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Hi we're Luna, a foxgirl-shaped bundle of creatures
§ About Us
We're a queer neurodivergent plural system.
Living in Poland with our wife @natty@astolfo.social
BSc in Bioinformatics, creating open-source software and writing a blog.
Special interests include programming and photography. We also like open-source, cybersecurity, electronics, medicine, gaming.
Involved with Veloren and Kraków Hackerspace.
We think that everyone should get safe housing and food unconditionally.
§ Boundaries
Follow requests are subject to a vibe check.
Message us (can just be “meow :3”) and we'll review yours much faster.
Don't interact with lewd/kink posts if you're underage.
Don't make sexual/romantic advances towards us.
Please use tone indicators when applicable.
§ Reviews
“I didn't think I could ever be this autistic with someone” - @natty@astolfo.social
§ Image Descriptions
Profile Picture: Purple haired foxgirl with blue eyes, wearing moon shaped earrings and a purple collar.
Profile Banner: A lizard peeking out from a bush with lots of tiny pink flowers.
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>21
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Euclid, Keneq, Caution
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Remember kids, if you take Cypro, also take your 100-200mcg[1] oral B12 supplement daily!
Unfortunately, a can of monster energy only contains 13mcg so it's nowhere near enough.
[1] Ramsay ID, Rushton DH. Reduced serum vitamin B12 levels during oral cyproterone-acetate and ethinyl-oestradiol therapy in women with diffuse androgen-dependent alopecia. Clin Exp Dermatol. 1990 Jul;15(4):277-81. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.1990.tb02089.x. PMID: 2145099.
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@calcifer@masto.hackers.town I remember taking some light interest in lock picking when I was a kid, I got some very low security locks open with paperclips but ran into the problem of paperclips not being rigid enough to tension locks that were any level of serious about their security, and didn't have access to any better tools.
Bambulab is the perfect example of a dipshit company taking all the openly available prior art and then trying to privatize the shit out of it, making random patents around it to stop anyone else from competing when they couldn't exist without the previously existing open ecosystem.
They are now suing someone for the crime of forking an AGPL project
It's really a systemic issue, because the patent system's exclusive purpose is enforcing monopolies and it never helps actual innovators unlike its stated goal. And intellectual property law is a scourge on society.
I will however also blame everyone who kept buying bambulab printers after it was clear they will pull as much anticonsumer anticompetitive bullshit as they can get away with. The locked down firmware scandal should have been enough to never buy anything from that company. Instead they're thriving while burning down the ecosystem that allowed them to come into existence. And consumers give zero fucks about it despite alternatives existing.
If it's fine to shit on tesla owners for ignoring what elon musk has been doing with the profits from the company, I think it's only fair to apply the same logic to 3d printers where bambulab is suing out of existence the people that made this tech accessible for hobbyists in the first place.
Finally, some good fucking news gamersnexus.net/fk-you-bambu-lab
TIL some anticheats ban you if you have a hall effect mouse/keyboard connected, treating it as a hardware cheating device.
The competitive gaming industry sure is something.
2024: KDE girl and AwesomeWM girl can really be in love
2026: the niri lesbians
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@SylvieLorxu@chaos.social computer tech as a field is going to run into a decade of missing specialists because of this kind of shit. kids can't participate in software development because of draconian laws. fresh graduates can't get a job because of AI.
Sooo the alarmist takes about Bitwarden closing down the source code a while back were entirely warranted.
I mean, they did it quietly too while still advertising as open source. They are not open source anymore, at least the core API code is not.
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@ifixcoinops@retro.social this reminds me of how EPUB3 is basically "what if we made an e-book format known for reflowable text, except we added fixed layout text, the entirety of HTML5, JavaScript and some other bullshit that requires you to run an extended version of chromium to implement?"
Which is like, how the fuck did they lose the plot so bad, no EPUB reader that isn't a web browser supports this shit spec as a result so it's kinda dead.
