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gray17

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another wolf in the crowd (he/him)
systems, design, infosec, toolchains, furry, bdsm
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Portland, Oregon, USA

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sec_yote_agenda, to random
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Is there a documentary series that legitimately looks behind-the-scenes at the making of porn?

gray17,
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@sec_yote_agenda @PupMakoPete I just watched it. About a quarter of it is basically behind-the-scenes footage. You can get tidbits about porn making from it, but overall it doesn't really interrogate the process of creating porn other than asking "why do straight guys do gay porn, and how do they feel about it"

(It's also probably easily misappropriated by people looking for "gays are recruiting our kids" narrative. Anyone gay will understand that it isn't that, but it's not really explained.)

ccshan, to random
@ccshan@woof.group avatar

You know I'm cis because this came out more unhinged than I expected
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQBGBgXGPfw

gray17,
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@ccshan "and this distinction makes sense", obviously

damagecontrolblog, to VideoGames
@damagecontrolblog@mastodon.social avatar

Fighting Games Friday: …in Waffle House!?
The meme could become a reality in Tekken, for understandable reasons. But emphasize “could.”
https://www.dcgameblog.com/2024/04/fighting-games-friday-in-waffle-house/

gray17,
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@damagecontrolblog the first sentence says "less than zero"? Should it be "more than zero" instead?

gray17, to random
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Bob: As Santayana once said, the best time to prepare your political campaign is before you were born. The next best time is now.

Cal: Am I on the ballot?

Bob: No. Our sim identified your dad as the write-in winner 62% of the time, but then he died rescuing puppies from a burning barn. You'll take his place.

Cal: I love puppies! Ok, I'll help the puppies vote for my dad!

Bob (aside): Are any of Ed's other kids available?

Dan: Just the physicist.

Bob (sighs): Yes, Cal. Puppies love you.

lunalapin, to random
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a static site application recommending i use docker to set it up is the most fucking insane thing i've ever heard.

gray17,
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@lunalapin yeah, this is the weird state of webdev today:

  • Static webpages created today are likely to still work 100y from now. Web standards are very cautious about breaking compatibility.
  • In contrast, webdev tools used today are likely to not work 2y from now. There's no incentive for compatibility, and there's actually some pressure against compatibility. Therefore, Docker
zwolf59661, to random
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So this is probably the best place to ask.... I want to learn how to make Android apps. Or rather, I want to make one specific Android app. Could someone please point me in the right direction? Or if you or someone you know would be willing to walk me through it, that would be amazing too. Thanks!

gray17,
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@zwolf59661 when I played with it years ago, I started with google's developer intros, which were ok. I took a brief look at what they have available now, and they still seem ok. I'd start there?
https://developer.android.com/get-started/overview

fleckenstein, to random
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every single time i see a homeless person I get mad at the government

gray17,
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@navi @fleckenstein "everybody gets firsts before anybody gets seconds"

AsherVo, to random
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re-caught the minecraft bug... I must return to the mines

gray17,
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@AsherVo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izh0RLarM-Q

baldur, to random
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Once I realised that quite a few people not only don’t enjoy reading or writing, many actually resent it and consider one, the other, or both to be the biggest chore at work, a lot of things clicked into place about both generative models and how people read

gray17,
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@baldur this seems to me similar to the extrovert/introvert divide. extroverts for some reason tend to feel better about getting information from talking or listening to other people.

there's also a sociopath bias; a lot of sociopathic persuasion strategies only work in person, not in writing (and leadership positions tend to attract sociopaths, who then project their values onto their org)

DamonWakes, to random
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Super Hyper Awesome Game: EXTREME!

I have a new game to share with you! It's Super Hyper Awesome Game: EXTREME! and it's just as great as it sounds. Also - for today only - I'm offering a copy of Hollow Knight to whoever gets the top score.

https://damonwakes.wordpress.com/2024/04/01/super-hyper-awesome-game-extreme/

gray17,
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@DamonWakes I got -1073.40, I think I'm going to rest on my laurels

crashdoom, to random
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What is this?! Wrong answers only.

gray17,
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@crashdoom Carolina bagel

dkub, to random
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So I bought this role playing “game” that’s just a card deck called “Something is Wrong Here” by Kira Magrann.

sits down and reads through the facilitator cards before starting planning for who to invite and what sort of setup to do

…

…

looks up

This reads a lot like a mindfuck scene y’all.

gray17,
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@dkub apparently, Jubensha games are also mind-fucky? I've never played any
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_dlxbGUNNQ

ErosBlog, to random
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Corporations are not people. Corporations are the state: they operate by state charters, subject to state-issued rules, in service of state policies. Corporate oppression is government oppression.

My lifelong political journey across the spectrum of anarchy flavors (from right to left) and my slowly increasing willingness to use the tools of government to attack itself in its "predatory corporate capitalism" manifestation) can be mapped to my super-slow realization of this essential truth.

gray17,
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@ErosBlog monopolies are bad in ways similar to how monarchies are bad

falcrof, to random
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I wonder how often people "rehearse" words or sentences in their mind that they will spoke or post later

because i think i've done it too much lol

gray17,
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@falcrof I did this like all the time when I was younger. It made me slow at conversations. By the time I had rehearsed enough to be ok with saying something, the conversation had moved on.

