:43:00

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Walruses, expression decorators, and type hinting games all in one snippet? Goodness.
(Also, wow, Python has come such a long way since the ol 2.x days.)

2024-04-01 05:45:31

If I ever feel bad about starting and abandoning too many projects, I can at least reassure myself that there isn't a Wikipedia page about all the shit I haven't done.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joel_Schumacher%27s_unrealized_projects

2024-03-31 23:43:37

I wish the society that I lived in could find it in itself to fund and support anything that isn't extractive.
(This is a toot about xz and OSS in general. This is a toot about weird art. This is a toot about public transit. This is a toot about decentralized social media. This is a toot about local investigative journalism. This is a toot about LLMs slurping up the whole commons.)

2024-03-31 18:47:15

I get I'm a baby trans in most ways, having started transitioning only about four years ago. Ever since then, though, I've felt very visible as being a trans woman --- before, I was an accomplished researcher in quantum computing, even collaborating in the design of the first fully adaptive quantum language.
After, though? It suddenly felt like people saw being trans as the most important thing about me.
If you're an ally this TDoV, see the trans people around you in their totalities.

2024-03-27 20:04:15

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In some sense, this is just the insight of "Obergefell v. Hodges: the database engineering perspective" all over again, but it's absolutely clear that data models reflect *and constrain* modalities of thought. If your database has wife_id and husband_id columns, then gay marriage, polyamory, and transgender people are all considered exceptional.
https://qntm.org/support

2024-03-27 19:56:28

I think I may have been nerdsniped into thinking about what a software / data model version of the Safir--Whorf Hypothesis looks like.

2024-03-27 17:45:40

I've said it before, but goodness I can't wait for this "AI" bubble to burst. We are quite overdue for another AI winter.

2024-03-26 23:20:10

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Yeah, I didn't get how running things through a split--tunnel VPN broke HTTPS unless they were doing some fuckery with root CAs, but then why wouldn't the Snap app catch that? Definitely something odd...

2024-03-26 22:14:00

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@npub1pfe…e2dm Also a great example as to why e2e encryption is needed, not just HTTPS.

2024-03-26 17:16:26

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@npub1rv4…fmvg Supply chain.
https://stockroom.wandering.shop/media_attachments/files/112/163/115/464/551/190/original/b775c1b75795a581.jpg

2024-03-14 18:37:10

There is a conflict between "open source is good because software should not seek to reduce user freedom or to extract rent from users" and "open source is good because it allows corporations to pool shared infrastructure and to extract value from volunteer labor."
That conflict necessarily rears its head in any consideration of values or ethics in open source projects and communities.

2024-03-10 01:31:23

Developers realize how much work it is to maintain a framework before saying "just fork it" as a solution to all OSS governance issues challenge (impossible).

2024-03-08 20:22:25

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@npub1pfe…e2dm I decided to try and solve my commuting problems by buying a clearance-sale Vespa, and naming it Treachery of Names (or Pipe, for short).

2024-03-02 20:13:29

If I could magically correct one misconception about quantum physics, it would be that Schrodinger's cat isn't intended as an explanation of quantum mechanics, but was him mocking it. Oh, and that he was a prolific child abuser.

2024-02-22 01:42:50

Filament dry boxes are like if dice jails worked.

2024-02-20 22:50:14

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To wit, see the number of tech companies for which tech is mostly or even only a mechanism for implementing logistics, and that would otherwise not be considered "tech" at all.
E.g. Uber, Etsy, and Netflix are each absolutely tech companies but might not have been were tech seen as being more about infrastructure and logistics rather than funding sources and tech monopolies.

2024-02-20 22:47:07

Hot take that I only partially believe, but that is made unnecessarily inflammatory for the sake of social media brevity:
Nearly every bad thing in tech traces back to that the tech sector is one of the first to grow in post-Reagan disruption of labor rights and antitrust regulations, such that it is uniquely concentrated in a few unaccountable effective monopolies.

2024-02-17 00:09:03

A form of transphobia that I rarely see discussed, but that really fucking sucks: credit scores. My credit history is basically gone, thanks to TransUnion and Equifax not understanding what a legal name change is, and thanks to them being entirely unaccountable private companies that somehow govern your whole financial life.
I bring this up to help cis folks understand what their trans family and friends go through on the regular.

2024-01-17 01:56:10

It's always DNS.

2024-01-16 18:49:58

Today's Cat and Girl is essential (and heartbreaking) reading for anyone who is still on the fence about the proliferation of "AI," and its catastrophic effects on art, artists, and artistic labor.
https://catandgirl.com/4000-of-my-closest-friends/

2024-01-04 00:48:02

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@npub1utv…87lr @npub1n6l…zmz9 The __MACOSX folder definitely communicates just *how* fresh a drop that is, goodness.

