Notices by Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Friday, 01-Sep-2023 17:49:24 JST 
Sandra
Kakoune explains its philosophy.
As a longtime god-mode user I haven't understood the hype of Kakoune but now I see what's going on. Vi, vim, Doom etc all apparently use Verb→Object order. I can see how that'd be difficult to work with. God-mode has no consistent order, it's just a palimpsestic mishmash that's been hacked on since the seventies, but it is often enough Object→Verb (what Kakoune calls "selection first"). The underlying point/mark system from Emacs helps a lot there.
http://kakoune.org/why-kakoune/why-kakoune.html -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Sunday, 20-Aug-2023 00:29:56 JST
Sandra
@aral
Good that we're both condemning speech acts that are calls to literal violence. 👍🏻
(And our condemnation is of course 900000000000 times stronger against actually executed violence.)
The problem is that the racist crew often attach their persecutions and crusades and ethnic cleansing attempts to insults and caricatures so that any reaction to the racism looks super petty and thin-skinned. So that they can say "OMG you can't even say 'It's OK to be white' for these lib█████". A reverse Trojan horse; the poison razorblade hidden in the flaming poop bag.
This is why the lulz approach is so dangerous, this discourse-killing turkey curse: Any protest against the racism comes across as "why can't these sensitive snowflakes just take a joke?"
Jylland-Posten aren't just goofin' around with someone's imaginary friend—a 2004 (that's one year before the caricatures) report from the European Network Against Racism showed how JP has contributed to the rise of the racist European far right.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060325023310/http://www.enar-eu.org/en/national/Denmark2004_enOK.pdf
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Saturday, 19-Aug-2023 23:43:52 JST
Sandra
@chris
You already know I'm against the death penalty.
The fatwās proclaiming death on these caricaturists is wrong. Those fatwās are speech, and an obvious example of how some speech is wrong.
I want a very strong protection for freedom of speech and that includes having very few exceptions, and being very clear about what those exceptions are. I am not onboard with death penalty fatwās nor with the type of Volksverhetzung that often takes the form of these caricatures that the white ingroup produces in order to attempt to bind and subjugate the brown outgroup.
Matthew 7:3. "And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?" The white conservatives are making hay as the open and just society dies.
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Tuesday, 14-Mar-2023 01:12:37 JST
Sandra
Slathering videos in DRM is not a solution against sponsor reads:
https://www.reddit.com/r/watchnebula/comments/zc2seg/invideo_sponsorship_in_nebula/ -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 16:18:35 JST
Sandra
XMPP peeps: Email is a lost cause, a dead horse, it’s unpossible Also XMPP peeps: Everyone needs to get on OMEMO, all old jabber clients are obsolete and need to be thrown away
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 02:04:08 JST
Sandra
@alcinnz
It was the first I was asking for since I maybe need to put up something similar. For now I have https://idiomdrottning.org/git-faq which I'm not super happy with.
Unrelated side-note: the tilde before username is such wack design decision from sourcehut (and requires email CLI users to quote it). Tilde means "home directory of". In what universe is a mailinglist a home directory? Maybe if it was /var/spool/foo/frobnication/mailing-list-users/account-list/account-names/alcinnz/CatTrap@foo.bar.example that'd make more sense 🤦🏻♀️
Or, y'know, just the username sans the grawlix 💁🏻♀️ -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:58:17 JST
Sandra
@alcinnz
I couldn't even find your sourcehut docs, let alone carefully read them! 🙋🏻♀️ -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:55:08 JST
Sandra
@alcinnz
I was looking enviously at sourcehut and being intimidated by trying to install it (since the docs are all like "warning warning warning this project is a super scale project that stretches many servers") but the other day my envy disappeared when I realized that my current setup—plain cloneable repos + a mailing list—is, from a non-maintainer contributor's perspective, not much different from sourcehut. A way to browse the repos without cloning them is the only thing missing, and I'm on that. (I just need spoons. Looking at softserve and cgit as options. But I kinda also don't wanna do anything and just chill.) -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 23-Feb-2023 01:45:22 JST
Sandra
One way GitHub could make itself a lot better and less hated-by-me would be if they set up a way for people who don’t have accounts on there to contribute with git send-email and/or git request-pull (the latter obviously requires -some place to host repos). They could translate those contributions in the fancy-schmancy (probably better known as super confusing) “pull request” format and interface GitHub-using devs love so much. Their gh cli thing is fun and all but that still requires an account, which is the biggest reason for my hatred of them.
