riley

@riley@toot.cat

👩‍🔬 #geek girl (#software, #dsl, #retrocomputing, #electronics, #fpga, #maths, #infosec, sometimes #sre);
🧠 #Neurodivergent (#ADHD / #TeamADHD), interested in #ActuallyAutistic / #AuDHD matters;
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs, 💊 2018-12-13;
⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW);
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland / #Germany, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra);
🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: <https://toot.cat/@riley/109575519338488877>.

𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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riley, to random

I seem to be having a particularly blue crying-upon-chocolate day tonight, and about a week ahead of schedule, too. :blobcatsad:​

riley, to random

TIR that the promise of cryonics is now more than half a century old.

https://bigthink.com/the-future/cryonics-horror-stories/

straphanger, to Germany
@straphanger@urbanists.social avatar

"Our community isn't dense enough to have a bus, a streetcar, or any kind of train."

Really? Residential density doesn't have to be a prerequisite for high-quality transit, rail or otherwise. Take a ride through quiet streets of Wuppertal, , on the Schwebebahn in...1902. 🧵

video/mp4

riley,

@straphanger: The Wuppertal railway case was not particularly low-density, though. A part of why it's a suspended railway is, this way, it could be built above the river rather than on land, which was in short supply.

jalcine, to random
@jalcine@todon.eu avatar

Do you work in tech? Do you want to consider unionizing? Hit up @cfaworkers via DM!

riley,

@chidi_anagonye: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/adammgrant_the-best-satire-of-the-office-since-the-activity-6997229873538723840-dUAu

@jalcine @cfaworkers

ZachWeinersmith, to random
@ZachWeinersmith@mastodon.social avatar

It really weirds me out how non-douchey Mastodon is. I have to use twitter for business, for now anyway, but I always feel a little antsy posting there. Like, even nice people sometimes seem like they're just itching to call you at as a moron or bastard. On mastodon, people talk and support. I wonder if the lack of QTs is a big part of it?

riley,

@ZachWeinersmith: No, the lack of an optimisation for "engagement" by the recommendation algorithm is probably the most significant factor.

riley, to random

Everybody associates Oceangate with Watergate, perhaps because of the wetness, but there's another, more similar, gate from rememberable history: Heaven's Gate.

riley, to random

Some juicy dragon gossip.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BqY-d3rQR4

MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

In solidarity with the writers strike I will

riley,

@MissingThePt: Procrastinate! Procrastinate! Procrastinate! </dalek>

riley, to random

The murderer of Sabrina Houston, a trans woman from Jamaica, has just been convicted and sentenced to 12 years in prison, the full amount requested by prosecutor, by a court in Tallinn.

TDOR's page on Sabrina: https://tdor.translivesmatter.info/reports/2022/07/09/sabrina-houston_talinn-harju-estonia_96b64fb8

News report on the verdict: https://www.postimees.ee/7814607/kohus-moistis-transsoolise-naise-tapja-12-aastaks-vangi

Reportedly, the perpetrator didn't deny having stabbed Sabrina to death, but argued that he did it because she tried to prevent him from leaving a room that they had entered for purpose of sex when he decided to not have sex, but the court ruled that it wasn't plausible, and it was more consistent with the available evidence that he got murderously enraged and stabby upon discovering Ms Houston's genital configuration instead, and on that basis, levied the full punishment as requested.

Looks like "trans panic" is an aggravating factor in Estonia, not a get-out-of-jail-free card.

The murder happened on July 9th last year, so it took just over a year to prosecute. The perpetrator has been in jail since July 12th, three days after the murder, though, albeit until now only as a suspect.

riley,

Correction: the perpetrator was first detained on the afternoon of July 10th, the day after the murder, according to https://www.postimees.ee/7562882/tallinna-vanalinna-pussitamise-uks-kahtlustatavatest-voeti-vahi-alla. The discrepancy is because the original detention was for 48 hours, under police's own power that does not require a court authorisation. July 12th is the date of the first court-issued arrest warrant for a two-month investigative detention, and thus the date the suspicion was first formally justified.

retronianne, to retrocomputing

I've setup my MS-DOS machine...but now I need to install retro games and programs to it. What's your preferred method of getting games/files to your machine? I'm open to any and all techniques. :ms_dos:​

Expert Mode: FTP? Networking? :) 💕

riley,

@retronianne: If it has a PATA interface, which was pretty common for most 386 systems and at one point nearly universal, you can get a cheap USB/PATA interface and write to its hard disk from, say, a GNU/Linux machine.

