#GUI/Controller software support

[pennyblossom-meta]

Do you believe L would prefer to be with someone who is smart academic wise or some other brainy smart or would he not mind someone who is “average” but has something outside of academics they may excel at? (history, cooking, art, baking, sports etc)

Hi there anon! Thanks for question. I've actually theorised about this exact topic a couple of times before, and I might actually have an unorthodox opinion about it. But before I start my analysis, I would like to refer you to a few metas that I personally find extremely compelling and which have also shaped my view of L.

Toxic love, by @lunalit-river

An analysis on L's monster speech by lux-mea-lex (lots of great metas in their livejournal)

A short interpretation of the monster speech by @lawlightautismtruther (also check the debate on that one, it's very interesting to see the different opinions across the fandom)

How L and Light judge each other and other people

Just about most of @my-one-true-l 's metas about L, like this one and this one about L's flaws.

@43501 has a great meta about L in a relationship which I agree with wholeheartedly.

Apologies in advance for the length in this rant of mine. I like to analyse L from different angles, as you might've guessed 😛

Short answer:

I think L would appreciate someone who makes an effort to meet him where he's at and accepts him for who he is. Someone he can have a conversation with, but is ultimately kind and trustworthy. These two qualities would be to L like a lifeline, because it's something he's missing on an intimate level. While Watari is loyal to him and cares about his well being, these are different types of relationships.

>>>>>Long answer under the cut

So, one of the things I find that helps me when looking at L from this romantic perspective is to search for clues across canon (manga, anime) and the expanded universe (L:CtW, LA:BB, drama, Spiraling Trap, etc) that explain what's going on in his head and, most importantly, what makes him interested in people.

As per your question:

Do you believe L would prefer to be with someone who is smart academic wise or some other brainy smart or would he not mind someone who is “average” but has something outside of academics they may excel at? (history, cooking, art, baking, sports etc)

Let's approach this in two parts. If we were analysing this from a relationship POV, whether romantic or platonic, I can see two major interpretations:

(Chapter 20: First move) Here's a screenshot of L losing a tennis match to Light. Makes him less daunting, doesn't it? To know even L can lose at not-so-mundane-but-still-quite-normal things he's supposed to be great at.

01: The intellectual allure vs a supportive SO

There's oceans of difference between being a genius and someone who can give L support and companionship, despite not speaking the same "language". This would not be too dissimilar to couples with wildly different career paths (ex: a nurse and a software developer) who meet halfway and actively choose to understand each other. It has to do with common goals and values, your life project together.

Love is something you choose every day. Staying in a long-term relationship is choosing to be vulnerable and to share your life with someone you find kinship with. Unorthodox L may be, but as Fu Takahashi (who plays L in the 2020 musical) said:

(...) despite his superficial image as a smart guy who hates losing, he actually feels lonely and needs affection, I imagine (...) He tries to control his emotions, like the feelings towards his parents, or romantic feelings; that’s why he is sort of dependent on games or battles of the mind.

The above quote is super important, in my opinion, considering how difficult it is to pin down L's true personality. If we go by Spiraling Trap terms, he falls for a main character who pays attention to his (dessert) needs and makes him feel 'seen'. Taken cared of. Someone who is genuinely kind to him and wants to do him a good turn because they care about him. We can extrapolate that this is, perhaps, due to his isolationist tendencies and lack of meaningful contact with the sort who take time to want to know the true L and what he likes. To that kind of person, L isn't just the world's greatest detective or a machine, lacking human emotion --- that person acknowledges that he has feelings, likes and dislikes, and isn't malicious towards him.

Consider that L lies a lot. He'd lie twice saying "good morning" if it suited him, which makes for an unhealthy dynamic. However, for those he truly cares about, I believe he would be far more careful to safeguard the few genuine connections he has in life and thus try to curb some bad behaviours to the best of his ability.

I believe @43501 put it best when they mentioned how L would prefer an [educated, clever partner] but that he'd be drawn to people who are [interesting and offbeat]. I would argue this doesn't mean a double PhD level of intelligence, but rather someone who is curious about the world, who talks to him like an equal (i.e., not as if he's superior or inferior to them). There would need to be something to that person that made them unique to L --- but uniqueness in the context of someone who suppresses their emotions so strongly, and would find themselves to be starving for affection once they found that source of comfort and support, I believe that uniqueness could be kindness.

Accept the man despite his quirks and flaws, in all his intensity, and I believe it would be impossible for L to be indifferent to that kind of genuine devotion. After all, he's been without all his life and likely never thought he'd find it. It's possible that, in his loneliness, a part of him even thought himself to be above such things, but what a tumble it would be, for L to find that he's a man dying of thirst.

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Now, in manga canon (and throughout the source material closest to it), L and Light find a degree of interest in each other for how similar they are in intellect. This creates a connection, even respect between the two, allowing them to see beyond each other's mask. It's thrilling, a cat and mouse game which they arguably become addicted to. Once L dies, Light even muses how Near is lacking by comparison, undeserving.

However, if we go by what V13:HTR says regarding their relationship, then L does think quite poorly of Light beyond their matching intellect. This is more or less explicit in a couple of scenes in the manga and anime where L muses about how much Light talks, how cheesy he is with his faux morality, putting up an act.

No matter L's interest in the game with Light, he doesn't trust him. Trust is paramount to build a healthy relationship. Theirs would be a toxic, petty relationship standing on foundations of distrust, and a thirst for constant competition.

From this perspective, L arguably wouldn't be in love, but stuck in an addictive powerplay. Very engaging to read about; certainly challenging (and interesting!) to write — but not so good to live through. The best case scenario I can see for such a relationship would be something like the series Vicious with Sir Ian McKellen and Derek Jacobi, in which they settle into a constant clash of snark.

I talk here about the prospect of L being 'out of balance' emotionally, which makes him dive into games of the mind to distract himself from his burdens.

02. Appreciation for another type of individual, the average...Sam?

(Chapter 21: Duplicity) Added this one here because this exchange always makes me chuckle.

I'd like to focus on the 2015 drama to establish a parallel with this 'average' Sam concept.

In this adaptation, Light is far more 'normal' than in any other. He diverges from his original canon self in various ways, though the most interesting for me was how the drama tried to show what Light, as a regular young adult, could be if he wasn't an extreme genius, a perfect guy in the eyes of society --- and how this shift would contrast with L.

Drama Light:

Goes to concerts

Is a fanboy

Is clumsy

Gets bullied

He's not the perfect guy with an immaculate reputation. It brings him further down to the ground, like us common mortals.

Both L and Light found solace and appreciation in the differences of their mindset. A more 'average' Light still managed to connect with L, leading to this scene:

If we consider the drama and then extrapolate a few conclusions from these interactions, we can argue that an 'average' but grounding presence in L's life would do him good. An uber genius might be able to follow L's thought process more easily, but they can still become an issue or more easily turn on him for the intellectual competition and to surpass the world's greatest detective.

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TLDR; I would argue that an average individual would still be a perfect match for L, perhaps far more than an incredible genius. L would value kindness and care far more than super intellect, especially if he was on the receiving end of this kind of genuine connection.

[autolenaphilia]

One thing I noticed talking about Linux and free software is that a lot of people seem afraid of learning things about technology. I constantly read things like "I hate windows, but switching to linux would mean learning a new OS, and you have to be some super-smart programmer-hacker to do that." Or even: "Switching to firefox would mean switching browsers and I don't know how"

And that is precisely the attitude tech companies like Microsoft and Apple try to instill in their users in order to control them. They create these simple and “friendly” user interfaces for their products, but these hide information. From their OS being pre-installed to their settings apps, they keep people from learning things about how their computer works, and letting the companies make the decisions for their users.

I think people are underestimating themselves and overestimating how hard it is to learn new things are. It is like Windows/Macos have taught them some kind of technological learned helplessness. Not knowing how computers work and being afraid to learn how is how companies like Microsoft controls you, and justifies that control.

For example, people hate the forced and automatic system updates on Windows. And Microsoft justifies it as necessary because some people don’t know that their computer needs security updates and therefore don’t update, so they have to force the updates on them. That’s definitely true, and Microsoft’s tech support people is definitely very aware of that but it is a operating system that presumes that the user is incompetent and therefore shouldn’t control their own computer. And of course Microsoft abuses that power to force privacy-invading features on their users. Windows updates are also badly designed in comparison, no Linux distro I’ve used required the update program to hijack the entire computer, preventing the user from doing other things, but Windows does.

This is the dark side of “user-friendly” design. By requiring zero knowledge and zero responsibility for the user, they also take control away from the user. User-friendly graphical user interfaces (GUI) can also hide the inner workings of a system in comparison to the command line, which enables more precise control of your computer and give you more knowledge about what it is doing.

