New instance, new #introduction post! (Shamelessly copied from https://iscurrently.live/@theresnotime/109837516486873998)

Hi, I'm Sammy!

I'm a software engineer, currently webdev ('full stack' is pushing it, CSS is an unholy abomination) but I used to do embedded/microcontroller (i.e. firmware for industrial machines) and control system programming (PLCs make me cry).

I work for the very awesome #Wikimedia Foundation, though I've been a volunteer #Wikipedia editor for a long time! ✨

🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈🦊

Either importing people you followed takes a *long time* or its a lil fucky,,, either way, if I used to follow you poke me if it doesn't import in an hour or so..

*meows at @tbruck@mastodon.org.uk, as I can't seem to view your profile at all from here..*

Next up, figuring out how many followers/people I follow are on defederated instances or something 🥴

Elon: Invents new slur
Gamers: 👀

Bringing my followers here has singlehandedly turned the federated feed into "the proper fediverse experience" (i.e. trans catgirls talking about Arch Linux)

The ability for people to *lose their shit* over things like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:Libreboot is just 🥴

Wasn't core #mastodon meant to be getting markdown support at some point..? One of the main things I miss from moving from my glitch-soc instance to here

Tired: wanting posts to migrate when you move instances.

Wired: cursed python script which just re-posts all your previous toots as quickly as possible.

mi soweli loje a!

oh did I forget to mention here that I'm running for the #Wikimedia UK board? ✨

Do you know #TokiPona? It's been enabled on TranslateWiki (the open source translation project for #MediaWiki and loads of other stuff) for a while now, and we could use your help translating the "Most important messages" — check out https://codelookup.toolforge.org/tok and consider helping if you can (or maybe boost if you can't?) 🙏

OH: I bite statisticians.

TIL that Wiktionary is a bit of a 'law unto itself'.. zero concept of administrator involvement (specific e.g., you shouldn't be able to protect a page you're edit warring over.)

OH: someone explaining what the P in PACER stands for to a 'lawyer' (it's "Public") 😌

Still think it'd be cool for #Wikipedia to have an .onion address... https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T168218

you've all been fooled — I'm actually just a fox.

tfw no PHP.

21°c at night, pls no 😭

*taps mic*
Foxes.
*crowd goes wild*

I am genuinely melting omg 😖🥵

Fedi. As. Fuck.

AWOOOO

ref. previous boost you can just buy barrels of estradiol from chemical suppliers online 🤷🏻‍♀️

Okay sure you might have to do a tiny bit of fraud to make them think you're a legitimate chemical company but be gay, do crime amirite?

FOSS is tricking someone into becoming a maintainer, changing your name, moving to a remote island somewhere and rearing goats, never to be heard from again 😌

The only real life hack I need is posting nyaa~ to the MediaWiki account tbh.. https://wikis.world/@mediawiki/110609964821738357

Born to :3
Forced to :/

The fediverse is the perfect mixture of intelligent discussion and telling some clout-chasing bike related urbanism account to post lewds, and honestly I'm here for it 👌

Love that work calls moving from a contractor role to an employee "transitioning" 😌

(Oh yeah also I'm no longer a contractor at Wikimedia, I transition to full time staff next month ✨)

Sharks are smooth as hell

Untameable fox

Was gonna make a "federated headpats" joke but that's basically ActivityPub

Tired: Pronouns in bio
Wired: Pronouns in #MediaWiki

(Okay admittedly that's kinda already a thing..)

Today's sudo insult: And you call yourself a Rocket Scientist!

One day #Wikidata, one day....

https://Q110242813.com

Fixed the silly metadata changer thingy with the new creds :3 https://tnt.tools/ghmfc

[#Wikimedia UK board election thread thing]

Guess it makes sense to keep it in one place.

I'm running for the Wikimedia UK Board (currently unopposed!) — how exciting!

- https://wikimedia.org.uk

TIL they're making a Five Nights at Freddy's film and all I can really say is

Why.

Just why.

No segfaults on Beta, call that a win tbh.

✨ Casual reminder that the majority of "confident people" are just very good at pretending to be "confident" ✨

🎵 Today's #MusicToDeployTo was T.I.N.A by Enter Shikari

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2QZNZ6XmOg

Girls who have ASNs are just 👌

she anycast on my prefix until I propagate

(tf is wrong with me.)

[just did a load of replies, cluttering up y'alls timelines — is there a way to hide that/should I use a different post visibility?]

Tomorrow is the big 'end of internship' presentation for our 2023 cohort of very awesome interns — I *will not* cry.

Maybe moving to mainland Europe is the answer..

Isn't "sub tooting" just any posts y'all make? smh.

Currently in the 'end of internship' presentation for the 2023 cohort of #Wikimedia interns — some absolutely awesome work has been done, the 8 interns got to work with some cool af teams (CommTech being the best of course, but I'm biased..!) and its really great to hear what they've learnt ✨

[mitigated]

Vodafone Germany customers might not be able to access Wikipedia at the moment (thanks BGP. probably.)

e: https://www.wikimediastatus.net

Reject: ASN/BGP
Embrace: IPoAC (RFC 1149)

You just know all the NOC furries have a Matrix room where they shit talk their employers.

"How's your day going" you ask?
Well, I just spent the last few minutes trying to wipe a smudge off my screen which turned out to be the Slack 'send button', so you tell me.

Heh this contract has gone woke /s

> References to masculine gender include the feminine; to the singular include the plural;

Weird, approaching transphobic, remarks on a Wikimedia mailing list (wikimania-l) yet again making me question why people have such a fascination with which room folx use to go to the bathroom 🤦

Edit: I missed two posts from that individual — "approaching transphobic" is incorrect, that's directly transphobic and they should not be permitted to attend the event.

The things I cannot boost on this account yet so nearly do.. 😌

TIL about https://github.com/Metastem/wikiless :blobhaj_thinking:

"Yes this patch is a little hacky, but in my defense I'm wearing cute fox ears"

<TheresNoTime> k7s? Damn those budget cuts.

Surprised there isn't like a nvm (https://github.com/nvm-sh/nvm) for PHP.. be nice to easily install/switch between different PHP versions..

edit: whoops, https://github.com/phpbrew/phpbrew

So given that Special:Blankpage exists in #MediaWiki, maybe I can slowly convince people that Special:NonBlankpage is needed, and finally get nyaa~ into core 👏

ngl, I do love the web design for Wikimedia UK's yearly strategic report — https://2023strategicreport.wikimedia.org.uk

hey webpack, just a hint — percentage complete goes up, it doesn't flick between 60% and 70% for a minute and then complete 👌

TIL that "fancy signatures" in #MediaWiki are referred to in the API as "nicknames", which has nothing to do with your "username" nor "real name"

Because I got bored updating my wiki signature across multiple projects, say hello to https://github.com/theresnotime/global-signature

> A serving FSB officer and two lightly armed furries were among supporters of the Wagner Group [...]

wut.

https://twitter.com/chriso_wiki/status/1673803622142836737

I should change my last name to Fox..

I meet someone
I bite them
They can't make the charges stick
I bite them
...

ma'am this isn't a transfem dating site, it's a railway preservation society.

Damn how many Vivians are there on fedi?? 😌

> Connection terminated by peer

Haven't the House of Lords got anything better to do??

👀 okay this seems useful.. https://gitlab.torproject.org/tpo/anti-censorship/pluggable-transports/webtunnel

> big spoon engineer
🥺

Is Denmark real? Have you ever seen it?

Yeah. Thought so.

I should redesign https://www.theresnotime.co.uk using https://design-system.service.gov.uk 🥴

The #Wikimedia Developer Satisfaction Survey results are out — an interesting read!

