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amberage

@amberage@eldritch.cafe

The transsexual dyke your liberal columnists warned you about.

Part-time woman, full-time nuisance. May contain traces of neurodivergence. Cisn't. Now you say ‘pronouns in bio’ because you have no other jokes.

Anti-fascism. Intersectional & queer feminism. Prison abolition. Liberation for all. International solidarity. I've been around long enough to see every discourse several times over, so spare me the bullshit.

Thank fuck not American.

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Tijn, to random
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Discord on my old Mac just updated itself to a version my computer can't run 🙃

amberage,
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@Tijn same thing happened to me a while back with Syncthing on Win7 updating to a version that requires Win10 🙃

amberage, to StarTrek
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The Borg in 1990: unknowable, formidable enemies, a hive-mind, so alien nobody can defeat them, a single cube can destroy entire colonies and is a near-unstoppable threat to Earth

The Borg in 1998: a queen who is so human-like she can be tricked and played like a fiddle, dozens of Borg cubes blown up left and right, the Borg are sexy now

The Borg in 2024: for $17.99, you can buy a 340g bag of "Borg Blend" light roast coffee with the Borg Queen printed on it

A franchise in decline... feeling like a Roman citizen seeing the marketing department Visigoths approaching on the horizon.

sfwrtr, to photography
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A Sunday tradition: a cup of real caffeinated coffee in a 1984 Olympic glass mug.

1984 Olympics commemorative glass mug with symbols of athletes doing weight lifting, wrestling, running, and archery.

amberage,
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@sfwrtr it's not lead painted, is it? 😅

amberage, to reddit
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I wonder what going public will mean for Reddit's nsfw communities. How long it's going to take until investor pressure forces them to crack down and bully or outright ban nsfw subreddits one by one.

Reddit is somewhat unique in that it's one of the largest remaining sites, or perhaps the largest since the Tumblr nsfw purge, that are fine with nsfw content and that recruit a considerable share of their users via nsfw content.

amberage,
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@MisuseCase @JonChevreau oh jesus, I hadn't even thought of that 😬

amberage, to random
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Question: a desktop software that queries the public Mastodon API to provide an overview of an instance (about page, rules, admin account, user count, moderated instances) – would that have any scraping / block circumventing concerns?

This would be without access token and such, so authorised fetch, disallow public API access, etc. would prevent fetching any information. And all of this is publicly available information that can be queried from /api/v1/instance without requiring authorization (by default). Basically, nothing you couldn't find by going to instance.example/about.

Any privacy/block concerns I'm missing?

mattblaze, to random
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An interesting thing about the XZ sabotage is that, while it was very cleverly obfuscated (congratulations to Andres Freund for finding it!), once found, it is very clear that it's a deliberate backdoor. It can't be explained away as an ordinary bug that introduced a vulnerability.

Says something about the tradeoff space the attacker was working in.

amberage,
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@mattblaze @UncivilServant no expert on attribution, but aren't intelligence agencies kinda infamous for being fairly detached from governments and doing their own thing? Like, "the government doesn't know what their own cops are doing" is kind of a recurring motif with every intelligence scandal of the last decade.

Governments change every few years, so the people who fail to hold intelligence agencies accountable change every few years.

amberage, to random
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"my great dane is fine" sir your horse thinks she's a puppy

amberage, to StarTrek
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Trekkies, esp. Trekkies of colour: are there any good articles / essays / videos about Worf and how people relate to his Federation–Klingon cultural struggles?

TechConnectify, to random
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Several people now have tagged me in the Mini arrow-lookin'-tail light thing.

You're correct that it bothers me but you're incorrect if you think the arrow part has much to do with it.

It's bothersome to me only because it's a combined brake and turn indicator!

I am surprised at folks who think the resemblance to an arrow pointing the wrong way is actually confusing: I find it extremely unlikely that people even parse the presence of the arrow over which side of the vehicle is flashing.

amberage,
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@TechConnectify "getting brain-locked trying to figure it out" tbh. Like I immediately see two conflicting signals and my brain just shuts down like a robot trying to parse the liar's paradox.

gknauss, to random
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Remember a month or so ago when I split my scalp open and got an ambulance ride to the ER and a CT scan and an EKG and some staples whacked into my head? The bill came.

It was $200.

Well, that was my deductible. The actual bill was $4,598.37.

Well, that’s what the insurance company paid by contract. The actual bill was $25,546.25.

It’s like I got a twenty-five grand bonus just because I have a job.

The American medical system is insane.

Still waiting on the ambulance invoice.

amberage,
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@gknauss stupid question maybe, but... who pays the ~$20k difference between the bill and what the insurance paid? I'm a little confused (not-USian here)

danilo, to random
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There's a staleness to how technology firms communicate with the public. It's all a degenerate descendent of the Steve Jobs tent revival shows of 97-2007

But the difference is that Jobs was exploiting a gradient that no longer exists.