Even GUIs are not all made equal in regards to this, as the comparison between the Windows Control panel and their newer Settings app demonstrates. As I complained about before, Windows have hidden away the powerful, but complex Control Panel in favor of the slicker-looking but simplified and less powerful Settings app for over a decade now.

Of course this is a sliding scale, and there is a sensible middle-ground between using the command line for everything and user-friendly design masking taking control away from the end user.

There are Linux distros like Linux Mint and MX Linux who have created their own GUI apps for tasks that would otherwise use the command line, without taking control away from the user. This is mainly because they are open source non-profit community-driven distros, instead of being proprietary OSes made by profit-driven megacorps.

Still, giving that control to the user presumes some knowledge and responsibility on part of the user. To return to the update example, by default both Mint and MX will search and notify you of available updates, but you will have to take the decision to download and install them. Automatic updates are available in both cases, but it’s opt-in, you have to enable that option yourself. And that approach presumes that you know that you should update your system to plug security holes, something not all people do. It gives you control because it presumes you have knowledge and can take responsibility for those decisions.

All this also applies to the underlying fact that practically all pre-built computers nowadays have an operating system pre-installed. Few people install an OS themselves nowadays, instead they use whatever came with the computer. It’s usually either Windows or MacOS for desktops/laptops, and Android/IOS for smartphones (which are also a type of computer).

Now all this is very convenient and user-friendly, since it means you don’t have to learn how to install your own operating system. The OEM takes care of that for you. But again, this is a convenience that takes choice away from you. If you don’t learn how to install your own OS, you are stuck with whatever that is on the computer you bought. It’s probably precisely this step that scares people away from Linux, few people have installed even Windows, and installing your own OS seems impossibly scary. But again, learning is the only way to take back control. If you learn how to install an OS off an USB stick, you now have choices in what OS to use. (Sidenote: the hard part IMO is not the actual install process, but fiddling with the BIOS so it will actually boot from the distro on the USB stick. This old comic strip illustrates this very well).

That’s how life is in general, not just computers. Having control over your life means making decisions based on your own judgment. And to make sensible, rational decisions, you have to learn things, acquire knowledge.

The only other alternative is letting others take those decisions for you. You don’t have to learn anything, but you have no control. And in the tech world, that means big corporations like Microsoft, Google and Apple will make those decisions, and they are motivated by their own profits, not your well-being.

Computers have only become more and more capable and more important in our lives, and that can enable wonderful things. But it also means more power to the tech companies, more power over our lives. And the only way to resist that is to learn about computers, to enable us to make our own decisions about how we use technology.

[sexhaver]

definitely one of the most difficult moments of my professional career was when i was doing tech support for [REDACTED]'s automated biomed research lab and like. hang on lemme greentext this

>tell them i can fix this issue in half an hour with a remote support session (aka Teamviewer)

>"you want to... control our computers???? over the internet????? like some kind of HACKER???????"

>their IT submits my request to upper management and after two weeks they reluctantly allow me to get remote access to their systems

>by logging into a virtual machine using a 20-digit password and then using a specific program inside of that virtual machine

>while sharing my screen with someone from their IT team the entire time

>finally get remote access to the PC with the issue

>go to open log files to start troubleshooting

>ERROR: User does not have read permissions.

>what the fuck

>ask their IT guy why it's saying that

>"...because we don't want you looking at our stuff, duh?"

>take deep breath before calmly explaining that i need to open files in order to fix their problem

>IT guy submits my request to upper management

>after another week i go through the whole process again but can actually open the log file this time

>cool, it's exactly the issue i thought it was and i know exactly how to solve it

>open the relevant settings file, change a single number, hit Save

>ERROR: User does not have write permissions.

>what the FUCK

>ask IT guy how i'm supposed to fix their system if i can't change literally anything on it

>takes 20 minutes of arguing to get him to admit that maybe i need write access

>he submits the request to upper management

>a week goes by

>upper management denies it

>says i can just verbally tell the IT guy on the call what to type and he'll do it for me

>deep breaths. deep breaths.

>start third remote session

>go to open the relevant .log file in notepad, which isn't the default program it opens with for some reason

>they fucking disabled right clicking

>[REDACTED] has a $118 billion market cap btw

>manage to walk the IT guy through using the command line (which he had never seen before and was scared of) to edit the relevant file

>three weeks go by

>new support ticket in my inbox

>"why didn't your fix fix this completely unrelated issue?"

>they still won't give me write access

>VP of [REDACTED] yells at me in our weekly meeting for taking so long to fix a third unrelated issue they never submitted a ticket for and is also not actually an "issue" but an intended feature of our software that they don't like

>i went to college for this

[osakanone]

Exotic doctrine theory: Grappling & Booster-fu

Source of the song is "If you Dare", anime is Orguss 02 episode 1

When all conventional means of machine combat are forclosed, only unconventional means remain: This is what seperates the aces from the jobbers, bitches: the capacity to improvise.

A fighter pilot will jam the WEZ, that's weapon engagement zone: the minimum arming range of a missile before it will hurt both the enemy and yourself -- but what about mech pilots?

You get up in their BAZ; the Ballistic Attack Zone, with the tip of the barrel behind you. How do you stay safe up close like this?

You ever seen any soft-bodied octopus or starfish get into a crab?

They have hard bodies and are all soft underneath, like a mech. They're not impervious.

Why? Any hard body is made of levers:

Drive any joint to its limit and you have an instant fulcrum to rip at the inner structures and shatter the outer form.

But then what?

No blades? No pile bunkers? No problem.

Ground talons. Rollers. Grappling hooks. Joints.

The sheer fucking mass and density of your armour plating.

Your whole body is a weapon.

Some of you make 3:1 against your mass with your boosters.

That's a lot of energy and if it has nowhere to go very bad things happen.

Some of you can do this with neural implants but you've got biofeedback out of the wazoo to contend with, which is why so many of you go twinkly eyed with overload daze out when you lock up with an opponent.

The smart among you are already running a specialist grips and inceptors in your cockpits, so you can dip out of the feedback when you need to and you're TAZ compliant: that's TORSION, ASPECT and ZONE controller, so named for the work of a Dr Senerchia, a fighter who deserved better than they got, and a treasure to us all.

So what does that mean to you?

A mixture of special software, and a pair of extra thumbsticks for your index fingers on your grips above the triggers.

Those of you familiar with loaders or cargo-work will find it familiar.

The rest of you: they're there to override and guide cueing information based entirely on brutal trial and error that'll make the size or weight of your frame irrelevant in CQB.

You can't rely on fixed solvers and playback to do the work for you with some existing motion-plan: You need to invent a new one on the fly using all of your fine control inputs.

So how is this relevant to you?

A Class A heavy support is fucked against a Class F attacker surely with the height difference and loadout, right? That's fifty tons of mass and nine meters of stature apart.

But watch an A slam its talons into the dirt, wrap the F with its wire anchors, and then perform a boost suplex, knock its barrels under the deflection plating of the other guy and follow-up up with a full sabot alpha-strike at point blank.

Any trainer worth their salt will teach you this shit.

You should know how to grapple with your sisters, and to practice regularly in and out of the cockpit. You need to get familiar with how bodies roll across eachother in motion.

You get lucky and you'll get some special training with oxytocin boosting mucus membrane massage and carotid restraint to simulate g-loc until you see stars to keep it memorable.

Have fun out there.

Class dismissed.

[haiisx]

can we hear more about adam's quirk and his support items? im really curious abt them!

Of course, Anon! I'm so happy to hear that you're interested!

Adam's Quirk is called Phase Shift. Pre-awakening, it allows him to change the state of any matter he touches, such as turning a liquid into a solid or a solid into a gas, etc etc. One of his trademark moves is solidifying the air around him, which he uses to create solid walls of air or stepping stones to allow him to walk on air, in a sense.

Post-awakening, his Quirk not only alters the bonds between molecules, but the bonds between atoms and subatomic particles. For example, he could manually take hydrogen gas and oxygen gas and make Hydrogen Peroxide, or knock an oxygen atom out of each molecule and create water. He has to be very precise, and his ability is dependent on his knowledge of chemistry. After his Quirk Awakening, one of his signature moves is to create a combustion reaction upon punching a villain (I mostly came up with this because the idea of him punching a villain and the spot exploding on impact was really cool to me).

Moving onto his support items; they actually work to counteract his Quirk. Adam is not immune to his own Quirk! From a young age, his messed with the molecules in his own body without his control. It was a very small disturbance at first, but as his Quirk developed the effect it had on him increased.

