Jens Finkhäuser ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ @jens@social.finkhaeuser.de

What's better now than 3.5 years ago:

Our older is the right age to watch our younger while I go to the bathroom.

#parenting

The Global Encryption Coalition has opened its response to the European Commission to signatures.

Joint Submission to the European Commission Public Consultation - Fighting child sexual abuse: detection, removal and reporting of illegal content online: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BYVLaqu3BKIS-FSyxW2THqOTlIhzSbUJE5f1E89zlvI/edit

Signature form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdbvuEDhrjoXzc57e4mfON-nOHl3fWVFuCzovoNxlgWCSnkeA/viewform

Boosts appreciated.

Never forget #UNIX, the origins of your modern #Linux or #BSD system.

People should watch Animanimals more.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animanimals

That's the toot.

@NGIZero Consequently, I'm not as happy about that milestone as I should be. Code is peppered with TODO and FIXME that I'd normally clear up before sending anyone anything. Ugh.

But on the bright side, a bunch of code boilerplate is in place that if things keep going as they are, it should not be another year until the next milestone.

One hopes. 😁

@NGIZero by that time, the hygiene rules meant kids' groups couldn't mix, which meant teachers couldn't be reassigned flexibly, which meant that the daycare reduced hours.

Oh, and then it was closed for summer, which I guess is normal.

Now I have about 25-35 hours a week available on average, 20 of which go for my researcher job. That stings for the project.

Also, that job is about 50% meetings. Interesting stuff, really, but it means what time I have is also subdivided.

@NGIZero Now this isn't a complaint, much less a begpost. But it is venting.

First, the pandemic meant my kids were home instead of at daycare.

Then, not finishing milestones meant I had no income. There was meant to be relief funds, but they came late, so we've been living off my wife's salary.

Then, I had to take on part-time work. That's fine, really, because the work is somewhat related.

But it meant I had to divide my hours. Initially not too much, but it ramped up.

I just finished another milestone for @NGIZero for #InterpeerProject.

I wouldn't write about this normally. But the last milestone I finished under that agreement was almost a year ago.

This frustrates me to no end. Of course, I calculated the time I'd need per milestone pretty tightly. I needed about seven weeks instead of the four-ish I figured.

When I submitted the proposal, I was ready to work at this full time, 40h/week, give or take. That was just before COVID-19.

Because I've been railing at #RedHat and #Python a couple of times in recent weeks: I've given up maintenance of my Python OpenAPI tool https://github.com/jfinkhaeuser/prance/

The point I'm trying to make here is that Ronny, the new maintainer, is also a RedHatter, just like the guys who are pushing Rust into the Python ecosystem.

I have nothing against the company or its employees. I do have something against people acting irresponsibly, and throwing racist remarks around.

Thank you, Ronny!

#NotAprilFools