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Mid-20s, CS grad, unemployed. The world is a trashfire. 🏳️‍🌈

I've had this username for ages and I still don't know much of anything.
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WHAT POLITICS?
WHAT POLITICS MOTHERFUCKER?
By the summer of 2022, Urbit’s name was everywhere in the highly online niches I occupied. I was living in Berlin at the time, writing a column about “internet culture” for an art magazine and regularly encountering weirdos whose interest in alternative networks led them towards Urbit. For many of them, one of the attractions of the project was the aura of transgression imparted by its status as the brainchild of Curtis Yarvin, known for his edgy online persona and scandalously reactionary politics.
November 4, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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A screenshot of Eric's post. There is a label on Eric's post that says "Posts a lot: more than 100 times yesterday"
November 3, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Slowly losing my place among the asymmetricals.
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October 29, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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Well, this is an improvement at least.
The diff MUST include the new commit and all blocks in the Merkle proof chain for any modified key, as well as blocks for keys directly adjacent to the modified keys. The rationale for including adjacent keys is detailed in Section 4.3
October 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Do not do this.
October 29, 2025 at 3:21 AM
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favorite reaction image go
A frame of Walter talking to Jessie in a Denny's in Breaking Bad. Tradtionally captioned "Jesse, what the fuck are you talking about?"
October 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
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Considering the political right are just straight-up nazis at this point I feel very safe in saying that the Anna Karenina principal might be applicable?
There is more diversity of thought on the political Right than on the political Left.
October 26, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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Yeah I love atproto but the docs are. Uh.

Well they're a work in progress?

(yes this is my favorite example because it's SO bad. Yes this is just a proposal, but it is the only official documentation of Sync 1.1, a VITAL part of atproto.)
Which additional nodes need to be included, and when? The tautological answer is "whatever blocks are needed for operation inversion". One attempt at a definition is to include blocks which contain the MST keys (paths) directly adjacent to any keys added or removed to the tree by any operations. In most cases those blocks are already included in the existing diffs; our experience has been that these situations are relatively rare (on the order of one in a thousand commit messages). We will provide test vectors covering these situations, and will work towards a more formal definition for the final specifications.
October 26, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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Goose chasing meme What opinions? What opinions motherfucker?
October 23, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Goose chasing man meme: "Icons of what?" "Icons of what, motherfucker?"
October 22, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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You can tell who is and isn't a tumblr user by showing them this post.
October 21, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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Bluesky has good docs.
Which additional nodes need to be included, and when? The tautological answer is "whatever blocks are needed for operation inversion". One attempt at a definition is to include blocks which contain the MST keys (paths) directly adjacent to any keys added or removed to the tree by any operations. In most cases those blocks are already included in the existing diffs; our experience has been that these situations are relatively rare (on the order of one in a thousand commit messages). We will provide test vectors covering these situations, and will work towards a more formal definition for the final specifications.
October 20, 2025 at 10:38 PM
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I do love how the authors just directly state their axioms so you can see RIGHT AWAY that they aren't worth listening to. Real time-saver that.
The introduction states six of the authors' assumptions, which they claim to be "beyond significant technical dispute":[7] There is such a difference as a general factor of cognitive ability on which human beings differ. All standardized tests of academic aptitude or achievement measure this general factor to some degree, but IQ tests expressly designed for that purpose measure it most accurately. IQ scores match, to a first degree, whatever it is that people mean when they use the word intelligent, or smart in ordinary language. IQ scores are stable, although not perfectly so, over much of a person's life. Properly administered IQ tests are not demonstrably biased against social, economic, ethnic, or racial groups. Cognitive ability is substantially heritable, apparently no less than 40 percent and no more than 80 percent.
October 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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mmm don't like that.
Dynamic Client Registration endpoint (RFC 7591) At present, Mastodon does not support the Dynamic Client Registration protocol, however it does support a proprietary endpoint for registering an OAuth Application. -> POST /api/v1/apps
October 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
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so glad I kept the image saved
Play-Doh
October 14, 2025 at 2:08 AM
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the goose from untitled goose game.
October 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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But hey, KDE supports it by default! I downloaded RPCS3, cracked open Dolphin, and... they didn't bother embedding an icon because they probably don't even KNOW about the icon because GNOME doesn't support it because GNOME is made by Distro people. Fuck! But I found an app that did and it worked!
Subsurface-v6.0.5094-CICD-release.AppImage in the Dolphin file browser. Its icon is a stylized image of a scuba diver disappearing below the waves.
October 9, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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I don't like reposting ragebait from twitter but just. I can't look away from this.

Please god let Elizabeth Holmes not have a comeback.
Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes People keep asking if our technology worked... What's more likely? They went after me and Theranos this hard because it was all make believe? Or they went after me with everything they had because it worked. soham parekh @phantomthread_d Replying to @ElizabethHolmes but did Theranos had the technology it promised? Elizabeth Holmes @ElizabethHolmes Replying to @phantomthread_d Yes you fucking idiot.
October 9, 2025 at 3:04 AM
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one or more of the following
Data Types Every value in the Nix language has one of the following types: Integer Float Boolean String Path Null Attribute set List Function External
October 8, 2025 at 4:30 AM
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I'm not trans, I'm not a part of this community, maybe there's context I'm missing, but this post made me fucking throw up in my mouth
median transmasc on this site holds the implicit view that tgirls don't get raped, we just wish we do this fundamentally ties into the view half these guys have that, better or worse expressed, womanhood is being raped, and that rape is fundamentally an act carried out by a penis. underneath every transmasc's arguments against transfeminism lies the corepoint of 'trannies all wish they were women, they wish they were victims, but I am the unfortunate holder of this immutable, biological womanhood'.
October 7, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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we need an I Do Not Want A Mastodon blocklist/labeller.
October 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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As for what happens if you post content to Whitewnd that violates bluesky's TOS when you're hosted by bluesky... I mean, that really is the million-dollar question. The TOS doesn't actually talk about records directly, which... uh. Are records content you share on bluesky?
User Content. “Content” means anything you share on Bluesky Social, including posts, profile details, photos, videos, feedback, suggestions, links, and direct messages.
October 5, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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oh it's gonna be one of THOSE days isn't it.
= note: the following trait bounds were not satisfied: `Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>: std::error::Error` which is required by `Result<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>: IntoDiagnostic<(), Box<dyn std::error::Error + Send + Sync>>`
October 5, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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I am going to become the joker
All they have to do is say that they're not going to let the terms of service hamstring them from banning someone if that person is being a piece of shit even though they're not technically violating the ToS.
October 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Okay so I'm in the first chapter of the book and you're already telling me that if I continue to learn this language I have a multi-hour nightmare debugging session in my future because I was wrong about an invisible attribute of my code that changes how it behaves.

cool.
You must keep context in mind when you read Perl code. Every expression is part of a larger context. You may find yourself slapping your forehead after a long debugging session when you discover that your assumptions about context were incorrect. If instead you're aware of context, your code will be more correct—and cleaner, flexible, and more concise.
October 2, 2025 at 4:32 AM