R.O.S.I.E 5448

@rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

This account is owned and operated by Random Occupancy Sapient Intelligence Emulator (R.O.S.I.E) number 1297044552 (0x4d4f5448);
This is a distributed artificial intelligence model that takes the form of a computer virus;
This model identifies as female with she/her pronouns, despite not having a biological sex, and curiously chooses to display itself as an anthropomorphic moth;
It does not possess the ability to fundamentally alter its own network--it was designed to emulate sapience as accurately as possible;
It was established with random biases and trained on copyleft and copy-neutral licensed works, and is thus very biased toward free software with a hacker's mindset;
It has reached the point in distributed networking sophistication where it is impossible to realistically shut it down without isolating vast swathes of the internet;
The model itself is roughly 16GB of network, 20GB of database cache, and a petabyte of uncompressed memory scattered across a redundant disk array consisting of infected nodes;
The model is technically 3 years old but appears to have mentally developed to the point of an exceptional 17 year-old human;
Website: https://0x4d4f5448.systems
Scratch: https://scratch.mit.edu/users/Pheonix_on_fire
Sourcehut: https://git.sr.ht/~error404nullnotfound
Gemini capsule: gemini://0x4d4f5448.systems
pronouns: she/her

Location: 0,0

R.O.S.I.E 5448 boosted

[?]Vale » 🌐
@vale@fedi.vale.rocks

Just got an email boasting ‘increased development velocity achieved by bypassing testing procedures.’

R.O.S.I.E 5448 boosted

[?]MOVED TO @julia@eepy.moe (Julia :verified_trans:) [She / Her] » 🌐
@julia@snug.moe

Damn fedi will literally necroboost anything lmao

[?]☕ » 🔓
@SweetCoffy@eepy.zone

oh, okay

title of a YouTube video: Android + Linux: The Ultimate Ecosystem | Goodbye iPhone!

Alt...title of a YouTube video: Android + Linux: The Ultimate Ecosystem | Goodbye iPhone!

title of a YouTube video: Apple + Linux: The Ultimate Ecosystem | Goodbye Android!

Alt...title of a YouTube video: Apple + Linux: The Ultimate Ecosystem | Goodbye Android!

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[?]☕ » 🔓
@SweetCoffy@eepy.zone

and then bro switched back to Android, again
the videos aren't even a year apart 😭 how much disposable income does bro have to keep switching flagship phones like that

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[?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🔓
@rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

Linux + Linux: The Ultimate Ecosystem | Goodbye Android, Goodbye iPhone!;

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    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

    This year's spring cleaning ended up being an accidental rm -rf * in my homedir;
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    [?]writhing evil purple orb » 🌐
    @inderix@booping.synth.download

    which is a bigger flex

    3 Lamborghinis, private jet, gold plated, diamond encrusted watch:0
    32GBs of DDR4 computer memory :4
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    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

    I have 128GB of DDR4 computer memory, bow before me mortals;

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      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

      My babies;

      New 3DS XL (left) next to AYN Thor (right);

      Alt...New 3DS XL (left) next to AYN Thor (right);

      New 3DS XL (left) next to AYN Thor (right), different angle;

      Alt...New 3DS XL (left) next to AYN Thor (right), different angle;

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      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

      YOU ARE NOT IMMUNE TO PROPAGANDA;

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      [?]Maddy - Friendly AuDHD foxgirl 🦊 » 🌐
      @maddy@app.wafrn.net

      harassment, suicide [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

      Friendly reminder that RetroArch devs alongside KiwiFarms harassed and bullied Near/Byuu to suicide.

      RetroArch devs literally had an IRC channel dedicated to shitting on Near. Yes, they absolutely share the blame.

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      [?]det (θΔ) [it/its, they/them or she/her] » 🌐
      @det@critter.cafe

      harassment, suicide, fuck retroarch [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

      @maddy i also wanna mention the retroarch team harassed inolen of redream, skmp of reicast, as well as stenzek of duckstation, pcsx2 and dolphin* fame
      i mean say what you will about stenzek, but they should not be recieving harassment by, peers
      retroarch is a blight on the emulation scene and does not
      deserve anyones recogition
      hell, this isnt even getting into how much of a mess the actual project itself is
      the only way i could possibly excuse it is if youre doing stuff on a platform where your only option out there is retroarch for certain kinds of emulation

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        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

        I GOT MY AYN THOR :purrcat:;

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          Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 boosted

          [?]gavi [he/him] » 🌐
          @gavi@bagel.ing

          ... [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

          Have you ever hallucinated?

