I believe in the life-enhancing and capability-extending possibilities of technology as well as its potential to surveil, control, and misdirect. I work towards tools which are respectful, trustworthy, and safe enough to be used even by the most vulnerable among us, even when those with power oppose that freedom.
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Last Notes npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…sw2c @nprofile…5arj I love my Apple TV; it's head and shoulders better than any other device in its category except maybe Nvidia Shield which takes a different direction. But I barely ever use Apple TV except when I want to watch Apple TV+, though even that I mostly watch on Jellyfin/Infuse these days. I do enjoy a lot of the TV on Apple TV+; Wolfs must be one of my favorite movies of the last decade. I do respect what Apple TV is trying to do, especially on Apple TV, but the interface just doesn't do it for me. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…5arj TV is a specific way of structuring a video series. Other video formats are movies/feature-films, video essays, shorts… Just like writing has novels, novellas, & short story collections, and audio has radio, podcasts, audiobooks, voice notes. These things don't have hard boundaries, and they evolve over time. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Elim Garak invented Gaslight Gatekeep Girlboss npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Don’t tattoo “DNR" on your chest. Nobody is going to delay CPR for even a second unless you have the state-specific signed, dated, & notarized paperwork handy, and even then it's probably not going to be noticed unless someone is waving it in the rescuer's face and advocating for you. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…02fp @nprofile…7kch I really enjoy using dentists as the example. There aren't a lot of biases about dentists so it's difficult for the analogy to drift into something unpleasant. It would be unreasonable to characterize dentists as stupid, lazy, incompetent &c. They're smart professionals who simply do not have time for whatever nonsense might be going on in a computer systems. There's no reason to expect dentists to care about software developers' value systems (like free software or memory safety or self hosting) unless it has real concrete value and is worth the time investment to think through. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm I keep telling myself that I'd be happier if I used a "real" scripting language rather than just banging out everything in shell. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Amazon is a particularly notable offender here. When you make a purchase — they don't even email you a list of the items you just ordered. This, I believe, is because they're mad at leaking business intelligence to whichever “organize my inbox" companies people use. Tough deal, Amazon; suck it up. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm So many institutions simply refuse to send any actual information via email — you have to log into their site to see what the heck they're talking about when they say “you have a new message" or “monthly statement available”. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm I feel embarrassed that every time I want to compare strings or numbers in bash or zsh, I have to look up the extremely fiddly syntax to make sure I don't dig myself a new grave. But really, the shells should be embarrassed to be so unintuitive about this stuff. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…mhl7 I'm afraid to ask this, but why were you bringing GPUs to lunch? Or is that a synecdoche I'm missing? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…mhl7 I am one hundred percent going to be carrying the reMarkable Move, my Boox, and perhaps an iPad mini & my Supernote too. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…6wcr But on the other hand, it's super cute especially with the colorful cases. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…2pms Praise the gods of coffee and spice! npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…2pms No, but Big Bird isn't taxonomically related to birds either. He's a muppet, which is a completely distinct lineage. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Samalamadingdong! npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Sometimes, an item will come bundled with screws. And I think to myself: well, obviously I wouldn't use a Philips or Pozidriv bit for this; I don't think that would stand up to the force needed to properly bind tightly into the stud. But surely designers know what they're doing and picked the right screw for the application? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…2q2c Trust is when you are willing to rely on someone to act consistent with your needs while unsupervised. It is confidence in delegation of decision-making. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…2pms I'm doing the same thing right now. It's kind of amazing how much bigger paper gets when you shred it. And how much work it takes to scan lots of small important documents. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…df3q This is hecking fantastic. Was the bike blue? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…33hc @nprofile…df3q The wooden parts of aeroplanes? They have wooden parts? Where are the wooden parts? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Sure, sex is good. But have you ever spent a beautiful day cycling around listening to books while you acquiring additional library cards? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm After @nprofile…wymu, I'm once again available for work under capitalism. There are some things that I'm very good at, but they aren't always well-expressed by the way we tend to write job descriptions and resumes. Just because a position puts the words "product" or "management" next to the spectrum of privacy, security, trust & safety, or compliance doesn't mean that's a role where I'd be most effective. I think this might be because I am not just an individual contributor or a manager. My strength is in working with peers (not subordinates) and facilitating effective happy teams without needing authority. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…2umw @nprofile…u9vv 🫴🏻 Is this the sefirot of the tree of life? 🦋 npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Hopefully nobody will be surprised to hear that I am one again trying to Do Things With Audiobooks. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm It's always a good day when you're recompiling ffmpeg from source. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm TIL that the NYT can't spell "enshittification" right. archive.is/BtZD0 npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…qre8 Continuing your ongoing project to be utterly illegible to poorly-managed computer systems. