Does anyone know that poem of the guy in some fascist dystopia, where the government took his family in for "questioning" one by one and he always held out hope, then when he had nothing left, they took his cat and it broke him?

It was an amazing poem and I can't find it again. Been looking for decades.

#help #poetry

Difference between a General Strike and a Revolution, is that the former is forcing the government to make things passably less worse, but not any better. The government will murder you for either one though.

#rant #politics

Remember in Dr. Who how the Cybermen implant a destructive idea: that all must become Cybermen? How they had to use electrocution, mutilation and torture to properly cement it in our minds?

It's not just the ideas. Stop the abuse, and you stop the destructive memes from taking hold.

#philosophy #ChildCare #memes #nerd

Fucking DNS mafia... they make me beg for my DNS every now and again, and just silently cut me off if I don't supplicate myself before them. I just don't want to pay money to have a name. Is that so hard?

Well at least I know now why no one's messages over the last 11 hours have been able to reach me.

#meta #dns #extortion

I'm very peeved that GTK has been strongarming the use of librsvg. Because some rust afficionados rewrote librsvg in rust, and so anything using librsvg now has to depend on rust. And LVM. And rust is bootstrapped. And LVM is bootstrapped. So now you have triple the bootstrapping, for your security breach needs.

GTK doesn't actually use rust. They don't even use librsvg. The requirement is only because the default GTK theme uses SVG icons, and the SVG to PNG tool they use in the build process uses librsvg.

Like, you can't even opt for a different theme that already has the .pngs. GTK just tells you "There ain't no librsvg so I ain't compiling. Isn't meson great?"

#rust #gtk #bullying #programming #security #rant #FuckEverything

Yeesh... ICE just death camped that nice elderly man who lives about a block away from me. I only ever saw him mowing his lawn, but he always had a smile for people passing by.

Still don't know the hash tags for reporting death camping.

#ICE #Hillsboro #PNW

Hi I'm Cy, a total loser who has written some novels that nobody reads at https://fedicy.us.to/stories/ I also do a lot of programming that nobody uses or looks at, such as git://fedicy.us.to/forum Don't have a cell phone, don't make any money, don't have a family, or any sort of relationship, can't have a family at this point, never went on any adventures, don't have any life experiences to relate, and don't really sing, play, or write music anymore. There's nothing about me worth knowing and I am a little bitter about it. I'm currently not committing suicide and uncomfortably lingering and serving as an example of how everything you tried to do to make things better has failed.

Anyway I post silly jokes and actually boost crisis posts and try to find people posting good news, instead of bad news.

#introduction

Still looking for how to write an SQL query that would let me get "posts" in order of when they were posted, but limit it to 3 posts per "author."

#programming #databases #help

The other day, I effected an affect.

Well now the GIMP requires the librsvg that was rewritten in rust. So fuck y'all #rust fans touting it as the greatest language since sliced bread. Now I have to spend hours compiling LLVM and rust just for a stupid SVG library, because you fucks just had to go rewrite things in rust for no reason and force me to use them.

#rant #FuckMyLife

Protip: make your profile weird, and post weird, because data harvesters will mass create accounts that all like cats, struggle with introversion, and are rizz to the max hello fellow children. Carefully inoffensive generic profiles are suspicious af.

#Fediverse #bots #scammers

Another year of failing to grow any vegetables, and effectively starving without a supermarket. Another hour of pulling out buttercup and spreading their roots so more will sprout, pulling up bittercress and spreading its seeds shooting off like gunshots, and pulling up dandelions standing proud with empty seed heads, their hundreds of seeds long since dispersed all over the yard. I bought a tomato, but it's going to die because I'm too exhausted to plant it. I haven't even gotten close to the weed choked garden bed this year. :(

#depressed #gardening #fail #fml

Big improvement to libmake! It now works on two computers, not just one! Managed to get it working on my crummy netbook. Still haven't heard anyone else who tried it on their computer. Also haven't heard of anyone who cloned it, got confused, and demanded an explanation for my bullshit. Or anyone who noticed I was posting about libmake at all...

git://fedicy.us.to/libmake

#programming #make #C #library

#Degrowth is the radical idea that I shouldn't have to be the only one to cut back on my energy consumption.

Hey, a friend who wants to remain anonymous has a last will and testament to deal with. It says he only gets the house if he "cares for the Settlor as long as she lives," but she's kind of a shitbag who abused him and now believes he's possessed by evil not-Mormon spirits. The will says if he "predeceases" the "Settlor," then his son gets the house. Two questions here.

1. Is she expecting him to murder her?
2. If he puts her in a home, but doesn't murder her, then neither he nor his son get the house. Who does?

#Law #LegalAdvice #NotALawyer #help

Anyone know anything about the "Working Families" party? The name alone is suspicious as heck. I keep seeing candidates like Democrat/Independent/Working Families.

#USPol

I am such an idiot, and they tell me I shouldn't say that about myself. That my depression is making me overly critical of myself which causes depression, and that feedback loop of endless criticism is my problem. Really it's lack of economic and social mobility, but good luck getting help with that. The problem with them telling me that calling myself an idiot is causing my depression is I like idiots. When I realize I'm walking around on a bright sunny day carrying a flashlight, it's funny. Doesn't hurt anything.

#ADHD #depression #rant

I've been programming with the intent of making sort of a todo list, so that if the program crashes mid-request, it can re-request later. But as I blankly stare at it trying to figure out what's to do, I'm starting to think that the program might just generate this same todo list every time it starts up. The conditions for causing the request to be made are still there, so it'll get re-requested whether there's a note to do it or not.

So why would I make a todo list at all? Just have it check program state, and throw everything up into the air. No sort of continuation needs to be saved to database, because if the program fails before finishing, the program state will be the same, and if the program succeeds, the state will be different, so if the program restarts, it'll restart the request just by naively looking at what needs to be requested.

Am I just making a "make a checklist" checklist? Need to be sure not to do that...

#programming #theory #rant

Here's something odd. Apparently when speakers are powered, they have a markedly different design, with two separate amplifiers for treble and bass, dividing the frequencies between them before amplification. When anyone has passive, unpowered speakers, they always do the frequency filtering after the big amplification, and it's only all-in-one speakers where they do it before that. Why? Heck if I know. The author of this seems to imply that fiddling with extremely amplified currents takes more expensive components than fiddling with tiny currents before amplification. So why wouldn't passive speakers have one amplifier per membrane, in the "less expensive" option?

#shopping #electrical #circuitry

https://www.whathifi.com/advice/active-vs-passive-speakers-whats-the-difference-which-is-better

Talk about worker's rights bothers me, because we're not workers. We're people. There's a farming association I might get the courage to reach out to some time, but their rhetoric is full of talk about hard workers, and stopping the data centers from turning off the drinking water for hard workers. There's a faint chance I could do something useful for them, but I don't feel like they'd ever help me, because I'm not a hard worker, or even employed at all, or employable. What union do bums join? What about disabled people? I know there are associations for the handicapped, but that's also exclusionary. Why can't able bodied workers get help from the handicapped association? Senior centers, what about young people? Schools, what about adults?