Sick Systems: How to Keep Someone With You Forever
Article going over methods of control that can be used by abusers; and also abusive employers.
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Excellent thread about experiences with a person with BPD
So many of the comments in this thread really hit home, and put into words my experiences, in ways I'd never be able to. I really wish I had the ability to explain like this.
What's really helpful here is it's healing to see people talk about exactly the things I went through. It's sort of reassuring to know you're not alone, you didn't imagine it, that it really did happen.
git best practices
Article relating to best practices as a git user. Some gems in here.
Things I have learnt to move on from BPD abuse
Really well-written list concerning the things to keep in mind when recovering from, and moving on from, the abuse received from being in a relationship with a person with PBD.
How the Python import system works
Everything you could ever want to know about imports in Python. And then a shitton more.
The logic behind three random words - NCSC.GOV.UK
Keeping this to hand as a useful page to point folk at when they try and teach me about how passwords should be chosen.
Arrakis Rippers: A Guide to “Dune”-Inspired Metal | Bandcamp Daily
Selection of artists who are inspired by, or have made music relating to, Dune.
Build your own NeXT with a virtual machine
Instructions on getting a NeXT machine up and running in a VM.
Interactive Bioinformatics Tutorials
Neat web-based sandbox of bioinformatics tutorials, providing a sandbox for some of the common tools.
Male Victims of Coercive Control; Experience and Impact
This report reflects the UK findings of two recent international surveys investigating the experiences of male victims of domestic abuse from their current or former partners which included coercive control.
The report provides an understanding of the types and levels of coercive control experienced by male victims in the UK including emotional, psychological, economic and sexual, as well as isolation.
The findings demonstrate that male victims experience severe and longstanding negative effects from female perpetrated coercive control including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic distress and suicidal ideation.
Recommendations are made to ensure that awareness of men’s experiences are raised, the severity of the impact on male victims is sufficiently recognised, and this is measured and addressed in a gender specific manner.
Joker
Joker is a small interpreted dialect of Clojure written in Go. It is also a Clojure(Script) linter. One of the main aims is that it will allow for scripting with Clojure.
Skeletor inspirational quotes and affirmations
Because why not though?
Paypal cryptocurrency fees
Paypal's fees for both buying and selling crypto.
ipify - A Simple Public IP Address API
Handy little public API for getting your IP address.
Neil Gaiman's reply/explanation to a question about Wanda, in The Sandman
Contains an answer to this question:
Neil, you've written a trans woman character in Sandman but the way the story develops makes it seem like you think trans women arent actual women. And well, considering what you said about your friend, im sure thats not the case. So... could you clarify things? (i hope this doesnt sound accusatory, thats not how i mean it)
The secret of the macOS Monterey network quality tool | DanPetrov
Handy bit of detail about a new network-testing tool in macOS Monterey.
Carbon | Create and share beautiful images of your source code
Tool to create a pretty formatted and quotable version of source code.
The Handwavy Technobabble Nothingburger
Excellent simple breakdown of why pretty much all crypto is complete nonsense.
Carlos D. - Lessons learned after working one year as a Common Lisp Developer - The Good
One person's experience of working as a developer using Common Lisp.
Keep the Web Free, Say No to Web3
Web3 is bad. Bad. Just bad. Here's some stuff about it being bad.
Early tweet talking about Covid
One of the earliest tweets talking about SARS-CoV-2, long before we knew it would be a bad thing.
Creating blocks for cyubeVR
Tutorial on how to create custom blocks for cyubeVR.
Monetizing Open-source is problematic
Some background on the faker.js (and colours.js) situation.
Why logging out via a GET URL is a bad idea
Fun tweet from a while ago now that highlights the fun to be had by having side-effects hanging off a GET rather than a POST; from a time when it more or less still wasn't quite the issue it ended up being.
Wikipedia Endowment: The Site Is Rich. Why Is It Fundraising?
Article that talks about why Wikimedia keeps raising funds when it seems to be pretty well off.
Fixing a Quest 2 that thinks it's in 2037, using SideQuest
By the looks of things update 37 has caused problems for some (including me) where the Quest decides it's in 2037. After that the Wi-Fi connection looks like it has limited Internet and few things that need a connection work well.
The fix, other than a factory reset, is to set the time by hand; which the Quest 2 won't let you do. So... SideQuest to the rescue!
Why is LinkedIn so cringe
There's something about LinkedIn that makes it way more cringe (good word for it really) than any other social network I've ever used. But I've never been able to put my finger on what it is I don't like about it.
This comes close to covering it.
MELPA - Open Collective
It's now possible to donate to MELPA.
12ft.io - Remove paywalls
Tool to try and remove paywalls from news sites.
CloudpilotEmu: A PalmOS emulator for the web
A PalmOS emulator that can run in the browser; could be interesting if I ever want to try and play with any of my old Palm code again.