Erika Fae Ottsune @Erika@awoo.space

remember your ethical obligations to the world before you publish anything.

macOS / Homebrew users.

here is a relatively alright script i'm using to gather up orphaned packages from all the crap i've installed from homebrew. It's likely got some bugs, and it could certainly be improved in so many ways but I've just about had enough of it and it reclaimed me another couple gigs on top of the gig i gained from brew cleanup.

https://gist.github.com/foxiepaws/f18d259860a903bff1b323b80101784a

so i had a kinda dumb idea.

A code jam but, all software for self care/accessability/etc.

write that feature you've always wanted to for apps, make an app to help remind you to take your meds, etc.

anyone else interested?

don't get me wrong, i understand why people use them, especially poor people. but we end up spending more and getting less from it.

and they just in general, suck poor people's money out of their pockets and rarely empower people.

every single thing about a dollar store is designed to ensure that they get as much money as possible out of everything. They become a dumping ground for products that are... just not great.

not even the office supplies are usually worth it, you get less dollar for dollar so you're going to spend more if you need it a lot [like paper]

dollar stores aren't cheap. Dollar stores aren't good.

Yes, as a poor person on SSI i use them all the time, but the truth is they are in general harmful to communities and people.

how are they harmful: they displace, replace, and take from Grocery, often in Food Deserts. They sell you cheap, unhealthy, heavily processed food. They trick you into thinking your getting a good deal when you're not, ...

KILL ALL DOLLAR STORES

( echo "# Contributors" ; git log | grep "Author" | sort | uniq -i | while read r ; do printf "* %s\n" "${r/Author: /}" ; done ) > CONTRIBUTORS.md

A quick way to kind of do this. although it will miss users who have used different names or emails and it doesn't COMPLETELY spit out good stuff for markdown

I did end up creating these issues. If you agree with me it'd be great if you could comment and agree.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/6629
https://github.com/glitch-soc/mastodon/issues/378

I personally don't always like using git, even today i still sometimes use subversion or mercurial because for certain projects it works so much better for my workflow. [BUT I KNOW IM AN OUTLIER]

I don't like github all that much, I prefer to use bitbucket usually OR HOST IT MYSELF. People shouldn't lose out because of these sorts of decisions and we need to stop pretending that VCS metadata is good enough.

hile in this case, yes Hiveway did decide to use github, this is still a good idea. There are lots of other VCS and lots of other platforms and pretending that git metadata is a good enough show of credit is ABSURD.

We need to make it so that everyone that works on these projects gets the credit they deserve, even in snapshots, even when it is eventually hosted on other VCS.

Seriously pondering making an issue on Mastodon & Glitchsoc that is as follows:

* Create a Contributors file

create a file which contains the name, optionally email/handle of every single person who has contributed code to this project. This will help keep contributors having credit even if the project is hosted on other platforms than github or using different VCS systems than git. It is a silly assumption to assume that everyone is going to use the same VCS platform and hosting.

Maybe github issues was literally the worst thing to happen to open source development.

i say "well me" in the CW, but i know its far far more than just me.

the number of people i've ran into who just have basically spoken and said they've outright not reported bugs because of this is actually extremely high.

heck. some of my best bug reports came from /IRC/ and people complaining about my software's issues. I literally copied the log into our bug tracker and used it to actually figure stuff out.

my recommendation would to be, for projects to assign someone to do bug triage, yes, its very boring work, but expecting the person reporting the bug to do it, only results in poorer quality original reports that result in someone who could give better reports not bothering or bugs to not be reported at all

imo both of those options are worse than having one of your volunteers to sit down and just, sift through the new reports every night and close the dups

Bug trackers, especially those with more than a few bugs... are extremely overwealming.

When you expect people to not only report bugs, but ALSO do all the bug triage themselves, it literally becomes so overwealming that even trying to report a bug is not worth the effort.

Yes i understand that its hard for devs to wade through many duplicates, but it is often much harder for non-technical, burned out, and disabled people to do that whole process.