Posts by elilla@transmom.love
(DIR) Post #B20YEysIQ1jWr2aH7g by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-06T12:17:04Z
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> GNOME & Mozilla Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By DefaultGnome and Mozilla maintain their strong commitment to ruin everything good about running an open source PC
(DIR) Post #B20ik6ZKrRiLEiCAKW by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-06T14:13:38Z
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my home internet provider blocks Anna's Archivemy mobile internet provider blocks Anna's Archivemy university library doesn't:pinkgirl_shrug:
(DIR) Post #B20zswIm6MiXDjFPAu by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-06T14:45:33Z
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it's incredible how Anna's Archive has anti-design (forcing you to wait or slow downloads for free users, making you copy-paste URLs etc.) plus it's increasingly blocked by various providers, and it's *still* significantly easier for me to download a book there than through academic publishers, even when I have authorised access to the latter
(DIR) Post #B22JANtBYald2maOmW by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-07T08:06:15Z
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I never felt old learning about new slang in Portuguese, English, or German, but for some reason I can't put my finger on, learning about new Japanese slang makes me feel old.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyxROJm4I8
(DIR) Post #B22JAQmumMXA2CfvvM by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-07T08:13:40Z
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@coolbean "English loanword" is just an expression that means "Japanese". that's the least surprising thing ever in Japanese. about 30% of modern spoken Japanese by token count is English loanword. and no, most of the new slang featured in this video isn't even gairaigo
(DIR) Post #B22JAVn6B6eTYDnePA by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-07T08:12:29Z
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maybe it's because like, I spent way too many years wasting my time with Japanese courses that 1) didn't work, 2) overfocused on schoolbook language that nobody uses. so it was a big victory to step outside of the grammar exercises and learn casual Japanese which allowed me to like, not just talk to people online but watch TV or read books, since the characters in the TVs and books don't speak textbook either.so I probably have stuff like that in my mind as "my Japanese". like at some point I felt pretty proud that I could get the nuances of (the casual meaning of) -派 / -族 / -系, so I'm like eeeh we're doing -界隈 now??
(DIR) Post #B22JAes2Q6wzi9BDqy by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-07T08:17:33Z
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-界隈 sounds really funny tho, top slang to be sure. I was included in the ヒートテック界隈 vicinity and didn't even know it
(DIR) Post #B22JAnEfJrntedpPEW by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-07T08:18:22Z
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I wanna see an edobashiri vs. naruto run team competition event
(DIR) Post #B22JAvHnO73qcfM1Ds by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-07T08:32:22Z
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linguistically the ones that interest me the most are ぬ and the "I'm ded" sense of シヌ. now I might be wrong here and I will *definitely* check this out in Praat later today but I'm pretty sure their シヌ is distinguished from regular 死ぬ by tone, HL rather than LH. this would be interesting in of itself, but then there's the fascinating fact that they advise that it's used with raising intonation! while for laypeople "intonation" and "accent" (=tone) isn't clearly distinguished it seems that here it's, in fact, intonation proper—note that シヌ is a shūjoshi, a sentence-ending particle, which means raising intonation at this point means uptalk, which is common in like, gyaru speech.in the example at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pyxROJm4I8&t=2m20s ~2:20,the combined effect is HL͜H, /ɕi˥.nɯ˩˥/, which I think is related to the universal of the "contradictory contour", which fits the kind of situation where シヌ is used. (this analysis pending acoustic investigation).#japanese #linguistics
(DIR) Post #B25Ecok5OUpG8hwr7Q by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-05T17:24:00Z
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it still feels infuriating how when one year ago when Trump started talking of invasion everyone was like "blustering", "impossible", "distraction from Epstein" etc. and I was like, this is war, this is how war happens, there's a process until you get a country to bomb and what he's doing *right now*, these statements, these are parts of the process, we're going to see war. and now that several ships have been blown up in violation of every norm and nobody did anything, now that he has bombed the capital of a lat-am country and kidnapped the president with the express purpose of appropriating resources and nobody did anything, *now* people act as if they never called me crazy/doomer/news-obsessed etc. for saying, this is war, we're going to war.I guess at least *now* people aren't doubting anymore that Greenland and Canada are on the menu too, though you did call me crazy when I said "this is real" the very first time Trump started joking about Greenland and Canada. look, if the boyfriend of your friend starts joking about punching him if he runs his mouth again, you have to understand that his joking is already the process that leads to backhand slaps happening. the violence doesn't happen overnight. the violence is built, and the words is how you build it.