These days I don't do it that much. It feels kinda like learning to ride a bike, the flow is automatic. But also, I've learned somewhat how to handle mistakes and misunderstandings, which I think is more important than trying to get it right up front.

For writing, I still rehearse before posting

molleindustria, to random
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📰BREAKING NEWS: I made a new game

The New York Times Simulator

Select the news, edit the headlines, gain the approval of powerful friends, add new subscribers!

Free | for browser | ~10 minutes

https://molleindustria.itch.io/the-new-york-times-simulator

video/mp4

gray17,
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@molleindustria I played the game twice. first time I went for accurate headlines and pissed off the police.

second time I tried to win, and did. I feel like it moves a little too fast? I wasn't really thinking about the headlines, I was sorta just choosing things and placing things based on vibes. I guess that's maybe close enough to the intent?

gray17,
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@molleindustria I think the rate the headlines appeared was fine. (maybe they can be a little faster when empty, and slow down when they pile up?)

I mostly felt like the news decay was nudging me to make decisions faster than I wanted, I had several headlines go stale without placing them

gray17,
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@molleindustria yeah. I think it was more the front page getting stale that pressured me to keep tossing things on there based on vibes without really thinking about them. "something crime-y, feels bland enough to not piss off police, ok". "something political, feels troll-y enough to get clicks, ok".

athousandcateaus, to random

"This circumstance at once suggests to anyone who has done schoolboy mathematics the possible use of logarithms. If we use the logarithm of dimensional variety in every case, we shall simply have to add these numbers together in order to measure total variety. But now there comes a slight snag – the logarithms most people remember are calculated to the base ten.

The cybernetician uses logarithms calculated to the base two. The reason for this is that the raw material of decision is the distinction between ‘yes’ and ‘no’."

— Stafford Beer: https://bookwyrm.social/book/48867

Where is log_10 even really used? I only have to switch between e and 2.

gray17,
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@athousandcateaus slide rules were log10, logarithmic graph paper is log10. My guess is it comes up more in engineering and science than in math and compsci

gray17,
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@athousandcateaus
https://cims.nyu.edu/~tjl8195/survey/results.html#q46

seriouslyjeff, to random
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Look, I went over the Snowden documents as a journalist, but I never saw anything that shocked me quite like this story of Meta buying a VPN company for "security" but then spying on users of competitive apps by decrypting the traffic.

This is a real SSL added and removed here :) moment.

Seriously, like wow: https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

Court document: https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cand.369872/gov.uscourts.cand.369872.735.0.pdf

gray17,
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@seriouslyjeff the current reporting is a little misleading. The thing being discussed is not the VPN app, it's a "Facebook Research App" that used code from the VPN. It was definitely opt in and told users that it was going to snoop on them, though it's not clear how much users understood what exactly it snooped. There are a bunch of articles about it from 2019, when is was shut down

gray17,
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@seriouslyjeff sure. Facebook's argument at the time was that what they were doing was not materially different from the surveillance that companies do to their own employees. Apple disagreed, others disagreed, and that's why the program was stopped

w7voa, to random
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Six construction workers who were filling potholes presumed dead in the collapse of Baltimore's Key Bridge. https://www.thebaltimorebanner.com/community/transportation/key-bridge-collapse-YDNMRSLMDREE7ADUZJQFQJ3WDA/

gray17,
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@JenniferWhiteTMPhotography @w7voa I just saw a report, they've recovered two dead people in a truck. So I expect more of that trickling in over the next week or so

gray17, to random
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today is taking a break from twine porn to resurrect a non-kinky non-furry story that I outlined several years ago but never finished drafting. it's now a little late, it might have landed better years ago, but it still feels like it might resonate in the moment, and it keeps nagging at me, so I might as well finish it and see if anyone else likes it

gray17,
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almost done at 4900 words. just need to write the coda, which will push it over 5k. mildly annoying that it will be over, some markets limit to 5k, but I don't think I can trim it.

the coda is going to take a while. I didn't really think it through when I outlined the story. the annoying thing is I kinda feel like I need to read the last hundred years of Western philosophy to do the coda properly. which of course is silly. I just need to read the last hundred years of world philosophy.

gray17,
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done at 6400 words. now that it's out of my head, I can do something else while waiting for beta reader feedback. rewrites the last paragraph again

pseudonym, to books
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Almost finished with audio book of "The Raven Tower" by Ann Leckie.

https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9781549115790?rf_code=lfm473963

But it looks like there is no sequel. Already read her "Ancillary" series and enjoyed that too.

Big fan of the "Murderbot Diaries" by Martha Wells, "The Broken Earth" by N.K Jemisin, and the "Children of..." Series by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

What should I read or listen to next?

gray17,
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@pseudonym yeah, I loved Raven Tower too

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