Wren Reilly

akareilly@hachyderm.io

She/her/they I once worked with goats. I moved into tech.This was a mistake.  Expect sheep, wool, and textile history. Also birbs. Infosec on occasion.  I use content warnings for topics and images that can trigger PTSD. I do not use them to shield people ***without*** trauma from experiencing racism, sexism, transphobia, and other forms of discrimination. If you can ignore politics, you’re not likely in need of content warnings for much of anything, really.Avatar: me holding a baby goat.

Posts

Post #4403305
RE: https://social.treehouse.systems/@oliof/117019133140870610 If a heat pump can work in a house built in 1431 (not a typo!) it can work in yours.
Post #4362402
Add to the list of how to improve your open source project: don’t piss off the grant writers
Post #4353148
If you want people to switch to your non-evil tool: - make it accessible - make it usable - make communicating with you about bugs and usability easy
Post #4315171
To quote Reginé Gilbert: “If It’s Annoying, It’s Probably not Accessible” This is the key to making all the alternatives to Big Evil US Silicon Valley Closed Source Slopified Stalkerware tech.
Post #4247505
A reminder that even if someone is good at computer and can make more bleep boop than anyone has made a computer bleep or bloop before, assholes kill joy, community, and whatever technical goals you have. Many bleep bloop plus asshole equals no bleep bloop. Thank you for coming to my Fed Up Talk.
Post #4135159
There should be physical barriers between cars and pedestrians. Period.
Post #4131827
Remember when computers got smaller and did more stuff faster, year after year?
Post #3956030
RE: https://fedi.lilahexe.top/notes/aowfk837mxmcve5b Infrastructure friends, assemble!
Post #3912935
Linux is revolutionary anti-corporate tech if you just ignore all the corporations with Linux-based infrastructure in datacenters.
Post #3858585
Omg you don’t like the textiles that are available? Just go shear a sheep, gather stinging nettles, skirt the fleece, rett the stalks to get at the bast fibers, make a spindle, spin the fiber, build a loom, disassemble a bike wheel to make knitting pins, weave your own cloth, knit your own socks, sew a tunic, go live in a bog without any human contact because all of this takes too much time for being social. This post is about technology.
Post #3783888
“Don’t speak ill of the dead” is more about not starting a fist fight at the funeral. In other words, when a horrible person dies, wait until the relatives and friends leave before watering the flowers.
Post #3760608
Remember to manage expectations. The question is not *whether* the Democrats will cock this up, it’s *how*
Post #3562022
Thinking you haven’t blocked enough people lately? Post about making FLOSS appeal to and be usable for more people! You’ll be blocking entire domains in no time!
Post #3554018
Demanding command line interface use from people who are not sysadmins is not reasonable, realistic, or kind. Make your free libre open source alternative usable for the intended end users. Write documentation that isn’t “sudo the glorble fleegeller, but first make sure you were installing sketchy gitblob three hours ago”
Post #3470419
Why is the appeal to “traditional European values” always about xenophobia and patriarchy, and not dragging nobles off their horses and bludgeoning them with farming implements in a peasants’ revolt?
Post #3418821
what really messes with my suspension of disbelief during a talking sheep movie is the mismatch between sheep breed and accent
Post #3372541
Alright Burnham, let’s try freedom to protest a genocide, no deadly cuts to disability services, leaving trans people the fuck alone, renewable energy, taxing the rich, safe third spaces for kids, and Scottish independence. Oh and last but not least, going after the fascist networks organising hate mobs. You know, actual terrorism instead of the Met wrestling old age pensioners to the ground for protesting the fact that one can’t even express support for Palestine Action without getting in ser...
Post #2483259
it’s still not a wiki
Post #2483258
I will be ignoring Edinburgh today.
Post #2483257
Oh wow, Kier, are you seriously wondering why voters to the left don’t want the pro-genocide, pro-austerity, anti-environmental, anti-union, anti-public transit party that goes after disabled people instead of billionaires? Perhaps hiring the friends of child traffickers is so godsdamned obviously a bad idea that voters expect some public expression of shame. You absolute weapon. Resign, muppet. Take your whole Oxbridge omnishambles with you.
Post #2483256
If this isn’t a sign that Scotland needs to give the whole Oxbridge clown car the boot, I don’t know what is. Austerity-huffing muppets are handing England over to fascists, like the milquetoast centrists before them. Opting out isn’t sentimental nationalism, it’s just prudent.
Post #2280434
Any digital sovereignty projects that are 100% white dudes are going to lack something. Several European countries have abysmal diversity numbers. If this is a movement for the public, people who understand the needs of the public should be in positions where they can drive accessibility, usability, security, and consent. I have used some deeply janky open source software and know exactly why it’s janky: made by Linux sysadmins for Linux sysadmins. Often difficult for good Linux sysadmins to...
Post #1996242
Ég: Skilurðu nei? Köttur: Nei
Post #1996241
by the end of the day I will be 25% ginger ale and zwieback
Post #1996240
Mäuschen, man muss nicht Bundeskanzler sein #dePol
Post #1934853
this is a look that only happens in the kitchen look at this face he has never been fed, not once #AdventuresOfCraigAndLemmy #CatsOfMastodon
Post #1743435
if politicians break the internet so much that I have to use godsdamned onion routing I am going to be PISSED
Post #1613941
Oh wow why does the billionaire think FLOSS conferences will welcome him? Maybe because we are still discussing whether it&#39;s fair to ban: Man convicted for having child abuse materials, man who advocates for child abuse, man with massive Nazi tattoo who drove Kathy Sierra off the internet in 2007, and so many godsdamned serial rapists and sexual harassers that you have to be specific about which one you&#39;re talking about, sometimes when discussing one open source project....
Post #1350202
linux linux linux linux linux linux linux linux linux linux linux linux MANSPLAIN MANSPLAIN aaaargh fediblock oooh fediblock linux linux linux linux…
Post #1350200
Ég er án eftirlits