FoxQuirk π¦ @quirk@computerfairi.es
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancΓ©e, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
Undertale, spoilers
Made my way though some puzzles, I really liked the talking rock that moved on it's own, that was unexpected
I also had some battles too, they were not to difficult to get out of
I now find my self at the next checkpoint, with the little mouse hole in the wall and a piece of cheese that's stuck to a table
Undertale, spoilers
So, I was at the first checkpoint, went north and found a bowl of candy, took two, naughty me, and then continued south
Undertale, spoilers
Continuing my Undertale thread, I'm going to start put a spoilers cw on posts
So, starting today's session I tried using my borderless fullscreen script on undertale and at first it seemed to work but then the window started growing and started to invade the other screen, it was a bit scary
anywaaaays... on to the game...
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This week, I went over to Bluesky and asked people who'd left Mastodon why they left, and lots of people told me. I grabbed the replies and crunched them and wrote up a summary. I think it's really interesting and often kind of wrenching.
https://erinkissane.com/mastodon-is-easy-and-fun-except-when-it-isnt
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unironically mad at the 2017 rally game because you can put in your name and nationality then it constantly he/hims you anyway because you can't pick your pronouns
what's the fucking point
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just walked past someone wearing a shirt that said βalways hungry, never satisfiedβ and: same
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ME: [interviewing for a job at Intel]
INTERVIEWER: so, what are your base expectations for salary?
ME: well, if you were to speculate, what's the highest you could go?
INTERVIEWER: well, if I were to speculate⦠1 million. wait, no, you didn't hear that. let's try that again.
INTERVIEWER:
so, what are your base expectations for salary?
ME: 1 million
INTERVIEWER: [looking like they just saw a ghost]
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MySQL apparently has a type that is a 3 bit integer called MEDIUMINT and that seems like a strange type to have
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@researchfairy I support market-based solutions to climate change, like placing bounties on oil executives.
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Iβm so glad I stopped doing frontend development years ago.
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Men would rather invent a whole JS framework than learn CSS.
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Waiting for the Apple authorized reseller to open, what will he buy?
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As Bedford points out, the opposite is also true:
"A good sustainability and quality of life indicator: the average amount of time spent in a car."
(Elevated time car-commuting time also turns out to be a reliable metric of social isolation and general life dissatisfaction.)
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"In a quality city, a person should be able to live their entire life without a car, and not feel deprived."
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*reading about zip bombs* oh wow that's a lot to unpack
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"i bet, since the books got *so* popular, the publisher put pressure on the author to water down the end for a larger audience appeal. unlike art, the real world can't always win against the iron chains of authority. that's my theory anyway" -connie
straight up drawing attention to the phenomenon of studio interference in the creation and ongoing production of serial art, here in episode 51 right after the ruby and sapphire reveal. i just think that's an interesting thing to keep in mind
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I've long believed that the crucial advantage of the term "queer" over the acronyms is that is acknowledges that diversity is not something you can exhaustively enumerate. we must be always prepared to embrace diversity that we hadn't considered before. this is the most consistent inclusivity
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@eniko it was just a very nice creative spirit. we think it would be a good thing if there wound up being a long-term community who treat computers as experimental things deliberately and knowingly, even now that the practical applications have largely become clear.
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Love this. Dozens of trans men are entering the Miss Italy pageant.
"Miss Italy has historically allowed only people who were assigned female at birth to enter".
So to protest trans exclusion, dozens of trans men are entering. To quote one entrant: βThey are so focused on biology and bodies, and itβs often forgotten that there are people inhabiting those bodies.β
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You may be bored, but are you "drew a fake screenshot of a Yahtzee clone in a fictional OS in Kid Pix on a Mac Plus" bored?
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancΓ©e, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
Joined May 2019
