Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.

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Cake day: June 26th, 2023

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  • McCaffrey took a turn towards homophobia, adding to her books that only inferior dragons would pick LGB riders, that then were used as a sort of cannon fodder, and a gold dragon queen would only choose strictly hetero riders because they were supposed to be breeders.

    Roddenberry was a sexist nuisance, both on set and in the themes he tried to constantly write into the scripts. While claiming tolerance, he chased away some of the actors with his antics. Sexual tolerance themes got written more despite of him, than thanks to him, and mostly appear after he passed away. It can be claimed that he was “a man of his time”, but still.




  • The ecodesign requirements will include:

    * resistance to accidental drops or scratches and protection from dust and water

    * sufficiently durable batteries which can withstand at least 800 charge and discharge cycles while retaining at least 80% of their initial capacity

    * rules on disassembly and repair, including obligations for producers to make critical spare parts available within 5-10 working days, and for 7 years after the end of sales of the product model on the EU market

    * availability of operating system upgrades for longer periods (at least 5 years from the date of the end of placement on the market of the last unit of a product model)

    * non-discriminatory access for professional repairers to any software or firmware needed for the replacement

    Finally! 🎉

    Customer replaceable batteries would be nice too — those 800 cycles are not all that much — but I guess it’s a tradeoff for dust and water resistance increases with wireless charging and possibly no ports.








  • Squirrels sound like the stereotypical ADHD: bouts of frenetic activity, followed by a freeze, frenetic, freeze, etc.

    Beavers… I’d rather associate with mild autism: hear water, need to build dam to get rid of the sound, need to chew tree, everything else is secondary.

    Not sure why it seems to be using them as opposites.


  • Some animals have stereotyped behaviors that are easier to understand as the bare behavior, than it is to explain a behavior on the example of “someone who looks like you, but see, they don’t always behave or think like you do, you need to take into account personal differences, and not everyone’s differences are the same as someone else’s, so we will analyze particular behavior traits as…” …but you’ve lost your audience at the first comma.

    In any case, what shorthand placeholders would you suggest?





  • From Ladybird’s website:

    No code from other browsers. We’re building a new engine, based on web standards.

    Except… Chromium is the living standard for the web. They’ll have the same problem as Firefox, playing catch-up to whatever happens in Chromium.

    Right now, the viable browsing experience is a combination of browsers:

    • Chromium derived - latest compatibility
    • Firefox with extensions - daily driver
    • Tor Browser - actual chance of privacy

    And a VPN and/or Pi-hole.


  • one-time payment

    Is Canva going to keep that? In the purchase announcement, they stated that their plan was to add the features of Affinity to Canva, which only has a subscription option.

    rely on creative software by Adobe or other companies, for which there is no comparable alternative with Linux support

    Corel has comparable features with a single purchase option. Too bad they removed the Linux version.

    As for alternatives, Krita, Inkscape, or Blender, are not a 1:1 equivalent, but include features that Adobe is missing. When I used to do visual stuff, they were a good set of tools to complement an Adobe subscription.

    How does Affinity compare to that?