orthogonal to alive @avi@computerfairi.es
- Pronouns
- He/They
- Type
- Dark/Fairy
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
My branch is 100% up to date with origin/master? Oh yeah, let's see about that!
<git pull>
The Puerto Rican experience is to be adopted by racist white people and made to speak only their language with no knowledge of your culture. The Sephardic experience? Same. I'm 100% pure diaspora baby, suck my dick.
Them: Wow, you're Puerto Rican and don't know Spanish?
Me: Yes, I was raised by racists, but also, fuck it.
I'm Sephardic and Puerto Rican, that means I have more reasons to hate Spain than the average person
orthogonal to alive
boosted
Huh, the things you learn during #NESdev. The three primary colours, red, green, and blue, are not perceived as equally bright. The #luminance is a measure of how bright we perceive all three together! Blue is brightest, then red, and green is dimmest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Relative_luminance
I mostly just needed this so I could label the NES palette with their hex indices:
orthogonal to alive
boosted
orthogonal to alive
boosted
Half the population have a tentacle thats useless most of the time.
orthogonal to alive
boosted
it's really fun looking into how computer security was in the past
MS-DOS and older windows versions didn't have a concept of separate users, you just pressed the power button and you were in
early netsec meant sending credentials in plaintext because, i mean, what are the chances that someone's gonna try and scrape that
WEP, the precursor to WPA, and once the only way of securing your wireless network, only allowed you to set passwords that were 10 characters long, consisting of only the characters 1234567890ABCDEF. the key could only be that long because of US restrictions on cryptography.
and remember autoplay? older windows versions (up to i think windows 8) would automatically execute "autoplay.exe" on any inserted CDs or USB drives. this meant that if you put a virus on a USB and renamed it autoplay.exe, you could infect a windows machine just by plugging it in.
essentially, everyone just trusted each other to be nice and not try to hack each other
If you like Arch Linux, why don't you give ADOM a try
Food
Every time I get to feeling too white, I run across something like an article describing tortillas as, and I quote, "burrito shells".
Burrito shells wtf is that!
The one thing they don't tell you about transing is that cis people are completely lying about short hair being low maintenance.
You gotta trim that shit every week, practically. You gotta put stuff in it to style it. If you decide to go ultra-low maintenance and shave it, well, now you've got to shave it all the time to keep it that way.
Time for the "Stop recommending I reconnect with abusive shitheads" challenge!
Food, garfield
Lasagna Cat was good
orthogonal to alive
boosted
Sidh/her
abuse
I'm not saying that drug addiction can't be very harmful to people and relationships, but it is also a medical and a psychological issue, whereas the garbage I am finding is acting like 1) all drug addiction is equivalent to abusing people and 2) if you are addicted you are being willful. It's very conservative and DARE in its outlook.
abuse
A lot of this shit is also about drug addiction, in a way that's very shaming and ignorant. It's conflating drug addiction with abuse, blaming drug addicts for being addicted, and blaming their support network for "allowing" the addiction to continue.
What about teachers who see bruises on kids and turn a blind eye? What about churches that shuffle around pedophile priests? What about police departments that vehemently protect racist cops?
Those, to me, are the enablers.
abuse
Idk I just think there's a major difference between someone covering up abuse to save face when they are not being harmed by it...and someone constantly appeasing their abuser because they are terrified of being hurt or killed.
/shrug emoji
abuse
A lot of online writing on enabling is basically blaming victims for "enabling" the other person to abuse them.
It's not about people who are a third party to the abuse; who encourage the abuse to continue and support the abuser while being out of harm's way.
So the advice is worst than worthless, because it blames people for being trapped in abusive relationships.
abuse
What do you do with enablers? People who value unity over setting boundaries, and downplay abuse, insisting you give people 1000th second chances?
- Pronouns
- He/They
- Type
- Dark/Fairy
Trans, guy of center, well over 18.
I'm in tech and it feels weird.
Joined Jul 2019
