Irenes (many)

You are all dreams and we are happy to know you, as you are nice dreams. We are an asexual autistic trans-feminine plural system with a label collection.

We compromise with legibility only so far as to say the following: Technology Director at Internet Safety Labs; ex-Google information privacy expert. 🏳️‍⚧️🍁

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2024-11-14 04:40:51

you know what's really nice?
software that stays where we put it in the sense that its UI doesn't get suddenly re-designed on us

2024-11-14 04:40:51

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@nprofile…vdjy we've never noticed you being rude or egotistical, for what it's worth

2024-11-14 04:40:51

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@nprofile…vdjy we haven't gone to read the remarks, but the first thing that occurs to us is that people interpret things more harshly when they recognize that the speaker has a marginalized background

2024-11-14 04:40:51

it honestly still annoys us to have trans awareness week right before trans day of remembrance. we realize we're complaining about something that's been that way for twenty years, but yeah.
remembrance is an inward-facing observance, for the community
outward-facing stuff should go at the other end of the year, with trans day of visibility

2024-11-14 03:42:52

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@nprofile…vdjy is ldap configuration in your area of expertise, because we're going to have a personal thing we want review of there at some point in the near future

2024-11-11 23:22:47

extremely solid advice on a broad variety of areas. it meets people where they are and delivers the bad news in connection with actionable steps. really great to see this solid reporting from such a widely read publication!
https://www.wired.com/story/the-wired-guide-to-protecting-yourself-from-government-surveillance/

2024-11-11 23:22:47

so in case you were wondering, the manpage slapd-config is more complete and up-to-date than the html-based openldap administrators' guide. if you are dealing with an area where the guide feels incomplete or contradictory, read the manpage.
yeah that was our entire day.

2024-11-11 23:22:47

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@npub1y0e…mm9n oh super cool!!!!

2024-11-10 01:27:30

helllllllp
we decided to try writing our own user/group management portal to use with our personal-infra ldap server

2024-11-06 00:12:32

Never, ever stop fighting to build a better world.
We are all in this together, we'll help each other survive.
If you're feeling distress, it's a good time to get some sleep. We can worry about what comes next together in the morning.

2024-11-06 00:12:32

2024-11-01 16:56:11

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@npub17j6…peza ooo yes, nice approach

2024-10-30 04:31:43

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@npub1jpp…u59l yeah we've kinda thought about it. CALDAV is a deeply disheartening thing to study lolsob.

2024-10-25 18:20:30

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@npub17j6…peza we think about that a lot too
we feel like .... as far as spinning up bespoke GUIs to show off a particular data structure or whatever goes, there's a layer of abstraction waiting to be written that sits atop all the geometry code everyone writes to do that concretely in a given case
we have actually learned that there are some cool math viz frameworks these days that we need to look into

2024-10-10 00:55:37

the fucking Salvation Army had the nerve to send us a piece of paper mail asking for donations
so we figure it's time for our annual reminder to please not donate to the Salvation Army because their mission and their services are explicitly hostile to queer people.

2024-10-08 22:11:36

"the cybernetic bias"
we've used that phrase for the first time just today, to elaborate on one aspect of some ideas we wrote a bit about over at https://irenes.space/leaves/2024-09-29-dark-cyberneticism

2024-09-24 20:54:14

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@npub1dts…6798 ... for some reason, our brain first attempted to process this as commentary about aviation safety (probably because the shape of the UFO isn't very recognizable until you really look at it)
it's interesting thinking about what the correct response for the pilots would be........

2024-09-23 20:49:24

it's still so amazing how many people we know are doing static site generators (including ourselves)
it feels like this is some sort of observance we've all accidentally decided to celebrate in the same way
or like that period right after new content comes out in an MMO, when everyone's doing it together

2024-09-11 03:30:02

we asked last night about interest in a private NNTP (Usenet) federation
because there's no reason to invent a new thing unless it's different from old things in some way
we got, like... a lot more than we expected

2024-09-06 01:30:02

(um, Brianna Wu was always publicly trans? we understand how the passage of time works but it's weird to see people not being aware of that, it was a very salient thing about her during gay mergate)
(okay, that's all we want to say about any of it)

2024-09-06 01:30:02

2024-08-31 01:30:03

has anybody ever figured out a workflow that merges the annotations from multiple annotated PDFs that were all based on the same original PDF?

2024-08-31 00:30:02

yay! we relaxed the character limit on our fedi instance from 384 to 512

2024-08-31 00:30:02

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@npub1l3g…vu48 we grant some credence to your position but we are conducting a long-term psychology experiment on ourselves to see if it's true for us :)

2024-08-30 02:30:03

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@npub1r4h…u0jf they're trying to teach you to remove it proactively :D

2024-08-16 20:30:03

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the world is just a collection of people who talk to each other. we all, including ourselves, tend to default to mirroring the attitudes we see around us back at others unless we've specifically taken the time to self-reflect and choose otherwise.
therefore, the way we talk about problems affects the people around us, which affects the world.

