Mastodawn

Of course, the bigger step is just no longer having the Google account, but 16 years of using it both personally and professionally (rookie mistake) makes that kinda hard to undo. That's a lot of other accounts that have been associated with the Gmail address to move over.

nm 9h ago

Google has been nagging me about using most of my storage for Drive, Gmail, etc. for a while now. Decided to clear it out today, and a significant amount of that storage was used by email attachments from PR spam that I thought I'd deleted but had actually only archived. As if I needed another reason to be annoyed about the hundreds of emails I still receive from these people.

nm 9h ago

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦10h ago

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/midwinter — folks in tech would be wise to take heed of this advice by @iris_meredith

I fear these absolutely essential & foundaational skills are not being developed well (or, at all) by younger folks in tech, and we old codgers aren't going to be around to fix or build things when they are truly needed.

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nm 9h ago

@hrbrmstr I find the “knowledge about C” bit particularly troubling. Should a lot of software move to memory safe languages? Yeah! Will the billions of lines of existing C code disappear overnight, or over a year, or over a decade? Hell no! And I would really, really like to know that we aren’t going to be collectively fucked when the senior C programmers leave the field. (Though I envy the holdouts who, like the COBOL wizards today, will make bank simply because they remember the old magic.)

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nm 10h ago

@spiralganglion the only reason I stopped to think about it was because I stumbled on /r/egg_irl. then I realized I was spending an awful lot of time there. then I found “the pronoun playground” and went “oh, okay, so this is a capital-t Thing.” (watching “the owl house” for the first time right around this period was also eye-opening.)

like, I’d had one conversation with a friend about how it felt weird to be called “man” anything but ironically, and we’d mostly chalked it up to being young, but it turns out when you’re very loosely gendered / agender, yeah, sometimes it feels weird to be called a man! but other than that, I just didn’t think about it, so how could I have possibly “always known”?

after I went back and did some introspection I started thinking, “alright I guess that makes some more sense with this context.” but it definitely has not been a very clear-cut, “embracing who I am,” “this is something I always knew about myself and now I’m finally giving myself the freedom to live my truth” experience. it has actually mostly kinda sucked!

(of course all of this aligns pretty closely with my experience with autism so I’m 100% sure there is some overlap / alexithymia going on.)

anyway that’s probably too much info but I just wanted to let you know that you are not alone in having this all come as a realization rather than some kind of innate knowledge.

nm 21h ago

I distinctly remember reading a short(-ish?) story that was basically “reflections on trusting trust but make it fiction” and it is fucking impossible to search for now.

I should have just saved every web page I ever visited so I could run local searches on it, but the one trend of the last decade I haven’t seen coming was “it’s going to be impossible to search the web.” (At least the way I did it.)

So yeah if you know what I’m talking about—and, if it helps, I believe I read it from a mailing list archive?—please let me know.

nm 21h ago

got a library book due in nine days, and another one ready for pickup. but i am also halfway through the second “dungeon crawler carl” book—which… well, let’s leave it at “doesn’t have a return date”—so obviously i’m not gonna drop that to read something else now.

don’t worry, i have the powers of dopamine-regulating medication and cortisol on my side

nm 21h ago

Natasha

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"Thanks humans"

Poster from the Thomas House bar in Dublin 🇮🇪. All AI posters and flyers are not accepted. Love it!

#AI #Ireland #IE

nm 21h ago

feels bad when the time from “that dude’s an asshole” to “oh, wait, he is clearly unwell” is “reading the replies to just one mastodon thread”

nm 1d ago

I am so fucking sick of getting caught up by anti-scraping tools. Something in mobile Safari (or some combination of mobile Safari and the extensions I use) has made it so I can’t reliably make it past either Anubis or go-away on my iPhone or iPad when I visit Codeberg (Anubis) or Sourcehut (go-away) and it’s so frustrating.

Maybe it’s because I haven’t updated to either of the 26 releases for iOS or iPadOS. Maybe it’s because my IP ends up being associated with a fuckton of different user-agents because I use the iPhone, iPad, Chimera Linux, OpenBSD, and GrapheneOS, all with various browsers, because ~I am unwell~ I have to, to some extent, just to go about my normal activities.

Thank you, Sam Altman!