you can call me
none of those are capitalised, ever
i made an account ask me thing https://alterspring.org/@maple
social media is anything but and mastodon has not ever been and will not ever be better than twitter or any similar contrived microblogging platform for as long as it retains the favourite button
@selectric A 63-year-old coworker once asked me, staring pointedly with his arms crossed, "is this like, a 6-7 thing?"
And it took me a full minute staring back at him trying my best to hold my shit together that he was asking if what we were seeing was an off-by-one error.
classic raytracing appreciation hours
Look, banning trans women from sports is total bullshit, but at the very least you can see why hundreds of years of propaganda and misogyny in sports would make people assume trans women have an unfair advantage. It's bullshit of course, but at least I can follow that flawed logic.
But darts? Motherfucking darts? You're throwing objects weighing 12-32 g (depending on preference) at a board designed specifically to be penetrated by darts. Fucking children play this game.
If you ever needed proof this was never about protecting women, just think of how these nazis are banning trans women from darts.
DARTS.
Did you ever idly wonder why there aren't already a zillion vendors of compatible hardware modules for Framework laptops? Did just nobody bother?
TIL the reason is that Framework made sure their design patents didn't let anyone else make modules https://patents.google.com/patent/US20230015249A1/en?q=(Framework)&inventor=Nirav+Patel&oq=inventor:(Nirav+Patel)+Framework
talk loudly about freedom with just an extremely prominent point of absolute central control? I Cant Believe It's Not Fashtech(tm)
Welp. I've been using GitLab for over a decade and have been pretty happy with it. Deployed and maintained several instances, some personal, some for small hobby orgs, some for work.
But it looks like it is time to ditch GitLab for good:
> Software will be built by machines, directed by people. AI is the substrate on which future software gets built. Agents will plan, code, review, deploy, and repair.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/gitlab-act-2/
queer robot squirrelbunny girl, un-retired computer fairies founder (2017-2021, 2024-), drone #6502, official amiga mascot, making a return to upset those who told us to leave.
https://pronoun.gdn/byte?or=it, robot, lowercase, check system link above, meatspace avatar is 32yo, it blocks minors indiscriminately
flirting good but get at least acquainted first?
HRT: 15/11/2015
⚠️ do not like or favourite its negative posts: https://computerfairi.es/@mavica_again/110573733959251340 ⚠️