i can ping 1.0.0.1 but not 1.1.1.1

spent 10 minutes troubleshooting my internet connection before realizing that 1.1.1.1 is down??????????

#furry #poll (please boost for reach)

Does your #fursona have a last name/surname?

Whoops, editing the post cleared the poll! Before I cleared it, there were:

5 votes for "Reply in your native language"
3 votes for "Machine translate from your native language to the language of the post"
1 vote for "Not respond at all"
1 vote for "Other (please specify)"

I believe it is the first option, because machine translation is famously inaccurate. If the original poster speaks your language, they will understand you better than if you had translated it. If they do not speak your language, they have access to the same online translation tools you do, and they can translate it themselves.

I have just met a French speaker who is adamant that replying in a different language is ethnocentric, which prompted the poll.

I would love to hear other people's thoughts on this.

#OpinionPoll (please boost for visibility)

You find a post on the Fediverse that is not in a language you speak. You use machine translation to read it in your native language and find you would like to reply.

Should you:

#poll

Even if #vibecoding can democratize programming, I don't believe it should.

I do not believe someone should be allowed to make software unless they have learned to program.

Novice programmers have enough of a god complex as it is. Learning how things actually work under the hood, how they can go wrong, and how much work goes into making that not happen has the tendency to take a plucky young idiot down a few pegs.

(I say "tendency" because plenty of tech bros slip through the cracks -- although most of them don't actually know how to program.)

Giving a young programmer an #LLM who constantly tells them how smart they are and lets them tell it what they want, then does all the work for them, is a recipe for making them build things they have no business building, which is how you end up with a social media site with literally no database authentication and lets anyone make posts as anyone else going live to the entire fucking internet

i think #OpenWRT is in denial about not being an #immutable distro.

like you *can* directly edit the config files and you *can* write whatever you want to /usr/bin but they really encourage you to use the package manager and UCI (Universal Configuration Interface)

the reason for this is OpenWRT's horrifying upgrade process. it uploads its entire configuration (package list + UCI config) to a buildbot somewhere maintained by the OpenWRT organization, which then builds a squashfs containing the new version of openwrt plus all your packages and config, downloads that squashfs into the BROWSER THAT HAS THE WEBUI OPEN FROM WHICH THE UPGRADE WAS INITIATED, THEN UPLOADS IT VIA JAVASCRIPT TO THE ROUTER, OVERWRITING THE ENTIRE EXISTING CONTENTS OF THE FLASH. Nothing you had outside of apk+uci will be preserved.

Just officially make it immutable at that point

do i like the look of KDE apps? mmm not really
do i like it better than the look of GNOME apps? *fuck* yes

support for forcing server side window decorations should be mandatory and i will die on this hill

i don't even object to those things being expected. i have never really been on board with the idea that no one owes anyone anything, ever. i just think there should be clear rules as to what people are and are not owed.

i'm just sick to fucking death of people who claim to be autistic friendly telling me there are no rules and then getting mad at me when i break one.

you don't owe anyone anything, except to make your website screen reader accessible and usable without javascript, and your social media profile safe for minors even if you mark your profile as 18+, and to content warning any post that contains objectionable content including but not limited to passing mentions of food, photos that make eye contact with the viewer, and the word "you", which some fedi users who VEHEMENTLY reject being referred to as human are offended by.

none of that is written down anywhere, by the way. you're just supposed to know it and honestly it's kind of problematic that you didn't.

mostly what "we don't owe you anything" means is that giving people the benefit of the doubt is for suckers and when you break a social contract you didn't know was there (or even piss someone off without breaking a social contract) you don't get told what you did wrong, and by asking, you're breaking a social contract.

Which is worse hell to write?

Evaluate on criteria such as lack of usable documentation, code ugliness, ease of determining what is wrong when something won't work, and generally the amount of headaches you experience trying to get something to work

#rust #rustlang #nix #nixlang #nixos

Please, please, *please* don't mark your account as a bot account if it's actually a person account.

i do not call myself a leftist because you cannot be a leftist and believe that innocent people should not die to further a cause

It has been 0️⃣ days since someone I really respected blocked me because I tried to politely ask them to explain why they believed what they did and I'm too autistic to make it not come off as argumentative.

Current record: 4️⃣2️⃣ days

#actuallyautistic

If I replied to a post you made months ago, I apologize. I promise you I'm not a deranged lunatic, it's just that someone retweeted the thing you replied to and I replied to your reply without checking the date

My furry code block

FGf4adw A->+ C+>++ D+++ H+++ P R T? W Sm++ RLCT* a cl++ e+>+++ h* i++>+++ p-- sm

(NB: i don't own a fursuit; the D+++ refers to a cat ear headband and belt loop tail I wear when out and about)

Quick question Mastodon why are you putting 2 year old posts in my feed. I'm scrolling my timeline and replying to things and you're making me look insane