It began with his hands. At around 13-ish years old, his Quirk started to cause him pain as it attempted to change the phase of the matter in Adam's hands. That was when he got his first support items. I'm a little fuzzy on what these support items looked like exactly, but they resembled gloves with some tech woven into the fabric. They canceled out his Quirk in small doses.

These support items worked for a while, but at 16-ish years old he had to get new ones. This time, the pain had spread up to his arms. His next support items were similar to his last ones, but the sleeves extended up to his elbows.

Like the last ones, these didn't last very long. By 18, he needed new support items. His new support items were an experimental design meant to track brain activity and cancel his Quirk completely when he wasn't consciously making an effort to use his Quirk. Something so high-tech was incredibly expensive (and not covered by any sort of insurance, because support items are considered luxury items).

Thankfully for Adam, Avery, who had been saving money from doing sidekick work alongside going to a Hero University, paid for the new support items.

(the general idea)

This iteration lasts quite a while! In fact, it stays with him until he becomes an actual Pro (not a sidekick) at 28~ years old. There were a few kinks in the software along the way, though---for example, sometimes the software would fail to accurately determine when Adam was or wasn't trying to use his Quirk, leading to moments during Sidekick work where he would have to fight Quirkless or moments in his daily life where he'd be in agonizing pain until his support items figured themselves out.

His last support items are the ones he has now! They're grey bands around his neck, biceps, wrists, thighs, and ankles. Much more compact and sleek than all that wiring. It's new tech, so instead of cancelling Adam's Quirk, it redirects his Quirk into keeping all of his molecules/atoms in place. It's much more effective than all the previous iterations.

Of course, his battle with his Quirk doesn't end there. His latest support items are new tech, but they're also as new as it gets for a while. So while he can go in and get them recalibrated every now and then to account for his Quirk overcoming them, it also means that there's a limit to those support items' effectiveness.

There's not much he can do after that, but he does get some painkillers (which my friends and I have dubbed Super Morphine) to deal with everything. He is my little guy and every day I put him in the torment nexus and blend blend blend.

[prettyboychainsaw]

Gather up variants, cultists, software guys, business majors, and independent journalists alike for (the first?) Outlastober in the year of our lord, the Walrider, 2023.

I tried to get a good variety from all the currently out games. Feel free to write, draw, spatter, or whatever else you can think of for every day of October! Or every other day. Or not at all. I can't control your schedule.

Anywho, tag it with Outlastober2023 and @prettyboychainsaw so I can see it! Good luck! And remember, you're not a fighter.

Plain text under the cut.

1.) My friend, Billy.

2.) Wedding gift / something old, something new

3.) Broken lenses

4.) God?

5.) We want you!

6.) I Deserve to be punished

7.) Jane Doe

8.) St. Sybil

9.) Tongues and teeth

10.) Liver and tongues

11.) Silky

12.) Crown of thorns

13.) Trager Juice

14.) Life support

15.) Trinity

16.) Little pig!

17.) Committed

18.) Gluskin's Hell

19.) Elevator

20.) Beautiful

21.) Vulgar

22.) Frank's Kitchen

23.) Vents and grates

24.) Decontamination

25.) Nachtmahr

26.) Hope

27.) The morgue

28.) Fired

29.) Radio tower

30.) Numb

31.) Kill the snitch!

[foxymoxynoona]

guys I got mega mega hacked yesterday with remote control software. I suspect it piggybacked onto my computer from some video game mods I downloaded this summer, but my brother-in-law suggested it may have been lurking since I bought my laptop as a refurb from BestBuy over a year ago. The person was able to access both my emails and set up filters to hide the email alerts, my amazon, and make a third party charge with my credit card. Because they were using remote-desktop, I wasn't getting alerts about unuathorized sign ins, and they were able to skip 2FA phone alerts anywhere that email was supported for 2FA. Based on the filters they set, I do know they had 3 purchases planning and I interrupted before they completed the third (amazon, antonline, and pixel.)

I got a credit card text alert for the $1500 antonline order but thought it was spam, so I went to my computer to log in and check whether the alert was real, then watched with shock that someone had my secondary email open and was typing in a 2FA code and I had no control of the cursor. I immediately turned off my computer and used a different computer to go in and change passwords, flag fraud charges, lock down accounts and freeze my credit cards. After a period of time passed, we turned the other laptop back on and began running scans --we found remote desktop hackware, and 4 other "Severe" threat programs after running every type of in-depth scan possible. I spent the whole night changing every password and deleting old accounts and confirming 2FA to my phone specifically.

I had a home burglary years ago that caused lasting emotional trauma which this elbowed again. The fraud charges suck but it's the impact on my kids and the invasive feeling that sucks even more. Changing amazon email/password broke my kids' accounts on their tablets and the refresh wipes over a year of their game data, which is upsetting for them. There's the emotional stress of knowing these assholes had full unhibited access to my accounts but also to all my personal stuff --my writing, my family photos, my medical record logins. I know they don't care about those things but they where there.

If not for my husband telling me to check email filters, I would not have realized they accessed my gmail. Without the security checks, we would not have found the hackware and it would have kept happening without me understanding why.

Please use this as your universe reminder to review your passwords, run security scans on your computers, and make sure 2FA is set up for important accounts that cannot be bypassed if someone gets acess to your email. <3 <3 <3

[am-i-the-asshole-official]

WIBTA if I bought my coworker a wedding present after he asked me not to?

I (25NB, coworker thinks 25F since I'm not out as trans at work both to protect my career and because the country I live in does not have a conception of "NB" or gender neutral pronoun in the language) work my coworker R (25-30M) as software developers. I am in a more senior position and actually hired R as a sub-mimum wage intern (in a country/system where this is normal because he is also attending university, I did not have control over salary), because in the interview although he did not know much about the work, he was eager to learn, and also he was a refugee fleeing religious persecution who had been waiting over 3 years in immigration detention for a chance to work, so I though damn this guy deserves a job ASAP. I don't regret it at all; he's incredibly hardworking and kind and I have been helping him learn the ropes so after 1 year he can get a more permanent position, at which point he will be in a very stable position with a much better salary.

I am earning a bit less than 3x his wage at the moment - I support my disabled trans wife so I don't have a huge disposable income - but I am comfortable due to a very modest lifestyle. He invited me to his wedding, which is a pretty big deal, since I think only 1 other person in the office was invited, and very kind since I am autistic, socially awkward, I speak the native language of this country quite poorly, we have only known each other in work, and I have never met his finacée.

I immediately thanked him and asked for a gift registry. He said no gift is necessary. I pressed, remembering how at my wedding the gifts really helped improve our quality of life, and remembering how when I was in his position with a work-study job, money was really tight (monthly income of €1k only). He's having a fairly big wedding which looks expensive, and he's had a hard life with needing to flee his country and requalify professionally because his degree wasn't valid here (and needing to spend years "rotting", as he put it, waiting for his asylum application to be accepted and legally forced not to study nor work during some of the peak years of his life), so I would really like to contribute. He insisted no present.

At this point I am thinking of giving him a few hundred euros in a card, but I am worried this would come across as condescending or violate his boundaries. Also, my wife has never met this guy and is probably not going to be thrilled with this decision (we can afford it... but we don't spend money recklessly at all and very carefully budget), so it would probably come out of a few months of my "personal spending" allocation which I usually spend on books and chocolate and stuff (we practice total economic equiality although I am the bread-winner). I still want to do it but I am very worried about seeming like some kind of gracious rich person (I'm not) throwing breadcrumbs or something, or hurting his pride(?). I don't understand a lot of social stuff so this feels like it could go wrong in ways I could not predict.

WIBTA if I gave him a gift? YTA = no gift, respect his choices; NTA = give him the gift

What are these acronyms?

[krisrisk]

omg, i just realized smth personally

you know how social acceptance is the thing that actually makes people be happy? It's a bit more complicated, but I get to that in a moment.

This youtuber I just watched, said something along the lines of "without you people watching and liking my videos, I wouldn't be where I am today, able to do what i love and make an income of it", and it just. hurt. Because only a minute earlier I was admiring his house, his workshop, tools, etc. All these things he got to buy was because people like what he does. And the reason people buy his stuff is because they know about it. And the reason they know about it is because other people watched him first and liked him.

He gets to spend his days using his talents to earn money.

Which is basically what I always hear is the goal. And for me, who's (very obviously if you know what to look for) autistic and adhd, it's even more important to do things I like, because my brain will literally go "nope" and turn off the happy mode otherwise.

But I don't get to do what I love for work. I did, once, which broke my heart even more, when that work experience got invalidated completely by the company I'm (supposed to) work at now.

