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Anna Wilcox

@bsky.awilfox.com

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Tulsa, OK. Programmer: C++/Py/Ruby/Rust. Cat mum: Mr Gaz, Melody, Willow. Photographer. Religious leftist. Real life librarian(ish) @ UCB! Fluent English, learning French and Ukrainian. Hot takes about Unix, computers, politics, and Chicago Bears.

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Witch’s Black Kat Marchán 🐈‍⬛🧙🏼 @zkat.tech · 5d

"An actual community-oriented/governed/powered co-operative rolls in to do a full takeover of the RubyGems ecosystem after RubyGems/Ruby Central themselves got taken over by the fash" was not on my bingo cards for 2025 either but here we are and I am here for it: gem.coop

LFG, kids. Coops ftw

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Randi Mayem Singer @rmayemsinger.bsky.social · 11d

Imagine you're a career military general being summoned for a pentagon strategy lecture by a former game show host and a former weekend talk show host.

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Stellaween? @antlervel.vet · 11d

A script you can use if you’re not good at speaking on the spot.

I'm calling to demand that Senator Schumer not allow Donald Trump to take away access to transgender health care for anyone, let alone people with federal or state health insurance.
Trans healthcare is lifesaving medicine. It is not cosmetic or frivolous; it is miraculous and it is vital.
It is not something trans people can just go without.
[You can add a personal anecdote here-how it has helped you or someone you love, how long you've been receiving trans healthcare, etc.J Trans people are also over twice as likely to live in poverty, which means they are often receiving this care through government-funded programs. They simply cannot afford it otherwise. If this care is lost, trans American lives will be lost too. This is the truth.
If none of this stirs the Senator's compassion, please understand that trans people are, as a group, politically active, and they are rarely Republicans. The Senator should understand that if he caves and allows Trump to do this to us, it would be a betrayal of his constituents at an unforgivable level. If he caves, I will never vote for a Democrat again. I will not vote for a Democrat for president, for senator, for dogcatcher. This is a promise.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 11d

Found out this morning it was a prank call to UCPD. All good.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 12d

Yeah, as a programmer in Library IT, I am a bit concerned by this as well (which is why I hopped on social media at why-am-I-awake-o'clock) - let me know if you find out.

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Xe @xeiaso.net · 13d

What's not working: the pure JS fallback. The library I hoped would work did not. If there is anyone out there in my audience that is a WebAssembly expert, please poke me in DM.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 15d

I want to heart this because he's finally not going to be superintendent.

But that's not a great purpose in life either, really.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 21d

If there really was a looming threat, this was the worst way to handle it. The community is likely to follow projects/forks led by the people who were unceremoniously removed - so any threat they know of, but are not sharing, can't be properly acted upon. And that's a no-win scenario for Ruby.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 21d

At this point, what @rubycentral.org has done is a form of supply chain attack: taking ownership of a widely used repository, and then denying access to its existing maintainers.

This reminds me of the GitHub mass-assignment bug. That is not something you want to remind me of if you want goodwill.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 21d

Yeah, software supply chain attacks are scary. They keep me, and many others in the Linux packaging world - and the greater DevOps world - up at night.

The solution is not ripping access from maintainers that we have long-standing relationships with. This gives the opposite of trust.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 21d

Project leadership is hard, and you want people the community trusts there. *Especially* during transition periods, if that is what they are really wanting, it is vital to maintain a sense of continuity.

These moves are contrary to OSS ethos, not to mention basic human dignity.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 21d

This statement from @rubycentral.org does not give me the warm and fuzzies; transparency, equity, and collaboration in an open-source style do not happen in the dark, nor can they happen without honesty and dialogue with existing contributors.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · 21d

Thank you for all your work in this space - and so many others. This was definitely not a move that was deserved nor warranted. It's been a while - would love to catch up sometime!

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puppy @duckinator.bsky.social · 22d

Hey, #ruby folks! I've been one of the #RubyGems maintainers for the last decade.

Ruby Central has forcefully taken control of the RubyGems organization on GitHub, the `rubygems-update` and `bundler` gems on rubygems[.]org, and more.

You can read the details here: pup-e.com/goodbye-ruby...

RubyGems.org | your community gem host

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Jul 11

Why the actual hell did my phone in Tulsa, OK just tone out a #WEA for a blue alert in Texas? Who do I report this abuse of WEA to? This is clearly not related to anything #okwx and it will have a hugely detrimental effect on keeping people weather aware if this continues.

My iPhone Lock Screen showing an Emergency Alert, about someone who injured a police officer in Texas. It says at the end: "no credible info Song [the suspect] is in Oklahoma".

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Jun 16

Did you ever figure out a better workaround? I'm seeing this with Capybara / RSpec system tests using Selenium Hub with Chromium nodes. It's totally random, and totally annoying - it makes about 1 out of every 3-4 CI runs we have fail.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Jun 12

I am so excited! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in #Tulsa act.berniesanders.com/signup/rsvp-...

Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tulsa

RSVP today to say you'll join Bernie in Tulsa on Saturday, June 21! Fighting Oligarchy: Where We Go From Here with Bernie Sanders in Tulsa Saturday, June 21 3:30pm Doors Open 4:00pm Music by Parker Mi...

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Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · May 3

They all feel the same 🎵 [drums]

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Nov 30

Wrote a new blog on the surprising portability issues I hit while working on OpenCL for the distro:

catfox.life/2024/11/29/t...

#Linux #graphics #programming #MoreCPUDiversityNeeded

The complexities of enabling OpenCL support

Hello, and welcome back to FOSS Fridays! One of the final preparations for the release of Adélie Linux 1.0-beta6 has been updating the graphical stack to support Wayland and the latest advancements…

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austin @aparker.io · Mar 16

is this what they mean by rising murder rates in cities?

Screenshot of a headline in The Atlantic reading “Crows are taking over American cities”

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Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · Mar 17

Also: if you’re a privacy activist, watch NCMEC. US legislators will track to their position on this pretty quickly if things come under discussion. You can’t imagine how many doors opened for me because I was on their Board.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Mar 17

Even the supposed good guys can be bad sometimes. It's very important that the govt doesn't mess with our encryption.

Hey, nobody *made* them vote for the host of Wrestlemania 4 @legalminimum.bsky.social · Mar 17

What they want is a backdoor. The only person they ever had on their Board who understood tech was me and I’ve been gone since they went on this issue.

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Mar 17

😂😂😂😂

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tm @catturd2.bsky.social · Feb 23

it's been long enough for me to admit publicly that when i left Gizmodo in 2022 I changed my Slack username to "S1ackbot" and the G/O Media failed to detect or delete it for months

Anna Wilcox @bsky.awilfox.com · Feb 23

For FOSS Friday, I wrote up how I have recently deployed a Gentoo #Linux virtualisation server: catfox.life/2024/02/23/e...

Experiences with building a Gentoo virtualisation host

As part of my work to set up infrastructure for a few projects that I hope to launch with some mates in the coming months, I needed to set up a KVM virthost using Gentoo. I decided to write up the pro...