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Rose

@ umbraroze @slrpnk.net

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I'm just one random nerdy trans girl. ...Oh come on, you've been around fediverse, surely you've seen us around?

Mastodon: @umbraroze@tech.lgbt

  • Trump Secretary Says Bike Lanes Are DEI

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  • Reminds me of Conservapedia. They don't believe in Theory of Relativity. Because Andrew Schlafly thought "relativity" sounds too much like moral relativism, and big Biblical Literalists like him think that is a Satanic ploy.

  • Are you ready for what it takes to stop ghost guns? New laws in California and New York might stop anyone from 3D printing guns — and create entirely new kinds of surveillance.

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  • 3D printing working, safe-to-handle and durable guns is a pretty complicated technical problem. Don't need to be a genius to figure out that making 100% plastic guns is asking for trouble. Tiny explosion = big plastic cracky.

    Meanwhile, any monkey can bash together pieces of scrap metal and produce a durable gun that way. And that was a thing long, long before 3D printers existed.

  • borrow checker?

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  • I wouldn't say it was borrowed

    Reminds me of a disclaimer in a public domain software package: "No warranty expressed or implied. If it breaks, you get to keep both pieces."

  • On December 4, Microsoft announced a global price increase for Office 365. Pricing updates take effect July 1, 2026.

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  • Yeah, I decided back then I would probably not renew my subscription this summer. And I didn't!

    Funny thing, I thought I was more productive in MS Office because the user interface is more polished. But even when LibreOffice is at times janky, I'm actually far more productive in it, it turns out. Sure, my attention is always drawn on the tiny little things that trip me up, but if I look at the sheer amount of text and spreadsheets I can churn out, I'm doing much better on LO.

  • Which music player do you use on android?

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  • My use case is "just play music from the same goddamn SD card folder you've been using since the early 2010s and have just been copying it over to new cards ever since", so VLC works quite well for me.

  • What the Entertainment Software Association did

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  • Wow, an industry advocate organisation saying stuff that just proves they have no idea what the industry is actually doing, or what's actually good for them?

    Not really shocked.

  • What's one book everyone should read at least once in their lifetime?

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  • My summer reading list (not that I get to read both every year):

    • The Songs of Distant Earth, by Arthur C. Clarke
    • The Name of the Rose, by Umberto Eco

    The first is about what we never prepared for, but could try to thrive through. (Mike Oldfield made a cool concept album about this. One of the songs is called "Only time will tell")

    The second is a murder mystery set in a medieval monastery. But wait! Is it actually a multilayered examination of our notions about information? Oh hell yeah.

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  • I visit the library often.

    Not that I check out many books, but I love the fact that the local main library is a giant big concrete building with air conditioning and nice quiet desks with power strips for laptops. Immense productivity.

    The library was closed for renovations last summer and the heat waves really put a huge dent on my work.

  • Your EPUB Is Fine. Kobo Disagrees. Blame Adobe - André Klein Dot Net

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  • PDF2 is capable of a lot more

    [quietly contemplating all of the shit that got added to the PDF 1.x spec that nobody uses nowadays, like support for 3D objects and goddamn Flash]

    OH PLEASE NO ADOBE DON'T DO THAT

  • humans in space

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  • Witches and mysticists say "as above, so below".

    So, according to this pic, in practical reality, it's actually "as in tiny, so in big"

  • Horror story

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  • Artemis II astronauts going around the Moon: "I have two Outlooks, neither of which works"

    Astronauts during the first Mars mission: "I previously had two Teams versions, neither of which worked, and now there's apparently a third one, and it doesn't work either"

  • Wikipedia Cofounder Larry Sanger Banned From Site for ‘Canvassing’

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  • To me, Larry Sanger always struck me more as an Ideas Guy. Specifically, the kind of an Ideas Guy who didn't always have the best ideas. He keeps dissing Wikipedia, but just look at the absolute trainwrecks his supposedly better other projects turned out.

  • Resistance is futile

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  • I do watch television. The Finnish public broadcaster, so no ads. Really good use for tax money, people tend to say. The streaming service is incredible considering it's free and has no ads.

  • Someone Wants Linux to Still Boot 1,000 Years From Now

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  • You may have heard of "rewrite it in Rust", now get ready to rewrite it in COBOL

  • Trump Team Dumps Bleach in Reflecting Pool to Hide Renovation Failure

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  • Fun reminder: Most natural swamps aren't actually toxic. Until some human-made toxic spills which complicate things.

    Really puts the DC "Swamp" in perspective, huh. What are they doing over there, I wonder

  • Commodore's Next Hardware Release Is Dumb, And Proud Of It

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  • Frankly, I'm not feeling it.

    Long ago, Commodore trademark was just slapped on random junk.

    It was my hope that when the Commodore trademark was recently acquired by folks who genuinely care about Commodore history, this sort of things would not happen again.

    Makes me a bit apprehensive.

  • You go outside. You see this. What's your reaction?

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  • Go back to my home and start a government petition to legalise pedestrians carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers to better handle situations like this

  • What’s the most tone-deaf advertisement or marketing campaign you’ve ever seen?

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  • Reminds me of an old billboard screw-up in Finland.

    One billboard (I can't remember what the ad was actually for) was quoting an old saying: "If sauna, tar and booze won't help..." ("...the disease is going to kill you")

    Next to it was an ad for a private clinic. "We've got everything to keep you healthy"

  • Welsh or C standard library function?

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  • Long ago in the Windows 9x era there was also "Is this a Windows DLL file, or a transcript of a digestion noise" and the stuff was like "MSGRBL32.DLL"