Notices by anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live), page 2
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 04:03:52 JST anna in hexile @sun @gabriel i cant imagine there's much if anything more to that than mailboxes being tied to land ownership since they are designated spaces for delivery to the landowner or their lessors -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 04:01:07 JST anna in hexile @sun @gabriel out of curiosity i went to check if there was something wild here but all im immediately finding for this is that the us post office used to be very racist and didn't hire black mail carriers which, you know, sucked but not surprising given, you know, the history of the united states -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Sunday, 06-Oct-2024 03:43:23 JST anna in hexile @winter @rat like everything with the right, this is projection because in their worldview racial majority status means might means right. it is a naked vision of how they view others. in reality of course we want to move past that shit -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 03:53:26 JST anna in hexile @sun @nicholas @thatbrickster also i s2g there's some software ive used that has used blacklists and whitelists in confusing fucking double negative ways that were really annoying and they might have made something better in the first place if it was called allowlist and denylist instead lmao -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 03:50:08 JST anna in hexile @sun @nicholas @thatbrickster yeah fair enough! like my initial reaction to blacklist/whitelist was also that it's a bit silly to racialize, but then I thought past that first reaction and realize there's some good arguments for changing it, even if it's not as clear cut of a change as master/slave -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 03:48:05 JST anna in hexile @sun @nicholas @thatbrickster i think many people dogging on these changes flatten their opposition to it being about "offense" which is incomplete at best, and arguably inaccurate. these changes are being made for thoughtful reasons, some of which i have outlined here, not because they're npc oids doing current thing, and if you truly are opposed to this or anything really, you need to be honest with yourself about what the opposition is. -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 03:38:17 JST anna in hexile @nicholas @sun @thatbrickster i think learning about the history of democracy as well as the history of oppression are important, free speech includes things you don't like talking about, like how horrible slavery was (and still is), and how the repercussions can still be felt today -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 03:34:04 JST anna in hexile @nicholas @sun @thatbrickster sure, but times and context change. people are going to make wrong assumptions about what that means so it makes sense to bring the lowest common denominator to something without unintentional implications. i doubt people will stop saying blacklist/whitelist but that's fine, it's not a slur, especially for the reasons you mentioned. but for the thing that is placed in front of everyone in such a wide variety of contexts that you could never even imagine all of them, it's good to keep things unambiguous. we design UIs and iterate on them this way, nothing wrong with doing that with language, too. -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 03:34:03 JST anna in hexile @nicholas @sun @thatbrickster i read something yesterday about an easter age for the man command where if you did it at exactly 12:30 AM without a page specified, it would say "gimmie gimmie gimmie", a reference to the abba song. it was there for six years, and they didn't think that would cause any problems and just be fun. but then there were automated testing suites in CI systems that would trigger this and fail tests and builds because of it, and that was the six years that CI and devops like, became a thing. after that happened, they removed the easter egg because it had been six years, the joke has run its course. i don't see updating some language to get away from unintended implications and consequences as fundamentally any different than this. -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 02:57:07 JST anna in hexile @sun @thatbrickster as annoying as liberals are, i think there's maybe something to not wanting to bring up slavery every time you fuck with your computer internals. a lot of people mad about this kind of thing want to get politics out of things, so what's wrong with doing exactly that lol -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Saturday, 05-Oct-2024 02:54:14 JST anna in hexile @sun @thatbrickster ah yeah looking into it, they're trying to get rid of mostly the master/slave terminology and other kinds of things which, well, free speech includes people deciding they dont want to use particular phrasings anymore to represent themselves and what they make. so this change keeps that terminology that is being depreciated from being written to default configs to ensure that depreciating the old terminology actually sticks. doesn't prevent you from putting whatever you want in the config. -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 23:51:19 JST anna in hexile @Suiseiseki @kaia @Rocc correct, as usual. there were plenty of betamax pornos. being able to fit a whole sports game like baseball or american football was also huge. it also cost less to license, since sony has always been all about trying to trap people into their proprietary formats they dominate and charge exhorbitant fees for (see also: memory stick) -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 10:33:01 JST anna in hexile @lunarised ive been on hrt a very long time i dont think that is happening -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 10:30:49 JST anna in hexile @lunarised this is friendly ribbing, please don't worry! its ok if you want your computer to work like a tablet. ok ok ill stop lol -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 10:25:55 JST anna in hexile @lunarised this is why i use gentoo and kde :smugcat: :gentowo: -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 10:08:47 JST anna in hexile @lunarised arch and gnome? no accounting for taste i suppose -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 04-Oct-2024 00:23:02 JST anna in hexile i have a lot of trauma to process and beef to cook with some people and certain ongoing cults on fedi but it has been nice to experience that the wider, often annoying but occasionally worthwhile liberal fedi doesn't give a shit about any of that and are all still here and growing, and the radical queer and assorted weirdo fedi who do give a shit about all that are much more fun and interesting people than the terf theyxab cult ever were -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 04:39:14 JST anna in hexile @arcana @shibao @vivi @nyx i think the monkey looks fine, personally -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Thursday, 03-Oct-2024 04:39:12 JST anna in hexile @ciel @arcana @shibao @vivi @nyx i think the monkey would be pretty annoyed unless we were good friends, and maybe even then. i would expect the same from something the monkey thought was funny looking on you if you want to do this though! -
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anna in hexile (anna@hexile.witches.live)'s status on Friday, 27-Sep-2024 13:36:10 JST anna in hexile @allison @xianc78 its a shame that the game boy one couldn't figure out how to do a regulation size board, the tourney scene for that shit would be insane instead of some niche thing if it was the correct height