People: Sara, why did you retire from Software Eng in your 40s?
Me: Gestures at this absolutely perfect encapsulation...
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SaraMG 🇵🇹
@saramg@fosstodon.org
mastodon 4.7.3I'm retired, but I do #OpenSource, and have been helping to build and maintain PHP since 2002.
PHP Foundation board member.
I helped design HackLang/HHVM and secure MongoDB.
I also have a tiny bit of code on Mars (yes, the planet).
PHP toots happen at: @pollita@phpc.social
For everything else, you're in the right spot.
Opinions are my own.
Shitposts are poorly thought out.
Originally 🇺🇸, de Alta California.
Vivo em Lisboa,🇵🇹.
Might be secretly 🇨🇦, eh.
Maybe not totally human? 👽
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Joined October 08, 2022
GitHub:
My Love Language:
C++11
Neurodiversity:
AuDHD
Q: We all know Lesbians drive Subarus, but what do Enbies drive?
A: They don't care, so long as it gets them/their.
(I am so... so sorry. You deserve better jokes from me.)
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@twipped@twipped.social @loathsome_dongeater@toots.matapacos.dog I mean, the "reply" from Philippe is also a parody account, so the whole this is bullshirt.
What's not is how willing we ALL are to believe something akin to that exchange *did* occur. Particularly the part where someone did look at the perf impact to that pretty inescapable component of the desktop environment and said, "Worth it."
I'm not okay.
Fuck. I am so not okay right now.
The sound from a musician on stage bounces off the auditorium walls to surround the audience.
The sound from a pigeon on stage does not do this. The reason is a coo sticks.
RE: https://masto.ai/@transworld/116929445859848335
I never thought the Leopards would Eat My Face.
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After Pushing Anti-Trans Laws to ‘Protect Women’s Sports’, Project 2025’s Heritage Foundation Now Wants Women’s Sports Gone to ‘Assist Fertility’
https://www.transiticsnews.com/p/after-pushing-anti-trans-laws-to
#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Open quoted postJob application form posted in the UK section of a QueerMemes discord. (You think I find this shit on my own?!)
The cishets are NOT okay.
Lovely localization bug discovered in Apple iOS Shortcuts just now by @goatsarah
Note that numbers are localized with commas for decimal, and periods for thousands here. This is important.
x = 23816 / 10937 // 2,17756240
Display arctan(x) // 1,5707963
This is not correct.
arctan(2.17756240) == 1.1402940
What's up? Well, if you store your results as JSON strings truncated to 3 decimal places and localized {"x": "1,775"} and your JSON parser isn't locale aware... well, what is arctan(1775)? 🤦♀️
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@TheCodeLorax@tech.lgbt @ramsey@phpc.social I have deleted .git directories, but never by mistake.
Christ. This.
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What I Mean When I Say I'm Tired
I don't mean I want to sleep.
I mean I want to disappear for a while.
To be rain on a stranger's roof.
To be smoke rising from someone else's fire.
I don't want to die.
But I do want to rest in a way
the world has never allowed me.
I don't want comfort.
I want quiet.
I want the mercy of being unseen
without being unloved.
Fuck it, no.
These mofos *earned* that screening.
https://bsky.app/profile/mewefree.bsky.social/post/3mqzc5zlgu224
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jzb/116890708103854038
Honestly, even when it IS your own VP.
Lack of planning is not a synonym for deserving priority.
Help settle a bet:
Gay Dudes versus Lesbians, who's generally cat-people versus dog-people?
Or is it a Masculines versus Feminines thing?
Help settle a bet: Gay Dudes versus Lesbians, who's generally cat-people versus dog-people? Or is it a Masculines versus Feminines thing?
Me, just trying to walk at a normal pace during tourist season.
Looking for photos of me sitting next to other people whose height I'd know, and I figure googling conferences will net results.
I end up finding this. Not what I'm looking for, but I start cackling anyway because... yeah... no cap, sorry.
Up to S1E14 Angel One of my TNG rewatch.
Hoo-boy-howdy, do I have opinions about this episode. I'll save 'em for the podcast (still looking for a cohost), but I will say this: HOLY SHIZZ, I FORGOT HOW HAIRY JOHNATHAN FRAKES IS.
