rtstragedy2 [fae/faer, she/her]

This is a great project, if I could make a suggestion, it might be helpful to add, to the “availability” category:

• f.droid app store
• the ability to generate wireguard and/or openvpn files. I know a few providers support this and its generally a better experience on Linux IME with Wireguard than trying to get their applications running on various different distros, since its natively supported with NetworkManager. There’s also a Wireguard app for Windows but I haven’t tried it, and of course OpenVPN is well supported on all major operating systems. Some advanced features may not be available, or can be set up in some cases at creation of the configs. I’ve only personally done this with Proton and it’s worked well. (I think PIA discontinued openvpn generation years ago which sucks as I had a lot of trouble with their app on Linux since I wanted to make a headless server)

looks like this is from january, so I guess it would have if it could have. Sites like HN are full of “but have you tried it THIS week??? Otherwise your opinion is invalid”

I don’t know what to expect from a correction since there’s just constantly a “new, better model” every day, thousands on hugging face alone, let alone proprietary ones. It makes the effort to prove the negative (ie. These models are not useful for most tasks) very high so I don’t typically argue with people about it. I think that the constant treadmill to keep up with the “improvements” is part of the marketing, to be honest.

I’m sure this is typical of every bubble but to be honest I’m not sure what’s going to pop it if GPT-5 didn’t, if OpenAI’s P/L statements don’t, if businesses aren’t fatigued yet with all of the “news” about new models, if the economics not making sense hasn’t stopped anyone… it’s a weird time in tech right now.

Yeah that’s kinda where I was landing. Outside of contexts which are medically relevant it seems like it’s used just to other trans people entirely.

At least no one says “biological X” anymore that I have to deal with, ha. Because I’d have some words with even a doctor who did, for the reasons you described. Really these terms in medicine are not addressing the core issue imo: how I was assigned at birth isn’t an indicator of X or Y, the (incorrect) hormones my body naturally produced and the anatomy that those hormones grew are the differences, right? Kind of a mouthful, though.

These assignment terms break down for intersex folks as well, because you can’t assume hormonal makeup based on how someone was assigned, since a doctor can just make it the heck up or the external anatomy can just not match pubescent development as well.

Anyway sorry it’s been something I was wondering about after hearing it yesterday and the thread here made me curious again.

my doctor used the term AMAB/AFAB this week when talking about results for a test, since there are different expecged “normal” ranges based on that. Of course she then proceeded to say that they are using the female range for me because tons of research is now showing that for this particular test hormonal makeup is a better predictor of what’s healthy.

I know that for a lot of things this is true, but surely this isn’t the case for everything though in a medical context. What terms would be appropriate instead, then, for those cases where years of the wrong hormones does matter?

also also

• day something of “see software project that might be good to use for work” and then “oh. It’s written in Rust…??.” I gotta stop being surprised by this to be honest, but the way certain tech spaces talk, Rust is a pointless language and you should just use (roll d20). It’s the best language I’ve ever learned imo and I enjoy writing it and it’s neat to see more and more projects picking it up in tons of domains. Today’s was a postgres extension for loading parquet files.
• I finally got a weapon swing animation working in my game project. Wow. I needed to make diagrams to get the damn thing in my head, it took me like a month to really get my head around the problem, but I built a basic state machine on top of Bevy’s existing animation system and IT WORKS maybe I’ll post a video sometime. Next challenges will likely be pathfinding, more state machines (but for enemy behaviours), and um I guess actually making it fun?

Believe it or not, I spent a year building houses when I was young. My bf wants to build raised garden beds as the old garden is rotting and falling apart, so I’m excited to put my skills cutting wood to work again. We talked about kits but like, it’s just some wood screwed together… Couldn’t be simpler. We are planning to skip plastic lining and treated wood just to keep the complexity down, which means they won’t last long, but I figure we can just call the setup temporary because we’ll likely want to change it up in a few years anyway.

Also also I finally found the site I have been looking for that has reasoned arguments against generative AI, proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that this whole shit is a bubble and gives me ammunition to fight back against it at work etc. I think the link was posted here yesterday. I read it all. Finally the world is making sense again. I am so sick of hearing about this shit in tech spaces, at work, etc. https://www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-against-generative-ai/ (cw: lots of numbers)

I had some trouble getting it to connect to my TV via HDMI. The solution turned out to be to switch back to the open source display driver instead of Nvidia’s proprietary one LMFAO

I actually ran into something similar with Fedora a month or two back where it would boot into a “no signal” mode. Tried a few things and it would intermittently work, sometimes I’d get to the login screen, but get “no signal” once I logged in.

I was frustrated trying to get beta nvidia drivers working on fedora so on a whim installed Arch and …it fixed the issue? Same proprietary driver version even!? Ive been using Linux my whole life and I have no clue what’s going on here.

I don’t think switching distros is a viable solution for the problem, but it is weird that it worked.

by the time I have time to respond to people the thread has rolled over :( sorry people who responded to me last week, I’ll get to it when works sucks less

my non-crt tv has coil whine when it has to display something really bright, I’m not a fan of it (at all) but maybe you’d like it? Loads of things around me do it under load (the TV is an oled which is why it has to be bright). Video cards are a big one that I constantly notice if I turn off vsync or it’s not working right.

or maybe you were supposed to warn others…

DONT

i had the actual worst sleep ever, too spicy taco + shampoo that smelled a bit too strong + having to work the next day + a billion nightmares lol i’m tired.

thanks yeah fair it’ll probably be a couple years before I can get off it I’ll have to talk to doc about risk again since despite that I am getting some anxiety about it suddenly

a quarter tab every week? wow, I’m on quarter per day and I was told the half life was like 36 hours so it made sense to take it every day to me (as prescribed)

last time I played FNV I used this guide https://vivanewvegas.moddinglinked.com/ . i thought it was fun to set up and everything but i had trouble getting MO2 working on Linux (I think its easier these days) and playing too was a good time

nice that’s a good one I keep coming back to it

which rust book are you reading?

hang in there (referring to the whole post) I know the feeling (referring to the last sentence)