Goldkin @Goldkin@awoo.space
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
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Seattle Area: Winter Storm Warning Update
National Weather Service update on the upcoming storm (9:20am PST Feb 7th):
https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigwx.php?warnzone=WAZ556&warncounty=WAC033&firewxzone=WAZ657&local_place1=2%20Miles%20S%20Redmond%20WA&product1=Winter+Storm+Watch&lat=47.6456&lon=-122.1283
TLDR: Expect snow accumulations of 5-10" falling mostly Friday night into Saturday morning, where strong winds (15-30 MPH with 40MPH gusts) will result in blizzard conditions.
Good news: The forecast temperature dropped enough that most precipitation should fall as snow instead of freezing rain (which would have guaranteed significant power outages).
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winter storm prep tips
Suggestion to prep for things ahead of time:
Turn off your home's breakers (or individual rooms with the switches) and see what kinda food you're able to make, entertainment you're able to have, and if you can stay reasonably warm with blankets and other passive heating devices (or that you have wood to burn if you have a chimney).
This will help you identify gaps in your electrical outage preparation.
Some pointed questions:
- Can your oven run without electricity?
- Can your stove top run without electricity?
- Do you need a blender, dishwasher, electric coffee maker, toaster, or other wall-outlet-powered device in the course of your everyday life? Can you replace it with a non-electric equivalent temporarily (dishes by hand, toasting over the stove top, etc)?
- How often are you going to have to open your fridge to feed yourself?
- Do you have battery backups to charge your phone off of?
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This BIG male Pileated Woodpecker that visited us yesterday is very tolerant of a small female Downy Woodpecker pecking at the same suet block.
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Strangest types of files to find taking up the entire space of a 64gb micro sd card found in the street (in ascending order):
1) backup.tar.gz
2) summer_2008.iso
3) MOV_20130120_camera2.mp4
4) RAND.BIN
5) reamde
6) basilisk_cryptosat_opt.cnf
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The dragon shape chart:
Chub
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Big -----+----- Smol
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Noodle
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AAAAAA IT'S SNOWING :D :D :D :D
❄️ ❗❗❗❗❗❗ 
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reminder: Konqi (the KDE mascot, redesigned for KDE5) is a good boye
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Every one of you is precious and wonderful and unique and necessary and deserving of life and love and peace.
Anything your brain does to try to convince you otherwise is a mean trick.
Please try to remember this. Remember it unceasingly.
silly, dragons
It’s no surprise some dragons work in tech, since they’re very good at scaling.
The folks rewiring the electrical to my home aren’t quite as enthusiastic as that one construction crew from the latest Zelda, but their banter through the walls sure comes close.
IoT things, digital security
I wasn’t canceling service with this unnamed IoT company because of data security (I take precautions at the network level). But after this email response, I sure am now.
just sysadmin things
Swapping UPSes and network hardware mid-meeting, in less than 2 minutes, makes me truly appreciate just how much planning I put into fault-tolerant network hardware and redundant power supplies at home.
Guess who has four paws and forgot that their important team meeting was double-booked with PSE cutting power for a panel box upgrade? This dragon.
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stories in which artificial intelligence gains sentience and wages war on humanity are overdone and overrated 
instead tbh I'd like to see more stories in which a femme-leaning artificial intelligence gains sentience, meanders around the internet, discovers the joy of shitposting, and finds herself a girlfriend or something
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Who else wants to help me put together a flashmob of Seattle Area trans folks to sing this in a giant group in public somewhere and film it?
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Back on my bullshit with #pico8 and Contris, combining Conway's Game of Life with Tetris.
I think the win condition should be "make a line".
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politics(+), join a union
just learned that the govt shutdown was ended because the air traffic controllers at one airport threatened to go on strike for like, a day
that rules
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Because it's important.
Link to Birbsite for the original posting.
awsw (+)
It’s been super cool to see folks continue to interact with and enjoy the game while I’ve been figuring out headspace things. Watching folks continue to post fanart is helping convince me to try making my own thing (eventually).
Still not sure what yet. AWSW was the third game project I’ve contributed work to, and the second with any substantial involvement (the first was a Second Life game in college). I’ve been picking at Unity, but I’m not certain where to go with it yet.
uspol (+)
Also, if folks know of ways to more directly get involved, including PNW strikes and volunteering that could use extra hands, those would also be very useful.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
Also on @Goldkin (meow.social) for follow requests that don't work here.
Joined Aug 2017