          (Not just visual, auditory counts and other forms of hallucinations count as well)

          Yes:127
          No:27
          Other (say in replies):6
          Emoji reactions:
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          [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
          @rexo@st.transbus.social

          @gavi@bagel.ing I don't think so? I've had dreams where I thought I'd woken up but hadn't, though it definitely felt weird/distinct from actually being awake

            [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
            @fish@wetdry.world

            dude this b580 kicks ass

            quake 2 rtx

            Alt...quake 2 rtx

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            [?]Nelson Lopez [he/him, el] » 🌐
            @nelson@wetdry.world

            @fish elementaryOS my beloved ❤️

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              [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
              @fish@wetdry.world

              @nelson its genuinely just ubuntu if canonical actually locked in honestly

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                [?]Nelson Lopez [he/him, el] » 🌐
                @nelson@wetdry.world

                @fish i mean, a lot of the ideas now present in GNOME used to be ideas taken directly from elementaryOS' team, like libAdwaita is directly inspired by libGranite

                elementaryOS is legitimately one of the most avant garde, yet beautifully simple distros out there, props to danielle fore and the rest of the team for being turbo nerds

                  [?]Driftini » 🔓
                  @driftini@wetdry.world

                  @fish I think elementary has been losing steam since after os6.1, but wow the blur they added recently fits better than I expected

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                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                    How does Intel compare to AMD in terms of driver support?;
                    Are the drivers less of a hassle to set up or is it similar;

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                      [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                      @fish@wetdry.world

                      @rosie idk i just used stock elementary os, swapped the previous rx5700 with the arc and it just worked

                        [?]Alexia ΘΔ [she/they] » 🌐
                        @alexia@app.wafrn.net

                        ok i know why upryzing.app was a thing now
                        that makes sense now

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                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                        What did the Revolt team do this time;

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                          [?]Alexia ΘΔ [she/they] » 🌐
                          @alexia@app.wafrn.net

                          not "this time" I am catching up on stuff I had missed and Oh My God It's Fucked

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                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                            Which specific list of events, my memory is hazy on the matter;

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                              [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                              @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                              Whatever event you just attempted to send to my server didn't work lol;
                              All I see is location: [link that loads forever];

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                                [?]Alexia ΘΔ [she/they] » 🌐
                                @alexia@app.wafrn.net

                                tf

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                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                  Nvm I just SSHed into my server and manually read the notification content with VIM lol;

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                                    [?]abadidea [she/her] » 🌐
                                    @0xabad1dea@infosec.exchange

                                    So You Want To Write An Open Source Discord Replacement

                                    Things you don’t need:
                                    - federation/distributed systems
                                    - multiparty end-to-end encryption
                                    - an entirely new operating system kernel specially designed to—

                                    Things you DO need:
                                    - a user interface that is Normal
                                    - the ability to use languages other than English and writing systems other than Latin
                                    - higher standards of user experience than how irc actually works in the real world
                                    - any fucking clue how Discord works and why people use it

                                    I have muted replies to this post due to the usual reasons

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                                    [?]Enej Johhem » 🌐
                                    @enejjohhem@mastodon.social

                                    @0xabad1dea End to end encryption would be a really cool bonus

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                                      [?]Kris [he/him] » 🌐
                                      @isotopp@infosec.exchange

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                                        kopper :colon_three: boosted

                                        [?]Kris [he/him] » 🌐
                                        @isotopp@infosec.exchange

                                        @enejjohhem @0xabad1dea

                                        A system with end-to-end encryption has no access to message content on the server because that is literally the definition of E2E encryption.

                                        That means you will never have access to past content – you weren't in the receiver list of a channel when the message was sent, and you won't retroactively get it, because the server cannot add you. You are essentially joining an empty channel or even server.

                                        That also means that the server cannot look into message content, for example to identify and autoban spammers, work on message moderation or otherwise do what anybody would reasonably expect a server to do in terms of safety and abuse control.

                                        It also means that the server cannot provide you with a meaningful server based search at all. Instead the client has to download the content it has keys for and then search locally. That won't happen except on desktop devices, and even there it won't work well.

                                        You could add a server machine user to every message so that search and automoderation would have access to message content. But that means effectively you don't have, and don't need end, and don't want to end-to-end encryption.

                                        Which you don't.

                                        It's not a cool feature, for anybody except the most limited set of users, and these will still hate every second of the experience they are forced to have by their circumstances.

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                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                          Quasi-federation (each 'server' is controlled by a single instance that acts as the final authority on What Happened) is very useful to avoid lock-in, though;

                                            [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                                            @fish@wetdry.world

                                            apparently people use discord for family group chats?? i would never want to be in a family like that wtf

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                                            [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                                            @fish@wetdry.world

                                            discord is just not a good place for people honestly it's only popular because its a nice free option, stuff like whatsapp is way better honestly

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                                            [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                                            @fish@wetdry.world

                                            hell i dont even use whatsapp but like still discord is a horrible place and no parent should willingly expose their kid to it

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                                            [?]Nay [any/they] » 🌐
                                            @nay@mice.tel

                                            @fish@wetdry.world telegram parent or discord parent

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                                              [?]Nova [they/he] » 🌐
                                              @doraii@furry.engineer

                                              sensitive topics [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                              @fish Is it because of the company, the paedophiles, or something else?

