Anthony Martinez @ajmartinez@librem.one

@codesections this doesn’t really bother me in the least. Companies that aren’t going anywhere anytime soon being on the board of my favorite language is probably a good thing for its continued existence and rapid development.

@Gina @nathand@fosstodon.org @amandag@tech.lgbt @sotolf@fosstodon.org

#5randomthings
1) I hated coffee until last year
2) I got lost in a rainforest as a child
3) While lost I saw a tiger and it did not eat me
4) My favorite breakfast as a child was Frosted Flakes
5) 11yr old me was convinced 3 & 4 were related.

@the_tower_power_ here’s the link https://fosdem.org/2021/schedule/event/imposter_syndrome/

Most often it creeps up for me because I have no real formal training in any computing field, yet I have earned the label of “subject matter expert” in a few specific areas. When people I know to be extremely good at CompSci run across a mechanical problem and can’t grasp the failure mode sometimes that also triggers a feeling of “this must be what they feel like when I speak”. If I’ve struggled to solve a problem recently it’s worse.

Enjoyed two talks during #FOSDEM2021 today. One on imposter syndrome, and another on embedded Linux on RISC-V.

@Gina this morning I woke to the question “where can we go sledding!!!”

Finally got my own Matrix homeserver running today. Video call performance with my folks back home seemed significantly better. Not mad about it. Got several friends moved over to talking to me there, and made an account for my fiancée. Up next: the rest of my family.

@Gina ooo true. Maybe I’ll drop in on some of it. #checkstheschedule

@jiminycricket @codesections not sure if you’ve seen or used GNU Octave but back when I had a need for MATLAB in school it was a drop in replacement.

@kyle @twrightsman Fractal is doing work to move onto matrix-rust-sdk and then add e2ee so a native client is on the way. Hopefully they finish before my Librem 5 ships. Looking forward to always having a real Linux computer with me without having to carry around my laptop.

@purism that’s pretty cool stuff! I’ve got my own project for determining network status of defined resources, and plan to add a GUI using libhandy eventually. Glad to see I’m not the only person thinking along these lines.

@wilw this was the first year I’ve ever tried it and as someone without a computer science background it has helped a lot.

@pamaca @Gina I just bought a laptop that had everything I need. Just say no to dongles.

@Gina I had a BT mouse I liked a lot once upon a time. No extra dongles needed. I’ve stuck with my 2016 laptop as long as I have because it still has all the things I need. The next machine does too, and I hope that company lasts a long time and keeps offering devices I can use the way I want. I’m willing to pay!

@Gina the idea of getting a wee dongle to plug another wee dongle into makes me immediately picture snapping the damned thing off one day doing something important like reaching for another stroopwaffel while watching whichever show I’m binge-background noising while I spend too much time nerding.

@wilw indeed the docs are one of my favorite things about the language. I’m way behind now, but I have been doing Advent of Code 2020 in Rust and that’s made a huge difference in how rapidly I can get things working.

@Gina ah and I’m guessing those use a USB-A doohicky for the receiver as opposed to BT?