I registerted on link tree today (mostly so no-one else would snag my name) and instantly regretted it because I don’t wanna contribute to the whole centralization thing. Making accounts on these bad sites means legitimizing them and their bogus claims on central authority over a problem domain.
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Monday, 20-Feb-2023 02:54:17 JST
Sandra
Simple Haskell examples expressed in brev:
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Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2023 07:39:06 JST
Sandra
I was looking at this simple pseudo-random generator for journaling:
https://www.teddit.net/r/rpg/comments/1hv5x0/paper_pencil_dice_simulator/
Just for a less disruptive option on the train or whatever, or a more comfy option in bed.
I gave myself the rule that I could always roll real dice when available and that I could regenerate the seeds when I had real dice, and that I could also use the second-hand watch thing occasionally; not as a replacement but to add some more entropy into the mix.
Regenerating the seed came in handy almost immediately since I rolled:
6 6 6 2
2 2 6 4
I would've never ever been able to roll an odd number. Not that parity matters for every game but if I can only roll 2, 4 or 6, I might as well roll a d3; granularity is getting too coarse.
I rolled those numbers top row first so I was getting freaked out by three sixes in a rown then three twos then another six and then splitting the diff. -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Thursday, 26-Jan-2023 01:51:41 JST
Sandra
@sannewman
That sounds great 👍🏻
For nerds who are programming for the sake of deep understanding, I recommend a lisp language (for programmable programming) and a machine language (for understanding the computer memory model) but for everyday life HTML/JavaScript will get you a long way, and is readily accessible so starting there sounds great, and ending there if it clicks with you. Good luck 👍🏻
I was personally struggling a bit until I discovered the Lisp family of languages 🤷🏻♀️ -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 06:28:10 JST
Sandra
The coal mine and pipeline protests aren't "Not in my backyard"-isms, fossils threaten the entire world -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Jan-2023 08:07:10 JST
Sandra
I've been filing bugs all over the place and also trying to fix the issue with Jekyll and Kramdown and Pandoc that they mark up numbers (like integer sequences and math stuff) as phone numbers.
Turns out they don't do that.
It's the iPad version of Safari that does. 🤦🏻♀️
It can't even call any numbers so what the heck -
Sandra (sandra@idiomdrottning.org)'s status on Sunday, 01-Jan-2023 07:47:05 JST
Sandra
OK I'll add this to the top in case people skip reading the text and misunderstand me:
100% I agree with leaving the instance and recommending against joining the instance.
@aral
As far as I can tell, that policy doesn't hurt other servers and isn't a reason to defederate (not saying there can't be other reasons to do that).
If I understood you correctly, that it's just a restriction on their own users. Just like on oulipo you can't use the letter "e" or on Merveilles you need a grayscale avatar.
I actually tried to have a similar policy on my own instance, writing "This particular instance is not intended as a haven of free speech. It's just my chill living room for art, music, writing, games… The users who are registered directly on this instance are people I know personally.
Politics are occasionally discussed. I'm personally left wing, anti-capitalist, vegan etc etc but I don't mind chatting with capitalists or with non-vegans.
However: nazis, racists, sexists, and GC... go away! I am trying to become a better ally to PoC, enbies, and trans. This isn't the parliament or Speaker's Corner at Hyde Park. It's my own chill kitchen, my veranda. We just wanna live here. Please respect that."
In other words, I intended to nope out of all mention of those super reactionary wedge issues entirely. (This backfired when I found out that several of my followers were alt-right and I ended up writing https://idiomdrottning.org/reactionaries to set the record a little straighter.)
A friend of mine who ran an abuse survivor support hotline told me a story about when she was playing in a TRPG and the GM had been like "and you come to a city where it's this super brutal oppressive patriarchy" and she was like "I deal with this shit every day, when I play fantasy games I want a break from that".
So I can similarly see a lot of value in an instance where you get to take a break from talking about racism and sexism.
The flipside is that you risk normalizing the kyriarchal hegemony and leaving racist or sexist structures untouchable if you can't talk about them, and catering to white fragility and not-all-men–ism. So it's not a good policy for every, or even most, instances to have. Especially big ones.
But that doesn't mean having to defederate.
This is the opposite problem of what @Admin has been dealing with with mastodon.se; an instance that said that SD supporters (a nazi splinter party) are welcome to sign up. That is not safe for other servers and it makes sense to defederate or you'd have to deal with those users individually and that'd be a never ending mosquito war. (And I hope .se's admin reconsiders that decision.)
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