Aaron Lord :csharp:

10 years ago while freelancing I started working on a charter for a software consultancy cooperative, where the staff owns the company and participates in all its decisions democratically. Now as more and more of us face #AI in the workplace and have trouble finding #noAI jobs elsewhere, I'm wondering whether this project can be revived with a sort of non-AI focus. Granted, we'll have to keep the #noAI manifesto offline for now, otherwise our current employers will discover our dislike for the "technology" they're forcing us to implement before we can get a revenue-stream off the ground and go all-in with the new company. #WorkerCooperative #WorkerOwnedCooperative #coops https://github.com/lorddev/devlords-org

@idlehand yep. It’s a Trade Wind, designed for off-grid #boondocking. I’m eager to find adequate isolated boondocking spots. Don’t know where to look.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@devlord/116281665651831595

Answer is: jumpstart it with a generator and let it bake in the sun for 3 or 4 days. The battery meter will read “—%” until it reaches full charge, because it simply will not know until it gets there. #Airstream #Airstreaming

Spotted yesterday at the #ChicoCA #NoKings: Audrey Denney greeting and hugging people who will hopefully become constituents. I told my kids she’s been running in opposition to the late Doug LaMalfa for years, and unlike the guy from the bay who wants to represent our new gerrymandered (for lack of a better word) district, she actually lives here.

@pixelfed #BugReport I can see the image on Mastodon but it’s all blurry in #Pixelfed iOS. Can you help?

Do I know anyone who can help answer this question? https://stackoverflow.com/q/79915185/16454
My IDEs all treat `$[(DatabaseName)]` as a difference in schema compare instead of ignoring the stored procedure or view as identical. This happens because of the new SDK-style sqlproj format, which is not supported in Visual Studio yet (we're all using Macs anyway).

#SqlServer #VisualStudioCode #JetBrains #Rider #dotnet

Any Airstreamers on here by any chance? We’re aiming to set off for spring break in a couple weeks. Solar powered Trade Wind. Lots of sun now, but we had like 2 months straight of rain and the batteries died. I can’t figure out how to get the inverter charging again. #rvs #Airstream

I have a utilities package on #NuGet that I probably ought to write examples for. Should my example project be MVC or Web API or a CLI app? Presumably it ought to run? #dotnet

After a few years of stagnation, I updated my #dotnet Utilities #NuGet package. I split off two packages, one for mail utilitites, and one for Google Maps utilities, as I don't think these two features would be needed by most users by default. I also removed deprecated encryption stuff that's no longer considered... good. https://www.nuget.org/packages/Devlord.Utilities/7.0.1#readme-body-tab #FOSS

Someone at work turned on Copilot code reviews on GitHub. Now one has to wait 5 minutes for an AI code review before doing anything else. Is this a #ReverseCentaur situation?

#DSA is now 100,000 members strong! #DemocraticSocialism #SolidarityForever

Apple Music says I'm in the top 500 listeners for Liz Carroll and top 1,000 for Solas. But my son keeps requesting Metallica in the car. #IrishTrad #Music

@BlackAzizAnansi #CPAP users unite!

“Jesus was a liberator of the oppressed, not a mascot for the powerful.” #ChicoCA #NoKings 2

Went to Chico Enterprise-Record this morning on mobile to check turnout for #ChicoCA #NoKings 2 and was met with a paywall that disabled my tab switcher and hid the back button entirely. #enshittification

*We are very lucky our kids weren't on that bus*

_The Lost Bus_ was released today on Apple TV+, with Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera. I read the book it's based on, _Paradise_ by Lizzie Johnson ([Amazon](https://a.co/d/87rDSpv)).

It just happened that one of our kids had missed school the previous week because they were sick and I had forgotten to drop off the doctor’s note at the office that morning. When I got home I found the note and took it back to the school (just around the corner from us). When I got there they said they were sending kids home (they didn’t call it “evacuating” yet). If it wasn’t for that doctor's note, our kids would have been on that bus, too.

We were stuck in traffic next to that bus for what felt like hours. But at some point we turned, I think on Bille Road towards Skyway, while they continued down Clark Road.

I still see that bus around town sometimes, they haven’t retired it.

Some of those kids still go to school with ours. We had a terrifying day but at least we spent it together. I can’t imagine the nightmare it was for those kids on the bus. And their parents waiting for them in Gridley.

The trailer gave me a PTSD episode, with the overhead view of the bus driving straight through the flames. Just like we did. So I don’t think I’ll be able to watch it myself, but I hope it raises awareness of our plight.

#TheLostBus #CampFire2018

@npr @arts-life-npr #CampFire2018 survivor here. I don’t know if I can watch the movie because I had a PTSD episode just from the trailer. But I’m thankful that the film is raising awareness of our plight. The town still feels like a ghost town in many ways. Only 25% of the homes on our street have been rebuilt. There are entire neighborhoods of empty lots.

Ella is done with the scritches for now… #apbt

Hemant Mehta’s obituary for James #Dobson is 🧑‍🍳💋

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/james-dobson-an-architect-of-evangelical

My parents had his books, and we listened to his radio program in the 80s.

“His legacy can be found in estranged families, the self-loathing of those who survived his teachings, and in a political landscape warped by his toxic theology.”