Entirely because instead of focusing on being a reasonably sized, possible to understand, possible to implement specification with the narrow goal of being very good at reflowable text ebooks (in direct opposition to PDF), they decided it must do everything. Why in the fuck?
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@hazel@shrimp.starlightnet.work apparently on apple devices in some jurisdictions you do not get to contact support unless you are verified 18+
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@mhoye@cosocial.ca not a vibe coder butWhen was the last time you talked about your happiness or self-worth without using the word "productive"?:kaltsip:
Maybe I really should start going to therapy again…
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@Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social to be fair 20mb is still more than enough for a site as long as you have no (large) media in it
webp can crunch down images to mind boggling sizes much better than JPEG could, you can have a shared CSS file for the whole website, and you can fit quite a lot of HTML and text in that space
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@theresnotime@fox.nexus TP LINK???
okay so tell me what's up because I was considering Mikrotik for a managed switch for an upcoming server rack
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@Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social that's with basic size optimizations, I could do better but I didn't see a point in trying.
And then there's some very specific pages where I have unreasonably huge images and perhaps I should have thumbnails for them because 8MB per image is kinda unreasonable.
Basically I listened to the people screaming about how JavaScript is the root of all evil and have some very… creative CSS hacks for basic features (and ended up adding a sprinkle of JS anyway because turns out my CSS hacks fucked with accessibility in annoying ways. It's still technically usable without JS but with a few UX papercuts like the image viewer accidentally blocking you from downloading an image when it's zoomed in. And the tab-order being weird and nonsensical in some cases.). Which means adding thumbnails in a reasonable way would be pretty hard actually!
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social :haggard:
we need to abolish patents, they don't ever help the actual creators of shit nowadays (even when they do, it's not worth it in their current form)
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@Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social my website's homepage is 175kb, of which like 10-20kb is the text/code, 30kb fonts, 80kb stylistic images (banner + background) and the rest is mostly 88x31 buttons at the bottom of the page
Hmm if I decide to get a 2in1 tablet computer, that may necessitate becoming a Linux on-screen-keyboard developer
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@argv_minus_one@mastodon.sdf.org @Nine@chitter.xyz @ifixcoinops@retro.social huh, Google released it under BSD-3-clause with an additional patent use license grant for any relevant patents they own so that's surprising
Oh my god the GNOME file picker now lets you Just Enter A Path by clicking on a non-crumb part of the breadcrumbs bar this is amazing, this has been bothering me for years!
Thank you @gnome@floss.social
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@leeloo@c.im @hazelnot@sunbeam.city @jasmine@chaosfem.tw not in the same sense, they are allegedly a honeypot though
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@soatok@furry.engineer The first time I read this post my takeaway was that I'm not real and my dissociated ass was like "yeah that makes sense", and then I reread it and realized it was about listening to real users instead of your imagination of what a user would be.
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@kalisz79@mastodon.com.pl Bandcamp + YouTube Premium ale w większości to drugie, więc nie wiem w sumie która kategoria
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@GrapheneOS@grapheneos.social the irony that it's fine to use a desktop for the same task as long as you use SMS 2FA is also scorching
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@ploopy@mastodon.social have you considered selling a little module with just the sensor assembly and a connector for power/I2C? If it was small enough I would be very interested in one to integrate into a custom keyboard design 
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@ploopy@mastodon.social hmm I only really see a point in a nub being in the middle of a keyboard so you don't have to take your fingers off of it to use the mouse, but this is an extremely interesting design since it's open source and probably paves the way for integrating one of these into a custom keyboard
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@sash@hachyderm.io HomeAssistant's stance on this is Fun.
Maybe I should turn everything into plain MQTT and then use idk, NodeRed? Does that have RBAC? Can I write JavaScript to program behaviors? Need to research.
