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Go is making me c++ insane

c++ is making me go insane

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why the fuck am i at 150 followers-

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i think i figured out the life cycle of the average linux gimmick blog

stage 1: creation. doing your best to stay on topic according to the gimmick you assigned yourself to

stage 2: rise to fame. you are noticed. your inbox is bursting

stage 3: abandonment. you run out of things to say about your gimmick. you feel guilty about it

stage 4: linux is really about yuri

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>First, we’ve discovered that about a quarter of all the internet connection in or out of the house were ad related. In a few hours, that’s about 10,000 out of 40,000 processed.

>We also discovered that every link on Twitter was blocked. This was solved by whitelisting the https://t.co domain.

>Once out browsing the Web, everything is loading pretty much instantly. It turns out most of that Page Loading malarkey we’ve been accustomed to is related to sites running auctions to sell Ad space to show you before the page loads. All gone now.

>We then found that the Samsung TV (which I really like) is very fond of yapping all about itself to Samsung HQ. All stopped now. No sign of any breakages in its function, so I’m happy enough with that.

>The primary source of distress came from the habitual Lemmings player in the house, who found they could no longer watch ads to build up their in-app gold. A workaround is being considered for this.

>The next ambition is to advance the Ad blocking so that it seamlessly removed YouTube Ads. This is the subject of ongoing research, and tinkering continues. All in all, a very successful experiment.

>Certainly this exceeds my equivalent childhood project of disassembling and assembling our rotary dial telephone. A project whose only utility was finding out how to make the phone ring when nobody was calling.

>Update: All4 on the telly appears not to have any ads any more. Goodbye Arnold Clarke!

>Lemmings problem now solved.

>Can confirm, after small tests, that RTÉ Player ads are now gone and the player on the phone is now just delivering swift, ad free streams at first click.

>Some queries along the lines of “Are you not stealing the internet?” Firstly, this is my network, so I may set it up as I please (or, you know, my son can do it and I can give him a stupid thumbs up in response). But there is a wider question, based on the ads=internet model.

>I’m afraid I passed the You Wouldn’t Download A Car point back when I first installed ad-blocking plug-ins on a browser. But consider my chatty TV. Individual consumer choice is not the method of addressing pervasive commercial surveillance.

>Should I feel morally obliged not to mute the TV when the ads come on? No, this is a standing tension- a clash of interests. But I think my interest in my family not being under intrusive or covert surveillance at home is superior to the ad company’s wish to profile them.

>Aside: 24 hours of Pi Hole stats suggests that Samsung TVs are very chatty. 14,170 chats a day.

>YouTube blocking seems difficult, as the ads usually come from the same domain as the videos. Haven’t tried it, but all of the content can also be delivered from a no-cookies version of the YouTube domain, which doesn’t have the ads. I have asked my son to poke at that idea.

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Good to know that I can stay away from X11Libre

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Apparently, X11Libre is antiwoke not because of wayland, but because of the official xserver project. The main dev of X11Libre has been banned from there as of last week.

(but both, xserver and wayland fly under the freedesktop banner, so the X11Libre Dev is probably thinking of wayland as woke as well)

Good to know that I can stay away from X11Libre

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no don't worry. of course i don't like css, especially bullshit animations. my use of the transition property is purely a sex thing

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Good to know that I can stay away from X11Libre

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when I rant about cloudflare and the unintended centralization of the internet, here's why.

the services they provide are valuable, but organizationally centralized—of course they are geographically distributed and redundant against hardware failure, but a bad config or company policy change can cause huge problems across the internet that are both hard to diagnose and hard to mitigate. for end users who don't know what a global load balancer is, it looks like half the internet just...fell off.

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So. The gender post.

I have always been interested in crossdressing. Like, as far back as I can remember. When I was a kid, I dressed up as a grandma for halloween, when I was a little older I would try on clothes and make myself look like a girl, and then I learned that there were names for that and I could buy clothes for it specifically, and tried being a femboy.

I have also always been dissatisfied with my body. I've always been heavier than I wanted, I never liked having facial hair, could never quite love my physical form. It's something I've always been self-conscious about.

