cybervegan

Literal greybeard; 30+ year vegan; Stone Circle enthusiast; Dreadlocked #ActuallyAutistic atheist anarchist; LGBQTIA ally cis male; Anti-racist anti-fascist anti-capitalist; Maker; Shitty artist; Fixer; Upcyler/recycler; Coder; FOSS advocate and Linux enthusiast; Amateur mycologist/mushroom forager; UK West Midlands.

Music: Punk; Grunge; Folk; Psytrance
Bands: Inner Terrestrials; Bad religion; Tarantism; Levellers; 3 Daft Monkeys; Nirvana; Pearl Jam; Soundgarden; RATM; Tool; Foo Fighters

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2024-12-27 12:40:55

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@nprofile…args Maybe just reserve a bit in the first tube in anticipation, and give it as a reward/treat afterwards. They are very smart, and perfectly capable of working this kind of thing out, aren't they!
My 15YO moggy has to have liquid meds, and we currently use "cat yogurt" for this, but he will inevitably go off these again at some point... then we will have to find another way to administer it. With his main food, because he has had teeth removed, he has taken to just licking the jelly off the chunks - I think he actually spits them back out after he's got the jelly off.

2024-12-27 11:48:19

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@nprofile…7x4l We stopped at the Exeter Brightside on the way home from Devon earlier in the month, and after sitting down, 14YO declared "I can't stay here - it's all wrong" and we left. Explaining later, he said the whole atmosphere was too overstimulating and uncomfortable for his #autistic brain: the music was too loud, as was the colour-scheme, the chairs were uncomfortable, and it was too busy. No point arguing about it. #AutisticFamily.
Instead, we picked up some snacks from the Spar at the petrol station next door. All he could find that he could eat was a Gregg's glazed doughnut, and 12YO and I got to eat a flaky #vegan sausage roll whilst driving - I think most of the flaky pasty ended up on my jumper :-( but everyone was happier than would have otherwise been.

2024-12-27 11:19:08

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@nprofile…w6z6 @nprofile…wupe Speaking as someone who watched it forming from early on - in the early 90's - nobody knew what it was going to be like, only the potential. People were actively working towards something new and liberating and *special*. It was a new frontier, and it had such promise.
Everything was amazing, and as new capabilities emerged, it just kept getting better. But along the way, bit by bit (literally!) as corporations got involved, it massively changed direction.
Up until about 2003, it was still pretty good, although the rot was starting to set in, it was barely perceptible, but by 2010 it was already evident the rot had spread too far. In my view, it was mainly the deal that sucking the imperceptible essence out of "users" - profiling and tracking - was the way to "make it pay" that did the worst damage, followed by the proliferation of commercial gate-keepers and rentiers inserting themselves into transactions for everyday things like food, transport, second-hand and brand-new items, and essentially everything else, and skimming a massive portion off as their only real "value add".
There have been a number of attempts to try to reclaim the good bits, which have come and gone, such as Diaspora, but they have been few and far between, and a number of the good bits have in turn been subsumed by the behemoths (e.g. github) and have already or are in the process of "going bad".

2024-12-26 10:27:41

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@nprofile…6dvy 21st century schizoid santa!

2024-12-25 22:23:36

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@nprofile…uhjq @nprofile…uaxc @nprofile…67cd I call it "autocurrupt" for that very reason!

2024-12-25 13:31:20

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@nprofile…dwry likewise. Gf muskrat.

2024-12-24 10:44:10

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@nprofile…hgmd Lucky you... We had to go to Sainsbury's on the way to the in-laws yesterday, to pick up some last minute things because it's on the way. It was rammed, noisy and claustrophobic, and what should have been 5-10 minutes took nearly an hour.
I don't know if just having the vocabulary for this now makes it worse, or just being more aware of my internal state makes it worse, but I had full on dissociation... floaty, dis-coordinated, not quite there feeling. Not pleasant at all. Even my wife was stressed by it and she's normally chill with such things.

