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FormerlyStC

@FormerlyStC@mas.to

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Formerly · StC on Twitter (2007–2019) · Mistaken for a Saudi phone company · Senior full-stack software engineer · Web designer · MacWarehouse tech support ·· Currently · Business analyst, writer/editor, generalist · Alumni president, Demarest Hall, Rutgers · Autistic, ADHD, Anti-kyriarchy

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Alice, to random
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ATTN: If you plan to attend the Mastodon meetup at the Tampa Marriott this weekend and you are a VIP attendee, please ensure you bring your official VIP lanyard or else you risk being denied access to the VIP soup bar.

FormerlyStC,
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@Alice Is someone going to make sure the broccoli & cheese is up to the charter standard so we don’t have a repeat of last year?

FormerlyStC, to random
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Honestly, the new color scheme is itself worth the upgrade price for Little Snitch 6. I feel myself relax every time I look at it. Beautiful work, @littlesnitch.

Screenshot of the status menu from Little Snitch 6 for Mac. Upstream and downstream network activity are graphed in pastel purple and blue.

FormerlyStC, to random
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@caseyliss What’s the store URL, again?

FormerlyStC,
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@caseyliss (No, good god, I did stock up this time)

(Including a performance shirt)

(And tacked on a @gedeonm shirt, long overdue)

FormerlyStC,
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@caseyliss @gedeonm (Update: It’s a great shirt.)

FormerlyStC, to random
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@caseyliss I heed your warnings and order! But first, have you (or @marcoarment or @siracusa) personally seen the difference between the Dad Hat and the baseball cap? The description indicates “unstructured” vs. “structured,” but the product photos look basically identical to me.

FormerlyStC, to random
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@siracusa No Vintage Black for the Graffiti shirt? You’re stretching my comfort zone here.

FormerlyStC, to random
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Cory @pluralistic Doctorow: “Somewhere between replacing the system and using the system lies a pragmatic — if easily derailed — course.

“[Audre] Lorde is telling us that a rotten system can’t be redeemed by using its own chosen reform mechanisms. [Martin Luther King Jr. is] telling us that unless we live, we can’t fight — so anything within the system that makes it easier for your comrades to fight on can hasten the end of the system.”

https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/08/money-talks/#bullshit-walks

Alice, to random
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Okay, so we have this east coast earthquake and then the eclipse.

They say these things always come in threes, so I’m hoping the rapture will be next so the rest of us can finally live in peace.

FormerlyStC,
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@Alice Tomorrow is my birthday; I hope that isn’t a qualifying event.

daringfireball, to random
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‘Harrison Bergeron’
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/03/23/harrison-bergeron

FormerlyStC,
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@daringfireball Love the typesetting, John.

dasharez0ne, to random
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HELP HELP HEKLP HLEP HELP - https://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

FormerlyStC,
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I don’t know how @dasharez0ne keeps cranking out these tour de force alt texts, but here’s another one.

Alice, to random
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I think it's funny that a test for autism lists a lot of questions that are virtually impossible for autistic people to answer due to the binary nature of the options.

https://embrace-autism.com/raads-r/

FormerlyStC,
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@Alice Oh my god, these questions. I need to go through this with somebody and tear apart every single one.

And can we rewrite the response set?

(not autistic)
a. I have no idea what you’re talking about
b. No, that doesn’t sound like me
c. Maybe, I guess?

(autistic)
d. How the fuck am I supposed to answer this without an essay?!
e. HOLY SHIT
f. I’m in this photo and I don’t like it
g. Doesn’t this…describe…everyone?
h. When you say “other people,” do you mean normal people or people like me?

FormerlyStC,
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@Alice Well, damn, I scored a 128 and now I feel like I’m not autistic enough. I’m gonna take it again and let ’er rip

jamesthomson, to random
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Well this is fun! I finally got my Apple Vision Pro in Glasgow, but it turns out it's not actually my Apple Vision Pro.

It's in the right box, but it's a 256GB model, not a 512GB, and the serial number of the device doesn't match my order. I have to assume that the store in San Francisco mixed up devices when they were packing them. And somebody in SF got a free upgrade to a 512GB one.

I suspect they would say “just bring it back”, but that's kinda hard now that I'm 5,000 miles away. Fuck.

FormerlyStC,
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@jamesthomson Oh, that’s bad service communication. It isn’t even a status report. I’d have expected a sentence in the middle that at least says either they’re working on it or they’ve closed the case.

FormerlyStC, to random
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@ivory How do I make Ivory re-fetch someone’s profile info? My app seems to have an old cached copy of a profile I know has been changed. (What I see is missing one of the…uh…rows of the…info grid? I don’t know the proper name for those formatted label/value pairs.)

FormerlyStC,
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@ivory This particular profile was updated months ago, but the change still doesn’t show in Ivory. Other clients and website show it.

dasharez0ne, to random
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I WAS WRONG !! I LOVE WOODPECKER'S https://mas.to/@dasharez0ne/111858506223860448 - https://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

FormerlyStC,
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@dasharez0ne HE’LL YEAH MY FREIND

enantiomer, to random
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Strong Mad: A GLOWY BOX! A GLOWY BOX!

Strong Bad: A glowy box? Are you sure that's what you'd get for your tattoo?

Strong Mad: IT'S PERSONAL!

FormerlyStC,
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@enantiomer From the first time I saw it, I automatically rejected the “battery” explanation and assumed that (1) the humans were compute nodes and (2) someone involved with the film figured that most of the audience wouldn’t understand it. Well, at least some of us restored it in our minds.

dasharez0ne, to random
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GM - https://DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

FormerlyStC,
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@dasharez0ne GM !

jamesthomson, to random
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Reasonably acceptable for 51.

FormerlyStC,
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@jamesthomson The bookshelves really complete the look. Happy birthday!

FormerlyStC, to random
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Today, I saw a serious Facebook post from a close friend, and I noticed that Facebook invited me to choose from a set of instant AI-generated comments. None of them said anything really original, but they resembled thoughtful responses — full sentences, not punchy little phrases — and they sounded relevant to the post. Click once and the words go into a text entry box; click again and it’s posted as a comment that people think you wrote.

FormerlyStC,
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The Facebook AI comment widget supercharges anyone’s ability to say something now, anything, so other people can see you as a part of the conversation. This is, in itself, an encouragement to act on impulse, to post a hot take and watch the response. We’ve had that built into commercial social media for a very long time — it’s a defining feature — and it’s one of the most toxic aspects of modern society.

Now, if you don’t know what to write, the machine will write something for you.

FormerlyStC,
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When a machine does the writing, the machine steers the conversation. Under no circumstances do I trust Facebook to do the driving.

ivory, (edited ) to random
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Ivory v1.8.1 is now available (tap the link to update right away):

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ivory-for-mastodon-by-tapbots/id6444602274

  • Completely revamped polls (including multiple choice polls)
  • New “Mono” accent color
  • New option in Settings to turn off haptics feedback
  • Can now copy more text from a user’s profile (by holding down on their display name, username, or bio)
  • Various bug fixes

Do you like the poll improvements?

FormerlyStC,
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@ivory Well, heck, I forgot to take a screenshot for comparison.

enantiomer, to random
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when you were young
and your life
was an open book

FormerlyStC,
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@enantiomer makes you give it a cry

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