Soreth @Soreth@awoo.space
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Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.
Joined Jun 2017
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Hi I have shiny ace things now. https://shop.sevenishmagpies.com/
What if work.... wasn't awful?
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LGBT rights, Poland, please boost
* talking about LGBT ppl/issues in schools;
* Pride marches and any other LGBT-related public events;
* public endorsement of same-sex marriage or rights;
You read that right. If you say "I think gay people should get to be married" in a public setting, the new law states that you'd be committing a crime.
I know not everyone is equally passionate about LGBT activism, but this is actual insanity.
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LGBT rights, Poland, please boost
(Reposted from Birdside, thread)
Today, the Polish parliament will read a proposed law that makes it illegal to "promote homosexuality", including - I am not exaggerating - pretty much ANY positive talk of LGBT+ people and their rights in public settings.
And foreign media seem almost entirely silent on this.
The law was drafted a while ago, but didn't get into the Parliament for procedural reasons.
It EXPLICITLY bans e.g.:
internet impact
I see people on birdsite are talking about their biggest impacts on the internet today. So why not, I'll say it here too.
For multiple years in the early 00s, a picture of me was the top result if you did an image search on AskJeeves for the word "author". It was just a JPG named "the_author" on my website.
To this day I've no idea why. My guess is image rank was based partially on file creation date? It was an old picture.
Eventually I got tired of it and blocked search crawlers. My picture stopped appearing in search results. I do wonder sometimes exactly how long it would have continued if I hadn't done that.
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semi-evergreen vent toot, long (~1750 chars), re: FOSS, 
FOSS is amazing and important. But the FOSS community as it currently stands is toxic to an insane degree.
News flash: Not everyone who uses FOSS programs is technical enough to make their own.
If someone complains about something they find inconvenient or inaccessible about a program they otherwise enjoy using, the correct answer is NOT to respond with "Why don't you just code it yourself?"
To only offer that response is to willingly ignore the fact that plenty of users (ourselves included) don't have the technical know-how to build something so complex, even if they fork your code. Whether intentional or not, you're implicitly gatekeeping so that the only people who can enjoy the same programs you do are the ones who can build their own.
I hate to be the one to break it to you, but that's leaving out a HUGE portion of potential users.
If you really do care about FOSS becoming mainstream, then it's in your best interests to make it as accessible as possible to everyone, not just the people who think like you do.
The only way to dismantle Big Tech's de facto monopoly is to work together to find a better solution. And refusing to objectively improve your precious source code is not the way to do that.
And guess what? Thanks to the Steam Deck, soon there's gonna be a bunch of non-techie people trying out Linux. You can't keep gatekeeping forever. If FOSS is to survive, it must adapt. Not exclude.
If you disagree with any of the above, YOU are the problem with the FOSS community. YOU are the reason FOSS isn't mainstream yet.
The block button's right there. Save yourself some time and use it. Nobody wants or needs to hear your rebuttal. Goodbye.
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DRAGONS HALLOWEEN PSA
BEWARE
Dragons!!! Sending your kobolds out for rocks-or-treats can be great fun for everyone, but be sure to check their pails!!
Uninformed parents or even malicious people may hand out nuclear fuel pellets! These are NOT ROCKS, they are made of highly enriched uranium that may make your kobold sick!!!
Check their pails when they get home!!
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Weird commission idea floating through my head - dragoness in her ritual room, tons of paraphernalia all around, stacks of tomes, searching for apotheosis. It's finally struck - she's resplendent, partially fused with infinity, Ascended - and she's staring down in disbelief at the thing that let her make the leap. Not a tome, not a ritual, but...
...a really really good burrito, still half-uneaten.
Weird commission idea floating through my head - dragoness in her ritual room, tons of paraphernalia all around, stacks of tomes, searching for apotheosis. It's finally struck - she's resplendent, partially fused with infinity, Ascended - and she's staring down in disbelief at the thing that let her make the leap. Not a tome, not a ritual, but...
...a really really good burrito, still half-uneaten.
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The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy was published 42 years ago today.
blaseball, comparison with boring normal baseball
Each game of Blaseball contains the maximum amount of Blaseball that a game can contain and is thus far superior an experience.
