Notices by George Dorn (gdorn@social.coop), page 4

@emsenn @secstate
This place claims it is MFR + targeted strength training. The type of pain (muscle and connective tissue, with traveling re-injury) and the fact that the pain has responded well to self-massage so far leaves me somewhat optimistic.

But I'll keep your advice in mind; if it's 90% MFR and a token mention of exercise, or if anybody suggests acupuncture with a straight face, I'll look elsewhere.

After several months of hoping my recurring glute/hip injury will somehow go away, I'm seeing a physical therapist starting next week. I'm a little nervous about it; I've never had so much as a professional massage.

The PT clinic specializes in myofascial release; I'm not even totally sure that's the right place to start for this problem, but hopefully they'll at least figure out what's going on so I'll have more info.

I can't escape #NodeJS dependency hell. On yet another new project, I need a different version of node (>=8, <11) than every other project.

Okay, no problem, what's the equivalent to virtualenv for node? Oh, I see there are three options, none of them the clear best choice, all with their own opinions about how system-level package management should work.

People harassing the Tusky dev are wrong

People harassing the Fedilab dev are wrong

People clamoring for the Spanish Inquisition on F-Droid are wrong

You're all wrong. Have a nice day :blobcatmorningtea:

A collection of honeypot instances that contain "users" that follow popular gab users, specifically to eat up gab.com's sidekiq processes by taking as long as possible to respond to federation-related http requests.

Sign at the bagel shop a week ago:

If you don't know our pronouns, please use 'they'.

Bagel shop cashier today, as I put in my order after my agender partner's:

Are you eating with her? I'll put you on the same ticket.

Bagel shop server today, arriving with bagels:

Here you go, guys.

The sign is gone now; it didn't last long. I'm not saying it's wrong, but if you are going to take a firm stance you should probably not half-ass it yourself.

@tedu @trwnh With end-users suggesting new features and behaviors to the various projects, it benefits everybody if they understand the protocol better.

@tedu @trwnh This is the first seriously useful set of docs I've seen on the subject. I'm building something that'll federate, so while I'm doing so I'll give you feedback, if you'd like.

The fediverse will not be democratized until this level of documentation exists.

@emsenn TBH I don't have expertise in this area yet. I'm new to node and mostly experiencing culture shock. I'm sure I'll have more informed outrages in a few weeks.

@emsenn
I can only theorize, but a couple theories:

- node packages like leftpad don't need much maintenance, so maintainers don't care
- migration fatigue, given how many incomplete (all), failed (bower), or corrupt (for-profit npm, probably also yarn) solutions there have been already.

I do have some modest hope that #entropic will be the hail-mary that fixes the situation for good, but it's going to be a huge effort to cover all use cases and then convince devs to migrate...

Node's package management is the level of shitshow that Python's was back in 2008, only worse because there are at least six competing almost-solutions and you need to use at least two of them.

It took a few decades for Python to settle on pip for programmers and anaconda for scientists. In a few decades, node developers will have created several hundred package managers and there will be no consensus on the right ones to use for anybody.

@dankwraith Gab blocking FSE isn't about freeze peach. Much of peach pleroma is Gab refugees driven off by Gab's boomer culture. Ten minutes after the CTO enabled federation, peach pleroma goatse'd him.

#IWatched #TheOA (still watching, technically)

This one slipped by me. Nobody told me it's actually a lovecraftian horror mystery about plumbing the depths of secret knowledge we were not meant to know.

And it gets there so gradually, too. A lot of it would have bounced right off as just way too silly if it hadn't sold me on the characters first. Well made, imo.

@vector Yeah, my personal preference is as close to 100% as can be achieved with the time allowed. It does look like the rare test module is located in the same places as the heaviest code modules.

Anyway, thanks for the pointers, I think I have enough foothold now to know what to research first.

@vector There's a test dir with a mocha settings file, some fixtures and some utils. The actual test coverage appears to be... not great. I'll need to have a closer look with a coverage measuring tool. Perhaps 'istanbul'?

@vector (That is, I grok promises just enough to dislike them; async/await seems like a sorta okay replacement for the boilerplate, even if they do appear to be way overused...)

@vector It looks like async/await is used fairly consistently, but now that I read up on what it does (essentially replacing promises, which I grok just enough to dislike) it worries me that there's no error handling code.