Failing that, a serial link between the PC system and another computer would certainly work, albeit slowly; with some hardware assembly, you can get a significantly faster parallel link to work, or if the device has an ISA bus, you can probably even get a genuine NE2000 Ethernet adapter for it. (Beware that old-school Ethernet used coaxial cables, so you might need to get a special bridge that can transfer packets between a 10Mb/s coaxial link and a 100Mb/s or gigabit modern Ethernet. But the fun thing is, 10Mb/s is such a slow speed (and it's not like NE2000 can fill it, either) that you can have plenty of fun implementing the bridge on your own using something like Raspberry Pi Pico or ESP32. (AVR8 would probably be a little bit too slow, but I'd enjoy being proven wrong on that.)

If you can get IP up and running, there's a suite of NCSA network tools out there, including NCSA telnet client and NCSA ftp client, that run on DOS. They talk to the network card using something called a "packet driver".

riley,

@retronianne: If you're in EU, I think Reichelt still carries them, at somewhat reasonable prices.

@eri

riley,

@eri: That's because CF is basically defined as IDE, just through a slightly smaller connector. But the protocol is exactly the same. I think there might have been an extra option for lower signalling voltage, but I'm not sure about that without checking.

retronianne@tech.lgbt

riley,

@retronianne: A fun ... potentially ... thing to know is that IDE CD drives used to be a thing, too. You can probably still get some, and you can probably get DOS to be able to read stuff from a CD via one.

The thing that might make it problematic is, while the IDE end was pretty stable for some twenty years or so, the shiny data disc end kept getting tweaked in tiny ways that would often need firmware update in the drive to be usable, and the old firmwares might be hard to find. If your luck is particularly bad, you might even end up finding a CD drive that fails reading plain old CDR discs, and only accepts factory-pressed CDs.

@eri

dalias, to random
@dalias@hachyderm.io avatar

I can't believe this has to be said, but having known high-profile nazi accounts on your platform/instance is a very different moderation problem than having wack-a-mole hoardes of nazi socks.

The latter can be a labor problem but the former is a conscious choice to be a nazi bar.

Threads is a nazi bar.

riley,

@dalias: Hashtag: .

riley, to random

So, I watched the newest Internet Comment Etiquette with Erik, and I've got two important points:

  • It's bad etiquette to rub other people's executively dysfunctional noses into how many projects he gets completed.
  • A theatrical release of Baby Shark v Skibidi Toilet is now probably inevitable. Just as soon as somebody will be willing to cross the picket line and write the script.
dec_hl, to VintageOSes
@dec_hl@mastodon.social avatar

It has happened! #DOStodon, the #MastodonClient for #RetroComputers running #MSDOS, is now listed on the official App-Page of https://joinmastodon.org/apps

riley,

@dec_hl: Yay! :blobcatglowsticks:​

mynameistillian, to random

my parents called and my mood went down immediately.

riley,

@mynameistillian :blobcatsad:​

riley,

@mynameistillian :blobcathearthug:​

LukaszOlejnik, to random
@LukaszOlejnik@mastodon.social avatar

Misinformation, or at least confusion or badly informed policy-making, spread by European Commission.

They use the buzzword term "web 4.0" (39 times!). Problem? It does not exist! In line with @w3c Technical Architecture Group documents, there is only one web. https://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/dae/redirection/document/97337

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riley,

@LukaszOlejnik: And next you're telling me that people sitting in 5D cinema and listening to MP6 players aren't a thing, either.

@w3c

riley, to random

The effort to rewrite books whose core message is patriarchally judgmental moralism to not be quite so judgmental is, well, inherently an exercise in futility.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-02-18/roald-dahl-sensitivity-edits

riley, (edited )

@WhyNotZoidberg : There's plenty of creepy fairy tales in the Old World, too, but I don't think there's many that so eagerly preach the gospel of obedience to the Patriarchy's vague and implicit will and workplace unsafety. Not even in the classic tale of Hansel and Gretel is anywhere implied that the cannibalistic witch's oven was inherently dangerous to anybody but whoever was deliberately put into it.

coriander, to random
@coriander@elekk.xyz avatar

I take it back, I take it all back, video games are good, everyone

riley,

@lira: Well, you know how Nazis always insist that their insufferable neighbours are both immensely powerful enemies and tiny and insignificant enemies at the same time?

Terves, being kind of like Nazis, insist that it's both so extremely rare for anybody to want to have a non-AGAB gender that anybody who does experience it should keep quiet about it lest others laugh at them, and also so common that anybody who does experience it should keep quiet about it lest others be bored with them.

@coriander

riley, to random

In tonight's weird progesteroney dream, there was an outbreak of zombie contagion, sort of like Plague, Inc way, and the late mayor of Brazzaville went viral with his last interview, where he was all like Zombies is just a word that's being used. I call them Americans., followed by a tirade of how impolite it is to offer handshakes to Americans while one wears a mask.

riley, to random

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