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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · Dec 17

PSA: Please take a moment to fill out your profile before following me.

If I can tell that we have some shared interests, I will typically follow you back.

Will *not* follow back:
- GoFundMe/OnlyFans
- GenAI Slop/CopyPasta

Insta-block:
- Bigotry/Violence/MAGA
- Pseudoscience/Disinfo
- NFT/Crypto

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2h

Well, the delayed PRs were finally added to my score this morning. Still not sure why they were stuck in the first place though. 🤷

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 1d

@hacktoberfest.com I have 3 merged pull requests whose status is "ACCEPTED (IN REVIEW 00:00:00.00)" with the timer sitting at zero for quite some time now. Are they stuck in some kind of limbo? #Hacktoberfest

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

Neither of us is right or wrong here. My point is that it is super difficult and time-consuming for poor folks to vote, so if someone experiencing economic hardship misses their chance to vote, we should blame the discriminatory electoral process and system, not the person whose voice was silenced.

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

Damn, we need one of these for the midterms.

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

of its suggestions have merit, iterate on those ideas until they meet the standards that I hold for myself, and then integrate them into the code.

Being open to suggestions, no matter where they come from, is a hallmark of a good developer. Even moreso for those who actively seek outside opinions.

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

and it almost always comes up with at least one instance of an edge case that I hadn't considered, a quality-of-life enhancement, or even a fundamental change that would improve performance & reliability. It definitely gets stuff wrong too, but it's my job to know the difference, decide which 2/

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

Great thread! This is exactly the kind of experience I've been having with GitHub Copilot and Claude Sonnet 4.5 lately. I'll have some code that I've written, and I think it's pretty good, but since I'm the author, I cannot appraise my code objectively. I ask Claude to suggest improvements 1/

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

Weird flex, but OK. 👍

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

It's fortunate that you had transportation, so you could get to and from your designated polling place. Many poor folks don't even have that.

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

The notification option is how Mastodon handles the edit problem, and it's not a chore at all unless you follow or reply to someone who edits their posts over and over. I get maybe 1 edit notification every month or two. NBD.

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

1. The vast majority of people under 20 are either currently too young to vote, or were too young to vote in the last election.
2. Poor people have a ton of obstacles in their path that inhibit their rights. Have you ever been poor? I have. Being poor makes voting more difficult and time-consuming.

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

Two easy solutions to that problem: limit the edit button to within 60 seconds after the post or notify everyone who interacted with the post so they know what you changed.

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 2d

They're overtly fascist right now. Why would someone need to be over 20 to remember what's happening right in front of their faces in real time?

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 3d

It's all about optics, and they are taking a gigantic L on this one.

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 4d

Right. But we're talking about mandatory taxation, not voluntary philanthropy.

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 4d

How would that work? If you pay more taxes than the IRS says you owe, they issue a refund.

JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 4d

One more day! Let's gooo!

Hacktoberfest @hacktoberfest.com · Oct 14

We're already halfway through Hacktoberfest—how are your contributions going? It's not too late to get started!

Share with the community how you've been involved in Hacktoberfest, contributing to or maintaining projects, through DEV's writing challenge: dev.to/challenges/h...

Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge - DEV Challenge — DEV Community

Hacktoberfest Writing Challenge

dev.to

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cait (and adonis) @cait.bsky.social · 5d

if you want to stay on twitter for some reason it's whatever i guess but you have to accept that people are going to call you a shitass baby brained coward and you can't bitch about it

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 4d

I'm no fan of broligarchs, but Gates is on the record as supporting raising taxes on the rich. observer.com/2024/09/bill...

Bill Gates Says Billionaires Like Him Should Be Taxed Two-Thirds of Their Fortunes

Bill Gates believes an ideal tax system would leave the wealthy with a third of their current fortunes.

observer.com

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gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social · 4d

I think a lot about the chance we had at the start of COVID to finally become a more compassionate, collectivist nation, and how profoundly we were failed not only by the sociopathic greed of the ruling class but by each other.

It doesn’t mean we won’t get there, but the lost opportunity haunts me.

Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 4d

Remember how just a few years ago during the worst of the pandemic when we saw how the govt can actually do big things and saw that our collective health & well-being are intertwined, and then corporations got mad that they lost a modicum of power and helped fund a backlash of amnesia and fascism?

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 7d

For those of us who refuse to visit the hellsite for ethical reasons, here's an archive of the tweet:
archive.is/iqYGx

archive.is

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Daniel Abraham @abraham.bsky.social · 8d

If I were running the DNC, there would be Democratic Party sponsored food relief banks across the country right now that specifically welcomed anyone regardless of party affiliation.

Along with the food, there could be voter registration and links to runforsomething.net

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💚🧡💙Oakbrook❤️💛💜 @oakbrook.bsky.social · 9d

Time to boycott Spotify, and make sure to let the podcasts using it know that you are.

"Sorry, but I can't watch/listen to you until you leave Spotify" should give them the message.

Shannon (she/her) @ravenlenore.bsky.social · 10d

Don’t violate your policies? Well I’m at least one former Spotify listener who believes morals should be above profits. Spotify is no longer allowed in my home or devices.

www.stereogum.com/2327132/spot...

Spotify Says ICE Recruitment Ads Don’t Violate Company Policy

In the past few months, a number of artists have moved to take their music down from Spotify. The list includes Massive Attack, Sylvan Esso, and King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard, among many others. ...

www.stereogum.com

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JamesDBartlett3 @jamesdbartlett3.bsky.social · 9d

I made a thing! 😊
github.com/JamesDBartle...

GitHub - JamesDBartlett3/SteamPersonaSwitcher: Automatically change your Steam persona (display name) based on which game you're currently playing.

Automatically change your Steam persona (display name) based on which game you're currently playing. - JamesDBartlett3/SteamPersonaSwitcher

github.com

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Carl Zimmer @carlzimmer.com · 11d

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory. www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory

An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC

www.bbc.co.uk

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