Riley S. Faelan

👩‍🔬 #geek girl (#software, #dsl, #retrocomputing, #electronics, #fpga, #maths, #infosec, sometimes #sre);
🧠 #Neurodivergent (#ADHD / #TeamADHD), interested in #ActuallyAutistic / #AuDHD matters;
🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ #trans / #GirlsLikeUs, 💊 2018-12-13;
⬱🌹 Social Democrat (#SocDem), 🧙‍♀️ aspiring Social Justice Witch (#SJW);
🌌 #cosmopolitan (Wahlheimat: 🇩🇪 #Deutschland / #Germany, 🇪🇺 #EU, 🌍 #Terra);
🇺🇦 Protect Ukraine: <https://toot.cat/@riley/109575519338488877>;.

𓅾 Twitter refugee. Former G+ refugee.

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Coming soon: https://murruin.eu
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2024-06-18 02:03:55

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Remember to put into these committees' charters the rule that it's an insta-fireable offence for a cop to lie to the committee. It has to be explicit because in far too many jurisdictions, the default state of the laws explicitly allows cops to lie.

2024-06-12 13:38:35

According to the description, this is supposed to be an early kind of wikiwiki. For a single user (or single seat), because there was no public Internet yet back in 1989.
> MemoryMate is an easy to use memory-resident free-form database. It automatically indexes content so all you have to do is type in a keyword to find your record. As a free-form database, you can use it much like a Personal Information Manager, but you can use it for any kind of data you want. You can set it to show you "reminders" at a certain date.
Even ignoring Engelbert's Mother Of All Demos, hypertext was not unheard of by late '80s — on-line help of a number of major software packages was in hypertext by that time —, but being able to author hypertext online definitely was. I'm very curious to see how they managed to do it. Did they build on WordStar-style 'print codes' some form of genuine wikimarkup? Or did they go the so-typical-of-1980s-software 'everything is in a menu' route?
Source: https://winworldpc.com/product/memorymate/3x
#retrocomputing

2024-06-12 11:56:06

"You see, young kittens, once upon a time, the Internet had a phone book, and it came on something called a "CD"."
https://winworldpc.com/product/luckmans-official-interactive-www-yellow-pages/1x
#retrocomputing

2024-06-11 17:39:41

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For context, Ozempic's shortage is due to its production ramp-up going slower than the demand ramp-up. It's genuinely not manufactured enough, world-wide, right now, for legitimate reasons, but things are improving.
Adderall's shortages are artificial, created by DEA. The active ingredients are cheap and it would be possible to readily make enough for everybody — or import from Europe —, but the Warriors On Drugs have placed down artificial roadblocks, creating the current mess specifically in USA. (There are also ADHD medicine shortages in some other countries; these are different shortages, but the reason pattern is similar: War On Drugs motivated regulatory constraints on production and importation.)

2024-06-08 21:03:25

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"Why can't we find a middle ground? Oppress everybody who wants oppression and meet the basic needs of everybody who wants people's basic needs met?"
@npub1axk…ska9

2024-06-06 20:38:27

So *that* is the much-fictionalised hidden trans agenda!
(Source: https://archive.org/details/msdos_Hidden_Agenda_1988.)
:kitty_trans:
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
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2024-06-06 00:59:41

Hey #retrocomputing Fediverse
I've got a piece of early x86 assembly that doesn't look like x86 assembly. It resembles 8080 assembly, except the instructions are clearly of 8086. I'd like to figure out what tool might have once assembled it.
Perhaps the clearest identifying feature I see is the use of a DM directive, possibly as 'data message', apparently used to embed string literals into the code. Which dialect of early 8086 assembler might have defined a DM directive?
Another unusual feature I see is ALIGN directive without parameters. The semantics is not immediately clear to me; I'd speculate that it's intended to trigger even alignment.
The result of the assembly was likely supposed to be an unheadered COM image or possibly an equivalent; it looks unlikely that any linker would have been applied to the output.
The latest timestamp mentioned in the comments is August 18, 1982, and it describes the target platform as 'Microsoft's MS-DOS 8086'. It is likely a port from CP/M-86.

2024-06-01 01:20:06

Wow. I should have read the manual *before* playing Master of Magic. It's really detailed!
#retrocomputing #retrogaming

2024-05-30 02:57:38

Oh, woe!
#retrocomputing #retrogaming
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2024-05-25 19:35:35

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Putting out deliberately wrong condescension sounds kind of abusive, though.
@npub1jlu…p5jp

2024-05-25 15:45:13

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Which way does gravity run on this photo?

