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keirFox, to random
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Furries: "UGH we're such horrible people we ruin everything there was a fire at FWA and obviously furries set it and that means we're just as bad as Rainfurrest and no one will ever want us again!"

1 - the fire was a grease fire that burned through the kitchen wall of the Sear hotel restaurant.

2 - that everyone references "the one bad convention" that happened nearly TEN YEARS AGO when there is a furry convention happening pretty much EVERY WEEKEND somewhere in the world means we have a pretty damn good track record.

tilton,
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@keirFox One of the things I've noticed about the Seattle fandom is that the Rainfurrest thing has made everyone incredibly resigned. Any time I bring up the topic of maybe starting a new furry convention in the area that isn't ANW's squeaky clean "We're not those gross furries, we're Anthropomorphic Arts Enthusiasts!" image, the reaction has almost universally been "Nah, there's no point, nobody would ever have us ever again..."

It was almost a decade ago. There have been literally HUNDREDS of successful furry conventions around the globe to point at since then. It's so defeatist, it makes me sad.

tilton, to random
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My general feeling of the last 20 years is basically: the intersection of security, infosec, and state sponsored threats has horribly impacted the usability of computers and made them much less enjoyable than they used to be. Everything is friction and pain and confusion now and I really hate it. I don’t blame people for valuing ease of use over security. I would greatly prefer to just not think about it or to have to deal with a never ending barrage of multi-factor authentication and things being tied to my phone number. It’s depressing and I don’t see it getting better, only worse as the arms race goes on.

tilton, to random
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OK, well, TO BE FAIR, I can understand why people don't necessarily like Signal. Here's what just happened to me when I dared to try to log in on both of my phones...

Now, all of the conversations I had on my other phone are just gone, and I can't use Signal there any more. Good job. Very nice. Good UX beats security every time.

tilton, to random
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Even after prefacing things by saying "I have no intention of leaving Telegram...", I've gotten a ton of pushback to the mere suggestion that I could use Signal as a backup. Multiple folks I've talked to were either super dismissive or outright hostile about it. Judging by the reaction I've seen today, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that we are not going to see many furries moving to Signal any time in the near future. I'll still have it as a backup, but, like I've said before, it's a backup. I'm not moving. I'm just keeping my options open.

tilton, to random
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You DON'T say...

tilton, to random
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I really do deeply appreciate how easy it is to set up comprehensive filters on Mastodon, so people can carry on enjoying talking about a thing that causes me stress, and I don't need to see it.

tilton, to random
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Oh, the irony...

tilton, to random
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Me, all day long: "Man I can't wait to work on that project after work!"

Me, after work: "Good God work took a lot out of me, I'm way too tired to work on that project."

tilton, to random
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The most important part of doing effective code reviews is knowing the difference between “this isn’t how I would have done it, but that’s fine” and “this isn’t how anyone should do it, because <valid reason>”

tilton, to random
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"What idiot set the TTL on this TXT record to 1 day???"

It was me. I was that idiot.

tilton,
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My day job is writing code for a major commercial DNS caching resolver deployed to about 600 servers world wide. And yet, it's still always DNS.

tilton, to random
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systemd has a reasonably good user interface to process initialization but I am still extremely fucking pissed off at how much it just continues to absorb other system functionality forever and ever and ever. It’s never enough. Process init is like a tiny sliver of its scope these days. And if you criticize it you’re instantly shot down as a “hater”

tilton,
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Every criticism of systemd seems to get responded to with “oh so you liked sysv init, you dinosaur?” And I say for the millionth time no, sysv init was awful and needed to be replaced, but it got replaced by something that is also not good, but for totally different reasons.

tilton, to random
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Finally got my Emacs setup just the way I want it

tilton, to random
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Programming hill I will die on: Java isn’t actually a bad language. Hating on it is just a meme that spread in large part because it became so heavily used by giant and excruciatingly boring enterprise systems, written largely by programmers pumped out of low effort trade schools. Despite all that, the language and the JVM are quite good, actually.

tilton, to random
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So, I do have a Signal account, but it's under my real name and real phone number. I'm happy to share it with people I know but I keep it a little closer to my chest than other places.

tilton,
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More and more, online presence is tied to your real name or contact info and it's hard to have a separate online identity and real life identity, and frankly: That sucks.

tilton, to random
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Houses that are better in theory than in practice https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/1500-Lakeview-Blvd-E-Seattle-WA-98102/129073472_zpid/

tilton, to random
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Infosec friends, you want to have nightmares tonight? Let me tell you what it was like to work in Silicon Valley in the mid 1990s. I worked at SGI, a major computer manufacturer. When I started, I was given an SGI Indy workstation running IRIX 5.3. It had no root password, setting one up was completely optional. I had full control over all software installed on it, and I could install anything I wanted from our internal dist server, including reinstalling the OS. New OS patches were occasionally available, but finding them and installing them was up to you. That workstation had a publicly routed IPv4 address and was connected to the campus Ethernet, which was in turn connected to the public Internet. There was no firewall, so I could access it from anywhere in the world (and since ssh wasn't much of a thing yet, that connection was unencrypted Telnet). And finally, to add to your nightmare, every workstation ran sendmail and received email directly: you could email me at <name>@sgi.com or directly at <name>@<workstation>.corp.sgi.com, and mail would be routed to my workstation. And yet... it all worked! And if I'm honest, I really miss it. Bad people broke things and ruined the good times for everyone.

tilton, to random
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After some cleaning and rearranging and tweaking, we now have a fully functional SGI R4400 Indigo 2 Max Impact system running alongside my R10K Indigo 2 High Impact system. So much IRIX! So many 3D! Textured polygons everywhere! Nearly $100,000 worth of computing power in 1996! (My phone has laughably more texture RAM these days…)

tilton,
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SGI stuff is pretty dangerous nostalgia for me because I did a lot of IRIX work at SGI really early on in my career and much of it is still bouncing around in the inner recesses of my brain.

tilton, to random
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"Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate"

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/quantum-computing/commodore-64-outperforms-ibms-quantum-systems-1-mhz-computer-said-to-be-faster-more-efficient-and-decently-accurate

tilton, to random
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I'm trying to imagine what the world would be like if the Dot Com Boom went the same way the AI Boom is going right now, like if you ordered pet food from Pets Dot Com and half the time it catapulted your cat into the sun instead of sending you cat food and everyone was just like "Ha ha oh well that's just new tech I guess!"

tilton, to random
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Someone gave me this Sun Ultra 2 last year, and I haven’t even opened it up to check it out yet. I think today I will explore to see whether it’s even functional or not.

tilton,
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It’s not too bad inside at all. A little dusty, but I’ve seen much worse. I know the PROM battery will be long since dead, but I’m not going to worry about that right now.

tilton,
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Check out this bodge, though! Next time you feel bad about your hardware design, look at this picture.

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