Notices by The Duke of Fall :d6: (valthonis@dice.camp), page 2

The primary *and* secondary market for college textbooks (particularly hardcovers) are so ravenously exploitative on cost that it makes any hope I'd have of buying some for my own self-study disappointingly dim.

HP is corporatus non grata.

https://www.pcworld.com/article/2216875/hp-ceo-says-the-quiet-part-out-loud-make-printing-a-subscription.html

@killyourfm I expect that this is bleed from Creative Business Unit 3's pedigree as MMO developers. They took the overall structure of quests and quest-chains from Final Fantasy XIV and dropped it right into a single player game. In a multiplayer cooperative game like XIV, it's fun. In a single-player game like XVI, it's tedious as hell.

@mekkaokereke Seeing Maryland specifically called out is just wild to me. I spent my elementary school years in the 80s in MD and the Holocaust was a huge part of history lessons. Bewildering to see it go from the place I credit for making sure I had lifelong awareness into the gutter of weaponized ignorance.

Expressions I’ve tried to stop using, and why:

"guys," in reference to a large heterogenous group of humans. Not everyone is a guy, and guy is *not* gender neutral no matter how much guys want it to be. I've been using “y'all,” "folks,” “they," and "them” instead.

"American," in reference to a USA-only subject. The US isn't the only nation state in the Americas, dammit. We're not even the biggest one. I've been trying to explicitly use "US" or “US-ian" where applicable instead.

How about you?

@gknauss Helping by being a dick is a storied tradition in many open source projects, to be fair…

They're not going to stop, folks. If you're cishet and watching the war on queer and trans folk being waged by the Right thinking, "Well at least they're not coming after me," you'd best disabuse yourself of that notion.

They're coming for ALL of us. Black, autistic, Latinx, women, Asians, *anyone* who isn't evangelical Christian, and when they are done with those groups, they'll turn on themselves looking for more.

This is not just a battle for trans rights. This is a battle for our lives.

Say it with me, fam:

EpiPens and insulin should be free.

@BlackAzizAnansi Better be more than just dropping the "Fe"...

Presiding over DNS migrations for a multi-million dollar financial services company today.

Good vibes appreciated.

The final count was 197 domains migrated. Zero downtime.

That's going in the CV…

Watching folks eagerly flee from Musk's mess *to* Dorsey's duplicate explains a lot about the state of the world on far less trivial matters.