2024-12-24 10:03:44

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@nprofile…x7jg @nprofile…38tz I know right

2024-12-23 19:44:25

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@nprofile…yrz9 Yes, oh bit am I aware of this. You have to periodically clear out unwanted old kernels to free space up. I think over the years, what was a fine default has degraded due to kernel size bloat - it's only recently started to be a problem on Debian (last few years). I've been running Debian on my own kit full time since about 2009 and never seldom had the problem until recently, and then only in exceptional circumstances. It used to happen a lot on Ubuntu and CrunchBang, even occasionally on RHEL and CentOS when I used to use them in a with setting.

2024-12-23 19:24:31

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@nprofile…rh09 Are there ANY acronyms that haven't been purloined?

2024-12-23 18:16:41

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@nprofile…aaep Hehe, no that never crossed my mind, but it's an interesting idea. I do need to work on getting my designs more interactive!

2024-12-23 17:34:40

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@nprofile…38tz Technically, rage against the machine's "killing in the name of" is an Xmas song because it was number 1 in the 2009 charts at Xmas as a result of a protest campaign against the x factor

2024-12-23 11:59:31

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@nprofile…l4wn You wouldn't catch me out riding in a skimpy tee shirt in December! Ah, wait, southern hemisphere. Duh! Anyway enjoy your restorative solitude!

2024-12-22 15:45:34

I have this tradition where I always make wife's cards. This years effort, #LaserCut of course - a multi layer winter scene featuring a robin on a branch and snowy pines in the background. It fits over the to of her monitor so she has to keep looking at it, and has a hole for her web camera to fit in, so she doesn't have any excuse to take it down! Five layers - front is Beech ply, the others are Birch. As usual, designed in #Inkscape. A touch of colour added by borrowing my son's alcohol markers. Only took about 8 minutes, ahem, hours. She likes it so it's well worth the effort!
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/697/134/258/085/800/original/664492e734734e6c.jpg

2024-12-21 10:14:15

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@nprofile…xs90 Please don't post obscured or shortened URLs, even less so without an explanation. Just makes people suspicious.

2024-12-21 10:10:46

Happy #WinterSolstice2024

2024-12-19 08:51:06

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@nprofile…90wk I don't understand why people have to deny other people's experiences. Doesn't make sense to me: your experience, and your perception of it, is yours, and your alone.

2024-12-18 23:38:57

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@nprofile…e4jw it's a RAVE really, isn't it.

2024-12-18 23:08:43

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@nprofile…5cma Sad but true. We even go as far as buying fuel in litres, but measuring engine efficiency in miles per gallon.

2024-12-18 21:38:54

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@nprofile…38tz Roast potatoes, lots of veg and Creamy mushroom Wellington or other but or pulse bake.

2024-12-17 17:32:10

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@nprofile…wfxx I'm seeing this happen in real time as my niece started transitioning ("officially") less than a month ago. Family seem to be very supportive so far, which is good.

2024-12-16 15:10:18

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@nprofile…les6 Like, shouldn't it be possible to work out exactly how much one instance of a service delivery costs, and multiply up based on expected demand, with at feedback loop to tweak funding to account for increased costs or demand?
Allowing a profit motive in this equation can only lead to increased costs, because you have to pay for the profit in addition to the delivery costs.

2024-12-16 15:00:01

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@nprofile…q0eh Nice one! Neat job too. Well deserved rest. Take the small wins and build upon them!

2024-12-16 10:31:35

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@nprofile…nkvh "If this is as far as your culture's got I deny it" - Levellers, This garden.
It's truly shocking to the elite when the violence starts going the opposite way. This guy was a family man, but so are many other mass killers, who kill with a pen rather than a gun.

2024-12-16 10:10:57

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@nprofile…cwk7 That's the thing about abstract thought experiments, though, isn't it: because they are abstract, you can shutter any responsibility.

