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hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 07:44
Talking with a friend about very familiar-sounding frustrations with their partner.
Me: “so does he have his ADHD diagnosis yet, or is he still on his journey of discovery?”
They: “He doesn’t have ADHD, he just has trouble following up on things unless — it’s something that really interests him” (trailing off slightly)
Me: “I repeat my question.”
They: “point taken”
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 09:44
Honestly whatever version of this line was the original, it has kept me out of one hell of a lot of trouble over the course of my life.
I Don’t Want to Belong to Any Club That Will Accept Me as a Member – Quote Investigator®
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 09:48
@thegibson @c0debabe the dream is never in the technical implementations.
Excepting an unsteady sleep after burrito night.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 10:02
@thegibson I liked Akkoma for my tiny instance. Redonkulously easy setup (ok not for normal humans and only when compared to Mastodon)
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 10:04
@thegibson biggest challenge with every not-Mastodon will be mobile app compatibility. Mobile Web was fine for Akkoma, but as of a year ago all the apps were almost but not quite completely unlike expectations.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 10:08
@c0debabe the hesitation I felt in boosting this made the boosting vital.
People gonna snark because they’ve been hurt, but that doesn’t make it less valid.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 10:13
@c0debabe It’s legit what I’m trying to do by hunting for work where the tech is in support of the work being done, rather than the entire point of the work. That’s the healthy tech industry I want to see.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 10:26
@xan @c0debabe for my part I understand
To get philosophical for a sec, we’ve been around poison so long (and constantly told that’s just how it is) we don’t know if we can trust a glass of water.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 10:30
@xan @c0debabe oh heck I feel that one deep in my soul. That’s where so many of us want to be.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 19:26
A frustrating thing of not-tech — or more specifically not-tech-startup I suppose — is I still don’t know if I got that job I had my final interview for a week and a half ago.
I’m more accustomed to the cycle where you interview, get hired, and the company implodes just when you start to learn its name.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 19:41
@Wrewdison @earthshine @thegibson @c0debabe tech does good in the small all the time. It can help people get stuff done.
The invariably bad is at large scale, where people get treated as things. Sir Pterry told us how that always ends up.
And the lie fed to us with every paycheck, press release, and all-hands, so much that it’s all we can believe without force of effort?
It’s that “scale” is the only worthwhile application of tech.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 19:42
@hummingrain much appreciated!
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 20:36
@thomasfuchs oh for sure a lot of people have memory-holed things like heckling me and the church grannies while we did a candlelight vigil. But I sure as heck still remember.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 21:49
We watched Rebel Moon (part 1 apparently as she’s started part 2) and it was not good but it was pretty.
Honest it felt like a Saturday TTRPG session in one of those campaigns where the GM keeps things on rails so you can see all the worldbuilding.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 21:51
I mean I’m gonna keep watching. I said it wasn’t good. I didn’t say I didn’t like it.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 22:11
@thegibson know the tides, get called a witch. It’s awkward.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 23:05
@vilmibm R Talsorian Games had no fear, basically.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 23:39
Part two is not better.
But the actors had accepted their fate and were hamming it up more comfortably this time.
hackers.town: 2024-04-27 Sat 23:52
I have come to the conclusion that I do not enjoy writing about code in either Logseq or Obsidian.
Since much of the words I like to share are about code, this presents a conundrum for the public brain iteration of my site.