Key highlights for me are:
1. The Beta Cluster is problematic (https://w.wiki/_w7g2)
2. Only 6% of respondents identified as 'Gender Diverse' (https://w.wiki/6vN5)
3. Docker use as a dev env is high! (https://w.wiki/6vNB)

----
nb. (2) tells me that gender diverse folx are still a little underrepresented in our developer ecosystem and/or we're not very good at completing surveys on time.

#MediaWiki

Goodbye Phabricator pride logo 😭 :rainbow_flag:

Is it 'bad form' to (re)post things from my previous fedi account I think are still cool/interesting? :blobhaj_thinking:

i was today years old when I found out you can do [ctrl] + [r] at the shell prompt to search through your shell history (instead of having to scroll up/down through 100s of commands)

😭 I snapped part of the outer casing of my ThinkPad x230 whilst disassembling it

People often ask what deep meaning my username has — so much so, that I've created https://www.theresnotime.co.uk/username to link them to 😌

Not me about to start the likely long search through Phabricator as to why #MediaWiki never implemented backticks (`) as an alias for <code> or something....

markdown > wikitext

Rebuilding the thinkpad_acpi module to fix that dumb "0°C" bug 🥴

folx with #ADHD who have the "waiting 1 minute for something is physically painful" thing — how do you cope with that during moments of needing results/answers?

awawawawa

fopks 🦊

you wouldn't PET a SILLY

Seeing so many furry artists on fedi lately..

Pros: y'all will probably get to see loads of cool art of my foxsona!

Cons: Money.

I don't trust my German so I kinda wish I could write posts in both languages so people can switch between that and the English of what I was trying to say 😅

Alles ist auf Deutsch??

I am the one who ACKs

> Order battery for ThinkPad
> Says compatible with x230
> Arrives
> Does not fit.

MySpace is legit sitting there like ✨sooon✨

Transfems on the Interrail European Sleeper 😏

"Sum of all human knowledge" and then this: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Vermont/Meow-speak

I'm sure Discord is 69% polycule servers

I am the board member that goes "nyaa~" on main.

AWS Free Tier because it frees your tears when you get the usage bill?

(okay that was a weak pun but it's like 11:30PM)

New folx coming over to fedi, please fill in your bio and link to your website or something — I'm pretty relaxed on who I accept but blank profiles make me pause..

You are not immune to foxes.

awooooooooooo

brb replacing the default font on #Wikipedia with comic sans

I already have some EarGear ears ( https://thetailcompany.com/product/eargear-cosplay-ears ) but the price of the tail ( https://thetailcompany.com/product/mitail ) is a lil 🥴

Plain #mastodon not supporting pinned private posts is a weird choice 🥴 is it "just" because no one has put in a PR bringing that over from glitch/wherever else..?

I move house in a week and a bit, and have for the *first time ever* ensured that the internet will be connected within like a day 😌

FTTP in Cornwall was like totally unimaginable Sci-Fi when I was growing up down here (I remember dial-up mind you..), even for fairly big businesses 😅

wait, can other people just switch between things!?!?

e: like tasks and conversations??

I need my :fox_dance: emoji dammit

want https://www.clockworkpi.com/devterm

that's my secret cap
I'm always a fox

oh you're a trans couple? tell me, which one of you likes EDM and which of you plays guitar and listens to prog rock?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LA3KVjBCC38 hnnng 👌

catgirl registering a website, call that a subdomain

My timeline/notifications seem to be about an hour behind... sorry if I've not replied to you!

She federates with my usual suspects until I fediblock. 😳

Can't wait for the .xz TLD

Meta's domain list makes me feel better about the number of domains I own 😌

(Sidenote; will they get mad if I register tormentnexusbymeta.com?)

Just saw another cutie with EARS ON in their profile picture!! 🥰

Everyone talking about vi and emacs on the timeline, I'm just here using nano 😌

Fixed a log spamming error on the beta cluster yesterday 😌 now the logs aren't 90% "cannot find file ..."

What's the current go-to place to look at commissioning art btw? Fiverr used to be okay for quick "draw this pls" but it's pretty spam filled now..

Edit: and it'd need to be somewhere ethical/which doesn't contribute to ripping off artists.

catboy so cute got you keysmashing like a Roman math exam

MDCLXXXIIVXL

Debian packaging is difficult 🥴

(nb. This is less a nuanced jab and more a "I am not smart enough to follow this tutorial")

who tf disabled <marquee>s in #MediaWiki :AngeryCat:

The foxification of https://wikis.world has begun.

:fox_dance:

I miss markdown :blobhaj_plead_2:

do not boost this post

One good idea 🐦 had was the "circles" thing — ideally though I'd love to be able to send a post which is visible to a group of people!

e.g. techy stuff to the tech people, queer stuff to the queer people, mental health stuff to the... okay tbf that's all bad examples but you get the idea.

Edit: Google+, not 🐦!

whyyy don't you have https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/protoots/ installed yet? :blobhaj_plead_2:

Because every attempt to post the Awful Furry Rap video doesn't embed.. fair warning it's a lil cursed and not entirely SFW 🦊😌

Source: https://youtu.be/rlkSMp7iz6c (istg if that embeds now..)

subtooting to indirectly 'flirt' with someone on fedi is praxis 👏

(Sidenote, the 🐝 girl who does stuff with Lego is really cute 👉👈)

Apparently we're all talking about Minecraft now?

I don't actually have a use for my ASN.. 😖

Also on the topic of BGP, it doesn't help slow folx like me that the internet is filled with incompatible/contradictory information 🙃 setting up BIRD took me months, partly because a tutorial I followed was for an old(?) version.

Good lord the timeline is a little lewd this evening!? Go to bed y'all, none of these words you're saying are in the bible.

(fox) meow

I have ruined (made awesome) the federated feed here on wikis.world 👏

🦊

This always happens after *at least* an hour of debugging a failing test.

OH: we were speaking Welsh all along!

the best joke I've heard this year is local FTTP being advertised as "gigabit" lol

oooooh looking at https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/ 👀

Light is a;

got them 🥺ing in the DMs 😏

🥴

nyaa'); DROP TABLE USERS; --

girl who doesn't understand matrix 🥺

A little meta sorry, but... Y'all know posting a status saying "meta can't use my posts to do X" has as much legal standing as me stapling a notice to my forehead that says I don't need to pay my taxes, right..?

I mean I still do staple that notice, just in case, but..

girl who can center a div!!!! 🥴🥺🥴🥺

You know what, fuck you. *turns you into a fox*

[solved, thank you!]

#Matrix problem! A user is sending me messages, but all I get is "The sender has blocked you from receiving this message" (Element, but on some other clients it just displays "Encrypted message") — any ideas?

So #TootRoot (CVE-2023-36460 — 'arbitrary file creation through media processing') is a little terrifying.

Is there an upper limit to how many times a post can be boosted?

distance is mean 😖

do front end things to me bby

omg I love Threads!

( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(1984_film) )

XLS files are just CSVs with more steps

OH: it's very amusing to me that we have to distinguish between "sammy, the fox editor who's trans" and "sammie, the fox editor who's trans"

OH: GLADOS as a Sith Lord does have a certain appeal to it...

fox ears fox ears

*taps mic*
ahem

girls.

TIL what oomfie means 😌 I'm no longer old and irrelevant

The "humans cannot reliably create random strings" folx have clearly never called someone a "good girl" on fedi 😌

🦊❤️🐝

y'all are NOT prepared for the amount of yearnposting I'm about to be doing

So many Yasseenists on the timeline

Fun fact: if you read/edit #Wikipedia you're probably using some code I wrote.

I'm sorry.
I'm so sorry.

May have accidentally joined a cult

OH: *notices your secuwity vuwnewabiwities* owo what's this?

