a very weeny construct 💀

https://tiny.tilde.website/@pho4cexa

40s, atheist, parent
:ms_bisexual_flag: :ms_trans_thinking: :flagEnby: 🏳️‍🌈 🖥️
i love the craft of software;
i loathe the software industry.

pronouns: xe/xem/xyr https://en.pronouns.page/xe
:tilde: web: https://tilde.town/~pho4cexa

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pho4cexa_at_tiny.tilde.website@momostr.pink

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2026-10-24 20:49:28 UTC

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encountered a speedbump in my family domain plan: family does not like the domain i chose
so, few go-rounds and months later, *now* i have a domain for family stuff, to keep it mildly dissociated from my pseudonymous techie/lewd/anti-capitalist bullshit
first order of business: ryoms! going to reread my copy of @npub1ksf…r6s6's [run your own mail server](https://mwl.io/static/books/run-your-own-mail-server.html )
then decide if i build on the linux vps i have, or attempt to migrate it to a bsd os rn instead. leaning toward the former

2026-10-22 03:26:13 UTC

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getting blindsided over and over when someone whose values i thought i shared reveals they too love to wallow in slop feels like, idk, a hidden predilection to substance abuse?
so, surely our values weren't *that* alien? surely it isn't *entirely* down to moral failure? they're part of the population susceptible to the fascinating lies machine. and therefore what can really be said to or about linus?
🧵

2026-10-22 03:23:37 UTC

RE: https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/117441841785502664
the last dregs of my respect for linus evaporated in 2014 when he said fuck you tivoization is fine
for his legendary e-mail nastiness, i thought there was a time period where he got therapy, and improved?
when he started pushing slop, it was disappointing but betrayals by other people whom i had more respect for were bigger, more painful, surprises
🧵

2026-10-20 21:10:04 UTC

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yes!!!
(except the "we" part; *i* never wanted my menu bars discarded, dipshits at microsoft initiated that with the "ribbon" bullshit; leading into the whole rant about computer malfeasance misattributed to "us" or "programmers" versus "our bosses" or "the industry" or "perverse incentives of capitalism")
(but none of that is for you, you get it) ☺️

2026-10-20 20:55:06 UTC

the thing i want, the thing i have always wanted, for any new computer experience, is: a menu bar
i am sorry to say that my first independent exploration of a computer at age six was neither command line or gui, but ms-dos shell
in addition to the hierarchical filesystem view, it had a predefined hierarchy of actions in a menu bar
a tidy list of (ostensibly) everything you can make your computer do, organized into categories and subcategories

2026-10-01 07:37:47 UTC

i've fallen way behind in my reading of a couple authors i support on patreon. i'd like to collect up all of their posts since sometime last year, so i can process them into epub for reading on my e-ink device
any recommendations for a patreon-downloader script or software?
i've tried two broken firefox extensions and am reluctant to try a couple pieces of software that have dependencies on c-sharp or nodejs
i would try talking to the api but you have to be a "creator" first

2026-09-29 18:03:51 UTC

"commerce isn't (necessarily) capitalism"
anybody got a link to a thread or a blog discussing the distinction between capitalism (bad, extractive) and commerce (good or neutral, the mere exchange of money for goods and services)?
to hand to someone who doesn't read a lot of theory, or goes "so you anticapitalists barter everything?"
i know i've read something in this vein either on here or linked to from here but, of course, can't find it now
thanks in advance

2026-09-21 22:28:14 UTC

any recommendations for reputable websites, for commissioning freelance artists?
i'm thinking like https://www.fiverr.com/ but i kindof get a bad smell from that site. felt super race-to-the-bottom hyper-competitive against colleagues without even providing good platform tools, and it's even more corporate now than when i used it years ago. it it as bad as it feels?
anyway i'd like to #commission an #artist who avoids ai, for a #vector #illustration
#noslop #neverslop