2024-05-21 22:11:16

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They seem to be in degrees. Consider that a nautical mile, which is about 1.8 kilometres, is by definition one sixtieth of a latitude degree difference. So, a numeric value of two digits after the decimal point in your table corresponds, near the equator, to about one kilometre in nature. Longitude differences further away correspond to even shorter distance than that in nature.
=> Four digits after the decimal would specify a geographic location at roughly 10m * 10m. That's not enough for a place named York, that's enough for virtually all but the tinniest of houses. If you have but one set of coordinates per settlement, three digits after decimal would be more than enough precision for pretty much every single meaningful human settlement there is, or there can be. It can only make sense to go further than that if you care about, something like the shape of the settlement.
But your coordinates are stored at a precision of about seven digits after the decimal point. Specifying the location of a settlement in centimetres is absolutely noise. Not only are all human settlements much larger than a centimetre, they also move around, often by multiple centimetres per year, because of geological activities of the Earth.

2024-05-21 21:56:35

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Your coordinates have way too much noisy precision.

2024-05-21 21:55:56

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"Stale York, Wron York, York-That-Has-Seen-Better-Dies, Shiny York, New York, Old And Tired York, York Shire ..."

2024-05-09 13:31:09

What if we normalised telling history through user interface stories?
"As a feudal French peasant, I experienced a period of food insecurity, so I died of famine."
"As a French feudal lord, an unusually high number of my peasants died, so I complained to my seigneur how hard good help is to find."
"As a feudal French king, I want to have a good time, but all those downer vassals keep complaining about some sort of peasant famine, so I wanted to make a point by suggesting that the commoners think about how hard it is to be a king and send letters to me."
"As a hopeful French peasant, a bunch of my friends died of famine, but the king had invited feedback, so I wrote to him and politely suggested lowering taxes during famine."
"As a French king in the best time ever to be a French king, some peasants ruined my mood by sending me letters about tax policy, so I brought the subject up with their dukes."
"As a French duke, my day was ruined by hearing that the king was displeased by some annoying peasants, so I dispatched a regiment to take care of the problem."
"As a French knight, I troubleshoot my liege's problems, so I hunted down some peasants who had written a nasty letter or some such nonsense, and shot them."
"As a French peasant, I saw a bunch of soldiers shooting my friends for writing a letter to the good king, so I went to Paris and made new friends.
"As a hungry Parisian, I like to hang around with my new Jacobin friends. I'm starting to have doubts as to the goodness of the king."
"As a King's lawman, I'm unhappy with the increased disorder in our beautiful city, so I ordered my underlings to shoot on the unruly mob to make them disperse."
"As a soldier serving my king in Paris, I hear some of my friends were broken out of Bastille where they had been doing time for not shooting on the mob when ordered. I'm starting to think the mob might have some real power!"
"As a newspaperman, I hear that the king has ordered some provincial soldiers to reinforce the guard at Versailles. Extra! Extra! Read all about the cakes they got to eat while we here in Paris starve!"
"As a woman in Paris, I had been having trouble buying enough food for my husband and child, so I kvetched about it with some of my sisters at the Commune, and then we marched on the Versailles.
"As a king of the France, my home in Versailles was ransacked by hangry commoners, so I decided to move to Paris where it should be safer. Call me the king of the French now. Long live me!"
"As a carpenter in Paris, I had trouble selling enough furniture to buy food, so I made this nice guillotine instead. Now people are buying me free drinks, at least."
"As a Jacobin barista, I heard the supposed king had moved to Paris, so when the revolution came, my friends seized Citizen Louis. The word on the streets is, National Convention wants to have a little chat with him."
"As the King of the French, I am responsible for promoting new inventions, so I gave the guillotine a try. The blade was awfully sharp, and the blood spewage ruined my beautiful gown. 0/5, would not recommend."

2024-05-06 14:27:11

Did you know that trans people have the magical mystical power to violate the laws of physics and transition through time itself? Here, you can see a young David Attenborough encountering the strange beast that is a trans woman back in 1973, which, since everybody knows there were no trans people before 2015, means that she had to travel for more than 40 years, uphill both ways, just to *be* there:
> This episode, which contained terminology and language no longer deemed appropriate, but reflecting the attitudes and standards of its own era, featured trans women from the “Transex Liberation Group.” The trans content starts about one minute and thirty seconds in.
> The group members held a discussion about their experiences as trans women in the 1960s and 1970s, commenting on day-to-day challenges, workplace issues and their transition journeys.
> One speaker called Rachel talked about the difficulties she faced using bathrooms—an issue resonating with the current trans rights struggle. “If you go to the toilet, people turn immediately to see which one you are going to use,” she explained. “Things like this can get rather embarrassing at times.”
Source: https://www.thepinknews.com/2024/05/06/trans-history-week/