2024-01-04 00:48:02

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@npub1utv…87lr @npub1n6l…zmz9 The __MACOSX folder definitely communicates just *how* fresh a drop that is, goodness.

2023-12-29 05:30:51

It is absurd to me that we live in a copyright regime under which it's against copyright to transfer a video you bought from one device to another, but where it's ok for a giant corporation can take every word you've ever written, put them in a blender, and sell them at rates that undercut labor rights.
https://nerdculture.de/@gisiger/111660488963355090

2023-12-15 21:49:33

Another day in which I get bitten by an example where MyPy intentionally sacrifices completeness for no benefit in soundness.

2023-12-14 07:03:12

If the fediverse turns into Facebook, but paid for and operated by volunteers, well... I'll miss you, you wild bunch of disaster posters.
If things work out OK for a change, I'll be proud to keep on posting.

2023-12-06 05:14:27

Hot take: more things that are single-user, family, or small-team scale should just be files. You should be able to copy a directory or sync it with a NAS or cloud service or whatever and carry all the stuff you need to use some application that way.
Photo albums used to be that way, but now it's all in stuff that's deep in some DB schema that's impossible to move around without being a DBA.
Copying files is easy, though.

2023-12-05 21:14:26

Bookmarked for whenever anyone tries to tell me that Bluesky is better than Mastodon because it's also federated.
https://toot.io/@jan/111527498173087190

2023-12-05 19:18:31

Is Pipenv still a thing that folks use in practice? It perfectly solves a problem I'm running into, but that has been *incredibly* frustrating to try and solve with Poetry, et al.
#Python

2023-11-28 23:47:05

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@npub1pfe…e2dm
In no particular order:
- Techno-utopiaists will happily plot proxies for economic justice, call it technological progress, and do no further analysis.
- Gah, being in gifted and special-ed programs at once fucked me up in ways I still feel thirty-odd years later.

2023-11-20 03:43:55

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@npub1nlt…t44t I'm not quite sure. Maybe something along the lines of "I'm running full-disk encryption on a Linux machine that I own and operate; my threat model isn't your threat model, and it would be very nice if you fucking asked first before taking destructive actions based on what you believe my threats to be."

2023-11-20 03:34:14

Ugh, I get it's more tech ranting, but whomever decided that LibreWolf should clear all cookies and history *by default* and *without any prompt informing you*, and then also that LibreWolf should reset that preference silently with updates..... I would like to have words with them. Some of those words may be pointy.

2023-11-18 18:18:58

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@npub1psd…9sr7 In which Musk learns the hard way (or catastrophically fails to learn) that speech isn't always free, but can be very expensive indeed.

2023-09-04 18:20:02

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@npub14cw…hfwc You don't make anything safer by adding arbitrary extra footguns that make it easier to make mistakes. A safe power tool is one that fails open, not that fails in ways that cause surprising and unanticipated behavior.

2023-08-19 18:13:35

The fediverse is great. Where else can you stay mad about 23-year-old political crimes and find camaraderie?

2023-08-19 17:35:34

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@npub1pfe…e2dm @npub1nyq…vvvs Not just in Texas... I mean, I'm in Seattle and once accidentally commuted to work in someone's Lotus.
Longer version: they listed that they wanted to host a carpool group, then when they saw only one person signed up, switched to their Lotus and took the 520 bridge at ridiculous speed.

2023-08-18 19:12:33

It's been longer than I meant since my last newsletter (I blame launching a company, attending Fan Fest, and getting sick), but my newest post is now up: A Progressive Case for the Fediverse.
Read at https://www.xgranade.com/a-progressive-case-for-the-fediverse/, subscribe at https://buttondown.email/xgranade/archive/a-progressive-case-for-the-fediverse/.
Thanks as well to @npub10r7…2hd9 and @npub1rv4…fmvg for feedback on this one!

2023-08-16 02:45:09

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@npub1pfe…e2dm The same could be said for implicit and/or dynamic typing still being typing...

2023-08-12 19:56:32

I think the ultimate tell for me that "AI" is somewhere between useless and harmful is that I have yet to see a single end-user focused "AI" product that has been delivered without violating user consent.
Services keep adding "AI" training clauses to ToS, making new "AI" features opt-out or even impossible to turn off. Existing products add "AI" in unannounced updates, and so forth.
End users by large don't want this, so it has to be forced down our throats instead.

2023-08-09 18:23:36

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@npub1ul2…5sjq 100% would boop.