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm In the beginning, Hasbro/Wizards released a new Magic set roughly every eighteen months. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm It's an unpopular opinion but I'm just going to come out and say it. I don't think I should have to pay the soda tax on LaCroix just because someone once whispered the word "grapefruit" somewhere near it. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Forget namby pamby Eurotrash wands made from the heartwood of an ancient oak and the mane of a majestic unicorn. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Victim blaming is wrong and bad. Unless you were bitten/scratched by an animal or a child, in which case it was entirely your fault and you should think long and hard about what you did to provoke it so that you can avoid being a bad mean jerk like that ever again. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Next time someone tells me that they asked an LLM, I'm going to tell them that I received an obscure prophecy from a divine oracle which disagrees. I think that this will be more effective than just giving them facts — which I also have — because clearly that didn't work the first time. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Serious question: do any of the current Civilization or Civ-like games have rules/mechanics which might be a reasonable model for any of the following? I'm not looking for precise simulation — I'd just like the system to support these sort of dynamics & the possible ways they might play out. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…960r What are the two ways that history repeats itself? I forget. 🤦🏻 npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…salt Sorry, gonna have to disagree with you there. I would read the heck out of Rivendell planning and executing an asymmetric special operations campaign to strategically disrupt Mordor's supply chain. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm They have since changed the headline because they are cowards, but for a single shining moment the NYT and The Onion were indistinguishable. (Via: bsky.app/profile/bencollins.bsky.social/post/3lv5gsuyils2k ) npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Yeah, I'm getting into Netrunner. It's kinda like a Magic except (1) run by a community foundation rather than Hasbro/WotC, & (2) way more community investment in alt art. When everyone owns all the cards, you need something else to collect and that's what alts are for. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm It feels like a personal attack that Arissana Rocha Nahu, the Netrunner character/ID wearing a literal frog shirt isn't canonically nonbinary. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Is there anything sluttier than the way someone in masc period costume rests their palm on the pommel of their rapier and dangles their limp wrist casually over it? Sure, they might be wearing the tightest of pants which leave absolutely nothing to the imagination when they lean forward. And sure, their thigh-high leather musketeer boots might not be fastened all the way, letting the last six inches fold down languidly, exposing their toned calves. But that lazy wrist on the hilt is what says that they're just here to chew gum and have a good time — and they're all out of gum. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm First of all, Lilith did nothing wrong. But also, does anyone else think that Senoy, Sansenoi, & Semangelov have strong just-a-little-guy energy? These three weird birds are supposed to protect me? From what, lawn seed? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…yrwl Those all sound pretty heckin' reasonable, though I'm certainly more inspired by the top of the list than the end — I'm excited about just giving trans people space, autonomy, and agency without needing permission, moreso than trying to penalize assholes (which also seems like much more work for less payoff). But hey, this isn't a list constrained by practicality! Go wild! npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm What if 🥺 we were two I-Class Star Destroyers 👉🏻👈🏻 at the imperial security complex on Scarif 🫣 and one of us lost propulsion power 😳 and we kissed at the shield gate aperture? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm The rebels surprise imperial forces at Scarif by jumping in a whole fleet of ships. The TIE fighters are all flat-footed uncrewed in hangers defended only by point air defenses. Do they target those hangers and attempt to take out enemy air power on the ground? Do they target the turbolaser batteries for SEAD so that they can assault the shield gate at their leisure? Not at all, they just kinda faff around for a few minutes to give the imperial forces a fair fight. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Sorry, I just finished watching season two of Andor, and am now rolling smoothly into Rogue One which is perhaps the finest Star Wars movie — but it's still not up to the incredible standard of Andor. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Mon Mothma, not really understanding what she's being asked: “You're asking us to attack an imperial installation based on hope!” npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm You can't just keep saying that everything "probably has ritual significance", please, I'm begging you. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…kuc8 Geosmin & ozone are how we detect water, mostly. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm People complain about how weak the human sense of smell is compared to other mammals. But what we really have is an incredibly specialized sense of smell. We can smell petrichor / rain / wet earth better than any of our cousins. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Love Elemeno, gotta be one of my favorite letters of the Roman alphabet. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…2pms I thought they were a way for billionaires and the rest of the capital class to get away from having to pay wages? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…alsz Quite rightly. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…kyzt It's hyperbolic, making a comparison to something very hot? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Hello Tim Apple, I have a feature request. I would like to modify Siri so that whenever it says the number "69" aloud it immediately follows up with "heh, nice". npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…960r @nprofile…tjd9 Outer Wilds is one of the best games ever made. A friend decided that I needed to experience it. I wasn't really compelled by the blurb/screenshots which is how I pick up most games. So she booked an evening to just sit with me and watch while I played it for a couple of hours. My only complaint is wishing that it were easier to express to people how important it is to play this game. