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irenes

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You are all dreams and we are happy to know you, as you are nice dreams. We are an asexual autistic trans-feminine plural system with a label collection.

We compromise with legibility only so far as to say the following: Technology Director at Internet Safety Labs; ex-Google information privacy expert. 🏳️‍⚧️🍁

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bigzaphod, to random
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I love how Quark seems to sell food and drink in his bar except it is usually all replicated on a standard food replicator - the same type as dozens of others that are all over the station and are apparently free to use by anyone??

irenes,
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@bigzaphod since none of the Starfleet people have money, we really want to know more about the financial arrangement between Quark and the Federation. does the Federation pay a lump sum?

irenes,
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@bigzaphod wait, but he's renting the replicator and venue FROM the Federation. is the net balance towards the Federation? he's paying them to serve them drinks and feel like a capitalist?

like, that would be consistent with stuff today's capitalists occasionally do, so who knows, maybe he is.

irenes,
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@foolishowl @xgranade @bigzaphod also, like, land can't possibly be non-scarce and he has that enormous family estate

irenes,
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@danilo @bigzaphod amazing

your analysis sounds solid

irenes,
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@xgranade @foolishowl @bigzaphod oh that is indeed very strange

irenes,
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@xgranade @foolishowl @bigzaphod that feel when you envision a world without money but forget to envision a world without bosses

irenes,
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@danilo @bigzaphod interesting point. we WOULD have said people just enjoy the intangible aspect of knowing someone put their love into making the beverage or whatever

but if it's at the point where they need to smuggle it, it would be cheaper to counterfeit it instead (and to pass counterfeits off as contraband if necessary to get buy-in), and the supply of it is scarce enough that it clearly is not counterfeit

irenes,
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@danilo @bigzaphod this is what working in adtech does to you. for the rest of your life you automatically game things out like "that second-order scam doesn't make sense because of the third-order scam".

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay, a little mystery also for today. After the Toxic Club, my
brother and I got a strawberry limeade at a little drive inn, and drove around this Conservation Area, but then we start seeing this fence with these signs, it's like 8 foot tall with lots of the fence totally blacked out, and these signs placed on them that say:

Saline Valley Ranch, No Hunting, No Trespassing

This fence went for miles, and miles had to be incredibly pricey to put in, it reminded me of the fence they'd have at a minimum security prison, but we didn't see cows, horses, crops, nothing but woods and hills and miles and miles of giant fence.

We try to find information about what it is, but there's basically nothing. My husband looks it up on Google Earth, and finds Little Saline Ranch, and I look it up, and it says permanently closed, and even less information is available about that. Google Earth shows lots of wooded land, a lake, and a few open fields, but we couldn't see any buildings or animals, nothing like that.

So, looking up that I find this article about mysterious happenings in the area:

https://www.cjonline.com/story/news/local/2018/10/31/hunting-ghosts-miller-county-other/9408986007

It mentions several people seeing a Bigfoot type cryptid in the area, so obviously the fence is to keep it in. My other guesses involve a government blacksite, as it isn't too far from and airforce base, or a doomsday cult, what do you all think?

irenes,
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@RickiTarr well it sounds like bare minimum precautions for rich assholes doing rich asshole stuff

also for abusive cult-like things such as conversion camps

so, like, less of an interesting mystery and more something we'd prefer to not find out more about so we don't get upset

TheJen, to random
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I cried at the Voyager news today. I also know why.

Because for every techbro out there, there's a talented engineer quietly working to make things actually better.

That gives me hope.

Hope is in short supply these days.

irenes,
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@TheJen we also personally feel like space probes are kind-of the tangible expressions of humanity's hope for a future where we can focus on exploring the universe and learning everything there is to learn

so it makes us happy that they're out there

brunoph, to Birds
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So many birbs today!

an orange-crowned warbler perched in a little tree branch under the canopy of maple trees. it is inspecting its surroundings while the sun shines on it
a dark-eyed junco stands on a tree log. it is facing the camera in a way that looks like it is posing
a golden-crowned sparrow perched in a leafy branch of a tree. it looks very round, almost too big for its tiny wings

irenes,
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@brunoph oh! wow. great pics!

danderson, to random
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Another day, another bunch of people who really need to be told "to get the most from this post, I suggest you read it." But I expect deciding what it says halfway through the first sentence is much more efficient, a true Rational doesn't need to burden themself with excess input before forming a take.

(I realized while writing that I was being gender neutral by habit, but... Well, feels maybe too generous in this instance)

irenes,
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@danderson (we think avoiding gender in this context is worthwhile for its own sake, whether or not it's supported by the facts. specifically, we prefer not to reinforce us/them thinking.)

mwichary, to random
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What would you consider as the most recognizable bitmap fonts in tech history?

