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Vierkantor

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Do not just send a follow request! Please, first read the whole thread of the pinned introduction post and send a message indicating this: https://mastodon.vierkantor.com/@Vierkantor/109267816559475061

dr. & /'ɑ.nə/ (or use one of the secret bonus names and numbers) & (intuitionistic) maths / programming / languages & grammatical gender: neuter/feminine rational nonhuman animate (or best offer) & tra(i)ns, crows and sheep & as seen in children's magazine & UTC+00:00 unless mentioned otherwise & may act in ways that are difficult to explain to kids

If you are studying at the VU Amsterdam, likely to take one of my classes, or expect only professional topics, please follow @anne instead. Thanks!

"acceptably deranged" — https://icosahedron.website/@aeonofdiscord
"terrifying, thank you" — https://eldritch.cafe/@AgathaSorceress
"you're one of the most dutch sounding people I know" — https://www.librepunk.club/@streetlite
"why would you do this to me anne" — @trickster
"my brain is making dial up noises, you broke me" — @isa
"delightfully neurodivergent" — https://chaos.social/@julialuna

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a broken clock might be right twice a day but this frozen bus departure screen is right every half an hour

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Mori Calliope is a VTuber?? i thought she was in Homestuck!

Vierkantor,
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like isn't there one of the gray dudes who is called something like Mori Calliope?

Vierkantor,
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i have been vaguely aware of her existence and some discourse that she did bad things in the past and nobody can agree whether she could or did make up for it. But i thought it was like a Vriska thing not an actual fictional real virtual human person!

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This is no joke i am actually begging someone to respond to this and confirm i'm not just making things up! Isn't there someone in Homestuck called something like Mori Calliope? i didn't just make everything up right??

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scp minor phenomenon proposal: a mathematical calculation involving well understood objects which takes some amount of work to solve, and gives different results depending on your philosophy on the foundations of maths despite not involving any sort of logic in its definition. the order of an element in some higher homotopy group of some slightly unusual space is 2 if you're a formalist, 3 if you're a platonist and 37 if you are an intuitionist.

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domain names that haven't been renewed but still live on in special configuration files: /etc/ghosts

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if you use pragma once you might be entitled to one plate of pasta from me

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@amberxorluci what if i used #pragma many times?

Vierkantor,
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@amberxorluci yay! i used pragma once lots :3

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Facebook just emailed me to let me know someone tried to log into the account that i deleted about 10 years ago, so apparently they were helpful enough to restore all the data that they deleted :thonk:​

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Hi [DEADNAME], The Facebook account associated with [ANCIENT EMAIL ADDRESS] was recently reactivated. If you weren't the one who reactivated this account, please visit our Help Centre .

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i loved how in the Matrix the evil guy said "Tell me Mr. Anderson, what good is a phone call if 🔒 Unable to decrypt: The sender's device has not sent us the keys for this message"

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you don't need captchas to combat spam.
you simply have a human review signup requests.

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@sqrt2 @owl i haven't seen the spam either in fact!

we're at the point where i will pay money to actually have a newsletter which summarizes and explains the events going on that i only hear indirectly

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i think i would enjoy being fedi famous for like one day and then hate everyone on this damned webbed site

please protect me from myself and do not make me fedi famous

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posting this is win-win: either i never become fedi famous and i can go "😎 hell yeah my wish came true" or i do become famous and i can go "😎 now it's your fault i am famous"

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protip: if you are going to your computer job to use a computer make sure that you bring the computer you're going to go compute on. and once you run back from the bus stop and get the computer, don't then forget your transit pass at home.

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anyway i made the transfer so i'm only a couple minutes late for the meeting!

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you cannot count the number of awas i waed at Koyaanisqatsi

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so according to my flawed understanding my doctoral degree does not actually specify what it's in. so i can call myself "PhD in aggressive mechanization" and nobody can do anything about it :3

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also very fun that the Dutch word for or is "of" and you can choose between the degrees of "Doctor" or "Doctor of Philosophy" so you get phrases like like "de graden Doctor of Doctor of Philosophy"

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let's see if from now on i have learned the lesson that if you don't know what's in your backups, you don't have a backup!

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my favourite controversial theory is that the apostrophe is a letter in the English alphabet. it's a character occurring in words that distinguishes both meaning and pronunciation. moreover, they are inserted, just like other letters, in made up fantasy names.

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My hair: Can't wait to be out of the bad water (rain) and be in the good water (shower)

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hmm maybe for fun i will try resurrecting the machine whose motherboard goes extremely dead if you do the wrong thing to it (wrong things include: trying to boot most linux distros)

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ah no nevermind, the nvidia module didn't get loaded due to errors! so let's stick with nouveau for now

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okay tried going from linux-lts to linux 6.7.4 and we're in worse shape 😬

nvidia still causes a black screen but now additionally plugging in a thunderbolt (-> ethernet) cable causes a kernel oops! i should probably just go back to the old kernel before the upgrade that broke everything.

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