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When it could have just been a simple no.

Then again, workplace is so different to OSS. It's different power dynamic. You're not a despot in the workplace if you're taking orders from above. In a real sense, when you work for someone, saying "no" to work tasks can mean getting fired.

But in another sense, you need to be able to talk to people in your workplace as peers (again different to the OSS situation we are talking about here), using NVC and what not, to make sure your needs are getting met, you feel heard, and you're healthy. A "no" as in "I'm not unwilling to do the work here" but "this doesn't work for me" and talking is necessary. A workplace where you can't say no does not sound very good.

Well, receiving a no that's a different story, and people need to get that it's their responsibility to get used to that, and it's okay to get a no.

Giving a no, that discipline is essential

Not really tho. In this case, there really is a One True Way, here! If you're doing more than you want to, and what you don't want to, for other people, you're not gonna enjoy it. Going beyond your boundaries, and violating your own comfort and principles, it's not gonna be good for you. Should be obvious.

If people are asking you to do things, and you don't want to, just do what you want. I know it's hard to resist sometimes. But that's sort of why the discipline is essential.

Of course, there's also..."push out of your comfort zone" and "stretch to your limit" and "live at your edge"... but that's a whole different thing. Those things should be taken in small doses, for you for excitement and enjoyment, like extreme training or skydiving or whatever, at totally consensual choice by yourself. But that's not what we're talking about.

Sure some people choose self-punishment. But that doesn't mean it's good for them. People choose a lot of stuff, for long times, that aren't necessarily good for them. They complain about it. When they could have just said no. Humans.

server just for settings. you could do through a website, but just for ease I did it that way.

Disagree. This is too compromising. You'll suffer.

Doesn't make sense. You say you'd feel worse being a despot, but say you'd have "learnt the hell" that results by compromising. Worse than hell?

Boundaries are not just for people you want block. It's for everybody. It's not about them. It's about what you want. It's what's good for you.

You choose your own experience pal, but the way I see it is, if you're feeling these things the author describes...that's not good for you.

I'm not trying to convince you. You've got to choose your own way. To me it's a clear choice. What's good for you needs to trump what's good for others, otherwise you'll hurt yourself. So, boundaries.

I understand if it's the first time you've encountered the concept. Or seen it so boldly applied. But...I think it's warranted. The magnitude of suffering of these OSS guys is staggering. And to my view, they do it to themselves by not saying no. That's all.

I am grateful you help me explore it more...but I found that everything you raised I'd already thought of, or was already covered by the approach I propose to it. Good chance to reinforce the idea tho.

paid Google shill.

don't create extensions. create browser controllers. you can release them as binaries. anyone can download them. They instrument chrome using the remote devtools API.

an oss example here: https://github.com/dosyago/22120

and an idea I have for a browse controllers store here.

https://github.com/dosyago/browsercontrollers.store

particularly responding to the authors story about all the disappointment that open source involves.

open source maintainers this is a public service announcement. You're killing yourselves by being too nice. Don't be afraid to embrace your inner despot because really that's what you are when you are maintainer over a project. you need to be sort of a rougher, less experienced than, less polished version of Linus's or Guido's benevolent dictator for life. if you don't like something just shut it down if you don't like an issue just close it if you don't like a PR just close it if you don't like a request just deny it.

if this is starting to rub off on you in a good way and you're liking what I'm saying well then just double down and do it. embrace your inner despot. it's okay. if you're still sitting on the fence let me bring you to the good side with a little bit of advice, if you need to have it sold you like this. That's fine. it's not about you. keeping you in the best mental health possible, taking care of you is really about taking care of the project and all the people involved in it. you need to come first so that the project survives and can thrive. so uncomfortable as it may be to embrace your inner despot that's the best way to secure your own mental health.

clear boundaries. unhesitating expression of what you want to do. no apologies.

they want to fork it? not your problem. stick a fork in it.

you don't like the way someone's behaving? block them.

you can choose to make this a great experience for you I believe. you just need the discipline to stick to that path. at every branch in the road choose this: what you want to do and only what you want to do. no compromises. That's the discipline you need to practice. if a project that used to be fun and give you a whole set of positive emotions, opens up, that should really only increase the positivity for you once you share it with others. I believe if you picked the right path by embracing your inner despot you can do that. you end up with a lot of people expressing their negative emotions, but you know what? who cares. their feelings are not your responsibility. it's not your problem.

be a despot. you'll like it. and it might be the only chance you have to do that. and I might be the way to save your mental health and your project.

and maybe just maybe if you be a despot the community will change. people who support you will gather around you and protect you once they see that strength which is inspiring. this drink that you stick to your principles and your vision. and maybe just maybe if you're lucky there's no guarantee but maybe the community will start protecting you. and if they do well just don't get soft. keep being a despot because that's what you need to do that's your job. you created this thing it's your responsibility to keep it on the best possible that involves keeping yourself on the best path possible. you already know how to do that you just have to choose that at every little decision you have. if you're not ready to make a decision right now just aren't. delay it until you feel ready to do it.

good luck. end of message.

MARX is multiply, add, rotate and xor.

