White-passing brown dude.
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Last Notes npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado planting native pollinator-friendly flowers is a great step to take. The more ground space those take up, the more bees you'll attract and also the less water you'll need to use. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado There's a word for taking code you didn't write or read, running it through tests you didn't write or read, and putting it in production. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado I think my biggest disappointment in this whole thing is that America has more guns than people, and apparently nobody can fucking shoot straight. Stormtroopers, the lot of us. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado I mean...they ran off all the "DEI" people, so we're left with a secret service made up of mediocre white men. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado do you ever run into these vintage locks being all gunked up and that being a problem with opening them? Do the need cleaning/oiling/whatever before you can practice on them? npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado you have such a good eye for color and composition. I love all the stuff you share. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado How (racist/sexist/whatever) harassment on Mastodon works: npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado girl, your eyes. They're gonna melt. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado you should probably skip this one. White man in tech said white man in tech shit in a very "never meet your role models" kind of way. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado yep. That resonates with how I'm feeling about it too. What really drives me absolutely bonkers is that there are no shortages, it's all manufactured scarcity that started with the slop vendors preordering years of chip fab production. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado that's exactly what he's talking about. They're doing that because the analysts won't shut up about it. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado sitting by the boom box, blank tape loaded, waiting for the radio to play the song I wanted on tape... npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado the dirty secret of "software engineering" is that it isn't engineering at all. Nobody is licensed and nobody is legally responsible for the public harms they cause. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado special case: single white dudes without uteruses, go ahead and install one and use it sporadically. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado wow bro, you're just going full ass out huh? npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado it's a fair point that insulting people who won't see the insults is a particularly stupid waste of time. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado sure, you can call them silly geese too. I'm sure they'll feel the sick burn of that one. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado right? And "EVs are fucking over American industry" is hilarious given how much manufacturing we outsource to China. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado if there's one thing current events has taught us, it's that being Jewish doesn't make a person good. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado that show is on the wrong side of the country for me, but your taste is impeccable. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado "except for social media companies"? npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado -Did you know that you can choose to limit who can see your reply to a specific post to “followers only”? Did you connect that this same feature can be used to harass so that the only people who can see the harassment are the harasser and the target? npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado Limitations of “I don’t see it?” npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado Limitations of “OMG is your instance not moderated?” npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado Limitations of “Oh no! Have you tried changing instances?” npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado Some context: a common paradigm we see npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado Hachyderm.io has its problems as an instance, but they published a GREAT explainer for moderation on Mastodon. It's part 1 of a series, but I found it particularly useful for describing the experience of BIPOC folx compared to white folx. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado It's Follow Friday so I'm tagging a few folks: npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado same (and probably a lot of the same list). npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado this may be the source of the name. At minimum, it describes it really well. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado how did you not age? TELL US YOUR SECRET!!! 🤣 npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado my hunch is Ericka is pointing folks up the account chain so they can block both, but that's just a guess on my part. Ericka knows what she's doing. ❤️ npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado literally the same sealion. Got a link from mastodon.social to social.coop in his profile and everything. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado looked it up, yikes. npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado wait, what? npub1fq37cjkfckv6vtdl63przne2elxptkctjls2lqda5pxe4sgrljkqjyqp2x Dave Alvarado don't forget to shake the "database or config file" magic 8-ball. 🤣
