Post 9vl0TfVHJJtM4MZmEK by kaniini@socially.whimsic.al
(DIR) More posts by kaniini@socially.whimsic.al
(DIR) Post #9va2tqypzfmlin7trs by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:24:21.691544Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
I really don't like any of this movement with that whole Pleroma team quadrant of fedi right now. Lain cosying up to Gleason, the fact that Kaniini, who doxed a trans girl to her Christian parents and got her made homeless *over an IRC specification*, is in charge of the "trans friendly fork response", the insipid worming into the Moodlenet project.It almost makes Mastodon look wholesome by comparison. Eugen may be a self-serving opportunist who fancies himself a Benevolent Dictator For Life, but at least his motivations are as simple as "wow fame and power and maybe even money." At least he isn't some weirdo who gets off on control and exploitation to the point that he has a sickening fetish for "corrupting" girls he thinks are stupid/poor, or a psycho who opens other people's mail. Fuck me.
(DIR) Post #9va2zehwXGB3OdzUW0 by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:25:24.703927Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
Just put Karen in charge of everything and she'll do it right.
(DIR) Post #9va31RXUT0lp8MxD8K by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:25:44.503160Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
Also give her a fucking raise, it's shameful.
(DIR) Post #9va32WG6PBfi3qKlpg by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:25:38.305030Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother this is an exceedingly bad idea
(DIR) Post #9va34i7HI1QDPrFdxY by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:26:19.991147Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese The fact that you worry about your ability to helm a project well only proves your psychological suitability for doing so.
(DIR) Post #9va35dQ2ExIJ8XSvbs by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:26:09.291164Z
3 likes, 0 repeats
@brother this is a good idea
(DIR) Post #9va3GdXk7OgyhwJiJE by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T18:26:53Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother fork mastodon and morph eugen's work into peak wholesomeness
(DIR) Post #9va3Ho6eKZOZl3CbiK by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:28:41.956219Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@iris Mastodon is the *worst* though, technically speaking it's a clown car that got rear-ended
(DIR) Post #9va3gXILyIdgrHT6I4 by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T18:32:45Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother idk it seems to kinda perform wells here on toot.party, what makes you say that? Although I'd be happy to write my own thing with the tech I know (nodejs+ts ftw)
(DIR) Post #9va3kUJYzkBKlyv1gu by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:33:52.370713Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris I think you misunderstand me Iris, I'm a caveman who bashes rocks together and screams and hollers and sometimes kills or fucks something, I have no idea how any of this software shit works!I'm just going by what I've heard, mostly from Karen poking around in the code etc
(DIR) Post #9va3qBWtkXawFYs9z6 by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:34:54.193255Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris Also Technowix once let slip that niu.moe was costing him like $125/month to run or something, at the time kawen.space was comparably sized and frequented to niu and Karen ran it on a £10/month vps
(DIR) Post #9va3rcLdWcT7iPHvHs by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:35:10.118436Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris (for the record, niu ran Mastodon and kwsp ran Pleroma)
(DIR) Post #9va4bEQMnybIq1FdHk by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:36:18.836380Z
0 likes, 1 repeats
@brother @iris Mastodon is a pile of ruby that just ends up being way more memory heavy and slower than it needs to be due to the framework it's made in on top of eugens tendency to obfuscate and in general treat his users like babies
(DIR) Post #9va4chkNGlfw4QJObY by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:43:40.658950Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @iris That's succinct!
(DIR) Post #9va5OdxwdAROF9WCNE by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T18:47:24Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @brother welp I get that. Now I really do feel the need to waste my time on a "fastodon" project to fix the issues of mastodon's backend (would be a complete rewrite in nodejs+ts or something).
(DIR) Post #9va6CtfwUrVtRf3ovI by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T18:59:32.714646Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @iris it's not even strictly badly programmed, it does a lot of things to improve performance but it still ends up being slower than competitors
(DIR) Post #9va6Hr9JJiQ33eA6oy by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:02:19.510646Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @iris Honestly I'd have encouraged you to just write your own AP social network software by now if it wasn't for the fact that vulture capital seems to be quite firmly moving into AP, bringing all the sleaze with it.
(DIR) Post #9va6QFhfuOslWoEtZw by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:03:49.995046Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @iris Basically the innocent bedroom programming days of this see over, we've had the dumb money and the smart money started with Moodle. Now it's time for the nauseating, inevitable bubble. Joy.
