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soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Consequences also have consequences.

There are currently a handful of people openly hating on me because they see me, pissed off, and interpret my actions and tone as "arrogant" or "smug".

Which is a fair interpretation if you ignore the behavior that provoked my response. That is why I try to be transparent about my motivations for publishing my opinions whenever I'm using inflammatory word choice. But that can only help so much.

This is all to say: Don't be surprised if loose ties or strangers curse my name in your travels. Some of them may think they have good reason for it.

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

One of the more painful (heh) lessons in life is that actions have consequences. Maybe social consequences. Maybe financial or legal ones.

Sure, you can't slap someone's face over the Internet (though IRC's /commands and trout were a common experience in my age group), the way you can in movie theater parking lots.

And the easiest way to avoid provoking a response you don't like is to avoid being a dick.

Matrix got proverbially smacked twice because its evangelists were rude and spoke over me.

Other messaging apps provoked this response through arrogance or trying to spread baseless fear in apps that actually implemented their encryption better than theirs.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

I really want to start using the story feature on Signal. I used to write thread-like stories on Instagram and I missed that format.

I guess I'd just have to start publishing stories without anyone looking at them at first.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
S-Config@core.s-config.com wrote:

Microslop....

I'm doing my part.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
alice@lgbtqia.space ("🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)") wrote:

Here's to all the kids who were born with non-default settings; to all you who put the effort in to figure yourselves out.

You're amazing and deserve to be celebrated.

I'm glad you're here 💝

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻 ✍️ 🥐 🇵🇷") wrote:

How much market cap can we wash away by simply using the term “Microslop?” My guess is a lot.

Microsoft gets tired of “Microslop,” bans the word on its Discord, then locks the server after backlash https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/03/02/microsoft-gets-tired-of-microslop-bans-the-word-on-its-discord-then-locks-the-server-after-backlash/

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Too many people would benefit from a bit of wisdom from growing up in the 90's and 00's:

Talk shit

Get hit

This doesn't always mean physical violence.

Sometimes it means a furry points out how shitty your code is after you grandstand pompously about how you write code or design protocols.

Something something all is fair in love and vore

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

I am so glad I got the opportunity to grow up in an age where there were no restrictions on what I could do with computers I could access.

Personally I consider any attempt to remove that access from anyone as abhorrent. It is a core part of who I am.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

The California age verification law imposes behaviour of application developers that I consider morally absurd.

As an application developer, I will never request any information from the OS or any other place to gather personal information about a user - especially if the act of that request has legal implications on what I am deemed to "know".

I simply won't.

Any system that enforces such a check, is a system I will not support.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
sarahjamielewis ("Sarah Jamie Lewis") wrote:

The danger with these kinds of laws is that it is very easy to make them sound reasonable.

To fix that, please imagine these restrictions and requirements applied to book publishers and authors and libraries.

It would be absurd to require age verification/checking before being able to read something. We allow parents to decide what is suitable for their own children, but we do not require librarians or bookstores to do age checks, nor hold authors liable for precocious reading.

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jerry@infosec.exchange ("Jerry 🦙💝🦙") wrote:

I feel like whoever is running the phishing op to scam fediverse people out of money may not be that great at their jobs

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
FediTips@social.growyourown.services ("Fedi.Tips") wrote:

⚠️ Scam warning: there are accounts posing as Mastodon admins claiming to offer "rewards" or "payments" or "partnerships".

These are scams. There are no reward or payment schemes on Mastodon. No genuine admin would ever send this kind of post or reply.

If you see scam posts like the ones in the screenshot below, report them by clicking ⋯ on the scam posts and then selecting "report".

#Mastodon

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
jonobie@social.coop ("Jonobie") wrote:

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rust@social.rust-lang.org ("Rust Language") wrote:

RE: https://social.rust-lang.org/@rust/115565961664226194

The results of the 2025 State of Rust Survey are now available! 📊

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2026/03/02/2025-State-Of-Rust-Survey-results/

Boosted by jwz:
brentsimmons@indieweb.social ("Brent Simmons") wrote:

Before sending Apple any money this week, remember that Tim Cook attended a private screening of the Melania documentary at the White House later in the same day that Alex Pretti was murdered by this administration. He knew about it and went anyway.

