Alyx Woodward (obsolete) @Alyx@computerfairi.es
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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Bitching about computer nerd stuff
Fuck the GNU Project. Just...fuck it. Fuck it to hell and back.
Turns out, setting the `POSIXLY_CORRECT` environment variable causes things to break, meaning that the GNU Project is doing things so far from standards, I literally *have* to use their fucking software on my Arch system, whether I like it or not.
Thanks, guys. I'm glad you're freeing me from the tyranny of not being able to control my own computer. You're doing a great job. /s
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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my parents stop thinking having "company towns" where everything costs scrip will be a good idea when tech companies do it even though it was a fucking disaster when mining companies did it challenge
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I wonder what would happen if, say, the Teamsters said “hey Walmart, if you try to fire union organizers, we’re not delivering to your warehouses anymore”.
anger
ugh. thank the stars Kaylin's free today
anger
Chara's trying to be nice and philosophical about it and all but holy shit Kara's been running on fumes for fucking months now
give her a fucking break already
anger
I don't know what the fuck exactly Kara / Chara got mixed up with last night
but there are certain people I wanna punch in the face, really hard, right now, for their part in it
how dare you play with us all
how DARE you
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One of my favourite Undertale comics is that one where Frisk takes Papyrus to a human supermarket and shows him the pasta aisle and it's like a revelation to the guy and he's so overjoyed
And I love it not because of "lol the funny pasta skeleton", it's because of just how pure and earnest the reaction is and it just makes me so happy to imagine just .. being able to bring so much joy with something so simple.
never seen that "fac" terminology anywhere else. guess it refers to how the iridium, instead of simply bonding to the pyridine nitrogen, also (apparently!) strips a proton from the adjacent phenyl, making a bidentate ligand
(hexacoördinated, not hexadentate, bleh)
other arylpyridine ligands work. it's just plain simple "heat the ligand with IrCl3". more cooking than chemistry haha
what are these iridium complexes useful for? photocatalysts, apparently
also the stuff is spectacularly yellow
need to relax so here's _Organic Syntheses_ roulette. I generate a random English word off a website, and put it into the text search box of orgsyn.org and see what article first comes up
the word, "energetic"
http://orgsyn.org/demo.aspx?prep=v95p0029
well, it's...simple!
synthesis of a hexadentate complex of iridium(III), fac-tris(2-phenylpyridinato)iridium(III)
I suspect Charas may come in Chara-antiChara pairs
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re: corporate media vs. collective media
@Alyx on the collective side, I think the part where streaming costs a lot of money becomes a lot more foregrounded
see https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/636-Federated-video-streaming, frex
part of why I like the fediverse is because I know where the money for instance hosting is coming from: an admin thinking "I'm getting enough out of it to put in some of my own money" and a number of users, myself included, chucking metaphorical bills into the metaphorical honesty box to keep that "some" in manageable bounds
but for streaming that might be a lot of bills people have to chuck in the honesty box
Alyx Woodward (obsolete)
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List of gab instances
https://fediverse.network/mastodon?build=gab&count=users
Do boost and block.
Nazi dont need a platform and certainly not ours
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Request for $$$ (not for me!), ICE
This family needs 20k to get their dad out of ICE detention:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/support-juan-and-his-family
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instance block psa: new gab instance
please block both sinblr.com and cyzed.com
the sinblr admin has seen fit to set up a gab instance and is letting gab-types run about on there
other than the fact that the donate link on cyzed directs to sinblr, you can see that they're hosted by the same person here: http://archive.is/yDSV6
oh yeah and nobody's answered this one yet
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what FFXIV server are folks using
so, I guess one option to Twitch for general-purpose streaming is picarto.tv
that, at least, is the one I've heard the most about
anyone recommend any others
please?
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Picture of a random SouthPark adult character looking at the screen in a head-tilted pondering pose.
"Huh. It's almost as if taking life advice from a cartoon show extolling the values of behaving badly without consequence, for 20-some years, was somehow a bad idea..."
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THEY'RE GONNA BAKE COOKIES ON THE ISS!
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sexism in tech
disparaging comments about women in tech spaces always make us furious because /women founded computer science/.
go watch Hidden Figures. go read about Margaret Hamilton and Grace Hopper and Sophie Wilson. Come on.
