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601I 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
kasdeya
kasdeya
hm I’m starting to have this feeling of “okay, I could learn this language, but I can’t really do anything cool with it can I? just a bunch of stuff that I can already do much more easily in Python”
so maybe learning new languages isn’t fun per se, and my next tech project could be learning to use the Löve engine or something like that
I’m actually kinda considering learning to do NES dev things, because I’ve been wanting to learn how to use 6502 assembly ever since it was in RedPower. and it would give me an excuse to learn C and use it for something cool instead of, y’know, the same things that I can use Python for except it feels like I have both hands tied behind my back and I’m worried about corrupting or deadlocking my OS or something
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Tina, returned of the depths
TransTina@translunar.academyThat’s right!
It goes in the HTTP protocol
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kasdeya
kasdeyaI have a suspicion that one of the reasons why FOSS tends to be Like That (user-unfriendly, often command-line only, difficult to set up and use, very picky about the environment it runs in) is because there’s a misalignment between the features that are most helpful and the features that are most fun to work on. like you know what’s really unfun to work on in a codebase?
- UI stuff
- UX stuff
- making sure the default behaviors are sane and work well on most people’s computers
- addressing new user pain-points
- fixing environment-specific problems when “it works on my computer”
- writing documentation and tutorials
- finding ways to minimize the tinkering necessary to get the software to work
but you know what is fun?
- adding new features
- increasing the complexity and depth of the system
- devs optimizing their own workflows
- making the system more robust or flexible for highly technical users
- fragmenting the ecosystem in various ways
and in my experience that first list is all things that FOSS tends to be bad at, and the second list is all things that FOSS very often does
I’m glad that a lot of FOSS has gotten very accessible at this point (GIMP and LibreOffice are great examples), but we definitely have a long way to go before FOSS adoption reaches a critical mass (year of the Linux desktop blah blah) and this might be part of the reason why
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I'm once again begging people to stop blaming the victims of shitty techbro nonsense. Switching cost is never zero.
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Paul Cantrell
inthehands@hachyderm.ioApparently there’s another influx of new folks here, so I guess I should give my best tidbit of advice:
You have to really actively seek out people to follow here, much more than you’re used to — and until you do, this place will feel •dead•. Cool stuff isn’t just going to show up. You won’t get many helpful suggestions. No tech giant marketing dept is spending millions to draw you in. It’s going to be •work•. It’s kind of a drag, tbh.
But: your people are out there!! You just have work to seek them out, one account at a time.
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kasdeyait seems like #GAGSProject isn’t getting used very often at all, so I’ve been thinking about cancelling the VPS to save myself some money every month. I don’t really have that much income so it would be helpful to spend a little less
I would still keep the source code available on GitLab, and I might even share my server configs if anyone is interested in hosting their own version. but cancelling the VPS would mean that you can’t use GAGS anymore without hosting it yourself
I just wanted to mention this in case someone wants to talk me out of it or has a good alternative for me
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kasdeyaevery time I see a new Minecraft programming mod (ComputerCraft, OpenComputers, Integrated Dynamics, Hex Casting, etc.) my thought process is always:
- oohh imagine all the cool things I could do with this!
- wait… what would I do with this?
- Minecraft isn’t really complex enough for me to need this level of automation, and I don’t think there are any mods that add enough complexity to warrant this
like every time I install ComputerCraft or Project Red I’m always like “ooh I can’t wait to use this to automate something” but then I never need to automate anything that’s more complex than like, one boolean logic operation
I think it would be amazing if certain mods added stuff to the game that was deliberately designed to need automating. for example a reactor that needs a control loop system to keep it from melting down or wasting reactant. or maybe computer-controlled omnidirectional conveyor belts as the only way to transport items between machines
but as it is I feel like ComputerCraft, OpenComputers, etc. are power tools without anything to use them on and that’s such a shame
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kasdeya
kasdeyathe ultimate test of a magic system is whether someone is intrigued by it enough to make a Minecraft mod out of it
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hm, what fandoms do I like? I guess I like Star Trek: TNG. maybe I can find some cool fanfics that expand the story or are about smaller character moments between the crew
*searches AO3 for TNG fanfics, sorting by kudos*
*it is entirely fanfics about the male characters fucking*
huh.