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

We hear of "nine nines" of uptime as a goal for a system, but today @ahl and I are going to be joined by the @oxidecomputer team to talk about a subsystem that had that uptime -- and how it wasn't nearly enough. Join us at 5p Pacific for a wild, multi-year debugging tale!
https://discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=1478128159021989950

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
Laust@ohai.social wrote:

RE: https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/116159602850585685

Cool, I hope this bears fruit. The smartphone market needs alternatives to Google. Especially in Denmark stock Android (and iOS) has become the only acceptable standard if you ask the public sector (well, the government basically).

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Being Left Behind Enjoyer") wrote:

Is there a slow software movement?

as in a pledge to ship only well-tested and polished software and only do it very occasionally instead of deploying slop multiple times a day that your users will have to ingest like a king's food taster

Boosted by jwz:
fooflington@infosec.exchange ("Matthew Slowe") wrote:

This deserves a slow-clap for Apple…

An update to macOS 26.3 is overdue. You can install it now or it will be installed automatically Yesterday, 20:06

#fail #macos #apple #slowclap

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your Women’s History Month art post for today: by Nigerian born artist Data Oruwari (born 1987), based in Brooklyn, The Awakening, 2019, ink, acrylic, gouache and gold leaf on archival paper, 14x20 inches, ©️Data Oruwari #womanartist #womenartists #drawing #africanartist

From Design Indaba: “Creative strategist Data Oruwari is formally trained in law and branding but her real passion is creativity. Self-taught in illustration and graphic design, Oruwari creates a number of projects inspired by African subjects. Her mircopen illustrations are characterised by intricate, monochrome dimensions that bring her ideas to life.”

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The artist’s Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dataoruwari

https://www.instagram.com/dataoruwari

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
earthshine@masto.hackers.town ("Earthshine") wrote:

@RhaneOS @Soozcat @soatok you mean Slopya Nadella?

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
RhaneOS@girlcock.club ("ChloeOS/2") wrote:

@Soozcat @soatok I've been calling it billslop, maybe they won't mind if their discord atarts calling that instead?

Boosted by jwz:
oneunderscore__@threads.net ("Ben Collins") wrote:

I may disagree with his policy of starting a world war because the documented pedophilia was getting too loud, but there is one thing we can all agree on: he's getting MUCH sexier.

RE: https://www.threads.com/@aaron.rupar/post/DVZBdhjj55-

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
Soozcat@vmst.io wrote:

@soatok I mean, if they don't like "Microslop" maybe they should stop making it

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam"):
digitalpardoe@social.lol ("Alex Pardoe") wrote:

Has anyone published a breathless defence of Ben Thompson on Micro.blog yet?

Boosted by jwz:
IndivisibleSF@sfba.social ("Indivisible SF") wrote:

NO WAR IN IRAN
emergency action ,

Monday March 2, 5:30 pm Embarcadero Plaza

Led by PYM, PSL, ANSWER, DSA SF, and others #Iran

Boosted by soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker"):
syphist@zoner.work ("Syphist :verifiedtrans:") wrote:

Hello everyone! Thanks for opening the CW. Itch.io is doing a bundle to fundraise money for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota to help fight against the ICE presence in my state. $10 or more to this fund will get you over 1,000 items on itch! Here's a link:
https://itch.io/b/3484/no-ice-in-minnesota

jwz wrote:

Linux Xft Unicode fonts.

Dear Lazyweb, can someone show me a straightforward example of an X11 program calling XftDrawStringUtf8 that succeeds in displaying Japanese characters? On Debian 13 with "fonts-noto" installed, "lxterminal" can do it but XScreenSaver still can't seem to display anything more complicated than Cyrillic.

E.g. "unicrud --block Katakana".
https://jwz.org/b/yk39

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

have you ever hear the term "spreading activation"?? it'll kill ya

minor changes in this https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/backstory.html resulted in major changes in this https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html resulted in the start of a "Players' Manual" at https://boris.arghstudios.com/design/architecture.html

and that is more than enough work for one day ::poof::

soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:

Loup-Vaillant wrote this on Lobste.rs in a dumb rant about my Matrix disclosure:

Personally I would actively avoid the check,

Hmm. What a weird thing to say.

Loup-Vaillant wrote a cryptography library called Monocypher, which famously had an EdDSA vulnerability mostly caused by their insistence on rolling their own custom EdDSA variant to avoid SHA512.

"I wonder how Monocypher holds up in 2026?"

Who said that? Well, anyway:

https://github.com/LoupVaillant/Monocypher/issues/285