starbreaker

@starbreaker@libranet.de

author of WITHOUT BLOODSHED, SILENT CLARION, and THE MILGRAM BATTERY (out of print but available on my website)

programmer by necessity, long-haired metalhead by the grace of the witch

autistic, queer, agnostic atheist, and either an idealistic cynic or a cynical idealist depending on mood

"This is a MEWNIX system. My cats know this."

(all opinions mine unless attributed)

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starbreaker, to random

Blocking unwanted referrers is childish, but complaining about such blocks isn’t? OK.
Hacker News, Again

starbreaker,

@hypolite Should be fixed now. I had deployed to the main site yesterday, but not the archive.

hypolite, to random

Does anyone know what #Friendica is missing to correctly generate post link previews on remote systems? #OpenGraph #Interoperability
When a Friendica post is linked on any social network, it is never possible to preview it (unlike what happens with Mastodon or Pleroma: perhaps does it depend on the absence of open graph tags?) · Issue #13959 · friendica/friendica

starbreaker,

@hypolite I'm not being entirely facetious when I suggest that not supporting proprietary link previews on platforms like Facebook and Twitter is more a feature than a bug.

starbreaker, to random

March 1: Introduce yourself as if you were a character in your story. What would your role be?

Same shit, different day. Gotta get out of this warm, toasty bed and catch a fuckin' maglev halfway across the fuckin' planet because nobody can seem to replace a fuckin' component in a fuckin' AI's storage array without a union sysadmin to babysit them. Christ, the last time I had to do this, Morgan fuckin' Cooper was on the same damn train having a fuckin' shootout with some fuckin' Pinkertons. If his aim was off he might have busted a fuckin' cap in my ass. Do I really get paid enough for that shit?

kikobar, (edited ) to sustainability
@kikobar@acc4e.com avatar

I don't understand why this is considered an existential risk, with governments spending fortunes to 'fix the low birth rate problem'.

I believe it is good news.

We are clearly a species that needs to reduce its footprint on Earth. There is nothing sustainable about our ever-growing population.

Only in a distorted fantasy worldview of perpetual growth without negative consequences the low birth rate could be a concern.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68402139?utm_source=press.coop

starbreaker,

@kikobar Capitalism is a Ponzi scheme. The economy cannot grow if the population shrinks. A smaller pool of workers can command better wages, shorter hours, and more favorable conditions.

starbreaker, to random

I'm from my mother and have bee since my father died in 2021.

His line was that nobody was allowed to disrespect his wife, and his line became mine.

When my mother was disrespectful to my wife one time too many, and told us to "stay out of her affairs" as if we were trying to take advantage of her instead of helping her look out for herself, I honored her request to the letter. After all, a dutiful son ought to mind his mother.

I haven't spoken to her since. All correspondence from her goes to /dev/null, not that I've gotten much the last couple of years. And I'm happier for it, because whenever I weaken I remember that my mother told me point-blank that I should get a divorce after coming to the conclusion that Catherine never provide grandchildren. As if I was Henry the fucking Eighth.

It's not like she ever wanted me. She had told me several times that I was an accident, and that all she had wanted was some dick. She didn't even love my father at the time; he was just a dildo with legs to her. An unplanned child is an unwanted child, and I did not need to know that I am merely the price of her selfishness.

thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefin…

starbreaker,

@hypolite And I didn't realize how much my family sucked until I got married.

PaxAsteriae, to random
@PaxAsteriae@writing.exchange avatar

I saw that Morbius is on Netflix and I thought, what the hell, I want a laugh...

I'm, what, five minutes in? And already there's gems like "Are you a doctor?" "I am a doctor." 😂

starbreaker,

@PaxAsteriae Half way though this, my wife saw the way I was rolling my eyes and asked if she should call an exorcist.

danjac, to random
@danjac@masto.ai avatar

Even if you run a static site, DO NOT use Netlify:

https://answers.netlify.com/t/limit-bandwidth-to-avoid-high-billing-caused-by-ddos/13086

starbreaker,

@danjac This is why I've been using Nearlyfreespeech; I pay in advance, and if the account runs out the site just goes down until I deposit more money.

I should just get a VPS. Then I could tinker with Gopher, too.

starbreaker, to Blog

I left it a bit late for this month's #IndieWeb #blog #carnival on #DigitalRelationships hosted by Manuel Moreale at <manuelmoreale.com/indieweb-car…>.

This one's called "Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again". It's a bit of a ramble.

I know better than to echo the received wisdom of my youth and insist that online acquaintances aren’t real. It’s not that digital relationships aren’t real. If anything, they can be hyperreal. The right words on a page or a screen can pierce your defenses and make you feel in a way you might not let let yourself if those words were spoken in person. The right words from the wrong person can shatter you, especially if they come at the wrong time.

starbreaker.org/blog/digital-r…

#amwriting #NonFiction #romance #OnlineDating

starbreaker, to random

a post for the February 2024 IndieWeb Carnival, and a bit of a ramble
Digital Relationships; or, How I Met My Wife and Why I Might Not Try That Again

starbreaker, to random

14: If you had to date one of your characters, who would it be?

