Thesis: everything always happens
Antithesis: nothing ever happens
Synthesis: There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.
I'm a straight cis dude. I have never felt any gender dysphoria or even thought about trans people at all until I made a couple of friends who happened to be transgender.
I was exposed to a few more trans people through my friends, and a few more on Twitter. Then I moved to Masto and was exposed to many, many more transgender voices.
Not once in my more than 5 decades of this mid existence have I ever seen any trans person talking about how they regretted it, or was having second thoughts. To the contrary, all I have *ever* seen is joy. Folks who are happy that they can be themselves and feel comfortable in their own bodies.
Republicans are trying their damndest to marginalize and erase trans folks, because they're terrified that people like me, who otherwise never gave it a second thought, might be exposed to the joy and realize that trans people are just people. Republicans want to portray anyone who's not cis, straight, and white as some kind of deviant. Don't fucking let them. They're wrong.
#drawtober 03
feat puffy the last hacker of the open clan #unix_surrealism and the varvara mascot
made with #oekaki
also @nonnullish wrote a beautiful blog post about running a website on a microcontroller powered by possibly the weirdest solar panel ("solar bag") i've seen. it has speakers! fun!
i think my one wish this halloween is to see a kid in a skibidi toilet costume
I'm looking for a student for an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. *This is a fully funded position.*
The project: building tools to help understand how "retro" video games were made under amazingly constrained circumstances. While it's a CS position, this is interdisciplinary work done in collaboration with archaeologists and others.
Needs: strong coding skills, good writing abilities. Ideally: low-level, reverse engineering, or compiler experience.
*buying two USB-C cables on amazon* I have literally no idea if these cables will work for the purpose I'm purchasing them for
in the same way hotdogs could be considered sandwiches, would you say floppy disks are cartridges?
Anyone using a RPI 4 with OpenBSD?
I have questions about hardware support
- does wifi work well?
- can you use full disk encryption?
- is it working well?
I have a secret project ongoing 
I just want to say, Asahi Linux is great. I bought an M1 Macbook recently because I'm working on a new application that needs to work on macOS; the code that I'm forking has ports for Linux, Windows, MacOS and android, and the BSDs also patch it.
Well, I decided to install Asahi Linux (the Fedora version) on it, dual-booting with MacOS. I have to say;
Asahi Linux has the *easiest*, most simple installer i've ever used for a Linux distro installer.
Solid project.
@vidak I ran LAN cables through my roof and replaced some of my old phone ports with LAN ports. You can buy rj-45 ports from Bunnings that have a free crimper
#lispyGopherClimate Oh, the upload didn't work.
#climate #poem by @kentpitman
https://climatejustice.social/@kentpitman/113233003130536891
#lisp
#mcclim panes as replayable in-memory streams instead of as graphic displays. ie
(in-package :clim-user)
(defvar *tree-san* (make-instance 'standard-tree-output-history))
(defvar *inter* (make-instance 'interactor-pane :output-record *tree-san*))
(present 'foo 'string :Stream *inter*)
(map-over-output-records
(lambda (x) (present (presentation-object x)))
*tree-san*)
i'unno... guix is pretty cool, and actually ended up making me really lazy
look i'm not gonna lie to you, it will eat up your disk space, but just
$ guix gc -d
and you're all gucci (◍•ᴗ•◍)
the project still needs help and i really want to contribute to the development of its init daemon, shepherd.
funny thing is poverty isn't actually an intractable problem--it's not some quantum paradox where you cannot collect all the data you need for certainty.
there is a solution to poverty...
It has been ZERO DAYS since I opened up some random junk from ewaste and found a SIM card in it
i'd do a rework of the pdp-8, maybe have the ability to address loads zero page RAM as pseudo registers?
Can any company do miniaturization using modern technology like Sony did using 1999 technology? Like other than smartphones being thin and basic things that only need an SoC, I don't think I've seen (consumer) electronics that give an aura of “I can't believe they packed all that stuff in there” anywhere but pre-2010 Sony