@robpike I'm continuing to write code my way, for my own purposes (for whatever that might be worth).
@mhoye How is this even legal >.<
(If it was only recently made legal, then I withdraw my question; CaaS (Corruption as a Service) is a very hot sector lately.)
Ok Fedi, I'm starting the process of researching solar panels for my barn. I'm a DIY person, so not looking for install recommendations, more interested in what I need to learn in order to do this wisely. Hardware, unexpected gotchas, other things DIY people need to know.
I can build and I am comfortable with electrical work.
So I was bedridden for 16 months, and I've been focusing on getting employed since then. I'm making progress but I'm still up to my ears in debt from being sick for so long, and I'm out of food & rent money.
If you've got a couple dollars, it'd really help. Thanks so much!
@alice It feels like sometimes there's more... hopeful intentionality behind it, though. Not sure how to detect that. :-/
@alice I still have no idea how to tell it apart from casual silliness.
Maybe it's different for asexual sapioromantics (or whatever tf I might be)? :blobcatthink:
@JoBlakely This also reminds me of the "you know what you're getting" trope -- as if that somehow was a positive quality when "what you're getting" is clearly awful from start to finish.
Here's a strange situation:
thousands of #Rust developers use #bacon, #broot, #dysk, or #lazy-regex every single day — tools I wrote, maintain, and improve for free.
Their companies, though? None of them want to hire their author.
If you use my tools at work and your company does #Rust, I'd really appreciate a hand landing a job or freelance mission. A boost goes a long way. 🙏🦀
@somecat You are, indeed, absolutely some cat.
Keep being that cat. ^.^
If you see someone asking for help with using Mastodon and the wider Fediverse, please feel free to tag me into the thread.
I'm especially trying to help new or non-technical people who want straightforward easy-to-understand advice 🙂
(Also feel free to message or reply if you want help with something yourself!)
Lately I've been thinking about how #Gentoo is perceived by people. So often they're stuck in the "ricer" mindset: Gentoo is being built from source, so it must be ZOMG fast. And if it isn't, then what's the point?
If I were to make four points for Gentoo (to stop myself from making more), they would be:
1. Gentoo is independent.
There is no company behind Gentoo. There is no business plan. It's made and maintained by volunteers. Driven by passion and not profit incentive. And we want to keep it that way.
2. Gentoo aims to be secure.
We are maintaining our own infrastructure to reduce the risk of being hijacked. We're securing our distribution channels and mirrors using OpenPGP. We're only using Codeberg (which we really appreciate) and GitHub as mirrors (with OpenPGP commit signatures) and contribution channels. We have a dedicated security team, who works with the developers to keep packages free of vulnerabilities and our users informed.
3. Gentoo is made by humans.
We banned LLM contributions two years ago, and never regretted it. We didn't "wait and see", we took decisive action, and if we got left behind, it's only for the better. Unfortunately, in today's LLM-ridden world we can't stop slop software from being packaged in Gentoo without sacrificing our commitment to keep packages up to date, but we try to keep the worst offenders (like copywashed chardet) at bay.
4. Gentoo supports sustainability.
This may sound ironic when so many of us build everything from source, but we're actually trying to make computing sustainable. Gentoo's source-first nature makes it inherently flexible. We try our best to support a plethora of older and less common hardware. We go against the flow and still try to provide a workable system on hardware that is not supported by Rust or V8. And on top of that, we do our best to provide binary packages for a variety of configurations.
Of course, that's not all. I want Gentoo to be reliable and stable, to be oriented towards privacy by default, to be welcome and respectful.
And all these things ultimately depend on people working on Gentoo, and contributing to Gentoo. We always need more people that share these principles and want to help us achieve them.
What do you appreciate in Gentoo?
@JoBlakely Good song for the centrist / establishment Dems. (Meanwhile, it would be nice if the GOPpers would stop doing things, because the things they do are always awful.)
@GramrgednAngel My brain says "sank" is an action ("the missile sank the ship") while "sunk" is a passive state ("the ship was sunk [by a missile]").
(I know there are parts-of-speech vocab words for those two usages but I can't remember them at the moment; they're sunk too deeply in the weeds of my dendritic hinterlands.)
...for whatever that might be worth.
Whatever you do, don't use #CashApp. Their support will simply insist you repeat the steps that aren't working, won't fix it, and when you don't want to be their customer anymore, they will not allow you to close your account. Even after filing formal complaints, they will refuse to close your account or delete your info. Their business model is to just keep customers without consent. They are absolutely untrustworthy!
Please boost far and wide, warn others!