2026-09-14 17:51:44 UTC

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current count is 23 unreadable (pending) sectors and 13 offline uncorrectable on this 6TB drive
hell no i'm not buying during the ai-nflation. looks like dm-integrity (which makes this 2013 celeron absolutely crawl) is gonna get a field test...
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/117/270/640/437/192/206/original/810b0226d56f81de.png

2026-09-04 07:10:03 UTC

who up despairing about their employability in an industry they find abhorrently revolting
despite an early all-consuming passion for the machines and their fascinating puzzle-like abstractions
and contained within them the potential for good and connection and community-building
and a compulsion to increase your symbiosis with them
there are so many of us
we are not the industry
i bet we rival whole cities in population
there has got to be a way to concentrate our collective will

2026-09-03 21:36:26 UTC

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i haven't sworn off free software, or copyleft, or any of that, because it does still seem necessary. but joining the choir: it is insufficient
and today the distinction between software that will vs. won't betray me no longer lies along the same divider as proprietary vs. free
i'm firmly in the non-betrayal camp, and it does my mental health mountains of good to see that many of you are too. but i don't know what we're calling it yet, i don't know what our banner looks like

2026-09-03 21:31:52 UTC

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i've long had beef with fsf for their stance of shunning proprietary software, forbidding its acolytes from talking about its existence, instead of education about *how* and *when* it can betray you
i play some proprietary games because i understand that although it has the power to betray me, i can weigh that against how likely it is to happen before i no longer care
more and more often lately i feel that same sense of betrayal from people using and even creating "free software"

2026-09-03 21:28:56 UTC

not really a reply to ajroach42's excellent and deeply resonant thread today, just tangential
https://retro.social/@ajroach42/117208764034037052
the trait i've come to identify as most foul in proprietary software and everything non-free-software is: *betrayal.*
i avoid proprietary software because, eventually, it will betray me. it will do something against my interest in favor of its creator, or owner, or whomever is in control of the hardware it runs on.

2026-08-23 15:27:19 UTC

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i'm already 1000% convinced with no evidence necessary that casio made the f-b100w in response to the amazing [sensor watch](https://www.sensorwatch.net/ ) pcb replacement project by @npub1pf3…uep8

2026-08-08 18:52:52 UTC

i like that nobody in attendance at the town hall sees the guillotine and goes "huh, wonder who that's for"

2026-08-03 23:23:20 UTC

really wish i could mark cryptocurrency, nfts, and ai as anti-features on @npub1mtr…trt0
the anti-feature filtering is already present, and works great, (you are given the freedom to override it.) it would be the mere addition of some more boolean attributes

2026-07-28 01:41:24 UTC

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ok. i rented a second domain name, to keep kids and kids' friends and kids' friends' parents well away from encounters with my pseudonyms' and/or friends' shenanigans, mild though they may be
first thing i'm putting there is a family- and friends-only walled-garden xmpp server, and after that gonna try running email service too. lets see how it goes

2026-07-25 16:53:34 UTC

RE: https://social.coop/@cwebber/116980092680170701
wait, that looks familiar...
in the background of the thumbnail for this talk is the album cover for [ninajirachi's i love my computer](https://ninajirachi.bandcamp.com/album/i-love-my-computer )!! whose tracks "all i am" and "it's you" i listen to on loop for multiple hours at a time
with that plus christine's endorsement there's no way i'm not watching it
#note1xpf…9r52

2026-07-13 18:30:02 UTC

❌️ software designed for technology that doubles in speed every two years
✅️ software designed for technology that doubles in price every two years

2026-06-21 17:42:56 UTC

same thing we do every day pinky, try to complete a task

2026-04-24 20:07:43 UTC

t shirt idea: "more 9's than github"
pictured: tough girl with a well-known firearm in each fist both of whom use nine-millimeter caliber ammunition
(i know nothing about guns)

2026-04-08 04:26:29 UTC

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delicious ap floub

2026-03-13 20:30:04 UTC

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bravo for enshaton as past-tense result of enshittification joke-within-the-joke

