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skribe

@skribe@aus.social

Aussie in Singas.

Writer. Code dabbler. Former TV/film/commercial video producer/director/actor.

Married to https://kopiti.am/@CeeZedby
Two bratty sons.

One of my novels (read it for free): https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/56204/coils-of-the-serpent

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DanMorgan, to random

#MushroomMonday Popped up in the yard after an usually wet July week.

skribe,
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@DanMorgan edible?

sysop408, (edited ) to twitter
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Heckuva job executing on the rebrand, Elon! 👏

Let's rename the company without first securing the account for that name. @x is already taken so the official account of the company formerly known as Twitter is... (wait for it) @twitter.

The @x name belongs to Gene X, a San Francisco based photographer. His tweets are now private, but the account still appears to be owned by Gene.

Today would be a beautiful day for Gene to reactivate his account and start promoting Threads. (Nothing personal, Mastodon, this is a street brawl.)

skribe,
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@sysop408 Elon will likely just steal it.

skinnylatte, to random
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Also why I still don’t know how to drive a car:

skribe,
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@skinnylatte yup, sold mine in the early 90s. Had to hire/borrow one a few times for special events, but other than that never missed it. I prefer to cycle.

pilirin, to random

the amount of high-end gaming PCs in my house just increased by 50%. now there's 3.

only two people live here

skribe,
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@pilirin I'll be right over to play Minecraft 😜

AndyPerfors, (edited ) to random

Has anybody else noticed that people who have always been privileged tend to be quite naive as well? To the point of gullibility - not noticing when a system or a person is trying to fuck them over, and not believing when this is pointed out.

(It makes sense that this would happen, because if you haven't been on the receiving end of being fucked over, why would you learn to look out for it?)

If this is true, I wonder if it explains a good part of resistance within academia to truly understanding or making real changes in response to the issues confronting minorities. In my experience, academics -- even those with a fair amount of power -- are just people. Usually they are actually kind, smart, good people doing their best. But, like all people, they have been heavily shaped by their environment and training. And the people with the power (in academia and probably in most places) are disproportionately people who have always been fairly privileged... so they simply don't see (or believe) the patterns that less-powerful people point out to them. They try -- they DO -- but their priors are so strong they can't help but conclude that these folks are overreacting, it isn't that bad, etc.

(Sometimes people ARE probably overreacting -- one can overgeneralise badly from prior experience in both directions -- but in my experience this is less common than under-reaction or minimisation)

Powerful people might give lip service to believing the patterns, but they don't believe at a deep level -- which you can see because without fail they fall for the latest grift the next time it happens. (Academics who swallow the "cancel culture" crocodile tears without thinking critically about where those narratives are coming from and whose goals they are serving, I'm looking at you; but this is just one example of many)

Dunno. Just thinking out loud, really.

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@AndyPerfors Pulp wrote a song about it - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxhQiiNJG74

skribe,
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@AndyPerfors the William Shatner version is also very good...It's very angry and raw. Worth a listen when you get the chance.

mightyspaceman, to random
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I think I may have dislocated a rib

skribe,
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@mightyspaceman that's Olympic level sexxing that is. Well done. Get well soon.

skribe, to Perth
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If State Daddy was still in charge the Commonwealth Games would be Perth's by now. Admittedly, only WA could afford the $7billion price tag.

nixCraft, to random
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> Which programming language you no longer use and why?

My answer would be COBOL. It was a weird part of my life. It is over now. No, need to cry over it. LOL. What about you?

skribe,
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@nixCraft BASIC. I'm no longer in high school. 😜

andrewfelix, to random

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    skribe,
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    @andrewfelix where's this? It's always been around that price in Singapore.

    dansup, to random
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    What if instead of pixelfed.social/dansup, it was dansup.pixelfed.social?

    I prefer the former, but the latter is possible!

    It’s on the list 🧾

    skribe,
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    @dansup first one is better for SEO

    sudnadja, to random

    Naturally I have to plot the path of Nostalgia For Infinity through Revelation Space

    skribe,
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    @nyrath @sudnadja and both maps are truly awesome

    elizabethtasker, to random
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    It's 6:30am, I'm in Singapore Airport and Mastodon, do I have a story for YOU.

