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 office smells like armpits today
It turns out that I’m afraid of changing my wardrobe and presentation away from “generic Midwest college slacker” because I’m afraid of coming off as fake and this is all I know
“Effeminate, flamingly gay” would be an upgrade, I have no idea where to start, and I’m terrified of coming off as parodic or appropriative or “fake”. And the fact that I’d rather present myself this way feeds into my anxiety about not being “trans enough”.
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Oh look, another wave of “burn the heretic”. Looks like I get to quietly back out of yet more community spaces, block more people, and continue my pattern of refusing to talk out problems with people on the grounds that it’s a fantastic way to get doxxed.
I don’t trust people enough to assume that I can peacefully disagree with anyone.
English is a language where everything is a euphemism when paired with “moist” and/or “throbbing”
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here's a cool tip dont trust callouts whose sources are fucking kiwi farms of all things thanks
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It’s definitely spring! I now get woken up at 5:30 AM and have trouble getting back to sleep because of a very enthusiastic robin right outside my window a couple of feet away from my head. 🐦🔊
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I actually want to issue a warning? If you're on a server were your admin doesn't actually seem active any more, you should definitely back up your data!
As a lot of instances were spun up a year ago in the rapid growth we had then, they might be left to expire. And having a backup account just in case may be really good.
Even if they are active, it's easy to forget to renew a domain and having it get eaten by someone else.
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good idea (racism)
Apparently racism is expensive. Good.
Google Translate is a spectacular tool. It doesn’t always work, but its failures are glorious. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/shibboleth-users/EjvS2Cgio6c
Meanwhile, in Hearthstone, my deck literally named “Bad Murloc” is now on a winning streak in Ranked
(...at rank 25, I just started)
It turns out that most of what I have learned about Hearthstone by building a barely not terrible deck is not applicable to the pursuit of building a good deck
As a developer on the automatic update platform for a widely-used web browser:
Securing a widely-used software package that connects to arbitrary servers is hard. Not just that eventually every last one of our bugs will be exercised by some web site somewhere, but we’re an obvious high-value target for separately-installed malware.
We have to write a web browser that is itself resilient to malware attacks. If users can shut off automatic updates or malware defense, malware can shut it off...
Modern medical science has given us the ability to cure an incredible range of diseases, syndromes, and disorders in laboratory mice
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Cyriak videos can often be identified by their high cat-per-cat ratio.
Let's not talk about the sheep.
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I trained a neural network to invent some really confusing April Fools pranks.
#machinelearning
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network
Woebot: a cognitive behavioral therapy chatbot that helps me recognize a remarkable achievement: when I am anxious and stressed, my inner monologue can achieve a density of greater than one major cognitive distortion per word
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Wistfulness about the word draconity
"Draconity" is a term that doesn't get used much any more, I think
It was what we called the state of Being Dragon, a bit more wieldy than "otherkinness" or therianthropy
I liked that little word. It encompassed a community of people some of whom I knew, some of whom I didn't, but that always seemed to manage to avoid unnecessary conflict. When things went bad, I never saw dragons fight with tooth and claw; they retreated, invisibly, and the community got quieter and quieter until it eventually didn't hold together much any more.
But-- I feel like I sensed a core of something in those dragons that felt common and unique to them. A particular kind of quiet solidity, steadfastness within the longing, and a manifest willingness to stay childlike at heart. They didn't always say much, but when they did it was resonant and felt Real. I see it in people who call themselves dragons today, too. Other people are strong, or stoic, or playful, and in every way as good as dragons at these things, and dragons aren't always all these things; but there is a Vibe I get from them sometimes. Like the way people are protective, but a stone symbolises protection.
Perhaps to be Dragon is to clothe oneself in a certain set of symbols, an archetypal armour that moulds the self to a certain eternal pattern.
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It looks like people are talking about april fools stuff so I want to say
I will not be doing anything for april fools. No pranks, no jokes, nothing.
April fools is already hard on people with anxiety. If you see this, please consider making a statement that you won't do anything for april fools, so that people like myself can be a little more comfortable that day, and not have to dread it as much.
This goes doubly for instance admins. Please don't change the site suddenly without warning.
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
