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fishidwardrobe

@fishidwardrobe@mastodon.me.uk

Monsters from the Id! Fish from the Wardrobe! Or something.

(TTRPG/Coding/Linux/Politics/Snark/Woo/ASD, in no particular order.)

Boosts are almost certainly an endorsement of something. Possibly not literally the post in question, though.

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mcc, to random
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Pondering configuring a web server to set the EICAR antivirus test string as a cookie on all page loads and never bother reading it back

fishidwardrobe,
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@mcc GDPR does not require you to ask consent to set any cookie.

(It does require you to use collected data only for the purpose you collected it. So if you're collecting data at random, gotta declare a purpose of some kind, I suppose.)

dansup, to fediverse
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Anyone building a federated Stack Overflow?

fishidwardrobe,
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@dansup a giant webring of "here's how I solved X" technical blog posts, maybe?

baldur, to random
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One of the worst things that can happen to a new idea for reforming software development is to have DHH swoop in with a half-assed shitty implementation of it, poisoning the idea for a generation of devs

fishidwardrobe,
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@baldur Unpopular opinion: the software industry should stop coming up with new ways to do things for a while. At this point it's just churn. Feels like advertisments for soap powder (or, indeed, SOAP powder).

RickiTarr, to random
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I'm going to start writing all my posts on old English, and daring people to correct my grammar and spelling.

fishidwardrobe,
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@RickiTarr interesting, the meaning appears to have changed too.

Am I right in thinking the older versions are closer to, "he shows me where the good pasture and the clean water is"?

annaghughes, to random
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tired: it's pronounced S Q L

wired: it's pronounced sequel

inspired: it's pronounced squirrel

fishidwardrobe,
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@annaghughes I have genuinely known folks who say "squirrel"

davidbrin, to random
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Noam Chomsky is a litmus for fecal nonsense. I can't recall once across 30 yrs when he said anything right or wise. Much like that vile gnome Yoda -and DTrump- he growls/grumps nonsense while fans nod, citing him in book quotes and mind-poison virals.

https://news.berkeley.edu/2022/05/19/open-letter-to-noam-chomsky-and-other-like-minded-intellectuals-on-the-russia-ukraine-war

fishidwardrobe,
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@aral @howlinhobbit Mate, you can call him wrong -- for all I know he may be -- but David Brin? A simpleton? ROFL.

I mean, hurl random insults at whoever you like, I guess. But at least make the insults credible.

eclectech, to Polls
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Well this is new. And odd.

Do YouGov have a bot problem they're trying to fix, or are they trying to to gather information about interpreting images?

Very weird question to be faced with at random anyhow.

fishidwardrobe,
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@eclectech I'm autistic and rather unlikely to give the "correct answer" -- indeed, I'm not sure that there is one. Tired? Frustrated? Depressed? Dissapointed?

Each of these feelings have caused me to assume a similar pose to the picture.

kyonshi, to linux
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Despite working in IT I am quite ignorant when it comes hardware/electronics.
Today's project: trying to figure out why that sbc I put batocera Linux on doesn't want to run it's fan.

I still haven't actually come to a conclusion. The Le Potato sbc has a different gpio layout than the raspberry, and batocera is weirdly different from anything I am used to.

In the end I learned that not connecting one of the cables to its pin lets the fan spin on full power. And that's OK for now.

fishidwardrobe,
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@kyonshi not even as an optional package? That would be a hard no here.

dgoldsmith, to random
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“How can you listen to a kid who wants to change sex? My kid wants to be a dinosaur!”

Because unlike wanting to be a dinosaur, there's decades of science showing kids with persistent gender dysphoria:

  1. Rarely grow out of it
  2. Continue to suffer if not treated
  3. Suffer lifelong pain if they go through the wrong puberty
  4. Are at significant risk of suicide/self-harm if untreated
  5. Thrive as well as cis kids if they are supported by family/friends and given gender-affirming care
fishidwardrobe,
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@dgoldsmith And if they do grow out of it they can just stop taking the drugs and go through puberty, if they want?

fitheach, to food
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Gross food experiment

As you can see from the attached photo, the packet of beef mince has passed it's "use-by" date. The date, "16 Mar" isn't for the day three weeks ago, it is for 16 March 2021.

Yup, the packet has been in my 'fridge for over three years. I've got plenty of space in my big 'fridge. 😃

The contents discoloured within a few days of purchase. The colour went from a rich red to the much paler shade shown in the photo. The packaging got sucked-in, but, remained air-tight.

fishidwardrobe,
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@fitheach humans come with an array of built in sensors finely tuned over the millenia to distinguish bad food from good.

Put another way: what does it smell like?

inthehands, to random
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In the wake of the xz exploit, I quipped, “Free software, eh, fine, whatever. What does •sustainable• software look like?”

I haven’t heard anybody give a more thoughtful or more useful answer to that question than @jenniferplusplus in this blog post, which has not one but •two• crucial insights:

https://jenniferplusplus.com/the-free-software-commons/

1/

fishidwardrobe,
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@inthehands @jenniferplusplus This is extremely good. I think you could argue that a commons is exactly what the original "guys with beards sharing mainframe code" that started all this were trying to build, but either way it seems to me it's exactly how we should view it.

matt, to Youtube
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YouTube just recommended a video titled “Varieties of sausages” and I’m obviously going to click that.