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@waynedixon@mastodon.social Because for two Mondays in a row I've woken up in the wee hours of the night screaming.
Also.... garfield-reference.gif
I don't like Mondays.
ST:TNG S1E25 Conspiracy: Data is talking to himself while absorbing information from a computer terminal. The computer thinks he's talking to it.
Computer: Command not understood, please repeat.
Data then goes on and on explaining why humans (and he) talk to themselves until the computer finally says: "Thank you sir, I comprehend."
Penultimate episode of the season, but that was legit funny.
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I mean, I can. Just. But only for like 50m at a time tops. And I know it's 50m, because the ride share I called couldn't come all the way into the lot because the gate wouldn't rise, so I had to schlep that distance TWICE to get it the 100m out to the curb. Driver *does* go the extra mile helping me load and unload from his car though. Even carried into my apartment atrium.
Have a 50% tip.
🧵2/3
RE: https://mastodon.online/@shaedrich/116898154891726600
In the context of its thread, this joke is *outstanding*. Actual, IRL, audible chuckle.
I'm worried that the VM on my MBP might be slightly overheating...
Let's just add another tally to my "I can forgot to take my speed prescription any time I SQUIRREL!!!!" counter.
Fucking bag o' cats nonsense...
"Portugal will get you hill-fit.", they said.
My week:
Also the case in Portugal.
And fam, I do NOT want to admit to how long it took me to accept this. For weeks I was like, "none of these multipacks are already open, and I'm not going to break the seal on one". I since *have* gotten over this, but it took way too long.
Similar to generations, people will sometimes refer to "ages". Like the Information Age, the Atomic Age, the Industrial Age, etc...
History will look back on this time of LLM/AI embrace and call it:
The Age of Lies.
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@Crell@phpc.social @waynedixon@mastodon.social Do you have like... a keyword search on your surname?
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@alex@feed.yopp.me Yeah. This will now be my fourth* 3D printer, so I know what to expect, including all the frustrations that come with these things.
I don't care. I'm SO here for it. LFG.
- Technically fourth, but my first was... not a serious device, and my third was (very nearly) the exact same printer. I got a Core One (not plus) in March(ish?) 2025. Ex took it in the divorce (honestly, I was fine with this since moving it to Portugal would have been a hassle anyway).
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Now I have to lift this bad-boy up two flights of stairs. Yes Virginia, there *was* muscle loss since last year. It wasn't *just* fat. Also, I think I pulled something. I laid on my bed when I got in, and almost fell when I got back up.
But now.... EXCITE! I get to assemble this kit and THEN print stuff with it. It's like Lego++!!!
🧵3/3
Her: Working on PTSD with doc, had me take a quick self-assessment thing to identify some magnitudes and specifics. (IES-R)
Me, Fully aware of my PTSD and a fan of such exercises: Oooh, I'll look this up and have a go...
(a few minutes later)
Me: Hrmm, summary just gave a number, where's the scale... Oh, there's the scale. Yeah, that checks out...
Her: What was the number?
Me: 58 (self-assessment threshold is 33)
Her: Fucking hell.
Me: Oh, c'mon, you've met me.
sexually suggestive, but also... wtf?
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@Crell@phpc.social None of this is surprising to me (apart from Chrome exposing battery percentage), or particularly "dangerous", but I've lived through the entirety of the web's growth, so I'm an outlier here.
I did find this bit of hilariously wrong information kinda funny though. (I'm in Lisbon, Portugal atm)
Preteen: Monthly night terrors.
Teens: Couple times per year.
Early 20: Back to monthly.
Late 20s to 40s: Couple times per year.
49: Back to monthly.
This month: Six and counting. Two of them tonight alone.
Could my brain kindly just get fucked? Perhaps before the neighbors call the cops?
Something vibe "coders" will never truly understand.
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@joshsusser@autistics.life @KatyElphinstone@mas.to I won't pretend to have the answers, but...
IME, for the Autism side at least (and apologies for the oversimplifying), it stems from a couple areas:
1/ Rigid thinking. X is right, ergo Not-X is wrong.
2/ Not "getting" the social rules intrinsically, and having to build a consistent set from observations. When a rule is only a rule sometimes, then it's not a rule, but I can still be punished for breaking it? Rude.
As for ADHD, lots are secretly AuDHD. :p
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@preinheimer@phpc.social This is by no means meant as a discouragement (far from the truth!), but have you seen Steve Shves' content? He does a mix of stuff, much of it Trek related, including "Odd Starfleet Jobs". Latest just dropped, in fact:
https://youtu.be/Jwm27wS9GO0
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@jwarlander@mastodon.nu Also... no disrespect to the Farscape Alumni, but I put S1-S8 in very different buckets than S9/S10.
Also... the Ori arc makes for quite different show all by itself.
Shizz... I have opinions on this too, I guess.
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@brooke@bikeshed.vibber.net TAS? Oh... oh honey, no. You don't have to do that to yourself. They declared it non-canon. It can't hurt you anymore.
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@yakmoose@cloudisland.nz "The Stupid Ages" covers all of human history. Or at the very least, the Anthropocene.
Trip to Ikea just now (recon mostly, only bought a few small items), was incredibly chill. Maybe my most relaxing Ikea trip ever.
Yeah, it was working hours on a Tuesday, but also... it was completely familiar. The layout is bog standard Ikea, and yeah everything not in Swedish was in Portuguese, but whatever... they're ace at pictograms.
It was all just... familiar.
Looking for recs on 3D Printers.
I've had 3 of them over the years. Most recently a Prusa Core One (very new printer, but moving it would have been a PITA, and my ex wanted it anyway). I liked the Prusa fine, esp being able to assemble it from kit myself, but it was basically tied with a Bamboo printer when I was evaluating them last.
So I'm inclined to check out a Bamboo printer with a 4-color kit, but would love to get thoughts on specific models (or other makes) from anyone with experience.
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@Girgias@phpc.social I have been using PHP for as long as you have been alive and only JUST learned this past year (from you, possibly) that this bullshirt is valid syntax (but deprecated as of 8.5). https://3v4l.org/HVvWL
This old gal can still surprise us.
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@thisalex@hachyderm.io Yeah. If it's a product/shop I'm not familiar with I'll also check the price labels as they'll have a "price for one" label next to the "price for multiple" label. And the ice cream... yeah... Chicago didn't have so much of it just casually around everywhere. It's been a... problem.
RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/116959137948884825
Hahahahahahahahahaahahahahahah
Oh fucking Christ on a weaponized incompetence pogo stick.
I don't know how much private/insider info there is to mine, but OF COURSE the crook-in-chief is fucking user data with his micropeen.
THIS WAS OBVIOUS AND WAS ALWAYS GOING TO HAPPEN.
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Banks can now get access to insider trading information, straight from the POTUS's mouth. For a fee, of course. Axios reports Trump Media has already signed several customers ahead of the Aug. 1 launch, including financial news organizations and high-frequency trading firms.
https://www.axios.com/2026/07/16/truth-social-license-data-wall-street
A letter from Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va) to the financial services industry urges banks to reject Truth Social's new service that would offer advance access to the president's posts on the platform.
"In a letter to the presidents of Bank Policy Institute, Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, Managed Funds Association, Financial Services Forum, Principal Traders Group, and American Bankers Association, Sen. Warner wrote, “I write regarding Trump Media & Technology Group’s (TMTG) announcement that it will begin offering financial institutions and other users the option of paying TMTG for prioritized delivery of posts from President Trump (and other Truth Social accounts as determined by TMTG). This arrangement presents a serious risk to market integrity, creates a clear and unacceptable pathway for corruption, and undermines public confidence in the fair dissemination of market-moving government information – a crucial factor in maintaining stable and trustworthy financial markets.”
"Sen. Warner explained that, according to TMTG, the Truth API will provide select paying customers with advance access to posts from top Truth Social accounts, a list that includes the president’s, faster than regular users receive push notifications or can manually monitor Truth Social. Trump Media has said the service is specifically designed for organizations “most impacted by the cost of a delay in information,” including algorithmic trading firms, and customers have already signed up for the service, which it has reportedly offered for $100,000 per month."
https://www.warner.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/260721.Warner_Finance_Truth_API_letter.pdf
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@Crell@phpc.social @waynedixon@mastodon.social Yeah, but like.... you just SPOTTED that thread is what I mean.