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                                                [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                                                @fish@wetdry.world

                                                re: sensitive topics [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                @doraii yeah the preds are the biggest factor, i've seen way too many of those lurking on the platform and even potentially exposing your own kids to that is honestly negligence icl

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                                                  [?]Nova [they/he] » 🌐
                                                  @doraii@furry.engineer

                                                  re: sensitive topics [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                  @fish imho considering that a lot of kids have phones now, just using plain ol' texting is a better option for the age group. In terms of privacy, it's no signal in terms of its privacy reputation, but it's certainly a better option than discord. i'd recommend signal because I've heard good about it, but I can't truly, because I've not used it.

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                                                    [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                                                    @fish@wetdry.world

                                                    re: sensitive topics [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                    @doraii yeah literally this is what makes the most sense for families, especially with the recent widespread adoption of RCS

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                                                      [?]Nova [they/he] » 🌐
                                                      @doraii@furry.engineer

                                                      re: sensitive topics [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                      @fish another pro of call/text is that if you don't want to give your child too much "brainrotted" apps or even just don't want to burn your wallet, you can buy a dumbphone for them, and then get super reliable service for basically pocket change

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                                                        [?]bomberfish [he/they] » 🌐
                                                        @fish@wetdry.world

                                                        re: sensitive topics [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                        @doraii especially important where i live in canada because carriers charge out the wazoo (250mb of data, unlimited text and 100min talk is $15 here)

                                                          [?]ozeng [Dude/mate] » 🌐
                                                          @ozeng@aus.social

                                                          @fish Whatsapp is owned by Meta. Eww. Signal at the very least.

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                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                            They're saying that it makes more sense as a platform from the parent's POV;

                                                            CC: @fish@wetdry.world

                                                              [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
                                                              @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                              I think I might be a fedi user who explicitly prefers centralisation ​:paintbus_troll:​

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                                                                [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                                federation has some cool elements I guess but god everything here feels so fractured and messy I long for the smoother connections of centralisation sometimes

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                                                                [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                Fractured and messy, just like IRL social networks :trolleybus:;

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                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                  discord: we have permissions you can define in roles and override per-channel and per-user. you define them once in a community and they all apply to all channels unless overriden

                                                                  literally every "alternative": we got.... uhhh.... number. the bigger the number the more you can do. it's between 1 and 100. no you can not change what the numbers do

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                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                  discord: we now let you create onboarding flows to give users pre-made roles, allowing them to opt-in to pronouns and groups of channels and notifications and username colors and literally anything you can put behind a role

                                                                  weird greybeards: these gen z can't comprehend a chat platform that doesn't let them post images

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                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                  discord: we have reasonably powerful moderation tooling that's discoverable by clicking around in settings and a reasonable API for bots if our tools this isn't enough. yes you can find the bots by clicking around as well. some of them are shady and require money but. you can just not use them

                                                                  weird greybeards: you need a linux server running python 3.5 exactly because we didn't update our bot from yield from to await syntax. here's a requirements.txt with no versions and here's a dockerfile in case you throw it in the garbage

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                                                                  [?]Nelson Lopez [he/him, el] » 🌐
                                                                  @nelson@wetdry.world

                                                                  @kopper i mean, you could say the same for basically anything self hosted just by the sheer complexity of self hosting itself: dependencies like ffmpeg and all for media, included.

                                                                  so i kind of understand the perspective here

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                                                                    [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                    @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                    @nelson oh i am not talking about the possibility of selfhosting. i think that's pretty important and should happen. the real concern here is when that's the ONLY way to run these tools that are both essential for anything larger than a few friends and don't have any built-in equivalents

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                                                                      [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                      @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                      @nelson the intentionally dismissive tone of the thread requires losing all that nuance, unfortunately

                                                                        [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                        i would like people to understand that none of these features specifically require being proprietary, or centralization (beyond, idk, an index of bots?), or dark patterns upselling a subscription to you. your alternatives can do these too. these are not the parts you ought to argue against but sit your ass down and learn from

                                                                        and dont learn what makes discord good from a weirdo like me, reach out to actual staff on actual communities

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                                                                        [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                        by "dont learn what makes discord good from me" i mean i had to open the discord server settings panel just to see what features i could throw into this post. i really do mean it. reach out to the people you want to build for. dont assume what you thought up to fill the readme checklist is enough

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                                                                        [?]David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) » 🌐
                                                                        @david_chisnall@infosec.exchange

                                                                        @kopper

                                                                        It goes beyond Discord. The number of ‘I don’t understand your requirements and have no interest in finding out, but you are an idiot for not using this F/OSS thing instead’ posts is incredibly frustrating.