The gap between what was technologically possible with miniaturization and design, and what the public EXPECTED from their technology.

Consider the announcement of AirPort:

https://youtu.be/3iTNWZF2m3o?si=_q5u3GY-cIaFd-Mi&t=860

amberage,
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@danilo the last big deal was AR/VR and that has largely failed to become mainstream or offer benefits that outweigh the downsides imo

amberxorluci, to random
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If you keep faving all my posts we're gonna end up like this

amberage,
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@amberxorluci do we get to fire it too

amberage,
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@astrid @amberxorluci i think that's what polyamory is for

polyarmoury, if you will

amberxorluci, to random
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What ISO is your pigeon

amberage,
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@amberxorluci terminally camerabrained: thought this referred to film sensitivity

alanferrier, to random
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The danger of ignoring atrocities, via Naomi Klein.
https://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/mar/14/the-zone-of-interest-auschwitz-gaza-genocide

amberage,
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@alanferrier that's what really gets me: the collective lesson of the holocaust was supposed to be "let's never let that happen again", but a lot of people twist that to mean "let's never compare anything to this again", and it's heartbreaking.

amberage, to random
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So how do you ask your doctor "can you please look into diagnosis x" without putting it like that?

Doctors don't like it when patients think or read about stuff, but also this stuff is really worrying me.

amberage,
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("This stuff" being new, extremely severe, chronic headaches in my temples, eyes, and jaw. That's telltale temporal arteritis, which is pretty rare, but also has been found to be possibly caused by COVID. So it's rare enough that doctors might not even think of it, but I fit the profile (symptoms / just had COVID) perfectly. But if I just say "have you considered GCA", they'll get angry at me for googling.)

(Edit: oh and declining eyesight)

amberage,
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That's not to say I think it is GCA. That's pretty unlikely. Migraines, cluster headaches, misaligned jaw, muscle tension, etc. are all more likely explanations.

But it seems just possible enough that I'm afraid to discount it.

amberage,
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I really wish doctors were less anti-research. Sure, for every 1 patient who comes in with useful research they did beforehand, you get 9 who didn't, but still, conveying to patients that they have nothing but contempt for people who are genuinely trying to make their job easier and help themselves is pretty shitty, yknow?

And it doesn't go well with the actually very real problem of chronically ill people suffering from uninformed doctors who don't usually treat anything more complicated than hayfever...

amberage, to random
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Want to avoid software (Discord, Email, etc.) automatically turning domains into clickable links?

The zero-width joiner (U+200D) is your friend!

schratze, to random
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Incredible how just in a few years, the smartphone went from

"a device that's nice to have and allows you to contact people, access your calendar, play games and look up bus schedules on the go"

to

"a device you're absolutely required to own and have access to at all times because if you don't, you don't get a bank account, health insurance, public transit, or basically any online service required for enrollment in a school or an employment contract"

amberage,
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@schratze (funny enough, I can find more info on the author and book in German (Satellit auf falscher Bahn) than in English… can we call that The Hooters phenomenon?

amberage,
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@schratze The Hooters (band, not the boobs restaurant) are a lot more successful in Europe, Germany especially, than at home.

amberage, to Fashion
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and fediverse, help me out here, please.

A while ago, I saw a comment somewhere (not necessarily fedi) that boiled down roughly to this:

"The British aristocracy made their (edit: male) servants recognisable as such by dressing them in formal clothes, but in mismatched combinations (i.e. tailcoat with a black bowtie, long tie with a wing collar)."

This was (roughly speaking and to the best of my knowledge) about the Victorian through Edwardian and early Modern periods, i.e. when formalwear as we know it (morning coat, tailcoat, etc.) already existed in roughly the form we know it.

I can't find that comment anymore, and I don't expect I ever will, but it would be fascinating to read more about this subject, very specific and niche as it is. I've tried googling around for it (i.e. "historical british servant dress codes"), but found very little.

If anyone has some reading material on that (preferably online or books buyable online, if not I'll have to see if my library can get foreign (english) literature), I would be super grateful for any links or the likes.

@histodons

amberage,
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@histodons still looking, btw

QasimRashid, to random
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Actual conversation I had…

Me: Billionaire philanthropy is nothing more than PR. Tax billionaires.
Troll: Lol you trust the Govt to spend our money?
Me: Yes, the Govt is elected by We the People, and therefore is accountable to us and can be voted out.
Troll: Govt is bought.
Me: Bought by who?
Troll: By billionai—...😳
Me: ...🤔
Troll: Ok, Tax billionaires.

amberage,
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@mxtthxw @QasimRashid personally, I'm a big fan of a tax system that ramps up tax rates in a way that making billions isn't possible. The closer you get to billions, the higher the tax rate, up to a theoretical 100% for all I care.

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