> Mood: training foxes to edit Wikipedia

TIL about the 'Cybernetic Culture Research Unit' (https://w.wiki/_w32G) and honestly wtf 🙃

:AngeryCat: whyyy is https://thepihut.com/products/sqfmi-watchy always out of stockkkk :<

I hope BLÅVINGAD (https://www.ikea.com/gb/en/p/blavingad-soft-toy-blue-whale-00522113/) has become the transmasc equivalent of BLÅHAJ

eeeepy

so many pending follow requests 🥴

aaaand that's enough fedi for today. jfc folx.

Have you ever edited #Wikipedia? :blobhaj_thinking:

(Boost for some reach? 🥺)

Technical debt leading to
Technical recession leading to
Technical revolution ✊

That little poll I'm doing about #Wikipedia editing (https://wikis.world/@theresnotime/110689273954028174) is showing that a lot of people edited a couple of times, found they were reverted by people "gatekeeping" an article and never tried again — that's really disappointing to hear, and something we the community should tackle!

kinda unreal that ~3,312 people have responded to a poll I made 🥴

1% of global #Wikimedia traffic is currently being served by #k8s :fox_dance:

https://w.wiki/_w2cb

A friend did a lil sketch of me and it's disturbingly accurate :blobhaj_mlem:

oh noooo, that mood is referencing emojis I no longer have 😔

*meows at the little fedi goblin with cat ears*

Once again going down the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long-term_nuclear_waste_warning_messages rabbit hole

:blobfoxnomfoxterrified:

tfw people realise I'm actually just three foxes in a trenchcoat :blobfoxblushmore:

good meowning fedi

the lag time between "waking up" and *waking up* is increasing lately 🥴

Safeguard, you *do not* want me to "rate my experience" right now.

folx, if she:

64-bit
non-preemptive
multi-tasking
multi-cored
public domain
open source
ring-0-only
single address space
non-networked

she ain't your girl.
she's TempleOS 😔​

Come for the interesting poll on Wikipedia editing, stay for the unhinged ADHDposting about tech and a million other topics :blobfoxcoffeecute:

+2ing a code review with the comment "If you're sure..!" 👏

btw @MiaWinter, https://miawinter.de is a really nice little site ^^

> The Commission also received one set of incomplete accounts with bite marks.

Editing polls on here has some weird side effects.. (i.e. it seems modifying the end date for a poll is additive?)

I wish I was a nap pet 🥺

is there such thing as "privacy conscious user fingerprinting", in regard to identifying potentially automated actions on a site? :blobfoxthinking:

Anyone know of a mastodon "thread exporter" or something? (tl;dr, I have an interesting thread with comments that I'd like to download and review offline)

folx put their Python dependencies in a requirements.txt challenge (impossible!!)

I really need to get something sorted with xdebug to turn it off and on easier... leaving it on when not debugging causes that annoying delay while it 'times out'

How times have changed.. just said the sentence "At least 300MB/s isn't too bad..."

always found it odd that so many people called realname are on IRC :blobfoxthinkgoogly:

:blobfoxdrakedislike: boymoding
:blobfoxdrakelike: foxmoding

:blobfoxboop_w_:

I apologise in advance to my CTO who has just followed me — I hope you enjoy reading about Rust, programming, foxes and.. well actually that's basically it.

Content writers when they finish writing content:

> wow I need a break from writing content.

All in, 13,615 people responded to a simple poll about editing #Wikipedia — thank you to everyone who did, and especially to those who left insightful and challenging comments in the thread.

I'm not sure what I can do with this data and your experiences to improve some of the difficulties y'all mentioned, but I'll try!

re: https://wikis.world/@theresnotime/110689273954028174

I really should just mute mastodon.social 🙃

Just throwing https://www.theresnotime.co.uk/disclaimers out there.. y'all know I'm not important enough to speak on behalf of anyone, right? 😅

Edit: this goes doubly to any media folx looking through these posts

Girl who runs their own LDAP server

The (I think UK-specific?) phrase "I'm gutted" is incredibly visceral when you think about it..

I remain skeptical of anything involving ChatGPT, least of all because there's nothing "open" about "OpenAI"..
https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/07/13/exploring-paths-for-the-future-of-free-knowledge-new-wikipedia-chatgpt-plugin-leveraging-rich-media-social-apps-and-other-experiments/

brb training a LLM on Wikipedia:Administrators' noticeboard/Incidents[0] comments.

[0] https://w.wiki/zS

Loving mechanical keyboards so much that you write code on a typewriter then OCR it into your IDE #RealProgrammerStuff (/s)

OH: Frontend code in exchange for kisses

FreeBSD users when I say I use PremiumBSD

I wish you could add reaction emojis to emails 😌

This #NonBinaryDay you must:
- headpat an enby
- compliment an enby
- forfeit all mortal possessions to an enby

I don't make the rules, sorry.

BLÅHAJ Soft toy, baby shark, 55 cm ; Article Number 205.406.63 ; Soft toys to hug, again and again.

Water privatisation is a con.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ui90HkEhvs0

e

Static typing advocates when I'm wearing my anti-static wristband

OH: Top 10 mountains to kiss on 😳

OH: But I think you’ll find it’s called dunc

(Talking about dune)

Half moved in to the new house, only furniture here atm (while I wait for engineers and Argos deliveries) is a deck chair and it looks very depressed sat in an empty room 😌

2 x work posting complete, time to fix the ratio with some foxposting 🦊

(It's me. I'm the problem fox.)

puppygirl allowed to go outside and play?
call that AUTHORIZED_FETCH

I have applied for a wikimedia.social staff account and with fedi as my witness I will make 🦊 as my first post if approved 😌

[Narrator: it was never approved]

BT OpenReach really be out here like "SURPRISE lol you know we confirmed like three times via phone and email that we'd be visiting today, heh, well.. GOTTEM lmao we'll see you next week"

🦊

I'm that Secret Tech Furry without the Secret bit

which one of you registered bottom.social smh 🤦‍♀️

I keep forgetting that https://imagenerator.net exists 😌

Don't you. :wikipedia:

Funding (£10 Greggs gift card) research into how much of Tumblr is 'sapphic art', hmu

TIL you can turn off seeing boosts from certain people! (You might wanna do that with me... I boost a lot of posts!)

I still feel iffy about #Wikipedia giving any credibility to OpenAI™
https://tnt.url.lol/nyt-wikipedia-ai

cool, microphone has just decided to not work with Google Meet today.
cool.

That's a first! Octopus Energy (a UK utility company) asking for pronouns!

Okay enough careful packing, bored now, everything into trash bags and I can deal with it the other end 😌

OpenReach just text to say they'll be visiting tomorrow and to make sure I read the instructions on the router kit I should have already received etc.

Oh you guessed? Yeah, I've not received any kit.

"Not liking" being accommodating and using content warnings is a weird hill to die on but whatever, you just get unfollowed...
You don't have to be an asshole about it though 🥴

Serious kudos to the folx who translate #MediaWiki (and other projects!) using https://translatewiki.net — even more so when my i18n message descriptions can be a little lacking... 😅

guid girl.

Sammy learns Rust (again)

The 16" Macbook Pro is a *chonky boi* 🥴

URGH I vaguely remember #MediaWiki docker (https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki-Docker) being a pain in the ass on MacOS from the first time I got it working... not that I kept any notes as to how to fix it :blobfoxupsidedown:

hm, getting an air mattress for the new house while I wait for the bed (instead of just going back to the old house to sleep) was a poor idea.

I'd forgotten how uncomfortable they can be 😖

the fox has been deployed

do not inhale
the
✨ magic smoke ✨

FTTP is liveeeeeeee

Sorry if you are a FISH

A duck walks into a shop and asks the shopkeeper if he has any bread.