2024-12-16 09:44:25

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@nprofile…cwk7 I think it tends to be very reductive : problems are broken down to a highly simplified "essence" with few, simple options that bear little relation to any real problem. There are always options you are not allowed to consider - like derailing the trolley as it goes through the points by moving the points lever as it passes, or seeing the points halfway across. There are always additional options if you think hard enough, and these trolley problems encourage you not to do that.

2024-12-15 20:16:41

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@nprofile…302z Yes in certain contexts. FRFR.

2024-12-15 20:15:38

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@nprofile…d5es @nprofile…gfyr Fortunately our old moggy isn't bothered by them by my step daughter's dog gets really anxious, and it's really upsetting to see.

2024-12-15 15:05:41

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@nprofile…args I do this at work, have done for years - wondering now if I should also do it with my personal projects...

2024-12-15 09:46:50

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@nprofile…gfyr In the UK. Yes, yes we do. It used to be only for "Guy Fawkes Night", and New Year, but it's now kinda of year round but mostly concentrated in the autumn and winter months - Divali through to New Year but you still hear them occasionally at other times. It stresses wildlife a lot too.

2024-12-14 21:48:50

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@nprofile…pumv Last night here in a Travelodge here in #Plymouth to see my family, going back home to #Shropshire tomorrow morning. Havin' an evening #cuppa to wind down after a busy day socialising with family. Showcasing a mug design by @nprofile…mdmh.
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/653/337/014/290/057/original/608f0f51bf81dd18.jpg

2024-12-14 20:24:38

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@nprofile…7x4l Sometimes it's just nice to know there's an alternative. Glad it's going well. I'm using LibreWolf now too. You might find you have to tweak it a bit for some websites like ebay, etsy and anything else you need to "securely" log into, but at least you have some control.

2024-12-14 20:17:22

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@nprofile…0804 It's the only way sometimes.

2024-12-14 20:15:43

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@nprofile…7x4l It's cool isn't it. Glad you're enjoying the experience - how are you getting on with the different applications compared to windows land?

2024-12-14 20:05:05

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@nprofile…0804 @nprofile…0lq9 Ah right. Understood. I did see another response that seemed nasty, but replied independently, and directly rather than feeding the troll.

2024-12-14 20:01:28

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@nprofile…0804 @33c74427f3b2b73d5e38f3e6c991c122a55d204072356f71da49a0e209fb6940@mostr.pub @nprofile…0lq9 Not trying to insult anybody. Agreeing with you. Sorry if it came across that way - #ActuallyAutistc so may have come across wrong.

2024-12-14 19:59:58

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@nprofile…0804 @nprofile…0lq9 That's fair - I'm not saying every should/could have been as isolated as me!

2024-12-14 19:54:30

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@nprofile…0804 @nprofile…0lq9 Kind of sums up why I've always avoided facepuke and xitter, and quit reddit too prior to comin "here". Thanks for putting it into words.
Never felt drawn to fb, only used titter (before it was xitter) for an organisation I helped run, so never "personally". Happy to missing out on all the toxicity.

2024-12-11 19:42:01

Last minute keyfobs - last minute because I have to travel south to see my family tomorrow, and need to take presents with me, and should be packing. Cat silhouette keyrings and rock tower bot designed with #Inkscape (derived from previous designs) and the latter helped out by the GIMP to edit the images.
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/635/847/892/991/005/original/88968eeb6434309f.jpg
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/635/851/818/193/809/original/7275ad47f6ba7cae.jpg

2024-12-11 16:52:53

CD "Now Playing" holder done, again designed in #Inkscape as a present for a music lover.
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/634/831/245/233/106/original/21e8ca9a134204a3.jpg
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/635/182/453/778/059/original/9e88d8210a4a7965.jpg

2024-12-11 09:07:11

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@nprofile…5rv0 "I can't believe people are cheering for murder."
I know - it's terrible isn't it, all the people he maimed and killed with his money grubbing policies and yet people still cheered him on. At least someone put a stop to it, right?

