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Darrin West

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Online game developer, distributed systems, software. Compassionate philosopher. Home improvement, tools. Science. Sustainability. Democracy, equality. Dachshunds. Books, movies. The Princess Bride.

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Joined October 09, 2023

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Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Apr 05, 2025

Replying to @cjpaloma@mas.to

@cjpaloma@mas.to Generational trauma and growing up in an authoritarian household is no excuse for selling out your compassion for a job. If you can’t wear a company T-Shirt to the store or offer company Swag to your friends, you should rethink your life.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Feb 03, 2025

Replying to @RepShontelBrown@mastodon.social

@RepShontelBrown@mastodon.social Please know that we are with you on this. Of course. And we know you can’t do much about this all on your own. So tell us where to show up, who to sue, what physical actions to take to resist. We don’t need more motivation or to be more aware. We need instructions. “Send money” is not a compelling suggestion, mind you.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Nov 19, 2024

Replying to @Npars01@mstdn.social

@GottaLaff@mastodon.social @david1@mastodon.world @Npars01@mstdn.social Teachers should teach from The Orangeman’s Bible, or Catholic Bible or The Book of Mormon or the Adi Granth (Seik). And focus on the books that are different. Result: big religious organizations will weigh in a beat each other up, demonstrating quickly the fundamental reason this is dumb and untenable. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Sep 15, 2024

Replying to @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social

@jensorensen@mastodon.social @breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social Don’t forget the #dachshund

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · May 21, 2024

Replying to @jgreig@ioc.exchange

@jgreig@ioc.exchange @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social Probably fails the disabilities act, too. Some people need to enable show-password. And there are unavoidable times everyone needs to view an account number. It’s like there are no adults on that team. And here we are spending huge collective energy/time defending ourselves against something they could have thought about for five minutes. Makes one wonder if this is one of those distraction things people worry about.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Mar 28, 2024

Replying to @johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org

@johannes_lehmann@fediscience.org Better access, inclusion of data, more rapid iteration…are all good things. But we don’t want corporate/industrial efforts to overwhelm the system. What if the supplement or alkaline water industry used their financial might to mess with this? Humanity might suffer. In contrast, the current for-profit journals that were bought up by publishers aren’t doing great work.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Mar 22, 2024

Replying to @kozy138@mastodon.social

@rstevens@mastodon.social @kozy138@mastodon.social @jimray@mastodon.social Rickrolling, hard core.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Mar 22, 2024

Replying to @kozy138@mastodon.social

@jimray@mastodon.social @kozy138@mastodon.social @rstevens@mastodon.social This probably needs a content warning. Without clicking on the links it’s pretty hard to tell that your IP is going to be added to a CIA database of people that have tried to read stuff on terrorism.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Mar 07, 2024

Replying to @mikebroberts@hachyderm.io

@mikebroberts@hachyderm.io I think this is an undesirable outcome of Scrum. Less experienced producers (scrum masters) embrace the rhetoric of: all resources are equal/interchangeable. If that were true, collaboration would be unnecessary, because you wouldn’t need advice or discussion. Clearly incorrect. But if followed for long enough, that’s the result. But in the worst, lowest common denominator way. And “learning from one another” never becomes a user story.

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Feb 16, 2024

Replying to @Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social

@Jon_Kramer@mastodon.social @dangillmor@mastodon.social Depends where he lands his plane, next week. At some point he’s going to wonder if sticking around is the best plan. Maybe try his luck in Saudi?

Darrin West @obviousdwest@hachyderm.io · Nov 17, 2023

Replying to @mastodonmigration@mastodon.online

@mastodonmigration When you read your timeline, you see things from people you chose to follow. Not so w comments. Those can be from randos. If we expect comments to be like timelines, it’s a shock. Could there be a toggle: show me comments from those I’ve followed; or from those filtered in some way. Friends of friends, maybe? Not necc stopping the comment, just masking below some threshold. Or require reputation like on slashdot. (Assuming we are looking for suggestions)

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