The shopkeeper pauses for a moment, then smiles sweetly at the duck.

"What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little bitch?" he begins, his eyes bulging, "I'll have you know I graduated top of my class in the Navy Seals, and I've.."

The duck coughs and speaks over the man, "If I may interject, it's pretty clear Sammy is losing it on main."

"Agreed." sighs the old shopkeeper.

OwO.is what???

folx.
Wikimedia Commons only has one picture of Blahaj.

Please upload :blobhaj: to :commons:

Edit: do nottt upload blahaj photos!! Apparently they're copyrighted or something ( https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/COM:TOYS )

Tired: Foxgirl
Wired: Toxgirl (she keeps your Python code neat and tidy)

The spice must flow

Yassieeee noooooooo :blobfoxcry2:

I need more cute weirdos to follow :blobfoxdevil:

I should design a boardgame about trains and blahaj and get rich from all the boardgame playing transfems :blobfox3c:

girl who throws new InternalServerError() 🥺

she awaits on my Promise until I throw 🥴

#Mastodon make it easier to upload a load of emojis challenge (via the API..)

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/21181

mew 🥺

🥺

I need someone to crack my back 🥺👉👈

It's an X social media platform, it has ceased to be.

𝕏ikipedia :blobfox3c:

New game: deliberately trigger stalebots on GitHub and 'argue' with them 😌

(Almost as fun as edit warring with Herald rules on Phabricator)

When #WikimediaCommons was created with the goal of being a "public domain and freely licensed educational media file repository", I'm not sure https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Banana_x.png was what they had in mind.

hah, I can do an actual workpost instead of *gestures wildly at timeline* — I've finally got my work MacBook set up 😌

Gonna pet all the foxes on the fediverse 😤🦊

new version of https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Wikidiff2 is live in production and its not broken everything 🥳

yet.

I swear my timeline is 90% just cute folx riffing off of each others' posts and its adorable :blobfoxmelt:

Oh heck I need to organise a flight to Germany

can a Yaseenist and Anti-Yaseenist ever love each other 🥺

nyaa~

Damn I love New test edit for create 6 accounts!

If you don't acknowledge the dire state of your proxmox install then it can't hurt you 👏

I hate building flat-pack furniture 😖

#Wikimedia "figure out who looks after {obscure/rarely touched thing} challenge" (impossible!!)

Example: who do I poke about getting a change made to https://wikimediafoundation.org ref. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T342773 😌

tfw the username 𝕏 isn't taken on wikimedia..

omfg what... "The First Room-Temperature Ambient-Pressure Superconductor" (22 Jul 2023)

https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.12008

[nb. not peer reviewed so..]

libera.chat having a normal one it seems..

Girl with a Wikipedia account 🥺

https://ijmacd.github.io/rfc3339-iso8601/

yeah I know it's dumb, but having pointless arguments with ChatGPT relaxes me /s

ooh what's the current in vogue fedi drama?

More fool me, I thought firefish was some weird Firefox clone 🤷‍♀️

Someone should create like an interactive map of all the fediverse feuds 😌

(awoo)

Thank gawd for filters 👏

The cynic in me is leaning hard into the whole "A great way of distracting the public from the US government soon to be doing a really bad thing is to have some credible UFO whistleblowers go public"..

That feels like something out of a playbook, ngl..

Networking/Internet question: Every now and then, I'm getting "Your connection was interrupted" in browsers (refreshing always recovers) — I am connected via ethernet to a FTTP connection.. is it worth trying to track down the cause, and any ideas what that could be?

Any UK folx have a UK-based server with a load of storage/bandwidth (26TB+)?

Do you fancy mirroring some #Wikimedia database dumps so I can download them quicker?

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mirroring_Wikimedia_project_XML_dumps

Tired: UBI — Universal Basic Income

Wired: USI — Universal Snuggling Income

Want a fun #Wikipedia task for when you get bored?
Pick an article from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Orphaned_articles_from_July_2023, click the "try the Find link tool" in the box at the top of the article, and then see if you can "de-orphan" ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Orphan ) it :3

You are not ready for these #WikiFunctions crimes 👏

wait... can you only have four "additional tags" in the mastodon "advanced web view" column...?

Attempting to add another once just ignores in the input 🥴

If internet was so great why isn't there an internet 2

So why is it that churches are allowed to ring bells for hours but if I go outside and start smashing cymbals together it's "disruptive" 😤🙄

ACK

You're in her DMs.
I'm infodumping to her about the Federal Q Siren and Roto Rays.
We are not the same.

But I reject this!
cruel
and
unjustified
punishment

https://words.theresnotime.co.uk/2021/slam-poetry-from-wikipedia/

tfw your day job is MediaWiki extensions, and then on the weekend someone needs help with a MediaWiki extension.

Fuck it, I'm gonna create a programming language.

awawawa

untrained fox

The foxes will continue until morale improves 🦊

Y'all I'm going to have to post more interesting and smart techy posts now that I've got so many software engineers I look up to following me 😅

Someone is liveblogging the LK-99 claim replication efforts 😬

https://eirifu.wordpress.com/2023/07/30/lk-99-superconductor-summary/#sbtable

It has genuinely not stopped raining for about 4 days now.
I love the UK.

I had a dream about the International Phonetic Alphabet last night.
It was /ˈtɛɹɪfaɪ.ɪŋ/

#CCCamp23 plane tickets booked!
- Arriving BER: 13 Aug 2023
- Departing BER: 20 Aug 2023

I can't wait to get to #CCCamp23 and remember all the things I forgot to pack

wruff 🦊

Getting a custom fox-themed flag done for #CCCamp23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pp4YQPykBMM 👏

Linux on Apple Silicon is probably a non-starter, right..?

fedi again proving the quickest way of getting answers is to confidently state your incorrect solution/opinion 😌

I'd likely get mobbed if I took a https://github.com/microsoft/Pride-flag flag to CCC..

ooop, I should be asleep..

"This article may contain an excessive amount of intricate detail that may interest only a particular audience."

... I feel like this is a subtle dig at PHP.. :heh:

Is 167 days uptime bad or..

Updated the firmware on my bulbs and yet again asked myself why this is the future we wanted

folx when they get bitten, after being repeatedly warned that I bite: :blobfoxshocked:

I should write more blog posts 😌

Yas ain't seen nothin' yet :fox_dance:

This remains my greatest contribution to Software Deployment at Wikimedia

This is against TOS.
You've been reported.

Good morning ✨

Do you want more Sammy Work Posting™??
Woah.

Go follow @sammytarling ✨ :wikimedia:

Sammy remember which fedi account to use challenge (impossible!!!)

not me installing VS Code on my Steam Deck

Waking up at like 6am tomorrow 😖

a Katze and a Maus can be friends 🥺

Good morning fedi 🥱

OH: Any train can be a sleeper train if you’re tired enough

Got "ma'am'd" on the train, must be the hair 🙄

OH on train: we're not allowed to talk about {thing} publicly, are we? We're still NDA'd?

Hour wait for a train just gives me more time to be fox like (barking at trains and people)

You may fascinate a transfem with a blahaj

POKER is a GAME not a PLANNING TOOL

I don't wanna leave bed 🥺

Girl that makes you coffee in a fox mug 🥺

watching someone do front-end crimes like

OH: I can't remember how this works, or why

Someone has randomly signed me up to Atlassian Jira and added me to a "team" 🥴

Anyone wanna do an impromptu #wikimedia hackathon at #cccamp23?

Could even find some Interesting Security Things™ to think about..

The fox ears stay ON during camp.

How many laptops is too many laptops to bring 👀

The Wikimedia story: How we maintain old software whilst simultaneously building the new, at scale, as a non-profit.

