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SRE. Queer. Poly :potion_polyamory: Trans :verified_trans: :nonbinary_potion: Engineer. Ace :flag_ace: #ActuallyAutistic :rainbowinfinity: #UnionStrong Opinions my own […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ hachyderm.io/@hrefna, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 1h

[detrans grifter] Just ran across information on Soren Aldaco, who has been in attack ads all over Ohio talking about how she was essentially forcibly transitioned and how we need to protect "minors like me" from these dangerous surgeries. Except that she was 19 when she had the surgery. A […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 3h

How mastodon handles content warnings will never not annoy me.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 5h

Whenever I see the numbers on mastodon server costs I have to take a moment because WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT COSTS THAT MUCH TO RUN.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It's always bemusing to me when someone who has never done more than very basic development shows up to lecture me on a language, programming topic, or protocol. Like. Mate. I know you are all excited but do recognize that I'm not right out of college here.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

Me: "Evaluate what X would do for us in Y." AI: "It's important to note that it will not do P, Q, and R! Here are some next steps!" Okay but absolutely none of that was what I asked for. I knew it could not do P, Q, and R and I do not want nor need next steps. I wanted to know what it _would_ […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"'What was [Satoshi Kon] on? Can I have some?' What he was on was class consciousness." Gods that's a great line from this commentary.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

"One of the problems with UUIDv4 is that they are long strings…" I stfg.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Today in "how to write a postmortem" I talked about a postmortem flow and it's a concept that I don't think everyone gets. So let's talk about it. Let's lay out a postmortem as follows: 1. Introduction 2. RCA 3. What went well/poorly/where we got lucky 4. Action items (Most PMs have more […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

One pattern I've seen in younger cohorts of engineers is this tendency to just… present options in a technical design. Their technical designs all read as: "Option 1: Foo Option 2: Bar Option 3: Baz" But they never… take a position. On any of them. It's always just "here are the three options […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Wait I stop paying attention to the folk metal scene for a decade and WHAT happens? Gåte, Lumsk, Finntroll, and Garmana are all doing things again?!?!?!? I somehow missed that Gåte was Norway's Eurovision entry in 2024?!?!? Like. What.

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

If you want people to not use meta, then you need to actually be thinking about how and why people use meta and advocating for, supporting, and/or building spaces that cover those use cases. It isn't enough to say "meta bad," over a billion people use meta, you need to be able to say "and this […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

This largely matches my own understanding and analysis. yoshuabengio.org/en/blog/why-are-ai… Especially when you factor in how the context window works and that the training is "prioritize answering over following the rules of the answer," you can […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

A lot of average men think that an average man could beat an elite woman in track and field events except possibly some of the long-race ones. Let's take the 100m dash as our example of how ridiculous this is. The average man of average physical fitness would struggle to clear 14 seconds at […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

“I would play a game of count the sapphics but I think it would take less time to count the non-sapphics”

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Copilot is probably the single least useful LLM I encounter on a regular basis.

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Okay, my little toy project now has: 1. A basic admin API set up. 2. a flyway migration setup 3. A data persistence layer based out of hibernate 4. Too Many Linters. No. Seriously. x_x 5. A set of tools to make it easy to bootstrap a local test server with docker compose that includes a […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

Me: "I need this agent to start making defensive copies of things and stop treating everything as mutable. For objects with this structure I'd like you to annotate them as Immutable so that the linter can analyze them" LLM:: "Okay! Let me add that check to the linter! " Me: "You do not need to […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Psssst. This whole "asking you to modify your behavior is anti-autism" thing is on the (fascist) aspie-supremacy pipeline. It's an alt-right recruiting tool.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

This iced coffee discourse on tiktok and similar places is just demonstrating to me how unbelievably unserious people are when it comes to what it takes to actually organize a movement. If you aren't willing to put aside an iced coffee for the sake of a 30 minute interview to even get in the […]

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Medea Vanamonde 🏳️‍⚧️ @medeavanamonde.beige.party.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Boomers think I'm going to spring break and still have my parents paying my expenses. Gen Z thinks I'm past retirement age and blocking them from getting jobs. Sigh.

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Lol. Sometimes AI summaries are just _funny_. The term in question here—eme-sig -- gu7 (𒅴𒅆𒅥𒅥 probably?)—is a sumerian term that I'm evaluating the history of, since some sources list it as close in practical meaning to "lashon hara."

