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masukomi

@masukomi@connectified.com

👉 Senior Back-End Dev. Seeking Remote Position 👈

Autodidactic, Autistic, ADHD, Trans, and Geeky Programmer.

Queer friend of Camellia Sinensis.

If you want to hear my ramblings about Tabletop Role Playing Games check out my other account: https://dice.camp/@masukomi

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masukomi, (edited ) to random
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Filling out the form to renew my passport. They ask for "The date your most recent passport book was issued"

guess what info's NOT in your passport?

🤦‍♀️ how the eff would I know it expired 14 years ago?!

[edit: apparently it is their but their graphic design is crap and made me think it was the date of expiry. Apparently mine expired 4 years ago, which makes a LOT more sense]

masukomi,
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@maco yes. However, i am bewildered by all the people who play roll playing games with humans at tables and DON'T have printers.

How do you print out or even reference your character sheet at the table?!?!

masukomi,
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@maco yeah but remote work, no more office printers for so many of us.

I think there's a large overlap between knowledge workers & TTRPG players.

and yes, i think "in the VTT" is the answer to how but like... at the table?!

Tablet's a decent solution, but not sure how common it is.

masukomi,
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@mycrowgirl that is of course one of the all-time greatest bits of emoting ever captured on film, and the Internet desperately needed to be able to put in GIF form

masukomi,
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@maco i guess. if they have that.

Me? I'm just going to print it out, bring it to her, scan it, fax it. file it away as another reason to hate everything to do with our medical systems.

masukomi,
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@mycrowgirl

are you saying that she thought that the original, with like ink signature and notary seals and such would somehow reconstitute it out the other end, like Star Trek fashion? Or did they not actually CARE about "original" and a copy of it via the fax machine was fine?

I'm kinda surprised you didn't just fax them and let them assume it's somehow magically the original.

masukomi,
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@maco yeah, i've got one bookmarked from the last time I dealt with the govt.

It's all so maddeningly stupid.

side note: My key point in the original post was that they gave steps for everything EXCEPT the transition from paper to PDF as if that was just something you could do... or maybe they somehow magically thought you were going to somehow get the medical service provider to sign it without printing it out? I dunno.

masukomi,
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@maco @Longwing ooh, nifty. thanks.

masukomi,
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@mycrowgirl wow... and... wow.

and.... just... wow.

masukomi,
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@maco @Longwing "an Owl to zoom in..." ???

and .... wow re all the laptops & such. I get it but also... damn i like "old fashioned paper & pencils & dice"

mastohost, to random
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I will be starting the installation of Mastodon v4.2.9 on Masto.host.

There will be about 15 seconds of downtime during the upgrade.

Changelog: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.2.9

masukomi,
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@mastohost yaaaay thank you.

masukomi, to actuallyautistic
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Reason 42,343,648 why allistic people shouldn't be allowed to create forms.

"Name of person whose certificate you're requesting"

So um, if the person is filling out a name change form, do they put the current LEGAL name of the person OR the old name that's being changed?

I assume old name, but that's ALSO a false statement on something I'm about to sign, & have notarized as being a TRUE statement, because it's NOT that person's name.

@actuallyautistic

masukomi,
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100% serious:
Someone should start a business where you get on a zoom call with an allistic person, share your screen, and they explain to you WTF these stupid forms want from us so that we don't spend the rest of the day spoonless & wanting to cry from trying to navigate this nonsensical 🐄💩

Obviously they'd have to be trained in how autistic folks see the world + some empathy training because most folks think we're being dramatic or that we shouldn't be struggling.

@actuallyautistic

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@vger @Rana @actuallyautistic

"Where do you see yourself in five years?"

"Well, we both know the average turnaround is 1.5 years in this industry, you're an at-will employer, & layoffs are rampant so definitely not here."

masukomi,
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@Yuki @actuallyautistic yes, and no. There have been so many forms that I have struggled with that my allistic wife has been able to patiently explain what I needed to enter in the field without any real difficulty.

of course, part of the problem is that my brain gets wrapped up in indignant rage at the mind-numbing idiocy and falsehoods that are been forced upon me.

“That’s not what that means! If i answer what they asked i’ll be screwed, but that can’t possibly be what is intended!!!” Etc.

masukomi,
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@vger I feel this, SO much.

masukomi,
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@Rana @actuallyautistic man, even allistic people need that for job interviews.

"what's your most significant negative quality?" No-one knows what the right answer to that is. You tell the truth you'll never get the job. You like and... well you're lying in an interview.

"why do you want to work here?" The answer is obviously "because you're offering money & that keeps the roof over my head & food on my plate" but that's also obviously NOT the answer.

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Big day in ceramics today. I got so much stuff back from bisque and glaze firing. Not everything turned out how I wanted it to, but there are some successes

masukomi,
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@MLE_online I really like the white and off-white bowls. I know they are the least extravagant, but they’re nice.

danirabbit, to random
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I hate dealing with the medical system. I just want to curl into a ball and cry. Nothing makes sense. It’s confusing and overwhelming

masukomi,
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@danirabbit
("yes", as in "you're so right")

YES. Yes to it making people want to curl up in a ball. Yes to nothing making sense. Yes to being incredibly UN-accommodating of people with mental... differences despite being specifically made to help with those.

I'm happy to say i haven't had a panic-attack in years but... ugh. I hear you.

masukomi, to random
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I am outside with all of the beasts again. Not because I particularly want to be - although it is an absolutely gorgeous day.

No. I am out here because the fluffy cat likes to sit on @dachary ‘s desk, drive her buggy, and prevent her from doing work.

This is literally the only thing we have found that gets the cat to leave her alone and not come back two minutes later.

The black and white dog helps keep an eye on her too. She is currently grazing off-camera

masukomi,
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I noticed the cat just sitting there enjoying herself, and leaned forward to take a picture. Black-and-white dog noticed my interest and ran over to make sure she was being good.

Essentially the same same photo but now you can see the black-and-white dog approaching her

masukomi, to random
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Next up on Govt. agencies not knowing wtf they're talking about. Requesting a certified copy of a court doc from MA. There's a field for "Case name".

Guess what doesn't exist on the original OR on the online version (yes i used find). "case name" There's a docket number. There's a case number. there's no Case Name.

ARRRGH.

"...from hells heart I stab at thee!" - Melville

masukomi, to random
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Lunch with beasts

masukomi, to random
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Back in 1992 & 1996 Ross Perot was a billionaire who wanted to be president.

A large part of his pitch while raising interest was "i'm a billionaire. I don't need to court rich people & be beholden to them, or raise money from everyday people so i won't."

I keep thinking about his campaign vs the Cheeto's.

The Cheeto was like "i'm so rich! I'm amazingly filthy rich! I need you to give me many millions for my election campaign!"

🤔 which one was actually rich?

masukomi, to random
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In the exceedingly improbable chance that there's a JavaScript developer looking for an interesting open source problem. I just filed a bug in re how it counts the characters in URLs. Sounds simple but HOW we incorporate that into chunking of long texts is interesting.

https://github.com/masukomi/fedithready/issues/9

masukomi, to random
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Filling out a govt. document. There are lots of blank pages. All of them have "this page left intentionally blank" in the middle… EXCEPT ONE.

🤔 Was it a mistake ⁉️ was it NOT left intentionally blank⁉️ OR Did they just forget to add the note⁉️

I DON'T NEED THIS KIND OF MYSTERY WHILE FILLING IN FORMS!

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