Posts by klara@wandering.shop
(DIR) Post #483620 by klara@wandering.shop
2018-10-11T14:56:02Z
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@SuricrasiaOnline Have you been playing those Worst Girls Games visual novels again?
(DIR) Post #483984 by klara@wandering.shop
2018-10-11T15:28:01Z
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@SuricrasiaOnline https://worstgirlsgames.tumblr.com/Really only relevant in that the cast of both their games is a whole bunch of queers inexplicably named after planets, but.
(DIR) Post #603727 by klara@wandering.shop
2018-10-17T20:18:05Z
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@SuricrasiaOnline I know I'm just adding to the chorus here, but this is every time I've ever tried to ask anyone in an Open Source Community about anything.I just don't try anymore, and I don't necessarily like what that says about me, but.
(DIR) Post #696134 by klara@wandering.shop
2018-10-22T17:48:23Z
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On the one hand I feel like I might be too nitpicky of the writing in Mage 20th anniversary edition; on the other hand, come on, skill descriptions should maybe not just be in-jokes from over a decade ago.
(DIR) Post #886113 by klara@wandering.shop
2018-10-31T19:43:10Z
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So, like, is the hip adult Halloween costume of 2018 just an animal onesie? Because I sure am seeing a lot of them.And "fuck, I'm exhausted" is a pretty representative sentiment for this year.
(DIR) Post #9hRYGllGSgfjPt02KG by klara@wandering.shop
2019-04-03T19:00:15Z
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I can't believe I missed this Monday, but this proposal would really bring OCaml in line with what most people expect from their programming language: https://github.com/ocaml/ocaml/pull/8562I especially appreciate the attention the authors have paid to cross-language compatibility concerns.
(DIR) Post #9u9Bf7TjBiEpGxSPGi by klara@wandering.shop
2020-04-17T21:19:27Z
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I have a laptop from the early 00s-- 512mb RAM, some kind of Pentium 4-- that I haven't touched in years. What's cool that I could put on it?I don't have time to make a massive hacking project of this, but I also don't expect something that's useful in any way. Just, like, what's neat and/or unusual to see and play with that I could potentially put on hardware of that age?(I believe it won't boot from USB, but it does have a CD drive, if that's relevant. Built-in Ethernet, PCMCIA wireless.)
(DIR) Post #9waHBdahZnUsYMazR2 by klara@wandering.shop
2020-06-29T18:48:01Z
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I found this a while ago and have been meaning to share it already: https://medium.com/@CassieLaBelle/gender-dysphoria-isnt-what-you-think-6fdc7ae3ac85Dysphoria's a great concept for sorting your past and present feelings once you've figured out you have gender going on, but before that? It's a generalized misery amplifier, not something you can look for.Rather, the thing is to ask yourself if you're being a kind of person you can enjoy being. Because it turns out cis people are not, as a rule, just resignedly dealing with their familiar old gender!
(DIR) Post #9wbQAqwzVvsORWgLDs by klara@wandering.shop
2020-06-30T06:06:23Z
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@ghost_bird I'm so sad about that. Their clothes fit me, like, about half the time, which is _way_ better than any other brand I've encountered.
(DIR) Post #9wsrJwyGV2aUAg9udM by klara@wandering.shop
2020-07-08T17:58:46Z
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@ghost_bird Do you have any better luck with bandanas?
(DIR) Post #9xWNHaBAODSCVys9i4 by klara@wandering.shop
2020-07-27T19:33:01Z
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@ghost_bird How is the Xenoblade 2 prequel game? I have played no Xenoblade but I've been vaguely considering trying that one out, just because it's shorter.
(DIR) Post #AGq7fcEvnJMtPVwW36 by klara@wandering.shop
2022-02-25T06:32:20Z
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This is the most terrifying list of password "security" requirements I've ever seen.Like, way to ensure that I'll definitely use a unique password for you, BlueCross BlueShield of Illinois; are you pulling cleartext passwords from Excel before appending to a string passed to the mainframe equivalent of exec?
(DIR) Post #AGqWiaV1DgVLjdyuh6 by klara@wandering.shop
2022-02-25T20:23:30Z
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@lanodan @jancessia I've seen seen forbidden words that look SQL-injection-y before (in bank websites! So troubling!), but what really through me about this one was the length of the forbidden word list.Though, really, my most hated password requirement is "you must use a special character BUT many special characters are forbidden". And, like, at least in this case they give the allow list (I've seen plenty that don't), but, come on, handle your passwords correctly.
(DIR) Post #AHn9UQIfr3MfLieDNQ by klara@wandering.shop
2022-03-26T02:59:11Z
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Another thing at the California Science Center in LA, that I didn't know going in: they have the Space Shuttle Endeavor! Just, like, hanging out in a shed out back!It's... big. I realize I've been on larger airplanes, but, like, I was not prepared for how this spacefarer looms.
(DIR) Post #AMiadGd3NffcqRs81Y by klara@wandering.shop
2022-08-20T01:17:10Z
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Hey, if anyone saw depressed articles a bit ago about PFAS ("forever chemicals") in the water cycle and didn't see the news that apparently we've found safe ways of getting rid of them, here's a link: https://phys.org/news/2022-08-chemicals-simple-method.htmlOf course this doesn't mean it's all fine now, but maybe this is grounds to be less despondent about this particular thing?
(DIR) Post #ARmn8dH4EHoPFTPyAy by klara@wandering.shop
2023-01-18T19:13:32Z
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@mcc I have purchased so many basic household electronics the past few years by the process of - "hmm, our [thing] is a little old and wonky, I wonder..." - *starts to do the research / comparison-window-shopping* - "oh FUCK, everything but the cheapest model has a microphone in it now" - *quickly purchases that one before it gets discontinued*I'm worried about what happens in a few years. I don't want to dive down the vintage [thing] rabbit hole every time I need to replace something!
(DIR) Post #ARmn8eUZhYD91ekGrw by klara@wandering.shop
2023-01-18T22:34:24Z
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@mcc (Ha, I like how, even here, with all the local/federated timeline browsing, "Andi retweeted my reply to her" can give a post of mine more reach than almost anything else.)
(DIR) Post #ASo2aD77xEPXdNbEVU by klara@wandering.shop
2023-02-17T22:07:27Z
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Over on the birdsite, some people have been discovering geometric packing problems, about how small of a bounding shape you can draw around some number of a smaller shape.(Sometimes the solutions are really beautiful, you see. And sometimes, um. See attached.)I'd been unable to find this page I remembered about these. Turns out the professor who maintained it retired, so the old links to it broke. But it does still exist! So you too can experience the rollercoaster of https://erich-friedman.github.io/packing/index.html
(DIR) Post #AYI8cEWJ08NqIkYiY4 by klara@wandering.shop
2023-08-01T15:50:53Z
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Any of y'all in the Twin Cities and looking for free KN95s? https://kstp.com/kstp-news/outdoors/minneapolis-providing-free-n95-masks-friday-for-bad-air-quality-protection/
(DIR) Post #AZwHlE8tQwLF38IV72 by klara@wandering.shop
2023-09-19T21:54:33Z
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I was thinking about all the snaps and flatpaks and docker images I deal with every work day, and I remembered learning about various compiler stuff in school with caveats like "this would require everything to be statically compiled, so it's not usable in practice". And then I stared off into the distance for a bit.(I'm aware of the technical distinctions between various things I've mentioned in this post, btw-- you needn't reply with explanations of them.)