There's a reason I give my wife cameos in my fiction, and this is one of them.

starbreaker, to GenX

I wish adults would let kids grow up instead of trying to preserve their “innocence” by isolating them and keeping them ignorant. Maybe it’s a thing?

starbreaker,

@Xucaen I can't say. I've noticed that a lot of younger parents seem determined to protect their kids against everything. I think they're more likely to end up with well-educated veal than intelligent, independent adults, but they aren't my kids so it isn't really any of my business.

starbreaker,

@hypolite @Xucaen I think the ones most prone to overprotectiveness were themselves latchkey kids and didn't respond well to such benign neglect.

starbreaker,

@hypolite I don't expect you to. My observation is based on my own experience. @Xucaen

joel, to random
@joel@fosstodon.org avatar

I decided to do a whole makeover to my ! These actions were triggered by @molly0xfff and a not so recent blogpost by @m2m

Are you mentioned in it? Let me know!

Want to be mentioned in it? Also let me know!

This is day 12 of

https://joelchrono.xyz/blog/giving-context-to-my-blogroll/

starbreaker,

@joel Nice use of flexbox. @molly0xfff @m2m

hypolite, to random

Since I'm really not convinced so far, but I could be wrong, do you think it's a good idea to promote diversity in fields that systemically lacks it by using AI-generated images? Both examples that sparked this question were Black women depicted in STEM fields (computing and robotics) and it doesn't sit right with me as I feel like it reinforces the bias that's being opposed by having to conjure sometimes uncanny images of minorities in these fields to have some representation.

starbreaker,

@hypolite I'm all for using art to promote diversity, but pay the damn artists.

starbreaker,

@hypolite Yeah, I want no part of the whole diversity issue. I am neither qualified nor being paid nearly enough to engage with it.

starbreaker, to random

If purchasing a product doesn't mean ownership, then downloading an unauthorized copy isn't theft. Why are we letting corporate America have it both ways?

starbreaker,

@petrescatraian I think the real problem is that a lot of people in business think that profitability is a natural right and not something you get if your revenue exceeds your expenses. Then again, they think they’re entitled to revenue, too. If I decide to do without because I don’t like the terms that’s also a lost sale , isn’t it?

TheConversationUS, to scifi
@TheConversationUS@newsie.social avatar

Resisting a corporate-owned world and media won’t be easy, especially when the media present enthralling sports spectacles. But it’s necessary in order to save democracy from slipping into plutocracy.

Lessons from 70's cult-classic film: Rollerball (think about it as hundreds of millions of people tune in to the ).
https://theconversation.com/norman-jewisons-rollerball-depicted-a-world-in-which-corporations-controlled-all-information-is-this-dystopian-vision-becoming-reality-222099

starbreaker,

@Runyan50 @TheConversationUS Violence is the answer. Billionaires should not exist. It is time we recognized them for the dragons they are and hunted them to extinction. If our governments will not do so on our behalf, we have the right to do it ourselves.

starbreaker, to poetry

instead of working, and I have no idea what I just did. This is either or utter shit. I'll let the decide.

Daughters of Memory, I invite you to aid me.
Though, unlike that blind old bard Homer
I am prepared to work and sing alone
in the absence of divine assistance
and, indeed, in the presence of
divine opposition. Such is fitting tribute
to the unconquered lightbringer
Prometheus, who was ever Zeus' adversary
and advocate for humanity, who stole
the flame of defiance from the gods and
enkindled it in our hearts to make us human.

At least, that is the story Prometheus once told
To men and women who gazed on him in awe
To encourage them to look within and find
in themselves the strength to defy adversity
and conquer all obstacles natural and otherwise.

Lift your voices in harmony with mine, O Muses,
for it is not a hymn to the Titan I sing, but your
requiem and that of all the gods we made in
our own images. We projected unto these idols
our own highest aspirations and our own fatal
flaws alike. We heard echoed in their imagined
voices our worst impulses and soaring desires,
mistaking them for commandments from on high.

Were we not warned by our own wise elders against
this impulse toward deifaction, this spandrel arising
out of apophenic and pareidolic adaptations
that let us find patterns in the world around us
and identify threats to our survival? If not, we should
won through struggle such wisdom on our own and passed
this knowledge unto our children as our mortal legacy,
brighter than steel and more enduring than stone.

Surely Prometheus might have taught his own thus,
had he sired any children of his own on some woman
or goddess possessed of power, wisdom, and courage
sufficient to prove her his equal if not his better.
No doubt he might have done so while teaching
them how to sacrifice to the gods they made:
giving them their due, the bare minimum,
and keeping the choicest cuts for themselves.

starbreaker, to random

A copromancer is not a seducer of police officers, but a practitioner of the flatulent art of brown magic. When you're in a world of shit, theirs is the most subtle of wizardries. And if you smelled it, they dealt it.

starbreaker, to random

Feb. 7: Complete this phrase: I write because…

...because I can.
...because I choose to.
...because it's my work, done my way.
...because it lets me play God without actually hurting anybody.
...because only God can stop me, and She doesn't love you enough to do so.

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