He's got 3000 subscribers, but I really love Brother Jauffre. This video lives rent free in my head: https://youtu.be/ERfhHK8zBdE

He just makes absurd little videos about whatever. If you like silly nonsensical things (which I do), he'll be great for you.

I'd never heard BOHICA before, so thanks for using it!

For others not in the know, it stands for Bend Over, Here It Comes Again. It's military slang, like FUBAR or SNAFU.

If the root commentor is being serious, then I think it might be a trauma thing. Their profile specifically calls out being queer, and I can imagine many scenarios in someone's past where conversations about being "masculine" or "manly" were... un-fun, let's say. I know I felt some uneasiness as I initially read the headline and article summary due to my own childhood experiences. I've been told to "grow a pair" and "be a man" too many times for conversations around masculinity to be easy, and that's as a bi cis man (I can sometimes appear to conform to the societal norms while being true to myself). I'm sure that it'd be much harder for someone who is gay, nonbinary, or a trans woman.

I dunno. I see trauma in so many things nowadays. Maybe it's there in this case, maybe it's not, but I figured I'd call it out. Their trauma and the responsibility for managing it and healing from it belongs solely to them if it exists. If they're being a bad faith actor, then they can fuck off.

The 20 mph thing is happening where I live as well (in parts of Utah), and it's being widely ignored. I don't speed in general. I especially avoid it in places where there may be kids or pets around, so I end up with some big penis truck tailgating me when I'm on those 20 mph roads. It's so frustrating because these people haven't seen what happens to pedestrians when they get hit.

Content warning, I'm going to describe an accident I saw. When I was 16, I saw a man step out onto the road about ~50-75 feet in front of a car moving at ~40 mph. The pedestrian didn't look before he stepped out, and he wasn't anywhere near a crosswalk. He looked like he was coming from a construction site and was probably just tired. Nobody was speeding and the driver had pretty admirable reflexes (I could hear the juddering from his ABS brakes).

Even with that, the guy got hit before the car could come to a stop. I saw him fly back several feet, and the thing I'll never forget is the way his head fucking bounced as it hit the pavement. The amount a person's head will bounce is just fucking awful. I'll never forget what he was like afterwards. He had a heavy concussion and a huge bruise on his head. He could barely speak and he kept pawing at the air, like he was seeing something. He kept trying to get up, to the point where someone had to hover over him to stop him from moving (he might have had spine damage). He got hit so hard that to 16 year old me, he turned from a person into an injured animal. It felt like the spark in his eyes got kicked out when his skull hit the ground. It was terrifying to see someone get their... sapience? Maybe there's a better word, but see someone get their sapience smashed out of them.

Like, the guy I saw was lucky. The driver wasn't texting and slowed down considerably, and there were multiple first responders with some degree of training. He wasn't crushed. He didn't go under the car. An ambulance was there within 5 minutes of the accident. He probably lived, and he probably didn't end up with permanent brain damage (according to the EMTs). Every time I drive through a neighborhood, I imagine a kid running out from behind something, right in front of my car. If I'm going 30-40 mph, that kid's head is gonna be doing the asphalt bounce. If I'm going 20 mph, that kid is going to shit their pants when my 3000 pound death machine stops a foot away from them.

I just wish I could make these people understand how fucking awful it is to be hit by a car. It's been more than 15 years since I saw that happen and I still feel ill when I try hard to remember it. I can't imagine how bad it feels for the driver, and how much, much worse it feels for the guy who was hit.

Your eye is still open under that flap though, no? I dabbled in Olympic pistol shooting back when I was doing across-the-course service rifle, and I was told to always keep both eyes open by the dude teaching me. Same for service rifle (and later palma). I always found that closing one of your eyes fucks up your focusing. If you don't have the little flappy dealy, you just do your best to defocus/deprioritize the view out of your non-dominant eye. I actually went for quite a while without any sort of cover because it helped me avoid cross firing (which is probably more of an issue with across-the-course than with Olympic pistol).

You're absolutely right about the lack of spectacles though. This guy is one hell of a marksman.

What if you need to file a bug? What if you have a question on the config that's not easily answered by the docs? If you never, ever find bugs and never, ever have questions, then sure, separate the two. There are genuinely people like that, but they're not common. If you're one of them, then I'm genuinely glad for you.

My opinion is this: You use software. You don't use people, but you sure as hell rely on them.

Because Vaxry (the lead dev) got banned from contributing to wlroots or any other FDO projects.

As for why he was banned, this is the only thing I've read about the whole thing: https://drewdevault.com/2024/04/09/2024-04-09-FDO-conduct-enforcement.html

Basically, he violated the FDO Code of Conduct when being told that a particular thing he said/enabled in a Discord community would not be acceptable if it was seen in spaces covered by said CoC.

This appears to be his response.

A nine digit zip code is incredibly precise.

I imagine that part of it comes down to motivation. I pretended to be an adult on a special-interest forum when I was twelve years old because I needed an escape from my miserable existence. At that time, I had no control over my life and every morning I woke up meant I had a new chance for traumatic shit to happen. I desperately needed to be someone else, so I took my time, researched shit, and avoided any conversation where I might be outed. I'm sure I didn't fool everyone, but I got some shocked responses when I went back as an adult and owned up to it.

Kids doing it for the authority boost or just as a childish fancy will be easier to spot. Kids doing it as a coping mechanism for their horrible lives will probably blend in a lot better.

I don't know the tone or content of your previous messages, but I appreciate that you removed potential misinformation and took the whole exchange as a learning opportunity rather than digging in your heels.

I also appreciate that @girlfreddy@lemmy.ca simply asserted the facts present in the article as a part of their initial message. It's nice to see positive interactions develop out of a less-than-ideal starting point.

I live in Utah where it's been sinfully hot and dry for the last week. I fully intend to test this theory. I just bought a high temp probe that should get here tomorrow. I will provide an update once the testing has been completed.

I find it interesting that the article makes no mention of his linguistic work (edit: this is not a criticism of the article, just an idle remark. It need not be mentioned, given the political focus of the article). The Chomsky Hierarchy has had a massive impact on the world of software development, for example. If you've ever written a regular expression, you've used his work.