@alina🐾💖✨🏳️‍⚧️ nope, it was the wife, but only after a clean hard-reset, she rebased over her master branch, and then followed by a force push into my um... backend development repo.

@wyatt :terezi_libra: heck yeah!

@Jennifer | Sidewalk Safari Good tips, and lots of cool postcards, thank you for sharing ^-^

@Wolf480pl Give people powerful primitives and a way to arbitrarily combine them, and watch 99% of them leave you for someone who provided a complete program for a usecase they've envisioned, and the people will complain about the edge cases and missing features all the time, but still use that complete program over your powerful primitives. And that way, you've built a community filter that removes the lame 99% of people, and leaves you with the cool 1% you can enjoy being friends with and nerding out with about building programs which you've never dreamed of :p

@vaartis comes from the earth I reluctantly had an account to communicate with a couple of friends, the account is a decade old, and Discord disabled it a couple of months ago because I dared to change my email address from protonmail to my personal email address on my own domain. Immediately locked out, they don't accept phone numbers from the country I'm in, and their support requires that I log-in first to be able to file a support ticket, which I can't do, because the account is disabled. Amazing.

@Yukari Hafner :v_lesbian: people whenever I talk to them about anything at all xD

@Stefano Marinelli Slowly, more and more of my critical response calls end up tracing their root cause back to some random LLM slop changes that someone working at the client thought they can just shove in important places without them knowing what they're doing. I'm also having to condition my support contracts on not having the client use LLMs in the parts they need my help with, because I really have better things to do with my life than try to understand what a statistical word generator threw up at random hours of the night. I was starting to doubt the market utility of my skills as the LLM hype was growing, but as the it keeps going I find that the fear mongering does not reflect reality at all on the ground, in my consulting experience so far. The popular sentiment is starting to feel more like fanatical faith than a technological reality. Perhaps this the effect of a massive number of people going all-in on a fundamentally shaky bet, with their finances and their reputations, so the more the tech shows signs of falling short of the expectation, the louder those invested in the movement preach of doom and missing out and falling behind and various other woes. As if we all believed hard enough, and prayed hard enough, the machine gods will finally bring forth the new age, in which their risky bets makes them the magical winners. Humans are quite interesting.

@Elegant & Sophisticated very Elegant & Sophisticated indeed. But you know what is even /more/ disgusting? The ridiculous waste of resources and energy forced upon us by dishonorable engineers pleasing their master investors, literally wasting millions of hours of people's lives, due to their incompetence. Trading fragments of millions of souls every day for some number to increase on a financial spreadsheet. I have to repress violent urges every time I see a CAPTCHA asking millions of people to waste two minutes each of their lives, and that's just the surface of it, a literal distributed stealth massacre, and no one even cares. But I digress, my apologies, just had to read some horrible code today. Anyway, I wish you a good day, fellow creature of Earth. May we all figure this out, somehow.

@Grumblesock @Nigga 🇵🇸 Tyreese Thank you for the kind words. A bit more than three years, felt like forever considering how many crazy experiences we've been through. I'm trying my best to handle it well, cleaning up my house, fixing things, dead lifting almost every day, walking outside for hours, visiting family and friends, cooking new things, negotiating new work contracts. Sleep is the only thing I think I'm not doing very well at. At the same time, I'm trying my best not to evade thinking about things when they come up, so they don't build up and explode at me later. Everything feels empty right now, but I still go through the motions because I know if I stop I will fall apart, and it would be very hard to put myself together afterwards. Therapy as a concept does not even exist around here. I don't know if she will ever come back, considering she's so far removed from my life now, and is on the other side of the planet, and I try not to keep my hopes up because false hope is worse than dealing with the pain. I'm not chasing her, because I know it will make her hate me if I do. I tried to be positive at first and talk about things and "fix" things when she brought it up, but once she said she doesn't want to talk anymore I stopped talking to her completely. Whatever she ends up doing, she needs the space to consider things for herself, with a level mind, away from my influence.

@Grumblesock @[email protected] I don't have kids, no. I think I will need a long time combing through our entire past to figure out what happened, and re-contextualize the events in a way that makes sense. I thought she was having the best of times in our relationship, and she even told me so herself on many occasions, there is no one event I can point to and blame for what happened, and nothing she told me when leaving is the real answer either. She's a complex person, and so am I, and lots of interleaved feelings are involved. But I always thought that we had a whole life time ahead of us to talk things out and work it out. I didn't know my clock was running out. Part of me curses every moment I spent at work, or distracted with my random autistic pursuits. Now she's on the other side of the planet, and doesn't want to talk to me because she said it makes her miss me and hurts her too much. In the end, I might have to accept that I never understood who she is, and she never understood who I am, and the bitter truth is that I will not have answers that will make sense.

@God said 'No' You and me both, brother. You and me both.

@Grumblesock Other than my wife leaving me a couple of weeks ago, because "I'm the best person she's ever met in her life, who took care of her in every possible way, but she's loosing who she is around me, and who she wanted to be", no, I'm good. Very okay indeed. Maximum theoretical limits of good considering the circumstances. Thanks for asking, friend. How about you? Is there something wrong with you?