Notices by Jess👾 (jesstheunstill@infosec.exchange)

Confession, I sometimes say Bibi because I can never remember how to spell Netanyahu well enough for autocomplete to save me.

I guess I could put in my autocomplete "shithead4" = "Netanyahu"

Sometimes tech feels like ... How would people like it if car manufacturers changed which side of the car was the drivers seat every other year, periodically switched the steering wheel to a control stick, which pedal was gas and which was brake, how the gear shifter was laid out, a few manufacturers tried out letting you just vaguely gesture at the road to control your car, others said you can sit in the back seat and control each of your wheels independently through microcontrol levers tied together. Sometimes you gotta climb in and out through the roof, other times you crawl in through the trunk.

Oh you can't refill your car at stations that don't have Fueling Station Standard Pump C anymore, but don't worry, the pump C will fill your car so much faster, and they'll all be switched over to that within a few years. But then if you're still driving a type A or B car, you're going to have to carry an adapter with you in your trunk, otherwise you can't get more gas.

Oh you want to buy yourself a new car? Here's the 583 different possible combinations of piston size, piston number, gearbox ratios, transmission, brake types.

Your car is out of wiper fluid? Now it won't start. Oh, delayed applying your car's update for too long? Well it's just going to shut down in the middle of the freeway now to apply it. Too bad. Hope you weren't doing anything important.

I even work in computers but our rampant and unchecked fucking with people's preestablished workflows chasing some bullshit metric of "progress" to add features nobody wanted in the first place is Hot Horseshit.

tail and grep worked enough for the last 30 years of Linux, why do we gotta change shit now...

I'm still kinda salty about systemd taking over Linux. I just want to search my damn system logs, not look up journalctl options every damn time.

... Old bitch yelling at clouds...

Individual contributors at a megacorp I carry somewhat less of a grudge against simply because their management is hot garbage. Unfortunately, landlord and mortgage holders don't accept moral purity in lieu of dollars.

Everyone has to figure out their line of what let's them sleep at night, and earlier in my career when I had fewer good options, I worked for an awful megacorp too.

@len @jasmine

@dalias @MxVerda Case in point with the smugness attitude.

Also, racism. Every successful platform had a critical mass Black folks as early adopters. White people are always following around Black people to steal and appropriate their "new" and "interesting" content since it always seems novel to us. When we were accepting of racism and refused to even acknowledge that there was a racism problem and we didn't listen to Black people about critical for them to communicate and call out racism features like QT, they said fuck this, and went elsewhere.

@MxVerda @dalias

@dalias Also, racism. Every successful platform had a critical mass Black folks as early adopters. White people are always following around Black people to steal and appropriate their "new" and "interesting" content since it always seems novel to us. When we were accepting of racism and refused to even acknowledge that there was a racism problem and we didn't listen to Black people about critical for them to communicate and call out racism features like QT, they said fuck this, and went elsewhere.

I can't. They already moved on and found new homes and aren't planning to come back.

@MxVerda @altbot@fuzzies.wtf @altbot@mas.to @altbot_uptime @dalias

@dalias The other day after the Facebook targeting of queers, and some more folks I know saying they're leaning FB and IG and going to BlueSky and TikTok, I asked if they'd considered Fediverse. Their reasons were - they'd tried it once, but didn't stick because:
1. Couldn't figure out how to pick a good instance
2. Couldn't figure out how to find interesting people to follow
3. the weird smug elitism and not people being positive and welcoming.
4. They were scared away by people demanding CW for weird CWs they didn't understand what they were supposed to cw and not. Same with alt text.

Not saying the accessablity stuff is wrong, but for someone new, it is a very weird culture shift that doesn't have much of an on ramp before jumped on you as a horrible person for not including it.

@dalias Yup, just ranted about that the other day. I hate the smug shitheads. https://infosec.exchange/@JessTheUnstill/113805590589628648

@tinydoctor Elon never would, but Gwynne Shotwell has a serious chance to. She's pulled off some of the biggest advances in space travel in decades, and has slashed low earth orbit costs by a crazy amount. Of course, Elon takes the credit for everything, but SpaceX has been successful more despite Elon than because of him, and because she knows how to play the massage Elon's ego game.

It mainly depends on how much funding Elon, Wall Street, and/or NASA wants to give them.

Let's say it again for those in the back. Content moderation is always and explicitly political. Who is and isn't allowed a platform to broadcast their speech to others is a political statement. Unmoderated "free" speech is still political, because it means marginalized minorities are pushed out.

In addition to the "No Cops At Pride"

I guess this will be the year that all the new queers from the last 10-15 years will get to learn why the queers who have been around a lot longer say "No Corps At Pride!"

@alice There might also be some of the whole thing where guys are nervous to come across as flirting. Which I guess I sorta understand. I was nervous complementing a woman's appearance for a long time too. But also, my rule of thumb has always been that it's okay to give a complement to something someone has done with their appearance - hair or clothes or makeup or shoes etc. Unless it's someone you're intimate with or otherwise very close, don't talk about parts of their body.

And I can't think of a single Black woman who has ever misgendered me. I'm sure it'll happen sometime, but even still. I'm WAY less nervous around Black women than basically any other group of people.

A funny thing I've noticed ever since I've started dying my hair interesting colors - 95% of the strangers that ever say "ooh, I love your hair!" are Black women, and I just think that's awesome and sweet!

If a required government fee costs the same dollar amount for wealthy people and poor people, it's a regressive tax on the poor.