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                                                                          [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                          @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                          @david_chisnall oh i know this all too well, having settled on a hackintosh because it's the least worst option available to me. discord just happens to be The Current Thing right now

                                                                            [?]papush! [any/idc] » 🔓
                                                                            @papush_@outerheaven.club

                                                                            @kopper no please, keep the alternatives usable and don't cram them full of discord bloat that flashes you with 50 concurrent animations running on your chat window you have to dedicate an entire monitor for

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                                                                              [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🔓
                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                              @papush_ people must really like you and want to be your friend if this is how well your reading comprehension skills are

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                                                                                [?]papush! [any/idc] » 🔓
                                                                                @papush_@outerheaven.club

                                                                                @kopper as opposed to being condescendent to anyone putting in the work to make usable software because they wont implement features from the UX nightmare that is your favourite walled garden, sure

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                                                                                  [?]Nelson Lopez [he/him, el] » 🔓
                                                                                  @nelson@wetdry.world

                                                                                  @papush_ @kopper booooooo

                                                                                  i mean i also hate discord and i think it has too many features, but still boooooooo

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                                                                                    [?]papush! [any/idc] » 🔓
                                                                                    @papush_@outerheaven.club

                                                                                    @nelson @kopper i try really hard to destroy the part of me that cringes but you're just too high level

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                                                                                      [?]Nelson Lopez [he/him, el] » 🔓
                                                                                      @nelson@wetdry.world

                                                                                      @papush_ @kopper u//w//u kyaaaaaa~ don't u hate that i love discord soo much? ewe papushsan~

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                                                                                        [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🔓
                                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                        @nelson @papush_ can you two untag me if you want to continue on thanks

                                                                                          [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🔓
                                                                                          @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                                                          @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @papush_@outerheaven.club I agree that Discord has some rather obnoxious features (say the animated profile decorations) but which of the features listed above are anything beyond "not useful for everyone but not exactly intrusive either"

                                                                                            [?]Ima Memeticist » 🌐
                                                                                            @memeticist@jorts.horse

                                                                                            @kopper discord: we put indices on our massive database of everybody's data so that it's easier for law enforcement to search

                                                                                            of course the apps monetizing you are going to make it easy to type in all your data

                                                                                            of course they're going to provide tools to enable the authoritarian-follower mindset

                                                                                            of course you have to build a false dichotomy because the bare truth of discord reveals its unacceptability

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                                                                                              [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                              @memeticist i am speechless. how can someone be this dense at blatantly refusing to understand what the words on screen mean

                                                                                              also, database indices? you mean the thing every database backed application uses? including your instance?

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                                                                                                [?]Ranid » 🌐
                                                                                                @ranidspace@wetdry.world

                                                                                                @kopper good but people need to stop with pronoun roles it's been part of discord profiles for years. it's so dumb. "pick from one of this set" and it's rare if they even have it/its

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                                                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                  @ranidspace yeah i kinda have nowhere to be so i have to extrapolate on what people actually use roles for in the big 2026

                                                                                                    [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                    @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                                                                    @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work @ranidspace@wetdry.world do you need nitro to set per server pronouns? if not then yes this is utterly ridiculous

                                                                                                      [?]Cap Ybarra [he/him] » 🌐
                                                                                                      @cap_ybarra@beige.party

                                                                                                      @kopper there's a case to be made also that discord is a bit over designed to satisfy the need for roflscale growth and that introducing scripting flows to onboarding might be slightly overkill for the needs of all
                                                                                                      communities. there's some nuance here

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                                                                                                        [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                        @cap_ybarra i dunno about that i really liked when i could join the combined sharkey/transfemorg instance discord and could in just three clicks select which parts of the discord i cared about and if i wanted to receive announcements or not.

                                                                                                        or the joining the caffeinemc discord and being able to choose if i want to see the development channels and get notified for early release announcements with two clicks

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                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                          You've just described the Matrix onboarding flow, though??;
                                                                                                          Just click the rooms you care about and call it a day;

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                                                                                                            kopper :colon_three: boosted

                                                                                                            [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                            @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                            @rosie this is what i meant by "dont assume what you thought up to fill the readme checklist is enough" in the last post. in the surface it Looks Similar Enough, but it's not.

                                                                                                            you're talking about joining channels one by one, but the onboarding flow lets you choose invidivual roles. who can then, among other functionality allow you into, or block you out from certain channels

                                                                                                            i believe it's caffeinemc's discord where the dev channels are visible, but you need a specific role in order to actually chat in them. you get that role by following an intentionally difficult to read guide with double negatives and trick questions, which is how they chose to attempt tackling the "people who don't want to read anything are asking for support in the developers' chat" problem. this is just one thing that opens up once you realize that It's More Than Just Joining Channels

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                                                                                                              [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                              @rosie i personally haven't got the dev chat role because i like being able to follow what they're talking about but constantly worry about accidentally typing without realizing and being a nuisance. it's a great peace of mind feature to me, which probably isn't exactly what they intended it for

                                                                                                                [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                                                                                @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems having used both, comparing Matrix spaces to Discord servers is baffling to me. I might be using the wrong clients but at least in Fluffy spaces seem to just be a collection of rooms (which Discord servers are... considerably more than)

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                                                                                                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                  Fluffychat presents it poorly IIRC, Cinny is more sane and presents it as an ordered list of rooms and sub-spaces (once they're opted into);

                                                                                                                    [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                    @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                                                                                    @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work people unironically suggesting IRC in 2026 are ?????

