This thing serves no purpose but making me angry every time I stumble across it

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+---
+date: "2022-09-04T00:00:00Z"
+title: Lights! ...
+url: blog/2022-09-04-lights/
+---
+
+The kid has been gearing up to record an audition video for a dance company,
+and I've been studying up on how to set up lights, so it looks cool.
+
+I think I did pretty well,
+for about $140 worth of parts.
+It's primarily clamp lights,
+and some el cheapo colored acrylic from Amazon
+that I cut with Amy's CNC cutting machine.
+Also some aluminum foil.
+
+![Lights!](lights.jpg)
+
+I know now that this is just standard 3-point lighting,
+that somebody smarter than me figured out.
+Looks pretty good though!
+That back light provides a sort of halo, to give depth on the screen.
+And the colors against the black fabric (bedsheets) provide texture.
+
+That's about all I know about lighting so far.
+
+For sound, we played music through a mixer,
+and hard panned both channels to the left side.
+The dance pad has a mic inside it,
+that we hard-panned to the right.
+Hopefully this makes it so the postprocessing can mix feet in with stereo music.
+
+---
+
+I was up until 01:00 porting woozle's stuff over to a more unified login.
+You still need three different passwords for various things,
+but at least now it feels a little more like a single offering.
+
+Today I moved my web site (and this blog) off of GitHub,
+which provided web hosting for free.
+Now it's on my cloud VM,
+which is also free (because it's so dinky small),
+but should be easy enough to move elsewhere if I need to.
+
+And with that, I think most of my work is back on stuff I own.
+
+I tell you what, though,
+WebDAV is a lot nicer than I gave it credit for.
+I've got my NAS on the public Internet now,
+password protected,
+and being able to get to my files from anywhere is pretty handy.