Lately, I've taken it a step further and explored the idea of being trans without taking steps in real life to trial-run it. I have not had time to trial-run things, and I simply don't have the wardrobe right now for it either. I have too many things going on in my life right now to deal with this properly, so I've engaged with it passively, in the form of random thoughts and fantasy.

It is much easier to explore these things that way than it is to put on a dress in real life and look yourself in the mirror. You don't have to look at yourself and feel stupid. You don't have to put in energy or time. You don't have to do the work to get it right, and you don't have to really confront it. You can crash out here and there on the internet but it's something that can stay in the back burner.

The effect of this is that a biased representation of myself and my thoughts is presented to the tumblr audience. If you took a look through the posts I've made, it's perfectly fair to say something along the lines of "this person is transgender, suffers from dysphoria, and should start HRT."

Some very close friends in real life have said the same--people who I've lived with or speak with every day. People who know me. They've also said the opposite. There is no consistent overall consensus. Thankfully, though, there is consistent support.

I don't think I can say whether anyone has an accurate assessment of my situation because I do not have my own accurate assessment of my situation for baseline comparison. I am constantly under the influence of external pressures from other people and other people's expectations--I have friends who would tell me I am making the wrong decision, family who would support me either way, a world that would probably throw bricks at me, friends who would tell me I should try it, and a crowd of tumblr people who are mostly convinced I am a woman.

My best assessment of it is as follows: I am 75% happy as a man, and I would be 90% happy as a woman. I would be 80% happy as a more fit, better-taken-care-of man, who has gone through a round or two of laser. I do not currently believe that the 5% I would gain is worth the trouble, the side effects, the stigma, and the losses of transition. There's easier ways to achieve satisfaction with my body--ways that do not include the addition of constant medical intervention to alter my ground state.

I still need to scratch that itch, though. I am going to go buy a dress and wear it to pride, I'm going to get a girl haircut, I'm going to buy women's clothing and add it to my regular rotation, I've already got those gay little glasses, I'm going to continue to shave my legs, I'm going to have a girl fursona. I'm going to keep he/they in all of my bios. This is a part of me and it always has been.

Who knows. Maybe I'll revisit this some time, maybe in a year, maybe in ten, probably some day when I'm not working 10 hours a day 6.5 days a week and living in someone else's home or grinding out a 4.0 GPA and juggling three clubs. I just hope to god I'm not bald by then :)

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If you’re wanting to support some LGBT creators during pride month, consider supporting us.

75% of our team is LGBT in one way or another, and we need your support to stay afloat this month (and well every month but y’know).

Not only is most of our team queer, our games are too, and no not just because queer people made them and play them. (No, D&D isn’t queer, D&D culture treats queerness like a coat of paint.) An author or an audience doesn’t make something queer purely by association, a piece of art is queer if it engages in themes and experiences of people who are queer, and each of our TTRPGs do.

Our games engage meaningfully, mechanically, with the experiences of the abnormal, the discriminated against, and the marginalized. Each of our RPGs engage with mechanical reflection of gender and sexual norms, a prerequisite to enable mechanical reflection of transgressing those norms. You don’t have to take my word for it, you can download, read them, and play them here at this link (payment is optional but dearly appreciated and sorely needed), or wait and see the separate posts I’m going to make about this subject later that really delve into this. (Also accepting testimonials from fans either reblogged on this post or tagging us on your own post.)

In the meantime, we need to make an income of $2,898.83 before the end of the month, and at the time of writing this we only have $581.68. If you want to support queer artists, please consider checking out our itch.io, patreon, or ko-fi at these links.

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Horniest OS of all time tournament when?

im not sure how tumblr would feel about that one

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Oh great. YouTube now has an AI summary for the videos you watch, so you... don't have to watch them anymore

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I’m not gay or anything and that’s why I use Linux, I’m just autistic

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rotate my windows now please?

yeah, sure, no problem

OH MY GOD WHAT THE FUCK KINDA STUFF ARE YOU LOOKING AT YOU PERVERT!!!