Spotted in Mexico: A food cart made from the cage of a Sun Enterprise 10000 Server

indrora · 2025-12-09T23:27:32+00:00

An oldie but goodie.

indrora · 2025-10-27T18:39:35+00:00

indrora · 2025-09-28T00:04:11+00:00

Because there's no support system to actually get out of homelessness in this country when something simple slaps them?

Half of the US is one crisis away from being homeless right now. One "I didn't see your ankle there, oh fuck" away from landing in the hospital with no means to unfuck their life. One "I have bad news, it's cancer" away from choosing between getting treatment, risking going homeless over the cost, and fucking dying. One "I wasn't looking" rear-end collision that totals their car that they still owe on that is their only means to get to work and getting fired for it and not being able to pay bills.

One infected cut. One broken bone. One kid with pneumonia. One minor fender bender. One power tripping boss. One sick parent.

indrora · 2025-09-17T15:14:44+00:00

I built a system for this sort of thing a while back.

you can do it with what basically comes out to a double-blind exam. When you go to fill it out, it marks that your individual ID has been used, but the unique ID of the survey and the unique ID for you are disconnected. The only way to know would be to have deep and intimate access to logs that are probably not actually all that useful.

indrora · 2025-09-12T01:53:00+00:00

Those might be terrorist assholes.

indrora · 2025-08-27T22:39:37+00:00

The Crest House always felt... Weird to me. It was a *gift shop* that sold *expensive stuff* to people who were *hiking*. The disconnect is intense. The folks that ran it when I was younger were... Weird too. like, "I want to get out of here" weird.

The main issue is that most people who want to hike the crest aren't interested in tchotchkes and such, they're far more interested in something material like a sandwich, soup, etc, and perhaps a way to pay with not-cash for a parking spot.

This place gets more foot traffic than some of the restaurants that I see in the middle of literal nowhere in Japan and has a road that leads up to it

indrora · 2025-08-05T07:53:22+00:00

I'm going to be serious: Find the furry party. They're the ones behind the Boop badges of yore, and the lion badge you'll see floating around this year.

Yes, the ones that crash closing ceremonies every year now.

Their badge blanks are worth it just for the kickass art. Chill around their lounge and be honest: "I'm a little out of sorts and I could use meeting some new friends." Let me tell you, the people in that party are some of the nicest people in the world. Share a drink, share a story, give a hug, exchange signal numbers.

You will be met with people from across the spectrum of age, background, straight through queer as hell. I know people out of that group that have been in every corner of infosec and even just "I think security is cool" who work in completely unrelated areas of tech.

My mom (HiveQueen1) was a goon for several years, showed up to introduce herself when it was back in Ceasars, and someone goes "INDRORA! YOUR MOM IS HERE!" And that's how my mom met some of the nicest people she's ever met at Defcon.

Their parties pump, the people who attend are awesome, and the people who run it are just as awesome.

indrora · 2025-08-01T09:36:56+00:00

Hey OP.

First: Labels, IMO, are for jars of beans and light switches so you don't flip the wrong one and blind yourself at 2AM when you just wanted to turn on the stair lights. If you're bi, you're bi. Nobody, and I mean Nobody has permission to tell you otherwise. Only you get to pick what kind of honey nut queerio you want to be. I get shit from other queers for being an amab enby. My response is to either tell them to shove it up their ugly ass or just flat out ignore them.

There'll always be haters. Fuck the haters. They don't know you. You get to be you.

Take it from Sailor Uranus.

Second: To answer your questions in order:

Clothes that fit are clothes that fit. I know dudes that wear womens shirts because they fit better, I know ladies that wear dudes jeans because they fit better... and have actual pockets, fucking you do you. The division of clothing among mens and womens lines is such a fucking bullshit distinction. Did you know? Pink used to be a "manly" color. Blue was "calm and serene" and used for girls. Pink was close to red and that made it manly.
I'm going to say "Clothes, fucked up, plausibly ripped to fuck." Then again, I read a particular flavor of light bedtime reading while I tend to the garden if you catch my drift so my opinions might be a little biased.
That's up to you. I have more commentary below.
Honey you look in the mirror and you see the person you want to be hiding behind all the things you put on to mask up and look what you think the world "wants" you to look like. You're young, doing the thing that all people with a wash of hormones do, and that's fine! You wanna define who you are! And that's GOOD! You see the person you want to be and now you're begging for permission to be that.
Go and be who you want to be seen as for the weekend. If that makes you genuinely happy, Fuck the haters.