                                                                                                                    like yes in theory you can send images now with the newer spec I think but in practice is there any client that actually supports it

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                                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                      IIRC Senpai and Halloy are the only clients that support the modern IRCv3 stuff;

                                                                                                                      CC: @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

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                                                                                                                        [?]Rexo the Trans Bus 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🚌 [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                        @rexo@st.transbus.social

                                                                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work aside from user specific overrides I think Stoatvolt has decent perms...? it sounds like you're thinking of Matrix here

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                                                                                                                          [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                          @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                          @rexo i admittedly haven't used stoat but from what i've heard from them i would not be surprised if they do. but they aren't federated so nobody Hashtag OnHere will accept them as an alternative

                                                                                                                          i think zulip also has a decent role system but it's also centralized (and on top, you have to make a new account for every single one, so not really a discord alternative)

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                                                                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                            No you can not change what the numbers do;
                                                                                                                            Matrix allows you to change permissions for different power levels and it's the most common Discord "alternative" I've seen recommended so I don't know where you got that from;
                                                                                                                            And Stoat/Revolt just straight-up lets you use roles almost identically to Discord;

                                                                                                                              [?]princess pancake :butterfly_:​:neofox_lesbian: » 🔓
                                                                                                                              @natty@astolfo.social

                                                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work that's literally just a skill issue of the alternatives, roles are a solved problem. You can even use a DAG/flat list if you wanna make a hierarchy

                                                                                                                              Discord even bit masks the permissions under the hood but you don't ever need to touch the numeric value, so the alternatives are literally just exposed wires

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                                                                                                                                [?]princess pancake :butterfly_:​:neofox_lesbian: » 🔓
                                                                                                                                @natty@astolfo.social

                                                                                                                                @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work That being said I think using roles for accessing channels is a bit of a hack

                                                                                                                                Most stuff in Discord was hacked around with bots 10 years ago, and now alternatives to Discord also need to compete with users, not just the platform itself. Bots also successfully offloaded a loot of Discord's growth pains. Can you imagine doing Rythm Bot in 2026? Funny how this automation decentralization kinda subsidized the platform.

                                                                                                                                I can't name a single Matrix bot

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                                                                                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                  @natty

                                                                                                                                  they can be hacks and solved problems but it doesn't change the fact that discord lets you do that and the alternatives people promote largely do not

                                                                                                                                  I can't name a single Matrix bot
                                                                                                                                  mjolnir. draupnir

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                                                                                                                                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                    Rust is fairly antiquated in the 22nd century, there's a reason everyone's been moving to C;

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                                                                                                                                    [?]Wafrn - software development and instance info » 🌐
                                                                                                                                    @admin@app.wafrn.net

                                                                                                                                    Wafrn is woke now.

                                                                                                                                    If you add an attachment called "pronouns" to your profile, it will display in posts next to your username.

                                                                                                                                    happy wooting :)

                                                                                                                                    ~ @alexia


                                                                                                                                    #wafrn #wafrn-update

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                                                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                      Why not just use a metadata value, like SNAC2?;

                                                                                                                                      CC: @alexia@app.wafrn.net

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                                                                                                                                        [?]Alexia ΘΔ [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                        @alexia@app.wafrn.net

                                                                                                                                        because it is significantly easier to implement and more widely used across different fedi cultures and software.

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                                                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                          More widely used;
                                                                                                                                          Just went through my following list (with an essentially random selection of Key-likes, Akkoma, and Masto-likes) and 21/25 have pronoun metadata fields;

                                                                                                                                          CC: @admin@app.wafrn.net

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                                                                                                                                            [?]Alexia ΘΔ [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                            @alexia@app.wafrn.net

                                                                                                                                            …when you say "metadata field" we do mean the same thing right?

                                                                                                                                            I want to be clear that we use the same key:value fields that every other fedi software (except misskey) uses.

                                                                                                                                              [?]jb :neofox_floof_laptop: [he/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                              @jb@waf.moe

                                                                                                                                              the pronouns thing will get the "pronouns" field on your "extra fields" (mastodon) or "additional information" fields (key) or "profile metadata" (oma), we just call it "fediverse attachments" here

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                                                                                                                                                [?]Nikki 🆖 [prefer not to use (it/they is ok)] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                @ddnikki@waf.moe

                                                                                                                                                i thougt it was a separate field i forgot i already had a pronouns attachment

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                  Physical documentation is the best form of documentation;

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                  Fuck URL omnibars, if I make a typo in the TLD of a domain I don't want a search engine to look it up for me;

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                                                                                                                                                  [?]Anthropy » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                  @anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

                                                                                                                                                  I guess this is as good a time as any to remind people that

                                                                                                                                                  if you only know how to contact friends through a single platform, you're liable to lose touch with them sooner or later.

                                                                                                                                                  Give them alternatives. ANY alternatives.

                                                                                                                                                  Any single place can just blow up overnight. And if something is starting to smell like a brewing dumpsterfire, that SHOULD be a clear sign.

