Izzy~ ✨🏳️🌈 @ThatSoftwareBat@computerfairi.es
Hi! I’m a bat that likes software and mathematics! Gay as fuck. Lover of cute. She/her
Joined Sep 2018
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Politicians regularly ask for backdoors to encryption. This poses a severe threat to online security in general: https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-backdoor-is-a-security-risk
Insecurity
Me: I’m not too good at doing things right now but that’s okay! I’ll work to improve!
Me: *Sees someone do something cool*
Me: I am a WORM. A worthless piece of SHIt. i will. nEVER be good at ANYTHING. I’m a total FAILure.
*sobs uncontrollably*
For some reason #Tootdon is reading out new posts on the federated timeline in TTS voices?? What the fuck? Why is this a thing?
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One of my first jobs out of school was a start-up. Was referred by a friend of a friend. Thought it'd be a great opportunity and I'd make considerable cash.
I made $1k/month cash. Was making an extra $4k/month in equity. Part was in stock. Part in an unregistered options plan.
Decade later, they're out of business. Options are void. They're claiming I never earned stock now, either, tho it was reported as income & I paid taxes.
TLDR I learned a lot about how not to do business in that job...
Apple stuff
No evidence exists that new Macbooks are irreparable
https://www.engadget.com/2018/10/05/macbook-pro-imac-pro-repair-t2/
I don't understand something about myself:
Whenever I see certain CW tags, I get irrationally angry at it. Not some extreme anger, by my reaction is usually "No, fuck you."
And it usually takes me a second to calm myself and go "well there are actual people out there that need it."
I really wish i didn't happen. I really hate it. :/
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Suggestions for CWs for New Users
Here are some everyday things you might not normally think to CW, but are encouraged to CW here:
-selfies, eye contact
-lewd/sexually suggestive
-food
-mental health
-personal/sincere
-negativity/anger
-job stuff
-money
-politics/current events
-anything that's popular and taking up oxygen (like big TV show finales)
-weed, drugs, alcohol
-exercise
Please also mark +,-,~ for tone! As in, "food, +" for a post about you enjoying a nice dinner.
Thinking about maybe playing with #BSD sometime. Idk
Project Idea:
A graph of your mastodon statuses as it's shared between users and instances.
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PSA: If you're in the US, you'll be getting an emergency alert on your phone Wednesday at 2:18pm Eastern time as part of a nationwide test. You'll get it even if you've disabled these alerts previously, have your phone silenced, or volume set to 0. Regardless of volume settings, the alert will emit a siren sound at your phone's max volume.
If you don't want this (frex if you'll be asleep like me :|) you need to have your phone completely off, or in a mode that gives it absolutely no service.
If you don't want this (frex if you'll be asleep like me :|) you need to have your phone completely off, or in a mode that gives it absolutely no service.
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All trans/non-binary people deserve a free Nintendo Switch.
Boost if you agree.
Gotta board the airplane back home.
The last three weeks have been the some of the best of my life.
I miss him already. 😥
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I just spent some time digging into cross-platform ways to talk to Bluetooth LE devices and the options, as seems to always be the case with talking to hardware, appear to be either “go fuck your self” or “use Web Bluetooth”
and people wonder why web and Electron apps are common
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pol & masculinity
So I want to remind what 'patriarchy' means.
It's not rule by men.
It's rule by patriarchs. Old men. Esteemed men. Men who have performed toxic masculinity the best.
There's a reason every man in politics seems like they're a sex scandal away from losing it. They are.
That is what this system has rewarded. There are rewards for power-seeking, controlling, abusive, authoritarian behaviors.
And now we're changing the rules. And the men who bought in are scared.
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RT @LaterCapitalism@twitter.com: Batman is an enemy of the proletariat
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/LaterCapitalism/status/1044884318093549568
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OK, I think I do this job thing for real now, fighting my anxiety and depression to do it.
I guess a starting salary of 40,000/year is OK. It's in the range of what people should get in this job and not too much asked, though a little off.
In the end I keep 1,600 a month, but that's fine. I only had something like 1,000 a month before.
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Your periodic reminder that in 1997, QNX developed a 1440 kiB demo floppy that contained the following:
* QNX 4 POSIX-compatible realtime microkernel
* Your choice of either Hayes modem drivers, or wired ethernet drivers for a few common NICs at the time (NE1000/2000, DEC Tulip, 3c509)
* VGA and VESA video drivers
* Photon windowing system
* A completely modern HTML 3.2+JavaScript web browser(!), with a bundled JavaScript game (Towers of Hanoi)
* A graphical text editor and a little demo animation
* A package manager to bring other apps in over the internet
http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html has some screenshots and download links.
* QNX 4 POSIX-compatible realtime microkernel
* Your choice of either Hayes modem drivers, or wired ethernet drivers for a few common NICs at the time (NE1000/2000, DEC Tulip, 3c509)
* VGA and VESA video drivers
* Photon windowing system
* A completely modern HTML 3.2+JavaScript web browser(!), with a bundled JavaScript game (Towers of Hanoi)
* A graphical text editor and a little demo animation
* A package manager to bring other apps in over the internet
http://toastytech.com/guis/qnxdemo.html has some screenshots and download links.
Hi! I’m a bat that likes software and mathematics! Gay as fuck. Lover of cute. She/her
Joined Sep 2018