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Nerds, I have a cellular network question. I would like to run an event at a campsite which is near a cell tower but does not have any coverage. (At least, none for regular phone antennas at ground level.) npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm For Halloween, I'm going to be certified gay icon Mothman, and I'm just going to lurk in gremlin-mode around the ICE facilities in the Bay Area. Not my fault that they're destined for disaster — I'm just the messenger. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Mommy, sorry. Mommy, sorry. Mommy, sorry. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm If I were a proto-litch conceived out of the murder of two hundred children. And if I were willing to lobotomize myself and implement sed/grep on bone substrate inside my own brain to avoid consuming the soul of my best friend slash roommate. And if that lack of soul to burn was preventing me from assuming my full double-necromantic powers. And if I were also being haunted by some asshole so irritating that my subconscious spiritual immune system started building a spiritual pearl around that annoyance. And if that haunting was so dangerous that I mustered to myself the souls of everyone I've ever met as an afterlife army to defeat it. Including the Mary Sue protagonist of my weird sulky cousin's interminable fanfiction. I would simply throw the haunting/revenant/interloper into my soul furnace and consume her forever and use her to power my lyctoral abilities until I had to walk backwards into hell. I mean, can you imagine having the skills of Cmdr. Wake running your body while you were otherwise occupied? A much better choice than Gideon. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm The problem with Magneto as a villain is that he's not just complex, he's not just sympathetic, he's right. So how do you write new compelling stories in the world of X-Men? Make Magneto a mutant-Zionist. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm OH: "There are three sorts of computer experts: furries, transfems, and wizards. They are not mutually exclusive." npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm For your consideration: npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…fyar This might just be my materialist consumerist mindset, but I enjoy discussing neat things/products/tools. If someone notices an item of mine, I think it's an implicit compliment and a fun topic of conversation to comment on it and ask about it, including about where to find their own. It's also often quite difficult to find really neat stuff. Amazon tends to have a lot of items which are designed to absolutely minimize costs, which can lead to frustrating tradeoffs. Of the items I have about my person — even ones which are incredibly straightforward — I have often slogged through searching, comparing, testing, and returning numerous variations until I find the one which is Good, Actually. And I'm invariably happy to share the end result of that oft-frustrating process with friends who may not share my tolerance for product research nonsense, but who appreciate that the end result item is somehow better than similar competitors even if they can't quite express why. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…3rvj I know it's pretty new, but how's the new Ghost fedi stuff treating you? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…p8tg Not everyone wants to be a startup CEO. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Now that I described it, this probably isn't a history discipline per se? At the foundation, it relies on history — on having clear and specific knowledge and records, and understanding how past events unfolded. But the actual tipping-points analysis seems meta-historical? It feels more like game-theory political or strategic analysis, which doesn't feel like it'd be at home in many history departments. Maybe nobody does this because it's too weirdly cross-disciplinary and nobody's out there sitting at this niche with ink to spill and a place to publish? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Isaac Asimov described the idea of psychohistory three quarters of a century ago. We've seen visual representations of "the timeline" in more sci-fi shows than are worth counting. Has anyone published this sort of retrospective tipping point analysis? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm For anyone following along at home, the best earbuds are (1) Sony WF-10000XM5 because Sony really has a gift for naming things, (2) or if you're into Apple: AirPods Pro 2, (3) or if those don't stay in your ears: Powerbeats Pro 2. And no matter what, they're better with custom-fitted tips. eartune.com/collections/custom-fit/products/eartune-fidelity-a-pro npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…yrwl I am so hype about this doohickey. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm "What are our responsibilities to each other and where are the bounds of community?", longest running thread in history of written word locked by moderator after 12,239 years of heated debate. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…0ta0 Yes, most likely! The political movement for privatization was based on the (unproven) idea that because markets can theoretically be efficient, so therefore private contractors' competition & profit motive would encourage them to provide services more efficiently and for less. That's a bit of a silly idea, because the service goals of private companies and of government services are not the same. The government has a moral responsibility to serve everyone equitably, including (for instance) making sure packages can be mailed to distant parts of the country affordably. Private enterprise just… doesn't do that? Contractors are incentivized to raise their prices, drop their quality, pocket the difference, and ignore negative feedback. What's the public going to do, not use essential government services? They're monopolies in many ways. And, in practice, that is exactly what has happened following the privatization wave of the late 20th century. Wups! npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…606h Possibly a shared reason that we got… like this? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm I learned many useful skills in school. But one which I think would have been difficult to develop as well elsewhere was the practice of precise measurement & diagramming, along with good & effective habits in other fabrication/making/construction skills. