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irick

@irick@this.mouse.rocks

I am a marginally fluffy queer anarchist ComSci nerd. Software is inherently political and I see the fediverse as a practical application of technology for bottom up organization. I use it for the hallowed aims of posting about cats. I am not safe for work, or for followers under the age of 18.

I do a lot of tech stuff, I help develop VR applications, I am a relationship anarchist and I like to think deeply about play.

Expressions of my opinion are CC BY-ND 4.0
Images of Irick are CC-BY-SA 3.0

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ai6yr, to random

T-shirt seen today at our radio club.

irick,
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@ai6yr
The real question is, are they older than AX.25?

irick, to random
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Oh shit, kink at pride discourse?
Quick, pre-emptive flanking maneuver!

soatok, to random
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There's a contingent in the furry music space that's insistent on trolling Finn / Aural Alliance about what qualifies as "furry music".

Their argument is that it's only furry music if it's about furries.

Uh, okay. Let's think about this logically:

Alice hates furries and writes a song about her hate for furries.

Bob is a furry and writes an EDM song with no lyrics and publishes it under his fursona.

Which is more "furry music" to you?

The trolls say Alice, because it's about furries.

irick,
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@soatok
Any definition of 'furry music' that doesn't include Rainbow Tylenol is incorrect.

writeblankspace, (edited ) to random
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Hypothesis: queers make up roughly or more than 50% of the active people on Fedi.

Boost for science!

You are:

irick,
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@writeblankspace
Wouldn't this poll principally describe the selection bias of your social graph?

ZachWeinersmith, to random
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I'm not super exposed to algorithmic social media, but I post stuff to threads and ohmygod it's literally wall to wall sexy people selling stuff or people being inflammatory dipshits.

irick,
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@ZachWeinersmith
I get you're not plugged in entirely, but given that you've seen the rise and fall of the early blogosphere as well as the modern microblog boom I'm honestly really interested in how you interpret the unfolding of that history into the momentous now.
Do you think there life still left in the surveillance capitalism fueled internet?

irick,
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@ZachWeinersmith
It is so interesting to me that comics don't seem to be multi-media enough to be front and center on the web anymore.

I remember someone explaining vaperwave to me as a rebellion against the disposability of the blue sky era of computing and corporate art. A deliberate re contextualization as a form of radical critique. When you mention the disposability of media, that's what I think of. I am curious as to how the art of the now will be viewed in the light of future critique.

irick, to random
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The cybersecurity industry was a mistake.

Radical_EgoCom, to random
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I know that The Satanic Temple doesn't align with anarchist or communist principles, but I've always loved their Baphomet statue. I appreciate it, not just for its beauty, but because of what it represents: its emphasis on individual autonomy, free expression, and challenging traditional power structures. The statue symbolizes resistance to authoritarianism and the promotion of personal freedom, which resonates with me as an Anarcho-Communist.

irick,
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@Radical_EgoCom
The depiction of Baphomet they are drawing from is the creation of Éliphas Lévi (Alphonse Louis Constant). It is believed that his specific occult philosophy was heavily influenced by his education as a Socialist. While the hermetic current tends to be a bit heavy on hierarchy it is interesting to note the through line of socialist and anarchic thought within the western occult. Alan Moore tends to swim in that current and I always found his medications on anarchism interesting.

NovaSquirrel, to random
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Gonna explore MiSTer since I find FPGA stuff interesting, and having one device that can do tons of stuff sounds really appealing.

I guess that means I'll have several different ways to play the same games, but that was already the case haha. I just like cool gadgets!!

irick,
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@NovaSquirrel
Yeah the MiSTER project is so cool from a preservationist perspective. :)

jonobie, (edited ) to Seattle
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    irick,
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    @jonobie
    Those look to be yellow jackets (yellow coloration on the head with black spots near the top). They are annoying, aggressive, and tend to sting for no reason.
    If you have children or small animals I'd suggest contacting a pest control expert. Otherwise, they are not particularly dangerous if you can avoid the nest. They will swarm to protect the nest though, so it is not advisable to attempt to remove on your own unless you have a bee-keeper's suit and a wet/dry shop vac handy.

    Jyoti, to fediverse
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    MY FELLOW FEDIVERSE GEEKS - PLEASE HELP!

    I wish to abandon YouTube because they are absolute fucking dickheads. I currently have 28K subscribers for 141 vids.

    My current YT channel is a mix of my original music videos, gear reviews and other bits and bobs.

    Which Peertube server would you recommend me to join?

    irick,
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    @Jyoti
    i've been using tilvids.com personally, though makertube.net might be a better fit depending on your focus.

    aral, to random
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    It blows my mind that it’s 2023 and we still can’t have an anchor or a form carry out an HTTP PUT or DELETE request without using a library like htmx.

