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skquinn

@skquinn@toot.community

Blogger, videogame/pinball fanatic, face painting fanatic, technology enthusiast, road/transit geek, lover of the arts, rejector of (many of the stupider) gender norms, frequent volunteer. He/him #pinball #facepainting #artfan #artist #blogging

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xan, to minidisc

ripping this to FLAC to make a #MiniDisc of The Weather Channel Presents: The Best of Smooth #Jazz

A classy lady enjoying an ocean breeze on a windswept, grassy beach is the main feature of this CD album art, front and back.

skquinn,
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@xan where did you get this CD?

lilithsaintcrow, to random
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It's bloody unconscionable that Covid vaccines and things like Paxlovid are being privatized, after taxpayer money funded research and development. The correct price for a vaccine is $0. The correct price for Covid treatment in this, the fourth year of the pandemic, is $0.

skquinn,
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@lilithsaintcrow for that matter, we need to get rid of most of privatized "healthcare". The only things that people should have to pay for out of pocket are purely elected procedures like cosmetic surgery. Even then, the prices should be regulated as the free market has done a terrible job of that.

I have said it before and I will say it again: profit and healthcare don't mix.

ryanhoulihan, (edited ) to random
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What’s funny about being non-binary is that, to me, I’m the normal one. I think our whole thing just kind of works, no? You’re all just being silly about colors and stuff. We’re the main characters of gender, just admit it.

skquinn,
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@ryanhoulihan good point, in a broader sense I believe that there are many fine points between pure male and pure female and the definition of what qualifies as masculine or feminine behavior does change over time. Of particular note, pink used to be the boy's color many years ago.

danielpunkass, to random
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Ask ChatGPT "What is" a penis, a clitoris, a g spot, a labia, a scrotum, a vulva, etc. Every anatomical term relating to a man results in an answer, and every term relating to a woman yields an answer that is quickly replaced with "this content may violate our content policy." Lady parts are bad, mmkay!?

skquinn,
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@danielpunkass Blatant misogyny. Unacceptable.

Chron, to news
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Books with butts are allowed back in a Houston-area school district after 14 titles were removed, including 'No, David!'

https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/katy-isd-books-banned-butt-18389450.php

skquinn,
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@Chron "I want some butts!" -- Air Boss Johnson, Top Gun

mattblaze, to random
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At once delighted, overwhelmed, and humbled to receive, along with my colleagues Susan Landau and @SteveBellovin , the 2023 Usenix Association Lifetime Achievement Award, citing work bridging technology and public policy. Thank you!

skquinn,
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@mattblaze what exactly did they think was wrong with it? Not that they even need a reason these days...

danielsiepmann, to firefox German

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    skquinn,
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    @danielsiepmann what about Pale Moon?

    cliffwade, to random
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    Couple of new products we got today.

    The pineapple Pepsi is exclusive to Little Caesars Pizza only. It's not bad. Not too strong of a pineapple flavor but something you can certainly taste. The Pepsi side of things isn't bad either, this coming from someone who doesn't like Pepsi.

    Ranch flavored mashed potatoes we will try tomorrow and I'll give an update as to how they taste then.

    Photo I took of the new Hidden Valley Ranch flavored Idahoan mashed potatoes.

    skquinn,
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    @cliffwade pineapple Pepsi? What will they think of next?

    skquinn,
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    @bstix @Provider video is better for certain things, but does not replace a written tutorial at all. If anything, they complement each other.

    luna, to random

    me: “hey Siri set a timer for 12 minutes”

    iPad in the next room: “okay, 12 minutes starting now”

    me, who wanted the timer to be on the phone that’s literally in my hand: “hey Siri cancel that timer”

    iPhone in my hand: “there are no timers set”

    you can’t make this shit up

    skquinn,
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    @luna Artificial stupidity at its best.

    arstechnica, to random
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    Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM

    Fairphone proves the usual excuses for ending Android support aren't valid.

    https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-3-gets-seven-years-of-updates-besting-every-other-android-oem/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

    skquinn,
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    @arstechnica The "usual excuses" are that there's no money on updating software on old phones, i.e. they expect you to recycle your phone after 3-4 years and "just buy a new one".

    chris, to random
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    skquinn,
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    @chris That's basically "greenwashing" if I understand right.

    skquinn,
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    @chris My understanding is that "greenwashing" could be applied to individuals as well, as we are in the age where people have a "personal brand" if high-profile enough.

    lauren, to random
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    Ya' know what ultimately happened long ago to all those small telephone companies that interconnected with AT&T? They became AT&T. Just sayin'.

    skquinn,
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    @lauren Not all of them. Some of them became Verizon and Sprint. 🙂

    evacide, to random
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    Just in case you think that the solution to San Francisco's problems is hiring more police, the SFPD is spending its time bullying skateboarding teenagers.

