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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, to random
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Someday, I will come up with a useful way to organize this drawer. Today is not that day.

masukomi,
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Related question: what is the deal with this particular type of cable and external hard drives?

Why does this cable exist?

It doesn’t seem like it can be a throughput speed thing because it’s a standard USB-A on the other end. But we’ve gotten multiple drives over the years that have this cable. I don’t understand.

masukomi,
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Da hell is this for?!

masukomi,
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I just found a USB-C to lightning cable. I feel like this is Apple’s way of giving people the finger.

It’s like “ fuck you. We don’t want to stop making lightning cables we like them and we don’t care what you want.”

masukomi,
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@massa OK but as that data and power are both successfully passing through a USB-A on the other end why make this thing? Why not just have it be USB-A at both ends? This USB had long since become cheap commodity hardware.

masukomi,
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@flaki yes. The other end is USB-A, which is why I am so confused.

Er it’s blue nevermind.

masukomi,
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@flaki to be clear I don’t know what the difference between white and blue is. And I feel like surely it would’ve been cheaper to use USB-A at both ends. Does having a socket for one of these things make something easier with circuit board design?

masukomi,
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@massa ahh. Thanks. I was extremely expecting to get answers on these. 🙇‍♀️

masukomi,
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@masto heh. It was getting hard to close a while ago, so i threw out all the cables that only worked in devices we didn't have anymore. I also threw out like half of the USB-A to USB-micro and i still have like 10 of them somehow. 🤦‍♀️

masukomi,
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@massa I meant in the sense of why not use a standard USB-A cable with one male and one female end? If whatever's passing through it has to work in USB-A at one end why introduce a different end to the cable (with a conversion chip?)?

Why not use the cheap commodity connection on both ends? HOw does introducing this different funky, and presumably more expensive end benefit the manufacturer or the consumer?

I'm trying to get to the WHY BOTHER rather than the what.

masukomi,
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@massa 🤔 Hmm, "because that's what Jack did and no-one cared enough to argue the point" is a pretty common reason for WTFs in software dev.

masukomi, to random
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I am covered in floof

masukomi, to random
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After talking about how wonderful it is to write on the Remarkable 2, grey proceeds to talk about how you have to approach working with e-ink tablets.

ultimately, he suggest that you have to treat them like paper. I mostly agree with that.

however, I’ve mostly switched back to paper notebooks because I can flip through them and easily go back-and-forth between my table of contents and the referenced pages looking for that thing I wrote

video/mp4

masukomi, to transgender
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#Transgender folks:
Do ANY of you have experience with gender stuff via Dartmoth Hitchcock hospitals in #NewHampshire or know someone who has?

Because they literally refuse to give me ANY information that isn't on their web site without a referral. Like not even "we require 2 letters"

Obviously I'm not going to ask for a referral to a place that refuses to answer ANY questions and whom I may not even meet the basic requirements of.

masukomi,
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on top of literally being the most frustrating & maddening conversation with a hospital employee I've ever had, it took a LOT to get past the executive disfunction pushing me to not deal AND no-one wants to talk about gender surgery with a complete stranger in a society that makes you feel like 💩 for daring to exist.

soft, to random
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scraping the seeds off everything bagels to grow new bagels

masukomi,
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@soft it’s important to keep the seeds together until it’s time to plant. Otherwise you end up with like, a bunch of sesame bagel plants and those are fine, but…

liaizon, to berlin
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Currently at in watching @powersource announce @pzp, a new successor of !

masukomi,
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@liaizon @powersource @pzp inquiring foreign 🧠s seek exciting young web sites!

masukomi, to transgender
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Well 💩
I just learned that Peru 🇵🇪 signed a law last month that classifies people as mentally ill, despite lots of societal support for them.

Guess we can cross Peru off of the countries USians can flee to in November (if the cheeto gets reelected).

masukomi,
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@angiebaby don’t count out Mexico. Last time I checked (a while ago), it didn’t require much to get a Mexican passport and 1st world poor income is generally “comfortable” in much of Mexico and Central America. Being able to make money working remotely is important though. Otherwise you end up being 3rd world Poor which is not great.

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The thing about me being a BDFL for is that it has the D in there. I have the means and ability to push for just about anything I like. I say that I truly try to be a benevolent dictator, but then I presume quite a few dictators would say so.

Next week I will tell you all about how I view this dictatorship and how it is not quite like a dictatorship of a country since in our case, everyone could just leave if I misbehave.

masukomi,
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@bagder fists plus circle is wayyy too close to goatse

danirabbit, to random
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Holy shit 💀 I’m glad the StarLite pre order was so successful! Can’t wait to get my hands on it

masukomi, (edited )
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@danirabbit
🤔it occurs to me that the best way to get good support for a linux hardware thing is to guarantee the team members behind your favorite distro each gets one sent to them.

Similarly if you want to buy hardware with good support from it you should get whatever those team members are loving.

masukomi, to random
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Ordered a box of 12 cheap lipsticks because i’ve given up trying to guess what colors don’t look crappy.

Just opened it.

🤦‍♀️

masukomi, to accessibility
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Minor Update re the tool I've been working on for a friend for whom Apple's palm rejection absolutely refuses to work.

We've prototyped the cover + hole shape over the trackpad & it got a 👍. Now I've gone back and added 4mm thick leather wrist wrests & there's an internal cable run for charging the trackpad.

the lighter colored "wood" in the picture is a magnetically attached plate that we can swap out if he / anyone else needs a different hole shape.

masukomi,
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A friend of ours just finished setting up a really nice new CNC for woodworking. The plan is for me to model & prototype things with my 3D printer and then once all is 👍 he'll cut one out of wood.

alas, it's too big for my printer so I'll have to cut it into pieces & re-assemble to test.

--
In case it's not obvious from the photo, the top hole is where the keyboard goes and there's a rectangular hole below the triangular cutout where a trackpad would go.

matuzo, to random
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I made a little website for my book. Before I publish it, is there any feedback you have? Does it answer all your questions? Are there bugs? Is anything missing? Thank you! ❤️

https://accessibility-cookbook.com/

masukomi,
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@Meyerweb photophobic people who have trouble with how damn bright the web is (like me) browse with tools like Dark Reader. Here’s what i saw whaen i viewed it on my phone.

I know this is niche and nitpicky, but it is an accessibility issue, and it’s a book about accessibility .

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