(Alternative title: Why we have a Slack channel called "The abyss" where people can scream)

when I get lost in Germany on the way to camp, at least all I'll need to do is quietly state an opinion on "the best operating system" and then follow the resultant meowing

% brew updat
Error: Unknown command: updat

Turns out I'm going to be arriving in Germany a little early for #CCCamp23 (Sunday 13th) — who do I need to talk into letting me on the grounds to build up....? (half-joking, but..)

German stop being a gendered language challenge.

oh oh oh oh I have neon EL wire and neon/UV body paint for #cccamp23 >:3

a

Opening certain Fedi posts on my phone instead of the laptop on the train because y'all insist on posting spicy things 😤

aaaa I don't have a #CCCamp23 village! 🥴

it'd be nice if the MacBook Pro had a built-in cellular modem :blobfoxthink:

CCCamp having BGP (Border Gateway for Parcels) has just made my day.

Just saw a very gender person with a t-shirt which read "I like making boys cry" 😌

Okay related to that other post... I might just have a way of making myself remember if it's adduser or useradd... :blobfoxthinksmirk:

Uncaught ReferenceError: gender is not defined

Not me thinking "hmmm I wonder if I can ask to be put on call at work" 🥴

#wikimedia

eeeeeeeeep the flag for #CCCamp23 has arrived

Seeing the SRE folx work constantly reminds me that I know enough infra "stuff" to be dangerous, but that's about it 😅

dare I ask how difficult it is to upgrade the SSD in a MacBook Pro..

Work business cards: requested >:3

do you remember when setting up a printer involved plugging it in?

and like... it installed some drivers..

and that was it?

Never gonna stop pushing the boundaries of what is in scope of the Community Tech team 👏

␚

OH (in relation to joining fedi): so having looked at the main federated feed...it's Twitter but 100% more gay?

I need a
✨ Professional Photo ✨
done for my board member entry thing 😫

The five people you'll meet on fedi should just be:
- nerdy programmer
- catgirl
- trans
- kinda gay
- Wikipedia fox

not me panicking about a cascade failure of every server/VPS I own, only to realise that my monitoring was having issues 🙃

( https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/q4b09b022nmh )

Is https://archive.today / https://archive.is constantly redirecting to reCAPTCHA for anyone else?

Train and hotel to the airport for #CCCamp23 booked 😬

So are we thinking that https://play.google.com/googleplaygames is just a heavily optimised android emulator, or are they doing something clever under the hood...

[inb4 Google kill it off in less than a year]

OH: Genuinely thought "marketing sort" was a new algorithm

historic table names in #MediaWiki is my favourite thing /s

[here's looking at you ipblocks table, handling all blocks..]

➜ docker composed down
docker: 'composed' is not a docker command.
See 'docker --help'

---

yeah, thanks.

We interrupt your normal flow of shitposts and queer content to bring you a CC-BY-2.0 licenced photo of some foxes (src; https://w.wiki/7E3X)

Imagine TalkTalk not supporting IPv6 🥴

meow meow meow meow meow

Self-OH:

I would say my ability to respond will be lesser next week, given that I'm going to be in a field in Germany, but OTOH it's probably going to be the most heavily networked field in the world so…

huh TIL that {option} + {space} on a Mac does a non-breaking space 👀

scientific journal fanfics

If I get to #CCCamp23 and realise I've forgotten something important (probably camping stuff), is there anywhere I might be able to get things?

OH: bumpy data goes in, smoother data comes out

[simple moving average]

How does DECT even work 😌

So, I think I've got the balance between taking what I need and taking *too much* — one large suitcase, one backpack, with the option of another hiking backpack if I need it depending on the amount of Fun Nerd Gear™ I end up deciding on bringing.

#cccamp23

So I think I've managed to get 6to4 tunneling working with TalkTalk

You can easily convert IPv6 to IPv4 by just dropping the extra numbers and letters — they're only spares.

Feeling very fox like today

(i.e. needing to scream and then hide in a hole)

Chaos! at the Computer Club

Aw there's clearly another camping related event going on (judging by the train full of people with hiking bags)... can't wait for the "oh you off to {cool person event} too?"

Well I forgot to get Euros for #cccamp23, will have to get them at the airport or try an ATM when I get to Germany

I may as well start a #cccamp23 thread!

- I'll be arriving in Germany on Sunday 13th, and plan to probably be at the camp that evening/Monday 14th morning
- I'll be camping in the Linked Open Data Village, and will be flying (somehow..) a progress pride flag with a 🦊 on
- I'm on Matrix as @theresno:matrix.org
- ☎️ 5926

Come say hi, or if you see me walking around shout! I respond to "Sammy", "TheresNoTime", and "oi, fox thing"

SIP stands for Sphone over IP

Should have got a 🦊 facemask made 😖

iff I've set it up correctly, the extension 8005 should meow at you if called.

#cccamp23

meowstodon

Waiting for the plane to 🇩🇪

https://figure.game difficult 🥺

The bites will continue until morale improves

🛫

🛬

Fun fact, Club Mate tastes like cold ashtray

Oh also going to throw some shade on public transport in Germany (or at least, Berlin) — y'all should take some lessons from the London underground in making the service "easy to navigate" (and that's *saying something*!)

Damn I should have brought a "free headpats" t-shirt to camp

I have arrived and set up the tent! Next stop, where can I fill up some water?? 😌 #cccamp23

I spy cat ears

I need somewhere soft and quiet and cool 😖 Sammy forgets that Sammy dislikes crowds and heat #cccamp23

Not me starting a gerrit hashtag to track my cccamp contribs... 👀

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/q/hashtag:cccamp+(status:open%20OR%20status:merged)

the germans are speaking german and I have no idea what is being said 😌

TIL the German for "Wikimedia" is "Wikimedia"

#Wikimedia

Mein Zelt ist zu klein 😭 #cccamp23

Unfortunately a mixture of the heat and my spicy brain™ got the better of me, and I have decided to cut my #cccamp23 visit short — it was, for the most part, very fun but ultimately not for me.

I am now officially socially burnt out.

Thrust

miau 🦊

if you can read this the experiment worked

mrrrrp :blobfoxcute:

fopx

wait, a #snep isn't a snake??

I need to investigate the mushrooms in the garden :blobfoxlurkowonotice:

Plushiesssss 🦈🦊

First post-camp COVID test done 😌

(pls test yourself folx)

Since moving to Safeguard for work it doesn't look like I've been paid yet... 😬

I've added dict support to https://github.com/theresnotime/mastodon-field-changer — you can now add a label for the 4th profile metadata field as well as the content! Amaaaaazingggg ✨

If you know me long enough, I will get you editing..

Just mapped (with GPS markers!) a newly built street/housing development on #OpenStreetMap... please lawd don't let me get into this as well...

YOU CAN CHARGE THE MACBOOK PRO OVER USB C?!?!?

any.do asking me "what will you accomplish today?" at 09:00 is just a touch too much existential dread to start the day on 😌

Sammy having 'work' commits using their personal email, their -ctr work email, their "new" work email and their work email alias 🥴

are you filled with confidence or what 😏

oooops may have got distracted with updating https://w.wiki/7JEt 🥴

I did the "missile knows where it is" voice meme 😌

get rekt systemd 😌

Okay I did the full shitpost 😌 :fox_dance:

i don't use Arch btw

3D printed a #Wikipedia globe though, so not all bad.

Source: https://github.com/slashme/WikipediaGlobePrintable

If there's a "light rail" is there also a "heavy rail"? :blobfoxthonking:

Trains are just busses on special roads 🤯

Busses are just trains without rails 🤯

TIL that trolley busses are a thing and now all my silly shitposts were for naught

#Wikimedia should do their own captchas but for tagging Commons images :blobfoxthinksmirk:

oh god it me.
https://noidea.dog/glue

Just a quick thank you to the people of fedi for CWing your lewd photos and posts 😌

Means I can open my timeline on the train without getting immediately thrown off 🫡

Daggorbbbbb!

cowsay but its a fox.