And what I love also doesn't give me an audience (user support in ict). I started modding on some games and got a few likes, but generally, that also doesn't give me an audience. The people who get an audience are not the ones doing technically usable stuff. The programmers who make software sometimes do (ConcernedApe certainly has his fans, as does Gronkh). Artists sometimes do (DestinyBlue as well as Bob Ross).

But is there even one person you know who became famous for helping others use stuff? Manual writers (my condolences to you guys, I did appreciate your work), translators, ict supporters, medical carers - the list of people who cannot get even slightly famous for their work is endless. So endless, that it is the universal experience to Never Be Known. And that is not a bad thing per se.

But in this age, where visibility and likeability is the only way to ever get a shot in the first place it is absolutely destroying lives. I don't get a job because people don't like me. I have been told that I was not hired because I had been unemployed for too long. So not getting a job actually made stay unemployed.

And I can never hope to build a youtube channel to start earning money. Because I do not have anything to "sell". Sure I could try and make some tutorials on how to make using your computer more easy and comfortable. But there's already thousands of videos like that. As well as millions of blogs.

And I have adhd, meaning I have less impulse control than the average person, meaning I do have the occasional "oh ffs why don't you all fuck off with your stupid invisible rules" moments. And boy do people not like those.

I also have no clue why every person I ever met ghosts me. They always seem to enjoy my company, talking with me easily and never complaining or showing discomfort (I sadly know how to spot that). Always saying "we HAVE to meet again" and then simply not contacting me. Or even responding.

Even my so called "best friend" never gets in touch, always saying she'd rather meet irl and talk face to face, but then never proposing such a meetup.

I don't even know where to go with this rant.

Just. Be kind to people. Give them a chance.

[tangibletechnomancy]

I wonder how much corporate AI hype AND social media criti-hype would die down if we cracked down on companies that just straight up lie about what's their software's doing vs. what's just done by random underpaid guys in cubicle farms in India/Africa/South America/wherever else someone can find to exploit.

Like on the one hand we have corporate entities insisting that work is one and the same. On the other hand we have people who either believe that claim...OR who know that it's not and believe this means that there are random guys in cubicle farms hand-drawing these fully rendered images in 30 seconds or less, and think THAT belief is somehow more respectful to art as labor than acknowledging that the computer is a tool.

I believe companies, including both developers and end users, should be required to disclose which of their AI products/services-in-use have a manual override/control center, and which ones don't - and disclose it clearly, in plain view, not buried somewhere deep in the terms of service that someone might just skim over if they read it at all. On top of being a huge blow to false advertising, it would also be great for helping people make informed decisions, because there are different uses for things that are fully automated vs. things that are automated with integrated manual override; for some things, particularly some assistive applications (e.g., object recognition apps for blind people), it's better to have it able to go "I don't know what I'm looking at, let's call up a human to tell us", whereas for things like personal use tools it's really not great to have one's privacy violated by getting another person interfering unknowingly, and for things like utility chatbots - assuming we manage to get to a point where we can reliably give them enough context to hammer out enough of the hallucination issues that they become particularly useful at all - I would rather know for sure that the moment it's "confused", it will direct a customer to MY theoretical human customer support department rather than secretly try the provider company's call center first. Even more, it would also make it easier to fight for better treatment of the workers in those control centers; their labor being hidden to the point where the public, by design, broadly doesn't realize they even exist is a HUGE factor in their exploitation being allowed.

[moose-mousse]

So I made an app for PROTO. Written in Kotlin and runs on Android.

Next, I want to upgrade it with a controller mode. It should work so so I simply plug a wired xbox controller into my phone with a USB OTG adaptor… and bam, the phone does all the complex wireless communication and is a battery. Meaning that besides the controller, you only need the app and… any phone. Which anyone is rather likely to have Done.

Now THAT is convenient!

( Warning, the rest of the post turned into... a few rants. ) Why Android? Well I dislike Android less than IOS

So it is it better to be crawling in front of the alter of "We are making the apocalypse happen" Google than "5 Chinese child workers died while you read this" Apple?

Not much…

I really should which over to a better open source Linux distribution… But I do not have the willpower to research which one... So on Android I stay.

Kotlin is meant to be "Java, but better/more modern/More functional programming style" (Everyone realized a few years back that the 100% Object oriented programming paradigme is stupid as hell. And we already knew that about the functional programming paradigme. The best is a mix of everything, each used when it is the best option.) And for the most part, it succeeds. Java/Kotlin compiles its code down to "bytecode", which is essentially assembler but for the Java virtual machine. The virtual machine then runs the program. Like how javascript have the browser run it instead of compiling it to the specific machine your want it to run on… It makes them easy to port…

Except in the case of Kotlin on Android... there is not a snowflakes chance in hell that you can take your entire codebase and just run it on another linux distribution, Windows or IOS…

So... you do it for the performance right? The upside of compiling directly to the machine is that it does not waste power on middle management layers… This is why C and C++ are so fast!

Except… Android is… Clunky… It relies on design ideas that require EVERY SINGLE PROGRAM AND APP ON YOUR PHONE to behave nicely (Lots of "This system only works if every single app uses it sparingly and do not screw each-other over" paradigms .). And many distributions from Motorola like mine for example comes with software YOUR ARE NOT ALLOWED TO UNINSTALL... meaning that software on your phone is ALWAYS behaving badly. Because not a single person actually owns an Android phone. You own a brick of electronics that is worthless without its OS, and google does not sell that to you or even gift it to you. You are renting it for free, forever. Same with Motorola which added a few extra modifications onto Googles Android and then gave it to me.

That way, google does not have to give any rights to its costumers. So I cannot completely control what my phone does. Because it is not my phone. It is Googles phone.

That I am allowed to use. By the good graces of our corporate god emperors

"Moose stares blankly into space trying to stop being permanently angry at hoe everyone is choosing to run the world"

… Ok that turned dark… Anywho. TLDR There is a better option for 95% of apps (Which is "A GUI that interfaces with a database") "Just write a single HTML document with internal CSS and Javascript" Usually simpler, MUCH easier and smaller… And now your app works on any computer with a browser. Meaning all of them…

I made a GUI for my parents recently that works exactly like that. Soo this post:

It was frankly a mistake of me to learn Kotlin… Even more so since It is a… awful language… Clearly good ideas then ruined by marketing department people yelling "SUPPORT EVERYTHING! AND USE ALL THE BUZZWORD TECHNOLOGY! Like… If your language FORCES you to use exceptions for normal runtime behavior "Stares at CancellationException"... dear god that is horrible...

Made EVEN WORSE by being a really complicated way to re-invent the GOTO expression… You know... The thing every programmer is taught will eat your feet if you ever think about using it because it is SO dangerous, and SO bad form to use it? Yeah. It is that, hidden is a COMPLEATLY WRONG WAY to use exceptions…

goodie… I swear to Christ, every page or two of my Kotlin notes have me ranting how I learned how something works, and that it is terrible... Blaaa. But anyway now that I know it, I try to keep it fresh in my mind and use it from time to time. Might as well. It IS possible to run certain things more effective than a web page, and you can work much more directly with the file system. It is... hard-ish to get a webpage to "load" a file automatically... But believe me, it is good that this is the case.

Anywho. How does the app work and what is the next version going to do?

PROTO is meant to be a platform I test OTHER systems on, so he is optimized for simplicity. So how you control him is sending a HTTP 1.1 message of type Text/Plain… (This is a VERY fancy sounding way of saying "A string" in network speak). The string is 6 comma separated numbers. Linear movement XYZ and angular movement XYZ.

The app is simply 5 buttons that each sends a HTTP PUT request with fixed values. Specifically 0.5/-0.5 meter/second linear (Drive back or forward) 0.2/-0.2 radians/second angular (Turn right or turn left) Or all 0 for stop

(Yes, I just formatted normal text as code to make it more readable... I think I might be more infected by programming so much than I thought...)

Aaaaaanywho. That must be enough ranting. Time to make the app

[autolenaphilia]

Currently using Debian 12, with KDE Plasma, which i previously used. But i had problems running plasma last year, with repeated random plasmashell crashes. I could even repeatedly cause plasmashell to crash by removing a second panel/taskbar.

But i returned to plasma to check out running wayland, i've previously used x11-based desktops and even ran plasma on x11. And it turns out plasma is actually more stable on wayland, at least the 5.27 version debian 12 ships with. Which is not something i expected, because all the talk of wayland not being fully there yet, which iirc is why i defaulted to using x11 earlier despite plasma's wayland session. I can still cause plasmashell to crash on x11 by removing a panel, but not on wayland, and the random crashes don't happen either on wayland either. It's a smooth reasonably bugfree experience that lives up to debian's reputation for stability.

