Rose @ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

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

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The first Call of Duty game I played was Ghosts, and it may have coloured my perception of what the series is about. Bombastic popcorn munching action that goes in one ear and straight out of the other. I was like "eeeeh it's okay". After playing some older ones I was like "well I'm sure it was groundbreaking at the time". (Hm. Did I ever finish MW2? And I think I put Black Ops 2 on hold after the first mission. Loved Advanced Warfare tho!)

And this is different from the usual YouTube jank how, exactly? I can't block ads on the YouTube TV app and it's a buggy mess and I have no idea why one of the major tech companies in the world allowed that to happen.

Organisational inertia. Planes are expensive, and getting them and qualified personnel to fly and maintain them is a long and complicated process for the airline companies (and the governments supporting the airlines).

They get the news about Boeing being crap, but they can't just reverse a decision in one day, because the decision to go with Boeing was made years or decades ago.

"systemd is the worst implementation of init, except all those other inits that have been tried from time to time" -Churchill, if he had been a nerd

What I was trying to communicate was that Wikipedia has plenty of photographs that illustrate various concepts. This is a photo that displays typical turtle behaviour, which I didn't think I implied that I was unaware of and I don't know how you came to that conclusion. Anyway, it's the sort of photo you wouldn't need to include in an article but it clearly is suitable for the purpose.

I did post this picture and all of the rambling while drunk and I'm having a bit of a mild anxiety breakdown right now and I just don't know what I was saying. I'm terribly ashamed of posting this if this caused anyone any confusion.

Yeah it kinda makes sense, turtles are, after all, the tanks of the nature!

However, in this photo, the roles are kind of reversed, aren't they? These are just Nature's Tanks, which are unduly harassed by some random thing that literally flew in from the sky!

Events that happen on nature rarely have immediate and direct tangible interpretations on political policy, is what I'm getting at.

I guess the web search messed up then. You should search for biology stuff! Not computer science stuff! Turtles are very computer science related creatures, but there's more to them!

Turtle Mode is actually a complicated thing! It's often implemented in two ways: Cryptodira are the turtles that just pull their heads in, while Pleurodira kind of tuck their head inside sideways.

But it gets even more complicated with certain ancient turtle species. For example, we have the snapping turtles. Technically cryptodira, but they don't really enough shell to cover themselves. Not that they need to because they'll fucking go snappity snap on everything on range. Or we have things like the megacephalum which again is a cryptodira turtle but probably can't retract the head because did we mention it's called the Megacephalum.

EDIT: Forgot: snapping turtle copypasta

Ooh, don't make me link to That One CGP Grey/Kurtzgesagt Thing. Well I might as well do it. Existential Crisis One! Existential Crisis Two!

True, the plant as a whole doesn't die.

But this particular slice of grass on the microscope slide?

Dead.

Of course this gets a lot more grim when you realise the grass had to be sliced to put under the microscope.

So they sliced a smiling organism and captured the expression at the moment of death.

I know I'm supposed to be strong, but I'm shedding tears. 😢

As a young nerd, I was happy that the national broadcaster decided to show history documentaries every week.

I was kind of disappointed that it devolved into a World War 2 Hour. But I guess it was inevitable.

(At least we don't have the History Channel, otherwise known as the H—)

I must apologize to Dahir Insaat for ever mocking their 18 wheeler drone airbase attack video

Didn't Dahir Insaat try to pitch their stuff to Putin in a open letter video, and Putin notably didn't respond, but was probably like "no, that's too wacky"?

Look who's doing wacky shit now! Putin is going to wish he had bought a Hell Bed

Games, mostly.

Also, I wrote the 2024 NaNoWriMo novel with it (and did the same in 2017). Can easily fit a daily sprint's worth of text in memory at once, heh.

I use a few modern add-ons: an SD2IEC drive (lets you use floppy images straight off an SD card) and EasyFlash3 (lets you use cartridge images, including the ability to pack random programs into utility carts).

Everyday tools? Scissors and knives I've had at least since 2000. (Fiskars stuff is indestructible)

Computer stuff? My Commodore 64. (Don't use it daily but pretty regularly, sits in a box in my living room for easy access)

I use plenty of Linux on server side, just that I use Windows as my daily desktop OS for some godforsaken reason.

I actually got back to watching Star Trek recently!

Can someone still developing tell me what I should use for the backend today?

I recommend checking out Python (Django) and Ruby (Ruby on Rails) if you want nice and easy modern Web frameworks that also aren't that weird if you have PHP experience.

Also I can never understand GIT as a single developer. The fuck is that? I've tried everything to understand.

Versioning your code with Git makes it much easier to experiment with new ideas. Cocked up a file? Pull it from the previous version. Create new branches for experiments, merge them in if they work, toss them if they don't, or keep them around just in case, without them ever getting in your way in the "real" version.

And if you keep the code in a server (GitHub etc), that gives you a backup location and makes it easier to work on code on multiple systems.

For the life of me I can't remember where this happened, but this was in one of the heavily moderated "safe space" subreddits.

I said something sarcastic, which some powermod interpreted as being against the rules. I didn't think it was, even if it had been taken at face value.

Problem was, I was in middle of dealing with what I now think was a mental health episode of some description so I ended up arguing with the mod in PMs. Wasn't fruitful, dude was also rude as hell because I asked them to chill.

When things looked up a few days later I was like "yeah, screw them". Left that community. Left Reddit entirely for a month.

I now realise this is one of those moments that turned me away from socialising in general. There are dipshits out there who just don't care.

(Not saying heavily moderated safe space communities are bad! Just maybe not have uncaring career dipshits moderating them. Maybe have clear rules and enforce them consistently.)

There definitely have been a case where the police, observing things with thermal cameras from a helicopter (for it is in the US where this tale happened), observed some house with a highly suspicious heat signature. ...Some dude's crypto mining operation.

Well, that was definitely indirectly drug related.

I've seen Breaking Bad. This is just what the memes look like in Mexico.

"Proceedings from the Dog Turd", Elsevier, annual subscription cost: several arms and legs