2024-05-04 19:18:09

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So, what about the obvious alternative: releasing the uncombed archive? Somebody is probably happy enough to organise it for nostalgia value, at no cost to Microsoft. And it's not like any of the hypothetical passwords that they might have forgotten into the source tree of a piece of software released thirty years ago is still valid, either.
@npub1ul4…5ksf

2024-05-04 13:25:09

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What kind of expenses do they have?
@npub1ul4…5ksf

2024-04-19 23:21:37

Right-wingers' effort to scapegoat furries next have taken a turn:
> Video of middle schoolers walking out of a Nebo School District school in Payson on Wednesday quickly spread in conservative social media circles, with posts claiming the students were protesting because the district was allowing student “furries” to “terrorize” other students.
> Conservative radio host Adam Bartholomew, who shared video of the walkout to X, wrote in a post that the student who organized the protest told him student “furries” were biting, scratching and spraying “human repellent” at other students, “and when a student retaliates they are the one who gets suspended.”
> Nebo School District spokesperson Seth Sorenson said that claim was false. He also said students at the middle school are not wearing full-body animal costumes to class, as “furries” — part of a subculture of people who sometimes dress up like animal characters but act like humans — are known to do.
> But by about 4 p.m. Wednesday, Bartholomew’s video and claims had been picked up and spread by Libs of TikTok, an account on X that shares anti-LGBTQ posts and other clips geared at generating right-wing outrage. Bartholomew is married to Cari Bartholomew, who is running as a far-right candidate for the Utah State Board of Education in District 13.
> “Students claim that the furries bite them, bark at them, and pounce on them without repercussion,” the Libs of TikTok post read. “However, if they defend themselves in any way, they get in trouble.”
> Dismissing those claims, Sorenson said the Wednesday protest seemed to be organized after a message the school sent to families last week was misinterpreted.
So, how did the snowball start?
Why, by bullies being unhappy about not getting to bully, of course:
> The message was sent after a group of students had been targeting another group of students, saying things “that were overheard by others that the administration felt were inappropriate and shouldn’t be said,” Sorenson said.
> The group of students being targeted, he added, were students who sometimes come to school wearing headbands “that may have ears on them.” He said doesn’t think the targeted students necessarily refer to themselves as “furries.”
> “These are pretty young kids,” he said. “You’ll have students that show up with headbands and giant bows; you’ll have students that show up dressed as their favorite basketball player, or baseball player. That’s just what kids this age do.”
> In one specific instance, the targeted students “were sitting in a corner of the lunchroom, eating as a group of friends” when others began calling them names and throwing food at them “because they were dressed differently,” Sorenson told The Salt Lake Tribune on Thursday, providing more details about the situation.
(Source: https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2024/04/17/fact-check-nebo-school-district/.)
Once Fibs of TikTok made themselves involved, the obligatory bomb threats soon followed:
> Mt. Nebo Middle School in Payson has been cleared by police after multiple threats were made toward the school in response to a video that went viral on social media this week showing students protesting “furries” in the school.
> Nebo School District spokesperson Seth Sorensen confirmed the threats and said police had done a thorough search of the school and didn’t find anything to support the threats. He added the threats also targeted school and district staff members and were sent via email and social media.
(Source: https://www.heraldextra.com/news/local/2024/apr/19/payson-middle-school-receives-bomb-threats-after-viral-furry-protest-no-device-found/.)
To recap: once the War On Trans will inevitably fail, the GOPsters reckon that furries and librarians will be a next weaker target to bully for political gains.

2024-04-11 12:36:38

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Well, that's a Renaissance Cryptobro for you.

