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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 8h ago

I guess it does make me a little bitter to have spent my whole life around people who have been advocating for and working towards making the way we use computing less exploitative and more life-affirming, and contributing to that in small ways as I'm able, and then to see a few rich jerks turn the whole thing into a wealth-concentration scheme _and_ many of the people whose wealth they're trying to take blame it on the people who have been working towards a world that wouldn't have given them that power in the first place.

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 3mo ago

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Hi fedi. Are there any microbiologists, mycologists, botanists, or other scientists or science enjoyers #OnHere who would have some reading recommendations for me in understanding the succession of life in forefields and other sterile environments? I am a filthy scifi writer so I am actually interested in this process in the setting of exoplanet regolith but I feel like understanding the research we have on similar environments on Earth is the only real place to start. Please boost 💜 Thank you! #AskFedi #ScienceSideOfFedi #AskMastodon #Microbiology #Mycology #Botany #Biology #Scifi #FediPaperClub

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

Why are so many people so okay with handing the future of computing over to a bunch of fascists?

That's what really bothers me, I think. Everything else is details.

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

It's funny - aside from my time building a cache, my entire career has been in "AI". Just, you know, classical AI: expert systems for things like cancer risk analysis.

It's just that we don't call them expert systems or AI; we call them business logic.

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 7mo ago

Okay, here goes. Here's what I see as the three Things We've Tried for decentralized social media, and my vision for what an actual good decentralized social medium would look like.

It's late, so please excuse my ramblings if they are obviously flawed, but do point that out if it's true!

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 7mo ago

Tape machines aren't hard to build, but good tape machines are. Today, there are very few manufacturers who actually build the tape part of the tape machine - the capstan-governed transport mechanism that moves the tape past the heads. This mechanism determines almost everything about how the tape player sounds.

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 5mo ago

Hey #FediHiveMind / #AskMastodon, help me out here. As you can probably see from the lack of activity on this account, I'm ramping down my social media presence pretty hard. However, I still find myself with downtime where I want to read something, but don't have/don't have time or mental space to make progress on a nonfiction book and don't want to read fiction. What I actually want is a zine. So I'm looking for recommendations. Where do you get your zines? Are there any regularly or irregularly published series you recommend? Who are your go to distros? All types welcome, from fanzines to tabletop rpg zines to software zines to photo zines to political zines. #Zines! Thanks in advance.

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 7mo ago

Friendship ended with Digikam, now Darktable is my best friend.

(Digikam is great for managing a photo library, but the image editor is no good, and that makes it difficult to keep up with since I have to use an external editor. Darktable, on the other hand, is merely serviceable at managing photos but is an amazing image editor.)

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Nora Tindall @noracodes@tenforward.social

· 6mo ago

I'm not sure why but there's little that annoys me more than when someone is speaking about something outside their realm of expertise but whose name they know and makes up some wrong, muddled, or "funny" name by which to refer to it instead. Usually distinguishable from genuine confusion by the sarcastic inclusion of the phrase "or whatever" afterwards.

For instance:
- "toki ponga or whatever" (toki pona)
- "open/libre-whatever they're calling it" (LibreOffice)
- "PalmPotty" (referring to any handheld communication device)