weights connoisseur @alice_meows@awoo.space

@HabitEXE obscure note: under the cover there are also screw terminals that break out the 4 twisted pairs, for... whatever purposes you may think of

@densetsunogomez "I told you to come alone, but I guess that was too hard. So try this - I'm gone."

The Born Identity

i use debian with networkmanager on my laptop, and accidentally bump my rfkill button pretty often, taking out my wifi connection. i'd like to disable rfkill completely, and i can find no documentation on how to do so. i can't blacklist the rfkill kernel module because the bluetooth module uses it. it appears that userspace processes (wpa_supplicant and bluetoothd) take over management of rfkill (they have /dev/rfkill open), but they don't seem to have config options to disable it. i think there's some build options i can disable? am i seriously gonna have to compile my own kernel just to disable rfkill?

whic one is himbo

please boost

which of these is more of a himbo

oh, maybe it's like, marking a reference as local rather than global. local to an individual relationship, to things friends commonly know about the speaker, or even a broader community reference. or possibly like, the field the discussion is happening under?

i think it often has a sort of ironic or self-deprecating tone because explicitly marking a reference's locality is a way of saying "ok when i say , i don't mean it the normal way, i mean it like, the Me Bullshit keyed to that phrase"

also, how do you describe what formatting like this is meant to convey? i've struggled to put it into words, maybe a textual equivalent to a wink or a knowing look or a significant glance? like, "this phrase has a non-literal meaning as a reference to some assumed-to-be shared knowledge", like, this piece of text is not a literal phrase but rather the name of an idea??

like

• "time for my landlord to do that thing landlords do" (what? what's that referring to?)
• "time for my landlord to do That Thing Landlords Do" (oh, i'll bet she's referring to this thing she hates about landlords in particular)

which is more powerful for doing that thing with the text, title case or italics?

also i didn't exactly "download" his music from youtube, i played the song, and then captured the loopback audio with this old Mac program called "WireTap Pro". since "don't download this song" specifically refers to downloading, i considered explaining this to him as i thought this distinction might somehow be important.

so yeah i'm autistic and trans

i remember thinking about his song "don't download this song". and being like "ok so he's clearly doing satire, but is he satirizing anti-piracy itself, or is he just satirizing the song he's making fun of by making it about anti piracy? and like he makes some over the top statements about 'diamond coated swimming pools don't just grow on trees you know' but does that mean he's truly ok with piracy or just making fun of more successful, richer artists"

ok so when i was a young kid i got free tickets to a weird al concert with backstage passes (from a friend who's mom works at the stadium he was playing) and i got to meet him. and i remember the whole time leading up to the concert and meet & greet i was trying to decide if i should disclose to him that while i did like his music i had downloaded it all from youtube. like "he deserves to know"

you know what would be sick? if i could take all my favorite Electron apps, and combine them into a single window. maybe they could even save memory by using the same chromium instance. You could navigate between your apps using some sort of tabbed interface. While we're at it, (this part's a bit of a stretch) but also how sweet would it be if app vendors put their code on like an HTTP server or something, and you could dynamically load new electron apps over the internet; instead of downloading the whole app in one go, just lazy-load the resources as they're needed, with automatic updates happening by vendors updating the files on their server and invalidating the file's local cache entry.

depleted uranium brass knuckles

where do anti vaxers get all the antimatter for their vaccines from

different pluralization for a noun based on whether you're talking about an integer number of the thing or not

ok, edited for egregious typos, nearly a year later, here we go:

sometimes a call myself a fag or faggot. sometimes as part of working through my relationship with straight society, sometimes just because it feels straightforwardly good to self-id that way. I feel weird CWing self-identifiers so this is my account-level warning on this.

stop building bridges, just build really long boats and fucking ever given them into the sides of the river.

what the fuck was "fisher society" supposed to mean

lmao why does this have so many typos in it