Abide the Twin Damnation @tindall@cybre.space

linkedin voice: Congratulate your friend Jamie Rose on her new role, Sr. Accessibility Engineer at Baby Killing Machines Inc.

yayyyyyy congratulations on your new job where you make the destruction of artistic integrity accessible to the blind

at least now you'll be able to pay your rent

i hate being me and working in tech because every time someone I know gets a job it's like 70/30 that they're working for an objectively evil megacorp and it's 80/20 that they're somehow marginalized and that the job will be a huge deal for them

aside from the obvious, for me, I'd imagine that being a violent petulant genocidal child would be less attractive than a misunderstood empathy who takes over the world via reddit

huh. weird to think that people read enders game and identified with ender over valentine

This book was not very good. I'm going to try the Corum series.

also: SSDs are expensive for backup. does anyone have experience backing up on tape, for a desktop system?

so, before i do something silly and time-consuming, i'd love to hear about y'all's experiences with xattrs on linux, macos, and/or bsd

The start of a journey!

the book in question, by the way, is "Gideon the Ninth" by Tamsyn Muir

have the first blurb say, in its entirety:

"Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!"

It's just another way for a billionaire to exploit poor people. It's just in this case he's also screwing over literally everyone at the same time.

It ticks me off so much when people say shit like "Starlink is good actually because it'll bring internet to isolated communities which have suffered chronic underinvestment"

Like yeah. But it won't solve the chronic underinvestment. Which, btw, Musk could at least partly do _singlehandedly_.

lol @ the us military building 3 stealth ships for 8 billion dollars and then never arming them because one load of ammunition would have cost an extra billion

Pro tip: if you are in the United States Air Force and proud of it, and you interact with one of my posts, I will block you on sight. I had enough of that shit in JROTC and I'm sure it only gets worse as you get older.

The recent update to the Nebula (the streaming service) native app made it actually usable. Now is a good time to check it out; the content is great but the app used to be kinda garbage.

there's a middle ground between "Linux as a personality" and " it doesn't matter at all who controls the future of computing". be careful not to react against one so hard that you slide right into the other.

I'd rather have something that mostly works all the time than something that works perfectly until it doesn't.