Forming a Furry Employee Resource Group Initiative (FERGI)

THIS MACHINE SAVES REPLAYS?

Layer 2 (the sequel to laying down)

You like submitting PRs don't you. :blobfoxsmug:

girls 🥺

gridlock

OH: Top 10 public transport infrastructure to kiss at

back at The Flat™, now if I'd only been smart enough to get groceries delivered... 🥴

Is it me or is COVID picking up again..

(yes, it never went away)

Enforced work break (MacOS wanted to update)

I'm totally guilty of this so I'm being a hypocrite, but saying "lol do people still use {thing}?" unironically is just being a bit of a prat 😅

fox who is locked out of a Google (Workspace) account because they've not set 2FA (bad fox) but can't log in to set 2FA (ohno)

You're in their DMs 🤦‍♀️
I'm in their PRs 👩‍💻

We're not the same 💁‍♀️

"Your call is important to us" is the lie of a generation.

Oh to curl up into a cocoon and just ignore life for a little while

MediaWiki shock collar extension.

a

no touch
the
fops
:blobfoxpatdeny:

istg having a !roomba takes more time and effort than just hoovering 🙃

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are written about on Wikipedia.

Welcome... to Night Vale.

HRT that turns you into a fox :blobfoxpleading:

Damn I want a Nabaztag 🐇

https://www.tagtagtag.fr

jumping on this bandwagon to say "woah, that's a lot of cute queers right there!"

Do not bap the fox :blobfoxpeekowo:

Me: *enjoying doing thing related to {current interest}*

ADHD: I am altering the current interest. Pray I don't alter it further.

Work OH: "Prioritising gender"

Go buy foxes!! https://ko-fi.com/keeya

Folx getting pissy and crying "content moderation is censorship" about an ISP no longer routing traffic to kiwifarms seem to be forgetting that a) KF is a disgusting site and b) said ISP is a private company and can decide to serve (or not serve) whoever they like.

It's as much of a "slippery slope" as any private company deciding to not serve someone.

A group of foxes is called an AEEEEYEEEEEEEE :blobfoxdoubt:

pet the damn fox

The discord app is currently crashing on any scroll action 😌

Rust, or as I've begun calling it, C++2

What is Princess Zelda's favourite #Wikipedia page?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Link

urgh don't you just love seeing something like https://hackaday.com/2022/02/16/classic-ipods-are-super-upgradeable-in-2022/, thinking "okay now I want a see-through iPod Classic with a SSD" and then finding out they're super expensive on ebay to buy and mod 🙃

wish you could "boost but with a CW"

Oh I think I may have borked my Octopus Energy account by signing up to https://octopus.energy/smart/agile and setting my electric meter as "smart" when in fact it's the gas which is 😅

It's over 21°C in here 🥴 the fan has gone back on and I'm melting

fops :ablobfoxbongohyper:

random Sammybrain thought: if I had a pie shop I'd call it *Totally Pies* like that cartoon 😌

{programming language} drama, on my timeline??

Current mood

Industrial robot + tattoo gun... :blobfoxthinksmirk:

Fox cuddle pile?? :blobfoxlurkowonotice:

*bites u*

Why.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

my fedi feed is currently people talking about Linux or being lewd

baps you all for lewdness

woke up with a banging headache and next door is doing some building work 👌

moooore, we need more

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Xenia_(mascot)

Google Meet "visual effects" (i.e., blurring your background) soon to be (if not already) in general availability for Firefox 👏

(instead of, y'know, disabled with a prompt to use Chrome instead..)

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1703668#c65

Damn it, I had a really good idea for a post but it's gone.

You'd have all loved it. Was probably going to be the best one yet.

Remember what they took from us.

(headpats. they took the headpats.)

WMF stands for:

W uv
M y
F riends

🥺

Ackchyually transhumanism is when we augment human capabilities and then we all get fluffy tails and meow meow yip awoo nyaa~

it is warrrrm

Oooh so fedilab shows markdown ?

oooooh 🐰

https://bun.sh

Got some new fibre terminating/splicing equipment 😌

(Scissors and electrical tape)

This fox will be returning to Berlin *in the winter* :blobfoxfloofevil:

My phone autocorrects "fedi" to "fedi~" 🤦‍♀️

Nice opinion, just one tiny problem with it

https://youtu.be/jY4Zh-Dw2iY

the fox is

warm

TIL about https://goblin.tools

Good girl 😌

WOAH is Yassie actually real I thought it was a bit???

I should lorepost

I've installed Bun.
I'm ready for the Latest Innovation in Frontend Crimes™

Some album art though 👏

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2WzirXZgQg

Moopsy!

#StarTrek #LowerDecks

Love Ackchyually

damn bluetooth file transfer is slowwww

I made myself some laptop stickers... :3

(credits to https://volpeon.ink/projects/emojis/neofox/, https://w.wiki/7AP9 and https://beehive.gay/blobbee)

sudo rm -rf --no-preserve-root /

I'm not at the house for a bit (working elsewhere™), so things have been switched off to save a bit of electric — my HP printer doesn't like that, so today I got an email with the subject "Action Needed: Printer Connection Lost"

OH: "we are not anticipating a major impact"

ooops lol, #PHP PECL's SSL certificate has expired

https://externals.io/message/121039

Not to trivialise the climate crisis here, but how long until "time off work due to heat" becomes a thing? :/

is lower decks an anime? :blobfoxthinking:

I am ready to stop knowing that IPA even existed again please.

OH: I guess I wouldn't have a job if there were no such thing as clients...

Yeah no if I keep listening to this marketing speak I'll pass out.

:blobfoxlurkowonotice: owo what's this? more fedi drama??

boys tho 🥺

Cutest Cat Ears? 🥺

The Fedi Experience™

This morning's #MusicToCodeTo (that hashtag doesn't exist, but should 😌) is "I Found You (feat. Hayla) — Sub Focus"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_V49_RsNSY&si=LACgK4EN43az8YXp

OH:
"it's written in TypeScript??"
"yeah"
"Really??"
"fight me"

Python apparently has no good way of doing dynamic variable names..? vars() / locals() etc. are the Wrong Thing to use.

i.e. value of (str)variable used as a variable name elsewhere (a la $$ / ${} in PHP)

Gah, real "I want to work on a programming side project but am overwhelmed by the prospect of working on one I already have in progress so I want to maybe start a new one but can't think of one omg" hours rn

Today's hot take: boba tea is bad and you're all kidding yourself that it's drinkable

Taking consolation in the fact that no matter what design/implementation decisions we make at work, it's unlikely we'll ever fuck up as bad as Unity.

VR Wikipedia tho.. :blobfoxsnugterrified:

fedicore fops

[re. previous boosts — yes, the ADHD brrr has again returned to "UK based Wikimedia dump mirror"]

biiiiiiiig fops sticker

oh god the image on the wiki page for "Don't talk to me or my son ever again" 🥴

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don%27t_talk_to_me_or_my_son_ever_again

[alt: A picture of Jimmy Wales, with a smaller version of Jimmy in the bottom right corner. The text "Don't talk to me or my son ever again" is overlaid]

Oh I'm totally sold on https://github.com/sk22/megalodon — this is awesome..

