Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es
- Website?
- https://aurav.neocities.org/
- Pronouns?
- https://en.pronouns.page/@auravulpes
- Species?
- Kitsune/Incubus mix
- Combat sport of choice?
- Kickboxing
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)
Joined Jun 2019
Bullshit game design
Look at this ridiculousness. Half the town's on fire, the other half is covered in nuclear fallout. What's the biggest issue on the survivors' minds? The fact that taxes are at 20%. Not from the perspective of "Hey, tax the rich more to fix this mess" or anything like that but generic "MuH TaXEs ArE tOO HiGh!!" What kind of bullshit right-wing ideology leads you to develop a system this ridiculously bad?
Aura V.
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normalize just doing silly shit tbh
don't shut people down for "being childish". being an adult fucking sucks let people be a bit silly ok the world is not ending over this
Aura V.
boosted
an example project is not documentation
Aura V.
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there is an ikea meme now?
yall trapped in 3008 arent you 
Aura V.
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🍎 Jailbreak your iphone and hack the OS
🤖 Root and flash your android phones with custom OSes you can play with
🖥 Flash your computer's bios to show ascii art on POST
🏳️🌈 Cover everything you own in stickers and patches
⚧ Hack your endocrine system. Steal genders or cobble your own together with spare parts
Own your stuff inside and out. Customize it to make a statement, reflect your identity, or just because you can. It belongs to you and no one else. Leave your mark on it. ✊
Aura V.
boosted
reduce your ableist language (contains examples of same)
There’s a *lot* of ableist language in common parlance. These words and similar ones exist as slurs towards neurodivergent folks in particular. Try pushing yourself to replace/eliminate them.
crazy, insane, mental ➡️ wild, surprising, hectic
dumb, stupid ➡️ foolish, silly
idiot, moron, dumbass ➡️ bigot, asshole, fool
In addition, you are encouraged to think through what you’re trying to say better, and address what the real issue worth criticising is. And if you can’t rephrase it, maybe it didn’t need to be said at all.
🚫@🚫
@QuietMisdreavus You might find tinywm helpful. It's 50 lines of C with an annotated version to explain what everything does. It's basic, but it should at least help you get started.
http://incise.org/tinywm.html
Aura V.
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how do you boycott a country you live in
i feel like we need to boycott the USA
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i get especially irritated at the shitposters who write deliberately misleading stuff there.
do not do that. it's not funny and you are setting a bad example to users who don't yet know the accessibility norms.
Aura V.
boosted
it's nice that more and more artists are writing image descriptions, but often they are very vague and aren't actually _alt_ text. like, they aren't viable alternatives to viewing the image.
eg.: "fanart of <character>" is not really telling anything. what style are they drawn in? what is the picture trying to communicate? how are they dressed? facial expression? etc.
iq/pol shitpost
An online IQ test just told me my IQ is 138, so I guess I'm a genius and have no choice but to become an """""an""cap""" who spends their time posting pro-fascist talking point online and ""trolling"" leftists with points that have been refuted a thousand times just to prove how smart I am.
Aura V.
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tech thoughts
I think this is one thing I'm kinda always conflicted about, like I want to make things that make the world a better place and can be used to enrich people's lives but I always worry that unless I'm doing something completely meaningless then there's a chance that whatever I make gets used for evil
The standard foss line is "let users use software for any purpose" and I just don't believe that's a good approach to take
As for Qubes, as much as I love the concept, it's just not right for me right now. I could see myself using it on, say, a work laptop, but for my primary machine, it just doesn't do what I want a primary OS to do.
Seriously, I opened up Pale Moon and was literally still logged in to everything. I reinstalled steam and it opened up as if nothing happened. I knew dot files did a lot but damn. I expected to have to do a lot of setting stuff back up.
A good reminder I should probably go wipe that external hard drive all that stuff was backed up to
So, as a quick update, it turns out Qubes wasn't all I expected or wanted it to be. For instance, while I could *in theory* do gaming, in practice it'd be very difficult. The Windows VM idea? Yeah, hope you like gaming sans audio. And there's a lot of inconveniences associated (e.g. interVM file copy/clipboard). So, I've gone back to Arch. On the bright side, going back was actually easier than expected. Turns out copying all the dot files backs restored everything as it was.
@kimdanes@octodon.social minecraft USED to be able to VAGUELY run on a crap computer if you installed optifine and turned everything all the way down and even then you'd be lucky to get 20 fps. that's how i ran it for years on an intel gma 945 and mid-late 2000s pentium (as well as a radeon x1200 and turion 64 x2). it could hardly be said to have run """well""", though, and i doubt it'd still run that well today.
On the bright side, once we finish getting that room clean and get my bed moved in there, I'll be able to sleep in a cold room again, so, you know, worth it.
I just spent the past couple of hours cleaning up a moldy AC unit. How have y'all's days been?
Aura V.
boosted
"it's just a joke"
you're
still
doing
the
thing
cut
it
the
fuck
out
- Website?
- https://aurav.neocities.org/
- Pronouns?
- https://en.pronouns.page/@auravulpes
- Species?
- Kitsune/Incubus mix
- Combat sport of choice?
- Kickboxing
Phlebotomist. Cyberwitch. Artist. Fighter. Accidental breaker of computers.
Genderfluid enby. Pansexual/-romantic. Kitsune-kin (9-tailed)/Incubus-kin. Plural, with a bunch of headmates.
DAMNED PROUD ANTIFASCIST and an anarchocommunist.
Be warned: In theory, I post both lewd/NSFW and incredibly personal stuff.
(In practice, it's been a while, but who knows?)
Joined Jun 2019
