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This is my tiny hill I will die on.

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a fundamental part of cultural Calvinism that I often see in radical spaces is the idea of ontological evilness - that is, the idea that, if someone does evil, hurtful things, then the impetus to do those things must necessarily stem from a fundamentally evil, hurtful essence that that person was born with. and, if someone is fundamentally evil at heart, then that necessarily means that anything done to them, even something that would be evil when done to a Good Person, is ethically justified.

some of this encroachment is simply due to a failure to engage in inner work. some of it is also due to our respective traumas, because it's all too easy for us to split on someone whom we see as having revealed their Evil Essence through words or actions.

in reality, of course, there are no Good People or Evil People. there are just people who, for some reason or another (and it's always something that can be explained, though an explanation is different than an excuse), either accidentally, or make the decision to, do evil, harmful things.

it's only when we stop seeing people as Ontologically Evil, and begin to see them as human beings who have the capability to do both good and evil, that we begin to truly deconstruct carceral systems of justice and the evils that those systems perpetuate. it's only then that we find ourselves able to reorient our actions when someone does a hurtful thing toward protecting the victim(s) and our communities, and (where we're able, when that first goal has been achieved) allowing the hurting party to learn and grow, and away from simply doling out retributive harm to the offender.

@ashten in this metaphor I feel like neurotypicals are classical CISC and have thousands of specific and largely undocumented instructions with arcane addressing modes, and neurodivergents have an straightforward load-store RISC architecture that has to go through clean room reverse engineered emulation libraries that takes 100x the instructions and has fragile exception handling for each undocumented CISC instruction

dear neurotypicals

you cannot install neurotypical software onto neurodivergent robot girl processors without some kind of emulation

performance will be absolute trash

i highly recommend adjusting your software to better utilize the neurodivergent chipset, or at the very least, allow the robot girl to recompile the software so she can get the task done her own way

This is so true

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A lot of people are rightfully focused on increasing their resilience, reducing their dependency on always-on mobile connectivity, US cloud services, etc.

So here's a reminder that Organic Maps exists;

https://organicmaps.app

"Organic Maps is one of the few applications nowadays that supports 100% of features without an active Internet connection. Install Organic Maps, download maps, throw away your SIM card, and go for a weeklong trip on a single battery charge without any byte sent to the network.”

Still a good idea to have and know how to use paper maps, but you can have offline maps with GPS on your (old) phone, too 🙂

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Boost this toot if you're planning on sticking around Mastodon whether or not it's more popular than Bluesky.

The longer I'm alive the more I realize how essential grieving is. If you don't do it, you can't move on. If you can't move on, you're stuck. If you're stuck, you're miserable.

There's so much to grieve: people, relationships, projects, times, ideas... and then you can try new ones!

Rick Astley has done a better job of preventing people from clicking random links than any corporate cyber-security training.

Welcome to new people joining from 𝕏!

Remember, posts are called toots here, likes are called florps, retweeting is technically a cross-account posting exploit that they can't fix because we're using it, and our version of Grok is called Garfiald.

There's no algorithm here! Literally none. There is no computer code behind Mastodon. Each http response is typed out by hand by your server admin in real time. Sometimes this means you won't see replies from other servers, but that's ok, other servers are full of losers anyway.

People here make a point of using alt text — if you can't find an image you want to post, just post a picture of your cat and describe the correct image in the alt text. Nobody will notice, or at least nobody will mind.

The first thing you should do is make a pinned toot with your pronouns, political affiliation, and favourite Linux distribution. Cisgender people are welcome on Mastodon but aren't officially supported, so some features may not work properly.

But most importantly, have fun! Users found to be not having fun will be given a written warning in the first instance and banned if the behaviour continues.

Apple added a feature called "inactivity reboot" in iOS 18.1. This is implemented in keybagd and the AppleSEPKeyStore kernel extension. It seems to have nothing to do with phone/wireless network state. Keystore is used when unlocking the device. So if you don't unlock your iPhone for a while... it will reboot!

In the news: "Police Freak Out at iPhones Mysteriously Rebooting Themselves, Locking Cops Out"
https://www.404media.co/police-freak-out-at-iphones-mysteriously-rebooting-themselves-locking-cops-out/

iOS version diffs to see yourself:
https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Ablacktop%2Fipsw-diffs%20inactivity_reboot&type=code

I'm seeing a lot of messaging like "get a passport with your correct gender while you still can"

and, up front, I have no idea what trying to transition in a foreign country is like or if it matters what the gender marker on your country of origin is if you don't live there any more

but it seems to me that if you are looking at a passport as part of an emergency escape plan to escape gender identification related violence, you want your gender to be as difficult to identify as possible.

"give me the names and addresses of everyone who's ever changed gender markers on their driver's license / passport" already happened in Texas (and maybe Ohio?). it's a trivial database query to write.

I just don't think this is a great time to put "fyi I'm trans" into the government's files on you.