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Ellie-lectra

@trysdyn@electric.marf.space

Electra/Ellie. Pan femby tech/gaming nerd. Speedrunner, streaming tech/CDN dork, "Kusoge" appreciator and retro game historian.

Fox/Jolteon/Fairy(?) on the internet. Site Reliability Witch. Antifash, anticapitalist, anti-big-tech. Goth metal/darkwave enjoyer. Silicon Valley -> PNW escapee. Fedi user since 2015 (GNUSoc -> Pleroma -> GtS).

Not interested in an argument with you. My posts are intended for people who follow and not as general "PSAs" or whatever and may be rants or lack info. I may kink/lewd post with specific CWs. I tag misinfo. I try to be genuine and avoid excess sarcasm.

Feel free to reply, boost, DM, or lewd at me regardless of familiarity.

611 Followers

322 Following

16 Posts

Joined November 23, 2022

contact:

https://voidfox.com/contact

stuff I'm doing:

https://voidfox.com/now

over 21:

... and has been awhile

pronouns:

it/its or vee/them

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 7mo ago

"Let governments regulate computers, there'll always be a way around it" mentality annoys vee.

Sure, I do believe there'll always be a way. That way will be limited to the top 5% of technical capability and/or involve dangerous hacks that reduce security or require trusting some random (probably now illegal) website to run processes and code on your box to make that way happen.

I was just telling someone yesterday that hypervisor hacks to run unsigned code to circumvent Denuvo are incredibly dangerous. Now add "The government says this is mandatory to Protect The Kids" to that equation.

For 95% of people the new reality will be this locked down state and the entire culture around computing will accept it as the norm. What will that do to Literally Everything?

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 5mo ago

2026 feels in a nutshell. But mostly this RPG Maker game dialog box amuses the heck out of vee for some reason.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 5mo ago

I had a conversation with a writer the other day about how one of the main ways writers prep epubs is to write in HTML then convert using Pandoc or similar.

Well this spiraled out into an entire Thing about semantic HTML and webdev and how everything says all of your styling should be in CSS and... you know, that's for web, not for source files for epub conversion.

I had much the same problems when I started using HTML/CSS to do broadcast graphic design. The style is the data. So those outlooks don't really apply the same way.

Sometimes style conveys data. Emphasis is one such example. So doing emphasis with a styled means conversions lose data.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 5mo ago

Reflecting on the most incendiary thing I ever said today: "Have you considered just moving the cat?"

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 3mo ago

Boosted by @GroupNebula563@mastodon.social

This appeared in my brain and now I have to inflict it on all of you.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 3mo ago

Awful morning, good afternoon/evening. I hung out with someone I've been working with on community stream projects for almost 10 years now for the first time. They were in town for something else and when mentioning their travels I got to go "Yo, you're literally 8 miles from where I live, we're doing something" I've been up since 2am. Someone hecking force vee to bed.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 3mo ago

The way GDQ handles audio is ingenious but also terrible for a music centric game like this. When they take in a remote run, they have both the runner and the commentator stream to an RTMP server with OBS. What they do though is they have the runner bias their entire game audio to the right channel and the commentator to the left, then use balance to control the game/commentary mix. But it means the game is mono. :<

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 2mo ago

FOSS people being well-adjusted as usual

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 2mo ago

I think if I were to get a tarot deck that's actually maximum "Me" it'd be black with dayglo yellow minimalist representational art. Very simple. Which I imagine is the most heretical thing since most folks want really detailed expressive art on these for engagement sake, but I do not engage visually. I am a purely kinesthetic/feelings creature. I want colors and glyphs that make vee feel things.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 2mo ago

The simple hecking image viewer that didn't update in years and I welded into my simple screenshot and image management scripts updated again and completely changed its config format again. You display an image in a blank undecorated window why do you need a whole ass embedded lua for your config format and why do you keep changing the grammar stop it.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 1mo ago

1880: You're not allowed the proceeds from your work 1920: You're not allowed the recognized greater benefit of your work 1950: You're not allowed self-direction in your work 1980: You're not allowed pride in your work 1990: You're not allowed the job security that comes from your work 2000: You're not allowed financial safety from your work 2010: You're not allowed to give feedback in how you do your work 2020: You're not allowed to just do your own work

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 3w ago

I just deadpan responded to someone's BS with "I'm going to pin missile" and I actually really like that turn of phrase...

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 2w ago

My pharmacy also sends multipart emails and the text part of just HTML with HTML Entity escaping so it's a soup of Foo. Fuckin' Glorious...

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@atax1a@infosec.exchange I've been screaming to myself ever since Google dropped that "Data format for AIs and people" crap that was just an Obsidian vault. It's just an Obsidian vault. It's just Obsidian. You reinvented flat markdown files you open in Obsidian. The entire tech world has collectively debased itself to a new low.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@ellenor2000@mastodon.top Yeah the main problem is nothing out there that does streaming can actually competently do multi-stream audio, nor can RTMP. eRTMP allows for it, but nothing supports it. OBS does in theory but only insofar as if you say you're streaming to Twitch, special features are enabled to do things. Their "RTMP server" egress is still vanilla RTMP with no enhanced features.

Ellie-lectra @trysdyn@electric.marf.space

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@elfi@social.pixie.town My wheelhouse is more delivery infrastructure and protocol and broadcast engineering, not player stuff. I do know enough about ffmpeg and AVC to scare children and small animals but I don't think I could swing turning that into a player dev position. Sounds neat though T_T; Might try and see anyway.