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Cake day: June 11th, 2023

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  • I once stumbled upon an image that now I regret I lost. It showed a Venn diagram with two circles, one circle was your personality. The second, smaller and inside the first one but definitely took most of the space of it, was grief.

    Now, most people think that over time the grief gets smaller. But that’s not true at all. The grief doesn’t change, it stays there. But, if you grow as a person, as your personality gets larger, while the grief is the same size, it starts to take less space inside you.

    This is why the worst thing one person can do about grief is doing nothing. If you do nothing, and you stay the same, the grief will always hurt the same.

    But if you start to move, slowly at first as you must. And grieve when you have to. And laugh when you have to. Connect with others, and slowly start moving forward and growing and learning again. You grow, and the grief, little by little, takes less space. And it still hurts, but it hurts a little less.






  • Split versions is usually the first step. Many projects have done so before. Next year there will be some technical reason they can’t keep feature parity with the commercial repository, and it will drift from the OSS repository. Oops, we broke compatibility, sowwy guys. A couple of years later the OSS repository will be closed because it is a security risk. By that point the company and management would’ve drifted so far from the initial values of the project that people won’t notice. Those who cared will have jumped ship to alternatives sooner, those who noticed later will be already too deep into depending on the software that they will keep paying the subscription.

    I have no evidence, but I also don’t have any doubts this is the plan.


  • It currently doesn’t work with Vaultwarden. The Linux client doesn’t accept custom certificates. And the Android client is paid. It is a dead-end for self-hosting.

    The license is also stupidly a single sentence. Which means that use could be nuked at any minute, and any money you use to pay the developer means nothing. If they wanted to kill the project today and nuke the repo, you have no legal rights, the project dies and fuck you and your passwords. That doesn’t exactly inspires confidence.


  • Exactly. People always have a bias or interest. Even if, globally speaking, I or you care for the humanity of all people and the victims of all conflicts. Time, space and resources in general are limited. So our bias, attention span, education, etc. Create a background filter for what we dedicate our time and attention.

    This is why the “of course” clause in leftist rethoric always have to apply. Free Palestine, of course has to necessarily mean a care for all human suffering across the globe. It is implied by default. It is just this three seconds are dedicated to this issue in particular.

    When people have objections they usually include them. Like terfs who can’t shut up about how much they hate trans people even when, on the surface, they seem to be using feminist rethoric. Antisemitic assholes will always include a qualifier to insult Jewish people. And even reject other areas of pro-palestinian discourse. Because they want to focus on the hate, the positive message is being coopted. Just like feminist messages are coopted to hate on trans women. It becomes obvious that the point is to promote hate, not to support people being oppressed.


  • They’ll let you know. My dog has moods, each has their own body language. Sometimes she wants head and ear scritches, so she’ll bump her head into my hands and keep them there until I start petting. Sometimes she wants belly rubs, she will roll on her back in front of me or on the couch/bed. If I ignore her, she will switch positions into my line of sight and repeat. She also sometimes is not in the mood for petting, and my approaches will be dismissed. She turns her back and ignores me. She learned to signal her walking leash all proper and formal on her own when she wants to go for a walk. She sits in front of the leash pointing with her snout and waits until I notice. She will bark if I’m not around to call my attention.

    Sometimes I stop on purpose to see her reaction. If she’s okay with stopping the activity she will leave or regain a neutral posture. If she wants more she will tap me with her paw until I resume. It’s very cute. Dogs are definitely very communicative if they want something.




  • It has nothing to do with advertising. The phrase refers to bias and stereotyping. It is not about the book, it is about the person doing unfair judgment based on superficiality instead of knowledge.

    There are no covers that are not carefully chosen for the book they accompany. The source of error lies on the beholder making false assumptions about what the book is, then passing judgment on said book they haven’t read based on limited information and most likely incorrect assumptions.

    The phrase calls people to check themselves and their own biases before making decisions with limited information. Or at least to search for some more data with curiosity instead of bias.





  • I skim them all. The options I wrote are soft parodies of what each said. There’s a ton of problems with this model of governance, but I’m no voting member, so my opinion has no impact.

    That said, it makes it so a single posture has to be voted on in its entirety, which is dumb (as some legislative bodies of the world have proven). As a result, nuance is erased alongside with any sense of ideological vision or compromise, and instead it promotes vagueness in every action and glacial institutions that break slowly break apart.

    The very person who wrote the proposal that won reacted to winning with:

    I regret the loss of contributors (which would have happened with either option winnign [sic]). It is just too early to take a final decision on the mater [sic]. Let’s revisit this in two years or so, and let this mess of a GR be a warning for our future selves.

    The proposal was designed to win time without having to take any real stance while taking the smallest loss of contributors in the process. And thus it was written as the most milketoast nothing burger. When an infinite set of possibilities exists that actually do address real concerns like climate impact, social impacts, copyright and legal problems related to generated code, etc. in relation to the principles and overall values of the project. Instead, they are deferring the practicalities to pull request’s bickering.

    But again, I’m not a voting member or contributor. So my opinion is null. I still think the way the process is designed and conducted is stupid and prone to cause the eventual failure of debian via governance collapse.


  • Gee, I don’t know. Let’s see if that has been said anywhere, shall we?

    Sponsorships tell a similar story: men typically get $50,000 annually, while women make about $15,000.

    Where does the money come from?

    Organisations like FIVB have standardised payouts at major tournaments, but league salaries and endorsement deals remain uneven. Differences will persist until sponsors and broadcasters invest equally.

    Why would that this sponsor and broadcaster pay differently?

    One of the most significant problems female athletes face has nothing to do with the sport itself. It’s how they’re shown in the media. Far too often, the focus is on their appearance rather than on what they can do. In volleyball, that means more talk about kit choices or body image than actual skill or game stats. It’s frustrating when talent gets pushed aside for appearance.

    Would you look at that statement? Maybe there are things beyond the surface level that influence people’s decision making at a structural level?

    Over the years, coverage has been overly sexualised, which hasn’t helped. That said, social media has started to shift things.

    What Women’s Volleyball Tells Us About Equality in Sport

    But what the hell do I know. I’m just a sociologist during his coffee break pondering about how invisible things like social constructs alter individual beliefs and decision making. I’ll go back to work, bye.