:blobfoxnomfoxburger:

- Coffee in a fox mug? ✅
- Screens filled with various documents? ✅

oh yeah, it's board 👏 meeting 👏 time 👏

Made the mistake of putting my real email in an online quote form.. time to create a new filter I guess... 🤦‍♀️

Fox that's finally getting laser 😌

IKEA meatballs though.. 👉👈

Girls that can do math 🥺

Always weird to find you've been blocked here by someone you thought you got on with 🙃

To no one's surprise, the newly registered account User:Realwomenfirst (which randomly "thank"ed me for some edits) did not last long on Wikipedia and has now been blocked 🤷🏻‍♀️

www.theresnotime.gov.uk

tfw it's eeeepy time :blobfoxshy:

I've been on both sides of FOSS feature requests, and have experienced the "no. but patches welcome." and the ill-informed "ok but this is a trivial change just do it." — the only real comments I could have on this VLC thread is being polite (but firm) and disengaging: there's nothing to be gained from having the last word...

https://forum.videolan.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=120627

Not being able to check if something has finished baking by tasting it should be illegal 😔

awawawawawa https://github.com/theresnotime/mastodon-field-changer

OH: these cards smell bad

(board game)

kinda think they weren't listening, huh

this really whips my llama's ass.

"Just waiting on CI" I say, barely holding back a grin /j

Easier work test environments?? Oh heck yes :blobfoxcoffeeowo:

https://wikitech.wikimedia.org/wiki/Catalyst

fox that always does tail -f instead of tail -F :blobfoxfacepalm:

aaaah why does #Mediawiki use the unmaintained (ref. https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck) jsduck!?

Was wondering why 'default parameters' weren't passing jsduck tests 🙃 https://github.com/senchalabs/jsduck/issues/630

oof, NSYNC puns.

I need more cool laptop stickers, any suggestions?

Great Scott!

All #Wikimedia sites will be read-only for up to an hour in around 10 minutes time (14:00 UTC) — you will be able to read #Wikipedia, but not save any edits.

https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Tech/Server_switch

10/10 MacOS feature: https://osxdaily.com/2023/01/18/fix-file-sharing-not-working-in-macos-ventura/

(tl;dr — couldn't figure out why file sharing from one mac to another would randomly give up, turns out the current fix is "disable sharing, reboot, re-enable sharing" 🙃)

Only went and got a https://minifree.org/product/libreboot-t440p/ the other day.. :3

public domain fops!!?!

src: https://w.wiki/7VxP

👀 https://huggingface.co/datasets/MLCommons/speech-wikimedia

Business cards on the wayyy 😌 (no one actually uses business cards anymore, right..?)

there's too many Maes 🥴

OH/Work Leak: "but now you're paid to listen to my questions"

I'm not home at the moment, so this is *pretty damn creepy* 👀

(I have to assume its a screen "waking up" or something, because it happens around the same sorta time each day..)

I sometimes think it might be easier to replace these with "this page is not outdated" 🥴

heheh, v420 🌿

OH: Slack is a nugget

such gayness on the timeline?!?!!

truly the best feature of this app

This just in: The UK Online Safety Bill undermines Online Safety in the UK — experts say it was just a thinly veiled act to spy on UK citizens. Absolutely no one was shocked.

my gay macbook, still needs more stickers 👀

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_items_purchased_at_junk_sales_that_turned_out_to_be_treasures_that_resold_for_small_fortunes ?!?!?

:bisexual_flag: (visible for today only, please observe while stocks last!)

The minifree ThinkPad arrives todayyyy

face ouchy after laser ⚡

saw "awawa" graffiti yesterday 😌

girl that only plays roguelikes

https://xkcd.com/1665/

the genders in the society are free. you can just take them.

It's Hove, actually.

plimkin spicy 🎃

awawawa it's my face again 🦊

OH: owo what's this?? an update??

I have been shepherding a tentatively running script for almost a week now 🥴

more websites this colour please. https://randoma11y.com/?color=%2300ff7f

c...cat boys 🥺

pupper nooooo

Maintaining my codecademy account "just in case" I forget everything again :blobfoxthinksmart:

Explain federation in one sentence :blobfoxthink:

me rn

yes followers, I have again found https://observatory.db.erau.edu/generators/signs/ — sorry

Give me that .exe TLD so I can register headpats.exe

That really retextures my blobfox

Everyone doing the "Innocence Test" on the timeline smh.

Only online test I need is "fops test".

Spent this evening snuggling a blahaj :blobhaj_hug_blahaj:

Nerds.

#TIL that .ssh/config's IgnoreUnknown (which I use to ignore the MacOS-only UseKeychain) will sometimes not be read on Linux unless you put it right at the top or something 🙃

(e.g. https://gist.github.com/theresnotime/04ae2c978e8d53ee396fe0e9e17d6625)

Quick #ThinkPad question — anyone know a good place to get decent T440p batteries?

Don't usually feed the trolls when they leave me cute little messages on my talk page, but I'm genuinely curious where "BitchDuck" came from :blobfoxcomputerowo:

looking at a changelog like "wtf people wanted that feature??"

imagine being a littlefox

I have disobeyed worse than you. :blobfoxsmirk:

alarm that goes "awawawawawa"

(fedi is 90% folx subtly referencing other folx's posts 😌)

Too many cuties on the timeline 😌💜

Can't remember if this "mood" is actually one in the list, or if it's actually a bug...

Train OH: (from a stereotypical looking "lad" to some very "lad"ish friends) "and yeah so Brighton is great cos you've got like everyone coexisting, like you're out on the town right and there's everyone out, trans people, everyone, and it's like no big deal" (to which another "lad" replied) "yeah man like it should be, it's chill"

Tiny bit of faith restored in UK society

If these oils were so essential why aren't you drinking them smh

ok that looks like it hurt but roller skates on a train was never a good idea my guy.

baaa Brighton is so queer and awesome 🥺

DC transfem who is a Linux sysadmin, name a bigger stereotype

Not great that the first you hear the south west is having "severe weather" is on the train towards Cornwall.. as it slowly crawls to a halt..

I'm good at JavaScript React 😌

(I see JavaScript. I react. Poorly.)

I have a smol amount of smarts but https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/gpus-from-all-major-suppliers-are-vulnerable-to-new-pixel-stealing-attack/ sounds kinda bad

s/o to the old couple bopping to https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-xrJSBohad0 blasting from my headphones while they waited to get off the train 👏

Random website: [ ] Please confirm you're human

My foxpilled ass: :blobfoxsweating:

bit stormy here 🌊🚇

the doggirls on fedi are free.

Gonna take a Chaos-esque "mask with respirators" selfie when I get home 😌

Home.
Slightly worried the roof is about to be blown off in the wind (/joke, but maybe not..)

eeeepy fops

(Bonus: I amuse myself too much with changing the "publish" text on here)

imagine having your own #wikidata item lmao couldn't be me /s

awawawawawa https://shop.hak5.org/products/omg-cable?variant=39808316047473

Fun fact: I'm not a catgirl 🤷🏻‍♀️

this fops ain't cute tho 😌🦊

ahem
fops.

I wish someone would make an Alien film where like as soon as creepy shit starts happening they leave.

omg gonna make gingerbread foxes 🦊

LGBT stands for Let's Go Big Tesco.

OH: This is how you get served lasagne.

👀 https://github.com/bottom-software-foundation/bottom-rs

tfw you're listed on https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_LGBT/MaintenanceLists/EnbiesWithoutPronoun

sabotabby 🐈‍⬛

> asbestos

(seen on https://mastodon.sdf.org/@SDF/111152426006829898, what did you expect would happen 😌)

aw yeh time to use those credits (I have so many, I never use them..)

Also ooof 89% uptime 👀

blue hair
blue tie
hiding in your WiFi

> a fedicule

{something really funny}

Speaker thing in the house went from the #Yascast straight into a Welcome To Nightvale episode and confused the shit out of me

What even is a Yassie???