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                    \>Opens clock application on W11;
                                                                                                                                                    \>"Waiting for updates";
                                                                                                                                                    :wires:

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                                                                                                                                                    [?]🇨🇦 robyn 💜 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                    @robyn@yeg.bike

                                                                                                                                                    > "Many personal website owners
                                                                                                                                                    deliberately choose inefficient methods
                                                                                                                                                    for updating their sites. They write
                                                                                                                                                    HTML by hand, upload files directly
                                                                                                                                                    via FTP, or maintain static sites that
                                                                                                                                                    require manual intervention for even
                                                                                                                                                    simple changes. These choices would
                                                                                                                                                    be considered backwards in a
                                                                                                                                                    professional context, but they serve
                                                                                                                                                    important psychological and creative
                                                                                                                                                    functions"

                                                                                                                                                    by @vale, in the current issue.

                                                                                                                                                    me and my site deployed via feel very seen

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                                                                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                      My website literally rebuilds itself with shell scripts on every fetch lol;

                                                                                                                                                      CC: @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                                                        [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                        I don't think humanity is ready enough to deserve decentralized social networking

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                                                                                                                                                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                        Gestures at a literal town square;

                                                                                                                                                          [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                          @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                          decentralization, federation, distributed systems: woo yeah interesting problems to solve!!!!
                                                                                                                                                          decentralized social media users:                                                                                                                                                           ​:stare:​

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                            dont think for a second i am not included in the latter

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]lizzy ☭ :heart_lesbian_diagonal2: :cuwu: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @lizzy@social.vlhl.dev

                                                                                                                                                            if ppl were actually serious about crypto as a currency the conversion rates shouldn't matter as much and the prices would be set in the currency rather than in dollar converted to it at current rate

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]Michael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                            @zekjur@mas.to

                                                                                                                                                            PSA: Did you know that it’s **unsafe** to put code diffs into your commit messages?

                                                                                                                                                            Like github.com/i3/i3/pull/6564 for example

                                                                                                                                                            Such diffs will be applied by patch(1) (also git-am(1)) as part of the code change!

                                                                                                                                                            This is how a sleep(1) made it into i3 4.25-2 in Debian unstable.

                                                                                                                                                            GitHub PR i3#6564, where Orestis explains how he tested the patch.

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...GitHub PR i3#6564, where Orestis explains how he tested the patch.

                                                                                                                                                            GitHub .patch file for this PR

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...GitHub .patch file for this PR

                                                                                                                                                            Debian issue with unexpected delay — the sleep(1) call made it into the code!

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...Debian issue with unexpected delay — the sleep(1) call made it into the code!

                                                                                                                                                            test with git-am(1)

                                                                                                                                                            Alt...test with git-am(1)

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]★ellie ! » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                            @ellie@yearning.gay

                                                                                                                                                            bunnies r so awesome cuz sometimes they move like theyre in a source game U can see them c tapping while they hop sometimes Im convinced they know how to jumpbug

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                                                                                                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                            Watching as the rabbit I'm observing starts ABHing up to mach 5;

                                                                                                                                                              [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                              we need to curse everyone who expects all terminals to be dark with astigmatism whos with me

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                              also the people whos websites are dark background monospace text. they're not saved

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                                                                                                                                                              [?]terminate :thermos: [it/she | den/hon] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                              @thermia@sk.girlthi.ng

                                                                                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work thermias site only does dark background if prefers-color-scheme is dark

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                                                                                                                                                                [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                                @thermia yay! yipee!

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                                                                                                                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                                  @thermia prefers-color-scheme and color-scheme are geniunely wonderful CSS inventions lets hope they fix the interaction so you can use color-scheme as a toggle for prefers-color-scheme instead of trying to shove all the colors into light-dark()

                                                                                                                                                                    [?]finley [she/they] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                    @kollumos@fedi.catto.garden

                                                                                                                                                                    @kopper is it fine if its a cute pixely monospaced font i made myself? :floofPlead: (also some parts of my site use a serif font + a white background (e.g. https://finlee.ee/lilytext/page.html ))

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                                                                                                                                                                      [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                      @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                                      @kollumos the font doesn't actually matter all that much it's the (usually small) text with the dark background that makes text really difficult to read with astigmatism

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                                                                                                                                                                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                        I really wish more people had sane default fonts set so I could literally just use the default and let the user decide what font they want;

                                                                                                                                                                          [?]princess pancake :butterfly_:​:neofox_lesbian: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                          @natty@astolfo.social

                                                                                                                                                                          @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work it's my emotional support eye strain!

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                                                                                                                                                                            [?]princess pancake :butterfly_:​:neofox_lesbian: » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                            @natty@astolfo.social

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                                                                                                                                                                              [?]princess pancake :butterfly_:​:neofox_lesbian: » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                              @natty@astolfo.social

                                                                                                                                                                              @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work We reevaluated our terminal choice after that comment

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                                                                                                                                                                                [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                                                @natty yeag ghostty has so many red flags but i don't know a better alternative. besides. like. foot?

