Goo Truther @thufie@pixie.town

@kboyd I love this application of his analysis! He also makes mention that the work of maintenance is coded as less significant, since it requires caring for something you may not have made yourself, which is socially devalued as a women's activity. So this focus on disposable things you feel like you did all by yourself are a bull-market capitalist's dream. Like the cake mix that asks for you to add things other than just water to make you feel as if you did something and had agency (not pre-decided in the factory, or in the training dataset). This analysis maps really well onto people who are way too excited about this stuff when you know what to look for.

@virtue spripe😇

Microsoft Windows 11 is such a fucked up Operating System that it activates my distrohopping masochism instinct and I adopt it as another bespoke hard to maintain system to setup as a hobby. I switched to Linux because it was hard and I enjoyed the pain, and now I finally have that same reason to revisit Windows.

I really like maple-mono font when it is built without all the nerdfont ligatures on punctuation and symbols. This was the victor-mono replacement I was looking for, and it is relatively easy to preview and build modified variants too!

The "just block them" crowd would get more reception from people complaining about the shit culture on fedi if:

- They actually had the same idea about who needs to be blocked. Threads complaining about people complaining about being told to just "block everybody" to solve the problem bring the shithead mutuals out there for us to all see. News flash! The rest of us did block them, as well as your smug asshole mutuals.
- Shared moderation tools were more prevalent to avoid repeated work on new instances.
- There still needs to be a "suspend every server involved in this thread" button.
- Paid minority moderation staff. Can't state this enough. Way easier for more privileged userbases to find comfort here on a hobbyist level of effort. Combating racism on here in particular takes some full-time shit and gets very little intersectional sympathy, much less action, from the majority white users/admins.

Yeah being able to fucking block everybody is a great feature. However it isn't winning hearts and minds being a smug asshole about it when it works so easily *for you*. And! If somebody is in your replies being a bit overeager to be smug towards people being harassed online, maybe reevaluate whether you should block them too!

@hannah all my chicken... gone 😭

Fermat's Little Theorem cannot be used to test if someone is a Little- I mean- primality of a number