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Comment on Commodore Callback flip phone in ~tech
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Comment on Commodore Callback flip phone in ~tech
em-dash Link ParentPracticalities aside, I am so very tired of this "clearly the solution is to just not have social media" attitude all the minimalist-phone manufacturers seem to have. This isn't the first time...Practicalities aside, I am so very tired of this "clearly the solution is to just not have social media" attitude all the minimalist-phone manufacturers seem to have. This isn't the first time I've seen it.
It's a communication device! Banning one of the main ways I communicate with people makes it useless to me!
I don't need or want protection from myself, I want protection from companies trying to override my preferences for their own reasons.
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Comment on We're so back in ~tildes
em-dash Link ParentStill doesn't beat that time the site broke because we had a thread about software that misinterprets the text "null" as an actual null value, and then we found out Tildes had that exact bug. -
Comment on Your URL bar can be a CLI for searching websites in ~tech
em-dash Link ParentI also insist on split address/search boxes, but for an entirely different conceptual reason: URLs are just a different sort of thing than search strings in my mind, and so entering a URL is a...I also insist on split address/search boxes, but for an entirely different conceptual reason: URLs are just a different sort of thing than search strings in my mind, and so entering a URL is a different action than searching and belongs in its own UI component. It's the same reason it would never occur to me to try to search for files from a shell with
cd search terms.I'm oddly fascinated by this thing where you've arrived at the same conclusion via a path that is completely alien to me.
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Comment on What change would make you quit Tildes? in ~tildes
em-dash Link ParentI am here for the April 1 joke where we all post ASCII art renditions of memes for a day.I am here for the April 1 joke where we all post ASCII art renditions of memes for a day.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #7: What is your gender identity? (Results) in ~talk
em-dash Link ParentGrammatically, it's just a clarifying adjective, much like the floof I'm currently petting is both "a cat" and "a black cat". I treat it as a weak unidirectional signal that the person saying it...Grammatically, it's just a clarifying adjective, much like the floof I'm currently petting is both "a cat" and "a black cat". I treat it as a weak unidirectional signal that the person saying it is somewhere on the "ally" half of the ally-to-bigot spectrum, nothing more.
By "unidirectional" I mean its presence is meaningful, but its absence isn't. It's the same sort of thing as corporate rainbow logos: not making a rainbow variant of your logo doesn't mean you hate gay people, and making one doesn't really materially benefit anyone, but the act of doing so implies you're at least not the sort of people who refuse to do so on principle.
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Comment on Any fellow XCP-ng users here? in ~comp
em-dash Link(hi, I am the one who invited you, welcome!) I'm a "pile of containers on bare metal" sort of girl, which feels odd sometimes in a sea of hypervisors. You've seen the sort of deployment short...(hi, I am the one who invited you, welcome!)
Any odd homelab setups to share?
I'm a "pile of containers on bare metal" sort of girl, which feels odd sometimes in a sea of hypervisors. You've seen the sort of deployment
pipelinesshort tubes I come up with :)My switch toward NixOS is relatively recent; before this I ran mostly Alpine servers with a custom "rsync-with-hooks" script. I talked about it briefly here when I wrote it*; it later gained more exciting features like "secrets management by dumping part of my bitwarden vault to /etc/secrets". My main home server is still using that mostly because I am lazy and it's not bothersome enough to replace it.
(* That post mentions moving toward ARM machines. This never happened because support for Linux on most SBCs continues to be in the form of "here's a SD card image with a weird Debian fork, we support nothing else".)
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Comment on Any fellow XCP-ng users here? in ~comp
em-dash Link ParentCuriosity: what's the use case for nested hypervisors?Curiosity: what's the use case for nested hypervisors?
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Comment on Help me test my chess bot in ~games
em-dash Link ParentIt is also no longer accepting my challenges (just spins forever waiting for opponent). I choose to believe I am just so amazing that it finds me intimidating.It is also no longer accepting my challenges (just spins forever waiting for opponent). I choose to believe I am just so amazing that it finds me intimidating.