I’m imagining stuff like:

  • the arcade/Atari font
  • Chicago (Mac, then iPod)
  • VCR/video equipment fonts
  • Minecraft font
  • IBM PC fonts (MDA, VGA, stuff like that)
  • perhaps System font from Windows 3.x
  • Commodore 64, just because of the sheer popularity of the machine

What am I missing?

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irenes,
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@mwichary we imagine you must be familiar with https://www.penguinrandomhouse.ca/books/617915/arcade-game-typography-by-toshi-omigari/9780500021743

but just in case

there is for sure room to talk about pixel fonts on things that aren't arcade games. it's such a fascinating space.

irenes,
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@mwichary and similarly, you've probably seen https://deathgenerator.com/#gallery (yes, the font rendering for each of these was lovingly reverse-engineered)

but, again, better to say it unnecessarily than to let it be missed

mcc, to random
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systems are more resilient than conspiracies

and they require no intention to operate

only incentives

irenes,
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@mcc damn right

leftpaddotpy, to NixOS
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A lot of the problems in the / community are fundamental, built into its culture, from toxic development culture to the two repeated military-industrial sponsorship situations.

The culture of undermining community authority, of acceptability of conflict of interest, of tolerating abusive behaviour, goes up to the very top of the organization, with Eelco Dolstra.

You can read an extensive summary of the issues and sign an open letter to the Foundation here:

https://save-nix-together.org/

irenes,
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@leftpaddotpy speaking for ourselves only, we care about this so much because we care about what the community COULD be, about the ideals it was founded around.

impactology, to random
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What's a trait about yourself that runs counter to the culture you've been brought up in?

Mine is I do not respect elders (or any authority figures for that matter) just because they are elder

In other words I don't automatically confer respect based on age, status but because they did something worthy of it (their actions, knowledge, virtues/politics/ethics)

irenes,
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@impactology we're not sure we have ANYTHING in common with our upbringing

certainly not the things that are normally thought of as culture

nyquildotorg, to random
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“What we’re seeing is that there’s a difference in the diameter of the microstructural components in the brains of autistic people that can cause them to conduct electricity slower,” Newman said.

This new potential autism diagnostic discovery is really interesting to me, and not just because it meshes extremely well with some hypotheses related to brain bandwidth that I hadn't previously associated with autism (that I came up with while high to explain some of the ways THC affects my perception.)

irenes,
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@nyquildotorg from what we do know about neuroscience, it's really hard to not see parallels to signal processing phenomena all over the place

so yes, broadly speaking we think your speculation is in the right direction

of course, this is far, far outside our expertise

futurebird, to random
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So night terrors, sleep paralysis etc. seem to be a real thing. I've had "bad dreams" but never anything that sounds like these experiences. It sounds like it's scary. Scary like when you are home alone and hear a sound and don't know what it is.

I'm curious if people who can have this are can be aware that it's not real when it's happening.

When I get anxious I can also know "this is just that thing" and I'm sort of detached about it?

Can that happen with fear?

irenes,
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@futurebird we haven't had this specific phenomenon, but we've had other dream stuff and ... basically, the practice we've had in understanding our fears in the waking world and letting go of them has translated into dreams and other unusual states pretty well.

mcc, to random
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Looking into how to set up a bluesky server.

Noticed this bit here, in the documentation. That's an interesting way to spell "cannot"

irenes,
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@mcc now of course we're tempted to jump in with debugging "advice" but we doubt we'd see anything you haven't. strace really ought to be the definitive view of things...

irenes,
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@mcc makes sense

impactology, to random
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How do you define culture, and specifically cultural innovation?

What does it mean in a hyperconnected globalized world, for a generation that has grown up on the internet, worldwide, across countries.

I think culture is different ways of being human based on the constraints, limits around you and so something cultural as expression of a facet of humanity

Now what does that mean in a digital space, how many different ways of being are expressed on the internet

irenes,
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@impactology oh well said

irenes, to random
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there's this kind of thinking trap that programmers sometimes fall into, which we'll explain

honestly? in our youth we fell pretty hard into it and were huge Lisp fans. then later we were huge Haskell fans for similar reasons. it took a while to really process everything and come to terms with the impossibility of the desire

irenes,
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we're just gonna bump this old thread of ours. we were reminded of it, and realized it's relevant to some ongoing stuff, and also this seems like a good occasion to port it to cohost so please stand by for a link to the copy over there.

irenes,
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the cohost link, for those who prefer that, is now https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/5666865-technology-communit

this thread will also stay up, and feel free to engage here as well :) sometimes it only becomes clear later on that our things are worth pulling out of the river of endless thoughts...

irenes,
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@inquiline <3 we're flattered (and if you like the phrase, take it!)

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