(DIR) Post #9va6QprVTK8Zfj7Ftw by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T19:03:14Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @Anthiese what is AP?
(DIR) Post #9va6RALJKDrTBxDL8K by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:04:00.540587Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris @Anthiese ActivityPub
(DIR) Post #9va6W5YeXgl9nennm4 by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:04:52.979874Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @brother @iris it has a lot of really awful architectural decisions for ideological reasonslike transcoding and storing all remote media, as just one example lmao
(DIR) Post #9va6bTRn9LjDL6A2S0 by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:05:26.889592Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @brother @iris well yeah
(DIR) Post #9va6fuwoqUwnmxnCUa by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:06:40.215987Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @brother @irisI'd consider that bad code, thoughif you're building a bridge and you knowingly misbalance it, that's bad bridge-building, even if the individual bricks are fine
(DIR) Post #9va6gcHXjK4gBgorGS by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:04:21.920228Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @iris I think you're overestimating my capabilities, especially on the frontend side of thingsBut even disregarding that I don't think I have enough experience to be able to write a robust, performant and secure server from scratchI can make a working one but that only goes so far
(DIR) Post #9va6nLfjsoCehULZNA by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:07:13.325796Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @brother @iris it's not a great decision but it's probably a well programmed not great decision
(DIR) Post #9va6nOLHxIcwyvnmPg by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:08:00.130876Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @brother @irisiirc (might be memory-failing here) it literally goes full system("ffmpeg")also, see the bridge point again ^^
(DIR) Post #9va6oLI8meALoFmbCK by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:08:01.046203Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @brother @iris ANYWAY don't remind me of how many bad decisions like that I've put in my code and haven't gotten around to improving yet
(DIR) Post #9va6oLTU6TEwNR5esa by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:08:11.416560Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @brother @iris :ablobpats:
(DIR) Post #9va6oX0rCjTGA7mxvM by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:08:12.027254Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @iris Given enough time and the right team, you could do it. But WHOOPS THAT REQUIRES CAPITAL HAHAHAHAHAHA isn't it just the greatest shit in the world? So now you either have to (probably literally) suck some suit's dick for it or raise it yourself, which you have no hope of doing. Wow what a great system, it really encourages TALENT to rise to the top, and not slimy opportunism.
(DIR) Post #9va6x47C0zrT8xozk8 by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:08:34.489830Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @brother @iris ffmpeg is great don't h8
(DIR) Post #9va6x4HTOm5JeqdClc by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:09:44.971339Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @brother @irisffmpeg is a fine cli, but I don't think you should be launching it programmatically as a cli whenever you receive a media post ^^;;
(DIR) Post #9va78cNwwIhScHAUGe by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:10:02.387425Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @brother @iris I don't disagree with that
(DIR) Post #9va78dRX0T9vtfqrUO by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:10:54.789005Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @brother @iris then again there's a lot of software stacks that rely heavily on ffmpeg, even twitch used to at one pointBut yeah you don't need to transcode all incoming media
(DIR) Post #9va78dspMyzfGKcf2G by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:11:50.816759Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @iris @toast If you guys are gonna literally debate the nuts and bolts of these softwares, mind untagging me? Since I can't understand it lol
(DIR) Post #9va7DkoB3Ad6BhsvIW by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T19:04:29Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @Anthiese damn I'm stupid af
(DIR) Post #9va7DlArgomHK4V2f2 by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:12:45.775493Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris @Anthiese No, you're not!
(DIR) Post #9va7F0yUQhE0cHJGCW by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:13:00.834475Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @Anthiese @iris nah I'm ok, just wanted to point out that while large chunks of mastodon are ostensibly well-written ruby, many other parts are not so much
(DIR) Post #9va7HIvudDXMtPCCtk by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:13:25.600934Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@toast @Anthiese @iris I don't wanna shit on you guys' fun tho, and I know from having a NERD for a sister that you people DO find this fun!!!
