Show newer

so @inherentlee 's thread asking people to define masculinity the other day had some uhh Interesting answers from (white, straight) cis men vs queer, trans, and nonbinary people. And I knew that cis people probably haven't really thought about this stuff before but some of these answers were kind of scary to be honest.

"The ability to suppress your own feelings is of course dangerous, but... embracing danger is itself masculine."

another one said "masculinity is being a danger to oneself and others"

uhh are you guys okay?

"Masculinity is conflict"
Also a lot of talk about the idea of how noble it is to push through discomfort.

Scientifically/historically dubious:
"Look to nature"
"evolution as hunter/gatherers"

And the cis answers included almost zero joy.

On the trans and queer side, beautiful, delightful answers about gay masculinity, trans masculinity, Black masculinity, an absolute universe of masculinities. And many people who couldn't define it if they looked at it too hard because many traits are shared by femininity, masculinity, and decent people. The divide is a vast chasm.

editing to add link to thread strangeobject.space/@inherentl

hahaha yes, I successfully triggered the iOS "your NFC secure element is too full, please delete some cards" UI!

for the unaware, Apple Wallet cards are really Java Card programs stored on an embedded Secure Element chip, separate from the main processor

this chip has limited storage! if you overfill it — say, by wasting $40 on TAP transit cards — it forces you to make room for more with this rarely-seen popup

We need a comma version of the exclamation point and question mark.

:ms_robot_error: I have to sleep with a fluoride paste on my teeth.

:ms_robot_grin: this one regularly strengthens its chassis through the application of a compound containing a highly reactive, toxic element for several hours.

The most common car occupancy isn't actually 1. If you count all the cars on the street, not just the moving ones, it's usually 0. Most cars are empty at any given moment.

Please boost for reach! :boost_requested:

A friend of mine (currently based in NL) is looking for a remote job. They're looking for something related to web development, or maintenance of legacy codebases (web or otherwise).

They have experience with web/software development (Java, JS, assorted other web things), as well as reverse-engineering Java software, but no employment experience yet. Also a few years of basic NixOS experience.

They can pick up and learn new things very quickly, but they do need a work environment that is friendly to queer neurodivergent folks.

If you have a suitable job available (or something that's close enough - they're flexible!), please send me either a DM on here, or an e-mail at admin@cryto.net. I'll get you in touch with them.

Shower thought: One of the major reasons why the internet fucking sucks now is that with the consolidation of internet activity into a few cyclopean scale social media networks of various stripes, there is no place for anyone to have limited scope participation anymore.

For example, Instead of thousands of smaller, unconnected forums, it is just reddit. And everything you do on reddit can be cross-checked. The network effects of having everything on one thing means that it is incredibly easy for a bad actor to leverage your participation in various activities, your information, toward a bad end.

So a lot of people just don't. Don't make themselves vulnerable. At least on the open internet. All the forests and thickets have been burnt away, leaving you cold and alone on the tundra.

Which is also why I think Discord is kinda abused by people to try to replicate the forums, chatrooms, and small wikis of yesteryear. The open internet has no shelter anymore. The open internet is the dead internet because people die without shelter.

I'm reviewing a code change at work, and I think this dev actually ported an entire .NET application to PowerShell. It has classes, service architecture, and even a fucking Program class to mimic .NET's startup process.

I'm
astounded and actually a little impressed tbh ​:neofox_laugh_sweat:

#Programming #SoftwareDevelopment #CSharp #DotNet #PowerShell

Affordable USB microphone for speech (basically, talking over a screen share)? Don't need broadcast quality, would like an upgrade on the mic in my cheap webcam.

Blue snowball seems to be the de facto standard, other products in the same price range I should consider?

Reminder to organize and be gay and do crime and do your part supporting each other through the Polycrisis in legal ways or otherwise

But do the "spicy" stuff off the grid and not on Fedi

That's how they catch you

The irony is not lost on me that the Internet Archive went out of its way to acquire the physical versions of millions of books and loan them out carefully and in a limited way, and is facing a near-extinction-level event over it, while for-profit and VC-backed companies are just stealing people’s content and making up excuses to validate the bad behavior.

Remember when plug and play was a thing on computers and you didn't have to install a driver for each individual thing like you did in the 90s? Cause it really feels like the pre-plug and play era came back but in the form of needing a proprietary app for everything to make it work >.>

I wanted to see what my mouse's DPI is by plugging it into my brother's Windows PC... but he has an identical mouse so the SteelSeries utility just overwrote my settings with his and because I did a firmware update I can't even change the colour anymore, it was set to a trans flag but now it's stuck in "pulsating between blue and purple" mode 🙃

@timnitGebru @freedomtux it is strange to me, when people who are not racialized talk about not personally experiencing racism. It's like a man saying he does not experience misogyny, or an able person saying they don't experience ablism & haven't had issues with accessibility.
It is difficult to see such solipsistic myopia as anything other than malignant and intentional: a choice to center one's limited self and identity... A failure to extend and grow, serving short-sighted emotional ends

fosstodon and completely lacking anything resembling self-awareness, name a more iconic duo

"you" 

Or to phrase it differently: we'll talk about "minimizing dependencies" when you show you understand how to minimize your *project complexity* first

Show thread

Looking forward to the day that an actual, genuine discussion can be had about "minimizing dependencies" and what that entails, instead of the horde of "just make number low, problem solved" arguments that always happen in practice and completely ignore important things like internal complexity and peer review

EDIT: Es haben sich Menschen gefunden, danke für die vielen Boosts 😊​

Liebe Menschen, ich hab ein Problem. Ich hab mir vorm Wochenende 3 x 2 Schwerlastregale bestellt. In der Anzeige (eBay) stand beim Gewicht nur „10“, ohne Maßeinheit. Heute kamen sie, zwei Tage vor Avis. Der DPD-Bote weigerte sich, die Pakete hochzutragen. Ich war also eben unten. Auf den Paketen steht ein Gewicht von jeweils 26 kg, aber meinem Gefühl nach ist das deutlich mehr. Ich hab sie notdürftig aus dem direkten Eingangsbereich weggezerrt, aber die Treppen krieg ich sie beim besten Willen nicht hoch. Das sind ja bei mir 5 Stockwerke, und es gibt keinen Aufzug. Gibt es hier körperlich starke Menschen, die heute Zeit hätten, mir die drei Pakete hochzutragen? Mein Dank würde Euch ewig nachschleichen.

#Düsseldorf #Followerpower

Show older
Pixietown

Small server part of the pixie.town infrastructure. Registration is closed.