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Seirdy

@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net

Skim before following: https://seirdy.one/about/fediverse-greeting/. It describes how I accept follow requests, block people, etc.

Interested in #Accessibility, #Privacy, #Security (in that order).

I am made of microplastics and can be trusted with your forklift. @alizasystem's boywife, together since 2023-12-04.

tech-stuff: check my "uses" page: https://seirdy.one/about/uses/
Other tech interests in no particular order: linked data, the #IndieWeb, the #Gemini protocol (more into the community than the technology).

Politics: Leftist, capitalism bad, anti-consumerism.

Neuro-atypicality: #anxiety, #ADHD, #ActuallyAutistic.

:QueerCat_Pansexual:

Boundaries: if you're a minor or if we've not meaningfully interacted before, then don't be lewd/flirty with me. otherwise it's fine, in moderation.

Hashtags for #fedi22 searchability: #shitposting #poggies #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #panro #InclusiveDesign #ScreenReader #SearchEngines #anime #webdev #blogging #linux #Fedora #Sway #zsh #IndianAmerican #StarTrek

[Verifying my OpenPGP key: openpgp4fpr:AC6AF1F838DF3DCC2E47A6CF1E892DB2A5F84479]

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mattmay, to random
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Brooooo, they were not kidding when they said my new meds increase sun sensitivity. I just got a sunburn, in 20 minutes outside. IN MARCH. IN SEATTLE.

Seirdy,
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@Meyerweb @mattmay Any SPF over 30 is a marginal improvement (especially if it doesn’t use something like zinc dioxide which covers UAV+UVB). the way you apply it probably makes a bigger difference after that point.

Seirdy, to random
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i didn’t want MSC 4114 to make as much sense as it did :drgn_sob:

18+ Seirdy, to random
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have you seen how collaborative moderation initiatives end up around here?

Seirdy,
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not everything benefits from teamwork ffs. you can collaborate by building off each others’ work independently of each other. group dynamics in social media only guarantee that everyone gets hurt.

joel, (edited ) to android
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Just a bit of a ramble on and and and inspired by a recent post by @beardedtechguy.

It's a bit of a ranty post, but not trying to be mean :blobfoxheart:

This is day 19 of

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/apple-android-security-and-features/

Seirdy,
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@joel @beardedtechguy I wouldn’t characterize F-Droid’s default repo as shipping apps straight from the devs. F-Droid builds and signs apps with its own key. Alongside other things, this does present some major security problems.

Seirdy,
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@joel https://accrescent.app/ should hopefully offer the best of both worlds.

hrefna, to random
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I'm having a Day™, so let's take a look at the denylist (https://github.com/iftas-org/resources/tree/main/CARIAD), since that's a good way to distract myself.

First, IFTAS is doing a few things differently than others.

  1. They are sourcing from only larger instances' blocklists. For inclusion servers must have at least 2k monthly active users and have been around a year.
  2. They combine a manually sourced list (their DNI list) with their consensus list.
  3. They do provide a way to get off the list via email.

1/

Seirdy,
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@hrefna Unfortunately, populating a list with complex reasons+receipts is a fuckton of work and likely won’t easily scale to a longer blocklist without a lot of labor invested into the project.

rail_, to random
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please stop presenting using light mode as something worth mocking or a worse experience

very often light mode is an accessibility and readability feature

some people just can't read on dark backgrounds well for example

or need higher contrast in general

or just work in a high-brightness environment where light mode just works better for them

Seirdy,
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@graphite @rail_ and not pure white-on-black for us folk with astigmatism. max brightness is okay for blue, but not red and green channels too.

astrid, to random
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have you ever drawn maze puzzles as a kid? Well, when I was a tiny child, I drew really complicated ones with keys and doors and switches that opened other doors.

No one ever played them, and they were so impractical they couldn't really be played on paper... but now I know how to make them happen on html! And that's the game I will make

Seirdy,
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@astrid @eris Flip the 3d maze through 4d space. Could be generalized further, in the vein of Topological Go or N-D Rubik’s Cubes.

Seirdy,
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@astrid @eris I always liked treating mazes as a pure strategy game with a correct solution, or with many solutions and a goal to find the optimal route by a given metric (goes through all pages, longest path with no retracing, shortest path, longest path with a TRON lightcycle mechanic of turning the path you follow into a wall)

Seirdy,
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@astrid @eris A time-based mechanic like rolling boulders would ruin that sensation of strategic purity i was chasing. I was also really into the idea what I would later learn was called abstract strategy games.

Seirdy,
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@astrid @eris ah so like certain platformer strategy games.

