onoira [they/them]
i knew one of those chinless gymbro ‘i have a n*rdic jawline’ white supremacists, and watched people mock his weak chin.
it did succeed in making him shut the fuck up.
it also succeeded in aggravating him into murder-suiciding his brother and a neighbour, so i can’t say it made him any less racist.
before i left my last job, we were being required to use github copilot.
this is after i gave them numbers showing that after one month of trialling it:
- tasks took me the same amount of time on average to complete, but
- code reviews took twice as long, as:
- the code was shit.
- i didn’t understand my ‘own’ code.
- the code wasn’t idiomatic to our design patterns, and had to be rewritten.
i already had half a year of experience of successfully wrangling copilot for extrapolating/translating large/repetitive administrative shell/ansible scripts. but for heavy coding tasks — rather than modelling the problem and developing a solution — i was spending the same amount of time effectively letting a JS bootcamp intern (mis)interpret my specifications line-by-line and then i would proofread their mistakes. in a way, this took more time because it left me very little time for self-review before i was under pressure to move on to the next thing.
the bosses got the same results from the other two people who trialled it, and decided not only to buy into copilot, but to implement chatgpt to automatically write copy and translate it for customers. that went about as well as you might expect.
i am so fucking done with tech.
purely anecdotal, but i knew someone who needed a pancreatectomy shortly after a nearly severe case of COVID, due to necrotising pancreatitis. there weren’t any other ‘normal’ factors which would’ve made it coincidential.
La majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues et de voler du pain.
— Anatole France, Le Lys rouge
i’ve been seeing them in German, but i believe the dbzer0 host is also in France.
in written Spanish if you want to denote gender ambiguity you can use the ‘x’ letter, @ symbol or any other generic enough symbol.
Hearing someone say latin-“x” in English can be jarring to hear though, that’s as much as I’ll say.
i prefer -e for this reason; it’s pronounceable.
i think it would be more symbolic to extend the rainbow peace flag over it.
Did you look for a nest or another bird in the original shrub?
i didn’t see anything in the bush at first glance. i tried to see if it was leading me somewhere, but it didn’t seem like it. i didn’t want to stress them out by approaching them too quickly or digging thru the bush.
they did seem very small, so it’s possible they don’t know how to feed themself. it’s not too far, so i can try checking on them sometime soon. i don’t want to invade their home, tho.
my guess is it was trying to get you to help one of its friends or something.
that was my first guess, but it didn’t seem like it was leading me anywhere.
i’m a little worried now.
I’d have had a good search around the area befriending crows can actually bring you some benifit like shiny gifts
when i was homeless, i shared my food with a crow. i got them to bring me coins by feeding them double portions when they brought monies.
or in some cases crow bodyguards as they actually recognise individuals as friends etc.
that’s my current relationship to the corvids in town. a long time ago i rescued a magpie from two seagulls, and since then all the corvids no longer fly away when i come near them. the magpies even defended me from a seagull one day!
but they otherwise don’t approach me, and we don’t ‘communicate’.
