mastodon 4.7.3I used to have a lot of technical interests and I sometimes still do, but I’m mostly just finding ways to more deeply experience embodiment in the physical world, so I lift weights a lot, go for long walks, and I’m starting to get into climbing
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I’m beginning to come to the conclusion that the only sensible response to the emergence of ridiculous politics around trans people in restrooms is that everyone should just randomly use any gender restroom at any time until we grow out of this stuff as a society
We should not tolerate any restroom being unsafe, and the notion that the historical segregation of restrooms by gender confers some safety is dubious at best
Mastodon is the kind of place where if I made a shitpost like:
You can tell the difference between leaded and lead-free solder by tasting it
So many of you would get mad as hell and probably report me and even consider making a fediblock post, but you wouldn’t do the sensible thing and quote tweet it because you’re too cowardly to have that kind of callout culture
(Feel free to quote tweet this!)
Big Rheostat doesn’t want you to know about pulse-width modulation
It would be so cool if some day I can stop hearing about J. K. Rowling
Talking with folks at the local hackerspace about my ham radio experience has me thinking about 10.368 GHz equipment again. There's a lot more commercially available now, but there's also a lot less random telco surplus
Because building, testing, and adjusting stuff would be half of my enjoyment, I wonder about doing this from scratch. How bad is it to get prototype quantity PCBs made in the suitable substrates (i.e. not FR4, stuff like the Rogers products) these days?
Also not sure what's currently available in interesting semiconductors after all the weird shortages we've had and increasing tendency to only have very purpose-built RF stuff outside of expensive military parts
(I do have ... a good portion of the hard to obtain test equipment, though I do not have access to wire-bonders)
Retoot welcome
RE: @stefan@stefanbohacek.online
Sagan's writing about this always brings me to tears https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pale_Blue_Dot#Reflections
Because it's distinct from a lot of the domineering "you are small" messages in this (and some other societies) –rather, it's that the entirety of human existence is small, but it matters, cooperation is the greatest thing you could do.
I'm annoyingly being forced to reckon with a particular kind of intersection between mortality and quality of life
(I'm in no danger, but in the long run I am in danger and I don't like the implied choices)
@mipsytipsy@hachyderm.io wrote an amazing blog post https://charity.wtf/2025/07/09/thoughts-on-motivation-and-my-40-year-career/
I feel like she's describing so much of what got me interested in tech work and why I still have so much ambition and hope for it
Overall, society's not been great at making spaces for neurodivergent folks who also love the complexity of systems of humans, and in a way, working in tech has felt like the only place I could have gone and made my life work, especially before I figured all my shit out
In Ann Bannon’s novels, the character Beebo Brinker has a dog named Nix
Okay so are trolleybuses angel girls because the trolleypoles are wings