wakame

@wakame@tech.lgbt

I put bugs in software. Master of half-finished projects.
Irony is my default setting.
Hate factories, but love conveyor belts.
Buzzword-Driven Development.

Edible.
Totally not a robot.
Definitely not a mouse.

Pan-Demi-Sexual, not Pandemic-Sexual.

// Your Plastic Pal Who's Fun to Be With
#YesBots

// Cats of all sizes also welcome
#YesKittens #YesCats #YesTigers

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heiseonline, to random German

Ein Forschungsteam von Netflix hat mit Magenta Greenscreen (MGS) eine neue Technik entwickelt, die im Gegensatz zur herkömmlichen Greenscreen-Technik einige Verbesserungen erzielt.

Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9213477?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

wakame,

@andre @eichkat3r @heiseonline

Ich dachte, dafür gibt es den E-Postbrief :blobcatgiggle:​

elilla, to random
@elilla@transmom.love avatar

I haven't been following the terf scene because ugh, but whoa they're really coming out these days huh.

"if you are the sort of person who calls people right-wing, white supremacist, you are not in the side of women" "we can talk of the effects of male socialisation but not of Muslim socialisation?" "if that makes me a white nationalist and a racist and a terrible person..."
actual prominent terf quotes.

I remember back the 2010's when someone in Stormfront noted that terfs are almost there and just needed a little push.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=JBy93QX7ysE

wakame,

@alinanorakari @elilla

Q: What do you call it when we finally shoot all TERFs into space?

A: AstroTERFing

w4ts0n, to random

Frage: Welche Sprüche würden sich für eine Art "Fan-Merchandise" in Bezug auf öffentliche Verwaltung eignen?

:boost_ok:

wakame,

@w4ts0n

"Hier werden Handschrift und das Telefax-Gerät noch geschätzt."

"Nur ausgedruckt ist Hacker-sicher."

"True multitasking made in Germany."

gamerswift13, to random

lol i decided i wanted to delete my threads account and it turns out you literally can’t unless you also delete your instagram account. fuck meta so so so so much.

wakame,

@gamerswift13
"Torment Nexus (free trial)": It's a trap.

wakame,

@gamerswift13 My question would be: Why do you think everyone thinks that?

Tech journos: They want your page visits. And they will do anything for you to visit.

Published numbers by Meta: Since Instagram users are automatically added as "shadow" users, it is of course easy to fake large numbers of users.

Friends from Twitter: Well, they are on Twitter. Nuff said :blobcatgiggle:​

chjara, to random

psy's oppaheimer

wakame,

@chjara

oppai a-bomb style 🎶

hannah, to random
@hannah@posts.rat.pictures avatar

if the movie was about a bunny rabbit it could be called Hoppenheimer

wakame,

@hannah

Anyanka: I’ve got a theory, it could be bunnies!

grayface_ghost, to random

I started a blog.

Finally.

There's nothing on it to read, but I started it. I've been planning this for ten years.

Quick off the mark? Why yes, I am. Why do you ask?

wakame,

@grayface_ghost
To quote a bad business thing: "Stop planning, start doing."

Yet I mostly find myself planning on the "right way" to do things...

muiiio, to random
@muiiio@mst.muiiio.com avatar

Why do I always feel like it's MYSELF who's failing whenever I decide to leave a unfinished - as if the fact that the text has turned me off is completely irrelevant? 🙄

wakame,

@muiiio
You could try a bit of immunization by trying to read a few really bad books.
I mean: Really, really bad.

wakame,

@muiiio
On a related note: In "Anathem" by Neal Stephenson, there is a thing called "the Book".
A book consisting of stuff explicitly created to scramble your brain because of its uselessness, repetetivity and consistent misapplication of logic. :blobcatgiggle:​

wakame,

@muiiio I would say worse.

obtener, to random
@obtener@mastodon.world avatar

A fun way to

wakame,

@benc @obtener

Why would anyone...

wakame,

@squarefaelltein @benc @obtener

My comment was not about "why would anyone recycle", but "why would anyone throw away Lego".

Since Lego is currently (regrettably) not made out of e.g. PLA (Lego apparently experimented with it, but the rigidity was off, so they didn't hold together), they can't even be properly recycled.

So throwing them away... sounds horrible for a number of reasons. :blobcatsweat:​

thegibson, to random

I have no idea what a homestuck is and now I 'm too afraid to ask...

wakame,

@thegibson
"Homestuck" is the difference between a snail and a slug.

Private
wakame,

@masukomi @actuallyautistic

It sometimes feels to me as if the just restart the wrong song several times.

Literally repeating themselves the second and third time, even to more specific questions.

Maybe the hope that by talking instead of thinking, the problem (me) will go away by itself. :blobcatgiggle:​

wakame,

@ar_collins @masukomi @actuallyautistic

This was a large part of my university experience.
"Questions written in a way that I first have to analyze what is meant."

Especially if there are even typos in the text so it is equally likely that the word is wrong or that there is a "trick" in the question.

This is why I prefer proper books on a subject over the idle doodles of an "expert".

wakame,

@ar_collins @masukomi @actuallyautistic

IMHO: This might be the point where they mentally distinguish between "us" (normal people, therapists) and "them" (patients, not normal people).

I had similar experiences with usability/accessibility, when someone stated that a certain software feature was an "expert setting", to it is not important to be usable for colorblind people...

wakame,

@ar_collins @masukomi @actuallyautistic

"Striving for excellence by application of truth" :blobcatgiggle:​

yassie_j, to random

I think enough people have talked about the technical hell aspects of Threads federating with us, but I want to touch up on the cultural and sociological aspects of Federation. If you want a look at that, I’m not your guy.