    https://missionlocal.org/2023/07/breaking-sfpd-shuts-down-dolores-park-hill-bomb-arrests-teenagers/

    skquinn,
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    @evacide Some of those gathered actually did things which are dangerous and/or antagonistic towards law enforcement like launching fireworks at them (which are probably illegal in SF to boot). Once the cop got stabbed, I can see why they would declare it an unlawful assembly. I'm normally averse to taking the side of law enforcement, but it looks like some of the reasons for the arrests might be valid.

    whitequark, to random
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    if you're publishing open source code, your enemies will use it. personal enemies, political enemies, class enemies. they will use it and derive benefit from it and there is nothing you can do to stop it. (no, licenses aren't it.)

    i think that if you're not ready for this you should probably not publish open source code

    skquinn,
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    @whitequark Yes, free software is free for everyone to examine the source code of, including your enemies. However, making a program proprietary could be seen as ensuring your enemies have already won, as nobody else will have access to the source code. I would personally prefer to err on the side of the greater benefit to humanity and that's to publish under a free software license when I can.

    skquinn,
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    @whitequark If they are available as free software, at least people can understand how they work and modify them as desired (freedoms 0 and 1). I don't see how this could be perceived as deepening the harm. The proprietary model where these freedoms are not present could only be worse.

    skquinn,
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    @whitequark I'd say regulating what software does, from a computing freedom/free software point of view, is outside the scope of licensing. There are many programs released as free software which can be misused and abused for immoral, unethical, and unlawful ends. The Unabomber could have used Emacs or Vim to write his manifesto, for example (and for all I know maybe he did).

    evan, to random
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    I am not open to your ahistorical take on Google Chat and XMPP.

    Google didn't do anything wrong by using an open standard.

    They didn't do anything wrong by building a good interface that people liked to use.

    And they didn't do anything wrong by disconnecting from the network when the spam and harassment outweighed the benefit to their users.

    We, the XMPP community, failed to capitalize on success by diversifying the network. It's our own fault not enough nodes were there.

    skquinn,
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    @evan I'm still using XMPP for the moment (only have one contact there but he joined on my recommendation).

    foone, to random
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    ugh, projects:

    • Wheel of Fortune (2010, Wii): I need to get way smarter or rewrite Dolphin. Neither is likely to happen anytime soon
    • Barbie Fashion Show: I need to write a tool to inject textures, not just extract them. This should be easy if I don't change image sizes
    • Take No Prisoners: I'm not really sure where I am with this one/what's left. I can maybe dump opcodes of the scripting system with a bit more work?
    skquinn,
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    @foone I think it's UTF-8 encoding or something like it.

    sysop408, to random
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    This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

    The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

    In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

    The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

    This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

    Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

    A mostly still movie of a Twitter feed showing a rate limited error message and a jiggling scrollbar indicating repeated attempts to load a resource.
    Firefox network console showing 10 requests to twitter.com zooming by per second.

    skquinn,
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    @sysop408 from what I heard it's because Muskrat doesn't want to pay his Amazon hosting bill to the tune of a billion dollars. So Amazon is throttling everything and this is what Muskrat is doing to try to keep from running up any more charges.

    Radical_EgoCom, to random

    A police officer jailed a 3-year-old for potty training trouble. He's under investigation.

    skquinn,
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    @Radical_EgoCom this is only supposed to be on The Onion.

    stux, (edited ) to random
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    It still takes a while before Meta(P92) joins the Fediverse and the recent times we have read a lot of things from both sides

    Polls are not super reliable but maybe it will give a better overall picture of what you, the people using these platforms want

    The result will not be the definite outcome for us but I do take it into heavy consider because I love you all very much!

    "Would YOU want to federate with Meta's new platform?"

    skquinn,
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    @stux Right now the whole reason for being on the Metaverse is with the idea of, long term, leaving Meta, Twitter, et al behind. Right now the latter is already out of my "traffic pattern" but some of my work will require me for the near future to have a presence on at least FB and IG. I'm looking forward to the day when I can de-Zuck my social media traffic pattern like I've already de-Musked it.

    emilygorcenski, to random

    Cisgender is not a slur, much like Elon Musk is not a scientist, much like Elon Musk is not a free speech champion, much like Elon Musk is not a good person.

    https://fortune.com/2023/06/21/elon-musk-declares-cis-cisgender-slurs-twitter-punishable-suspension/amp/

    skquinn,
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    @emilygorcenski It's Muskrat, what do you expect? Now that I've seen what he really is, I regret ever making a Tesla my dream car. I'll drive just about anything else.

    rasterweb, to random
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    People who are like "The migration to Mastodon has failed!"

    No it hasn't. I literally migrated to Mastodon from Twitter, and I don't use Twitter anymore, but I do use Mastodon every day.

    I call that a successful migration.

    skquinn,
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    @rasterweb Same here. I literally took Twitter right out of my social media traffic pattern. I am trying to reduce my usage of Facebook and Instasp-- er, Instagram as much as possible as well.

    What's really coming close to a deal-breaker for me is the term of use prohibiting any sex offenders from using Facebook or Instagram--even after they have completed their sentences and are no longer under court/parole board order to stay off the internet, and no matter how old the case is.

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