The Sumerian phrase eme-sig-gu7-gu7 (meaning "to slander", literally "tongue + low + consume/devour", corresponding to Akkadian akil karṣi, "slanderer/backbiter") is written in cuneiform as 𒅴𒅆竴竴.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

I kind of think of Boal's work as foundational to Transformative Justice in a similar way to how Pearls, Erickson, and Satir are foundational for NLP. So if you look at "core Transformative Justice" books then Theatre never really comes up, but it is also clear that you can draw a line from […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

RE: hachyderm.io/@hrefna/11731351658749… I focused a lot here in talking about the species, but there's another element to this that I think needs to be underlined. _Every_ parrot you find up for adoption has trauma. Even extremely well adjusted birds that are up for adoption have […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I really need people to stop recommending that people adopt birds that are five orders of magnitude too complex for them. Adoption with parrots _by itself_ is an order of magnitude more complex and harder than purchasing, the ethics of it are _radically_ different than for most other animals […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Straight boomers: "Just because you are on a diet doesn't mean you can't look at the menu" People today, evidently: "it's cheating if you follow opposite sex celebrities on instagram." What is happening.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Your periodic reminder that the following are not in ActivityPub: 1. Webfinger 2. HTTP Signatures 3. Moving servers 4. Blocking domains 5. "Instances" / named servers

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

If you are an early boomer then when you went to college the minimum wage came out to around $1.60/hr. If you went to school where my mother went to school then your tuition per year was around $800. So around 500 hours of work to pay tuition. If you are working full time you can do that in […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

Wait am I having fraking period cramps. Ughhhhhhhhhhh. -.-

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

People need to drop the words "socialized female" from their vocabulary, in this essay I will…

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026

As a US citizen if you are stopped at a road checkpoint you are under no obligation to provide your citizenship information or answer any questions. They _may_ have the right to have that checkpoint set up. That's the US v. Martinez-Fuerte case that the they like to throw around. That's a 4th […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

I have had measles. Measles is terrible. You do not want measles. You do not want your kids to have measles. You do not want "natural immunity" from measles. Vaccinate your kids.

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I haven't commented on the Clancy trial and I don't in general want to start now, but I do want to say a few things. 1. It's worth reflecting on that our system requires 12 people to be unanimous for a _not_ guilty verdict but that this is not essential. Spain, Scotland, Japan, and even the US […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

I was asked earlier my thoughts on if LLMs made me more productive and I gave an answer I'd been chewing on for a while that I figured I'd share here Which is that: 1. It makes me faster at writing code at the expense of some of the other areas of development. Shifting around what is difficult […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

"this is quite the gordian knot to untie" "I mean. The original gordian knot was somewhat famously cut through."

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

A: I have good news! I have the ethical argument on X that you requested. Me: Is it actually a moral argument? A: I don't understand? Me: I want to see an ethical argument. Is that what you have, or do you have a moral argument? A: Yes, I have an ethical argument. Me: You're sure? You have […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm doing an experiment in AI with what I think of as de minimus code review. I don't this will do anything except re-establish for me how terrible many of these tools still are, but let me walk through what I'm thinking. 1. Significant quality gating in the project itself. This includes, for a […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I always forget how to _set up_ a PSQL instance the first time. I'm extremely good with PSQL on multiple levels. But I have to set it up like… once in a blue moon, and things change.

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I'm generally of the view with "qualified immunity" that it needs to be outright abolished. But if you wanted a middle-ground option, you could make it an affirmative defense. What I mean is this: Require that, in front of a jury, the officer provides either a preponderance of evidence or […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Gods leftists are insufferable.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

"Company behaves wildly irresponsibly and potentially commits a federal crime and almost certainly commits a civil tort against another company" just doesn't have the same ring to it as "our large language model escaped!"

Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

I'm increasingly convinced that Gen Z as a whole thinks that millennials are, like, 65 years old. Like I've now seen multiple examples of Gen Zers going "WHY WON'T BOOMERS AND MILLENNIALS RETIRE" or "WHY ARE MILLENNIALS HOARDING THE WEALTH" etc. Just. Millennials own around 11% of the wealth […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I just want someone who will prescribe me my meds. Please. Is that too much to ask?

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

[kink, safeword discussion] There are two things that people need to hold as true at the same time: 1. The stoplight system is standard, widely recognized, and you should use it as your default. 2. This does not save you from talking explicitly and specifically about safewords before starting […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

Saw a minke whale today!

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

"It's trivial to write an actor framework, I don't see why…" Oh you sweet summer child.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

"That story is AI, as AI as it gets" *rubs temples* I'm begging people to stop saying that everything that seems out there is AI. Begging. There's keeping a skeptical eye and there's this reflex, knee-jerk reaction to anything that uses complete sentences or which is clearly designed to pull […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Leaving aside the ethics and morality of the CL1 units, I cannot _stand_ the clear just… "this was clearly a press release" material coming out right now around it. Like they compare it to 6-700 W systems and talk about how it is 1/20th the power! Which sounds impressive if you know absolutely […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Leaving aside the ethics and morality of the CL1 units, I cannot _stand_ the clear just… "this was clearly a press release" material coming out right now around it. Like they compare it to 6-700 W systems and talk about how it is 1/20th the power! Which sounds impressive if you know absolutely […]

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

"We’ve lost about 5mil gallons of water for people to make those shitty 80s AI posts. This is bullshit." Let's grant the number for the sake of argument. So about equivalent to ten acres of corn or soy. Not including harvesting or processing. There are nearly 97 million acres of corn in the […]

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