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anca

@anca@mastodon.xyz

Connector, Instigator, Maker. Slime mold farmer.The slow knife. She/Her/They.

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rachel, to random
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every microblogging platform must one day come to terms with the fact that it will never come up with a word as good as "tweet"

anca,
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@rachel @Binder spill comes pretty close!

RickiTarr, to random
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Have you ever met someone who lies all the time, but doesn't seem to realize they are lying?

anca,
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@RickiTarr someone I know tells stories about their childhood, stories that have the plots of books we read as kids. Their real childhood was pretty traumatic, so I don’t have the heart to tell them “uh, that didn’t happen, that’s the plot of Encyclopedia Brown book 22”

RickiTarr, to random
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Friendly reminder that all those emo kids are full grown adults now. If you were an emo kid, please tell me if you are still so fabulous.

This is a more Green Day Type Emo, Billy Joe haircut, black with blonde streaks, t-shirt with a tie
Giant black hair cut in a rocker girl shape, thick black eye liner, so many necklaces involving black leather and skulls
Bright long green hair, all the black eyeliner, choker necklace, green and black skull t-shirt

anca,
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@RickiTarr I'm gad we didn't. 🤣

anca, to random
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Back in my day, we had to find a copy of the Anarchist’s Cookbook to get a recipe for these kinds of things. Now kids can just get it from an Amazon search box.

https://indieweb.social/@emilygorcenski/112090714963183481

fraying, to random
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The death of the open independent web has been predicted many times, but the tidal wave of AI garbage, plus people removing their content from the open web to avoid getting used by AI, plus the decades-old trend away from websites toward apps and controlled platforms, plus the festering rot of Google’s search quality, really has me wondering if I will witness the birth and death of the web in my lifetime.

anca,
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@fraying Is it time for us to petition to be let onto Internet 2?

anca,
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@fraying I was making a far-too-obscure joke about these folks: https://internet2.edu/

anca, to random
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This morning I looked at a bunch of Fediverse apps, Bluesky, Instagram, and Reddit. The UX is all over the place. Resize your screen and things get totally hidden or revealed, interaction metaphors change... Oy!

Looking at all these in context makes me understand social software fatigue a lot more. It's like a messy amalgam of all previous design / style guides.

anca, to wordle
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anca, to HashtagGames
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Fifty Ways to Leave Your Owner

anca, to random
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Just signed up for @fediforum. March 18-19, two days of online discussions with interesting and smart folks about building with ActivityPub and the implications of federated social media.

https://fediforum.org/

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, I'm thinking about gift giving today. A little backstory about why:

Every year my Father-in-law attempts to get my Mother-in-law a gift. She is a bit of a shopper, and is notoriously difficult to shop for. Every year he gets her something he guesses a woman would like (perfume, sweater, jewelry), and every year she doesn't really like it, and ends up begrudgingly using it or returns it. They have been married over 30 years, and seem to have a pretty good marriage otherwise. It's like she wants him to magically understand what she wants, and he is sort of equally bad at the whole thing too. I will never understand why they don't just have a conversation about this. Just for extra fun, she is the most bizarre gift giver, also, to the point that it has become an annual tradition that I show my friends what she got us. A small list of things we have gotten:

A couch cover with grapes on it
A sexy nightgown
A painting of the house they live in
A gourd painted to look like a cat eating a bird
A package of tea that I would have absolutely loved, stuffed with cheap tea bags
Children's Lego sets
Toy trains
Underwear that didn't fit either of us
A wooden board covered in seashells that is supposed to hold a curling iron
A waterproof bed cover

I could go on and on. Just to clarify this doesn't bother me or my husband at all, we actually get a kick out of the weirdness. I don't personally care about presents much, I'm more of an experiences person.

SO, if you've managed to get this far, how do you feel about gift giving/getting? Feel free to elaborate and give examples!

anca,
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@RickiTarr I love giving gifts, though I don't always manage to do it on the social schedule. I don't like getting gifts that people give out of obligation and the social rules around formal gift giving are very anxiety-inducing. So now I have a box of "impersonal but nice" stuff I can give in case that comes up.

I gave my husband two cutting boards and some sheet pans for xmas, which he asked for. He got me a book and a Lego set I wanted.

anca,
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@Skepticat @RickiTarr My aunt and uncle-in-law always send a box of clementines off their tree during December. It's a nice tradition they started when the rest of their family lived in a state with snow in December.