2026-03-03 03:59:32 UTC

maybe i should think about possibly considering whether or not to replace that drive
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/116/163/205/605/974/276/original/af237d9523e3c650.png

2026-03-01 01:00:27 UTC

once i don't need money anymore maybe i'll hang out my shingle to be personal server sommelier for artists i like
no sir, please direct all your attentions to painting your furries en flagrante sir, allow your dedicated staff to mind the website and ensure that ne'er-do-wells keep well away
not necessary sir, it is my pleasure to administer poison to lowly techbro rabble

2026-01-24 06:46:12 UTC

🧠 i don't want to give my current email to kids' friends' parents, what if they search up its subdomains and find the confessions about being bad at work pseudonym or the fictional sexytimes in space pseudonym
🧠 i should get yet another domain name
👨 ugh
🧠 ahem! for performative professionalism reasons. something perfectly bland
🧠 ...
🧠 performative professionalism
🧠 professional performativity
🧠 pro performance
🧠 sounds like a legit company that makes either car tires or protein powder

2026-01-23 17:11:01 UTC

okay which one of you [super metroid game faq aspirants](https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/snes/588741-super-metroid/faqs/10114 ) manually justified the help text of top(1)
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/115/945/507/380/962/106/original/0a42d687801b433d.png

2025-08-07 02:43:44 UTC

you love to see it
when are more ppl going to clue in that these are hot selling points
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/114/985/167/227/899/103/original/67cf53621c89f56e.png

2025-06-12 05:01:40 UTC

love the pettiness of macos showing windows computers on the lan as old-ass crt monitors displaying a blue screen of death. need more of that energy in my linux
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/114/668/620/911/068/598/original/fe73766e73cb56b5.png

2025-02-25 15:39:07 UTC

were donald knuth's mix and mmix fantasy game consoles

2025-02-01 21:01:48 UTC

you've heard of progressive web apps and offline-first development
so let's do queer first development. trans, pan, non-binary by default
want to play a straight cis dude and romance the straight cis princess, sure that's *allowed* just download the dlc to unlock that niche feature
oh you need "Male" and "Female" for some dumb-ass reason in a dropdown box? just contact our sales team for a *free quote* to upgrade to enterprise tier

2025-01-23 04:58:02 UTC

on the subject of computer services that are or aren't operated by bootlickers<li><a href="https://porkbun.com" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no">https://porkbun.com</a> is a domain registrar</li><li>it is owned by TopLevelDesign based in Oregon</li><li>they also own the .wiki, .ink, and .gay top-level domains</li><li>they donate 20% of revenue from .gay registrations to LGBTQ+ advocacy groups</li>
perhaps insufficient evidence here. but porkbun fares better than a few other companies in recent memory
also worth exploring:
https://european-alternatives.eu/

2025-01-18 18:02:42 UTC

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everything about this idea appeals to me too except the thought of trying to work next to a full height rack full of rackmount computer fans. even my own rather quiet desktop is an annoyance. the noise wouldn't bother you?

2024-09-10 02:52:38 UTC

anybody got a paragraph or three about what made cohost great, that you didn't experience with, say, fedi, aimed at those of us who never got into cohost?
was it a preference for the particulars of the ui, the length of posts? was it network effect, the people that happened to be on there? moderation policies? problems that fedi (or certain popular clients) have that cohost didn't?
i don't ask to bait argument. just daydreaming about what future social networks should look like
#cohost

2024-05-30 21:24:59 UTC

i wonder how many people in the world have a tattoo around their arm or leg that is accidentally or intentionally the microsoft windowsn't server 3 logo from 1994
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/112/532/131/972/936/241/original/280144d0fd4f9691.png

2023-09-06 16:52:35 UTC

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pretty much every graph
https://sbom.tilde.website/media_attachments/files/111/019/233/468/486/005/original/014b186656fb76c4.png

2023-09-06 16:15:19 UTC

i'd like to see (or make) parallel charts of wealth inequality and climate change with vertical markers for certain u.s. laws going into effect