:youtube: https://youtu.be/8MzlXGM9IhA

fishidwardrobe,
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@matt Ah, the UK, where you have to work in catering to know that "salami" is a sausage.
Is it any wonder I lack a certain respect for the folks around me?

didgebaba, to random
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“Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
"I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
"I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet.
"This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable."
-- William Shatner, actor

fishidwardrobe,
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@thepoliticalcat @unlambda @Natanox @mral @trechnex @didgebaba Oh, he's definitely a jerk. Always was, even when filming TOS. But even jerks can get inspired.

Di4na, to random
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So we have it now. Rust solved a large number of the safety problems of the system language level. Not everything ofc, but still. Lot of them. And it is actually being adopted.

So I have a question for my cybersecurity/infosec crowd.

Have you introspected why 3 decades of yelling about that stuff got no results, 3 decades of sanitisers and fuzzers barely moved the needle, but Rust slam dunked it?

Where is the retrospective of what went wrong? Where are the learnings?

fishidwardrobe,
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@Di4na We should recognise the possibility that it may have simply been random factors that caused the adoption of Rust where other solutions didn't take off; that there wasn't something specific Rust did right or the others did wrong.

fishidwardrobe,
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@Di4na popularity <> success

fishidwardrobe,
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@Di4na Lots and lots of devs don't get to choose what language they use to solve a problem.

For example, the problem may be in an existing codebase that's not theirs. Most of the problems Rust might fix are problems with existing codebases. The question was what made it successful at that.

dgar, to random
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Out visiting the in-laws.
Here’s my view right now.

fishidwardrobe,
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@dgar your inlaws are trees?

dgar, to random
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I’m so excited!

My new "Archery Target Disguise" has finally arrived!

fishidwardrobe,
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@dgar I'm betting you will be a hit.

dgar, (edited ) to random
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Hashtag:
Hosted By: @MarkIngs
Subject: Unity
Submission: Love Is All
By: Roger Glover and Ronnie Dio
Submitted by: @dgar
Songwhip Link: https://songwhip.com/roger-glover/love-is-all
Context: https://mindly.social/@bborn/112136911862890289

fishidwardrobe,
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@dgar @MarkIngs as a kid watching this ... Over and over ... I didn't catch the references to Yellow Submarine in the animation...

Catvalente, to random
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The Child (working on trying new foods because…a child) requested “Eggplant Parmesan Thursday”

OH MY GOD THAT IS SO MUCH MORE WORK THAN I THOUGHT.

If he turns up his nose at this I might cry.

fishidwardrobe,
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@Rycaut @Catvalente Seems as if you would use up a LOT of olive oil with this recipe...

solarbird, to science

this is some 1820s science right here

What.

“We have discovered that hard, electrical conductors (e.g., metals or graphite) can be adhered to soft, aqueous materials (e.g., hydrogels, fruit, or animal tissue) without the use of an adhesive. The adhesion is induced by a low DC electric field.“

Most importantly: it stays stuck with the voltage turned off. It’s stable for MONTHS. Reverse the polarity of the electrical flow and it unsticks. YES REALLY. This is some literal “Alessandro Volta playing around with bananas in a shed” science AND YET it WORKS and we DID NOT KNOW.

Here’s a video. Holy shit. What.

[link]

fishidwardrobe,
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@vik @solarbird With a print bed made of meat?

Cat_LeFey, to random
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Overheard conversation at the hospital:

Nurse: “Could you be pregnant?”
Patient: “No.”
“You've had a tubal ligation?”
“No.”
“Oh, so you could be pregnant?”
“No, my husband has a vasectomy.”
“Those aren't always 100%”
“Well, I haven't had sex since November, when I got sick.”
“When was your last period?”
“A couple weeks ago.”
“Okay, we're gonna go ahead and give you a pregnancy test, just to be sure.”

What kind of christofascist hellscape are we living in?

fishidwardrobe,
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@Cat_LeFey There is a reason for this. Unlikely as it seems, it's good medical practise to rule out pregnancy 100%. It turns out, counter-intuitively, that it's very easy indeed to be pregnant and not know it.
And it's a common condition with a long list of side-effects.

We know this first-hand. My wife has a long list of chronic illnesses. The drugs masked her pregnancy. We're not ignorant but had no idea. We only found out when a spinal x-ray found a second spine...

fishidwardrobe,
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@Cat_LeFey GP apologised profusely. She said from now on she would return to how she had been taught: assume pregnancy until you have ruled it out.

Cat_LeFey, to paganism
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One major difference between paganism and other major world religions is that we don't believe life is a punishment. We are not born sinful and in need of forgiveness; to live is not to suffer.

Life is a gift, and the opportunity to learn and evolve is a blessing. To be a pagan, you don't have to be anything other than the wonderful, complex animal you are.

fishidwardrobe,
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@Cat_LeFey I consider myself Pagan -- but most religions don't teach that life is punishment. That's Christianity, certainly. But.

fkamiah17, to UKpolitics
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Finally the press cottons on to what we've been saying for months - Labour's poll numbers are soft. And they're not paying any attention to it.

fishidwardrobe,
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@fkamiah17 So Labour have convinced 60% of voters, then. That's impressive - although they certainly haven't convinced me.

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