2024-08-16 20:30:03

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is this a large effect? well, it depends on the subject matter
is this the only thing that's needed to bring about change? almost never
is it a big deal that helps a lot? yes, definitely

2024-08-16 19:30:02

please remember, always: the future is not written, and we all have the power to change it.
it is not inevitable that something will keep happening just because it has been happening.
when we talk about large-scale problems in public, it's probably a good idea to talk in ways that remind everyone of our own ability to choose, of the options we have, that express hope.

2024-08-09 19:30:02

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@npub1gzt…8200 do the problems with prism dice also come up with the ones which are designed to be unable to stand on end?

2024-08-09 19:30:02

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@npub1gzt…8200 good to know. it sounded like you might be describing effects about what dice do while held in the hand with other dice, or something, so we figured we should ask

2024-08-02 05:30:03

we posted over on cohost about romhacking.net shutting down
we think those thoughts work best long-form, so we'll link to them
we don't normally cross-post, but we know how many of y'all on here care deeply about that stuff, so thought we'd mention it this time
https://cohost.org/ireneista/post/7129763-well-shit

2024-07-30 21:30:03

well, fuck, they passed KOSA. snuck it through faster than civil society could rally. those fucking traitors. we're absolutely furious.

2024-07-28 01:30:03

holy shit!!!!! a paper on autistic burnout!!!!! among other things demonstrating that it's a real phenomenon and not the same as depression or job burnout
https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/aut.2019.0079

2024-07-28 01:30:03

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as the authors note, "Although autistic adults often discuss experiencing “autistic burnout” and attribute serious negative outcomes to it, the concept is almost completely absent from the academic and clinical literature."
GOOD ON THEM for fixing that!

2024-07-28 01:30:03

so we probably shouldn't ask, but
what is the bad thing that has been going on here the past 48 hours? we haven't been paying attention

2024-07-28 01:30:03

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@npub1l3g…vu48 drat lol :D like, good on you, avoiding drama is for the best

2024-07-21 07:30:02

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@npub1j8q…ma30 well, yeah

2024-07-21 07:30:02

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@npub1j8q…ma30 well, yeah

2024-07-20 07:30:02

the way we play the auction house in MMOs makes us really glad we don't own a small business. we would be scarily aggressive about it and we don't like that

2024-07-17 19:30:03

as usual with this sort of thing, our take is pretty simple
execs have clearly forgotten that these programs exist to divert worker energy that would otherwise go to labor organizing
they should be reminded
https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/report-microsoft-shuts-down-dei-team-ex-lead-claims-similar-programs-at-risk

2024-07-07 13:30:02

if roads didn't already exist, the US wouldn't have the political will to build them today

2024-06-29 15:30:02

fuck yeah they went on strike anyway! good luck and solidarity
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/westjet-strike-calgary-amfa-mechanics-1.7250665

2024-06-28 02:30:03

so we went and read the list of instances that Threads has banned for completely generic reasons
and are distressed to find we're not on it

2024-06-27 12:30:03

this thing about film studios making sure that audiences have no way to see their old movies
it's every bit as self defeating as that time when shopping malls bragged about their efforts to drive away teenagers, then ten years later complained nobody shops there

2024-06-26 20:30:02

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@npub1c9m…9xjd centuries are not nearly as long as they seem like they "ought" to be

2024-06-24 20:30:03

the internet is extremely mutable. it has changed entirely, several times in our lifetime
it can be whatever we collectively want it to be
people's care and attention are the things that guide it. the power rests with all of us
don't let anyone convince you otherwise

2024-06-21 19:30:02

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@npub1jcn…0xst we DO enjoy brightly-colored poisonous frogs

2024-06-15 11:30:03

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@npub12l3…qgjv yeah they don't seek to dismantle unjust power structures, they seek to place themselves at the top of them

2024-06-15 03:30:02

it's been a while since we've said this and we suspect it has not yet reached everyone it needs to, so we'll say it again just on general principles
activists should study how movements fail, for the same reason that architects study how buildings fall down

2024-06-04 03:30:03

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@npub1u3q…kt20 oh wow right, very good point. we were wondering about motivation, but THAT makes sense.

2024-06-01 21:30:03

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@npub1r4h…u0jf oh what an excellent question
uh
hmm...

2024-05-30 00:30:02

do you know why they call it Microsoft 365
because as soon as you see it, you turn 365 degrees and walk away
(all love to our friends who are current and former Microsoft workers. this is more intended as absurdist humor than as an actual dig)

2024-05-24 23:30:02

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anyway they've released a coding challenge which, like, people who understand information theory will be aware that the thing they're asking for is unlikely to be possible... https://content.neuralink.com/compression-challenge/README.html

2024-05-24 21:30:02

so you remember Neuralink, the brain implant that we can't really call experimental because there doesn't seem to have been any sort of, like, science going on? with the lab that was investigated for animal cruelty?

2024-05-24 20:30:02

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@npub1cxy…vryr damn, yeah, that sounds like a serious violation indeed.

2024-05-13 02:30:02

you know what we kind of want?
a tiling window manager without titlebars
like the map of windows would be something you'd have to pull up separately, perhaps in some sort of "minimap" overlay

2024-05-13 02:30:02

you know what we kind of want?
a tiling window manager without titlebars
like the map of windows would be something you'd have to pull up separately, perhaps in some sort of "minimap" overlay