trisweb

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General nerd; work = I design B2B software of high complexity. Artsy/musicy, house full of: dogs, baby, plants, good tea, vintage tube gear, various things that run Linux. Always snacking. My em-dashes are my own. He/him, trans rights, Black Lives Matter, genuinely delighted to meet you. KC1ULJ on #amateurradio

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2026-10-28 01:08:36 UTC

All these STEM majors believing large-dataset autocorrect is nearing sentient intelligence is why we needed humanities education.

2026-09-09 23:17:27 UTC

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Define magic.
In other words, yes, quite possibly some form of "magic" compared to what we think today. There's so much we don't know about how the brain works, and so much has evolved in tangled complex ways over millions of years of evolution. There could be quantum effects involved in sentience for all we know. It could be much more difficult.

2026-09-09 11:23:30 UTC

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https://mastodon.s3web.trisweb.com/media_attachments/files/117/240/822/845/366/771/original/bf2231c4c1103a89.jpeg

2026-07-14 12:16:32 UTC

It’s hard to trust that Apple can get anything right when they so thoroughly break iOS text entry, with objectively dumb bugs, and then just… leave it that way.
Do they even use their own software?

2026-06-23 13:09:06 UTC

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I do wish I could better see how boosts were received / engaged with by my followers on mastodon. Right now it’s kind of just amplifying into the dark.

2026-05-27 12:27:06 UTC

The insatiable desire as a designer to purchase more colored pens, despite having all the colored pens

2026-04-21 04:13:31 UTC

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I just read that whole thing, and it was fascinating. Thank you for sharing.

2026-03-24 02:57:58 UTC

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Side-note, since upgrading my well-established desktop from Pop!_OS 22.04 to 24.04 removed basically all of my packages and software, there's now no reason for me not to restore my /home directly on top of Debian there either. I expect I'll do that, and move all of my systems to a standard setup.
Which, now that I think of it, would be an ideal use case for NixOS..... no. No.

2026-03-24 02:56:25 UTC

There's something satisfying about having a real #Debian #Linux desktop on my new Thinkpad.
It feels so much simpler and more straightforward to manage than some of the Debian-derivatives I've been using.
I was on Pop!_OS for the longest time, on both a laptop and my main desktop, and it was solid, but the lack of updates and focus on Cosmic has really taken away from having a solid reliable and predictable desktop experience (sadly).
Debian is just rock solid, predictable, easy to manage, and simple without being limited. There's a reason it's a standard.

2026-03-18 01:05:48 UTC

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It's a miracle he knows more than 6 words. Or that the last part of his sentence makes sense with the first part. Flesh brains are so feeble amiright???

2026-03-13 18:43:54 UTC

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it is kind of amazing how seamlessly it leads into Rogue One! Highly recommend watching in sequence, it helps with the whole anticlimactic ending thing.

2026-02-27 03:26:04 UTC

It's the dead of Winter and there's 4 feet of snow on the ground, but I just remembered it's year 3 for my native plantings under that snow.
These plants are absolutely going to pop in Spring!
About 10 native Echinacea, half a dozen black-eyed susans, Penstemon hirsutus, Anemone canadensis, several rare narrow-leaved vervain plants, mountain mint, SO much Monarda Didyma and Fistulosa. AH it's going to be so great, and just starting to move toward establishing to thriving this coming season!
#nativeplants #gardening #spring #plants #wildflowers

2026-02-09 01:42:32 UTC

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I believe they are supposed to marinate in untreated river water, then you dip them in beef tallow.

2026-02-09 01:38:56 UTC

Everyone just eat apples, that should solve all our health problems.

2025-12-02 05:02:46 UTC

Here's a one of a kind performance... Shawn Colvin singing Shotgun Down the Avalanche at the 1992 Telluride Bluegrass Festival... with Allison Krauss on fiddle, Béla Fleck on banjo, and Mary Chapin Carpenter on Guitar and backing vocals.
Just pull together some random musicians off the street, you know.
Enjoy!
https://www.trisweb.com/files/music/1992_Telluride_Bluegrass_Festival-Shawn_Colvin-Shotgun_Down_the_Avalanche.mp3
#music #bluegrass #folkmusic #livemusic

2025-11-15 00:15:46 UTC

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used to think this; as I got older I realized how useful and important small talk is as a clutch plate to adapt to each others’ differing momentum of life drivetrain

2025-09-28 14:55:47 UTC

CNN reporting on religious revivals among young men in the US.
Christianity in the US has ceased to be a meaningful spiritual practice, and instead simply a movement to reacquire social power for white men. It advertises and appeals to every base fear and carnal desire that young white men dream about in their monkey brains.
It’s terrifying and it’s working.

2025-09-09 16:03:01 UTC

After using #Linux 100% for the last several years, switching back to #Windows, it becomes infuriatingly clear that Windows does not, in fact, have a fully preemptable OS design.
So many things can interrupt userspace and ruin interactivity. It's why Windows feels "freezy" and a little unpredictable. Like, you never know if your mouse is going to slow down, or an app will crash, or a blip will happen in your audio. Because the kernel is a tangled mess of custom bespoke spaghetti edge cases built up over generations, not a consistent predictable scheduler that just schedules predictably.
Linux is a very mature, superior OS, and it's becoming more so by the week.

2025-07-16 12:45:36 UTC

I'm desperately trying to figure out if there's going to be a way to continue to work and meaningfully sustain yourself in the future without being willing to use climate-destroying water-guzzling energy-sucking word pattern toys.
I'm genuinely not sure. This is a scary prospect.

