things I've been doing, videogames
Last month was house repairs, houseguests, and snowpocalpyse parts one and two. This month is travel, in which I'll be flying out to the mothership for $JOB tomorrow. Between both of these have been cooperative and builder videogames to manage stress, which seems to be a usual pattern for me.
I will never stop having the urge to build and create, even when circumstances feel demanding or doomful. In a way, it's comforting. I need to figure out how to share more of that here again, at some indeterminate time when I have enough spoons again.
@andrhia mastodon has the same feature btw. It’s usually less bad here, because of content warnings, but I figured I’d throw that out there anyway, in case its useful to anyone
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I especially like how I used “in case of trouble” in some old service notes, because the whole Bastion soundtrack is amazing: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-jU9EFTMhbY
Question for Seattle/Portland area Folks (cw: alcohol) (plz boost!)
Hey frens!
Do you know of any local breweries that are union shops?
I keep running into examples of Breweries that treat their employees like shit because they can get away with it. Here's a job posting from Rogue as an example.
http://i.imgur.com/cfGFm5j.png
I want to find union brewers 'cause union brewed beer tastes like solidarity, and solidarity is easily one of the world's finest flavors.
digital privacy, birdsite link
This is a really neat way to teach folks how privacy works in the digital age: https://twitter.com/Klonick/status/1102970732890316801
tl;dr: using only Google, visit a public place and see just how many folks you can de-anonymize, as a lesson in how to protect oneself (and in this case, legal clients) from the same process.
Today I found out the official Mario Paint strategy guide is free on archive.org, and worth a look if you want to see how they filled 120 pages with potential applications for a piece of SNES creative software for kids in 1993
https://archive.org/details/Nintendo_Players_Guide_SNES_Mario_Paint_1993
~|| Celtic and Norse Knotwork Commissions! ||~
- Prices assume standard levels of detail, I can get fancier with borders and repeating patterns
- Can do practically any type of character, not just animals or anthros!
- 10% off 7’‘x10’’+ sizes this month
- I can also go smaller, and even do con badges in this style! Logos, weird shapes or dimensions, you name it I can get you a price quote and more details.
- Email me at bluegoblins@outlook.com
#mastoart #commissions
Infosec rambling as a result of 'meta'
“The fediverse” is not a place you have to enter and announce your presence to witness. It’s not a house, it’s not a party. It’s a data stream and most of it is public, and the bits that aren’t are reliant on actors outside of your control to keep private.
Cancelling someone who outed them self as working with the feds isn’t going to keep the feds out. A lot of you know this and to a lot of you it’s symbolic and ideals-based, but it needs to be stated explicitly for those who do not know.
Most of the fediverse is public, most of it is unredactable, most of it is undeniable. Our current security calculus means it’s trivial, once an instance admin (or the wayback machine) gets a hold of your post, to prove you posted it— forever. Even if you delete it.
The fediverse has the same infosec concerns as birdsite did, and more, and worse. It presents opportunities for a better social space, but in the end you need to either limit posts to things you don’t care who sees, or things you’ve done very in depth risk assessment on with deep knowledge the fediverse security and deniability calculus.
That’s a shortcoming of the fediverse and AP. It’s one specific actors are working on fixing, but it’s not there yet and won’t be for some time.
Keep your “stuff” deniable. Keep it off line. The fed taps do not have high visibility accounts like that guy. The fed taps probably do not have accounts.
I hope that, whoever you are that takes the time to read this, you know deep within your heart that you deserve to be here.
Take a moment and remind yourself that you exist. That you should exist. That you belong in the world, with all its disappointments and its delights. That you deserve happiness. That you deserve to love yourself simply for the magic of being alive.
I know it's hard work every day to be good to yourself and others. I see how hard it is. I believe in you, and others do too.
uspol, data science (?)
I guess I’m wondering how nightly news orgs are going to explain how machine learning and inference models work, because so many folks still consider this to be magic.
Dragon. Agender, otherkin, occasional artist and writer, infosec engineer, in about that order. Avatar by Xeirla. Singular they/them preferred.
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