I'm running older versions of KDE Plasma and of most things on this OS, because that's the Debian way, but who cares. if the software works I don't care if it's old, and with Debian I don't have to worry about an update breaking my system, and don't have to worry about frequent updates in general, which is a plus in my book (don't judge me, I have Windows update trauma /j).

my current desktop, the theme is Sweet KDE and the wallpaper is from this post by greekie-via-linux

So now finally KDE Plasma works good for me, without all the crashing. And I'm slowly becoming a fan. It's very customizable, KDE provides a traditional desktop layout by default (which i prefer) but so customizable that you can turn it into almost anything you like. It's defaults might borrow from the windows 95 to 7 desktop paradigm, but Windows never gave users this much control.

It's pretty looking, it has all the eye candy effects and animations you want, but not too heavy on the ram useage (the performance is actually comparable to xfce) , and you can turn the effects off thanks to the aforementioned customizability. And it provides all the programs you need for a fully featured desktop environment, everything from basic stuff like a terminal emulator and file browser to a GUI package manager that supports basically all packaging formats. Neither mate or xfce has the latter, for example, when I ran debian with xfce i had to manage my flatpaks through the terminal.

Maybe even too many programs. KDE makes a lot of programs, and i'll probably never switch from mozilla firefox and thunderbird to kmail, falkon or konqueror. Though to be fair, KDE does develop a lot of programs that are first-rate in the linux world, practically without competition. And i personally find KDE connect to be extremely useful. It syncs your android phone with your desktop or laptop computer and it's awesome. Once I learned how to allow it through my firewall, I can see my SMS messages on my computer and type them with an actual keyboard on my computer, it's great. And It works on other desktop environments and even on windows.

[wobblyprinny]

Thoughts On An Indie Game I've been playing....

So, for anyone who likes indie games, lewd games, and lewd indie games... I present to you, 'Evalia: The Lust Kingdom'.

It's a genuine sandbox style game made using the Ren'Py game making software. Y'know, the one optimized and spec'd out for making visual novels and adventure games.

You are thrust into the role the fully (insofar as the options will allow at least) customizable and recently, seemingly randomly handpicked, monarch of the floating island city-state of Evalia. A very, VERY sex positive kingdom.

You are free to interact with any NPC you like, engage in the day to day politicking of court sessions to build rep with the various factions that make up Evalia, build relationships with whomever you take a fancy too, work to solve the many secrets eValia has hidden underneath the surface(though, admittedly, the narrative has taken a backseat after the initial polt hooks get laid down for the sake of building up a solid feature rich gameplay loopfoundation), explore the various areas of your kingdom, and shape jsut what kind of place you want it to be.

Not only is it your PC and relationships you have control over to customize, but the very makeup of the kingdom's populace too!

Ever dreamed of having a whole harem of women to yourself? Well, now you can!

Want an island full of doods instead? Sure thing!

Futas? Why the hell not?

Mix and match? All good!

It's your kingdom after all, so go nuts.

As for myself, well... I'm very much into roleplaying, so I just filled it with women and futas bc, well... isolated island floating in the sky... so, the odd foreign traffic aside, them babies and population replacement rate gotta come from somewhere, right?

Point is, it's up to you.

Gay, straight, bi, non-binary, futa... it's all good

It's a game that has... a LOT of potential and has come a long way fro a game that's being developed by just one person... Everything from the coding to the art assets!. All just one guy in their free time!

I respect that so much and I use devs like them inspiration and a goal to strive for in my own creative aspirations.

I even subbed to show my support.

Gives me early access and voting rights, so yeah... worth it.

The dev is pretty responsive on the sites they're on but don't yet have a discord... which kinda sucks but, y'know... life.

Potential aside, it's a very ambitious project that will take a long time before it's done... Like, for example, 'The Last Sovereign' by Sierra Lee? That masterpiece of an indie game has been in the works for over a decade! So worth it though! A damn fine game in its own right!

...but I digress.

As for suggestions I've made, which the dev has confirmed an interest in adding at some point include, but are likely not limited too, magic to change genders of yourself and other characters, including other important NPCs, of which is gender balanced for plot purposes, which is fine... but I WANT MY HAREM DAMMIT!

more complex factional politicking both at home and with other nations, more interactive sex, combat, and exploration mechanics, and kinds... oh the kinks!

...Given my own preferences, you can bet your ass I asked if incest/inbreeding would be a viable suggestion... and y'know what? They were totally okay with adding such kinds in and even said that was already in the cards, just a matter of 'when, not if' kinda thing.

Made me pretty happy.

Now, to those who may not be as big into the indie lewd games or mod community... incest is both surprisingly popular and prevalent.

Naturally, degrees vary on how much that content has importance in the plot or is just a kink.

I'm personally fine with either bc, well, all publicity is good publicity in cases like this. Getting ppl to be comfortable with the idea as 'normal' or at least acceptable, is kinda the point here.... regardless of how much it actually exists already despite the 'common sense' of the present day.

Look up them stats. They will surprise you with how not uncommon it actually is. Remember, 8 billion ppl and all that.

But, in the land of fiction and entertainment, it's a good place to really explore those sides of yourself without all the stigma... unless, y'know, you gotta deal with judgmental pricks. I mean, we do, tbf, but fiction is fiction, so getting offended by fiction is just stupid... and honestly makes you look weirder than the ppl who like that fiction in my book.

Anyway, it's a game I recommend trying and keeping an eye on.

Another game I find myself liking is Lust n Farm.

It's more of a focused narrative sandbox/farming sim lite/harem builder, but it is very much an incest romance that, to the dev's credit and shameless lewding aside, is attempting to build a compelling narrative around.

It's got plenty of flaws and is buggy as hell, but it's another one that has a LOT of potential, isn't afraid to explore taboos, and has a decent foundation to work with.

Honestly, I'm a sucker for isolated city settings and interconnected harem building stories, so win-win.

Maybe I'll talk more about that game since I really do think it's good for what it is and who it's aimed at.

And yes, as an incest romance that at least is attempting to take itself seriously for the world it's set in, pregnancies are actual kinda plot integral here.

Made me actually rethink my view on one of the heroines/older sisters.

....Anyway, lewd game ranting and my lowkey kink shilling aside, that's all I guess...

[silverwings22]

Song of the Sea: Chapter 37: Follow You Down

Chapter warning: major character injury, description of severe injury, grief Series Warning: explicit smut, alien anatomy (it's a monsterfucker fic, guys), major character injury, grief, canon typical violence, autistic meltdowns, and my terrible attempts at Mando'a

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“Nothing’s working. That surge fried the power from here.” Echo had his scomp link wedged into the wall, trying his best to get power going again. 

“I told you that wasn’t going to work.” Shiani leaned out the open window, taking a shot at the Imperials who were shooting at them. This wasn’t sustainable, and it wouldn’t be long before the Empire scrambled V-wings to deal with them definitively. 

“We’ll have to access one of the terminals attached to the track itself. It’ll require a full system reboot.” She frowned, looking at Tech. 

He nodded. “You and I can accomplish that.”

“It’s software. You can, I’ll cover you.” She smiled faintly. 

“Echo, stand by for their signal. Wrecker and I will give them cover fire.” Hunter nodded. “Omega, stay close to Wrecker.”

Tech and Shiani nodded and went out a window, Hunter following to boost them up one by one. Once they were on the track itself, they had to make their way over towards the terminal and swing out on a dart line.

Shiani ducked under his arm soundlessly as usual, pistol out and returning fire while they swung. Once they landed, he plugged his way into the terminal and started on the datapad. His siren stood over him, blaster out and watching. 

The horrifying sound of three V-wings moving towards them made her skin crawl. “Hunter! Arial support coming in. Three V-wings, and they’re coming in hot.” She tried to sound confident and unafraid, the way the clones always did. 

She was a civilian. She kept trying to forget she wasn’t a soldier like the man she loved, that she wasn’t terrified all the time when they engaged the Empire. She wanted to crumble most of the time, but one thing was stronger than fear. The undying, feral need to protect Tech like he was made of nova crystals kept her on her feet as the Imperial ships came into view. 

Three gunships versus a siren with pistol was almost laughable odds, but Shiani had never been the one who loved statistics like her husband did. “Cover ears.” She muttered into the comm, putting her blaster back in her holster as they got closer. 

“Copy.”

When the V-wings came screaming past, getting ready to shoot her and Tech off the track, she sucked in every scrap of air she had and shrieked directly up. 