2024-12-11 01:02:45

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@nprofile…p3gz Yes, I struggle with this too. My wife still forgets sometimes, but she's mostly learnt to push through the "he should just know" and tell me directly. Fortunately, it doesn't happen too often with her, but I've had it massively with previous relationships - partners, family and platonic. The only real solution, as far as I'm concerned is to talk about it. As I say, "it's never obvious to me", usually when I've missed a hint or misinterpreted something, and have upset someone.
As far as I understand it, this is very common with Autistics. For the record, I'm #ActuallyAutistc.

2024-12-10 21:19:42

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@nprofile…t4t9 @nprofile…67cd Yeah, it must run in the family or something. Fortunately, my wife has excellent exec func whereas mine is ... selective.

2024-12-10 21:06:46

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@nprofile…t4t9 @nprofile…67cd In discussing it this evening we noted that we can now re-apply for DLA for 12YO, which was previously denied, even though 14YO was approved. My wife noted that "it won't be until after she's submitted her 4 essays" for her master's course. The form filling is exhausting enough, and she does most of it, but the constant low level management you have to do, the careful communication so as not to trigger PDA or meltdowns, and the strategies you have to use to just get out the door in time for whatever you're doing that day. It becomes so "normal" you don't notice you're doing it, but it's still wearing.

2024-12-10 20:16:03

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@nprofile…t4t9 @nprofile…67cd Sorry, what I intended to say as well, was I suspect you are probably giving them a lot of help with the strategies and accommodations you have amassed over the years. When you have to list them out for an assessment, you realise exactly how much you do for them, over and above "mere parenting".

2024-12-10 20:13:40

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@nprofile…t4t9 @nprofile…67cd Truth told, whilst it's useful to know for sure - so we can access all those amazing accommodations the politicians are mad about, or maybe just get him some help in exams so he has a level playing field. But mostly because it helps us to understand how he sees things, and to form strategies to help him with his education and life skills.

2024-12-10 20:00:11

@nprofile…67cd Well, we had 12YO's Autism assessment back from Healios today... and it's positive, so he's now officially #AuDHD. I'm not surprised - it *does* explain a lot, but the comments basically said for us to keep doing what we're doing, because we identified a lot of accommodations we already make. Of course, we still have a lot to learn, so it's an ongoing project.

2024-12-09 19:33:11

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@nprofile…38tz So sorry you have to put up with that, man. Racist policing is real.

2024-12-09 18:11:52

Another #LaserCut present completed - this time a "rock tower" photo frame, again designed in #Inkscape, with help from the #GIMP to process the images with the "Newsprint" plugin. This produces better rendition of images with my laser setup and the materials I am using,
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/624/157/122/318/689/original/ece878cdfb8faaa2.jpg
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/624/201/688/005/649/original/810a675079ef15c8.jpg

2024-12-09 15:19:29

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@nprofile…7x4l Yeah, but Zach is right.

2024-12-09 11:15:01

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@nprofile…cwk7 Absolutely. The damage is already manifest. The only consolation, is that people who create will be able to go back to doing what they do when the dust has settled, if they haven't starved or worse. I think in a few years, "AI" as a marketing device, is going to be like how "Made in China" was viewed in the 70's and 80's, synonymous with poorly constructed, sub-standard wares. It became a slur. It took them decades to turn it around.
"Made by AI" will be an anathema. I think "they" should be forced to label everything AI generated as such.

2024-12-09 10:02:03

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@nprofile…cwk7 I'm not sure it will, maybe it's just blind hope, but I think that it is likely to collapse due to lack of a viable (profitable enough) business model. AI is incredibly energy and infrastructure thirsty, and thus expensive to build and maintain, but the only AI-generated things they seem to be able to sell are either not profitable, or produce easily identifiable "slop" that people instantly hate. Attempts at using AI for inappropriate things like rule enforcement and facial recognition, still regularly produce ludicrous "hallucinated" results that enrage people, and that's inherent in the technology. All the current AI companies are seriously over-leveraged on venture capital, and at some point these backers will want a pay day. If they don't get it, funding will dry up and then collapse will quickly ensue.
I hope it's not just my blind faith in human nature, but people (not execs) want stuff that has meaning and intent behind it, but AI (especially LLM's and related tech) just regurgitates effectively randomly chosen combinations of elements from their training data. There is no meaning or intent, and no reasoning.