Seirdy, to random
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I don’t do fedi meta wars anymore. I do fedi meta proxy wars, supplying receipts to both sides so my home timeline doesn’t smell like such bullshit.

aris, to random
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@fedilore hi, i am literally all of these things and fuck anyone who thinks i should dox myself. i don't care whether you're a white techbro or black techbro, fuck you all the same.

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/fedilore/statuses/111994801760929239

Seirdy,
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@aris graphic design is my passion (i made this SVG in my text editor)

Seirdy,
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@aris i love my PFP so much and I literally made it in NeoVim on my phone in like five minutes

Seirdy, to random
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every time one of you proposes abolishing time zones and expects billions of people to suddenly get used to UTC, my eyes roll so fast that their angular momentum slows the earth’s rotation enough to give us another leap second.

Seirdy, to random
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normalize checking someone’s age in their profile before flirting with them on fedi

astrid, to random
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the two genders - shark and lava...

Seirdy,
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@astrid @sneexy I remembered how funny The Cat in the Hat was when a bunch of us “accidentally” had way too much so I tried watching it sober with some other friends.

I still have nightmares. We all do.

18+ Seirdy, to random
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:;

Seirdy,
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@mtr i swear i didn’t know what loss was when i made pfp.svg in neovim, i just said “teehee” and typed the first punctuation that came to mind. but everyone tells me i’m the right half of loss.

18+ Seirdy, to random
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Two things are true at the same time:

  1. Calling the FBI over someone posting about the concept of hammer-covered car exploding near you (not the actual threat to do so) is…wow. I have no words.
  2. Making such a post on a site owned by the target of the post, in the middle of getting your account reviewed, is not going to end well for your account.

I’ve seen a lot of people counter the first point by bringing up the second. But despite the fact that the second point is true, such a bizarre level of public punching-down is unwarranted. This wasn’t an actual threat of violence. Drawing attention to the latter point to eclipse the former point isn’t a well-balanced response, even before taking into account the context leading up to the incident.

RE: https://aus.social/users/burgerdrome/statuses/111962682513830720

Seirdy,
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@alice The point I was making was that even if we ignore that and work with the same incomplete context they (choose to) have, their comments don’t check out. Focusing entirely on the user’s (genuinely) bad decision sort of glosses over the fact that the CEO should be held to a higher standard as the representative of his company, and absolutely failed at that.

Seirdy, to random
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what if we both kissed in a car covered in hammers :pleading_flower:

hrefna, to fediverse
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If you are building a social application that is NOT a microblogging application, why would one choose ? What concrete advantages—not theoretical nor dependent on the rest of the world changing—does it give you?

Seirdy,
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@hrefna Commenting support comes to mind.

Seirdy,
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@hrefna I can comment on a PeerTube video very easily thanks to its support for (Mastodon’s flavor of) ActivityPub. I just comment from my Akkoma instance.

Same goes for e.g. AP-enabled WordPress blog posts.

18+ garbados, to random
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@stormbringer

“anti-racism is racism”, trolling

Seirdy,
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@garbados noauthority.social is run by the same bigoted admin as noagendasocial.com, as a continuation of the latter. If you defederated the latter, you should defederate the former.

Receipts archived and listed in its FediNuke entry, right after its sibling instances noagendasocial.nl and noagendatube.com.

drewdevault, to random
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Hot take: video games have peaked in terms of resource requirements and there's not much need to keep making better and better GPUs etc. Hardware has been more than enough for several years now

Seirdy,
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@drewdevault Nearly every AAA game can benefit massively from real-time raytracing, and it’s been an available but hardly-used option in game graphics settings for years. Unreal Engine 4 games will be leveraging it. It’s kind of hard to go back once you’ve seen it in action, even if you don’t bother with the whole world of irregular transparent surfaces it opens.

Before real-time ray tracing, new hardware meant more aggressive volumetric lighting and better upscaling algorithms. In games like Cyberpunk 2077, that means the difference between 50 and 80+ FPS.

And then there’s the ability to render more in real-time instead of pre-made cutscenes, 2-D pre-rendered backdrops, etc. which is what makes more recent procedurally-generated games way more immersive with large viewing ranges.

Seirdy,
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@drewdevault Ah, I think I understand what you were saying. Yes, new AAA titles do not require the latest and greatest hardware to be playable. But I don’t think most gamers buy the latest GPUs for their gaming rigs just to make their favorite titles merely playable; the appeal has always been about making games run well, with better framerates on better graphics settings. That’s always been part of the appeal of PC gaming over consoles.

If you want to play at 60 fps or higher, the best graphics settings on Cyberpunk, Forza, Starfield, and other intensive AAA titles will still exceed the limits of the latest graphics cards and CPUs.

Playing a game doesn’t require the latest hardware, but enabling a given setting and reaching a target framerate does. Gaming hardware sells for graphics more than titles. Baseline requirements have always been driven by consoles.

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