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@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu not really sure how the CRA is strengthening open source when you cannot get paid to say implement a feature without immediately becoming liable for providing security updates, coordinating with authorities etc
You're either working for a corporation that lets you work on FOSS as part of your job and shields you from liability or you do it as a hobby, there's no room for indie developers.
anyone have recommendations on ordering custom vinyl stickers?
would like something with an outline fitting the contents and that ships to Poland without incurring ridiculous import fees
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone TL;DR: black and white thinking tends to not be very productive. It stops you from achieving compromises that can improve the status quo.
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@jon@social.vivaldi.net @Vivaldi@social.vivaldi.net I've been impressed with how well mobile Vivaldi works with a mouse/keyboard especially compared to Firefox which is missing the most basic features.
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@cwebber@social.coop oh, so the justification I've seen some random article provide for Google deploying hardware level ARB on Pixels is real and not a hypothetical. okay. sure. we live in interesting times indeed.
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@16af93@wetdry.world @hazel@shrimp.starlightnet.work true, but this is on the scale of years, I'm thinking on the scale of decades
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone ruined feels like an exaggeration considering that my experience using distros that have been getting a lot of flak for AI use (Fedora) has been extremely smooth and largely issue free recently. Systemd also keeps on just working. And the desktop experience is getting better, which is the opposite of what I've experienced with commercial software that keeps degrading nowadays.
The one time I'd agree would be rsync perhaps, of course the slop was the culmination of an overworked maintainer with no funding that saw a way to potentially lessen the load and took it. The software became untrustworthy, but I wouldn't give the maintainer flak for it due to the circumstances.
A part of the solution to these issues will be recognizing why people use AI and hitting the problem at the source. And those issues go deep into the politics of open source and society at large.
There's a significant practical difference between software where the maintainers use AI to review PRs or look for bugs and software where the code is slop that noone understands.
They're still some level of morally in the wrong, considering the AI use contributes to the bad externalities, but the software they're developing is affected much less negatively than in the case of vibe coded software.
thinking about how I now find it almost impossible to find information about a lot of topics online
search engines are shit, google has gotten so bad it's not even funny, marginalia sometimes works but doesn't have a big enough index yet
sometimes google will give you something usable if you swap to AI mode, but that's wrong half the time too so you're gambling for a link to a useful source
it feels like a skill I took my whole life to develop suddenly lost all value because the tools I relied on have rapidly degraded over the past few years
When hiring someone for a management position remember to include questions like:
A subordinate shows up to work wearing a dog collar, what do you do?
a) reprimand them for unprofessional conduct
b) genuinely compliment their fashion choices
c) nothing, this is not something that warrants my attention
And immediately reject applicants that pick answer A.
Fostering a safe and welcoming work environment is key to your organization's success!
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@Enalys@mastodon.zergy.net … are the foxes placed in the funny pattern that makes printers reject the idea of copying the image?
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It used to cost I think something like $20/year, now it's ~$32/year, going up to ~$36/year.
Can't exactly trust them to provide any sort of stable service when they keep increasing prices by like $4/year
.eu would be interesting if not for the fact that if your country decides to leave, suddenly you apparently just lose the right to renew the registration.
So, that leaves .pl, which is managed by some Polish government entity, probably will forever, and which I shouldn't ever lose the right to renew because the country can't just randomly revoke my only citizenship.
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@mjdxp@labyrinth.zone you using Linux doesn't mean you agree with Torvalds or any of the other maintainers with harmful views. It doesn't make you evil.
Much like I wouldn't blame someone using Adobe or Microsoft software to make a living for "supporting an evil corporation", when they don't have alternatives that will reasonably accomodate their workflow.
You understand the issue and acknowledge it, and you complain, but if it's not something you can do much else about, then it's not worth your time, you can put effort elsewhere where you can make a difference.
GNOME vs Linux Mint conflict
Here's an adorable commission I got from @Cosmix@mastodon.art
Image CW for eye contact
Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social
for this disability pride month I have once again left 80% of the studying needed for an exam for the last day
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Fedora silverblue looking mighty interesting tbh