&mut selves Qyriad

@Qyriad@chaos.social
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Nerdy, quoiromantic, poly, lesbian computer engineers and leftists.

"Unfortunately qualified to review C++"

Current major nerdery obsessions: RWBY, Persona 5, Cosmere

pronounsshe/her (singular), they/them (plural)
locationDenver, CO
more pronounshttps://pronouns.cc/@Qyriad
carbon languagesEN (native), ES (medium)
migration impending! see you on the other side!
don't feel guilty about doing this even a little bit by the way. the more people protecting themselves from covid there are, the safer i am! i am giving the fake immunocompromised pass to everyone out of entirely selfish reasons
it's like lying about being queer to get recruiters to go away
i am immunocompromised and would like to give all of you a pass to lie and say you are too if it means you get to mask or do other things to protect yourself

There's a huge COVID surge right now.
https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/08/1152866
https://abcnews.go.com/Health/half-us-states-reporting-high-covid-activity-levels/story?id=112783915

There's a new vaccine/booster coming out this month or next, make sure to get it when it does.

If you've stopped masking in indoor public spaces, now's a good time to resume.

Even vaccinated, every infection rolls the dice on getting long COVID, with a higher chance every time. https://www.unmc.edu/healthsecurity/transmission/2023/12/27/every-covid-infection-increases-your-risk-of-long-covid-study-warns/

Protecting yourself also protects others, especially the immuno-compromised.

COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge

COVID-19 infections are surging worldwide - including at the Olympics - and are unlikely to decline anytime soon, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Tuesday.

UN News
going to the nix store, anyone want anything?

work is trying to fly me to california some time soon

my question is, should i bring my Moonlander keyboard that has clicky key switches in it 👀

dooooo itttttt
83.8%
change the switches first
5.4%
don’t bring it
10.8%
Poll ended at .
while I'm yelling about shitty behaviour on here: only remarking that something was made in China when it's poor quality, but not making that same remark when it's good quality (or hedging it as "surprising"), is xenophobic. it's become a socially acceptable form of racism among tech folks (especially electronics folks) and it's super gross.
./configure affirmations:
-you have jobcontrol
-your fifos are usable
-your implementation is ok
-your sockets are usable
-you are normal

Signal boosting: Furaffinity staff have manually logged everyone out to protect against session token theft.

They're asking people to not log in again until they give the green light!

To add a note of my own: the reason they've done that is the attackers don't need your password, they just need you to open the website while logged in & then they can steal your authentication cookies and pretend they're you.

UPDATE: FA's official Twitter account is now compromised. I believe their Discord server is now the only reliable source of updates!

UPDATE 2: The Twitter account has been successfully recovered, and is a reliable source of information again.

The domain has also been recovered, but they haven't fully re-enabled the website yet.

UPDATE 3: Furaffinity have fully reclaimed access to their domain and re-enabled the site now, however for technical reasons it'll be safest to wait an additional 24 hours:
- Their DNS records (which tell your computer where to fetch furaffinity.net from) will take up to 24 hours to finish propagating
- If too many people flood back into the site at the same time, the server will struggle to deal with all that increased traffic, so you'll be doing them a favour by waiting a little longer to space it out!

#furaffinity