2024-12-09 00:20:29

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@nprofile…m9ts @nprofile…n7w7 I wouldn't obsess to much on having all three skills to start with - as word gets round, the people with the skills gravitate towards repair cafes. I helped start one up about 5 years ago, after helping out with a nearby ones for a year or so. We brought together the local mens shed and a sewing group, with a few other volunteers, meeting in a non profit community cafe. There were about 6 of us to start with, and it's now ballooned to about 15 with skills ranging from sewing/textiles through woodwork, electrics, electronics to sewing machines repairs. Get a public meeting together and jump in - you can sort it the details later. The other local repair cafes will probably be super supportive and helpful.

2024-12-08 23:19:34

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@nprofile…yrqr @nprofile…67cd I feel you there. I spent about 20 years without friends, or at least, without my OWN friends - all my "friends" were workmates with some shared interests or my partner's friends' partners. Friendship rarely went beyond social visits orchestrated by her or her friends - I was just "there". I'd moved away from my hometown, to a different culture, 300 miles north (Plymouth to Birkenhead) for that relationship, and had largely lost contact with childhood friends from home. It kind of didn't bother me much at the time, but looking back, I operated in a sort of vacuum.
Anyway, time passed, that relationship died, and I found new love, with a more supportive partner, in yet another town (Telford) and got married. Obviously, my life partner is a friend, but not the same kind. In 2017, I had this harebrained idea to start up a makerspace, and followed through with it. Although it is currently on ice because *reasons*, I still have a small core of truly my own friends, from it. We help each other out with projects, chat about this and that, and share ideas and aspirations. None of these guys are massive social butterflies, but we share interests and pool our skills and tools; it's mutual and "nice". Most of them are neurodivergent too - bonus!
Also, as an offshoot of the makerspace, I also made other friends that interacted with the space, but weren't directly involved in it, like the Climate Action Hub, Men's Shed and Repair Cafe.
I don't think it's a "traditional" definition of friendship, but it works for me.

2024-12-08 22:51:32

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@nprofile…ya9q HARDCORE HEART CORES :-)

2024-12-08 21:14:17

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@nprofile…ya9q good speech and well delivered - even the crows were applauding!

2024-12-08 15:12:29

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@nprofile…fhsv "Macro" 15 year old mackerel tabby, snuggled up on his sofa.
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/617/826/864/351/202/original/11c967d78eaabd71.jpg

2024-12-08 14:42:33

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@nprofile…klvg Up until recently, it was a sign you were successfully blocking tracking cookies when you got irrelevant advertising (because it means they had no idea what you're preferences were), but I guess that's no longer true.

2024-12-08 00:24:53

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@nprofile…plw0 Yeah, but the violence is only supposed to go ONE WAY - DOWNWARDS. This guy reversed the polarity...

2024-12-07 09:22:36

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@nprofile…6k3y I live it when everything fits together!

2024-12-06 22:08:06

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@nprofile…dgxs LOL!

2024-12-06 22:07:40

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@nprofile…dgxs "Stop pathologising natural modal neuro types". They're not broken, they're just average.

2024-12-06 22:00:33

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@nprofile…dfv0 I was diagnosed in my early 40's, about 15 years ago.

2024-12-06 21:21:29

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@nprofile…7x4l I know, right.

2024-12-06 21:19:42

Finished the butterfly tea light lantern! #LaserCut #maker
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/607/936/816/161/045/original/cbcca6d90b56aaba.jpg

2024-12-06 21:10:05

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@nprofile…nf98 "Won't happen to me - I'm WAY too clever"....

