Faye

Kobold. Wizard. Yip yip yip *BOOOM*.

Recovering back-end developer, looking to break into web development.

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2025-01-11 07:45:37

We live in a world where Facebook has literally just carved out explicit exceptions in their ToS because otherwise they’d have to ban hammer the biggest right wing figures for homophobia, antisemitism and transphobia.
In any reasonable world this would put an end to the debate over bias in moderation.
In this world I guess it’s time to just get used up even more gas lighting and continue to feel vaguely unhappy at my failure to find or build local support networks.

2025-01-10 10:20:19

Why the heck isn’t there a web site where you can plug in a maven or gradle dependency and get back any CVEs which apply?

2025-01-10 05:51:40

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@nprofile…tdlh @nprofile…9vce “we tried to launch our own hate filled spaces and failed, so we’re going to use money/power to force our hate into the existing spaces and then gas light people on a national scale when they no longer want to associate”.
It’s just insane.

2025-01-09 19:48:16

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Finished Inscryption again recently too. If you like surreal horror then you really need to play that. Inscryption is to surreal horror what Undertale is to surreal cute.

2025-01-09 19:44:47

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Guess I’m replaying the Horizon series next. Wonder if/when the third instalment is going to arrive, I kind of want to see the conclusion to the story.

2025-01-09 19:43:57

Finished Dredge for the second time. That’s quite a good game if you just want to hang your brain up for a while.

2025-01-09 14:27:38

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You may have noticed I like the walking pad. I think I’m giving off enough subtle signals.

2025-01-09 14:26:07

Everyone is like “the walking pad must be best when you’re in meetings and not very good when you’re coding”.
My personal experience is nope. Brain works about 300% efficiency if I walk while I’m doing focus work.

2025-01-08 22:21:02

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Just need to find a top who’s into tall andromorphs and is looking for a loving relationship where we work to support each other.
Who happens to have the right kind of "personality quirks" to work with my own.
Bonus points if they're a furry.

2025-01-08 22:13:23

I know and believe the whole “if you’re not happy without a partner then you won’t be happy (long term) with a partner” schtick. That makes sense on a lot of levels.
But my goodness it would be really convenient to have one, because I have a bunch of mostly emotional but occasionally physical needs that get projected in inconvenient ways.

2025-01-08 15:08:37

I really, really wish there was a Pacific Drive coop mode.

2025-01-08 12:28:53

He said that?
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gulf-of-mexico-bc438f4feca1234475a1adef99344da7
He said that.
Jesus, what a fucking narcissist.
This alone should be a massive scandal, yet here we are.

2025-01-08 08:56:40

So apparently Facebook has decided that fact checking is no longer necessary?
*takes glasses off and rubs the bridge of their nose*

2025-01-04 22:41:08

Three days of leave left. Unsure what to do with them. Got a lot of psychosomatic tiredness due to work emotions, but suspect I over did it on the walking pad and am now physically exhausted too.
Looking forward to building that conditioning up again.
Wondering if the best option is just to caffeine purge and accept that this is going to be more non-time.

2025-01-04 17:46:28

Youtube is always bad, but toxicity seems to have spiked over the last week

2025-01-03 21:27:59

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@nprofile…xnkv I wanted something with a high weight limit, folding for storage and a large stride. So I bit the bullet and went with https://uk.walkingpad.com/products/walkingpad-a1-pro-folding-treadmill-for-uk
Seems pretty good initially, we'll see if it holds up after months or years.
It folds nicely BUT it's actually pretty thick when folded so I don't have anything I can store it under. You'd need a bed or something. Also it's way longer than I actually need for my walking stride, and I'm pretty far north of six foot.
Unless you want to run on it too you might be better considering a slightly smaller one that doesn't fold but has a lower profile. Depending on the space you've got available to store it.

2025-01-03 21:11:51

Second time using the walking pad. Played an hour of Factorio.
Geeking out about this something major. Something about moving while at my station just feels awesome.
Interested to see how this works out longer term.

2025-01-03 06:53:24

Oh man, seems like the first thing the incoming administration is doing is installing the people who protected right wing disinformation sources against moderation for disinformation or hate, and propagated the conspiracy that the right are being unfairly targeted against the evidence in front of their eyes.
People are going to fall for it. Fuck this timeline.

2025-01-02 15:36:39

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I did see some people saying that if you're tall then you need the bigger ones.
They must be running. I can confirm that as someone well over six foot and with a pretty decent stride a 120cm pad is much longer than I need for walking.

2025-01-02 15:34:12

Bought a walking pad and IKEA basics standing desk. Because anything to get my overweight software engineer back side moving.
Honestly, initial response is extremely positive. Potentially "should have done this last year" positive. Will report back in a month or two when I've had the chance to seriously use it.

2025-01-02 06:29:03

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@nprofile…xnkv good luck!

2025-01-01 09:00:54

Porridge that comes out of the thermomix is definately nicer than the stuff I make myself.
Ease of use is mixed. On the one hand no need to baby sit anything, which is a big plus. One step closer to fully automated luxury gay space communism.
On the other hand despite the surprisingly effective self clean cycle it's rather fiddly to get the last of the residue off the basin.

2025-01-01 08:46:00

I continue to use https://kagi.com/ for search.
And honestly, for something I use almost all the time, it's nice to not be bombarded with AI and "Sponsored Posts".

2025-01-01 08:44:59

ghostty is finally out 🥳
https://ghostty.org/

2025-01-01 08:41:11

I am a <Kobold>
Seeking an <Internet Gremlin>
For <Being Far Too Online All The Time>

2025-01-01 08:37:08

Happy new year, everyone.