2025-07-04 16:29:11 UTC

The most successful psychological strategy that the fascist right has implemented is convincing people that the real problem is the names people call them, and not the truth of their own beliefs or actions.
The problem is not racism, it’s people calling you racist.
The problem isn’t your class, it’s people calling you uneducated.
The problem isn’t fascism, it’s the people calling you Nazis.
It’s a formula for getting away with anything while also creating an enemy of anyone who disagrees.

2025-06-30 14:47:23 UTC

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No, we won't. You're an immoral genocide apologist and I won't talk to you again.

2025-06-30 13:54:00 UTC

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Ah yes, the "technically not a genocide because of technical technicalities" argument, nice one. It's enabling you to bend your morality so far you're looking straight up your own ass, and you're describing what you see up there in so many words.
I don't care what word you use, or what war you agree with, I'm against any power who willfully starves tens of thousands of children regardless of the situation.

2025-06-30 13:48:48 UTC

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What do you mean by "Naw"? Are you *supporting* a military force that's killed tens of thousands of children? Is that your stance?

2025-06-30 13:45:01 UTC

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Repeat after me: being against a military force driving the genocide of tens of thousands of children is *not the same* as antisemitism, and anyone saying it is is using propaganda against you.

2025-05-29 16:44:23 UTC

The most customer-focused engineers and UX designers I've worked with don't really care that much about Design Systems.
The user and how tasks work for them are the number one priority. Even if it's inefficient, difficult, or more time consuming.
They still think in design systems, and modularity, and making things easier to build and design--but it's always second fiddle to what the software is actually able to do.
I think that's very right.
#UXDesign #Design #UX #DesignSystems #Software #Frontend

2025-05-22 23:40:30 UTC

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I wish I had the amoral fortitude to be a crypto magnate.
Luckily I still have my self respect. Priceless.

2025-04-24 10:44:14 UTC

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how does one join this cssjoy webring? Do I just take the last site link and add it to my page and then it gets picked up automagically?
Edit: Found instructions! Commencing following.

2025-04-18 21:24:03 UTC

Trying something on a very sunny wall in my backyard. It’s an experiment, we’ll see if it works! #gardening #plants
https://s3.us-east-2.wasabisys.com/trisweb-social-mastodon/media_attachments/files/114/361/065/612/952/127/original/4954f253b2abdffc.jpeg

2025-02-28 12:17:38 UTC

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if they believe in AI so much, it should have no problem doing the job of CEO.

2025-02-22 22:54:16 UTC

They really don’t get it. They think the mass fear and worry is some kind of conspiracy operation.
They don’t understand that people genuinely dislike what’s happening on a mass scale.
Scary.
https://s3.us-east-2.wasabisys.com/trisweb-social-mastodon/media_attachments/files/114/049/988/258/314/505/original/fc3674cbada6cc3c.jpeg

2025-01-19 13:40:11 UTC

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There's no upside to this. There's no "could improve performance" silver lining here. This is simply inhuman and should be banned.

2024-12-18 22:18:40 UTC

40 years ago, you could afford to not just survive, but live somewhere decent, enjoy life, travel, have kids, eat at restaurants, and even save a little. All of that was attainable and normal, with a normal job.
The reason it isn’t for us is NOT that we aren’t working hard enough or making good decisions about spending, it’s because the wealthy have systematically siphoned off every cent that they can—the wealth that is rightfully ours from the labor we generate and contribute to society—and taken it for themselves by sheer power and absence of resistance.
Never forget that. Never accept it.
#resist

2024-11-12 00:05:24 UTC

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let’s work as hard as we can to make it real instead of operating on hope, shall we?

2024-11-07 21:39:20 UTC

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I believe this is because they think about *everything* on an individual level. They don't really understand (or just have no experience with, or no framing for) talking about a system or combinations of people and 2nd and 3rd order effects.
Their whole world is about individuals and thinking about individuals they meet and thinking about themself as an individual and their family as individuals. They do not have a language for "systems" and therefore do not see them.
So when other people talk about systems, they genuinely think they are talking about the individual people. They have no way of knowing or seeing otherwise. They have no word for it in their personal vocabulary of experience.
And most people think this way, I think. Probably 70-80%, just going about their day thinking about themselves and their immediate contacts.

2024-11-06 11:37:35 UTC

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all you have to do is look at the "Would they make a good leader" poll question.
And the vast gap between those two.
Between an extremely competent woman who just led a complete campaign turnaround on a dime.
And some fart who lies all the time and tried to overthrow the country.
Good leader = man. That's the extent of most Americans' thought process.

2024-10-23 01:08:56 UTC

What the heck are you supposed to do in the year of our lord 2024 if you realize computer jobs are killing you due to looking at screens all day?
Seriously I have a pinched nerve in my neck that scrambles my whole ANS. Horrible.

2024-09-09 20:55:43 UTC

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Indeed. All taking advantage of cracks in the system that can be arbitraged.

2023-05-09 18:41:09 UTC

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More eloquently,
“If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery.

2023-05-09 18:40:33 UTC

Easily forgotten:
The things that genuinely motivate people to work ten or a hundred times harder toward a common goal are human, emotional, meaningful, purposeful, empathetic.
You can achieve minor gains with the mechanical, numeric, authoritative, concrete, inhuman; and it can feel like progress. But doing those same things but *harder* turns into #demotivation.
Genuinely #motivating people is not just more and better of the same; it's an entirely different kind of #management.