One simply exploded, raining durasteel confetti as the sound shook it apart with the viciousness of an ion cannon. The other one lost a wing and went careening into the clouds below, though the third managed to avoid the blast and pulled wide to come back for a second pass. Shiani grinned and pumped her fist in the air. “Yeah!” 

Over the comm, she could hear Wrecker and cheering too. 

“That was exceptional, cyar’ika, but let’s not celebrate too soon.” Tech stood up. “Echo, the power is restored. You’ll need to reboot that terminal to access the rail car controls.”

“On it. You two get down here before the wind knocks you down.”

Like a long forgotten dream, Tech recalled when they’d found Echo on Skako Minor, when the wind had swept Crosshair over the edge of a rickety open air bridge. Wrecker had jumped after him without hesitation, despite his fear. He also remembered telling them, just a moment before it happened, if they were going to fall to not take him with them. 

He took Shiani by the hand and the two of them came running as fast as they could across the upper rail. The surviving V-wing was coming back, they just had to make it-

The V-wing’s weapons hit the back of the two connected rail cars, the rear one starting to come detached from its mooring, and the vibrations sent Shiani and Tech flying. Her claws dug into the plastoid of his vambrace as he managed to catch them on a dart line secure to the bottom of the loosening car. 

“Shiani? Are you alright?” Tech’s usually measured voice sounded a little… less so. “Can you pull yourself up to my side without causing to many vibrations?”

She looked up and nodded, swinging her arm up to grab his belt and then shoulder, wrapping her legs around his waist from the side and her arms around his neck. Tentacles wound their way around him, and she helped him connect the dart line to his belt to free his hands. 

“The damaged car is pulling the other one loose.” He murmured as he looked up, going stock still as she saw the remaining connecting wobbling. 

“I’m comin’ for you Tech!” Wrecker called, trying to make it to the blown out end their line was attached to and haul them in.

Shiani swallowed hard. “... He’s not going to make it, Tech.”

“I know.” He nodded, one arm moving around her hip. “Stop, Wrecker! Any shift in weight could cause the carriage to collapse.”

“Hang on. I can pull you guys up.” Wrecker protested.

“The weight will pull both of them off the rail. You must sever the connection hinge.” Tech’s volume dropped even as he said it, realizing what it meant. 

“Not until you’re both up here!” Wrecker yelled back, and judging by the horrified tone in his voice, so did he.

. Tech looked at Shiani, and she saw the glimmer of his eyes starting to water. She’d never seen him cry before. “Tech…” She whispered. 

“I am sorry, cyare.” He breathed. “I thought you would be safer by my side… There is no way to get you up there without taking everyone else with you. You know I would…”

“I wouldn’t go. Not without you.” She swallowed hard. “Where you go, I go. Even down.”

Tech nodded and looked back up, the arm around her waist squeezing three times. 

I love you. If it’s the last time, I love you.

“There is no time, Wrecker.” Tech pulled out his blaster. He knew the odds of survival were basically nothing, and he only had one regret. That Shiani had to come with him, because he was certain a galaxy without her would be a lesser one. Still… if he had to die, it might be more pleasant if he could hold her hand on the way down.  “Plan 99.”

“Don’t you do it, Tech!” Wrecker shouted, panic in his voice. Omega, who was right behind him, sucked in a sharp breath.

They’re the ones who saw him in the Riot Race. They saw when crowds were cheering his name… and now they’ll see us fall.

It was a horrible thought. Omega didn’t deserve this to live in her mind forever. Wrecker didn’t either, but he’d seen horror. He was a soldier with a good heart,  Omega was only a baby… her sweet Baby Mega, her best friend. She hoped Omega forgave her for this, as she put her hand over Tech’s on the blaster and followed his aim towards the connection hinge.

Both Tech’s amber eyes and Shiani’s blue ones were a little shiny with tears, but it didn’t affect their aim. They’d trained forever together, by now the only person who could have made a better shot was the very sniper they’d come to rescue. Tech hoped the rest of the team went on to find Crosshair. Then this wasn’t all in vain. “When have we ever followed orders?” 

“NO!”

“Three. Two. One. Now.” Tech coached, and both of them pulled the trigger. They had to do it together, or they’d feel like they’d murdered their lover the whole way to their deaths. It was better like this, together. The connection hinge snapped under the plasma, and it started to fall along with them.

As gravity took hold, Shiani looked at Tech’s face. This, oddly, reminded her of a holo-drama Omega and Lyana had gotten her to watch with them one night. It ended in a wedding, with the bride and groom holding a knife and cutting a cake together. A surface wedding, something she’d been meaning to ask if he wanted since she’d accidentally denied it to him. 

They’d never get the chance for the ceremony, but at least they were hand in hand. They pitched over, Tech letting go of the blaster to wrap both arms around Shiani as they went plummeting head first towards the ground with the rail car coming after them.  

“TECH! SHIANI!” She heard Wrecker and Omega screaming their names, but it faded to the sound of the wind whistling as they reached terminal velocity and everything faded to cloud around them.

Shiani pressed her head against Tech’s helmet, eyes fixed on him, and as they went plummeting to near certain death, she sang everything she had. She couldn’t save him, but she could kiss him the whole way down.

She was cold, laying on her back staring up at the sky. It didn’t look like the blue, cloudy sky she’d fallen out of. It looked like night, full of stars and swirling as if she was once again below the waves. She couldn’t move and her body felt ice cold, pain lancing through her with every gasping breath. The thick taste of blood flooded her mouth, and she felt it leaking out of her gills and pooling in her chest plate. 

She must have been alive somehow, if she was hurting. “T-tech?” She managed to rasp around her bloody fangs. 

“Poor little siren.” A gentle, kind voice spoke. “So far from home and so badly hurt.”

Shiani managed to slowly shift her head, until she was looking up at the pale and pretty face of a being made of light and grace. Greenish hair flowed around her, her smile so kind and sweet… “M-elody…” She choked, looking into the face of a goddess. 

“Oh, my dear. You’re so close to death.” The goddess leaned over her. “But if you want to fight, you just might survive.”

“Take me. S-send Tech back.” Shiani coughed, spraying blue blood across her chestplate. Her armor that her mate had made her, maybe the only think that had kept her alive this long. 

“You can’t bargain with death, little one.”

“Take me. Send… send Tech back.” The siren repeated. “I know… that you can. Take me. Send Tech back.” She wouldn’t fight death if it meant he would live. He deserved his life on Pabu with the little joys she’d shown him. They’d take care of him after she was gone, but he had live. 

“He isn’t mine to return to you.” The Melody settled on her knees by the siren’s broken body. 

“H-harmony then.” Shiani swallowed. She’d go into the darkest oceans for her afterlife, if that was the price. No more playing in the light and warmth of the shallows, but she could get used to life like an anglerfish. 

The god appeared, his eyes hard on her. “It’s been a long time since anyone called to me in their hour of death.”

“Take me and send Tech back.” Shiani wheezed again, forcing one little wobbly hand towards him. It dripped blood and could barely tremble, but she made it reach for him. “Please.”

“I cannot give you what you seek, siren.” He shook his head and moved away as she tried to touch him. 

She sobbed brokenly. “Please… please, send Tech back. He just learned how to live.” 

The Melody took her battered little hand in both of her glowing ones. “I can’t give him back to you, my dear. But I can give you back to the galaxy. You’ve been so brave. It is a rare gift, use it wisely.” 

Shiani stared up at the goddess as she placed a hand on her chest plate, her three hearts beating out of sync for a moment before kicking back into the appropriate rhythm. “B-but…”

“Shh. Save your strength, Shiani Illumai. You will need it.”

Shiani woke up with a choked groan of agony, every nerve in her body screaming at her. Aggressively.

She was half on her side under a pile of debris, some of it sprayed with blue and red blood. “T-tech?” She gasped, raising wobbly hands to try to push the metal off her. It was stacked, not quite in an organic way it would have fallen, but her brain was to busy buzzing with the pain to figure it out. She shoved the durasteel off, sucking in a breath as the sky appeared in front of her. It was morning light, and it had been before dusk when they’d fallen. She’d been out here all night, skin slick with morning dew and sweat. 

She tried to take stock of her injuries, slowly moving her arms up. Her right shoulder was most definitely not in its socket correctly and she couldn’t lift it past her sternum. One of her head tresses was ripped completely in half and glued to the others with matted dried blood. There was a deep cut on her left cheek, her chest plate was cracked in the front, and her tentacles were all covered in various bruises and deep gashes. When she tried to sit up, though, was when she found the worst of it. Her left femur was snapped, the bone punched out of her skin, and when she tried to move her hips she almost passed out again from the pain. Her pelvis was definitely crushed on that side as well. 