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Comment on Help me test my chess bot in ~games
em-dash Linkhttps://lichess.org/HzV5SQ7O - Not my best game ever, but I did win, largely because it missed a lot of obvious moves (in particular 33. Ne4???, turning what I thought was a queen trade into a...https://lichess.org/HzV5SQ7O - Not my best game ever, but I did win, largely because it missed a lot of obvious moves (in particular
33. Ne4???, turning what I thought was a queen trade into a free queen capture for me).https://lichess.org/wNliXQCf - Feels like it played better in this one, but also I destroyed it more thoroughly.
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Comment on Tildes Survey #1: How old are you? (Results) in ~talk
em-dash Link ParentTo be clear, that's a thing where you shoot lasers at CDs to put data on them. Please do not set CDs on fire in an attempt to summon us. It won't work and the fumes are probably bad for you.To be clear, that's a thing where you shoot lasers at CDs to put data on them.
Please do not set CDs on fire in an attempt to summon us. It won't work and the fumes are probably bad for you.
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Comment on AI Coding agents are the opposite of what I want in ~comp
em-dash Link ParentMy job is the thing I do to make people give me money, which I then spend on doing the things I actually want to do. I optimize heavily for low (time+stress):money ratio‚ and seek enjoyment and...My job is the thing I do to make people give me money, which I then spend on doing the things I actually want to do. I optimize heavily for low (time+stress):money ratio‚ and seek enjoyment and fulfillment elsewhere.
I do prefer certain types of work (interesting puzzles > arguing with CSS) but that's a secondary goal within a job, not something I would switch jobs over.
on burnout, depression, and how I got here
The shortest tenure I've ever had at a job was also the only job I've actively cared about beyond this purely transactional mindset. I left finance tech and moved over to education tech. But that care led me to accept far more of a time and stress commitment than I would have for any other job, and I did not handle it well. By the end of the one year I worked there, I burned out hard. I quit and took a few months off, and now I'm back to relatively boring business-y software. There's only so much emotion I can put into it, and that limits how badly it can hurt me.
This is, of course, a terribly depressing way to look at things. I certainly don't claim anyone else should actively try to feel this way. If you don't, I'm legitimately happy for you and I hope you stay that way.
But for me specifically, it's a mental health self-preservation thing.
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Comment on AI Coding agents are the opposite of what I want in ~comp
em-dash Link ParentInteresting. I think it's actually the opposite for me: the turning point for me becoming okay with LLM coding was realizing that I don't really enjoy writing code when it's work stuff I don't...Interesting. I think it's actually the opposite for me: the turning point for me becoming okay with LLM coding was realizing that I don't really enjoy writing code when it's work stuff I don't care about.
My personal projects are still all hand-written because those are the things I'm choosing to work on for fun.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
em-dash Link Parent(Haven't played since posting this, so I've gained no new information.) I was already pretty sure it's the Eye I'm warping to, yeah. There's a weird alien input device taking three of something,...(Haven't played since posting this, so I've gained no new information.)
I was already pretty sure it's the Eye I'm warping to, yeah. There's a weird alien input device taking three of something, and I've only seen that kind of thing in one place and there were three of them.What makes me suspect there's more to it is that I don't know much about the Eye itself, what it is or does. I think I've been there while riding on the Quantum Moon (I made it to the living Nomai at the end), but I think you still die if the sun blows up while you're there? Which suggests that "just be at the Eye" isn't the goal in itself, there's either something to do there or that's not actually where I'm going.
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Comment on 3D printers, do you use glue stick? in ~hobbies
em-dash LinkI do not. I kind of didn't realize that was still a thing. My main textured plate is coated with ABS juice, and that seems to last long enough that I don't need to care anymore. I switch to a...I do not. I kind of didn't realize that was still a thing.
My main textured plate is coated with ABS juice, and that seems to last long enough that I don't need to care anymore. I switch to a smooth plate for plastics that specifically adhere better to that.
