Daphne Preston-Kendal

If you have found security vulnerabilities in a small project, then starting a public relations circus will actually slow down getting it fixed properly
Because guess what? Small projects don’t have a dedicated PR team. The developers *are* the PR team. And every minute they spend trying to deal with the PR disaster you’ve created for them is a minute they’re not spending fixing the damn bug

2026-04-27 15:18:43 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 Empirically, most Mastodon users would upload pictures of themself, or sometimes their Significant Other

2026-04-20 09:43:37 UTC

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@nprofile…gr74 HIG violation (Don’t use yes/no dialog boxes)

2026-04-15 16:14:52 UTC

internet broken, fridge broken, brain broken,

2026-04-06 15:16:03 UTC

Codeberg is down, post ponies

2026-03-31 08:40:11 UTC

Learning to my astonishment that the Kohlregime put significant support programmes in place to help employees buy out their company and keep it running, and to my significantly lesser astonishment that the Schröderregime got rid of a lot of that support

2026-03-31 06:12:12 UTC

Anyone have experience with employee buyouts of small businesses in Germany by any chance

2026-03-30 11:15:17 UTC

Well, turns out I don’t get my salary for March. And it was an expensive month.
Thanks to the unemployment system here, I will *eventually* get paid something, but I don’t know when or how much; and very probably I will be out of a job entirely.
I would really appreciate help for me and my family asap; the options I have now are:
• libera pay: https://liberapay.com/dpk
• on Wise: my Wisetag is just ‘daphne’
Thanks for anything you can offer <3
#mutualaid #MutualAidRequest :BoostOK:

2026-03-27 17:34:56 UTC

There was an article about moving to Codeberg on the orange website yesterday, and out of interest to get an impression of what average programmers think of the idea of moving, I took at look at the comments. (Yeah, I know …)
I’m going to write here my thoughts on a general impression of the comment thread as a whole. (Rather than respond to individuals.)

2026-03-06 11:46:57 UTC

Kernel security bugs are fixed three times faster when fixed by the same person who wrote the bug https://pebblebed.com/blog/kernel-bugs-part2
Applying this result to a world in which devs aren’t the authors of ‘their’ own (slop) code left as an exercise to the reader

2026-02-09 20:37:24 UTC

Made ravioli (with spinach, ricotta, and mushroom in sage butter)
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/042/592/144/234/129/original/49bd00c6e22882a9.jpeg
https://assets.chaos.social/media_attachments/files/116/042/592/456/756/289/original/914d3b3920ddccdf.jpeg

2026-02-06 17:15:08 UTC

the only pronoun for God you need to worry about is ‘thou’/‘thee’

2026-02-06 09:47:52 UTC

Linux users,
Why don’t you use btrfs?
Why do you prefer ext4 or even ZFS?
Boost appreciated!

2026-01-27 11:45:55 UTC

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@nprofile…v2v2 Unfortunately, that came in 15, not 26

2026-01-08 12:32:09 UTC

@nprofile…v2v2 excoriates ACM’s extortionate conference pricing https://lobste.rs/s/3bccy3/acm_is_now_fully_open_access#c_guc3wp

2025-12-25 12:14:24 UTC

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@nprofile…2cds @nprofile…f9ry The 90s are back!

2025-11-28 14:16:29 UTC

New blog post! Arduous arboreal adventures bring bounteous benefits in converting code, conceived declaratively, to essentially executable form https://crumbles.blog/posts/2025-11-28-extensible-match-decision-tree.html

2025-11-25 06:59:11 UTC

Writing an implementation of Standard ML would fix me

2025-11-21 18:27:41 UTC

Fucking. Hell. https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/14369

2025-11-16 15:38:50 UTC

The part of the Docker ‘it works on your machine, so let’s just ship your machine’ joke that’s missing is the part where shipping your machine doesn’t work on someone else’s machine

2025-11-04 21:53:34 UTC

K&R style argument type declarations were the good style of argument type declarations, cmv

2025-11-01 08:28:30 UTC

I think Randall Munroe deserves more credit than he gets for making his comic, a touchstone of internet nerd culture, strongly against the culture of nerd sexism from its earliest days https://xkcd.com/322/

2025-08-10 15:43:39 UTC

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@nprofile…y8el ⌘F and search for your name in the footnotes :-)

2025-08-09 17:02:41 UTC

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@nprofile…y8el oh no?

2025-08-08 16:13:36 UTC

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@nprofile…zwgs Great idea until Stallman dies and the FSF gets taken over by the Crown Prince of Korea, who thinks the Business Source Licence is great and they should approve it

2025-04-01 13:07:46 UTC

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@nprofile…zwgs From this toot I can glean two things: 1. that I have missed something, and 2. that if I were to learn what the thing I have missed is, it would very probably make me hate the ‘trans community’ more than the person the ‘trans community’ is mad at. Again.
Jean-Paul Sartre was nearly right. The truth is closer to this: Hell is other trans people.

2025-03-27 18:11:34 UTC

Es heißt jetzt, dass es sehr wichtig ist, JETZT eure SPD-Abgeordnete – insbesondere den Verhandler*innen – mit einem Brief gegen das Nordische Modell anzuschreiben.
Sind dir die Rechte von trans Menschen wichtig, sollten auch dir die Rechte von Sexarbeitenden wichtig sein. Die Gegner von beiden sind die gleichen Leute. Trans Menschen sind auch überproportional in der Sexarbeit vertreten. Schreibt bitte noch HEUTE!
Bitte boostet!
https://chaos.social/@dpk/114229753928926960

2025-02-12 09:20:26 UTC

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@nprofile…zwgs Christine it’s 4am, why are you posting

2025-02-09 20:45:31 UTC

It’s done. https://codeberg.org/dpk/extensible-match
SRFI submission any day now.

2024-04-18 15:22:29 UTC

I am in Le Monde diplomatique with a piece on the German police’s suppression of Berlin’s Palestine Congress https://mondediplo.com/outside-in/german-police-palestine-congress

2023-11-22 18:04:12 UTC

Productive procrastination of the day: the R7RS effort now has a semi-reasonable website https://r7rs.org/