Notices by Mayel - sunny side punk (mayel@sunbeam.city), page 5

maybe this is because the speakers were all kids, and kids still believe it's possible to vote your way out of the problem? but I suspect it has more to do with the fact that it's scary and dangerous to stand up in a crowd and associate your own face with that disruptive anti-capitalist message; you make yourself a target. so that message tends to be spread by the written word instead.

Wrote a script that will let you download any PDF from the academia dot edu hellsite without logging in. Go hog wild! https://gist.github.com/ryanfb/cbb91ecbe56d2c96c1e220e94738ac04

imagine not being able to imagine a society that is anything more that slightly different from the one we have now

It would be awesome if there was a computer museum where each floor was up a level on the stack (is that the right term?) where the bottom was exhibits and explanations of circuits and it went from there all the way up to apps and software at the top and at the very top was a cafe/library with public computers.

It would probably have to be a bajillion floors but I read awhile a book awhile ago that went from analog circuits up to a very simple chip able to execute basic programs and it was wild

It's time we stop fussing about source code.

It's time to start fussing about the incredible range of humans that have always made it possible.

Shout out to every woman who's had to make a post about "you guys" language. Every ESL speaker who has had to launch their own localization effort. Every disabled person who's had to remind maintainers about a11y. Every Black person who's had to deal with "master/slave" language

Shout out to every meetup and conference organizer. Every collaborator who jumps into issue trackers and constantly answers questions. Every docs writer. Every person crafting and scaling project processes. Every person who QAs (pre-!)releases as they go out.

A friend suggested today that it's time for a manifesto and I agree. Another friend in another conversation mentioned that "free software" and "open source" are not relevant terms for what we need. I also agree.

It's time for something new. A new, community-centered ecosystem.

I'm increasingly of the opinion that the way forward for us is to build a dual-purpose Commons: one where our communities can freely partake and share and collaborate and learn and build each other up, while those who seek to profit on their own terms put cold hard cash down.

Fives stages of ORM usage

1. This will save me so much time!
2. Why are these work-arounds so complicated?!
3. Maybe if I just write a few custom-queries
4. This is hopeless! Why did I do this to myself?!
5. This is my life now. Too much work to replace it.