    It all began... with an asteroid grain. Again.

    skribe,
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    @elizabethtasker welcome to Leopolis

    esther, to random

    In the ridiculous timeline that we live in, you’ll have to jailbreak your bicycle because a startup fell over https://mastodon.notsobig.co/@phill/110701490478043590

    Capitalism delivering the best possible solutions once more!

    skribe,
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    @esther there's a lot of e-bikes in Singapore. The delivery drivers use them. Cars and motorbikes are expensive here. The only issue is e-bike riders tend to travel too fast on footpaths.

    michael, to random
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    Hm. So, if you where to have a query that has 23 subqueries, and a total character count of 15,000 characters (excluding indentation) - you've gone mad, right?

    Asking for a friend, of course 😬

    skribe,
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    @michael just another day at the office

    skribe,
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    @michael sounds like you're doing it right

    gregeganSF, to random
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    Sorely tempted to subscribe to Amazon Prime just so I can watch “I'm a Virgo”. Is it possible to unsubscribe later, or do Amazon chew your arm off if you try?

    skribe,
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    @gregeganSF Amazon call the cancelling process The Iliad, long and drawn out - https://www.channelnewsasia.com/commentary/how-cancel-amazon-prime-delete-account-social-media-3612856?cid=internal_sharetool_androidphone_11072023_cna

    sbdivya, to random
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    A few weeks ago, I was very surprised to receive an email that my story, “Two Hands, Wrapped in Gold,” had been nominated for a Hugo Award for Best Novelette. As is customary, the awards team asked if I wished to accept the nomination or withdraw it from consideration. Unfortunately, I’ve decided to choose the latter option.

    Please read my full explanation post here: https://sbdivya.com/fwords/2023/6/29/withdrawing-from-hugo-nominations

    skribe,
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    @sbdivya you could also try my approach, and only write crap that nobody wants to read. That too is a valid protest 😜

    skinnylatte, to random
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    Remember how I said I was tired of developing and scanning film? I just dropped off 2 rolls of film to be developed and scanned for $50. So I am no longer tired of developing and scanning film. Now I am just tired

    skribe,
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    @skinnylatte I remember film... Just.

    Gargron, to random
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    Mastodon went from 1.2M active users last week to 1.8M active users this week. That's not 70M users overnight, but it's something! 🙂

    skribe,
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    @Gargron it's not about the population, it's about the conversations.

    liztai, to escribiendo
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    Hello #WritingCommunity
    Apparently #Google has changed their privacy policy and now says that they'll scrape everything you post online to train their AI tools.
    I even post my #Fiction online on #Substack & my #Wordpress blog and now wonder if this is a bad idea.
    They say paywalls could deter the scraping.
    What do you think writers can do to protect their content? Or should we just roll over and accept that this is the way things will be from now on?

    https://gizmodo.com/google-says-itll-scrape-everything-you-post-online-for-1850601486

    skribe,
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    @liztai I had my stories scraped from Wattpad, Royal Road, and others. They were reposted (with ads) within hours. Anything on the internet is fair game to some.

    nixCraft, (edited ) to random
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    Poll: Was your mobile phone ever compromised by malware or virus?

    skribe,
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    @nixCraft there are only two viable answers: yes, and I don't know.

    dansup, to random
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    I think I figured out the TestFlight issue, will know shortly if it works 🤞

    skribe,
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    @dansup is your app iOS only?

    nixCraft, to random
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    Tell me you are a Linux desktop user without telling me you're a Linux desktop user.

    skribe,
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    @nixCraft my updates take less than a minute.

    dansup, to kbin
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    Excited to start my mobile app this week!

    It will be open source from the start, and I'll be blogging about each daily milestone and the behind the scenes of development.

    It will be a nice change from my usual workflow, and maybe I'll get better at blogging 😁

    skribe,
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    @dansup @shlee @PhilipKing flickr?

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