Samantha Rose

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Autistic and trans. Pro Choice and 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 rights. Interests: Human rights, #avgeek, tech. Speaks for myself only.

Anti genocide. Pro 🇵🇸.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦.

Note: Feel free to request follow - I approve most people who don't have glaring red flags.

If you know me, my name is probably different than what you have seen before...

Avatar: Photo of a Red Panda.

PRONOUNSShe/They
LocationDublin, Ireland, Terra, Orion Arm, Milky Way (Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha)
Linkhttps://pronouns.cc/@samantha
In 1967, IBM introduced the System/4 Pi line of aerospace computers, packing mainframe performance into a compact box. 4 Pi computers powered everything from military aircraft to the Space Shuttle to sonar systems on submarines. Thread...
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The Narwhal (@thenarwhal) is “hiring a BIPOC community and policy reporter to join [its] growing Ontario bureau.”

Location: Greater Toronto Area (hybrid)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, full time
Salary: $61,800 to $73,816 FTE
Type: Fellowship, ten-month contract with the possibility to extend to one year
Application deadline: April 17, 2026
Start date: June 1, 2026

https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-reporting-fellowship/

The Narwhal is hiring a BIPOC reporting fellow in Ontario

We’re hiring an Ontario reporting fellow to cover Queen’s Park and the ways Ontario government policy affects people in racialized communities

The Narwhal

Not only that, but also gave credit to the first prototype that was done in India.

> https://mstdn.jp/users/landley/statuses/116302658049955944

Rob Landley (@[email protected])

The University of California didn't just explain how they're covering their exposed canals with solar panels to save billions of gallons of water from evaporating, they interviewed the woman behind it rather than appointing a man to take the credit. https://youtu.be/EtJzOtOpYdo

mstdn.jp
@cwebber did you know that if you wrap if statements with double curly braces they get extra special secret powers? https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L1649

Comment choisir une instance Write Freely où l’inscription est encore disponible? Je ne trouve pas les règles de modération par exemple dans la liste ci-dessous. Je suis une totale néophyte, pas de jargon svp. Merci.

How do I pick an open registration Write Freely instance? For example I can’t find moderation rules of those on the link below. I am completely new to the subject so please no technical jargon. Thanks.

#WriteFreely

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Join a WriteFreely community.

In today's episode of "Can It Run Doom": DNS fucking TXT records.

Some absolute madlad (cough Adam Rice cough) compressed the entire shareware DOOM WAD, split it into around 1,964 chunks, shoved them into Cloudflare TXT records, and wrote a PowerShell script that reassembles and runs the whole goddamn game from DNS queries alone. Nothing touches disk. The DLLs are in DNS. THE FUCKING DLLS ARE IN DNS.

RFC 1035 was written in 1987. Those engineers are spinning in their graves fast enough to generate municipal power.

Bonus: this is a fully functional globally-distributed covert data exfil channel that your NGFW will never fucking see if you're not doing deep DNS inspection. Sleep well.

blog: https://blog.rice.is/post/doom-over-dns/

repo: https://github.com/resumex/doom-over-dns

Also lmao @ every blue team that has never once looked at their DNS query volume. How's that DLP policy working out for you.

It was always DNS.

#infosec #dns #doom #itisalwaysdns

Morning glorious wonders of the universe 💜 🩷 💖

A few years ago I got somewhat annoyed with how many places "unnecessarily" put my (dead)name in many places such as autogenerated emails etc..

Me now: "My phone is being rude and just said 'Good Morning' and not 'Good Morning Samantha'" :-)

May your day be better than you expect, and have at least moments of joy 💜 🩷 💖

PS. I personally think it's still night (07:10 on a Saturday), but I got woken up early, so "good morning post" now :-)

💜🩷❤️💕 Samantha Rose 🌹💗💞💖

#SamanthaMorning #HiIAmSamantha

How the hell am I supposed to even argue with this?

Coworker about accessibility (in the context of "why don't devs/their bosses book the accessibility training for frontend developers we offer?"):

"for me as a front-end developer, accessibility is a niche issue. I have a hundred other problems to deal with. The fact that a small group of 2–4% of the market has trouble using my website is, frankly, none of my concern. Especially when it requires a huge amount of extra effort to implement and maintain. Either a UI library handles it for me, or I simply don’t do it."

I'm quite helpless in the face of this major fail of both human decency AND work ethic. And I assume they aren't a singular phenomenon, they just trust me enough to speak frankly.

#accessibility #a11y #webdevelopment

Tomorrow is #Bristol #TransPride !!   
Join us for a day of events and joy    

Have a look at the programme here:
https://www.transpridebristol.org.uk/events
See you tomorrow !!

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