RainofTerra

RainofTerra, 2 days ago to random

New M4 #iPadPro 11” (1TB/Cellular/Silver/normal glass) ordered. Pretty happy with my choice of engraving:

terraboops, 2 days ago to random

my cis female nesting partner has never once had her estradiol levels tested and she's been to doctors about chronic health issues for almost a decade.

imagine being a trans woman and never having your hormone levels checked.

honestly, this is one of the ways that cisnormativity likely hurts cis people; she should have had her levels checked years ago!

RainofTerra, 4 days ago to Fashion

Layering fishnets over opaque tights is my latest “she’s just wearing the clothes she would have worn in the late 90s and early aughts” personal trend I think. #90s #aughts #fashion

alda, 4 days ago to random

People keep asking me where in Scotland I'm from and I'm not sure about what to think of it.

RainofTerra, 4 days ago to random

Imagine being as paint-huffingly stupid as Jack’s tweets here are just to not to have to admit what a capitalist cuck to Elon you’ve become. Bra-fucking-vo, Jack. 👏🏼 https://mstdn.social/@TechCrunch/112389556123080676

Daojoan, 6 days ago to random

"The best way to fight Nazis is to shine a spotlight on their beliefs and debunk them."

It's a popular idea.

The notion that exposure and rational argument will inevitably triumph over bigotry and hate.

But history tells us - it's bullshit.

We've been down this road before.

It was called World War II.

RainofTerra, 6 days ago to Utah

Hey everybody make sure to help #Utah’s fascist government test out their sweet new web app #TransRights #OnlyGOPLawmakersBotherPeopleInBathrooms https://ut-sao-special-prod.web.app/sex_basis_complaint.html

rooster, 6 days ago to random

I feel really pretty right now, which is rare and beautiful, especially when I have no makeup on and I’m just laying around. I just wanted to share the joy and hopefully feel like others see it too

RainofTerra, 7 days ago to Catroventos

I just paused mid toot because I realized how weird an idiom “hands down” is and yet I’ve used it without wondering what the hell it really meant until just now. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hands_down #idioms #english #language #HandsDown

GottaLaff, 7 days ago to legal

#TrumpTrial 🧵starts HERE. #Trump #legal
PLEASE NOTE: I likely can’t reply while live-posting. Adding NFL (Not For Laffy) helps! Thx.

1/…

Via Andrew Weissmann:

Court about to begin. The defense table, from left to right: Blanche, the defendant (ie Trump), Bove, and Necheles (notably farthest from Trump). Gaggle of photographers shoot Trump, inches from his face: he maintains an implacable and dour expression. ADA Josh Steinglass and his team now enter: Steinglass is very much the lead here.

RainofTerra, 8 days ago to python

my bad commit jokes make me smile: #Python #PaintItBlack

RainofTerra, 9 days ago to random

I don’t know what’s weirder, Doritos jerky or condom ice cream.

grimalkina, 12 days ago to random

Listen it's been a really hard week (four months), if I share a new working paper are you folks gonna be nice to me

grimalkina, 16 days ago to random

OH HEY

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10491133

Impossible_PhD, 22 days ago to random

Okay, honest question:

Is there just a certain amount of time you get into transition when the longing desire to show your whole-ass boobs to people set in?

Asking for, erm, no reason in particular. 😇

lzg, 22 days ago to random

i finally read Wuthering Heights and i found it mid. rather annoying to be honest. not my jam.

RainofTerra, 23 days ago to Subaru

Fallacies of Distributed Computing: Automotive Edition

So our 2016 Subaru Outback has been having horrible battery drain issues for a couple years now. We got the attached service bulletin recently that explained the issue.

It turns out that the Data Communications Module that powers Subaru's Starlink service (emergency assistance/safety/etc. service) now causes a battery drain because it is trying to talk to a 3G network that is no longer there, and it just tries its little heart out.

You can bring the car in to get the DCM reprogrammed to not do this anymore which will fix the problem, and they will also cover batteries killed by the issue.

But my favorite part about this is that this happened because they didn't account for the first Fallacy of Distributed Computing:

"The network is reliable".

A bunch of vehicle computers each connecting to a home network sure sounds like distributed computing to me. 🤷🏻‍♀️

https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/tsbs/2024/MC-10251111-0001.pdf
#Subaru #DistributedComputing #Lesbaru #cars

RainofTerra, 24 days ago to random

“Final nail in the coffin” in the sense that someone dug up a 20 year old coffin and then put an additional nail in it before reburying it. #itanium https://www.theregister.com/2024/04/12/gcc_14_sinks_itanic/

ZachWeinersmith, 24 days ago to random

One of the weirdest modern things to me is this obsession with generations. Maybe I haven't read the right stuff, but you pick up a 19th or 18th century book and they talk about the past, or conflict in families between old and young, but never this weird cohort-antagonism thing?

Could be it's random culture shit, but maybe it's because people have fewer kids, so they don't span generations? Or maybe tech acceleration means cohorts have more differences that are real?

RainofTerra, 24 days ago to random

A reminder that the engineer who invented STP also wrote a poem about it:
“Algorhyme” by Radia Perlman:

I think that I shall never see
A graph more lovely than a tree.
A tree whose crucial property
Is loop-free connectivity.
A tree that must be sure to span
So packets can reach every LAN.
First, the root must be selected.
By ID, it is elected.
Least-cost paths from root are traced.
In the tree, these paths are placed.
A mesh is made by folks like me,
Then bridges find a spanning tree.