ftl ✅ @ftl@awoo.space
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
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"I spoke with NoMoreMondays campaign director Mawr today who explained that they believe Mondays should forever be a mandatory day of rest. Not for any specifically religious purpose, but rather, and I quote, 'Because Fuck Mondays'. This is Patricia Hardcheese reporting live from Awoo.space. Back to you, Morgan."
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I have so many odd computer habits picked up from various environments. Like:
DOS taught me to backspace and retype rather than use the cursor
HTTP referers taught me to always open a new tab/window when I'm going to a new site, even if I'm closing the old site
Ruby taught me to check explicitly for True and False values
PHP taught me that even when the site isn't built on PHP, the bug is PHP's fault
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I saw an article with the title "How to think about AI like a VC" and wondered: why would anybody ever want to do that?
It's like writing an article called "How to think about bottle caps like a problem gambler".
#introductions / #introduction
Hi everyone! I'm ftl, formerly @ftl@physi.cc . I live in the SF bay area, have previously lived elsewhere in the CA, the midwest, and the east coast. I play #boardgames and #DnD (#D&D ???) . Oh, and #tennis , lots of #tennis. Also have gotten involved in #politics since the last election, but am going to try to minimize the political content of this account and leave that for birdsite.
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The personal
is geopolitical
and also legal
and also social
and also academic
and also commercial
and also technological
and also financial
and also military.
Coming soon, probably:
"SNOPES" the movie.
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/07/the-ugly-dispute-threatening-snopes/534708/
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my VPN is testy sometimes so I've been trying to use the internet through the firewall here in china, and it's amazing how much of the web breaks when you can't even make requests to twitter and google domains. e.g., if your non-firewalled page uses google fonts, or embeds a twitter widget, it hangs on load (until the request times out)—if it loads at all.
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mastodon NEEDS an archive feature. instances go down all the time. so being able to download your toots would be a really really really useful (almost necessary) feature.
...aand right after remaking a Mastodon account, I went away camping/rafting for a weekend with no internet access.
It was fun! A lot easier than kayaking, just do what the guide says and it's all good. Rafts are huge and if you give them enough power they just plow through rapids.
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suicide phone lines
Hi friends- I saw this on Twitter and decided to share it here.
Love y'all. Don't give up on getting help healing if you're hurting- there's always going to be someone who will listen.
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-8255
Trevor Project Lifeline: 1-866-488-7386
Trans Lifeline: (877) 565-8860
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People need to fucking learn that there is no such thing as "shining a light on something to discredit it". It's called free advertising.
Also, I added more checkmarks to my name. I'm super verified, folks.
Hi! I used to be @ftl@physi.cc . Then that instance suddenly and without warning disappeared.
Well, I was the only active user on it anyway. After a week of trying to contact the admin, I decided to start over. When I try and reconstruct my follower list, I'll @ those people and try to get them back. I'll also make an introduction post and start over.
Awoo!
Data Scientist in the bay. Tennis player (4.5). D&D, Gloomhaven, and board game enthusiast. Pronouns he/him.
Joined Jul 2017
