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StrangeNoises

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she/they; I quit my career as a software developer so I could spend more time coding.

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ZachWeinersmith, to random
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Hey literature people--

So, I was reading HG Wells and I noticed something I hadn't thought about. He writes in a style that's very weird, and but for the Victorian/Edwardian language might even be considered experimental now? Like, in The War in the Air, it regularly alternates between goofy comedic scenes and scenes of horror and violence. And in between THAT there are digressions about economics and engineering technology. (1/n)

StrangeNoises,
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@ZachWeinersmith not to lower the tone from those examples, but this was part of the weirdness of watching period K-dramas while I still had Netflix: You'd get whiplash from the tonal changes, from broad slapstick (with comedy sound effects) to sappy romcom to political thriller where people get killed on a regular basis; sometimes in the same scene, and sometimes allegedly based on real events or historical characters.

NanoRaptor, to random
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sinspired by @jsr because it's perfect.

https://social.jsr.com/@jsr/112398571801354404

StrangeNoises,
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@gsuberland @NanoRaptor @jsr yes i thought i'd seen it before. if it's good enough i'll have its own life though ;-)

RickiTarr, to random
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If you get mad when you see employees at a business you are patronizing laughing, enjoying each other's company, and goofing off, you're a dick. Empathize with people working a shitty underpaid job, and let them enjoy what little fun they get.

StrangeNoises,
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@RickiTarr some people don't feel complete unless someone else is suffering.

these people vote too. they should be being managed in a care facility because they're not well.

goatsarah, to random

IMPORTANT - PLEASE SHARE

The linked document is being circulated amongst NHS service providers for young trans people. It advises cessation of ALL medical intervention for transition but goes further. It suggests that if the patient or parents continue to access trans healthcare outside their system, they should be reported to social services with the implicit threat that the children will be taken from their parents.

IF YOU ARE A YOUNG TRANS PERSON OR A PARENT OF ONE, IT IS LIKELY UNSAFE TO ENGAGE WITH NHS MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.

docs.google.com/document/d/1JS…

StrangeNoises,
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@goatsarah @cstross this country is basically becoming as bad as the reddest of red states in the US on this issue. And Labour aren't going to do anything. And Scotland isn't going to be a refuge.

Being older it hasn't affected me directly yet, but it's still making me increasingly anxious and depressed. for one thing, i'm sure they’ll get around to us that transitioned years ago. and for another, i mean, what a shithole this place is.

verge, to random
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Phone cooler makers need to chill with all the ice https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/28/24143845/phone-cooler-fans-ice-graphics

StrangeNoises,
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@verge seeing as they’re all water resistant now wouldn’t it be easier to just dunk it in a glass of water for a few minutes and let the second law have at it?

mcc, to random
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Is Ubuntu 24.04 ready to go or should I give it another month for late breaking fixes to fall in? I've got a working 23.10 and my experience with 23.10 was installing too soon after an Ubuntu release can lead to Sadness

StrangeNoises,
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@mcc my upgrade today went ok but I may have been lucky: @omgubuntu reported earlier: https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/04/dont-upgrade-to-ubuntu-24-04-yet

StrangeNoises,
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@Lioh @mcc @omgubuntu yes, i did it with the -d (actually using upgrade-manager) and got away with it, but then, it's low-stakes for me. it's not my main machine, and it's pretty close to vanilla. mcc tends to do weird stuff that hits all the edge-cases so it would be just asking for trouble. 😜 also going from 23.10 to 24.04 is just not a big jump anyway, so there's not likely to be much worth upgrading quickly for.

StrangeNoises,
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@mcc @Lioh @omgubuntu i don't mean the hardware you're running on is weird, but what you seem to be trying to do with it (per the stuff you post), with various relatively obscure development toolkits etc, would seem to be exactly the kind of stuff that might break in an upgrade, regardless of hardware.

anyway on my dell xps fixing it so it doesn't go to sleep with the lid closed was in /etc/systemd/logind.conf, change all the HandleLid* lines to ignore, reboot. which i bet you already know!

StrangeNoises,
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@mcc ah right. yes, that's a bit ambitious for linux. ;-) (aka: all these papercuts are why i ended up committing to mac; it just wore me down in the end. which is why i'm now only using the xps as a low-workload headless server and needed to stop it suspending on lid-down 😀)

BasicAppleGuy, to random
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You dread the day…

StrangeNoises,
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@BasicAppleGuy @jsit i should check it on my iphone 11, which i'm trying to convince myself is on its last elbows dragging itself loyally to this autumn when it can finally be allowed to retire in decrepitude…

84%. Clearly about to expire any day now... ;-)

nixCraft, to linux
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👀 joke 😂 https://x.com/cmuratori/status/1783274430376120770

StrangeNoises,
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@nixCraft @DSCH that's not fair.

it takes a year to get them to work properly. They work after a fashion almost immediately, and you think you just need to do a little tweak and they’ll work fully. you never think it's going to take a year…

appleinsider, to random
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If you're looking for a new Mac mini, you may be in for a wait. Apple appears to be planning to skip an M3 revision to the Mac mini in favor of a more significant update featuring the M4 chip.
https://appleinsider.com/articles/24/04/21/if-youre-expecting-a-mac-mini-at-wwdc-youre-probably-going-to-be-disappointed?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon

StrangeNoises,
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@appleinsider presumably the studios too

cstross, to random
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From America with cash: Right-wing groups want to end abortion in the UK

A right-wing political and media ecosystem pushing a US-style anti-abortion agenda is gaining traction in the UK

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/us-anti-abortion-culture-war-uk-stella-creasy-amendement-/

Meanwhile:

YouGov survey finds nearly 90% of Britons support abortion

https://www.msichoices.org/latest/yougov-survey-finds-nearly-90-of-britons-support-abortion-in-the-uk/

StrangeNoises,
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@cstross the attack on trans healthcare in this country is part of this. it's the same fight, with the same enemy, over bodily autonomy, using us as the wedge to, for instance, break the principle of Gillick competency.

