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fishidwardrobe

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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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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"?

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?

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?

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).

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?

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Had a little experiment for a couple of months. Set my default posting to "unlisted".

  • It doesn't do what I thought it did – posts still turn up in my followers' timelines.

  • I don't think it does what it's supposed to do: if someone boosts my toot, everyone can see it (or if not: it lets people boost a toot when that does nothing. Either way, that doesn't work.)

I shall return to my belief that every one of these posting types is broken, except maybe – maybe – "global"

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.)

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.

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.

Floppy, to random
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I’m at Crawley STEM fest and the Thales kids quiz thing has this question in it. I am unreasonably angry.

fishidwardrobe,
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@Floppy The least wrong answer here is D

geordie, to random
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AI is going to spark a new dawn of human understanding and the valuation of knowledge. It will do this by making everything you read online almost certainly complete bullshit, leading to a renaissance of people engaging verified experts on a commercial basis.

fishidwardrobe,
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@geordie Well, I thought the coming of a global pandemic would spark a new dawn of understanding of public health. So.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Just flicking through a popular "make it for yourself" magazine via my library's app. Every single project uses a Raspberry Pi.

I suppose the age of amateur electronic engineers is gone. And the actions of rpi as a company have been questionable of late. Both of those things make me sad.

But beyond that – where the hell are folks getting these Pis from? They're always out of stock?

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.

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"

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Advert: "When you fill your skin with life, it feels…"

I'm sorry, what the fuck?

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.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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A common inner dialogue:

"What's the correct term for X? I'm going to have to talk about X with people, and they need to know what I mean.

…Oh. Wait. I'm going to have to talk about it with people. Never mind the correct term; what would they call it? And, throw in some swears, that usually helps."

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Had a reminder yesterday of what more seriously effected folks have to deal with all the time. I'm currently in a minor burnout, so I'm worse than usual. Trying to take it as a useful lesson. It helps I was assured by other staff that the little hitler who bumped up against me – I'll spare you the details – was in the wrong.

But my first thought was a depressing one: folks behave like that because there are just too many people. And treating them as people uses up spoons?

fishidwardrobe, to LLMs
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I'll admit I find fascinating, although not for the reason so many others seem to.

I'm not impressed by their answers -- you can quickly see how flaky they are. I'm impressed by their apparent ability to understand the question.

That word "apparent" is load-bearing. They can't, of course. Can't reason or understand. And yet this apparent ability is strong enough that you can instruct them in plain English to subvert their own design.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Out of curiosity I searched the "bot" hashtag. I can only see half a dozen. I suppose it's harder to make a genuinely useful bot than you might at first think.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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This is probably just me being very autistic. But if a word has three meanings, A, B, anl C; and C is a slur; and something in IT is named that word because A — why do people go after that thing saying it's a slur?

There are two other meanings right there. If you see the slur, isn't that on you, just a little bit?

fishidwardrobe, to random
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I've said this before, but I wish there was a way to "boost with added CW". Specifically I'd like to not be able to edit the CW text; It should be the hashtags in the OP, or failing that the first five words in it.

There's stuff on here I don't boost because I don't have the spoons tn work out how to do it while honouring my promise to CW doom, politics, etc.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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I'm afraid the context is private, but something you should know: all those cheap crime novels? The folks willing to do ridiculous, stupid, criminal things because they feel they're entitled to something someone else has right now? That shit happens. In the UK. Among "normal", affluent, middle-class people. I've personally rubbed up against it happening twice – although not to me directly, thankfully.

(I'm safe. My family are safe.)

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Fell over this issue with today at work AGAIN. So annoying.

If you add program foo.rb to the default branch (say) by merging it from another branch -- then ´hg log foo.rb´ will not show the merge commit. Finding the record of when (or if!) it was merged is rather hard.

fishidwardrobe, to random
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Does anyone know how I can find out the particular "infosec sins" (ie whether it reports your location, can be remotely hacked, etc) of a given car?

Edit: for complex reasons we may find ourselves with one of two new cars and I'd like to choose the one that's least sucky in that regard.

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