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Rose

@ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

Mastodon: @[email protected]

  • What's the story behind your username and avatar?

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  • The avatar is a self-portrait. I made an avatar for Mastodon and decided to make a separate avatar for slrpnk.net to, you know, make it more solarpunk-y.

    As for name, I picked Rose as my cutesy trans girl name - I also picked Xbox gamertag "Rose in Shadows" one day, and use "Yesterday's Rose" in realname field in places. I guess I was mostly inspired by the last line of Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose: "Stat rosa pristina nomine, nomina nuda tenemus" (roughly "the rose of the past endures only in name; we hold only the bare names") Dunno why I decided to put the z in "roze". A momentary bit of edginess? Notorious Hacker Alias???

  • Lucky enough, I am C++ Developer

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  • Yeah I wouldn't date an RStudio user. Real men do their R coding in Jupyter.

  • Do you always have either dead pixels, loose charging port, or broken hinge with Acer laptops?

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  • My father had an Acer laptop. It broke.

    One of my friends had an Acer laptop. It broke.

    I think my father had a 486SX Acer laptop which worked wayyyy past its reasonable age, but it's in the closet and the hinges look crumbly and I kinda fear that if I touch it it will be atomised.

    Me, I've used Asus laptops since 2011, and these things are only slightly less resistant to nuclear explosions than Thinkpads

  • Save icon

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  • You think it's bad that the save icons have floppy disks?

    A while ago, I was wondering why the usual icon for "database" (upright cylinder divided into multiple horizontal slices) looks like the original flowchart symbol for drum memory, further refined to look like a 1960s hard drive, you know, one of those washing machine sized units. But then again, if you have a serious database, chances are it's running on some several layers deep virtualised replica of a 1960s system

  • Save icon

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  • I think one GTK/GNOME icon set had downward arrow pointing to a hard disk. Seemed clear enough to me.

  • POV: You're a programmer

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  • I'm a girl. I'm not interested in Haskell, that's too frigging endofunctiorific. Erlang! That's what all the cool guys are doing.

  • What do all you coders actually do?

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  • I'm not working as a developer right now, so most of the stuff I write are supplementary for my creative projects. If I have a problem involving too much manual work, I want to figure out a solution to minimise it. Mostly done in scripting languages like Python and Ruby. Also doing number crunching and plots in the R programming language.

    For example, I'm working on tools to help my photography workflow. I sometimes get weird ideas like "I wish I could have a better idea where I have taken photos in", which turned into a script that takes coordinate metadata from photos and spits out a .kml file a mapping software can read.

    I don't really copy/paste code much. Sometimes the tools you use in the scripting language land spit out automatically generated stuff which you then develop further.

  • What is the result of a programmer's work?

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  • Well it's an art film. The purpose of art is to evoke emotions, to inspire dialogue. Yours is one possible interpretation. Ultimately, who's to say it's not valid?

  • What is the result of a programmer's work?

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  • One day I was thinking of Andy Warhol's film "Empire", which is basically one continuous 8 hour shot of the Empire State Building.

    I thought it'd be cool to make a similar art film about your average programmer's work day. 8 hour shot of a programmer staring at the screen intensely, drinking coffee, scrolling through the code, and occasionally muttering "why the fuck doesn't this work?"

  • It's that time again

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  • Dunno, I saw GNOME 3 run like molasses on my PC, went "ok, this might be lost cause", went with LXDE and then XFCE, and now I'm like "if it's a beefy proper PC I'll go with KDEPlasma and if it's, like, very obsolete system I'll, dunno, go with XFCE".

    GNOME is just opinionated. I get it, it was kinda vaguely modeled after Mac OS, which is kinda an opinionated desktop environment, but the thing is, it's even more opinionated than Mac OS ever was. The thing about (early!) Mac OS X was "hey, we have this slick desktop environment but also some power user features you might want to use. But we're not forcing you to!" (Kinda like GNOME 2!) ...GNOME has been kinda sweeping those under the rug, in my opinion.

  • Install Gentoo

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  • I use Debian 13 on my shitty junk desktop computer.

    Problem is, it has VGA and DisplayPort, and my monitor only has a DisplayPort input, and all of the bootup shit defaults to the VGA. No way to change it in the BIOS as far as I can tell.

    I installed my favourite GRUB theme, such a great tool to manage my depression (it was a great way to start the day on my work laptop back when I had work), but I never actually get to see GRUB menu on this system. 🙁

  • Like Windows explorer but better

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  • (Someone on the interweb:) "Hey, you should try KDE Connect"

    (Me:) Uh, I don't use Linux on my laptop and that's the computer that I use the most

    (S:) "Well it also runs on Windows."

    (Me:) Really?... Holy sh- HOLY SHIT, this is so much better than every shitty cloud sync package, and that Google app they keep renaming every time I look at it so I can't remember what it's called this week

  • Webp

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  • Someone remarked that in film photography, every 10 years, Kodak used to get the brilliant idea that 35mm film is just too complicated for Your Average Consumer, and invented a new "easy to load" cartridge based film format. 126 Instamatic in the 1960s, 110 Pocket Instamatic in the 1970s, Disc Film in the 1980s and the APS in the 1990s. ...Meanwhile, Your Average Consumer didn't give much damn, and while these formats saw some use, most people preferred 35mm.

    Same goes with image formats. Apple and Google and Microsoft try to make "better" file formats happen, and I'm sure they have their advantages, but people will stick with JPEG, thanks.

  • What's something that, after you had it, you immediately wanted another?

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  • Uuuhhh... Cameras... Computers... Having sex... Uh... A fidget cube... Swiss army knives... I'm not good at this.

  • Who needs MongoDB when you have JSONB?

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  • Yeah, I took one course where we used MongoDB. I was like "still unconvinced, but I'll keep this in mind if I run into situations not covered by PostgreSQL." ...I've not run into situations not covered by PostgreSQL. Everything will be covered by PostgreSQL.

  • REST my ass 💩

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  • Aaagh! Getting some random old person flashbacks.

    Kids. I r-remember a day... You won't believe this... I got a 404 error page... It was otherwise a normal 404 page with a normal message on it, but it had a giant ad on it... like "while you're here, how about you buy this stuff"... It was hell... You've got no idea how lucky you kids are with uBlock...

  • The future is here

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  • Just do your best plumber / car mechanic impression. "Gee, this codebase is really messed up, looks like I need to basically replace everything."

    ("That can't be true, that's what every other programmer I showed this to said. Are you all lying?" "No, we're not lying, this really is a screwed up codebase.")

  • Which stage are you at?

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  • I started out with Slackware 3.0. It broke all the time. Tried Debian. Was happy ever since. Tried Ubuntu on laptops but later decided it's just Debian with extra steps so I went with Debian after all.

  • What's your mnemonic for pwd?- OMG it means print working directory. My mind instantly goes to password every time. I had to reach puddle wuv dud levels of autism before thinking otherwise. I shame my

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  • I'm always like "du shows disk usage of files, and df shows how much of disk is free".

  • Finally correcting the Degoogling lists

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  • "YESS! YESSSSS! GIVE IN TO YOUR EMACS SIDE!!!"

    Google Search really sucks these days. I can't find any images of Richard M. Stallman as a Sith lord, even though I'm sure vi fans have made several edits by now. ...It's been a while.

  • Videos @lemmy.world
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    Skwerl (aka "How English sounds to non-English speakers")

  • Programmer Humor @programming.dev
    Rose @slrpnk.net

    This will be really funny, until you remember 99% of current super hyped AI stuff is running on Python