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keirFox, 12 days ago to random

Furries: "UGH we're such horrible people we ruin everything there was a fire at FWA and obviously furries set it and that means we're just as bad as Rainfurrest and no one will ever want us again!"

1 - the fire was a grease fire that burned through the kitchen wall of the Sear hotel restaurant.

2 - that everyone references "the one bad convention" that happened nearly TEN YEARS AGO when there is a furry convention happening pretty much EVERY WEEKEND somewhere in the world means we have a pretty damn good track record.

tilton, 15 days ago to random

My general feeling of the last 20 years is basically: the intersection of security, infosec, and state sponsored threats has horribly impacted the usability of computers and made them much less enjoyable than they used to be. Everything is friction and pain and confusion now and I really hate it. I don’t blame people for valuing ease of use over security. I would greatly prefer to just not think about it or to have to deal with a never ending barrage of multi-factor authentication and things being tied to my phone number. It’s depressing and I don’t see it getting better, only worse as the arms race goes on.

tilton, 15 days ago to random

OK, well, TO BE FAIR, I can understand why people don't necessarily like Signal. Here's what just happened to me when I dared to try to log in on both of my phones...

Now, all of the conversations I had on my other phone are just gone, and I can't use Signal there any more. Good job. Very nice. Good UX beats security every time.

tilton, 15 days ago to random

Even after prefacing things by saying "I have no intention of leaving Telegram...", I've gotten a ton of pushback to the mere suggestion that I could use Signal as a backup. Multiple folks I've talked to were either super dismissive or outright hostile about it. Judging by the reaction I've seen today, I'm going to go out on a limb and say that we are not going to see many furries moving to Signal any time in the near future. I'll still have it as a backup, but, like I've said before, it's a backup. I'm not moving. I'm just keeping my options open.

tilton, 19 days ago to random

You DON'T say...

tilton, 20 days ago to random

I really do deeply appreciate how easy it is to set up comprehensive filters on Mastodon, so people can carry on enjoying talking about a thing that causes me stress, and I don't need to see it.

tilton, 20 days ago to random

Oh, the irony...

tilton, 21 days ago to random

Me, all day long: "Man I can't wait to work on that project after work!"

Me, after work: "Good God work took a lot out of me, I'm way too tired to work on that project."

tilton, 23 days ago to random

The most important part of doing effective code reviews is knowing the difference between “this isn’t how I would have done it, but that’s fine” and “this isn’t how anyone should do it, because <valid reason>”

tilton, 25 days ago to random

"What idiot set the TTL on this TXT record to 1 day???"

It was me. I was that idiot.

tilton, 29 days ago to random

systemd has a reasonably good user interface to process initialization but I am still extremely fucking pissed off at how much it just continues to absorb other system functionality forever and ever and ever. It’s never enough. Process init is like a tiny sliver of its scope these days. And if you criticize it you’re instantly shot down as a “hater”