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
the weird furry stuff part of introductions
If I was less shy, this feed would probably contain more dragons and dragon porn, tentacles, latex, inflatables, etc. I should probably just post all that stuff more and rely on content warnings to let people self-sort if they don’t want to deal with it. I mean, not everybody’s here for the software.
I don’t think I’ve ever done an #introductions post, so:
Hi! I’m Kistaro Windrider. I’m
* nonbinary
* a software engineer
* too frazzled for side projects
* near Seattle
* otherkin (dragon) with a complicated cosmology
* vaguely neopagan, occasional Tarot reader
* pretty harsh about self-censorship, which is why there isn’t a lot more weird furry stuff on this feed
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got a spam call that left a voicemail accidentally
voicemail is just
"(background chatter)
what do you mean we have a new script?
*papers rustling*
oh, here it is!
*click*"
On second thought I think I’m going to set my alarm clock to Ohgodwhat Remix
normal: listening to a song on loop now and then
why I am abnormal: today the song is “ohgodwhat remix” (Homestuck Vol. 3)
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gender is a scam invented by bathroom companies in the 1960's in order to sell more bathrooms
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my favorite demon is probably Adrammelech, the "supervisor of Satan's wardrobe" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adrammelech
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meta, dunking, tone policing
When we create a culture where it's okay to gang up on and harass people, the ones who suffer most are never the ones who "deserve it", because those people inevitably have backup/clout/resources. The people who suffer most will be vulnerable and marginalized people who are wrongly accused of misbehavior and don't have a fanbase or clique to back them up. Mob behavior is *easy to exploit*, and we should be very careful about normalizing it.
The electronic gadgets section of office supply stores was much more exciting before smartphones
I wonder if the cats that are the major attraction of a cat cafe think of themselves as employees.
The hard part about programming is figuring out which part of the error message is unique enough to throw into Google
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Also I'm seeing "screencap dunk" culture coming over already and seriously can we not
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I guess my conclusion is that if you put your work in front of the largest possible group of customers, you discover that they are a boring mob who only want cheap crap. This has been your Wednesday Obviousness, join us next week as we discuss whether water is wet.
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Sex and STDs
If you're sexually active, make sure you're getting tested at least annually, and several weeks after any especially high risk encounter.
A COMPREHENSIVE GUIDE TO COMPUTER SECURITY
1. If at all possible, do not use the computer
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work 🤓📅
Also had to research why dates were getting weird when read from a certain system. Turns out the database stores them in a Julian-Gregorian calendar and the program we use to read uses a proleptic Gregorian calendar. This means the date 0001-01-01 in the source is converted to 0000-12-30 and then we get a "date out of range" error since dates require a positive year value.
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Well, here's my Mastodon timeline, inside Emacs, on a DEC VT420.
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