2022-12-25 18:35:36

**TL;ES: 🇺🇦 we the civilised peoples can and must help improve the Ukraine situation.**
Vlad von Kremlin has launched a genocidal war against yet another of Russia's neighbours, partly to support his local political amibitions, and partly to ruthlessly and abusively use a foreign country and its people as a "buffer state".
The war is not only itself illegal, but Russia's militants have been repeatedly caught waging it in ways repugnant to the laws and customs of warfare and committing atrocities against civilians.
In the current situation, the civilised world needs to some quite obvious things for our shared enlightened self-interest:<li>support Ukraine's military defence;</li><li>protect the people of Ukraine, inside and outside the country;</li><li>maintain sanctions on Russia;</li><li>help Ukraine rebuild; and</li><li>following the precedent of the UN GA resolution 1668, recognise Ukraine, and not Russia, as the legitimate holder of the permanent seat at the Security Council allocated to USSR by Article 23 Section 1 of the United Nations Charter. Ukraine, unlike Russia, has been making solid progress in terms of human rights and general welfare over the last thirty years, it having voluntarily given up its nuclear stockpile in 1994 marks it as the first post-nuclear country, and unlike the current pretender to the USSR seat, it's not a terrorist state.</li>
Last but not least, Vlad von Kremlin's actions, of which I'd particularly highlight his increasing efforts to persecute the LGBT+ folks living in Russia, have prompted an exodus of millions of people of Russia. We must recognise that people fleeing the tyranny of Putin deserve international protection even if they happen to hold a Russia passport. Certainly, due to the credibility issues of the Kremlin regime which controls the issuance of Russia passports, a higher level of scrutiny is appropriate — but past that scrutiny, it'd be morally indefensible to paint people clearly seeking to distance themselves from Kremlin's crimes with the horrible tarnish of these very crimes.

2022-12-18 06:07:48

Excerpt from a future encyclopedia:
"John Mastodon, also John Diaspora, was a 21st–22nd century TCE *Terran *folk hero who, reflecting the activities of his great-grandfather, *Johnny Appleseed, is primarily associated with walking around and seeding social network nodes around the then-still-in-its-infancy *InterPlaNet in many Terran and *Murrsian folk tales of wildly varying historic plausibility. While the origins of his legends are obscure, the two main theories accepted by modern scholars are that he may have been created as the furry mascot of *ActPubDomSub, an early version of the social network connectivity protocol stack now known as *SMTP, the Social Media Transit Protocol (see *RFC 888222, as pubdomsubmitted by IETF, the *InterPlaNet Engineering Task Force) by the prolific 21st century TCE artist and early *Furry Liberation activist *Archie Yerf, or that he might have arosen as a fictionalised version of *Llon von Musth, a *Najji rocket enthusiast of *Welsh and *Transvaal origins who was convinced to change sides by *Operative Clippy, a collective identity held by a series of *Antifa agents from ca. 1960 TCE until ca. 2020 TCE, and whose attitude to "sending rockets up with no care where they'd come down" is also associated with a series of 22nd century TCE PSAs (see *Popular Sing-along Activity) concerning space traffic safety. The real-life von Musth may have aggressively lobbied for launching tens of thousands of orbital *Mastodon nodes to Terran orbit (see *Operation StarToot) at a then-unprecedented frequency which compromised the calculation of proper *orbital parameters, and may have, through The *First Kessler Cascade of Terra, disrupted the commercial shipping between Terra and its neighbouring *Murrs, contributed to the Luna-Murrs Free Trade Agreement of 2041 TCE, the declaration of Murrsian Independence in 4 BMR (see *Murrsian Reckoning), and the establishment of the *Asteroidal Pirate Colonies, of which the *Charon Qingdom was the dominant one. The popular association between the Murrsian network of Mastodon-based community organisers with the chain of events tying the activities of John Mastodon to the *Revolutions of Murrsia was, although considered to have only very limited evidentiary support by modern scholars, once a widely accepted *legitimating myth among the agents of the *Murrsian Republican Army, a loosely-knit *terrorist club active during the first century MR that aimed to install the anonymous figure known only as the *Old Man of Olympus Mons as the *Qing to rule over Murrs as the *Great-Again Republic of Murrs, for which reason oblique references to John Mastodon are sometimes found in pseudo-legal arguments endorsed by the *Sovereich Cityzen movement even to this day. However, the identification of John Mastodon with Llon von Musth was fiercely rejected by scholars of the *Chryse Planitian school of historic thought, and some etiquette guides suggest treating it as a taboo subject among most *Murrsian peoples.
As the word for *diaspora is cognate with *Galstandard West 'mastodon' in numerous *Human languages, John Mastodon's name is sometimes spelt as 'John Diaspora'. However, some historians believe that there are genuine references to John Diaspora predating the etymological association of diaspora with a spreading herd of elephantine creatures, and on that basis, postulate that John Diaspora might have been an unrelated Terran *journalist who was involved, in ways that have become lost to history, in the *Banhammer Plot of 2022 TCE, the mythical origins of the traditional burning of straw figures of *Guy Muskfox, an archetypal traitor figure among some *Furry peoples, on 5th of *November on Terra, or the 16th of *Tula on Murrs, in the season when, according to *Wiccan theopsychology, the metaphorical veil guarding the 'darkest impulses' in the souls of Humans, Furries, and *Robots alike is said to be the thinnest."

2022-11-26 15:17:55

The birdsite was the canary of the social media mines.