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phire

@phire@phire.place

I write code for a living and words for my sins. Among other things, I care about labour organizing, police abolition, antiracism and decolonization, accessibility, and public interest technology. When I’m not at work, I read, climb, and cycle through various other vaguely creative hobbies (art, textile crafts, music, games, etc). Voracious collector of memes and shitposts; occasional contributor to the same.

Trans rights are human rights and abortion is health care.

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darius, to random

I just witnessed some software transcribe "Fediverse" as "Feddy bears" which.. do I need to start a new server??

phire,
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@darius all instances hosted on Spacebear (us included) are henceforth collectively known as Feddy Bears

phire, (edited ) to random
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every time someone says something like "thank you for your candour" to me I'm like "fuck fuck fuck what did I say that I wasn't supposed to fuck" and I literally never know. this happens a distressing amount.

phire,
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(note: I am not actually distressed by this though I suspect this is a career-limiting trait and one day it will bite me in the rear. c'est la vie.)

xor, to random
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ever since I learned the term "thought-terminating cliche" I realized that it perfectly fits so many situations

phire,
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@xor it’s the underlying basis of so many memes! because woke.

phire, to random
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deeply annoyed that Round Britain Quiz moved away from Penguin Orchestra Cafe for their opening theme, why mess with a perfect thing !!

phire, (edited ) to random
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Wow I just typo’d paypal dot me and got redirected to a malware site that just absolutely crashed my phone with infinite tel:xxx links that continued to open the little iOS pop up for calling a number. I had to keep trying to lock the screen (which didn’t respond for a solid 30 secs) before I could restart my phone and close out the tab in the browser before it reopened. What’s this tactic called?

ETA: tbc I mean spamming tel: links specifically, I’m aware of the concept of domain squatting thx

phire,
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@12thRITS Hey this is a pretty shitty reply to a random person you don’t know the circumstances of

phire, to random
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The Shoah After Gaza https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n06/pankaj-mishra/the-shoah-after-gaza

NoraReed, to random
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i have a really cringe question for thinking about what to call a personal mastodon instance: what are things you associate with my personal brand

phire,
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@NoraReed fused glass, excellent takes, queer liberation

phire, to random
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“The war on Gaza is being rewritten for American audiences as a ‘campus war.”

https://www.parapraxismagazine.com/articles/the-campus-does-not-exist

kissane, to random
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Janet Reid, a literary agent who blessed a generation of baby writers with Query Shark and who was also extremely kind to me the only time I met her, has died. We won't see her like again, I don't think, and the world is worse for it.

phire,
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@kissane Oh my god I used to read that religiously. I’m so sorry.

phire, to random
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oh no, Jane McAlevey :( :( :(

“I have stopped all work to turn to home-based hospice for the remainder of my time” https://janemcalevey.com/writing/latest-news/

shauna, to random
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I am looking to chat with one or more people who've been to business school about their experiences. I am not myself thinking of going to business school - it's for a creative writing project

phire,
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@shauna 13 years ago in Canada, but there might be some overlap im the experience for what you need?

phire, to random
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this is the best thing I have seen in a long time https://youtu.be/f4dZvl-V21I?si=-9DJ2KvETYU6qvj1

phire, to random
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mute all notifications from post when

phire,
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@beep in this case I attributed the link to a friend of mine who is ALSO being tagged in all the extremely 'splainy replies and I am just dying of second-hand mortification

phire, to random
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I know we all know power corrupts but man, proximity to power is a hell of a drug too huh

phire, to random
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listen I don’t think OS X is a perfect operating system by any stretch of the imagination but I spent like 45 minutes today getting rid of malware that infected my friend’s Windows machine and it involved multiple registry edits, group policy updates, and manually rooting out and deleting cached data, and every other thing I clicked made the entire interface shift in entirely unnecessary and jarring ways, to say nothing of the command prompt experience.

phire, to random
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"exchanged emails three times a week for four full months with the tech support of <big tech company> to convince them that there is a bug in their system that they have to fix so that the thing we built that depends on their system works as intended" is not the kind of thing you can announce in product releases, and yet

phire,
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@KathyReid my long international nightmare that involved, at one point, a 10 minute screen recording where I walked through exactly where the bug was in their system, is finally at the beginning of the end

phire, to random
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I read an article, like, YESTERDAY about how "companies should just pay maintainers" is not a sufficient solution for the xz-burnt-out-maintainer-vulnerable-to-abuse problem that took a light anticapitalist lens, and now I cannot find it for the life of me. Does this ring a bell for anyone?

Aside: I really need to get my bookmarking game back on track now that Maciej fell off the deep end and Pocket is being vastly underresourced by Mozilla, but that is a different problem for a different day.

phire,
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@jenniferplusplus No, I definitely remember opening it in an in-app browser to read 😩

phire,
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@adrianhon He seems to have pivoted hard into the anti-SJW "wokeness is bad actually" camp during the pandemic in an extremely predictable and boring way.

sa, to random
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one more:

if your iphone is in arabic and you try to rearrange the tiles in the home app, they do a wild backflip every time you pick them up.

tiles do gymnastics when you move them around. bug or art?

phire,
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@sa apropos of nothing, hi!! it’s good to see you

phire, to random
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your irregularly scheduled reminder that american/european state actors are also huge fans of backdoors only they can exploit, that is not a trait exclusive to Exotic Governments Over There

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