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kechpaja

@kechpaja@social.kechpaja.com

Conlanging/Linguistics/Polyglotism/Linux/Sometimes music

Dual US/FI citizen who doesn't really do gender. Trans as in transhumanist, transatlantic and transfluvial.

I'm "kechpaja" pretty much anywhere you see that username.

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nixCraft, to random
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Today, I am in a good mood. Let me guess your programming language by the IDE you use.

Drop your IDE 👇

kechpaja,
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@nixCraft Vim and shell commands?

recursive, to random
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Here and there, I get the sense that in mainstream culture it's normal for people to be either sloppy about the security of their personal computing devices, or to give access to people who don't respect their boundaries.

I read a story where one of the characters was like this, and it was very unnerving to me.

kechpaja,
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@recursive I remember meeting someone in college who didn't want to install certain apps/go to certain sites on their phone, because to them it was normal for "friends" to just come up and grab their phone and look at it. And in many aspects of mainstream culture, it does seem like simply wanting privacy is treated as inherently suspicious.

bogiperson, to bookstodon
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I have been spending the past month working (a lot) to relaunch my daily story recs as a newsletter with the demise of Twitter. Built up well over a month of recs to post.

But IDK which service to use. Obvs not Substack. 5x/week emails need to be affordable. Is this a thing? Any comments welcome

@bookstodon

kechpaja,
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@bogiperson @bookstodon A lot of people seem to be promoting @buttondown, although I personally don't have any experience with it.

kechpaja, to random
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Nazi bar? I'd rather just bar nazis.

satch, to solarpunk

So with Substack no longer an option - anyone know of a good platform for releasing regular (weekly or fortnightly) flash fiction, articles, essays and art? Is there anything else out there (other than Patreon)?

kechpaja,
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@satch Everyone seems excited about @buttondown and maybe @write_as, although I haven't personally used either one and can't vouch.

Alon, to random
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The Fediverse increasingly has worse disinformation than other spaces. The problem is, the users don't read the news very much, and many have a culture that rejects reading and discussing news. So the pool of people who talk about the news is too small for fact checks. Media literacy here is so low that people go viral with massacre denialism because they read something in Middle East Eye and don't know it's Qatar's Global Times, a propaganda outfit used for things Al-Jazeera won't touch.

kechpaja,
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@Alon Have you ever thought about putting together a list of biased sources like that that people tend not to realize are biased? Obviously a comprehensive list might be impractical, but a dozen or so of the most common culprits would make a good blog post.

kechpaja, to random
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Is anyone up for running a tech conference with fake AI-generated men on the promotional material, but an all-female cast of actual speakers?

futurebird, to random
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Watched a video of Gigantiops destructor (the ant with the best eyesight of ants) A lone ant hunting makes a point of sneaking up on the prey from behind, circling them to stay clear of their antennae and out of range of their eyes.

Can that be done without a "theory of the mind of the other" ?

"It can see me here, it can't see me there?"

Were this a mammal I bet people would call this evidence sufficient. Since ants are so tiny, & have such tiny brains we look for other explanations.

kechpaja,
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@futurebird Why does that require theory of mind, though? "It will only react if it sees me, and it will only see me if I'm in this particular area" isn't all that complex of an idea. You don't have to fully understand the idea of another being having a perspective of its own, you just have to understand causality.

FWIW, I doubt most humans actually grasp the idea that other people have perspectives, at least not to its fullest extent.

kechpaja, to random
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Apparently there's a Finnish company that's still exporting truck parts to Russia: https://yle.fi/a/74-20062182

The crucial quote, which made the headline in the Finnish version but not the English: "We have agreed not to politicise this war thing in any way."

FFS. Sometimes you just have to laugh, or else you'll be overwhelmed with despair.

theautisticcoach, to actuallyautistic

Do you use the word "Neurodivergent"?

Why or why not?

Do you think it's ableist?

If you don't use it, what word do you use?

@actuallyautistic

kechpaja,
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@theautisticcoach @actuallyautistic Are there people who think "neurodivergent" is ableist? To me it is still explicitly a carefully chosen "politically correct" term.

john, to ai
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Speaking of , Apple Photos can correctly identify our . Gets it right, every time. Most people can’t.

Disclaimer: photos not indicative of what these cats are like in real life, these are actually pictures of Shiloh (right) trying to bully Suzie (left) by getting all up in her space.

kechpaja,
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@john This reminds me of my cousin's cats, both of whom are all black. The first time I saw them, I wondered how anyone ever managed to tell them apart; then after about half an hour I realized they looked totally different.

(I suspect it would be the same with these two, but obviously it's impossible to be sure from two pictures.)

timkmak, to random
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Good morning to readers; Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Ali found out that a Russian strike destroyed his home.

And then found his son was still inside the burning building.

Today we write from the Syrian-Turkish border about Syria, a forgotten victim of Russian aggression.

Read the whole story on our substack:

counteroffensive.substack.com

kechpaja,
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@osma @timkmak The total number isn't that big when compared to 2015-2016: https://yle.fi/a/74-20060372 (in Finnish, but autotranslation will probably get you something good enough and the crucial information is the chart at the beginning of section 1).

kechpaja,
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@osma @timkmak Finland also needs something like (IIRC) 40 000 immigrants per year to keep our economy moving in the right direction. 300 or so isn't just a small number, it's genuinely not enough.

