Notices by D. Joe (deejoe@mstdn.io), page 11

@shellkr @nev there are many, many, many ways to express feelings without being a creep. and there are, sadly, no shortage of people who don't understand that.

when i am doing engineering work, i am an engineer. i collaborate with other engineers in a professional, respectful manner. we're building the best possible software here, and we do that by having the best possible engineers working on things. we attract and keep them by creating a culture of respect.

@ink_slinger yeah, i can definitely read those positive aspects of what it's saying, but it's hard for me not to feel like they're situated in a framework that has a bunch of subsuming both personal critical thought and the wellbeing of others to an imposed dogma / power structure in it. it almost feels like it could be re-written into a certain kind of christian tract about holding others to account for adherence to biblical law...

@jk @friskywhiskers yeah. the weird thing is that i have a lot of respect for the properties of actually-working systems that have evolved over time, even though they usually have absurd complexities that no one would ever have designed in on purpose if they had been able to tell what was going to happen.

but the software of now has become something way above and beyond that. we are extruding totally ludicrous intentional complexity at a rate that's almost impossible to fathom.

please respect that i don't always want to run the bleeding edge

please respect that i usually prefer to install software from my distribution's packages

this is true of most people

please just give me the name of your package on the debian repo, unless it's not there

and

for the love of god

STOP
TELLING
ME
TO
CURL | SUDO BASH

@wohali @tindall @nolan yeah, i think it's worth observing that a big percentage of "open source" these days is de facto a corporate product, effectively owned by a google, oracle, facebook etc., or some startup trying to leverage open licensing to capture a chunk of the market.

chrome, android, etc. red hat's increasing capture of desktop linux system design.

there's still no good reason to be a dick to people, but i think this partly explains some attitudes.

. #1) Respect the privacy of others.
. #2) Think before you type.
. #3) With great power comes great responsibility.

Being an open-source maintainer is really hard. A lot of people tend to act very entitled towards you, as if you "owe" them your time or your attention.

It's totally illogical: you put something out there for free, and now because of that, folks feel like they deserve more of it! And yet this is often the prevailing mood in OSS communities.

At the same time, you may start to believe this logic yourself, leading to "open-source guilt." This often ends in burnout.

so @ek and I agreed:

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@angristan @deejoe There is another used that has complained about #tootstream streaming so I'm interested in seeing if this is a server issue or something with Mastodon.py. Strangely the only streaming issues I've seen on the three instances I've tried have been on mstdn.io.

May I draw your attention to this hilarious example of fooling an image recognition algorithm with a small patch of carefully engineered noise?
https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.02608

#introduction. Joined this instance by referral. Student of #privacy technology in its many forms, and generally of civil rights online. Lover of #libraries; enemy of CYBERCRUD. Run #OpenBSD, #Debian---when I want a trusted opinion, I pipe to cowthink. #philosophy #ai #crypto #blockchain #floss #libre #pgp #gpg #gnu.