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moira

@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net

She/her :blobcatheartlesbian: ex-software dev now writing words for money, fun, and/or survival. I like new people but may be too busy to follow back.

Republicans have campaigned on killing me and mine my whole life, so "Democrats are just as bad" crap gets a fuck off and an unfollow.

I write long-form on my Federated blog at @solarbird. If you want to support me or this instance, have my patreon: http://patreon.com/solarbird

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futurebird, to random
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I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

1/

moira,
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@futurebird There was a real "left libertarian" movement. A lot of it was queer, and a lot of it died before AZT.

The survivors and most of the rest of it either went to the Democrats for survival, with a few going anarcho-leftist of one sort or another.

That left the "right libertarians" who no longer had to bargain with the left and, well, we know how that went.

moira,
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@futurebird @ehproque and while I don't call myself an anarchist, I am, as you put it, "skeptical of concentrations of power," and definitely not limited to the state.

I had a lot of arguments with state-focused people and often made some inroads by talking about how non-state actors pick up characteristics of states as they gain power.

moira,
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@ehproque @futurebird Oh, I missed this one. No, I mean they drifted towards various subfactions of anarchism that I don't really remember well enough to identify anymore. I think one of them going on about it was part of how I ended up reading The Conquest of Bread, but that's kind of a foundational text as I understand it so not really helpful at identifying any particular subfaction.

moira, to random
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i think one of the things i like about sumo is that there's all these ways in which it's not optimised and won't be optimised because it's not about that

i mean it's not that it's not commercial because of course it is, and it's not because it's unchanged since whenever because of course it is, and it's not because of HONOURRRRRR or some shit because if you know anything about it you most certainly know better than that and if you don't then trust me, it's not but

there are an infinite number of ways it could be glitzed up and they

don't.

because it's not about that.

it's pretty fuckin' basic.

and i like it like that.

moira, to random
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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KIDDE?!

moira,
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ANOTHER LATE-NIGHT FALSE FIRE ALARM

FUCKING LOVE IT

FUCKING LOVE HOW KIDDE WON'T HONOUR WARRANTIES EITHER

LOVE THAT

KINDA HOPED GOING TO A DIFFERENT MODEL WOULD HELP BUT NOPE IT WAS THE NEW ONE WITH THE DIFFERENT SENSOR TYPE

SAME FUCKING BULLSHIT

moira,
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They're all interconnected too so one goes off they ALL go off and it's everybody's favourite game WHICH SCREAMING MONSTER CONTROLS THE OTHER SCREAMING MONSTERS?

moira,
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this shit is why people unplug smoke detectors

moira, to random
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i thought it would be funny to mail a bunch of misprinted bike map proofs to a guy i know from grad school who likes mailing random things to people

but then i remembered paper mail isn't free :(

moira, to MountainBiking
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I'm calling this a preview but it's a pretty solid version of MEGAMAP 1.2, using the 1.1 rev 4 dataset, which is the latest.

Anybody wants to look at it, it's on my maps Github, click on PREVIEW MEGAMAP:

https://github.com/solarbirdy/NorthshoreBikeMap/

moira, to mastodon
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I learned something today! xD

moira, to random
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oh hello

I seem to have attracted the attention of someone claiming to be involved with the Recall team on the ex/long-term MSFT group

he agrees my many critiques are valid and asked for mitigations other than "don't."

i gave him a short list to start:

  • a trivial way to exempt your entire current session leaving no trace you did that, telling users how to do it literally every time - the entire session must vanish

  • either per-app opt-in or windows-defender-like maintained lists of apps not to record without direct user intervention, e.g. Signal

  • not one byte EVER hits storage without strong encryption, NOT EVER, and I gave him an easy and long-extant Microsoft technology way to do that

let's see if he's telling the truth

moira,
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I don't want to flood the zone even with improvements but I'm open to suggestions

moira, (edited ) to random
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is this one real

I REALLY want this one to be real

https://www.tumblr.com/thefailureartist/751436766634016768

magnus919, to random
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for my

moira,
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@magnus919 nice

you should have a skateboard for your minibike

not sure what you should have for the skateboard but i'm sure there's something

ascentale, to random
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Welcome to the May 24th BikeNite! Thanks for joining, and I hope we all enjoy chatting about cycle stuff! Feel free to answer whenever at your convenience. Anyone can join, now or later. Reply to what you like, and boost for visibility.

We'll start out with our introduction (with help from @jfparis)

Q1. Where are you posting from today? Where we are, Spring semester is over or almost over for many students. How does this affect your riding?

moira,
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@graham_freeman @ascentale @jfparis cooooool

the only thing i don't like about my ebike is no regenerative braking

we have so many hills it'd definitely be of actual value here but nooooooooo i don't have it

ascentale, to random
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This question is kind of a continuation of a discussion last week. @esnyder@MylesRyden asks about what good cycle infrastructure looks like on rural roads.

Q8. As someone living rurally in OR, I am not sure what exactly I want changed on most of the rural roads. I would love to hear more about / see some links to / etc. really good examples of what it could/should look like.

moira,
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@ascentale @esnyder (I'm asking because I've seen some pretty reasonable exurb but I'm drawing a blank on real rural. But I'm thinking for real rural you have GOT to have real separation because in my experience having lived real rural speed limits aren't even suggestions and stripes are hilarious, but separate "horse" trails that are okay for biking too? That you can get.)

moira,
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@migurski @ascentale @esnyder absolutely

mynotaurus, to random
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mornjngn internet (begrudgingly)

moira,
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@Rejax @mynotaurus It meeeeee!!!

(I'll leave it to the reader to figure out which set of cars, but, well... I think you can guess.)

moira, (edited ) to random
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I am fucking going on people in the big exMSFT/long-term MSFT group (hosted elsewhere)

people are defending recall and I am shredding them like a wolverine on bonus rations of the finest of amphetamines

i got to use the phrase "'It'll only kill 5% of the users' is NOT A DEFENCE FOR KILLING 5% OF THE USERS" and not even ironically

moira,
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Guy not even contesting the reality that abusive partners and parents will use this to worsen their abuse and tighten their control over their victims

not even contesting it

just saying that it could be used for good things too

[see response above]

moira,
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(5% being an arbitrary low number that people who clearly don't give a fuck about collateral damage won't give a fuck about.)

moira,
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and even if somehow you don't give a fuck about any of that, which lots of these psychopaths clearly don't

the liability

my gods, the liability

moira, to ai
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big oof

moira,
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@harkl See my other replies. This is a previously trusted source's latest public tool telling people that this mushroom is safe to eat when it will absolutely fucking kill you.

It is a combination of fraud and reckless disregard for basic human safety and if anyone dies Google should be fucking charged.

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