Zatnosk @zatnosk@manowar.social

"Masculinity" is a meta-trait.

* People can have traits that distinguish them from other people.

* Two people with the same trait never express it identically; ergo, a trait is actually set of trait-expressions

* Masculinity describes a subset of such a trait-expression (for some traits), i.e. masculinity is a property that distinguishes trait-expressions from each other.

Okay, I want to try to focus my spare-time-project-energy for the coming months.
I will do my very best to restrain myself to three projects:

1. Getting #GardenGame to a minimal playable state, so y'all can start making small virtual gardens. I'm not good at graphics, so keep expectations low for the first release.

2. #StarShip, a PHP fediverse server project by @InspectorCaracal . I'm thinking of making a zatnosk-experiments branch and just do my best to run wild with it.

When I think of a future with Open Social Media, I imagine three pillars.

1) Microblogging (ActivityPub), for sharing thoughts with strangers, ephemeral community building, and broad+global reach.

2) Forum / Stable Community (no good solution yet, AFAIK), for discussing, planning, buying/selling locally. All within a distinct group of people, membership of which can be managed.

3) Peer2Peer (Scuttlebutt?), for talking directly to friends, family, nearby people, and easily sharing files.

And now, the beast they call vacuum cleaner shall awoken! Ia ia ia, vacuum n'est pas fthagn!

Specialised software tools shouldn't be bundled with command line interfaces.

Define input and output types, option parameters and their types, and the terminal should do the rest.

Or a GUI could seamlessly replace the ancient interface that models an extinct computer that only appeal to elitists.

Command line tools should be strongly typed.

"Everything is a string" is a recipe for injection attacks and disasters.

Oookay. After 32 holes there's visible wear on the drill bit. I am unsure whether it's my technique or whether I should have used a harder bit. I'm drilling in brick, so it's not like I need a steel-drill, but it's not far off.

(And yes, I know I'm not hitting steel. I've struck steel with a (different) concrete drilling bit, and in addition to making steel dust, it also killed the bit _very_ fast.)

The drill bit isn't supposed to glow red when you pull it out of the wall, is it?

@funkwhale Does #funkwhale have the ability to transcode from .flac to .mp3?

I'm more interested in saving storage space than perfect quality, and it'd be way easier if I could just ask my funkwhale instance to do the work, rather than converting everything myself on my local copy of my collection (and risk fucking something up and having to re-rip some/all of my CDs).

"I was tech guy responsible for spaceship simulation" is one hell of a sentence.

I should put that on my CV.