brennen @brennen@mastodon.social

a cricket is just a goth grasshopper.

shut up, pylint.

jeank

(jeans ink)

i'm pretty sure i've had it get to as much as a week at some point in this calendar year.

days since last python 2 vs. 3 incident: 0

astroid with notmuch seems like a maybe, but the build i just tried is kind of clunky at best.

so after ~2.5 years of use, i'm basically content enough with thunderbird.

that said, i still want the gmail-style thing where it's thread-centric and essentially built around tags instead of folders. i use an increasingly-refined set of tags for bookmarks, wiki pages, and blogging - it feels weird that i can't easily apply the same idea to mail.

anybody know of any desktop (or libre & self-hostable) clients that do these things?

APIs are a scam.

every time i read something like this, i'm reminded how we got here and i get fruitlessly angry all over again:

https://secure.phabricator.com/T4825

the more the "you will regret this" bar comes to dominate the responses the more inclined i am to go for it

should i upgrade from debian stretch to debian buster on my primary working machine this afternoon?

maybe i just mean "irritating"

i was going to make some kind of joke about having an OKR of ranting less and it devolved within seconds into a rant about OKRs being nonsensical

on that upbeat note, fin and i think i'm going to bed.

it's just that making meaningful change here requires fucking with the money in deeper and more fundamental ways than shakily blacklisting a revolving cast of bad actors.

not that i really have great answers as to how to do that. "stop writing software that facilitates megacorp scale" and "try to unionize your workplace" might be perfectly good answers, but then people tend to like getting a paycheck. i know i do, all else being equal.

and don't get me wrong: the ecosystem of open code has been almost totally captured by capital and largely exists at its sufferance / to its benefit. that open source has succeeded as a methodology of vast utility to monopolists and autocrats while free software is in a state of almost total defeat is one of the most desperate problems we face.

that was a terrible sentence and i apologize to anyone trying to parse it. anyhow the gist is: yeah, i get it, and i probably share much of your political project, but there are reasons this hasn't worked before and objections that aren't just rooted in knee-jerk defense of the (wretchedly corrupt and overtly evil) tech business establishment.

the problem that arises for me is it describes a situation where other factors like understanding a little bit about how copyright works, a general feel for the law of unintended consequences, or ecosystem-level worries about what happens with a patchwork of mutually incompatible and practically unenforceable license restrictions can bring you to an objection to the tactic just as easily as being a Good Capitalist.