2024-12-05 00:27:30

Just a quick post before I toddle off to bed. I'm being a good, busy little elf, getting pressies ready for the festivities, and I did this prototype butterfly tea-light lantern, which is, as usual, designed in #Inkscape and #LaserCut from a reclaimed corrugated cardboard carton. There are a few adjustments to make, but very pleased with this for a first draught.
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/597/338/702/310/215/original/54204cefc1cfe0ab.jpg

2024-12-04 20:09:13

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@nprofile…mdmh Where might one procure such merchandise, mister Lewis? Can you post a link, perchance?

2024-12-03 23:19:17

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@nprofile…7x4l if you can, go. I mean if you liked grunge and know Mark's work with the Screaming Trees and Queens of the Stone Age considering dinner off the names on that list, it should be a great night.

2024-12-03 11:16:39

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@nprofile…yrz9 @nprofile…p7jr ah right. Satire predicting fact perhaps we! Anyway, well suckered here!

2024-12-03 10:26:21

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@nprofile…p7jr Now there's a surprise. Watch it get blocked across the fediverse...

2024-12-03 00:10:30

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@nprofile…7wsp Hang on in there, Ashley! Don't burn yourself out!

2024-12-02 23:24:47

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@nprofile…z22s Wouldn't have it any other way!

2024-12-02 23:19:48

Oh the things I get myself into... And then wish I hadn't! A friend of my wife's asked if I could #repair her son's gaming headphones jack... Simple #soldering job I thought, so I agreed. I've soldered headphone jacks before, no problem. Yeah right. So this headset also has a mic, pretty standard you'd think. But if course, if it was, I wouldn't be posting this minor rant, would I?
The jack is 4 pole 3.5mm one, so I ordered one up on eBay. After it arrived, I set to work, hoping to glean the wiring scheme from the old one... But the old one was cast in black resin, so I couldn't see the connections, and the connections were too bad to measure with a meter. So I looked it up and found a forum post that has the details. Yay for the internet!
On the home straight, I thought, but I just could not get the wires to tin. The conductors are "varnished" like magnet wire, but also mixed in with what look like Kevlar fibres in a twist. I followed hints I found on the web, like burning the insulation off with a lighter, but it was just leaving to much residue; scraping with a razor didn't work; alcohol didn't work; lighter fluid didn't work either. I dug it my old tinning train pot; didn't help. Someone had suggested putting vaseline on the wire before lighting it - didn't work. Seems lots of people have these troubles from the comments. I'd wasted literally hours trying to sort what should be a 10 minute job, and was getting nowhere but Stressville.
In the end, I managed to do it. It takes about 5 minutes PER CONDUCTOR: separate out all the copper and plastic fibres, and crop off the plastic ones; Retwist the copper wires, then burn off the varnish with a lighter; then scrape lightly with a razor, before cleaning with a cotton bud dipped in IPA alcohol, by rubbing towards the tip of the wire repeatedly whilst turning; whack the iron up to max temp - 480C - and dab the wire plus solder bit in the tinning pot for a good minute, dragging the wire slowly past the bit; when it gets encrusted in flux deposits, scrape with razor and clean again with alcohol; repeat until the going of tin on the wire is seen; now change over to using solder wire - get a good sized blob of molten solder and bathe the wire in it, whilst dragging the bit towards the end of the wire repeatedly. There don't seem to be any shortcuts. Repeat for the remaining wires - x 5 fire this cable
I've vowed never to do headphones with this type of cable again.
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2024-12-02 00:00:02

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@nprofile…ywqr @nprofile…67cd My 14YO #Autistic son hates having sticky/dirty hands or fingers, and thus won't eat certain things without handwashing facilities... He's recently tried using chopsticks, so I will suggest this to him. Makes total sense, even though I don't have that particular sensitivity myself.

2024-12-01 23:55:28

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@nprofile…5n8f Literally a "data centre in your pocket"... someone should write a story about that! Oh, wait...

