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software tinkerer and aspiring rationalist. transhumanist and alterhuman

I try to be very careful about CWing things. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible

I sometimes post NSFW/kinky/lewd things behind CWs. this should go without saying but if you're a minor please do not interact with anything lewd/NSFW that I post

I have very limited energy and am very shy so it might take me a long time to reply to messages sometimes, or I might not be able to reply at all. this is kind of an "output only" account for the most part, but I'm hopeful that I can change that over time

I sometimes use curly braces to {clearly show where a grammatical phrase begins and ends}, like that. you can think of them like parenthesis in code or math, except they operate on grammar instead

@tempest ohh interesting okay! that’s honestly a lot better than the alternative (the core language features being well-documented but not the module options) so I’m glad to hear it. it sounds like it might not actually be as hard to get started with as I thought - and I can definitely see the appeal as well

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backronym of slop
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@kasdeya Soulless Line Of Production

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@kasdeya WAaff !1 neofox_floof fluffytail

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@freeplay I immediately thought of your posts when I installed a WAF lol ngl

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see like, this is the kind of shit that normal people struggle with when trying to get into linux
distros should have a widget on the website that asks what card you have and then zoom in on a large starburst graphic with flashing text that tells you what iso your hardware meets the requirements of so theres no confusion about what you need to download

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I hope the word “slop” doesn’t get too diluted because I think it’s extremely helpful to have such a short word that means “soulless mass-produced content that exists only to make money with the least effort or creativity possible”

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it's such an obvious artificial barrier. could the program automatically download those mods anyway? yes.

will it do that? no.

but it'll make it as automatic as possible!

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@tempest ohh interesting okay! also I love how all of these options are documented, and documented really well too. I’ve heard that NixOS has very bad documentation (one of the reasons why I haven’t tried it 😅) but this is actually fantastic

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kas complains about the Linux command line
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the Linux command line really needs a way to proactively warn the user that something is wrong, or something is about to go wrong

instead of suddenly getting I/O errors because the disk is full, or wondering why your service is down (because it crashed), you could get a little red (1) or (2) in your terminal prompt and type notifs to get a warning that “your disk usage is at 90%” or “systemd had to restart this service and here is the error log” or even just “this cron job ran and exited with code 12 and here’s the terminal output”

it also needs some equivalent of tray icons. typing ps aux will deluge you with a fuckton of random system services that I’ve never heard of before, and somewhere buried under all that are the services that I’m interested in. I’d really like a way to ask Linux “hey what non-system-critical software is running right now?”

it also needs a way to ask “hey what non-system-critical software is currently installed?” and “what user-facing software is installed?” so that you can figure out what you installed on that system without getting deluged with a list of ten million C libraries

basically I just think that the Linux command line needs better ways to understand what the state of the system is, once it gets more complex than a Unix mainframe was in the 1980’s. at the moment it feels like you have to proactively check for problems and gotchas before they happen, and that’s just unworkable

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politics, transphobia
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kas complains about PvP games, references to in-game violence
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aw - there’s no way to play Apex Legends solo without getting matched up with at least one random :/ I probably wouldn’t have liked the game anyway but it’s a shame that I didn’t get to try it

also I tried The Finals today and it was a very hyper turbo shoot shoot run faster gogogo kill man shoot run type of game. I barely had enough time to process what was happening before I was doing something completely different instead. extremely not fun IMO. why does every PvP shooter have to go at 300 miles per hour?

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last boost

with those “choose which one you want to fuck” style images I always tried to figure out what the personalities of each of the characters would be, based on their expressions and poses

but for a lot of pics I had a really hard time figuring out how they were meant to be different personality-wise. and that’s when I realized that I was supposed to be choosing based on appearance ms_facepalm

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Make your pick >:3

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Octavia Con Amore pink_moon_and_stars Succubard's Library

cw boost, Trump, history, museums, actionable
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@TheSunnyOne I am so glad that I have no idea what drama is going on

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哲学専攻で先輩に繰り返し教えられたのは

「人は同じ言語を使っていても、その語の意味内容は人によってかなり違うので、その人がその語でどのような概念を表象させているか慎重に精査せよ」

であった。
例えば「人間」という言葉を使っていても、私の世界観なら「人間は基本的にろくでもない生物」として使うが、他の人は「人間は無限の可能性がある」という意味で使う。

おなじ言葉でも、意味がまったく違うことが多い。ここへの着眼は仕事でも役に立っている。

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i saw so many good posts with this format that had to do myself as well

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@theking ooh I’ve been meaning to try Opus Magnum. I’ve heard that it’s one of the simpler Zachtronics games, which sounds great to me because I usually find them way too hard lol

and a Zachtronics take on Pyramid sounds pretty interesting, as well

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