Notices by kimapr (kimapr@ublog.kimapr.net)

@SuperDicq well yes, by definition it is sexist. however, it is commonly not considered to be a serious issue for gender minorities to be sexist against men, because men do not experience systemic oppression due to being men. it’s “punching up” as opposed to “punching down”; sexism against women often carries significant impact to their lives while sexism against men usually at worst just makes them mildly upset. for similar reasons anti-white racism is not considered to be a problem either.

@SuperDicq a “replyguy” isn’t just a guy who replies, it’s about a specific type of unwanted reply — condescending, pedantic or overly familiar — to a stranger. the behavior is strongly linked to men, because they do this much more often than other genders, but simply presenting female won’t stop people from calling you a replyguy (i’ve been called one once despite clearly specifying in my profile that i’m girl)

Chat is this real

@twinkle so covert i didn’t even find out Coupert exists until you mentioned it lol

@twinkle imagine learning that the too-good-to-be-true thing is a malware and immediately looking for similarly too-good-to-be-true alternatives

@jessew kink shaming smh 🙄

@snacks @coolbean @fiore @halva does static linking not do that already

@prettygood But i don’t even have a spam filter on my mailserver

@prettygood at least i think so, it’s just whatever maddy does by default. maybe thunderbird is doing the filtering?

@argv_minus_one @ak @erik @shiz “evil router with a lower MTU” might be a bit of an oversimplification.. last i remember checking we’ve been using this weird PPPoE thing to connect to the ISP, and i’ve read that gives a lower MTU than usual due to additional overhead

@argv_minus_one @ak @shiz @erik once upon a time i was trying to play SuperTuxKart online, but for reasons at first totally mysterious to me i always timed out just when the actual race is about to begin (the lobby worked and i was able to chat). this happened on all but one server – and after lots of confusion i figured out that the reason for this is that the STK server attempts to deliver a 1442 byte packet to my computer and simply assumes that this is possible with enough retries, but in reality some router on the way always drops it, so the game gives up and dies.

in a normal network there would be no issue transferring a packet this large – not only is it smaller than the usual internet MTU, but even if it wasn’t it would simply get fragmented, or failing that the sending side would be sent an ICMP Fragmentation Needed message and would then resend the packet in sufficiently fragmented form. However my ISP fucking sucks and has put a router out somewhere with a lower MTU than everyone else and it just silently drops big packets. the thing about that one STK server that worked for me is that it has an unconventional setup – the actual STK server is somewhere behind a firewall and is port forwarded through a VPN, so its MTU is lower than usual, enough to trigger fragmentation of that evil packet at the sending side and never hit the evil router’s MTU on my side.

@prettygood wtf is minds.com and why do they defederate me

@rose @Suiseiseki absolutely proprietary is everything i don’t like

tragic: good post but its author blocks me

Hello chat

Me when i make a charity and then do tax-deductible donations to myself

@prettygood iirc mastocels have images in quoteposts now at least, unless it’s just some mod someone made

Why is it clled blood donation if they compensate u for it

Your honor i plead my case