Fox that needs to schedule in some time to review their follow requests again 😖

So like I'm not a furry or anything but like... where would I get a fox fursuit made? 🦊

Imagine meowing on main smh

meow~

Yelling "pet meeeee" at friends.

Couldn't be me..

🦊

I keep looking at https://thetailcompany.com/product/mitail/ and talking myself out of it... I have the ears (https://thetailcompany.com/product/eargear-cosplay-ears/) already, and they're super cute (though I wanna hack on them so they can react to other stuff/power EL wire)

h..hewwo??

I can be trusted with a crossbow.

tall folx are just a conspiracy by Big Clothing to sell more punky ripped jeans

~okay don't tell anyone but tall folx are actually 🥺😳🥴 and make me meltttt dttfyhjjvfrg~

Looking at https://isbetabroken.com and thinking "Hopefully it fixes itself overnight"

(Ref. https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T347818, if anyone wants to get nerd sniped 💜)

Imagine testing patches before you merge on a Sunday 🙃

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE-1RPDqJAY is 17 years old.

holy FUCK the difference in sound between MP3 and FLAC!?!

PHP truly is one of the programming languages.

There was a cat sunbathing in the courtyard outside the house, who was rudely woken up by a downpour of rain and omg it's so angry now 🥺

awawawawa catboys 🥺

woah is it spooky pfp month??

wait what?
https://github.com/Git-Mediawiki/Git-Mediawiki

You ever get so tired that you're too sleepy to sleep?

u can have a little gatekeeping as a treat

if system32 was so great where's system33

OH at me (not really OH then is it but sue me): Sammy log tf off and sleep you're being weird on fedi

snakes are basically long alligators and I will not be taking questions

Wish me luck (another hospital appointment!)

its Yasmastime 🎄

girls will LITERALLY do unicode crimes.

roomba decided it wanted to do a clean, came out of it little hidey hole, span around a few times then went back.

same buddy.
same.

PSEUDOWISSENSCHAFT looks like a DIRTY WORD 🤭

looking at https://bepartofresearch.nihr.ac.uk like "where are the foxgirl trials??"

this... keeps reappearing 🤨

within
Mastodon
this
is my home
base

SEO for film names, wow /s

"Limit this post to members of {list}" would be such a great feature.. 🥺

eww, the recommended dev env for Mastodon is vagrant 🥴

:blobfoxdrakedislike: ruby
:blobfoxdrakelike: {insert anything else here}

[IRC leaks]

pocket sized just fox 🦊

I am a little embarrassed to admit that I've only now realised you can use any page in #MediaWiki's Special:ComparePages (as in.. it doesn't have to be the same page) 😳

Got https://profanity-im.github.io working (OMEMO was a bit of a pain) :3

:blobfoxcoffeeowo: TIL that "i18n" being short for "internationalisation" is because there's 18 letters between the "i" and the "n"

Genuinely thought it was because the first i18n standard adopted 18 languages or something 😅

wikis.world is back, did you miss me?

ahahahah what?

Dreaming of a day when you can tap in/tap out across the entire UK rail network.

(ahahahahah. hahah. ha.)

and to think, my posting topics haven't even begun to touch on my archaeology interests yet >:3

Is it time to infodump about:
- Cornwall's standing stones (I visited them all* one summer!)
- Theoretical Archaeology (yeah I'm TAG-pilled, deal with it)
- Semiotics! ⚠️
- The Atomic Priesthood (iykyk)

https://www.wikimedia.de/wikimove-site/podcast/episode-13-overcoming-harassment-and-the-transgender-gap/

"Θώθ what's this?" says the god of knowledge (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Θώθ)

Waiting patiently for the next #Yascast :AngeryCat:

Are you a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windfucker or a https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/windsucker :blobfoxfloofevil:

girl that has an undercut and wears flannel shirts 🥺

She React on my node until I npm install

that is so not fetch.

(watching Helluva Boss for the story and not because of Loona 🐺)

awww no, is https://dolphin.town/about dead?? 😭

(IA: http://web.archive.org/web/20230606062549/https://dolphin.town/about/more)

More #CovidComputerClub indoor events? :cat_wat:

All boys with long hair must be tied up

heheheheh https://slate.com/technology/2023/10/wikipedia-models-photographs.html

Boy: Do not try and cuddle the Yassie. That's impossible. Instead only try to realize the truth.

Neo: What truth?

Boy: There is no Yassie.

girl who puts things on high shelves so I can't reach them 😤

You should all go buy the song my friend wrote about me 😌

https://corvidsincanid.bandcamp.com/track/fox (~not entirely safe for work)

I am the exception to the #wikidata property for ASNs 😳

https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?title=Property:P3797&oldid=prev&diff=1986671836

there's a shortage of ADHD meds in the UK right now

sorry to be the one to tell you this, but

🚨 YOUR GENDER IS NOW ILLEGAL 🚨

fox that'd never be added to cuties.exposed 😌

OH: "Is ~girl an approximation of girl or the bitwise complement of girl?"

See it
Say it
Sautéed

Cursed by the ocean to live astride it, separated from the cutie

oh hi Gatwick Airport

I feel like I should do some actual #Wikipedia editing today... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft:Ray_cat is in desperate need of being finished

bytes you

Me: I should finally get around to writing that MediaWiki CLI editor! *gets out laptop, sets up dev environment, puts on programming music playlist*

ADHD: hi.

Me: Oh, silly me! *closes everything down*

OH: The C in USB-C stands for cheese

(good) morning fedi

Sometimes my compulsion for things to Look Right™ extends to cleaning up work kanban boards 😌

*banishes your poorly written bug report to the shadow realm*

why are git merge conflicts so..

urgh

a song about most of y'all 😌 /lh

https://youtube.com/watch?v=L6iOE-mF1Ig

prog volunteers?? 😳

yea 😌

rewriting #MediaWiki in Visual Basic.

someone should do a study on the lag time between users complaining of downtime on IRC/Discord/fedi vs our monitoring picking up downtime 😌

Wholesome posts on the timeline :blobfoxfloofcute:

commit

The time is: 1696969696

Welcome, to Night Vale.

Come work on our team! https://boards.greenhouse.io/wikimedia/jobs/5390848?gh_src=5743efa61us

(DM/at-me if you're interested!)

#GetFediHired

> "Something is up with my local dev vs. beta cluster"

—me, realising yet again that trying to compare the beta cluster to anything is a fool's game.

Almost certainly late to the party here, but #TIL about https://www.npmjs.com/package/browser-sync (would normally just use http-server)

I am not a fan of parser tests (https://w.wiki/7jwA)

Yeah I'm a CODEC 💁

C ute
O therworldly
D emon,
E xtra
C fox

Copying cuties.exposed and instead creating nerds.exposed (it's all of fedi) 😌

oh goddd the state of my face (laser means the hair is growing back super patchy)

All my Linux/Mac -y systems now use https://eza.rocks instead of ls 😌

There is something both very satisfying and *very unsatisfying* about closing a bug report as "unable to reproduce error"

"transient" really is my favourite word

Woo! The WMF Software Engineering Internship Program will be returning next year ✨

Absolutely gutted the Content Transformers team channel doesn't have a picture of Megatron all wrapped up in a blanket drinking hot chocolate or something like its logo.

Yassassin's Creed

It's quite remarkable that I can go to bed with 0 work notifications and wake up with 90 🥴

I've been routinely misreading Starfield as Sheffield lately and I can tell you it's been the source of much confusion.

god I'm glad I have a backlog of ADHD medication, this shortage doesn't look like it's easing up any time soon

my partner is such a weeb omg 😖

Why is Matrix so awful 🙃

there's an instance called lewd.lgbt hmmmmm? >:3c