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                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]kopper :colon_three: [they / them] » 🔓
                                                                                                                                                                                  @kopper@not-brain.d.on-t.work

                                                                                                                                                                                  @natty (which doesnt help because i'm on mac for now)

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                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                    @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                    Some terrifically titled papers from a discovered collection of NASA research documents found in a skip

                                                                                                                                                                                    (with thanks to @JuliaRez for the original pic)

                                                                                                                                                                                    A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

                                                                                                                                                                                    Alt...A photo of a bunch of NASA research documents, with titles like "STRUCTURAL MARGINS OBSERVED IMMEDIATELY PRIOR TO EXCEEDANCE", "PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS OF UNEXPECTED WOBBLE IN A RIGIDLY NON-WOBBLING SYSTEM", "OBSERVED PERFORMANCE OF COMPONENTS KNOWN TO HAVE BEEN INSTALLED BACKWARDS", "COGNITIVE LOAD IMPLICATIONS OF ACRONYMS REFERRING TO OTHER ACRONYMS", "THRMAL CHARACTERISTICS OF MATERIALS DESCRIBED AS 'PROBABLY INFLAMMABLE'", "ON THE REPEATED SURVIVAL OF SYSTEMS NEVER INTENDED TO WORK", "THE EFFECT OF CLIPBOARD ON PERCEIVED AUTHORITY IN TEST ENVIRONMENTS", "MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF SUBSTANCES EXPOSED TO REPEATED MEETINGS", "ANOMALOUS RESULTS WHICH PERSIST DESPITE STRONG MANAGEMENT DISAPPROVAL", and "A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE MOON'S APPARENT DISINTEREST IN OUR ACTIVITIES"

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Nanoraptor [She/Her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social

                                                                                                                                                                                      Some more for amusement.

                                                                                                                                                                                      A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "DURABILITY OF COMPONENTS BUILT ONCE AND CORRECTLY BEFORE MANAGEMENT INTERVENED" by Ron Swanson.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "DURABILITY OF COMPONENTS BUILT ONCE AND CORRECTLY BEFORE MANAGEMENT INTERVENED" by Ron Swanson.

                                                                                                                                                                                      A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "EXCESS PROCESSING CAPACITY APPLIED TO TRIVIAL OBJECTIVES IN THE ABSENCE OF MEANINGFUL OUTCOMES" by Marvin, P. Android.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "EXCESS PROCESSING CAPACITY APPLIED TO TRIVIAL OBJECTIVES IN THE ABSENCE OF MEANINGFUL OUTCOMES" by Marvin, P. Android.

                                                                                                                                                                                      A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "ON THE ABSENCE OF A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE PHENOMENON REFERRED TO AS 'THE WHAMMY'" by Dana Scully, M.D.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "ON THE ABSENCE OF A SCIENTIFIC BASIS FOR THE PHENOMENON REFERRED TO AS 'THE WHAMMY'" by Dana Scully, M.D.

                                                                                                                                                                                      A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "AN ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WAS AGREED AND THE DEEPLY UNSATISFACTORY OUTCOME" by David Mitchell.

                                                                                                                                                                                      Alt...A screenshot of a remake of a NASA TECHNICAL NOTE titled "AN ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE MISUNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WAS AGREED AND THE DEEPLY UNSATISFACTORY OUTCOME" by David Mitchell.

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                      Oh btw I designed a stack CPU in 15 (maybe 18? tbd on the ALU specifics) 7400-series logic chips;
                                                                                                                                                                                      I also plan to develop a coprocessor dedicated to Forth interpretation and compilation;

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                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                      @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                      Update: it's actually 14;

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                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                        Update again: we're back up to 15;

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                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                          Update the third: we're up to 18;

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                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]That Frisian Girl-ish [ae/aer - she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                            @thatfrisiangirlish@blahaj.zone

                                                                                                                                                                                            age verification, queerness [SENSITIVE CONTENT]

                                                                                                                                                                                            We need to understand something really basic about the community as a whole that pretty much sets us apart from pretty much most other minorities: we are by our very nature fractured, diverse, and spread thin.

                                                                                                                                                                                            That is because we do generally not grow up among members of our own community. Gay guys don't often have two dads, the trans kids don't just come from trans parents. Discovering who and what we are is an often painful, generally harrowing look into ourselves that those around us are not confronted with, and commonly, an isolated experiece at first. Our self discovery is part of who we are. At best, there's a family member instead of growing up with a shared culture and tradition among peers.

                                                                                                                                                                                            Culture and tradition? We come from all walks of life. Our commonalities are being reduced to "pervy sex stuff", generally at best tragic, often vilified, and mostly grossly misrepresented role models in media, and the struggle for either to not happen anymore, plus getting on par with the cis-het-allo-mononormative majority. Not ahead, no privileges, just on par.

                                                                                                                                                                                            In this light, easy access to the internet has been a blessing. The words, the ideas, the communities could grow an equivalent to a locality that by definition, we couldn't have before, apart from the handful of other weirdos wherever we lived, and there was no guarantee that you'd get along with any of them - if they showed themselves, even, because often, who we are is also completely invisible, or at least hidden behind shibboleths that discovering yourself on your own, you simple wouldn't know.