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kasdeyadoes anyone know of a mailing list that I can subscribe to, or something like that, that will remind me to do specific American-voting-related things (like mail an absentee ballot form) and also tell me what the deadline is to do that?
I keep missing election dates and I have no idea how anybody keeps track of them or even hears about them. apparently there was one in April?
I just got an email from Vote.org today telling me that it was getting close to the deadline to request to vote by mail, but the paperwork says that I’m requesting to vote by mail for this year only, and I think all of the elections for this year have already happened?
idk I’m really confused. and government websites just make it more confusing because they’re worded in legalese like “deadline to post notice of candidate filing deadline” like what the fuck is “candidate filing”?
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kasdeyaShow content
disclaimer: I don’t have any visual disability or any other disability that would give me a salient accessibility need for alt text. if you have a disability like that and want to chime in, please do! your opinion means a lot more than mine on this. I do benefit from alt text too but probably not nearly as much
anyway, I tend to mentally categorize alt text into three categories. the first is a very clinical description of the image that meanders around, overdescribing things with no real intent or tone behind it:
a picture of a woman. she is wearing a black fishnet top. you can see her nipples through the top. she is wearing black leggings, and you can see a bulge in the leggings. the background is a white-painted room with red neon lighting. everything looks red because of the red neon lighting.
this is… less than ideal. it communicates what the picture is of but in a way that is incredibly boring to read. it also doesn’t capture the intent behind the picture. how am I supposed to feel about each of the details? often a photographer will deliberately emphasize certain things with lighting, shadow, framing, poses, camera positioning, and a million other things. and all of that is lost with this description
put another way: photography is a very subtle art and this alt text is too unsubtle and too literal to do it justice
the second kind is written like a description in a novel:
in a small room with a soft, intimate red glow, [name] poses invitingly. she is almost beckoning the viewer forward, or even daring them to approach - showing off her perky breasts through a black fishnet top that presses into her skin sensually. she is spreading her thick, soft thighs, showing off her bulge that strains eagerly against her tight black leggings
this is my favorite kind. it usually expresses the mood of the scene perfectly and sometimes leaves me a little breathless after I’ve read it. I don’t just feel like I know what the picture is about - I feel like I’ve experienced it. and even if the image loaded, often I’ll read the alt text just to get that little bit of extra context on what the artist wanted to emphasize or express
but then there’s a third type:
in a small room with a soft, intimate red glow, [name] poses invitingly, almost daring you to approach. your eyes are drawn to her perky breasts, visible through a black fishnet top that you want to rip off of her. noticing your interest, she spreads her thick, soft thighs, showing off her bulge that strains eagerly against her tight black leggings. now all you can think about is how much you need to get on your knees and taste her
this is just my subjective opinion, but this makes me a bit uncomfortable and I don’t like reading it. I have a knee-jerk negative reaction to being told how I feel or what I want to do. and also, sometimes I don’t want to feel like a part of the scene, or like the intimacy of the pic is targeted at me specifically
but I’m curious if others are bothered by this too. this might just be a me thing
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kasdeya
kasdeyakas at 2am: *yawn* I am so sleepy. good thing I’m going to bed soon
kas at 5am: *watching a chicken’s beak get trimmed, sandpapered, and glued*
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ScaryFury 🦜👻
SeaFury@aus.social
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kasdeyathis is so fucking cool. I wish I had been able to do this while it was around
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kasdeyahard scifi as in ‘technical accuracy” is alright, but consider: hard scifi as in “frequent infodumps where you get to learn about cool science things”. that’s the kind that I like
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kasdeyaI love any communications software that formats conversations as a tree structure. that is by far the most intuitive format for me. so far only Akkoma and reddit seem able to do that (maybe Plemora too? I’m not sure which features are Akkoma-specific) but I would really love to see that in more software
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