Personally, I would appreciate a bag of lemons a lot more than a bag of cheap plastic crap.

anca,
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@Skepticat @RickiTarr Huh. Did you ask her about it?

writeblankspace, (edited ) to random
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Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

You are:

anca,
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@crazy_pony @niconeko @writeblankspace that’s good to know. So it’s more of a poll about the relative queerness in your fedi neighborhood.

anca,
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@crazy_pony @niconeko @writeblankspace let’s figure out how to make maps!

AmenZwa, to embedded
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In software, the #C language rules—and for many good reasons, too. I have loved C for more than four decades. But I admit that C is woefully dated, inherently unsafe, and imposes a high cognitive load upon the .

Newer languages vying to knock C off its perch—Rust, Nim, Zig, Odin, etc.—are overly cute and complicated to suit the real-time, embedded work.

The embedded sector needs a new language with C's simplicity, efficiency, semantics, and determinism and Haskell's safety, effectiveness, syntax, and dash.

anca,
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@AmenZwa @paninid @dougmerritt @qqmrichter it’s kind of good that we can’t automatically perpetuate all of these systems. Some of them deserve to be rethought and reimplemented completely.

anca, to random
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I didn’t have it on my holiday bingo card, but watching Hugh Grant performing as a cranky Oompa Loompa really completed my year.

jjlupa, to random
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@emilygorcenski I especially like: "The reason Tesla hasn't "worked all the bugs out yet" is that the company is run by people who hold established best practice in ideological contempt, and is defined by a tech-industry culture that fetishizes innovation and regards product quality as a third-order concern."

I think that is echoed into many silicon valley efforts, but for me it resonates around "software engineering" which is striving for engineering, but in many cases hasn't gotten there yet.

anca,
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@chemoelectric @jjlupa @emilygorcenski

If paving a road was like software engineering, they would get halfway through and have to tear it up because one of the engineers decided they should start using a new kind of concrete made with AI.

RickiTarr, to random
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One of the things that drives me crazy is the people who are constantly saying we need to go back to our roots, eat, sleep, and live like Amazon tribes or Neanderthals. If you do any research at all, this is just a ridiculous concept. Especially when you the are also encouraging people to reject modern medicine in favor of "natural" medicine. Now I understand that our current modern medical establishments are rife with issues, and I'm not denying or excusing that. But let's just address basics, life expectancy, only about 20% of Neanderthals made it past 40 years of age, and the average life expectancy for modern Amazonian tribes is 53 years. Being that I am now 42, I'd like to live a little longer than that, and the reason I can is MODERN MEDICINE, access to clean water, good and plentiful food, living indoors when it's too cold or hot, working jobs that aren't as physically demanding. Telling people that if they go back to some kind of traditional past lifestyle, that they will live a healthier happier lifestyle is a falsehood and a dangerous one. Get medical advice from a medical professional, who bases their research on science, not some person on YouTube who bases their ideas on things that seem true to them.

I'm sorry this was so ranty!

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@RickiTarr I know a guy who did this. He bought some lands in Appalachia and a couple of goats, then settled on it with his girlfriend. The GF didn't realize that he expected her to do all the work to maintain this little homestead, but quickly left after she realized he wanted to be able to continue living his cozy lifestyle of being catered to.

anca, to HashtagGames
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I’m sorry Dave, I can’t do that

RickiTarr, to random
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What is the most irrational thing you've ever done?

anca,
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@RickiTarr said “I love you” to someone during the second date.

We’ve been together 20 years now. I didn’t think I wanted to date seriously but some inner part of me knew I had found “the one”.

HamonWry, to random
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Why is it called Pickleball?

The balls don’t look or taste anything like pickles.

anca,
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@HamonWry @Binder because you’re supposed to play it while pickled?

dansup, to fediverse
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Pixelfed Collections [v3]

  • remove (only-public) and (only-self) constraints - allow items to be anything, even a url

  • make collections followable (w/ )

  • add "Collect" button to add items to one of your collections

  • public "collections directory" w/ search

The refreshed Collections feature will be quite similar to 😉

anca,
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@dansup just found collections the other day. They are awesome!!!

Binder, to random
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I need haptic skeuomorphism so that ripping tabs out of a browser & flinging them in to a different desktop has a satisfying tactile component.

anca,
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@Binder Would it sound like throwing a pancake down on a table? Or maybe a wet slap?

anca, to random
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Yesterday and today I finally spent enough time to grok the differences between git merge, git rebase, and what cherry-picking is.

I tried each of these, and finally the thing that resulted in the most accurate result was to re-apply the changes to the 20 files that needed to be changed.

The takeaway: Rebase early and often, because months of changes are really painful to apply one at a time.

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