Lyssa Dawson @squeakycheetah@awoo.space
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- @squeakycheetah:blimps.xyz
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Headmate(?): @spaceelfnei@dragon.style
Headmate(?): @spacewomanpsi
Keybase: https://keybase.io/squeakycheetah
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/lyssadawson
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Balloonie geeky cheetah, into technology and getting bigger. ;3
Joined May 2017
@LexYeen Sorry, is that..is that The Rock? :o
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@garbados Exactly, by nerds, you mean rich, white nerds, who are Libertarian captialists. Disgusting.
Lyssa Dawson
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do not imagine that a currency market is any way to equitably distribute finite goods. it is not a solution to web of trust problems. it’s a speculator’s game. how long are you willing to ride the bubble?
a highly consistent distributed ledger, divorced from all this proof-of-work stuff would have tremendous value
to communities trying to operate local voucher and coupon programs. the use cases abound for this but somehow we’re stuck reproducing currency markets for rich nerds.
Also, the Linux Schools Project was called the same thing. Whoops: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Linux_Schools_Project
Hard work may not have killed anyone, but overwork, without any breaks, as the Japanese find out every so often, can kill. No, really: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kar%C5%8Dshi
I'm a little exausted from reorganising games, but I think it's worth it!
@Spex Go ahead. I'm up for it!
@Phorm Mew-squeak!
Cyberpunk dysphoria
@JulieSqveakaroo *gives all the hugs*
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Cyberpunk dysphoria
Remember when we were younger, and we fantasized that cyberpunk was this awesome desired thing?
Where you could plug yourself in and digitally craft your entire everything, or have some spliced organo-mechano body sculpt so that you could appear outwardly as well as you felt inwardly, or just how much your overall appearance was modifiable?
Remember how excited you got inside when you fantasized that all these things were completely normal in that world, and that it would be worth it despite the utterly bleak dystopian backdrop that leeched all of the empathy, compassion, and civility out of being alive?
We're not there... we've DEFINITELY got the latter dystopian part, and we're still working on the first half, but the general world is not qvite as receptive to our crafting of our own images as would be ideal.
Hold on to those that are accepting of it. Hold on to them tightly.
This is how we survive the problems of the latter... how we navigate the dystopia.
We are better than the inhumanity of this world, because inside we are bright-neon, rainbow colored, shiny metallic, soft and comforting, hard and unflinching, loud and proud, qviet and caring, glowy-eyed beings.
We craft our existence despite being surrounded by these crumbling ruins of society, because who we are is all we have. They cannot take that away, because we won't let them.
You are worth every last gasp of breath that's inside you, every tear of sorrow, every dazzling spark of elation, and every shred of compassion.
I don't know if you needed that reminder or not... I just know that I did, today.
*Hugs softly*
@JulieSqveakaroo *gives sqveaks!*
@Gargron Better use for that than empowering Lolbertarians.
@Siphonay @frickhaditcoming Discord is still centralised, after all.
Pol, religion
@Fuego Maybe if they didn't want atheism to be demonised..maybe they shouldn't hold Nazi beliefs? It's a headache. x.x
UK politics
@cassolotl@cybre.space The pledge was always smoke and mirrors. I don't like saying stuff like this, but it's true.
@Spex I think it's a little too late in my case. x.x
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@garbados Agreed.
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it's often said that governments are responsible for essential services. they think about food security so nobody starves. they think about logistical security so goods can get where they're needed. but they don't. we freeze and we starve from fake shortages.
when governments do not provide these essential services, they do not become less essential. we must think about the material security of our communities. we must provide the essentials because no one else will. no one but each other.
Lyssa Dawson
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Every time you write code that requires Chrome or CEF or Electron, just remember: you are giving Google control over you and your users.
You are letting them dictate what you can and cannot do. You are letting them view your user's potentially private activities (URLs are always sent to Google without Debian's patch set).
You are becoming a part of their toxic culture, their neocapitalism.
Remember that.
- Pronouns and Gender
- She/Her (Female)
- Matrix
- @squeakycheetah:blimps.xyz
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Headmate(?): @spaceelfnei@dragon.style
Headmate(?): @spacewomanpsi
Keybase: https://keybase.io/squeakycheetah
Steam: http://steamcommunity.com/id/lyssadawson
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Balloonie geeky cheetah, into technology and getting bigger. ;3
Joined May 2017