The Fediverse has a culture — or more appropriately, cultures. Each server has their own culture and each portion of the Fediverse has their own culture. Just like the Fediverse itself, the Fediverse cultures are interoperable and interlinked, but still separate.

Culture is who we are, what we are, and how we express them. A good example is that the Fediverse has a general culture of adding content warnings and AltText. This is not a rule (although instances can make it a rule — ie part of their codified culture).

This is a cultural norm. A standard that we follow and expect others to follow, and for others to become part of our culture to follow. Other examples can be the implicit and explicit support for minorities — that’s a cultural standard. The bounty of the Fediverse is that the cultures form organically. There is no outside hand determining it.

Now let us compare Threads. We know that their “forty million” users (I hesitate to consider this number real in any way) do not have an organic culture. It’s brand new but however there is no Threads culture because the users of Threads have bought their cultural baggage with them from other corporate platforms. In addition, we know that Zucc’s algorithm means that any organic culture that may form is stymied by a algorithmic focus on growth.

In addition, the culture of Threads is fostered in isolation to that of the Fediverse’s culture. If you spin up a new general purpose instance right now, you are expecting that your Instance and your users will create their own culture that is interoperable with the greater Fediverse.

Threads users may not even know the Fediverse exists, so why care about our culture? Why care about our norms? Their cultural norms and behaviour is wildly different to ours because they have no awareness of ours.

That means that when Threads federates — even with a “large” instance — the culture of that Instance will be under extreme stress because they will have a huge (possibly 40 million, grain of salt figure) inflow of users who are not aware of our culture.

It does not matter how strong or vibrant a culture is, if there is a corporation willing to use their power to crush it. This is ultimately why not letting Threads federate is essential. Zucc and his users into the Fediverse do not care about our culture, because they have no need to. They are the dominant culture if they federate.

We have a thriving, flourishing, and organic culture here — free of any corporate malfeasance and wholly owned and controlled by its users.

Threads is the opposite and they are bigger than us. You see the problem now?

wakame,

@yassie_j

A number of very good points, IMHO.

I would like to add some things, these are not intended as a refutation.

IMHO: There is no one fediverse, there are at least two. There are several instances (often featured on fediblock) that form their own right-wing, homophobe fedi.

I mention this because that other one is definitely not compatible with "our" overall culture.

Another thing: I have read many times that fedi is not welcoming to Black people. So while we are apparently able to support a lot of minorities, our "federated culture" seems to have a big blind spot there. (And an opportunity to become better.)

Overall, it seems to me that large instances create "homogenized" cultures. Which I see as a hint that there is a "natural" limit for instance sizes. Maybe "enforcing" smaller instances is a good antidote against culture dissolvement?

helenpugh, to history
@helenpugh@mastodon.online avatar

Kids are STILL being taught at school that Columbus discovered America. 😟
And being taught about him withour recognising his role as a slave owner.

For more...
"Did Christopher Columbus Discover the Americas?
No. Humans have lived in the Americas for at least 15,000 years. By the time Columbus arrived, the Americas were populated by hundreds of small nations and several full-out empires such as the Inca in Peru and the Aztecs in Mexico."

https://www.thoughtco.com/did-christopher-columbus-discover-america-721581

wakame,

@helenpugh
Columbus was the first person who discovered the mass exploitation possibilities of America.

Moondancer, to random

I've seen some people describe masking as wearing your customer service face every single god damn second of your social life.

I have another analog.

Have you ever been shamed by friends, loved ones, co-workers, or authority figures into adjusting behavior that was, admittedly very harmless, in order to suit their preferences. Not needs. Preferences.

Well, now imagine that you do that all day, everyday, for so much of your behavior that you practically have to act like you're an entirely different person just to feel like others will give you the time of day.

wakame,

@Moondancer
Yep. And keeping track of other people's preferences so you know what role to play in each situation.

"This person likes to make inappropriate sex jokes.

But their partner hates those jokes.

How am I supposed to act if they are both in the room?"

jonn_blanchard, to retrogaming
@jonn_blanchard@retrochat.online avatar

Received a box, this’ll be a long thread, in time not amount - I’ve done my back in so bending is tricky - but anyway, as always follow the 🧵 for the contents

wakame,

@jonn_blanchard

"Uno meets hacking game" card.

luckytran, to random
@luckytran@med-mastodon.com avatar

"We have to learn to live with climate change"

"We have to learn to live with the virus"

See a pattern?

wakame,

@luckytran
"We have to learn to live with the fact that billionaires die under increasingly suspicious circumstances." :blobcat_mlem:​

aral, to random
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

My response to @fedora’s proposal to implement opt-out data collection in Fedora, which was marked as hidden and “flagged as inappropriate: the community feels it is offensive, abusive, to be hateful conduct or a violation of our community guidelines.”

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/f40-change-request-privacy-preserving-telemetry-for-fedora-workstation-system-wide/85320/378

Posting it here, on a space I own, where it cannot be marked as anything by Fedora/Red Hat/IBM:

1/N

wakame,

@mattdm @aral @ceremus

If you take the word literally, you are right.

But let's be honest for a moment: The Fedora Project still has close ties to Red Hat (like sponsoring and a percentage of project contributions, being the upstream source for RHEL, etc.).

Soo... I would argue that my statement "in principle" still stands.

wakame,

@mattdm @aral @ceremus

FWIW: My opinions and statements were intended in relation to/"against" corporate stuff, not against individual people or the community.

Sometimes, emotions flare up against one practice or another, especially, well, if topics like opt-in/opt-out come up, (which also seems to be a clash of different philosophies).

But certainly nobody deserves to be thrown under figurative or literal busses for that.

And yes, for me personally, "opt-out" is a standard "corporate" tactic. But then again, I am only one person.

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