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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

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

if you see me mention #GAGSProject that's this: https://cryptid.cafe/notice/AxJRZIJ0k4hAXnDCsq
meme with stick figure gun violence, "you"
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possible image sources:

  • e621
  • wildlife photos
  • Wikipedia
  • Total War Warhammer unit portraits
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I should make a Fedi bot that chooses a random pic every day and turns it into an “ideal male body” meme

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uspol, south park
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South park episode where charlie kirk is mentioned was apparently pulled.

I hate america

"“They couldn’t beat him in a debate, so they assassinated him, Isabella Maria DeLuca, a January 6 rioter who has been pardoned by Trump and a conservative activist, wrote on [twitter]."
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ok, I'm seeing people (maybe begrudgingly) poke around over here after bluesky made some not so great moderation decisions, so as a reminder to everyone that's been here: please do not act smug about this. bluesky worked for them and mastodon is totally different. there isn't any "wrong" place to go, neither is there a "wrong" way to post. be welcoming and accepting of other people's preferences please.

also, to people checking mastodon out for the first time or if it's been a while for you: feel free to tell off anyone who says that you're doing it wrong. block, report, whatever. you do not deserve to give harassers the time of day. that is how they win.

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@Shivaekul omg yess I ran into this problem today when trying to find a decent LSP for Fennel! there are basically no decent Lisp LSPs for Neovim at all. all of the Lisp tooling is on Emacs instead and there is no way I’m learning a second editor that’s at least as complex as Neovim is lol

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Behold, the first prototype of my amazing new invention: The reverse one-way screw! The natural counterpart to those anti-theft screws used to attach license plates to cars, the ROWS can only ever be unscrewed, not driven in.

To use it, simply already have it installed somewhere, and unscrew it like you would a regular screw - attempts to reinstall it will simply result in the screwdriver safely slipping out of the head, with no risk of it actually being driven back in.

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ma’am, your son is a very cute adorable roomba now

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ok so, this is the first time I've ever made instant mashed potatoes, and um

very accurate name

like, I poured the bag into the water, and by the time I had grabbed the fork right next to the bowl to try and stir it, it had already thickened into mashed potatoes

that was fucking fast, I thought it'd take like, about as long as instant noodles do, but nope, guess the higher surface area from being a powder just, really makes a difference there

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I could not live without LSPs in Neovim, but LSPs in Neovim are the absolute worst things to configure ever T_T

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eli, shadow domme

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now that i’m laid off and without an income, im thinking of picking up freelance game dev work again. for anyone doing that right now, what’s it like – is it hard to find steady work or has it been okay? also how are you finding clients?

boosts extremely welcome! i would really love feedback

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@emberquill oh yikes I didn’t even see that. that is fucking gross

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I don’t think Linux users understand that people use Windows because they want their operating system to Just Work, and tinkering on the Linux command line is:

  • required in order to fix Linux when it breaks
  • way beyond the technical skill of the vast majority of Windows users
  • of the Windows users who are capable of it, most of them would not enjoy it, which is a problem because enjoying tinkering is what gets Linux users past the initial learning curve so that they can comfortably use it for day-to-day tasks without things suddenly exploding
  • also tinkering takes time and energy that the average person is not going to have because they just want to check their bank balance or watch youtube videos after a shitty day at work
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I find it funny how Winux (a Linux distro that looks uncannily similar to Windows 11) is advertising itself as

No hardware limitations, no absurd requirements.

when Linux has notoriously spotty hardware support and it has the absurd requirements of “every user must be very technical, very patient, very comfortable on the command line, and they must enjoy tinkering every time something breaks”

I definitely think Winux is a cool concept but like, I’m not going to install this on my mom’s computer and trust it to not explode in 2 months when the DE gets borked by an update or something

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Someone is trying to pull off a supply chain attack similar to npm’s but on crates.io: https://github.com/rust-lang/crates.io/discussions/11889

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If you ever wondered why some Wikipedia articles are titled "murder of ____" and others "killing of ____":

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🌈 vanta rainbow black: editor-in-chief edition! visit https://rainbow.report 🌈

Move Slowly and Build Bridges: Mastodon, the Fediverse, and the Struggle for Democratic Social Media

my paperback of this book has arrived!!! i am legiterally in it, in the part that talks about mutual aid on fedi and also the final chapter about threads and fedipact. highly recommend giving it a read! this is one of the best books i've ever had the pleasure of experiencing, and i'm not only saying that because i'm in it!!! lol :3

shoutout to the author @rwg for writing such an awesome thingy!!!!!

https://moveslowlybuildbridges.com

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@ligniform the Godot one is so baffling to me because they were already using Python and the language that they replaced it with sounds terrible by comparison from everything that I’ve heard

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this post brought to you by “oh no not you too GameMaker whyyy”

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