Mardoch

@Mardoch@infosec.exchange
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Metalhead, developer, parent, gamer...the order of which is fluid...except for the metal. He/him, cis
Pronounshe/him (they also fine)
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looked up an old tweet of mine and discovered myself unknowingly causing the Dodgeball of Apollo to launch
Anxiety
NBC reporting on a guy on Vermont refurbishing payphones and setting them up on cell dead zones for free. I kinda want to give him all my money. Thats is fucking awesome.

I am once again asking for your financial support.

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Real talk, as time grinds inexorably onward, so do the bills for our own @catbailey. Y’all have done amazing, and she’d be in a much worse place if not for y’all’s unwavering support. But, and you knew there was a but coming, new bills are here. The big asks surround her gas bill (accumulated since this winter, with late fees accruing this whole time) and her storage unit. Both are time critical, with gas needing to be addressed entirely before the 21st of July, and the storage unit ASAP afterwards.

I’m rounding the request up to a flat $2000, because trying to just barely make ends meet keeps coming up short at the worst moment, in the worst ways.

Best to use Venmo/PayPal/CashApp, but GoFundMe is appreciated too and good for higher latency needs.

$20/2000 raised

GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/aid-for-cat-and-her-kids-in-crisis?lang=en_US
PayPal: https://paypal.me/catalystediting
Venmo: @BlackCatHackers
CashApp: $BlackCatOps

“When developers are allowed to use AI tools, they take 19% longer to complete issues—a significant slowdown that goes against developer beliefs and expert forecasts. This gap between perception and reality is striking: developers expected AI to speed them up by 24%, and even after experiencing the slowdown, they still believed AI had sped them up by 20%.” https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-os-dev-study/
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity

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Discord is not a Issue Tracking platform for issues relating to code ffs

Litigious Company Demands Removal Of A Tweet Linking To An Article About How Litigious They Are

It’s not every day you watch a company faceplant so theatrically in public, but Cloud Innovation’s latest stunt deserves a slow clap. Cloud Innovation, which you’d probably never heard of unless yo…

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looked up an old tweet of mine and discovered myself unknowingly causing the Dodgeball of Apollo to launch
tangentially, this is a good example of the exact kind of reply that grinds my gears the most. I put a lot of work into trying to be clear, concise and comprehensible on social media, and I have 15 years of practice by now. I was forged in the fires of twitter discourse hell. It makes me want to throw my laptop out the window when someone indignantly replies to a worse version of my post they wrote in their head to get mad at
@0xabad1dea good thing that never happens on mastodon, and especially not on technical matters
@davidgerard you will probably appreciate the mood that drove me to post this https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/112701972116330364
abadidea (@0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image Every time my posts go viral by mastodon standards, I get mean-spirited replies from strangers who then inform me that I cannot criticize them because they're autistic. I'M ALSO AUTISTIC. WE'RE ALL AUTISTIC. THIS IS THE AUTISM SOCIAL NETWORK. IF YOUR REPLIES ARE REGULARLY UPSETTING THE PEOPLE YOU'RE SENDING THEM TO, THE PROBLEM IS NOT AUTISM

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@0xabad1dea @davidgerard RFK Jnr going on about creating an autism database is proof he doesn’t know about mastodon
@GossiTheDog @0xabad1dea @davidgerard let’s not give them any ideas tho
@froztbyte @GossiTheDog @0xabad1dea @davidgerard Well, the NRA never seemed to figure out that "whoever 'Liked' them on Facebook" constituted the national database of gun owners they were terrified of, just one subpoena away from being fully in the Fed's hands, and if anything, RFK Jr. is less intelligent overall.
@GossiTheDog @0xabad1dea @davidgerard s/mastodon/the entire internet/ - FTFY
@elebertus @GossiTheDog @davidgerard if the entire internet were nothing but autistic people, we wouldn't be in This Mess
@0xabad1dea I try to not be that person but occasionally my reading comprehension doesn't exist...
@0xabad1dea What I don't get is why Java is called a minimalist language when it reads like bad 19th century writing from when people were paid by the word.
@LinuxAndYarn I think they mean the spec is short. Fewer features than the competition. Although to be honest I haven't kept up with them after 1.7 since I swapped to Microsoft's legally-distinct Java replacement, C#.

@0xabad1dea Such behaviour says far more about the negger than about your clarity of post. They WANT you to get upset; it takes away from your available spoons AND they get their jollies that way.

Thankfully, this *isn't* Xitter, it's not run by a madman, it's run by mostly sane and civilised people (MOSTLY, dammit) and we have block and report buttons to help us clear our feeds of such... detritus...

The fact that such people still suck up our valuable oxygen *is infurating*, yes. AND they don't have to suck up our attention, either. We can whack the external brain-weasel with a fresh mallet of loving correction straight out of its warming chamber, tamp the dust on what has become its insta-grave, and get on with more pleasurable things.

Motherfrackers.

(p.s. note that I'm not saying you HAVE to. I'm simply _inviting_ you to; you have every right to say no, and to vent as you will.)

@stonebear2 the kind of people I’m talking about aren’t trolling/trying to upset me on purpose. They’re just bad at posting. That’s why it grinds my gears the most.
@0xabad1dea Gotta wonder if they're actually a carbon-based life form...
@0xabad1dea I take it chucklehead tucked his tail between his legs and went home after that? if so, _good_...
@stonebear2 never replied, which is definitely preferable to doubling down
@0xabad1dea well at least you had an ace response.