She managed to roll onto her right side and throw up from the fire running under her skin. Her comm was broken too, there was no way to call for help. 

“Tech?” She rasped again, puking again as she finished the roll onto her stomach and used her tentacle to push her dislocated shoulder back into its mooring. He had to be nearby, they’d been holding onto each other… She didn’t remember the actual moment they’d struck the ground, but she was sure she didn’t want to. All she wanted to remember was what she was desperate to find; the love of her life. 

There was red blood spatter all over the area, and she spotted his cracked helmet tossed carelessly on the ground. She dragged herself to it in tiny motions, wheezing around what was likely several broken ribs. When she got there, it lay empty and bloody, with the visor broken out. Beside it and also bloody was the puzzle necklace she’d made him, laying in a bootprint depression like someone had stepped on it when they’d taken it off of him. 

Shiani’s fingers curled around the dented durasteel, tears cleaning the dirt and blood off her face. Tech’s wedding gift… the Empire had taken his body, probably for twisted experiments like the ones Tech had mentioned got Hemlock fired from the Republic. Those monsters would desecrate what was left of him, and she couldn’t even bury him. 

Tech was gone. 

Shiani collapsed onto her face, sobbing and choking. She’d die out here alone, without him, because the rest of the team must have escaped by now. She’d wanted them too, to get Omega out of here, but it didn’t change the fact that she was afraid. She didn’t want to die of exposure and the slow infection that would set in on these wounds. She wasn’t ready to meet the gods again and tell them she never made it more than a few meters from where they’d given her a second chance she hadn’t even wanted.

Her tool bag had landed by Tech’s helmet, strap ripped off her but somehow miraculously still closed. She inched her way to it and looked up, struggling to wipe the snot and tears off her bloody face as she squinted at something shiny a few more meters away. It was a huge chunk of broken ship part, surprisingly intact for having crashed. 

The V-wing. The one missing only a wing, something a mechanic could put back together with just the tools in the bag she was clinging to. It would be hard since she couldn’t stand, but the scrap parts around her would work. She only needed to survive takeoff and space, a tin can with a hyperdrive would do. 

She started dragging herself to it with painful little sounds, inch by inch. Claws dug into the grass, but she wasn’t giving up. She had to get home. She couldn’t sleep until it was done, and dimly she knew it might mean she didn’t heal correctly… but if she was going to die she either wanted to do it in a ship, or on Pabu with the rest of her family. Either way, she was following Tech one way or the other.

It didn’t hurt anymore. Shiani had been awake for so long her body felt numb, though she still couldn’t stand. She’d rebuilt the wing and made the hull of this miserable V-wing pressurized. It wasn’t hyperspace capable without a hyperdrive ring, but she’d seen one just on the edge of the system when they’d come on the Marauder. 

At least she thought she had. She was sure she was hallucinating at this point, exhausted and shaking as she dragged herself into the V-wing’s  pilot’s seat. Sitting her hip reminded her she was, in fact, still broken, and the pain cleared her head. How long had she been at this… ten days? Twelve? She’d lost track. 

She managed to flip the dials and levers in the correct sequence to get the controls to light up, kicking it with her good foot until the engines started. “C’mon… c’mon…” She growled, hissing at the contraption until it came fully to life and she could get it in the air. She didn’t have clearance from the airspace, but the V-wing was fast and nimble. She had to pray she was half as good a pilot as Tech trained her to be. 

The Imperial comm was still active, and she heard them scrambling pursuit after her as she laid on the controls. Her slapdash repairs weren’t enough to keep ahead of a pristine V-wing… She turned on her mic and started singing furiously as she headed for the edge of the atmosphere, pouring every ounce of her exhaustion into the soundwaves. 

Fall asleep. You want to rest. You want to fall apart and cry yourself to sleep. 

The closest pursuit’s nose dropped, the pilot making a helpless noise and starting to sob as he went down into the trees. Behind her, other fighters were wobbling in the air as their pilots started to fall apart. Shiani gunned her own engine like it owed her money and made for the hyperdrive ring, docking her barely-spaceworthy stolen vessel. She hurriedly slammed one of only three sets of coordinates she had truly memorized. Kamino and Ord Mantell were lost causes, but Pabu… she could get home. 

She jumped into hyperspace just before the Empire caught her, catching on and turning off their comms finally. The stretching lights of purple light flickered over the broken siren, who flicked a wire with her claw to sever it and ensured the ship couldn’t be tracked. 

This thing couldn’t land, but if she crashed into the water near enough to the island she could make her way to shore. She would have to figure it out, how deep the water needed to be to keep what was left of her broken body from being destroyed on impact and how far she could reasonably drag herself underwater with her injuries. 

She clutched Tech’s necklace, where she’d hung it around her neck. “Going home, Tech… we’re gonna go home…”

Phee was sitting on the beach with Lyana, both of them having come out to clear their heads. Wrecker and Hunter had limped the Marauder back to Pabu, both to let Echo get his ship back and to supply themselves. Hunter had quietly told Phee that Tech and Shiani had been killed, and that Cid had double crossed them to the Empire which had led to Omega being taken captive. Phee’s heart had snapped in half at the story of the friendly siren and clone she’d loved, who’d gone down to save their family only to have their baby sister snatched by something evil. 

The broken pair of goggles that had sat in Hunter’s hand had been hard to take. 

Lyana was so worried about Omega, and comforting her gave Phee something to think about other than her dead friends. She was sitting with her arm around her niece, looking up at the sunny sky and stroking her hair.

“You think they’ll find her, Auntie Phee?” Lyana whispered.

“Those boys don’t play around… if anyone can, it’s them.” She murmured cautiously. She wanted to believe that Wrecker and Hunter could do it-

A flash of light made them both look up, and Phee frowned as a small ship came hurtling into the atmosphere far too fast. “What’s that?” Lyana gasped.

“A Imperial V-wing.” Phee gritted her teeth. “But it’s going to crash.”

“It’s broken looking.” Lyana pointed out, a thousand conversations with Omega about things she’d learned being raised by soldiers sticking with her. “Look at the left wing.”

“.... Do me a favor. Go tell your dad I’m gonna borrow the boat.” Phee frowned, getting to her feet. She watched the V-wing hit the water and start to break up as it sank, steam rising from the where the hull had superheated due to the speed of reentry. Once Lyana was out of sight, Phee ran to the boat and took it out to the crash site. She had one hand on her blaster, determined to take out any Imperial survivor in the name of her dead friends. 

The V-wing was still sinking as she got over it, a stream of bubbles coming from the broken windshield as it slowly shed the trapped air holding it from plummeting into the sea where it belonged. As Phee watched, she spotted a fist slam into the cracked transparisteel once, twice, three times until it broke through and a figure shoved themselves out of the hole heedless of the sharp fragments cutting them. 

A figure with four tentacles, who was leaking blue blood into the water. A siren!

Phee dropped her blaster into the bottom of the boat and jumped in, grabbing the siren who couldn’t seem to kick to swim. She dragged the injured woman to the surface and pulled her into the boat, climbing back in after her. 

The siren smiled around bloody teeth. “Phee…” She mumbled, and Phee gasped at the awful injuries covering nearly every inch of her. She was green with bruises, bones exposed, burned from reentry, and her skin was both clammy and hot with a raging infection. 

“Hang on, I got you.” Phee breathed, hitting her comm. “Shep, meet me at the dock with a stretcher and round up as much bacta as we can spare. Send Lyana to my ship and tell her to bring me my long-range transmitter. I’ve got to call Hunter and Wrecker.”

“What’s going on, Phee? Lyana said an Imperial ship crashed into the ocean?”

“Yeah, but it wasn’t an Imperial on it. It’s Shiani!”