Nice. Didn't think of that. Good logo as well :)

When I first heard of this purchase I thought, this is PR for Zoom to recover from its recent sec fails.

Hello Meph, I don't really want to change the name but I am open if you have any awesome suggestions.

I think there's truth in what you say, and other comments saying this limits the usage. previous iteration of this same framework was called brutal and end up getting 500 Stars.

recently I had this idea to name things after flowers. I think it's underused and there's a lot of great flower names. chrysanthemum rhododendron. just an idea. maybe you got some cool name for this I love to hear it.

Cost saving's probably what is is, eh? Why should the cattle/chattel have their own pens/stables? Let's just put them all in their together.

The crazy extension of this is "free desks" where basically every place is a workstation, and you don't have any space to call your own.

exactly, what the hell is that about?

is it a form of abuse like trying to keep everyone under control? is it a form of psychological conditioning to remind you that you just a resource whose top priority is to be interrupted at any time so knowing that you don't really have any personal space sovereignty or privacy to your own thoughts or creativity but that you must answer and create only for the collective?

I don't feel I have a clear picture on what it's about any insights?

It's hard. but also easy. letting go. like dropping a cup from your hand.. it falls. but it's hard. so hard. the easiest thing in the world. to let go. is also really hard.

so you have to work at it. retrain you brain.

they have a system for this. it's called meditation.

and i need to do it more.

it's all about, whenever thoughts and feeling come up, bring your awareness back to the present moment. maybe by focusing on your breath, on the empty space around you, on a point. you will fail. again and again. mind will drift. keep bringing it back gently. that's all meditation is. sit there in stillness and bring your heart and mind to be in the present.

eventually, this happens even when you're not in sitting there meditating. so the past hold less sway, you walk away from it. remember, those thoughts and feeling, they are yours, but they are not you. you are something else.

your are what watches. so, just observe. but to do this, is so hard.

I also discovered, even meditation is not a cure. if there is karma you need to address, unfinished business, conversations which need to be had, something incomplete, you need to work that out and take some action. meditation is good for giving you super powers, and letting go of (parts of) things that are already complete, but which for whatever reason, your brain and limbic system has overconsolidated.

Perhaps you in your limited understanding of communism, fed to your by your propagandist overlords to control you, have failed to understand how someone could hold both views. Or maybe you just don't get people. multitudes.

Either way, it's a fact. Protip: this is the part where you see reality and update your perspective

This is awesome. You, sir, took the red pill. BTW, do you work for Tesla? The batteries in your name.

So your idea is, that some YouTuber, who wasn't there, who doesn't have all the data, and who doesn't work with those advanced systems, somehow knows, from a low resolution video, how to correctly identify the objects, when the Pentagon, and the Navy, and the pilots, with all their experience and data, still are okay to call them unidentified?

That's a good one.

It's almost as if, the possibilities opened by it being unidentified are so scary (why?), you need to distort and pervert the normal faculties of reason and logic and kowtow to faith in a YouTube prophet who's gonna spin a nice story to make it all sound okay.

BTW, if you are feeling confident and like you can out-identify your defense forces, at least pick a theory that fits the data, rather than selectively ignoring inconvenient data.

I notice that all these prophets/conspiracy theorists, like Ms West and Mr Thunder, ignore that the aviators and radar tech have stated that there were fleets of these objects, coming in for days at a time, dropping from above 80kft to see level.

So fleets of weather balloons, space birds, or bird shit storms, that's really where you're going with this?

Good luck.

Yeah, nice try but this is pretty much fake news. There are good quality videos of anomalous objects:

https://www.higgypop.com/news/is-the-utah-ufo-fake/

https://www.unilad.co.uk/science/drone-footage-shows-ufo-tra...

https://youtu.be/AKC_Iaw9EN4?t=199

https://www.youtube.com/user/MrAntonioUrzi/videos

https://www.youtube.com/user/myparanormalufostory/videos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyDQ-v0N1p0

And some man-made "TR-3B Astra" triangle footage:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnUpJw5sahg&feature=emb_titl...

Which is IR. I think the IR videos are the most promising, since high quality IR tech is restricted and optical camo could explain why sightings happen infrequently

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XevJR7biQE8

Also, the interviews about Navy/5gon UFO videos have stated that the original footage was much higher resolution and showed some "protuberances" coming from the TicTac, like landing struts or whatever. The also said that the released footage was much lower resolution and also that it was unlikely the radar data would ever be released (but in other cases, JAL, Belgium, there have been radar data of anomalous objects released).

I don't think it's surprising that it's hard to get great quality footage of high tech things like this.

For the following reasons:

- the large number of cameras you mention are mostly low quality cameras

- the objects are supposed to be very fast

- the objects are often very far away

- the object might use optical camo

For example, if you are sitting on the ground in high visibility day with bright sunlight and you see a 737 in the sky at 10km it will look like a mostly translucent white speck. The obvious thing will be the contrail.

If you have an object smaller than that, faster than that, and even higher than that, you'll have a worse image.

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  - Worked at multiple early-stage startups, so I can do other things like full-stack web or app development.

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