Except when a Blaseball game is in the state of Maximum Blaseball, when there is obviously more Blaseball per Blaseball than is normally present.
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You don't need a job to survive.
You need clean water, healthy food, and safe housing to survive.
Under capitalism, however, all of those things have associated price tags. Hence the popular myth of "needing" a job to survive.
Survival should not be a subscription service.
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fragile tech infra
so, for those who don't know how TLS works, websites verify their authenticity through a chain of trust, where everyone keeps of copy of the "root" trust certificates on their devices. a handful of organisations are deemed trustworthy enough to vouch for other organisations, and those other organisations vouch for certificates of websites to say that they really are who they say they are
this way, we don't need to change the certificates stored on devices for a while, since they can vouch for other certificates to confirm their trustworthiness
however, sometimes, a root certificate expires and new ones will be put in place
this happened recently for Let's Encrypt, a service that has been offering free TLS certificates for websites who just have to verify ownership of their domain name. there are more advanced certificates which will verify much more than just the domain (for example, big companies will go through a proper validation process so they really are who they say they are) but Let's Encrypt has made basic security available to the masses.
now, recently, Let's Encrypt switched to a different root certificate since the old one expired. it expired yesterday, actually. it has been publicly known this would happen since May, and it means that devices which are around 10+ years old won't have the new root, and hence can't properly connect to Let's Encrypt websites, since they don't trust them.
now, there are lots of reasons why those devices can't connect nowadays anyway, but at least to sidestep the problem, Let's Encrypt is using a compromise approach where it marks certificates with both the new and old root.
so, to clarify, devices fall into three categories right now. the oldest devices know about the old root, and not that it's expired. the newest devices know about the new root and that the old root is expired. but there's a weird middle ground of devices that know that the old root is expired, but don't know of the new root.
the Let's Encrypt workaround of signing with both roots mitigates problems for the oldest devices and the newest devices, but devices in the middle area still break. which is why some websites yesterday broke.
however, today, an issue still impacts some new devices. normally, a certificate signed with an expired root and a non-expired root should just ignore the expired signature and trust the non-expired one. but it turns out that some software is improperly stopping after it sees the expired signature, and marking the entire thing as invalid
people had time to update their devices to include the new certificate since May, but because this newer issue was not foreseen, it wasn't accounted for until now.
now, you might be wondering, then: how many devices fall into the older group? well, older versions of Android do, which makes it a sizeable demographic. so, there's not really a great solution right now that covers all bases. basically, it sucks.
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Begin superthought re: dragon stereotypes
Dragons hoarding wealth for themselves is anti-socialist capitalist propaganda, actually. In reality most dragons guarding hoards are working with local credit unions and trade cooperatives to protect /their/ wealth in exchange for the dragon getting a comfortable place to live, an accepting community with access to clean water, and an ethically-sourced food supply so they don't have to risk their lives trying to survive alone in the wild.
<End superthought>
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A dragon landed in the town square.
"I wish to speak to the reeve."
The reeve hesitantly entered the square.
"I hear there is now a tax to pay on wealth?" the dragon said.
"Er... yes?"
"Then I need help calculating my share."
"Why? We can't make you pay."
"What monster wouldn't?"
#MicroFiction #TootFic #SmallStories
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synth who's got a loose neck connection so sometimes you just hear the microsoft USB disconnect noise from another room and they shout FUCK and crumple to the floor
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All browser prompts need a "Lie" function in addition to Allow and Block.
<Website> wants to:
* Know your location
* Use your camera
[ Allow ] [ Block ] [ Lie ]
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"weft" (warp and weft) is (was) the past tense of "weave"
in the same way that "left" is the past tense of "leave"
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Today is Parker's birthday! ish. day we adopted him :)
Soreth got him some lamb treats. He approves...and had his front legs on the fireplace mantel vainly trying to get to the top railing to steal the rest :D
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Rare coastal dragoness, often found by sunny sea cliffs. Nonbinary but fairly femme-leaning. If you're under 18 don't follow.
Joined Jun 2017