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm The season of blossoms has returned. Spring is here, my lovelies! npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Homebrew is just DLC for TTRPGs send post npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…8m92 Okay sure, but trans people are more than 1% — maybe 3-5% depending on where we are in the left-handedness graph. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…qre8 I freaking love this. Something fun to find at the end of a new SSH connection. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…yrwl Robertson for life. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm I love stuff. I enjoy things. I appreciate objects. We are living in a material world and I am a material girl. I follow EDC influencers. I have opinions about my favorite weight of Dyneema and which sort of surface finishes for Titanium are best. I have tried every heckin’ wallet out there. Every single one. You simply cannot point out a wallet I have not tried or considered. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…ly77 Did it sound like I was ruling it out? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Lazymind, I'm looking for a versatile little radio to pack in my go bag. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm So cool when messages from one side of my house to the other have to traverse us-east-1 first. What an utterly bizarre world. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Absolutely free product idea for anyone who wants it: fluorescent glow in the dark retainers & nightguards. You're welcome. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…9ht2 It is the most infuriatingly unsearchable name. It's the Reader app from Readwise: readwise.io/read . It's fundamentally a read-later app with a bunch of bells and whistles. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @nprofile…9ht2 I simply do so rarely! The vast majority of my reading is non-PDFs, and the portability is more important to me than the full PDF experience. The PDFs I look at are generally papers or other documents consisting mostly of text, which Reader does a great job of reflowing for any screen size. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Fellow nerds, I have been wondering about a small (~7"?) color epaper tablet for reading & note-taking. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm I really like it here, but it's clear that some of my friends really prefer it over on Bluesky. It seems like I'll be keeping up with both places for a while. If you're considering hopping over there, I'm bsky.app/profile/empathy.systems. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm I don't for a moment believe that there's a deliberate feature which causes iPhones to spontaneously reboot if they've been warehoused without a cellular connection. But now I definitely want this feature, and am going to try building it with Shortcuts. infosec.exchange/@josephcox/113443456856288328 npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Furthermore, since regular nuclear fission reactors produce Americium 241 as waste, why don't we use Americium nuclear-thermal batteries for stuff? Nuclear-thermal batteries can't melt down and require no maintenance during their lifetimes. The whole thing can be built solid state with no moving parts and fully encased in shielding. It needs to be disposed of slash recycled safely at the end of its life, but that waste Americium was going to need to be stored safely anyway, so why not use the heat it generates to power a lighthouse or something in the mean time? A kilo of Americium (about 80 cubic centimeters or a cube less than two inches on a side) can put out 100 watts for a long time, and 100W is a pretty considerable power budget for a remote monitoring facility or something. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Whenever I wander around the neighborhood, I'm sure to spot at least one pickup truck which boggles my mind. I can stand in front of these things and not see over the hood, just face to face with chromed grille. I am 5'11" (180cm). I simply do not understand how anyone can operate one of these things and have even the slightest confidence that they're not going to flatten people every time they make a turn through a crosswalk. Seeing these things next to "normal" cars would be comical if it weren't terrifying. I've seen them protrude a foot or more into the roadway compared to the cars they're parked next to. I know that US cars have been growing for decades as a result of some decidedly misguided emissions standards. But seeing these things out there in the world is truly bizarre. It's like seeing a creative perspective-based trompe-l'œil, except that it's real and it can hurt you. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm "Hi, I'm Anthony Ammirati and I know better than literally anyone alive the value of good compression shorts. After my massive dick swung into the bar in Paris, I was eliminated from the pole vault and missed out on my chances of an Olympic medal. That's when I switched to CompressionTex…" npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Am I having unpleasant feelings for emotional reasons or did I just skip lunch? The eternal question. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Aah yes, masculinity is absolutely fine. The men are a-okay. mastodon.world/@juliehuz/112838954175949332 npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm My kingdom for a shelf-stable avocado. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm The most hilarious possible culture war headline hasn't been writt… www.theverge.com/2024/7/11/24196554/siegedsec-heritage-foundation-project-2025-hack-gay-furry npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm OH: Maybe the finance bros all have ADHD, and the cocaine is really helping? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @npub1g9w…e306 Probably not if you combined it with the cone of shame? npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @npub1q76…49a2 Bad take. Forcing attackers to use more expensive attacks is a win, not a loss. npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @npub1p2g…u24h The newer hipper version of "primarily ruby and python but I can use any type of gem to control any type of snake" or "mostly cassandra & kafka, but I can make any prediction and have it ignored by any bureaucracy". npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm Please, I'm begging you. When applying for a Python/Rust developer job, please write a cover letter which says that you know Python or Rust, and a resume/CV which tells me which professional experience or other projects involved writing that language. You're applying for a job; there's no need to bury the lede on this. Don't hide things in the corner of your resume, tell the hiring manager up front! 🤦🏻 npub1wlr54jdt4vf5zahxerl7rucexvhx4646ncsd6q4v30x546e3kh8q227pm6 Tilde Lowengrimm @npub1npl…mprj Our cybersecurity insurance policy doesn't cover us for code written by cats. 🤷🏻