    But Web DRM? Sure, we’re working on that!

    smh

    irick,
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    @aral
    Every day we stray further from MOAD.

    irick, to random
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    Debian is cool.

    kissane, to Futurology
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    This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.

    https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt

    irick,
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    @kissane
    "I’m tech savvy and have found mastodon simply opaque. I’ve set up 4 accounts, each on a different server, and don’t know how to amalgamate all the people I’m following everywhere" is repeated twice in the same list of excerpts.

    mike, (edited ) to random
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    Threads loses half it's initial sign ups. Where's the tech articles on how Threads is a failure?
    https://mastodon.online/@9to5Mac@mastodon.online/110791529982151238

    irick,
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    @mike @msh @kaydenpat
    Yeah, this is pretty normal. User retention after these sort of massive waves is usually more in the order of 20%. 50% is not bad at all.

    But as @mike pointed out, the tone of the article is way differant compaired to articles covering activitypub at the time when people were jumping over here durring the first two big twitter exiduses... exidesis?
    Exits.

    kissane, (edited ) to random
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    But what is the actual PROBLEM with Mastodon?? Said one hundred dozen people over several months of threads here. So I wrote it up.

    It's too long, but we got bad doors, stilt-walking French shepherds, water bugs, a bunch of @/shengokai@zirk.us quotations, What The Fuck Is Up With Bluesky, and more.

    https://erinkissane.com/the-affordance-loop

    irick,
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    @kissane
    I'd like to seriously engage with some of these criticisms, but it's really hard for me not to just marvel at how broken the way people think about the internet is.

    Let us imagine, for a moment, that someone published a UX critique of Thunderbird. Like, fundimentally we'd know we are talking about an email client.

    Even if someone wrote a UX critique of gmail there would still be this cultural understanding that we are talking about one view of this thing called Email. (cont.)

    irick, to random
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    Invest in yourself: Learn free software.
    Any time you invest time and effort into proprietary tools, you are just improving rented land.

    irick,
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    @nantucketebooks
    I imagine so for ebooks! WIth maybe a side of LaTeX if we're feeling fancy ;3

    irick, to random
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    I'm genderqueer.

    Pronouns are funny to me. I accept any of the uaual trifecta, because I see them as feedback on my performance of gender.

    However, I also accept lambdaMoo's Spivak pronoun variant and Keri Hulme's gender neutral pronouns. Those are because the historical and social context of the pronouns themselves are aspirational to me.

    Words are powerful for their associations. I encourage those around me to be mindful of their position in the semiotic web.

    irick, to random
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    Hello new people :D

    Welcome to the fediverse. The connections you make here are meaningful. Your instance admin is an actual person who you can talk to. The networks we build, both social and support, are ours to maintain.

    More than any platform before it, this is ours. I highly encourage you to embrace it with a spirit of participation. It is small and fragile, We break things sometimes for no good reason.

    But every time we do, we are allowed to fix it.

    We're so glad you're here :)

    slashdot, to random
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    John Goodenough, Lithium-Ion Battery Inventor and Nobel Prize Recipient, Dies https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/06/26/159237/john-goodenough-lithium-ion-battery-inventor-and-nobel-prize-recipient-dies?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon

    irick,
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    @slashdot
    Excellent run! 100 years and he gets remembered for really /the/ breakthrough that made modern mobile computing possible.

    A life worth celebrating :)

    irick, to random
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    The culture of the fediverse has been resilient to mass influx over the years because of our commitment to minimizing the influence of massive instances to the point that no single instance could dictate policy or protocol. Meta's Project 92 is a threat to this model and can only result in an Eternal September moment at best or the dissolution of ActivityPub as a meaningful standard via an Embrase Extend Extinguish campaign.

    As a result, we are signing @vantablack 's https://fedipact.online/

    irick, to random
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    Hi, I am a mouse sysadmin.
    I un-nibble the wires.

    dredmorbius, to random

    / : I'm trying to find an essay on the evolution of a "scene", possibly from the aughts.

    It's on the evolution of groups and cliques. Possibly band scenes or artists. First you've got the artists / creators, then you get the afficionadoes who recognise great work on their own, then the groupies and fans, then the people who follow the crowd (and often: "social opportunities" to put that spin on it), then the opportunists who seek to benefit from the crowd itself: advertisers, pickpockets, scammers, swag sellers, etc.

    If this rings bells, please respond.

    Boosts appreciated.

    irick,
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    @oblomov @dredmorbius
    It has been a while since I read this. Thanks for the blast from the past :)

    irick, to random
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    So this hit my feed: https://lowendbox.com/blog/the-deprecated-bloodstained-code-in-the-linux-kernel/

    And it got me thinking about the dynamics around accountability in the Foss world. Is this really 'bloodstained code'? ReiserFS was never hugely popular or anything, but it was an interesting file system largely maintained by a single contributor. That contributor went to prison for a crime of violence.

    I don't really know if that matters morally. If we can accept corporate contributions to the codebase (cont.)

    irick,
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    Then are we merely appealing to the logic of the corporate veil to rid ourselves if the atrocities that they may commit independant of their code contributions?

    There is, I think, moral value in the use of software. It is right to protest the use of our code for atrocities. It is right to construct licences that prohibit the use of our code for violence and discrimination. But I don't think there is any moral value in calling something bloodstained code.

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