a tiny fairy @atinyfairy@computerfairi.es
Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Won't shut up about magical girls, robots, lesbian romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ
I’m also on twitter: @atinyfaerie
Joined Jan 2018
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Tonight, on Twitch, I am playing something ridiculous.
It's called "Yeah, you want "those games", right? So here you go! Now, let's see you clear them!"
It's basically a collection of fake mobile game ads, made real.
Twitch.TV/LauraKBuzz
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To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.
And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.
Here's how that happened. 1/🧵 #history #technology
@royaltheartist gaming had it five years ago with Doom Eternal and Animal Crossing and honestly I liked those memes better
@revenant useful for de-Double Dribbling NES DPCM samples!
Barbie movie looks featuring a vintage Barbie advertisement pastiche t-shirt
@dangeousenby yeah!! Good luck and show them what you're made of!!
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Don’t get me wrong: I emphatically do not think absolutely everyone should go to a 4-year liberal arts college like the one where I teach. I don’t think everyone should have to go to college at all. Education can — should! — take many, many forms. Education doesn’t even have to happen in school!
What I •do• believe is that some form of education with that liberal arts philosophy — “Because you are free, you must prepare for the unknown” — should be present in the life of every human being.
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Is a Religious Studies course “for” a software career? Well, is a Computer Science course “for” a software career?
That Religious Studies course applied to my software career in •exactly• the same way that my Algorithms course applied: I rarely use (and have mostly forgotten) the specific knowledge from it. I use its approach, its patterns of thought, •constantly•.
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Here’s the hidden truth of education:
You don’t know what you’re preparing for.
Your teacher doesn’t know. Your school doesn’t know. Your future employer doesn’t know. Nobody knows. Not really.
Much of what you’re preparing for doesn’t even exist yet. We •hope• it doesn’t exist yet: don’t we educate students in the hope that they will make the world better by changing it? By creating realities that don’t even exist yet?
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When I’m on a software project, I try to listen hard to what everyone is saying, to the words they choose. “Don’t blame me! They asked for it!” is never good enough. I ask critical questions about what people are really thinking, what we’re all hearing each other say, from the start.
I have saved many companies on many projects a whole lot of money (and tears) by using that skill to nip misunderstandings and hidden assumptions in the bud early.
A skill I honed in a Religious Studies course.
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@dangeousenby good morning !!
@fluttergirly in the programming side at least, understanding logic and control flow and algorithms and stuff like that are more important than knowing a specific language. your skills are already very valuable and anyone who hires you would want to retrain you on the other stuff anyway!
You know, I'd like LED lighting a lot more if it didn't flicker so much
re: coming out to fam, good result
@dangeousenby very happy for you!
re: threads/meta meta
It seems to me that people should be encouraging federation with Threads as a solution to Threads' issues…? like
•you get a reverse chronological timeline, of only and exactly the accounts you follow
•no tracking bullshit
•no spyware
•Meta only sees the explicit interactions you make with Threads users, just like any other cross-instance federation
What's the actual argument for defederation?
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…but what's the harm in having an instance federate with Threads?
Say I spin up my own ActivityPub instance and I federate it with Threads. Now I can see the content that's posted there and reply to the people I follow who are there, but I control the way the timeline is presented rather than meta's algorithm, and meta no longer gets their metadata on my device or how I use their platform.
threads/meta meta
So this is something I've been wondering about the whole "defederate with Threads" thing.
Obviously, *using* Threads is a huge privacy hit. It enables Facebook's surveillance of how many milliseconds you spend looking at which brand adverts and who you've called on the phone and how long and how long you browse each day and when and etc etc.
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Art I recently got!! The artist can be found here and is really good at drawing sporty girls: https://skeb.jp/@shark_waka
as a weird gloppy thing I have an inherent right to exist. also I like easy games and think they have a right to exist too.
Small fairy from Neptune. Bad decision maker. Pro translator. Won't shut up about magical girls, robots, lesbian romances, and wedding dresses. Eats, sleeps, and breathes. Ⓥ
I’m also on twitter: @atinyfaerie
Joined Jan 2018