(In one memorable large ABS print, ABS juice was so strong that it still allowed the print to warp but it pulled the whole steel sheet up off the magnet with it and continued printing on top of the now-taco-shaped bed.)
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
em-dash LinkI picked up Outer Wilds again last night, having gotten pretty far the last time I played but didn't finish it before my I-feel-like-gaming mood wore off. The friend who recommended it to me...I picked up Outer Wilds again last night, having gotten pretty far the last time I played but didn't finish it before my I-feel-like-gaming mood wore off. The friend who recommended it to me started another playthrough, and that got me wanting to continue it.
details on my playthrough, provided for the amusement of those who have already finished it, not a request for hints or anything
I think I know what to do but I don't know if there's more game after this. I found an ending early on but not the real ending, so I don't know if this is another instance of that:
First time: blundered my way into Ash Twin, correctly determined that this was the thing causing the time loop, pulled the warp core to shut it off, then awkwardly waited around for the end of the cycle because I had not even discovered meditation yet. This did not stop the sun from exploding. It did roll the credits afterward.
Now: grabbing the warp core, but using it to power the Vessel and warp away from impending doom. But I have also now learned all the stars are exploding, so there may not be a safe place to warp to?
Meta-ish: I really like this sort of gradual-discovery game, but I seem to have a very narrow window of difficulty between "so easy I don't feel like I've actually accomplished anything and may as well have just read the fan wiki" and "so difficult I am missing too much detail to enjoy the game at all", and that window seems to shift around over time, so it's hard to find games that really click with my brain. It's frustrating, but I can at least embrace it when it does happen, and get the nice fuzzy brain feelings from getting so immersed in something for a bit.
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Comment on Suggest media in which the antagonist is an idea or an abstract concept rather than a person or intelligent entity in ~talk
em-dash Link ParentThe antagonist is an event, which you first become aware of 22 minutes into the game. I tried to provide more detail than that but this game really is that hard to talk about.The antagonist is an event, which you first become aware of 22 minutes into the game.
I tried to provide more detail than that but this game really is that hard to talk about.
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Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech
em-dash Link ParentI picked this name back when em dashes were still cool and I am NOT GOING TO GIVE IT UP NOWI picked this name back when em dashes were still cool and I am NOT GOING TO GIVE IT UP NOW
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Comment on Introducing EmDash — the spiritual successor to WordPress that solves plugin security in ~tech
em-dash LinkI will not stand for this slander. Seriously though, I've never really understood the "what if we based our site on blogging software but with a bunch of plugins to make it pretend it's something...I will not stand for this slander.
Seriously though, I've never really understood the "what if we based our site on blogging software but with a bunch of plugins to make it pretend it's something else" approach to websites (or worse, web applications). Why did Wordpress, of all things, become the standard for Making A Website, instead of a static site generator (if your company has an appropriate nerd available) or some modernized FrontPage thing (if not)?
I'm suddenly kind of curious which way the cause and effect relationship goes between this and companies structuring their SEO keyword spam pages specifically as blogs, which has also always seemed weird to me.
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Comment on Welcome to a multidimensional economic disaster - the AI boom wasn’t built for the polycrisis in ~tech
em-dash Link ParentCorrect! As I understand it, bitcoin ASICs were the same sort of thing: not actually specific to bitcoin, just optimized for doing the one computationally expensive part bitcoin happens to rely...Correct!
As I understand it, bitcoin ASICs were the same sort of thing: not actually specific to bitcoin, just optimized for doing the one computationally expensive part bitcoin happens to rely heavily on (hash algorithms) over everything else.
Twitter and Instagram aren't the only kind of social media. We're having a conversation on a social media site right now.
There are several people I primarily communicate with on Fedi/Mastodon. Turns out Twitter-style feeds aren't so bad when you have the ability to curate them.
But also, I have little faith that people won't try to put e.g. Discord in that group, just because it's closer to that line than most IM apps are.