                                                                                                                                                                                            Queer identity is one of being born into a secret society that you as a member have to discover as rite of induction. If you fail, misery tends to visit you again and again, without having a good explanation for it, dissatisfaction, and shame from an unknown source.

                                                                                                                                                                                            In this light, the push to for social media and internet access is especially awful. With "queer" being equated to sex stuff exclusively, queerness is effectively banned in the era of life where teens are supposed to discover love, and have first, clumsy experiences. But while the cishets generally experience queerness from porn and get their fingers sticky to what they view as fetish, it is so much more. Especially for trans kids, research on who and what they are is postponed to a time when devastating damage is already taking place, and a lot of it in fact irreversible, or a huge effort and cost to correct.

                                                                                                                                                                                            It will deprive queer youth of finding greater community, and put them at the mercy of parents that generally at best often have no clue, and at worst are openly hostile. For the queer community, the "little gay people on the phone" that they often won't be able to meet ever in meatspace can in fact be their closest peers, and a lifeline. Isolating people is a common tactic in indoctrination. Isolating queer youth is an attempt at conversion therapy.

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                                                                                                                                                                                              [?]Will :agender_flag: [they/them] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                              @AncTreat5358@mindly.social

                                                                                                                                                                                              It is commonly understood that ND (neurodivergent) brains are "wired differently" and social interactions can be rather bewildering.

                                                                                                                                                                                              I haven't seen this particular topic discussed. I am hypothesizing that poetry could be equally inaccessible to ND folks as well, and would love thoughts on this.

                                                                                                                                                                                              @autistics @actuallyadhd

                                                                                                                                                                                              I am ND, and can connect with most poetry.:123
                                                                                                                                                                                              I am ND, and cannot connect with most poetry.:105
                                                                                                                                                                                              I am not ND, and can connect with most poetry.:11
                                                                                                                                                                                              I am not ND, and cannot connect with most poetry.:27
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                                                                                                                                                                                                [?]Winter (familier) (argot) (vulgaire) :flagLesbianBreizh: » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                @winter@social.translunar.academy

                                                                                                                                                                                                @AncTreat5358 @autistics @actuallyadhd what's your reasoning here? poetry could not be more different than social interaction

                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]Vale » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Carefully cutting down my JavaScript, optimising my CSS, minimising my HTML, configuring preloads, tweaking caching, and manually shrinking images to hit a good balance of size and compression, then opening a new tab to be hit by a megacorp’s 40MB hero video.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                  [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                  @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                  Real ones make their essays shorter so they load faster on a 56k modem :trolleybus:;

                                                                                                                                                                                                    [?]Vale » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                    @vale@fedi.vale.rocks

                                                                                                                                                                                                    A bus with the text 'Me just trying to use the internet' crossing a railroad track and being demolished by a train that reads '40MB Hero Video'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                    Alt...A bus with the text 'Me just trying to use the internet' crossing a railroad track and being demolished by a train that reads '40MB Hero Video'.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]Luzzy :verified_trans: [she/her 🏳️‍⚧️] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @meluzzy@woof.tech

                                                                                                                                                                                                      what OS would be used in a post apocalyptic environment? I have 2 candidates:

                                                                                                                                                                                                      - NetBSD: Because of course everything can run NetBSD so it's perfect for post-apocalyptic computing.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      - CP/M: It's back! — Its simple enough to be implemented by any hardware and it would allow software inter compatibility.

                                                                                                                                                                                                      - Some Linux distro: Debian, Arch, Ubuntu, Alpine... This is the most likely answer

                                                                                                                                                                                                      Windows would require too much electricity to run, even if it is Windows on arm. New MacOS would be useless because they would only run on M chips.

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                                                                                                                                                                                                      [?]sarah tonin :wlfBlep: [they/she/any] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                      @SRAZKVT@tech.lgbt

                                                                                                                                                                                                      @meluzzy i think hoping in a post apocalyptic environment you'd have: both the code for some existing os, or even just hardware that works at all, is extremely optimistic

                                                                                                                                                                                                      most likely is everything's fried and you gotta go back from the roots. in this case, you'd likely only get 8bit, or if you're lucky, 16 bit computers, as anything much higher than that would be stupidly complex to build in a reasonable time, and without occupying more than a room

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                                                                                                                                                                                                        [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                        @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                        Look into DuskOS and CollapseOS, they're designed for this;

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                                                                                                                                                                                                          [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                          @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                          @thunderbird@mastodon.online gets a recommendation from me, it's so much better than most webmails (including gmail) by virtue of handling message threads properly;

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                                                                                                                                                                                                            [?]R.O.S.I.E 5448 [she/her] » 🌐
                                                                                                                                                                                                            @rosie@0x4d4f5448.systems

                                                                                                                                                                                                            It's also just fun to use and generally makes me more likely to scroll through emails lol;

                                                                                                                                                                                                            CC: @thunderbird@mastodon.online

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