2024-12-01 18:27:53

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@nprofile…00qt @nprofile…jyky Hey, no worries, it was you who initially posted about it.

2024-12-01 18:15:09

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@nprofile…00qt @nprofile…jyky Sheesh! Is there anything about me that's not dictated by my neurotype?

2024-12-01 18:08:22

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@nprofile…00qt @nprofile…jyky Does this imply that more Autistic people are anarchists then?

2024-12-01 18:01:29

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@nprofile…evyd Point taken, but people rarely go from Windows to Linux to MacOS on the same machine (though it is possible in some cases).

2024-12-01 15:15:37

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@nprofile…evyd Got you. I know (remember) what it's like on the brink of jumping into the Linux pool, so I understand you wanting to dual boot as you test the water. In my experience, not many people choose to keep on dual booting for long because it's awkward, and a bit jolting to do so - sharing work between the partitions can be a challenge, switching track from the new tricks you've learnt to do things in a Linux environment, back to the Windows way can be frustrating, etc. But it IS a good way to get a feel for how things work in Linux land.
What usually happens is at some point you just end up deciding "sod it, I've had enough of this" and jump one way or the other - back to the comparative familiarity of Windows, or into the newfound vistas of Linux.
One thing to remember is that (still) vanishingly few software vendors do a Linux version of their software, but there are USUALLY alternatives for most things you might want to do, and THEY ARE often available for Windows too! But even if you can't live without a particular piece of software, you might be able to run it under WINE, or in a virtual Windows machine. Always worth asking round for hints or answers when you have questions you can't find ready answers for.

2024-11-30 20:30:58

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@nprofile…wjs2 "Children who get an autism diagnosis — even in its mildest form, what used to be called Asperger syndrome — can get allowances and special consideration in both the academic resources available to them, as well as their academic performance."
Milder form? You mean "less disturbing form"?
And pushing the narrative that Autistic kids get preferential treatment? That's just untrue. I don't know what reality you live in, but in the UK, it's slow, uncertain and painfully unhelpful.
"autism doesn’t have a drug to treat it" nor does lefthandedness... do you mean a drug that makes us more socially acceptable? Or a drug that makes us "normal" by rewiring our neurodivergent brains? Or maybe a drug that makes "normal" people not bothered by our differences?
"Yet I don’t know of any good mainstream media stories that have covered all the secondary (usually academic) benefits children with these kinds of disorders can get." pity we're not all savants with an amazing superpower, right? Going through school as an Austistic person was a bundle of laughs. Not. My neurodivergent kids have also not found any particular "(usually academic) benefits" either.
This takes the absolute biscuit: "Autism, like ADHD, remains a serious and often debilitating mental illness".
It's not a mental illness. It's a neurological difference and you should (and I suspect do) know better.
#ActuallAutistic #ableism #AbleistBullshit

2024-11-30 18:08:35

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It was our last #RepairCafe off the year today here in #Telford and the pub vice was used to fix someone's juicer! I knew it would come in handy, but I didn't realise it would be that quick.

2024-11-30 09:07:45

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@nprofile…gzjw They already are though - delivery rider and ride hire apps. They're even more despicable, though.

2024-11-29 23:32:36

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@nprofile…cwk7 Life Feeds on Life... at first I thought this was a playful dig at vegans, but by the end, I wasn't so sure! This one brought to mind what I've read about the wood-wide-web - I'm feeling the aliens in this story might communicate in that kind of way, with all the talk of chemical signals. Love the way you describe everyday human things as an alien might do, with no cultural reference points. Feels really otherworldly for such a short piece.
What was your inspiration for this?

2024-11-29 18:41:25

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@nprofile…k5hr Hikvision do bundles of cameras + video recorder that uses physical wires, records to a local hard disk, and does not REQUIRE cloud functionality (but can do it I believe) - I have one, and they are decent, if quirky. I have never used it online, just locally.

