2026/03/03

2026-03-03 00:00:35 +0100 <liskin> and I also hope people in those communities consider it okay to get paid for expert labour :-)
2026-03-03 00:00:42 +0100 <geekosaur> sure, but I wasn't talking about a free software community
2026-03-03 00:01:50 +0100 <geekosaur> (in particular, at the time I was living out of a homeless shelter and yeh, most of the people there would and at least some of them had sufficient need)
2026-03-03 00:02:07 +0100 <liskin> right, that makes sense
2026-03-03 00:05:49 +0100 <liskin> I don't _need_ the money per se, but it enables me to take more time recovering from burnout (which is going surprisingly well the last few weeks) and potentially even spend time working on free software again (which was the original idea of seeking donations for the project in the first place - to enable some of us to spend time on xmonad without worrying about rent and having to work full-time on
2026-03-03 00:05:51 +0100 <liskin> some commercial crap)
2026-03-03 00:06:30 +0100 <liskin> I mean I am actually doing some CI maintenance right now, but that's mainly motivated by there being too many emails about it in my inbox :-D
2026-03-03 00:08:14 +0100 <geekosaur> oh, whoops, missed who asked :/
2026-03-03 00:08:21 +0100 <geekosaur> was actually on my phone when I got it
2026-03-03 00:08:35 +0100 <geekosaur> so I caught Solid but not thatyou were asking
2026-03-03 00:09:08 +0100 <liskin> so anyway, I intend to burn the money on rent/food/beer, and do not intend to pay it back even if I theoretically could, because I think it's in line with what we've been raising it for
2026-03-03 00:09:17 +0100 <geekosaur> ah, so you were the one who handled the dependabot stuff? was wondering because I didn't see any commit messages
2026-03-03 00:09:49 +0100 <liskin> yeah, I didn't open a PR, it's just mundane stuff - and then dependabot noticed its PRs aren't needed any more
2026-03-03 00:10:12 +0100 <geekosaur> and yeh, not entirely different here except that all I needed it for was rent; my sister was able to cover the rest
2026-03-03 00:10:55 +0100 <geekosaur> including taking over my cellphone bill (she still has it in fact, but I'm sending her a check every month now because I can afford ot)
2026-03-03 00:11:11 +0100 <liskin> xmonad core repo will be a bit trickier as we still need the HEADHACKAGE/allow-newer kludges
2026-03-03 00:15:48 +0100 <geekosaur> I should have just pushed those PRs in, but of late I've been (a) going to doctor appointments (b) trying to push stuff into cabal (Hackage instability has been making them time out and abort CI) (c) trying to catch up on household stuff not done because of (a)
2026-03-03 00:16:13 +0100 <geekosaur> 4 doctor appointments each the last two weeks (plus a day lost to laundry weekly)
2026-03-03 00:16:33 +0100 <liskin> the hackage release patch needed adjusting anyway, so merging those PRs wouldn't have been quite correct anyway
2026-03-03 00:16:44 +0100 <geekosaur> down to 2 the next couple weeks, then hopefully just 1, then in a month or so those should end
2026-03-03 00:18:38 +0100 <liskin> actually the patch didn't even apply because I hand-edited the last haskell-ci-update PRs and forgot to update the patch
2026-03-03 00:19:08 +0100 <liskin> well fingers crossed for your health
2026-03-03 00:19:27 +0100 <liskin> mine seems to be dependent on sunlight, which we don't get much of lately :-)
2026-03-03 00:21:21 +0100 <geekosaur> we seem to be opposites there, since one of my problems is sensory hypersensitivity and sunlight even with 2 layers of dark glasses is sometimes too much…
2026-03-03 00:21:45 +0100 <geekosaur> (in fact it seems to be general nervous system overstimulation/overactivity)
2026-03-03 00:23:43 +0100 <liskin> I struggle in dark noisy clubs but give me sunny smelly nature all day all year :-)
2026-03-03 00:25:23 +0100tremon(~tremon@83.80.159.219) (Quit: getting boxed in)
2026-03-03 00:35:03 +0100stackdroid18(~stackdroi@user/stackdroid) stackdroid
2026-03-03 00:37:48 +0100 <geekosaur> I like nature but let's make it a forest or at least woods please ☺
2026-03-03 00:58:21 +0100 <liskin> :-)