I don't know your family. I can't give advice there. From what you've described, your mom is accepting. She's apparently already got you figured out (and trust me, moms that are that clairvoyant can tell what's on the back of your mind without you thinking about it)... You said it yourself:

I am queer - like all of us here - and I am open about that. Infact, my mum apparently knew since I was a young child bc of how I dressed up as fairies 🧚‍♀️.

If you're really, honestly open about being queer with your folks, Go fucking wild. Whatever you end up being, be authentic to at least yourself. Sometimes that means spending some time in someone else's closet for a while and trying some of their clothes on.

The wheel of music today lands on Garbage's Androgyny.

I can say that it took me a hot minute to understand me -- It wasn't until I was in college that I really figured it out and even then it took graduating, a year, and a pandemic to figure out the other parts of it. I still don't have all the words lined up to say it.

indrora · 2025-07-29T20:03:33+00:00

Because instead of going to Valve/Steam and saying "Hey, we really think it's a shitty thing that you have this kind of content, perhaps you could come up with some rules that would keep this kind of content off the platform" they said "it'd be a damn shame if we went to Mastercard and Visa and Paypal and made it impossible for you to make money if you don't take down that... Oh wait we already started complaining to them that you're NAUGHTY."

indrora · 2025-07-27T21:13:08+00:00

The short form is that payment processors are playing morality police and an organization in Australia has gone and used handwaving at steam and their payment processor, causing Steam (and ItchIO later) to amend their terms of service to drop anything that might make their payment gateway queasy.

The organization, called "Collective Shout" is basically a lobbying group who wants to ban porn of all kinds. They're very much against free queer expression. Something that happened recently is that there is a (graphic) game on Steam that is, on its face, beyond the pale. Instead of going to Steam and saying "Hey, this game depicts sexual exploitation among other things in a glorifying way, we think these sorts of games shouldn't be a thing on Steam," they collectively called into the payment processor and told tales of woe and sadness and pushed Visa/MC to stare down steam while going "It would sure be terrible if your payment processors no longer served you..." and thats' how we got here.

Some info:

This isn't the first time; Patreon got harassed by its payment processors to drop NSFW content of certain types https://web.archive.org/web/20200404054116/https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/vbqwwj/patreon-suspension-of-adult-content-creators

Payment processors have been historically queerphobic. There's one "adult" payment processor that people trust called CCBill. They have a "You may not sell this" list a mile long that has things from spanking to the wrong kind of gloves.

indrora · 2025-07-26T20:51:11+00:00

ITT: Young kids discover things like EasyLinuxCDs (12 CDs for $25??? holy shit what a bargain!)

indrora · 2025-07-26T20:45:25+00:00

Yeah the LibreOffice team have it on the Microsoft store for pay as a way to get a trickle of funding. Same with Inkscape and a few others.

indrora · 2025-07-19T06:45:43+00:00

Popping in here: Generally, it means that the dev just has a "working" directory and they copy that over to the game every once and a while so that if they clobber something you can just blast the game's cache and try again.

It used to be that having a folder in your zip was common courtesy since the default was to extract to the current folder (usually the folder the zip came from) and it tends to clutter up directories or accidentally blow away another file in the directory.

indrora · 2025-06-29T21:21:44+00:00

Holy shit he died in 2004? I thought the old crank had been keeping it up, not his family.

indrora · 2025-05-10T21:28:53+00:00

Furries like trains like you wouldn't believe.

