linear cannon / is on Nostr

some girl who writes code sometimes
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i live in the midwest and do tech things
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i like old computers and weird operating systems and writing emulators
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i have many girlfriends
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sometimes i make music as 'ersatz waterfall'
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consumerism is destructive
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i do not have a mastodon account
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if you send me a follow request and you already follow me on twitter, or recently migrated instances, dm me so i know who you are

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2023-12-23 18:19:16

i got distributed builds with icecream working across most of the x86_64 machines in the house
it is indescribably pleasing to kick off a build and then hear all these computers spin up their fans in unison

2023-10-10 00:21:30

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i have outright deleted a major patchset i wrote for a project under freedesktop.org stewardship, which someone else is probably going to write again in a year or two, because i realized the project had a real-name policy, and decided it wasn't worth it. i then lost motivation for the cool thing i was working on that needed me to write that patch
this is not the intended effect of a "real-name" policy, but it is the actual effect. and, as the cool kids say, "the system is what it does".
there is no such thing as a "real name". the concept of a "legal name" is fraught, and most certainly is not what you think it is, or what you are looking for, if you are a software developer. many assumptions you have about what a "legal name" is probably are not true.
consider this: the name on my birth certificate is different than the name on my drivers license, and that is different from the names i am called by my friends. those names are all different from what is likely to be on my passport when i get it, and all of those are different than the name i publish my open source projects under. all of these, in different jurisdictions, might or might not be something you could consider a "legal name". which one do you want me to use when i submit a major feature to your library? are you going to turn me away if i try to submit it as "linear cannon"? why? if i have a website and contact information under that name, why does this matter? how is it substantially different than an author of fiction novels publishing under a pen name? does it change if i produce a piece of government-issued documentation with that name on it? why, or why not?
if your real name policy does not answer these questions adequately, then there's a very good chance i'm just going to assume that you're going to turn me away, as has happened to me several times already

2023-10-10 00:09:02

it would be nice if it were actually as easy to contribute to free/open source software as the developers and maintainers of such software claim it is
but meritocracy is a lie, and bullshit policies and procedures (see: "real name" policy) scare away minorities who might otherwise do important work

2023-10-05 21:40:59

i consistently fail to understand why people don't like .pdf files
i like .pdf files. if i have a page-oriented document and i want to send it to someone and be sure what they see is what i meant them to see, i send them a pdf. if someone sends me a document that i might want to store for reference or print, i would want it to be a pdf.
i can open and read a pdf file on my modern desktop computer just as easily as i can on my Quadra 700 from 1991. this is useful, since that Quadra 700 is also the only computer i have that can run my printer. i would not be able to do this if all the files i want to print were not already pdfs, but they are. very rarely, i may have to re-process the pdf for this to work. this is very rare.
if i download manuals from the internet, i prefer them to be in pdf format. what am i supposed to do with an .html file? open it as a tab in my browser? that seems weird. i'm reading a manual, not a website. and the .pdf format lets me have a nice table of contents in a collapsible bar on the side and quickly navigate or search for things in the document i want to find. you can do that in html as well, sure, but you have to go out of your way as the author of the manual to do that. pdf just has it.
what other options would there be? .docx? .odf? why? i'm not doing word processing. i'm not editing a thing. i have a read-only document that i have no intent of editing and which i may want to print. a word processor is rather heavy-handed for that, no?

2023-09-02 20:47:04

i wish firefox were good

2023-09-01 16:34:15

type of girl who uses mksh as the default shell on all of her systems and then gets slightly miffed when her coworkers' shell scripts contain bashisms
(it me. im the girl)

2023-08-24 03:00:50

consider:
software license that is the GPL if you are part of or donate to the FSF, AGPL if you're google, public domain if you're transgender, and CDDL if none of the previous apply

2023-08-06 15:52:03

i love public transit