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Yer regular backend coder with yer regular other interests.
Java, Kotlin, Rust (still very much Rust n00b)
Playing life at lowest difficulty.
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@Gargron I just signed up to support you through Patreon. I encourage everybody who has recently come over to #mastodon to join me. You have close to 1000 patrons now, not nearly enough. Folks, you can donate a buck a month. If enough of us do this, we can make a real difference to somebody who has made a huge difference for all of us. #gratitude #twittermigration #twexit #neuhier. Here’s the Patreon link. https://www.patreon.com/mastodon
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When you think "Hmm, I need to try some more Clojure!" and one of the core functions hangs the repl hard enough that you have to kill the window because it doesn't sanitize input.

In this day and age?

(partition 2 0 [1 2 3 4 5])

#clojure

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@herder Yeah, I look back at younger me and feel embarrassed at my optimism about the Internet and social media before ad impression optimization made everything hell, but maybe we're moving towards something more sane and sustainable now that i's all crashing down?

Or maybe I'm being stupidly optimistic once more...

That Elon owns Twitter is bad enough. But what’s even worse is that the Saudi’s, those assholes who murder and chop up journalists now are the 2nd biggest owner of Twitter. Update your threat model accordingly.
Mastodon entered hyperscaling mode thanks to that guy buying that site:
https://bitcoinhackers.org/@mastodonusercount/109258526481704886
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Elon Musk is a toxic leader: “Employees working on the project were told on Sunday that they need to meet a deadline of November 7th to launch the feature or they will be fired.” - https://www.theverge.com/2022/10/30/23431931/twitter-paid-verification-elon-musk-blue-monthly-subscription
Twitter to start charging $20 per month for verification

Twitter employees are racing to build the company’s first major new feature under Elon Musk: a $20 per month subscription to be verified.

The Verge

Using a CLI client for Mastodon: https://github.com/ihabunek/toot

Remember when we still could to that on the birdsite? #TwitterMigration

There is a Nov. 1st vesting at Twitter. By announcing a start mass layoffs, Musk is trying to avoid employees this portion of their compensation. This is because he’s a scumbag.

Mass layoffs without notice are illegal, btw. He obviously doesn’t gad but this will be a lawsuit.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/29/technology/twitter-layoffs-musk-jobs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Elon Musk Is Said to Have Ordered Job Cuts Across Twitter

The billionaire planned to begin layoffs as soon as Saturday, people with knowledge of the matter said.

The Firefox "Mastodon - Simplified Federation!" is helpful as it makes following people on other instances when browsing those instances' websites a much smoother task. It automatically enters your handle/server & actions it on your account. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/mastodon-simplified-federation/ #FediTips #tips
Mastodon – Simplified Federation! – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download Mastodon – Simplified Federation! for Firefox. Simplifies following or interacting with other users on remote Mastodon instances in the Fediverse. It skips the “Enter your Mastodon handle” popup and takes you to your own “home” instance, without entering your Mastodon handle on remote instances.

Another #MastodonTip for people of the #TwitterMigration (other than using camel case for hashtags) is that Mastodon instances are not run by corporations with thousands of employees. Usually it is just a handful of volunteers and an instance owner or two.

A huge influx of users, like this, all at once is a lot to handle. Stuff may break or slow down for a bit.

It'll be okay. Things will level out & it will all work again. The same thing happened in back in April.

Be calm. Carry on.