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This Week in Rust 526

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Updates from Rust Community

Official

Blog: Launching the 2023 State of Rust Survey Survey

A Call for Proposals for the Rust 2024 Edition

Project/Tooling Updates

ratatui: a Rust library for cooking up terminal user interfaces - v0.25.0

Introducing Gooey: My take on a Rusty GUI framework

Two New Open Source Rust Crates Create Easier Cedar Policy Management

Introducing FireDBG - a Time Travel Visual Debugger for Rust

Fornjot 0.48.0 - open source b-rep CAD kernel written in Rust

Committing to Rust for kernel code

A Rust implementation of Android's Binder

Preventing atomic-context violations in Rust code with klint

Rust for Linux — in space

Observations/Thoughts

Rust is growing

A curiously recurring lifetime issue

The rabbit hole of unsafe Rust bugs

Faster Rust Toolchains for Android

The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1

Nine Rules for SIMD Acceleration of your Rust Code (Part 2): General Lessons from Boosting Data Ingestion in the range-set-blaze Crate by 7x

What I Learned Making an embedded-hal Driver in Rust (for the MAX6675 Thermocouple Digitizer)

Rust Walkthroughs

Rust: Traits

Write a Toy VPN in Rust

Getting Started with Actix Web in Rust

Getting Started with Rocket in Rust

Generic types for function parameters in Rust 🦀

Benchmarking Rust Compiler Settings with Criterion: Controlling Criterion with Scripts and Environment Variables

[series] Multithreading and Memory-Mapping: Refining ANN Performance with Arroy

[series] Getting started with Tiny HTTP building a web application in Rust

Miscellaneous

Embedded Rust Education: 2023 Reflections & 2024 Visions

The Most Common Rust Compiler Errors as Encountered in RustRover: Part 1

Default arguments for functions in Rust using macros

[audio] Rust in Production Ep 1 - InfluxData's Paul Dix

[audio] Episode 160: Rust & Safety at Adobe with Sean Parent

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is constcat, a std::concat!-replacement with support for const variables and expressions.

Thanks to Ross MacArthur for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

Ockam - Fix documentation warnings

Ockam - Library - Validate CBOR structs according to the cddl schema for nodes/models/secure_channel

Ockam - Implement events in SqlxDatabase

Hyperswitch - [REFACTOR]: [Nuvei] MCA metadata validation

Hyperswitch - [FEATURE] : [Noon] Sync with Hyperswitch Reference

Hyperswitch - [FEATURE] : [Zen] Sync with Hyperswitch Reference

Hyperswitch - [REFACTOR] : [Authorizedotnet] Sync with Hyperswitch Reference

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

Updates from the Rust Project

386 pull requests were merged in the last week

enable stack probes on aarch64 for LLVM 18

add new tier 3 aarch64-apple-watchos target

add hexagon support

add the function body span to StableMIR

allow async_fn_in_trait traits with Send variant

cherry-pick "M68k: Fix ODR violation in GISel code (#72797)"

AIX: fix XCOFF metadata

-Ztrait-solver=next to -Znext-solver

actually parse async gen blocks correctly

add a method to StableMIR to check if a type is a CStr

add more suggestions to unexpected cfg names and values

add support for --env on tracked_env::var

add unstable -Zdefault-hidden-visibility cmdline flag for rustc

annotate panic reasons during enum layout

attempt to try to resolve blocking concerns (RFC #3086)

avoid overflow in GVN constant indexing

cache param env canonicalization

check FnPtr/FnDef built-in fn traits correctly with effects

check generic params after sigature for main-fn-ty

collect lang items from AST, get rid of GenericBound::LangItemTrait

coroutine variant fields can be uninitialized

coverage: skip instrumenting a function if no spans were extracted from MIR

deny ~const trait bounds in inherent impl headers

desugar yield in async gen correctly, ensure gen always returns unit

don't merge cfg and doc(cfg) attributes for re-exports

erase late bound regions from Instance::fn_sig() and add a few more details to StableMIR APIs

fix ICE ProjectionKinds Deref and Field were mismatched

fix LLD thread flags in bootstrap on Windows

fix waker_getters tracking issue number

fix alignment passed down to LLVM for simd_masked_load

fix dynamic size/align computation logic for packed types with dyn trait tail

fix overlapping spans in delimited meta-vars

ICE 110453: fixed with errors

llvm-wrapper: adapt for LLVM API changes

make IMPLIED_BOUNDS_ENTAILMENT into a hard error from a lint

make exhaustiveness usable outside of rustc

match lowering: Remove the make_target_blocks hack

more expressions correctly are marked to end with curly braces

nudge the user to kill programs using excessive CPU

opportunistically resolve region var in canonicalizer (instead of resolving root var)

properly reject default on free const items

remove unnecessary constness from ProjectionCandidate

replace some instances of FxHashMap/FxHashSet with stable alternatives (mostly in rustc_hir and rustc_ast_lowering)

resolve: replace visibility table in resolver outputs with query feeding

skip rpit constraint checker if borrowck return type error

some cleanup and improvement for invalid ref casting impl

tweak short_ty_string to reduce number of files

unconditionally register alias-relate in projection goal

update FreeBSD CI image

uplift TypeAndMut and ClosureKind to rustc_type_ir

use if cfg! instead of #[cfg]

use the LLVM option NoTrapAfterNoreturn

miri: visit the AllocIds and BorTags in borrow state FrameExtra

miri run: default to edition 2021

miri: make mmap not use expose semantics

fast path for declared_generic_bounds_from_env

stabilize type_name_of_val

stabilize ptr::{from_ref, from_mut}

add core::intrinsics::simd

add a column number to dbg!()

add more niches to rawvec

add ASCII whitespace trimming functions to &str

fix cases where std accidentally relied on inline(never)

Windows: allow File::create to work on hidden files

std: add xcoff in object's feature list

codegen: panic when trying to compute size/align of extern type

codegen_gcc: simd: implement missing intrinsics from simd/generic-arithmetic-pass.rs

codegen_llvm: set DW_AT_accessibility

cargo: clean up package metadata

cargo: do not allow empty name in package ID spec

cargo: fill in more empty name holes

cargo: hold the mutate exclusive lock when vendoring

rustdoc: use Map instead of Object for source files and search index

rustdoc: allow resizing the sidebar / hiding the top bar

rustdoc-search: fix a race condition in search index loading

rustdoc-search: use set ops for ranking and filtering

bindgen: use \r\n on windows

bindgen: better working destructors on windows

clippy: add new unconditional_recursion lint

clippy: new Lint: result_filter_map / Mirror of option_filter_map

clippy: don't visit nested bodies in is_const_evaluatable

clippy: redundant_pattern_matching: lint if let true, while let true, matches!(.., true)

clippy: do not lint assertions_on_constants for const _: () = assert!(expr)

clippy: doc_markdown Recognize words followed by empty parentheses () for quoting

clippy: fix binder handling in unnecessary_to_owned

rust-analyzer: deduplicate annotations

rust-analyzer: optimizing Performance with Promise.all 🏎

rust-analyzer: desugar doc correctly for mbe

rust-analyzer: dont assume ascii in remove_markdown

rust-analyzer: resolve alias before resolving enum variant

rust-analyzer: add minimal support for the 2024 edition

rust-analyzer: move out WithFixture into dev-dep only crate

rust-analyzer: fix false positive type mismatch in const reference patterns

rust-analyzer: syntax fixup now removes subtrees with fake spans

rust-analyzer: update builtin attrs from rustc

rust-analyzer: fix fragment parser replacing matches with dummies on incomplete parses

rust-analyzer: fix incorrectly replacing references in macro invocation in "Convert to named struct" assist

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

A lot of noise in the results this week; there was an lull in the noise recently, so our auto-inferred noise threshold went down, and thus five PR's were artificially flagged this week (and three supposed improvements were just reverting to the mean). Beyond that, we had three nice improvements: the first to debug builds in #117962 (by ceasing emission of expensive+unused .debug_pubnames and .debug_pubtypes), a second to diesel and serde in #119048 (by avoiding some unnecessary work), and a third to several benchmarks in #117749 (by adding some caching of an internal compiler structure).

Triage done by @pnkfelix. Revision range: 57010939..bf9229a2

6 Regressions, 9 Improvements, 3 Mixed; 5 of them in rollups 67 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

No RFCs were approved this week.

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

[disposition: postpone] RFC: Precise Pre-release Deps

Tracking Issues & PRs

[disposition: merge] Support async recursive calls (as long as they have indirection)

[disposition: merge] make soft_unstable show up in future breakage reports

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for ip_in_core

Language Reference

No Language Reference RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

Unsafe Code Guidelines

No Unsafe Code Guideline RFCs entered Final Comment Period this week.

New and Updated RFCs

RFC: patchable-function-entry

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

No RFCs issued a call for testing this week.

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

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Quote of the Week

The Tianyi-33 satellite is a 50kg class space science experimental satellite equipped with an operating system independently developed by Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications—the Rust-based dual-kernel real-time operating system RROS. RROS will carry out general tasks represented by tensorflow/k8s and real-time tasks represented by real-time file systems and real-time network transmission on the satellite. It will ensure the normal execution of upper-layer applications and scientific research tasks, such as time-delay measurement between satellite and ground, live video broadcasting, onboard web chat services, pseudo-SSH experiments, etc. This marks the world’s first official application of a Rust-written dual-kernel operating system in a satellite scenario.

– Qichen on the RROS web page

Thanks to Brian Kung for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

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