2024-12-31 21:38:30

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@nprofile…zxaq "when the law loses respect for the people, people lose respect for the law"

2024-12-31 21:35:12

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@nprofile…zxaq yay, parents?

2024-12-31 15:05:57

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@nprofile…5lc3 @nprofile…ykpe this is truly a sign that Elon is the stable genius we need to save the world
(/s. /s so hard.)

2024-12-31 09:47:48

I made risotto. So that’s something.

2024-12-31 07:47:17

Current list:
- republicans rated conspiracy theories about liberal oligarchs, now openly simp for an oligarch
- republicans rated conspiracy theories about liberal billionaires putting microchips in our brains, now openly simp for billionaire who wants to put microchips in our brains
Now adding:
- republicans who raised conspiracy theories about a liberal POTUS being born in Africa, now simp for the de facto president who was openly born in Africa

2024-12-30 17:29:26

I have a built in distrust of youtubers, but Gary's Economics has a single, simple message that he repeats continuously until maybe it will stick:
"There are many contributing factors, and they're valid, but the biggest reason by far that your life is shit is because of inequality."
https://www.youtube.com/@garyseconomics
My jaded soul wonders if there may be some hope there.

2024-12-30 13:33:03

Just a day and a half until I get a week’s annual leave.
I have so much nothing to do.
And so much house work.

2024-12-30 13:13:40

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:s6j27rxb3ic2rxw73ixgqv2p/post/3leikio4kog2h
Just. Holy fuck.
As always, according to the right it’s the people with the least control who are to blame for life being shit.

2024-12-30 12:49:34

I’d love to own an orange cat.
Just the dumbest little guy.
The cutest little dayglow moron.

2024-12-30 10:20:46

(To the tune of “Do You Want To Build Snow Man”)
🎶 So you wanna date a furry 🎶🦊

2024-12-29 11:39:37

Sooo.... I'm probably here for another two years before I reach my savings goal for mortage deposit + fund for misc costs + remaining emergency fund.
Honestly shocked by how much nicer it is now I have some table/desk space which is not in my office. Just going to bunker down and get on with life I guess.

2024-12-29 11:38:02

In hindsight I wouldn't have bought the thermomix.
The idea was it would improve my ability to get a varied diet. It hasn't. I found it did help me plan a varied diet, but the execution still burns me out pretty bad if I'm under stress.
That said, it's a pretty fantastic device for when I'm not stressed AF. Got to say the ability to just put ingredients in and have some pretty awesome food come out the other side is amazing and I want to take advantage of the thing I paid out the nose for more in the future.
So not great for its intended purpose, but I think I'll probably be able to extract the value for money out of it over the next few years.

2024-12-29 11:06:40

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@nprofile…d3kv @nprofile…agjw whut

2024-12-29 11:02:29

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Like, the country is fucked after fourteen years of Tory governance with an honourable mention for New Labour, and apparently the reason that everyone is having a hard time is all the fault of the group with the least ability to defend themselves.
Big brain logic there.

2024-12-29 10:55:41

Accidentally stumbling outside my YouTube bubble and finding all the comments complaining about how the left has “gone too far”.
My siblings in Cthulhu, we haven’t had a government which has been left of Center in my lifetime, and nobody important cared about all these culture war issues until the right wing pundits decided to drum them up in order to distract from the biggest transfer of wealth from poor to rich for generations.

2024-12-27 01:33:55

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@nprofile…0pkk @nprofile…agjw I feel called out

2024-12-25 10:38:08

Spending the morning working on the office.
If I'm lucky my present to myself will be clearing out and finding somewhere to archive all the official looking letters that I've been avoiding for a year now.

2024-12-25 08:15:50

My next goal is to get some non-office table space for non-work related creativity and planning/paperwork.
Looks like the Ikea basic standing desk is actually the best form factor to fit into my limited slots.
Of course now my sedentary software engineer ass is eyeing up walking pads. One of the staff engineers at work uses one and swears by it.
On the one hand, more stuff is bad, on the other hand making it easier for my overweight rear end to get an extra hour or two of walking during work hours sounds really, _really_ attractive.

2024-12-25 08:09:20

Been playing Helldivers 2 on crossplay on the PS5 with a bunch of PC players. Pretty much constantly need to be carried.
Broke down and bought it for PC. No longer need quite as useless. Yep. The mouse/keyboard advantage is real.

2024-12-25 08:07:02

Merry Christmas.

2024-12-25 08:06:28

I'm getting along really well with Miro as a planning/note-taking/whiteboarding tool right now.
The 3 boards on the free plan are pretty usable for just general personal stuff, and the fact they're not limited like Lucid's free plan makes them practical to use.
$8 a month feels pretty steep if I wanted to upgrade though. There must be some FOSS equivalent available that I could self-host or something.

2024-12-23 09:20:18

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@nprofile…ea24 @nprofile…vdjy @nprofile…sqcg I mean, yeah. Honestly I find whether I’m doing solo or pair work the most efficient use of my time is usually about 50-60% focus and the rest either letting my mind wonder or talking light shop with collaborators. I try focusing for longer than that and my productivity plummets. I’m still one of the better performers on the team.
Having also worked a four day week my anecdotal experience is that is much more productive and pleasant all around. The biggest issue is that if you’re the only person on the team doing that then your off-day becomes everyone else’s focus time, which means the rest of your week can get blatted by meetings.

2024-12-21 17:49:36

Heh.
The Helluva Boss Season 2 finale hits hard.