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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.

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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.

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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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@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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@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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JESUS FUCKING CHRIST WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH KIDDE?!

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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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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this shit is why people unplug smoke detectors

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, to mastodon
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I learned something today! xD

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 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 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.

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