GottaLaff, to legal
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I’ll start a 🧵

I will NOT (& often CANNOT) answer questions, so please don’t ask me any. If you have a comment/question for the universe, please label it “NFL” (Not For Laffy) so I can skip thru my replies.

1/… Via Pagliery:

Trump is sitting in court now, surrounded on both sides by his lawyers.
(More…)

StrangeNoises,
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@GottaLaff for these reportage-threads, maybe reverse the polarity. Make it so they have to do FL (For Laffy) if they positively do need a reply, the presumption being not. (Although NFL still understood for clarity.)

GottaLaff, to random
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Last night, via Ruth Ben-Ghiat:

Oh I see. The ideal date for the authoritarian to have elections: never.

Biden-Harris HQ:

says he “wants to be able” to override the Constitution to “pick” when elections are held

StrangeNoises,
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@GottaLaff British prime ministers get to do that. And yes, it completely sucks.

StrangeNoises,
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@GottaLaff still as we've learned, a constitution, written or otherwise, doesn't operate itself. needs hands at the controls.

mostaurelius, to books
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A pack horse librarian delivering books in rural Kentucky in 1938. During the Great Depression, the Pack Horse Library Project was a Works Progress Administration (WPA) program in which the librarians, who were often called "book women" or "book ladies," delivered books to remote parts of Appalachia.

source: https://www.facebook.com/GoodwillLibrarian

@bookstodon

StrangeNoises,
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@mostaurelius @bookstodon @Barbramon1 Also see "Upright Women Wanted" by Sarah Gailey (who did turn up on Mastodon @gaileyfrey @Gaileyfrey) but sadly doesn't appear to have stuck around. These, needed again in a future-patriarchic US that's all too plausible right now. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Upright-Women-Wanted-Sarah-Gailey-ebook/dp/B07R8PCFN2

futurebird, to random
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Have you ever tried to measure a cat with a tape measure? It will make you question the solidity of dimensional space.

Pica, small cat
Height: 22 to 47cm
Girth: 33 to ??cm (ouch cm)
Length: 37cm
Length w/ tail: 66cm
Weight: 5.9 pounds/ 2.7 Kg
Max Length (Dangle): 74cm! oh no

she's getting longer.

Rate of Enlonganmentation
dML/dt: 1.2cm / second

No signs of increase stopping. Cat keeps increasing.
All clear! ALL CLEAR!
Soon she will be in all locations.

This was a bad project idea.

StrangeNoises,
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@futurebird @lisamelton i particularly love how, if you watch a black cat curled up sleeping, it looks like they're expanding continuously without actually getting bigger.

it's good to know it's not just an optical illusion and may actually be measurable. or rather, it's precisely that it’s not measurable!

StrangeNoises, to random
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@ivory testing. when i boost this post, in the compose window it looks correct, but when viewed in ivory it just looks like, and acts like, a link to the website, clicking on it goes to that post at that site (not just viewing the post in ivory). so it might be a rendering issue rather than a posting issue.
https://werewolf.town/notes/9rxy94obybr5x625

StrangeNoises,
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@ivory what that post looked like while composing:

StrangeNoises, to random
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hmm. @ivory quote-posting doesn't seem to be working for me. just get a link to the OP's profile, not to the post.

Garwboy, to random
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"If you're under 25 your brain isn't fully developed, so you can't be trusted to make informed decisions"

I'm seeing this a LOT lately, especially today with the Cass Review fallout. And it's utter guff, based on hearsay, misunderstandings of neuroscience, or wilful ignorance.

Why? I'll tell you why

/1

StrangeNoises,
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@Garwboy it's all a pretext. they want to break Gillick competence for kids, they want to break bodily autonomy. there’s a reason the same people are also trying to ban abortion everywhere. it's the same people. they're just using trans people, and trans kids especially, as the wedge.

davidbures, (edited ) to random
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Don’t mess with us SwiftUI on macOS fans, we literally don’t exist (according to Apple and 99,9% of tutorials)

StrangeNoises,
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@davidbures there are lonelier paths to tread. this here idiot is trying to write a modern-looking/behaving desktop app in Swing in 2024.

today I found a bug. I mean, there's a lot wrong; i mean, even in Java terms it's the API that time forgot (older than concurrency, generics, enums, even older than Collections) and there's a lot missing, but after all this time actual bugs are few and far between. but I found one. and i rate my chances of getting a fix... low.

StrangeNoises,
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@davidbures tbh wrt SwiftUI the consensus out there does seem to be that it's just not ready yet, and Swift+AppKit is probably the way to go especially if you don't need it to run on iOS. not much good if you want it to run on linux & windows as well though... ;-)

goatsarah, to random

Dear UK residents. I’m sorry to be tedious, but I’m going to do the trans Cassandra thing again.

The government is now moving towards regarding trans people as effective children until the age of 25.

This will be established as precedent and then used to screw over any and all young adults who can’t escape from abusive parents, especially young women.

If you want to do anything about this, you need to fight for trans people. Yes, you. Now.

We all know that isn’t going to happen to any significant extent though.

As you were.

StrangeNoises,
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@goatsarah @christineburns they want to break Gillick competence. Trans kids are the wedge they're using. But as in the US, they were never going to stop there.

And extending "children" to refer to people up to 25 is also, as you say, not going to stop with trans people.

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