PeltonenJanne, to Europe
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Now this is actually interesting: an European citizenship, with all the rights that entails, not tied to the person's state of origin.

I just thought that nation states are at the root of so many problems today. This could be an idea worth exploring, possibly charting a way out from that particular harmful fiction.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/nov/18/europe-eu-european-citizenship-union-turkey-ukraine

kechpaja,
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@Alon @PeltonenJanne Yeah, that paragraph should have been left off. It feels very "European Exceptionalism"-y even after correcting for other criticisms — the EU isn't the only supranational organization that offers individuals freedom of movement (interpreted broadly) by any means.

TheConversationUS, to random
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Love them or hate them, roundabouts are a safer alternative to traffic signals and stop signs.

https://theconversation.com/what-are-roundabouts-a-transportation-engineer-explains-the-safety-benefits-of-these-circular-intersections-215412

kechpaja,
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@TheConversationUS Love them or hate them, trains and buses are a safer alternative to all car-oriented infrastructure!

historleans, to random
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Finally, no more generic masculine! Oh, that’s not…? Well, finally, no more language policing! Oh, you mean, actual censorship by governmental decree? Huh...

kechpaja,
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@historleans

"German without genders"

Isn't that basically just English?

Sheril, to books
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So that’s how libraries are born ✨

by @nathanwpyle 📚

kechpaja,
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@Sheril @nathanwpyle There's a scifi story there. Someone just has to write it.

mariyadelano, to random
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Technology is always a reflection of the society that invents or produces it.

For example, when my mother was trying to buy a dishwasher in Manila back in 2016, she walked around every major electronics store with no luck.

Why? Because in the Philippines, if you could afford to buy a dishwasher, you were rich enough to hire household help.

And with so many poor people who need those types of jobs, if you could afford a maid and didn’t hire one - you were viewed as a greedy, selfish jerk.

kechpaja,
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@mariyadelano

> if you could afford a maid and didn’t hire one - you were viewed as a greedy, selfish jerk.

For me, this is the biggest cultural shock here — that hiring a maid might be viewed as an obligation, as opposed to flaunting your wealth and rubbing it in everyone's faces.

Alon, to random
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The wall is breaking: Yoav Ben-Tzur, Minister in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services (Shas; this is distinct from the Minister of same, who is also from Shas), is the first minister to say that the government will need to go to new elections within 90 days of the end of the war. He quickly walked back his remarks ("I didn't mean it this way, and also I didn't speak for Shas"), but it's the first time a minister acknowledges the government has lost the public's confidence.

kechpaja,
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@Alon

> Minister in the Ministry of Labor, Social Affairs, and Social Services ... this is distinct from the Minister of same

Ah yes, we had one of those in Finland a couple of decades ago, in the Ministry of Finance. Sauli Niinistö was Minister of Finance, with Suvi-Anne Siimes (Vas.) as "minister in the Ministry of Finance".

thisismissem, (edited ) to random
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Edit: 600+ boosts is probably enough! 😅

Do any friends have a company in Germany that could hire a junior web developer at the moment? Either as a junior or intern?

I've a friend based in Berlin, Germany, who's desperately in need of work so she can retain health insurance and stay in the country, after her last internship fell short of 6 months (company failed).

If you know of anything, please reach out!

kechpaja,
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@thisismissem I work for Gofore (https://gofore.com/en/careers/), which has offices in Germany (not in Berlin, but remote work is likely possible). I cannot make any promises, of course, but it's definitely worth sending in a resume.

hazelweakly, to random
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LIFE HACK

How I use ChatGPT to write stuff:

  1. Write out a prompt to generate the text I want
  2. Read the response
  3. Go "this is fucking garbage, what the fuck, you call that writing?"
  4. Get pissed off and write the thing correctly

(This is what I call https://xkcd.com/386/ as a service)

kechpaja,
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@hazelweakly Or if you're writing a message to a person: slowly develop a prompt that produces the message you would like to send, then take the prompt, edit it into something that doesn't sound like a prompt, and send that instead.

sundogplanets, to random
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I have a very long zoom meeting this afternoon that I have to do from my campus office, and I remembered to bring knitting needles with me but I FORGOT YARN. So I'm going to be very un-focused during this meeting 😭

kechpaja,
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@sundogplanets The upside, though, is that you can just start tapping the needles on the table when you're ready for the meeting to be over.

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    kechpaja,
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    @ElleGray @neilhimself This is extra funny to me, because it's basically the story of how my family got every single cat who arrived after I was born.

    (No broken ceilings involved, although once the cats did manage to get into the walls and ceiling of the house and had to be coaxed back out.)

    futurebird, (edited ) to random
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    To you what is boundary of "obscene wealth" ? This is wealth, value of real estate, stocks and bank balances total.

    kechpaja,
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    @futurebird It's moot. The important question is whether they're paying their taxes, and whether the second derivitive of the tax rate is fair.

    Even more generally speaking, the problem is that some people are too poor, not that some people are too rich. We need to solve poverty, and the rich should be required to make a proportionate contribution to solving poverty, but nobody would be helped if they simply stopped being rich without that money going somewhere useful.

    (I voted other.)

    MeanwhileinCanada, to random

    How fast was that duck going?

    kechpaja,
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    @MeanwhileinCanada Fast enough that the goose police felt the need to pull them over. They haven't decided how big the ticket should be yet, though.

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