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software tinkerer and aspiring rationalist. transhumanist and alterhuman

I have strong opinions about #Lisp but love S-expressions. I also have strong opinions about video games, TTRPGs, software, and programming in general and I post about them a lot

I like to use curly braces to {group words together} to make my sentences easier to parse. for example, try reading the garden path sentence "the complex houses married and single soldiers and their families", and now try reading it with curly braces: "{the complex} houses {married and single soldiers and their families}"

I try to thoroughly CW anything that I post or boost which might be triggering, or just cause strong emotions like outrage or fear. sometimes I make mistakes but I want to make my posts as safe to read as possible. I even CW when I'm {complaining about} or {making fun of} something in case you don't want to hear a stranger criticize something you love

replying to messages is very energy-intensive for me, so I may not reply to certain messages at all, or it may take me a long time. DMs are especially hard
re: Something that does this, but not generally for all Linux
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@fargate ohh I should have known that NixOS would let you do this! that must be really nice. I don’t think I’d ever use something like NixOS but I love that it exists because it seems really satisfying to get it working if one is able to think in the ways that it demands

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yinglets are…

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@tempest omg I had no idea that there were manpages for config files! that helps a lot to know about. I’ve really only used manpages for commands, but I know there’s other stuff in there too, like I think there’s documentation for C APIs in there as well

also it’s so good to know about dpkg -S as well! although, do you mind explaining what the difference is between dpkg and apt? it seems like they’re both package management related commands but they’re used for different types of package management, inside of the same package management system?

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@ilobmirt ooh - thank you! this is really good to know about tbh

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@evening I’m ngl, doing things that are so esoterically kinky that most people register them as pure horror - not even considering that there might be a horny component - is kind of gender

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@pharmafemboy yeah it really is - and I’m sure a lot of programs are stuck using other config file locations because a ton of infrastructure is relying on it being there. also I still haven’t gotten used to all of the Linux dirs and what they mean if you couldn’t tell lol

but maybe if all software from now on uses the XDG spec (maybe this part is wishful thinking), then a wheres-the-conf tool would only need to have a hardcoded list of other things that don’t follow that spec! that would be really nice

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@pharmafemboy I would love if they did that omg. and ideally I’d love if they named the config file after the program lol because I just learned that in order to configure plocate I need to edit /etc/updatedb.conf which I never would have guessed

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I’d also really love a command that’s like:

$ what-installed locate
The locate command at /usr/bin/locate was installed from the plocate package using apt

$ what-installed jj
The jj command at ~/.cargo/bin/jj was installed for the current user using cargo (/usr/bin/cargo). It's from the jujutsu package

$ what-installed cargo
The cargo command at /usr/bin/cargo was installed using rustup at /usr/bin/rustup

$ what-installed rustup
The rustup command at /usr/bin/rustup was installed from the rustup package using apt
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Linux should really have a standardized way to figure out where the config files are for something

like imagine if I installed plocate and then I just typed wheres-the-conf plocate and it said:

The system-wide config file for plocate can be found at:

/etc/proc/systemd/opt/usr/whatever/

Your user config file for plocate is at:

~/.local/bin/usr/opt/whatever/

The documentation for these config files can be found at:

https://www.plocatedocs.org/config-files.html

when I’m using WSL I basically just don’t configure anything because it’s so much trouble hunting around for where to find anything - and even after I’ve found it I then also have to search for the docs on what options are available and what they mean and that’s just so inconvenient idk

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@pharmafemboy you are so cute omgg - so glad you like this idea 💕

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as a succubus every time I fantasize about having power over my oppressors it ends up lewd-coded and I think that can be offputting and confusing to everyone else

but again I’m a succubus - I do three things:

  • corrupt the repressed until they worship at the throne of Lust
  • burn away shame until all that’s left is desire
  • conquer and subjugate oppressors by weaponizing Lust against them

so me saying that I want to trap Republican politicians’ souls inside mindless doll bodies that follow any request without question is completely on-brand for me

I promise they’ll be very cute and convenient household appliances and you’ll never have to think about who’s inside powering it

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@pharmafemboy I would never enthrall someone without safety measures like that! (except oppressors, of course) but I’d hope that I could make serving me feel so intoxicatingly good, and so safe and comfortable, that there’s never any need for them

and omg yes it would be as gay as possible, I think. I would learn fleshcraft from the Tzimisce just to give all of my guests and servants their ideal bodies, and I would have rooms dedicated to admiring and testing out those new bodies~

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@pharmafemboy I’d have a bed so big that everyone fit on it at once and we’d all cuddle and watch youtube and Star Trek together, at least once a week 💙

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@pharmafemboy hehehe yeah I’m ngl almost all of my power fantasies are lewd-coded even though most of them are directed at my oppressors so it leads to weird shit like this

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to clarify, the kinky volunteers would live in the servants’ quarters of my palace and cook for my guests and clean for me and do anything I said without question. the pig pen is only for billionaires

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if I were a vampire I would simply survive off of the blood of billionaires. I would enthrall some of them and drain others dry and it would always be morally correct to do both

once capitalism collapsed I would keep the surviving billionaires in a little pig pen crawling around in the mud and I could probably make their blood last a good 30 years before I needed to go looking for kinky volunteers instead

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Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

https://medium.com/nightingale/writing-alt-text-for-data-visualization-2a218ef43f81

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I'm currently working on a digital piece with the following goal: "Put some creatures from the Metroid games, into the world of Horizon Zero Dawn".

Ngl, a really fun challenge!

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Muting people whose posts annoy you is free.

You don't have to justify it to them or to anyone else.

Reminder for myself and for anyone else who needs it.

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@tropicaltrevor I’m glad that you like it so much! to be honest I think of cooking as a form of art, but it’s a very interesting art form because it’s ephemeral, we need it to live, and it’s scarce. it’s one of the only remaining art forms that can’t be infinitely reproduced and shared

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