He screwed up a lot of people and is the reason many of us don’t talk to our parents anymore. #JamesDobson #Exvangelical

Just watched a trailer for _The Lost Bus_ starring Matthew McConaughey and America Ferrera. I almost started crying. I don’t think I’ll be able to watch the movie because of PTSD. We survived that fire in Paradise in 2018 but lost our house and everything in it. And at the end of the trailer they show the bus literally driving through flames. That happened to us. It melted the antennae off our car. It was terrifying.

https://tv.apple.com/us/clip/the-lost-bus-trailer/umc.cmc.1sqokeps39pjy98h3rx7v96rh?targetId=umc.cmc.4p7gv4trt1rt0kuiwzmitibiv&targetType=Movie
#CampFire2018 #PTSD #WildfirePreparedness #TheLostBus #ParadiseCA

My comment (might delete): I’m sorry, maybe my reading comprehension skills are lacking, but to me, your post doesn’t really say anything or ask anything. Word salad. And then you claim you don’t want to get political and go and do it anyway? #IrishTrad #TraditionalMusic https://mastodon.ie/@thesession/114735834975724611

Going to bring my octave mandolin to the session tonight #IrishTrad #TraditionalMusic

Mind blown. 🤯 #skeuomorphism in #ios26 this is going to take some getting used to…

She spelled tator wrong but otherwise good sign. #NoKings #ChicoCA

Pub Scouts @ Winchester Goose in #ChicoCA Sat. 8 PM, and all day Monday at Duffy’s #IrishMusic #IrishTrad

Getting this trying to import my posts from Instagram to Pixelfed. #PixelfedBug #Pixelfed

I am a survivor of the #CampFire2018 which destroyed our home in Paradise, CA. We lost everything. I would not wish that fate on anybody, and my heart goes out to those in L.A. who are experiencing such destruction in their lives. At the time I was a full-time freelancer, living paycheck-to-paycheck. Nobody made a GoFundMe for us. We stayed with my mother-in-law for a little while but had to go to a hotel in Sacramento, and then to a studio above a garage in Chico so our kids could attend school. We survived on donated clothes and donated dog food. Our Christmas was gift cards and donated Nintendo DSes.

It bothers me more than a little bit to see GoFundMe's pop up on LinkedIn for CEOs who have sold multiple startups, who, like me, have lost everything in the fires. But unlike me, are hardly living paycheck-to-paycheck. It's not like they're unable to afford a B&B in Santa Barbara or go to Macy's to put clothes on their backs.

There are a lot of people who actually need your support. Renters, or those with generational homes who can't afford their own mortgage in L.A. County and have been straining to pay their property taxes. Please take this into consideration when making your donations.

With the loss of fact-checking on Meta platforms, perhaps it's time for all of us to do this... #CutTheCord

@PJ_Evans @mekkaokereke #CampFire2018 survivor here. Have held on only because we had really good insurance.

New post on my #Jekyll blog about #Deconstruction and #SpiritualAbuse. What happened in a gap in blog posts in May 2009 when I was at one #church and then suspiciously at another. https://blog.devlord.io/2024/12/28/so-what-happened/

Anybody willing to help with #htaccess issue? I'm trying to redirect my /blog/ subfolder to blog.devlord.io new #Jekyll pages

All holds in the Senate for HR 5863 have been lifted. So within 48 ours they should have a vote? This exempts wildfire victims' settlements from being taxed, which means tens of thousands of people will get to file amended returns for the last few years and hopefully get some relief. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKlabnDqow4 #CampFire2018

#CampFire2018

#DKM “Sirens” https://youtu.be/RMSxewKxb5c?si=sV5Au6x57r8727Io

My son is starting high school football 🏈, going out for junior varsity his freshman year. All team members have been tasked with raising money for uniforms and equipment. Please consider a small #donation if you can. Every little bit helps. #ParadiseBobcats #CampFire2018 #crowdfunding #football https://ets.rocks/3VNNRkP

@awgonnerman I created an entry in Evernote on 12/4/2013 titled “A Reluctant Atheist” but didn’t add any content. It appears we were #deconstructing around the same time.

Currently going through about 50 notes in Notion about #deconstruction and my path to #atheism to see what I can blog about and which I've already covered in my previous 4 posts (from 2019). I think #TheBirdSite took away my need to blog. Mastodon integration in #Wordpress has fixed that for me, but I still have #WritersBlock.

My work history is half W-2 and half freelance. What's a better way to say "off and on" in a resume where the freelance bit is summarized in its own entry? #resumehelp

Thai-Style Chicken Curry Noodles courtesy #BlueApron

#MaskingUp because I’m afraid of airports and planes. ✈️➡️ATL (pictured: an old dude in a mask with glasses and a scally cap)

PBS stops tweeting after Musk adds "government-funded" label
#NiceOne https://flip.it/k-FANP

@brendoneus Have you read #SevenEves by Neal Stephenson?

Is this machine suitable for beginning #Linux development? I'll basically be running #JetbrainsRider and #DataGrip. My other machines have 32 GB RAM but the solutions I've been running have like 100 projects in them, with 14 microservices running at the same time. Probably my son will also use it to watch Darkwing Duck before bedtime.

#Fosstodonhelp #fosstodon how does “boosting” off-topic toots factor into the CoC? How about replies? Do we need to limit the audience of replies to avoid noise in the local feed?