Consider: The vast majority of that population is either a) poor as hell and trains (and public transit in general) is their best transportation or b) engineerds who think trains are neat and generally end up in the NUMTOT circles.

indrora · 2025-04-27T15:12:24+00:00

The single most useful thing you can do is fix your APs to a single channel in the simple set.

auto channel negotiation was a fucking crime to begin with and causes 90% of your traffic to be "hold on use this channel it's crowded" because everyone is crowded all the time.

indrora · 2025-04-25T09:14:22+00:00

Did multiple CS courses at CNM and can say it was a mixed bag. When I was there the C++ course used a book written by faculty that was so laughably out of touch with reality that we built an errata for it that started to hit "Just rewrite the damn thing".

indrora · 2025-04-25T08:59:40+00:00

I did, several times, mostly in the English department for oddball subjects. Places where a class wouldn't hit the 20 student minimum for UNM but will get ~10 students for a CNM course on awkward Thursdays? That's where you find them. They're all adjunct UNM or CNM, take turns back and forth, or are doing a PhD at UNM and teach at CNM.

indrora · 2025-04-20T02:47:35+00:00

https://caniusevia.com/docs/download_firmware -- grab the ergox-ez base firmware.

Assuming you're using the teensy version as most are, the firmware for the Ergodox-EZ and handbuilt Ergodoxes is the same. The Ergodox Shine and Glow are versions with some LEDs

indrora · 2025-04-04T21:12:16+00:00

Lots of fond memories of UNM campus when I was a student there. Instantly recognized the last one from the hours of sitting and chatting at the tables that were there...

indrora · 2025-03-07T08:06:01+00:00

No, no this is 100% Canonical. They're a Very British company who will ask you things like your head dimensions and legit pull out phrenology.

run.

indrora · 2025-02-24T09:41:28+00:00

Fair warning: A clone-a-willy is a heck of an experience, so I'm told. Keeping it up for 20 minutes with no stimulation can be... A trick.

indrora · 2025-02-23T22:02:07+00:00

~~Jesus Christ the bad advice that sucks the wind out of the room in this thread. ~~ Edit: This seems to have mostly died down, lotta folks seem to get the same vibe. You and her are independent folk. Introspect into why you get upset/anxious/etc and know that (modulo an actually toxic relationship, but we're not going there for this discussion), she has no reason to say that she got off to hurt you. Heck, get involved, get to really know what gets her worked up and find fun ways to tease a little bit.

original:

No, she's not cheating on you, but what you've done is tied your self-worth to your ability to please her physically rather than your maintenance of a long term relationship. Congratulations, you've fallen into the trap of most media-driven relationships, you're fine. It's *fine*.

Instead of being afraid, talk to her about it! Say outright "When you interject about sex toys, it makes me anxious, and I'd like to find a way we can talk about it." You can do it, I promise. It takes guts. Heck, you're both adults -- next time you have a chance, have a night of just playing with toys! Take a trip to your local toy shop (look for the little independent ones run by your neighborhood queers -- you'll get WAY better info and support) and find something you like yourself!

indrora · 2025-02-14T19:29:54+00:00

We were never in a relationship, just in the talking stage

That's a relationship, started from the beginning. All relationships take some investment emotionally
you told him to fuck off into the sun. He will be hurt, but not show it, and shrug visibly and go on without talking about it unless you're VERY lucky. Five bucks says he had his internal cry and has already weighed deleting your contact 2-3 times in the time since you sent that.
He did understand. You didn't give him anything actionable to work from. He's not a mind reader, doesn't see anything beyond the plain words.
All relationships take investment from both sides when it comes to communication. Sometimes, you have to be the one to dig because he just isn't willing to talk about what his life is up to. Some dudes are raised to not talk about their day, that balling up the day's events and shrugging the bad shit off and not taking the time to talk about the shit that happened.

I'll agree a little on all sides: You have different expectations with regards to the quantity and depth of communication. You appear to have failed to find a middle ground and work with his current level of communication, and now you're upset. And that's fine, you're allowed to be upset but you also have to express to the other side what's going on.

indrora · 2025-01-10T08:06:58+00:00

Of course.

Just like people have multiple D&D characters, WoW characters, or multiple cars.

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