(DIR) Post #B25EcxP9BiQN0NDlEO by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-05T17:37:07Z
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so that's infuriating but still not *as* infuriating as the fact that we *already have* concentration camps, mass deportations, child kidnappings, thousands of people kidnapped and disappeared without explanation etc. and people still talk as if the USA is "on the way" to "become" a fascist authoritarian dictatorship. because disappearing 65 thousand people and ethnically cleansing over 600 thousand isn't "real" yet because these aren't real people, they're just latin americans.of course back in the first round of fascism hitler was also targeting the non-people, which led to real people talking in the same way, what happens to Jewish Poles doesn't count. the difference is this time people have a model and should know better. the difference is that now the fascists make meme merch about the concentration camp to own the libs, one third of the inmates in the concentration camp disappeared without explanation and they make funny T-shirts about it, and the fully owned libs are *still* saying that e.g. they don't endorse political violence and that the assassination of one fascist was a bad thing somehow. murdering 01 (one) of the bastards who did this is somehow a line too far, they say, as his friends blow up another boatful of innocents. probably because the murdered fascist was a white gringo and therefore a real person, so his death unlike ours counts as violence and that's scary."I'm against MAGA but I don't know what to do" you're also the most heavily armed population in the world for fuckssake, you can probably buy a sniper rifle in Walmart or something. "if we shoot ICE agents they are going to crack down on us" us real people, right? cos for us subhumans they're already cracking down for a year
(DIR) Post #B25Ed5hAMbaiiZiGQa by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-08T05:55:49Z
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ok after a year of disappearing people ICE has murdered a white woman for a change and *now* I see gringos finally talking about the necessity of shooting ICE agents. now it's real, eh.it's hard not to feel bitter about this kind of thing. suddenly the point I've been making all this time, that y'all gringos are living among brownshirt stormtroopers whose ongoing ethnic cleansing project has cleansed over half a million subhumans already and sent tens of thousands of latinx to concentration camps, right now, and if *that* doesn't call for armed resistance than what the flying fuck does???—*now* this point doesn't sound as "out there" as when I made it in the distant past of three days ago, huh
(DIR) Post #B26pq0pVegvAr3bGYS by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-08T23:34:13Z
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> The server encountered an internal error and was unable to complete your request.Please contact the server administrator if this error reappears multiple times, please include the technical details below in your report.but doctorI *am* the server administrator :pinkgirl_cry:
(DIR) Post #B26pq8e6ayYJ60KGtE by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-08T23:59:09Z
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ok so apparently in bookworm at some point behind my back changed "redis", some web backend thing I couldn't care less about, to something else called "redict". there's not compatibility layer so that broke the server and socket paths, though the systemd service for "redis" was still trying to run, and failing silently. trying to run "redis" manually failed silently even with debug turned on. I needed to find some godforsaken hidden application-specific log file to figure out it was a tcp port conflict, which let me to find out about the existence of redict.and redict was not configured to make unix sockets, and anyway its path and group are all named "redict" rather than "redis", so of course the end result of that is that the nextcloud upon which I depend heavily suddenly breaks after midnight with a completely opaque error 500 and I have to be sleep deprived for tomorrow until I dig up all this.that's debian stable. the entire point is to not do things behind my back. what the hell happened here
(DIR) Post #B26pqH15TPgn3b8jp2 by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-08T23:59:41Z
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I don't hate software quite as much as I hate cops and nazis but swear to you, it's up there
(DIR) Post #B2TqVOv1Bo8doGXb84 by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-20T15:31:43Z
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I wonder if the folks at NixOS *now* understand why we criticised them for selling out to Anduril and regret the blood in their hands, or if they're just white supremacists.
(DIR) Post #B2ZbnuokzmePaik4rA by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-23T10:08:25Z
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read an article the other day about how infra/sysadmin/devops is devalued because it's, quintessentially, women's work (reproductive labour rather than productive; the software equivalent of "homemaking" and "cleaning up" and "carework" etc.; all about creating a space and keeping it going smooth and stable for everyone).the same article also described software culture as a hero culture (innovate great things for glory, consequences bet damned), contrasting that with engineering culture (as in actual engineers who build physical structures, not "software engineering") a piety culture, like monks anonymously seeking salvation from the taint of sin.still thinking about those similes
(DIR) Post #B2hciqTb50wHDODTaS by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-27T06:56:38Z
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good morning! here's a tiny rattlesnake sitting in a bottlecap
(DIR) Post #B2iF9fD2sIFcLdgo2y by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-27T13:22:12Z
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Portuguese use two different verbs for the copula "to be", ser and estar. ser is used for relatively permanent traits like "I am a Portuguese speak", while estar is used for temporary traits like "I am sleepy right now".however "to be dead" uses temporary "estar" and not permanent "ser". that's because Portuguese speakers are necromancers
(DIR) Post #B2luZf1oqjc4uVpivg by elilla@transmom.love
2026-01-29T08:42:29Z
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@sakasato にょろり、登場！ :02yay: