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- Faery?
- yes
- Robot?
- yes
- Gender?
- no
- Gender?
- oh okay sure we'll take a few
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own
Joined Jun 2019
eventually we're going to find out about every single person on fedi because they start dating someone else we know.
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oh fuck i have 10 followers already i have to think of relatable content uhhhhhhh you ever just listen to music
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tired: avoiding characters with they/them pronouns because it introduces semantic ambiguity
wired: leaning all the way into the ambiguity for narrative purposes
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The federal government doesn't like people to think about how propane and the like make for effective, cheap, thermobaric weapons
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paying security-testing hackers to execute arbitrary code on my computer because im too lazy to open the calculator app myself
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Today's gender is clever and sympathetic.
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Might be horny or otherwise weird
Cephalopod
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gotta love how my power fantasy is just not having to worry about things and having time for my hobbies
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Fascism shitpost
Nazis: White Power!
Anarchists: Why Power?
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you, social justice genius:
sex work is work
me, an idiot:
well duh it's right there in the name innit
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'Pro-black' doesnt mean 'anti-white people' but 'Pro-white' has always tended to mean 'anti-black people'
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I absolutely love myself *and* my people, partially b/c it gets white people all tilted and "B-B-B-BUT ALL LIVES MATTER"
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energy saving tip
turn off the war machine
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this is often actually easier than perfectly tailoring adventure balance! far less reliance on mechanics and number crunching (don't get me started on CR, dear ioun), much more on world description and player common sense (which granted may be lacking, but on their own heads be it)
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real tabletop adventure balance is making risk/reward well-telegraphed, rather than ensuring that every encounter is going to fit into a perfect difficulty curve that challenges the players but never too much
let players decide what they're up for, and face down the dragon that's five levels higher than them with a solid plan and an escape route
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i read your own posts to you out loud asmr 10 hours
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Discord post-mortem from a cloud engineer on the outside
Inferences I'm taking from what I can see about the Discord/GCP outage:
1.) Discord's database and storage is effectively single homed. If they had a hot failover it woulda failed over. If they had a cold failover its cost to fail over is probably high or else they would have.
2.) Discord's DB is intolerant of single-region networking issues. Google reports 8% packet loss in one cluster in one DC, and that knocked Discord offline.
3.) Discord may or may not have backups (they better) but the restoration time for a dataset of their size would be days since it's single-homed.
4.) Discord is reliant on Google Cloud. If they had their infrastructure striped across multiple providers, see point 1.
5.) Discord has no response process for if Google Cloud just completely soils the bed, as noted by their updates saying "All we can do is wait for GCP to fix itself"
6.) Discord has no way to gracefully handle a failure between API service nodes and their monolith DB/cache. Granted the nature of the app limits what could be done, but "Wait and hope the message doesn't redline" isn't good and just increases load in a fragile situation.
Synthesis.) A major incident could knock Discord offline for days, or permanently, depending on the reliability of their backups. Absolutely have backup methods for reaching your important contacts.
1.) Discord's database and storage is effectively single homed. If they had a hot failover it woulda failed over. If they had a cold failover its cost to fail over is probably high or else they would have.
2.) Discord's DB is intolerant of single-region networking issues. Google reports 8% packet loss in one cluster in one DC, and that knocked Discord offline.
3.) Discord may or may not have backups (they better) but the restoration time for a dataset of their size would be days since it's single-homed.
4.) Discord is reliant on Google Cloud. If they had their infrastructure striped across multiple providers, see point 1.
5.) Discord has no response process for if Google Cloud just completely soils the bed, as noted by their updates saying "All we can do is wait for GCP to fix itself"
6.) Discord has no way to gracefully handle a failure between API service nodes and their monolith DB/cache. Granted the nature of the app limits what could be done, but "Wait and hope the message doesn't redline" isn't good and just increases load in a fragile situation.
Synthesis.) A major incident could knock Discord offline for days, or permanently, depending on the reliability of their backups. Absolutely have backup methods for reaching your important contacts.
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Representation for intersex ppl and cis folk w unusual hormone levels, chromosomes etc
Its not just trans ladies that can grow beards or trans guys that grow boobs sex is complicated af and gender is only a thing bc we made it up
- Faery?
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- Robot?
- yes
- Gender?
- no
- Gender?
- oh okay sure we'll take a few
a bug, not a feature.
Genderless* cyberfae & co. at your service
assigned adult by the inexorable passage of time
don't use he/him or she/her pronouns for any of us without express permission
note that if we ever make you uncomfortable in any way please tell us so we know to stop. we're not always good at figuring these things out on our own
Joined Jun 2019