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-title: FLOSS Development Sucks
-section: computing
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-
-This Article Is A Work In Progress
-====================
-
-I'm not even sure where I'm going with this.
-Maybe I just needed to vent.
-I think there might be advice in here somewhere,
-but right now I'm tired of feeling pissed off,
-so I'm just going to save this and move on with my day.
-
-------------
-
-This morning I thought I'd mention to a couple old colleagues
-that I was still working on our codebase,
-and I was considering splitting it off into something new
-because it was looking like it might diverge pretty significantly.
-
-I've been on this IRC channel for about a month.
-There have been a sum total of 5 lines pasted,
-all of them saying "hello" and "help" before anybody answered.
-5+ years ago,
-it was just me, the author of the package,
-and another guy (the author of ratpoison),
-mostly just shooting the breeze about bicycles.
-The author had mentioned several times that the package was basically out of his hands,
-once it got merged into emacs.
-
-I've submitted a couple patches in the past,
-and they've been accepted upstream.
-
-So I tossed this out there expecting, if anything, a multi-day turnaround,
-hopefully from the author:
-
-> 08:32 neale> hello  
-> 08:32 neale> I think I'm going to have to fork rcirc :(  
-> 08:33 neale> I'm making too many changes and I don't have time to get them merged into emacs.
-
-And then went back to work.
-
-> 08:44 ams> what changes are you doing?
-
-Whoa, somebody responded!
-
-> 09:09 neale> I added a notion of "network" so you could have and distinguish multiple connections to the same server  
-> 09:09 neale> umm...  
-
-At this point I struggle to do a diff against the upstream source,
-to see what else I've done.
-I definitely wasn't expecting this right away,
-I figured I'd maybe put things up on github or something.
-
-> 09:11 ams> you can already do that afaik  
-> 09:11 [neale raises an eyebrow]
-
-Who is this person?
-I read over the code pretty thoroughly before I added this in,
-I think I would have noticed if anything resembling my changes had existed already.
-
-Back do the diff, it looks like all my prior changes have actually been merged upstream,
-after five years or so!
-That's a pleasant surprise!
-
-> 09:12 ams> but if you cannot .. that doesn't seem like a hard thing to merge  
-> 09:12 neale> I'm going to have to figure out a way to hack in support for channel passwords  
-> 09:12 neale> that's going to probably need to break syntax  
-> 09:12 ams> break syntax? of what?  
-> 09:13 ams> you are being incoherent.  
-> 09:13 neale> next on the list is I need a way to have channels default to lowpri/ignore when created, so, probably going to tack that on to rcirc-server-alist
-
-This happens sometimes on IRC.
-While I was writing that long line, they posted two more.
-I see I should now answer their other questions.
-But now they're insulting me?
-Who *is* this person?
-Are they just wasting my time because they like arguing?
-
-> 09:13 neale> of /join  
-> 09:13 neale> right now /join takes a space-separated list of channels, I'll probably need to bring that in line with how other clients handle multiple channels with a single join (or more likely change it to space-separated)  
-> 09:14 neale> sorry, change it to comma-separated
-
-I'm getting flustered here.
-I wasn't expecting to need to defend my changes.
-
-> 09:14 ams> why?  
-> 09:14 ams> setting default priority should be trivial, and no need to change rcirc-server-alist  
-
-This didn't even register with me until I started writing this paper.
-I told them I needed channels to start with a certain priority,
-so I was going to add that to the list of channels to connect to at startup.
-They referred me to the mechanism to set a global default.
-
-> 09:14 neale> ams: see, this is what I was saying about not having time to merge upstream :)  
-> 09:15 neale> but it's good to know that there's somebody alive in here :)
-
-Yeah, I think this person isn't going to help.
-It's pretty typical that you have to do a sales pitch,
-over and over,
-to get your changes accepted.
-And I don't have time for that.
-I've already wasted enough time just trying to convince this one person
-that there was even a need for the work I've done so far.
-
-> 09:15 ams> you just said you haven't even written it ..   
-> 09:15 ams> there is nothing to merge.  
-> 09:15 neale> LOL okay
-
-Still feeling this person is just trying to waste my time and get me into an argument.
-I probably should have just stopped here, but...
-
-> 09:15 ams> and half of the things you mention can already be done  
-> 09:15 neale> maybe you could write up how to do those things then, because it certainly wasn't obvious from the code :)
-
-If this person had been paying attention,
-a full 20% of last month's channel traffic had been requesting this exact feature.
-
-> 09:17 ams> i don't see the use for multiple connections to the same host on the same port, most networks prohibit that.  
-> 09:17 neale> hahaha, excellent  
-> 09:17 ams> you can already connect to multiple hosts though with different port numbers  
-> 09:17 neale> Stop Wanting That!
-
-Now I'm mad!
-They're not even interested in why I would want the feature I coded up.
-They just want to tell me I'm wrong.
-This is the point at which I completely gave up,
-and was just saying words out of anger.
-
-I don't do well when I'm like this,
-but I know some people who are *excellent* in this situation,
-like my friend Nick.
-Sometimes I wish I were better,
-because people like this,
-I feel,
-need to be put in their place,
-and stop being hostile to everybody.
-
-> 09:17 ams> simply specify a different port  
-> 09:17 ams> ok, you are trolling.  i'll go back to doing something else.  
-> 09:18 neale> I'm trolling, eh?  
-> 09:19 neale> Man, look, I'm coming in with a need, you're telling me that a) it already does what I want, b) I don't actually have changes, and c) there's no need for me want what I said
-
-I'm still trying to (angrily) convince them
-that this is a horrible way to treat people they don't even know.
-
-> 09:19 ams> no, i didn't say that at all. now you are just spouting lies.  
-> 09:19 ams> 17:19 /ignore neale  
-> 09:19 neale> Who's trolling? Anyway what happened to rcy and sabetts? They were friendly :(  
-> 09:20 neale> Wow, infuriating.
-
-But it's a lost cause.
-
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-
-This is pretty frequently how things go.
-I wish I'd saved the 20-minute argument I had to endure
-to convince some plan9 people
-that some users might want a their three-button mouse to have a scroll wheel.
-They eventually accepted that,
-yes,
-some users might actually want that,
-and what was the mouse I'd found that does this?
-
-This is not okay.
-The community is selecting for people who are good at arguing.
-We should not require every code contributor
-to champion their code's worth
-by besting the local troll in combat.
-Even though I envy Nick's level-headedness during empassioned debate,
-that skill has no correlation to the ability to make useful code contributions.
-
-In the troll's defense,
-this is just human nature.
-Say there's this group of men discussing mortise and tenon joints,
-and you have a better technique.
-The way things work in FLOSS, currently,
-is that you must step into this group an tell them they're doing it wrong.
-It takes an extraordinary individual to *not* tell you to fuck off.
-And you know that,
-which is why your social instincts are screaming at you to be very uncomfortable.
-So when the "fuck off" happens,
-you've steeled yourself for it,
-and then you get a slap fight.
-
-There has got to be a better way.

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