Kistaro Windrider @Kistaro@awoo.space
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
My emotional health problems hurt people close to me and I don't know how to make them just not be a problem
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Idle thought:
Cyberpunk narratives that paint body-modification as a negative thing because of "loss of humanity", are subtly transphobic because they associate essence with the physical body. That to modify the body is to negatively modify the mind.
It also presumes that to become less human is to also become less empathetic, whereas a person should be allowed to be non-human, or maybe even not a "person", without losing empathy and sapience.
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The fire alarms went off for a fraction of a second last night. This interacts very poorly with how I respond to sudden loud noises. x..x
I am likely to be frazzled for the next two or three days as a result. I know it isn't a reasonable or proportional response, I have a phobia and it sucks.
“Piano concerto #4 in G” is the classical music version of “untitled.txt”
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@Sangria This... is surprisingly fun!
Just won my first 50 v 50... got one shotgun kill from behind as they were building a base!
Palantir corporation is geniuinely evil. Why can't I find organized opposition to its existence?
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Facebook confirms that it tracks how you move mouse on the computer screen
https://www.indiatoday.in/technology/news/story/facebook-confirms-that-it-tracks-how-you-move-mouse-on-the-computer-screen-1258189-2018-06-12
(submitted by shahocean)
Deleting social media apps from my phone is scary until the moment the icon disappears and then I suddenly feel peaceful
(bye, Reddit)
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That point of design work where you've got it good but you have to check if it looks like ass on mobile
PUNCH THE DOLLAR AND WIN TWENTY MONKEYS
mh, -
People who interact with me regularly adapt to me and I don’t think it’s very healthy for them
I’m not good enough at shaking off the feeling of not being good enough at things
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The specifications of the ideal web development workstation:
* 1.0 GHz VIA C7, C7-M ULV, Eden (the Esther core one), or Eden ULV
* VIA CN896, VX800/VX800U, or VX855 chipset
* 1 GiB RAM
* 4200 RPM mechanical HDD
* 800x600 display
* 56k modem
It has SSE2, so it'll run every current browser that runs on generic hardware. It has PAE with NX bit, so it'll run current versions of Windows. The integrated graphics is DX9 with WDDM 1.1 drivers, even exceeding Windows 10's minimums.
"Speaking fees" for retired politicians show the amazing power of human planning capacity. Humans invented the perfect crime by creating an acausal crime: one where nothing untoward has happened when the effect occurs, by predicting the subsequent existence of a cause, a motive, a bribe, in years to follow.
I haven’t played a Phoenix Wright game for a while and yet I’m trying to compose a “Baby Got Back” parody involving “I like Larry Butz and I cannot lie” and it’s not working
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My birthday is tomorrow and so far the extent of my plans for it is “go to work as usual” and “complain about how my ankle hasn’t healed from the bike accident yet”. Dirty abrasions are slow to heal, I guess
I have seen no small amount of “stop giving weird technical advice in response to social problems” toots lately, and I think that’s an important perspective to keep when moderating and maintaining communities - community owners are the bridge between technical skill and social need.
That said, I offer nerdsplaining as a service: if you want to know what some opaque piece of tech phrasing means, and why nerds seem to care about it so much, ask me and I’ll do my best to make it make sense
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Okay, now consider: Tiny dinosaurid feather-type savaging a calzone at the dinner table.
Chameleonic dragon. Otherkin. Some kind of eclectic neo-Pagan. Sie/hir or they/them. Software engineer. Seattle-esque, WA. Expect software takes, complaints about the tech industry, board games, video games, an inexplicably obsession with paper notebooks despite my handwriting, and Weird Furry Stuff.
Joined Aug 2017
