Rose @ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fed

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Why am I reminded of one old comic? It went like this:

(Scientists on an Antarctic base)
Scientist 1: (Finishes talking about something normal)
Scientist 2: (Disheveled and visibly unhinged) "Well none of that shit matters. Do you know what happened to my stack of Playboy magazines?"
Scientist 1: (Now also suddenly disheveled and visibly unhinged, whips out a knife) "They're mine now!"
Scientist 2: (Also whips out a knife) "Oh yeah?"
Scientist 1: "Yeah! What are you gonna do about it?"
(Altercation ensues)

Yeah, that company has red flags.

Red flag number 1: the contents of the note

Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.

Oh yeah, they have a plan all right.

Now, the plan isn't any good and everyone gets screwed, even them.

But it is, technically speaking, a plan!

On the other hand, I think safe-harbour laws are very much necessary if we want the Internet to work for the positive good of the world. We want the companies to take reasonable precautions and act on problematic stuff if it crops up, but that's probably enough.

But on the other hand, jeez, have you seen what kind of discussion shitholes Facebook and Twitter have cultivated? If your company is being described as an accessory to genocide, maybe something has already gone horribly wrong.

A couple of minutes in Dystopika, annnnnd....

Yet another unrealistic music video. It's a relatively short song and Eclipse will not start fast enough.

See, America? Gun control is not the end of the world! You can safely implement sensible firearms legislation. You can just move to Some Other Thing after that! It's not hard!

Leatherback sea turtles are hella neat! Deepest diving of all of the turtles. Absolutely fearless.

Is that less or more the energy of your average Falcon Punch?

android.permission.FLASHLIGHT

long slow stare ...but WHY THOUGH?

You know, back in the day, news from America looked like this:

"A Stupid Horrible New Law That Screws People Over was just somehow passed, and it was the long time dream of Senator Whatshisface".

And next to the article, we saw The Portrait: a dude in slick in front of the flag, nicely lit, wearing a sharp dress and tie, nicely combed, smiling with perfect teeth.

So apparently they stopped doing that now. The Portrait, I mean; the headlines are definitely the same.

Things change but things don't really change.

"No HTML club" is kinda going too far on the Web. If you go there you might as well start a No HTTP Club and serve stuff over Gopher and FTP.

But we definitely need an HTML 2.0 Club.

Hmm, maybe just use some variation of DIN connector? It's a circle, but keyed to one position, and fairly effortless to plug in the right way without seeing. Also full size DIN connectors are robust as hell and can be easily replaced and rewired.

Hell, my Commodore 64 IEC bus cables still work after decades, and I can't say the same about many USB cables these days.

If you're working, a holiday is not much of a holiday, now is it?

Also, I don't really trust on Trump knowing what good or bad for business, because we all know he's not as good at it as he implies. Him not being able to make money on holiday sales sounds like a skill issue.

does not feel the law itself is at fault and instead blames Democrats for scaring medical professionals into confusion over their responsibilities

Well, of course this law change doesn't faze a Republican, because they feel like they are able to do whatever the hell they want regardless of what the law says.

Unfortunately, the people who operate in the real world have to actually consider the consequences of their actions and whether they might be breaking the law. So the fact that the laws concerning the doctors' field of endeavour have been fucked around with makes them understandably confused. Not their fault they're confused. In fact, being concerned about the legality is definitely an indication of professionalism.

Dang, I really should write a programming portfolio page about all of the weird hacks I've made over the years. Other people link to their GitHub profiles in job applications and gesture non-specifically. I'd just point to my portfolio of weird hacks about weird problems I tried to solve weirdly. Anyway...

An ancient one I made back in the day:

I was listening to music while trying to sleep. I controlled the music player with infrared remote. Some mystery song starts playing and I have no idea what it's called. Obviously, the monitor was far away and turned off so I couldn't read.

So I was like, dammit, why can't I just push a button on the remote and have the computer say the name of the song?

My previous project actually helped with that - I had previously made an extension for XMMS that allows other programs to read the song information via a named pipe. So I just whipped up a script that reads the song name and feeds it to Festival TTS, and hooked that up to the infrared daemon. And that was at like 3 AM, so I quickly got back to trying to sleep

Some more recent ones:

Long ago, I was using Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer to import my photos from SD cards (etc) to my NAS. It was horrible. It sucked. So much that when I finally snapped and switched over to better software (read: stable version of digiKam for Windows came out), I never trusted the photo organiser to get this thing right. So for a while I used random hacks and a bunch of weird scriptery. Then I decided to turn it into a PowerShell script. That started to kinda suck, so I now have a massive overengineered Python script to import my photos. And it does exactly what I want it to do. And I'm finally happy. (Available here for what it's worth)

Another thingy: I have to set the clocks on some devices manually. Daylight saving time, clock drift, you name it. One of my recent old-lady whinges was "Why the hell doesn't Windows even have an analog clock anymore?" I just prefer to have a clock that has both number display (to set the time) and analog clock face with a second hand so I can time the button press better visually. ...so I made one. Because I've never written an analog clock before. First, I made one in Processing. Then, a second version, because I'm in process of learning Godot.

I'm not exactly opposed to romantasy as a concept. I like that it has brought a lot of women to fantasy genre as readers and authors. Also, maybe this would lead to more interesting takes on romance and sexuality in fantasy literature, because, suffice to say, that could use some improvements.

But I'm kinda worried about the current situation where romantasy is basically just the marketing hype thing. The Popular Thing Right Now. A lot of the stuff doesn't get written because the authors like to enrich fantasy literature, it gets written because they realised can make money off of the TikTok crowd.

...I mean, I guess it's not a new problem, the same thing happened with horror when Twilight was big.

Back in the day, you could slap a math coprocessor on your system so it could do floating point maths real gud.

Now, you slap in some card that does floating point maths even guder, but also in parallel in yuge vectors.

So my proposed name is "It's like an old Cray supercomputer but real tiny"

Boot up my dad's computer and play some shareware off the magazine cover disk I got months ago.

Or go to the library I guess.

I'm only on Lemmy (and other Fediverse sites). And I guess I ramble and post photos on Tumblr (but I think they're working on ActivityPub support too?)

I only occasionally pick up random Reddit threads on web searches (and even those seem few and far between these days), and I'm definitely not posting there anymore.