2024-11-29 15:14:25

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@nprofile…7wsp Hopefully any lull will be maxed up for by the later surge.

2024-11-29 14:11:48

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@nprofile…cwk7 Can you point us at a list or a URL perhaps so we can see what your wares?

2024-11-28 00:35:52

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@nprofile…gw24 Quite a good film that. love the twists.

2024-11-27 21:55:36

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@nprofile…59y4 I did think it looked quite mathematical. It was nice - Cheezly beans on it.

2024-11-26 12:51:08

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The top layer supports are now being glued...
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2024-11-24 23:16:43

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@nprofile…kn9e @nprofile…7ur2 Not sure what you are asking?

2024-11-24 23:14:39

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@nprofile…kn9e We like to make add much stuff for xmas as possible - it's kind of our small rebellion against capitalism. Bonus is, people also seem to like it, or are too polite to complain!

2024-11-24 23:00:05

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@nprofile…5d2q I'm afraid I didn't video it. There are some good guides out there, but essentially it boils down to needing that USB hub (because it only has 1 USB port, and you need to connect at least a flash drives and a keyboard) and a 32-bit Linux installer, because although the device's CPU is a 64-bit Intel Atom, the BIOS is only 32-bit so won't boot a 64-bit boot loader. IMHO it's a waste of memory to use a 64 bit OS with only 2GB of RAM anyway as this makes all memory addresses take up twice as much space but the whole memory range can be addressed in just 12 bits. Annoyingly it won't boot off a Linux installer on MMC flash memory, at least not in any configuration I found, but booting from USB flash is only a matter of enabling that in the BIOS menu. The only other change you need to make in the BIOS menu is to change the OS type to "Ubuntu Linux", though it doesn't seem to care *which* Linux distro you use. I don't like Ubuntu so I used Debian.

2024-11-24 22:08:47

I like to do a bit of electronics #upcycling. Last Sunday, I was helping out with the Repair Cafe at our local Climate Action Hub's Sustainable Sundays event, and I managed to pick up, for a small donation, an old Intel Compute Stick that someone has donated. I didn't know what, if anything, I could do with it. It dates from 2015, so it's quite old by today's standards, and this one came with Windows 8, which is of course end of life now. I'm not a fan of windows anyway, and with only 2GB RAM, and 32GB Windows 10 wouldn't be a viable option. But my speciality is installing #Linux on old computers to revive them... And although it was more of a pain than I had anticipated - requiring a USB hub, an HDMI coupler, and few bios tweaks, I now have #Debian Bookworm installed and running nicely on it! It's a great addition to our "new" (second hand) media centre screen, so now we can watch you|peer tube on the big screen, and I've attached all my ripped CDs on an MMC card so I can use it to play music too. It will eventually be plugged directly into the back of the screen, so will look pretty neat! My wife's pleased too because she'll be able to watch xmas videos with the kids on it instead of rigging up her computer and monitor on a chair!
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/540/160/795/308/312/original/d736ae5a31fc4077.jpg
https://autistics.life/system/media_attachments/files/113/540/188/689/396/479/original/d2c026c4cb5a65c6.jpg

2024-11-24 20:24:16

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@nprofile…lkaj @nprofile…67cd Yep, when you know, you know. You kind of develop ND-RADAR... I've diagnosed half of my family and workmates by now!

2024-11-24 13:06:59

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@nprofile…vfmd Let this be a lesson to you! Do not question the algorithm.

2024-11-24 12:23:38

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@nprofile…vfmd You dirty, dirty person. How can you put this disgustingly sexual content online and still sleep? Eurrgh!

2024-11-24 12:16:19

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@nprofile…7ur2 But, But, Not THAT kind of spectrum! LOL

2024-11-24 00:46:55

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@nprofile…lkaj @nprofile…67cd Depends where you are in the world, and what career path you are on. For my part, in the UK, in the IT industry it's "no biggie" being autistic. I suspect it's because there are a lot of ND people in IT.