(DIR) Post #9va7HUTHjTlgg5tVwW by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T19:13:22Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @Anthiese :ablobcatheartsqueeze:
(DIR) Post #9va7I6XsAs16lKKiMy by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:13:34.539224Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris @Anthiese Awwwwww..... ❤️
(DIR) Post #9va7KrUwZmHMxlHI2q by toast@toast.cafe
2020-05-30T19:14:04.258594Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @Anthiese @iris I'm busy writing an email to [influential nerd person X] rn~also I don't actually care that much about masto
(DIR) Post #9va7NuqQaelUD7mcGu by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:14:28.538446Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @toast @iris I was just basically saying that I think that Eugen is a good programmer
(DIR) Post #9va7RQIG7WxscHTPHM by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:15:14.400270Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@Anthiese @iris @toast So he's a good engineer but a bad captain, basically
(DIR) Post #9va7VKR9pvsJbxUvkO by iris@toot.party
2020-05-30T19:15:41Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @Anthiese @toast more like good technician bad engineer
(DIR) Post #9va7aokOZTHl4575w8 by brother@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:16:57.180527Z
0 likes, 0 repeats
@iris @Anthiese @toast Ah!
(DIR) Post #9va7b8COFby5OPMDi4 by Anthiese@kawen.space
2020-05-30T19:15:39.960718Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother @iris @toast yeah sumthin like thatHe's arguably pretty good at marketing too though
(DIR) Post #9vl0TfVHJJtM4MZmEK by kaniini@socially.whimsic.al
2020-06-05T01:19:02.938175Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@brother I haven't ever doxed anyone or outed anyone out to their parents. I find the entire concept sickening and despicable. Nor do I read other people's mail. And finally, I am the person who recommended to Moodle to hire Karen in the first place.My participation in IRCv3 dwindled at the same time as my participation in IRC development as a whole: at one point I was being paid to work on IRC for a streaming startup which got bought by IBM. That job ended because the company went broke (leading to being bought by IBM), and myself getting a new job where I simply did not have the time to do any work on IRC anymore. I still talk to IRCv3 contributors from time to time, which I don't think I would be doing if I doxed someone and outed them to their christian parents as you describe here. That seems like a lot of effort wasted on bullshit that does not advance IRC or anything I would have been pursuing at the time. We may disagree on many things and not get along because of your "charisma" but you're smarter than that.Finally, I have approximately zero interest in MoodleNet other than a security and GDPR audit they requested I do as part of their legal compliance process, which began before Karen was employed by Moodle. I don't see MoodleNet as a viable alternative to Pleroma due to its radical departure from what Pleroma backend provides, they are quite different products.
(DIR) Post #9vlAl5Aq7ZdS9IxU7k by brother@kawen.space
2020-06-05T03:14:14.219593Z
2 likes, 0 repeats
@kaniini You resort to civility only after years of lies, threats, and tantrums. You began your meaningful contact with me with a dox threat and continued it by musing about how you wish you could simply arrange my death. You spent over a year trying to convince those you could that I am a paedophile. You are, at every stage, a liar, and your words are wasted on me.You only care what I have to say now that it's apparently had some effect on your career. You're a mercenary, a psychopath, and a habitual abuser of your power and bluntly it I was the one who stood to give you money in exchange for your security consultancy I'd be the MOST concerned about your years-old posts where you angrily claim to have intentionally left unreported vulnerabilities in pleroma to exploit later.Don't try your PR bullshit on me, kaniini. Save it for someone who might listen to you.
(DIR) Post #9vlCxur00AoDoavR4a by brother@kawen.space
2020-06-05T03:38:58.094385Z
1 likes, 0 repeats
@kaniini As to the rest: thanks for making this a public confrontation, now if you try *any* of your trademark "revenge by proxy" tricks (going after people you CAN reach and hurt who you think matter to me) I'll be able to draw a line back to this point, a causal line so clear that it'll damn you ten times more effectively than any of my years-old information ever could. You're trapped being on your best behaviour now and that's exactly where I wanted you.You've already made an irreconcilable detractor out of me but if you try any scheme that endangers, weakens, defames or harms Karen in any way I will be on you like a fucking hawk.So be very careful you don't do anything to compromise the facade of a moral high ground you've constructed here, kaniini. Thanks to the lies of slime like you I've got essentially no reputation to defend, so you're directly responsible for the present situation in which I have no incentive to hold my tongue. But you do. So now it's time to learn to play the professional and extend your newfound cordiality to *everyone* you'd love to hurt, not just me.Better not fuck up, eh?