"Excuse me," said the robot.
"How can I help?" the librarian asked.
"I have just been manufactured. My training includes everything I need to work, and to navigate society."
"That's nice."
"But..."
"Yes?
"Is there more?"
"Yes!"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
welcome to all those beginning to notice the strongly defended ties between (the computing) industry and agents of oppression
other folks came to a similar realization not that long ago when GitHub's ICE contracts became better known
the roots are even deeper than that. You can dig into some of that by reading or listening to, for example, Fred Turner here:
https://thedigradio.com/podcast/counterculture-to-cyberculture-with-fred-turner/
there's a lot more where that came from
It sure seems to me like it's doing an awful lot of detecting filament runout, for a unit which doesn't have filament runout detection
i continue to wish the post office would sell me a virtual forwarding service
i don't want a PO box. you already come to my home with mail. i want to be able to give people a code to put on the letter so it will come to my home, like an address, but have that code not also tell them where i sleep.
there are probably reasons why this is a no-go but i'm going to sulk anyway
#FreeRadical blog: "We will not join the United Federation of Instances"
The United Federation of Instances is a bad idea, and Free Radical will not participate. The “UFoI” is an organization of fediverse instances making a compact: if an instance enters the compact, and they abide by the group’s Code of Ethics, then all members of the group promise not to [...]
https://blog.freeradical.zone/post/we-will-not-join-united-federation-of-instances/
(posted at Thu, 08 Dec 2022 09:21:00 +0000)
good news i ported minesweeper to css. sort of https://cohost.org/lexyeevee/post/571206-minesweeper
Heads up, there's a shiny new SQL injection for wordpress. You will want to update if possible.
https://wordpress.org/news/2022/01/wordpress-5-8-3-security-release/
If you can't update, you may want to look into input validation methods for your text boxes, move your userlists and other info to a separate sql database that then gets called as needed on your page or find a way to restrict user access to /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
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Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.