Tristan✅ @tfj@icosahedron.website
Cisco Networking student || infosec thinker and tinker || GreenParty || Bitcoin || INTJ || Open Source||
✅ = active instance || Idaho
Don't get me wrong; I do like my job a lot, and I consider it to be very deeply worthwhile work.
But sometimes - especially the last couple months - it's a little bit draining.
I slept a thoroughly inadequate amount last night. This is one of those days when I'm lucky my job does not involve operating heavy machinery.
It seems crazy to me that supporting the idea of violence as a limited, measured, and directed means of last resort might put me in the minority among Fediverse leftists.
By that I mean the idea that human life is sacred, and that as soon as you start playing Utilitarian trading games with human life, you've already lost.
People who have not ended a human life advocating such as the way forward. But it's been that way for as long as I can remember.
Or perhaps the pacifists are just quieter
Job thing! If you have a background in activism and understand tech, EFF has a couple of jobs you might be interested in (plz to boost)
Grassroots activist
You will support EFF’s grassroots advocacy efforts, support our security training team, and engage in outreach to grassroots groups, with a focus on technical communities and hacker spaces
Writer, Activism Team
This position will focus on net neutrality and a range of intellectual property issues
https://www.eff.org/about/opportunities/jobs
Maybe it's not my fault, and this is reality. Maybe I don't just do this to myself, but it's actually a force of nature.
Maybe it's universal. Maybe this clawing (and unquenchable) thirst for resources happens to be a part of humanity.
If that's the case, we can change it; and we should try to.
This downward spiral seems to almost always root itself in money.
In the acquisition of it, the retention of it, and the usage of it. Every step. Not just one.
Why do I do this to myself?
On some days, the amount of variables and possible consequences that I try to prepare for just knock me flat on my ass, leading into a downward spiral of self loathing and depression.
Today was /almost/ one of those days. Almost.
The #fediverse gives me so many wonderful options! It's almost like a VM for different social media accounts.
Except not.
Hmmm. Or I could designate my @tfj account for pure "Tristan" toots, and do boosts and stuff on this.
It'd be rather easy to write a bot to automatically boost these toots to my main.
Unless I get flagged for spam. Then...
As long as I stay logged in on my phone I'll retain access, I suppose xD
Not sure why, but my main icosahedron.website is no longer allowing me to log in. Kind of upsetting, but I'm sure it's just a small #bug.
Originally mastodon.social was doing the same thing.
Will Bitcoin ever be regulated as a fiat currency?
Spinning rust media are so damn slow!
Huh, I thought the :pineapple: thing was about the :pineapple: being a symbol of hospitality and warmth. (At least where I grew up, in the southern US.) But now I see it's much less sinister than that. @acw
https://medium.com/@qinaliu/what-i-wish-i-knew-before-joining-mastodon-7a17e7f12a2b
So now that you're using Keybase to sign and validate your identity (à la https://mastodon.social/@mw/1923474), I've whipped up a couple of macOS Services with Automator to make this a bit easier.
A Keybase Sign and Keybase Verify Service are both available in my Keybase public folder: https://keybase.pub/wunsch/
Services are contextual menu items that allow you to to do some action. Here's a gif of the signing service in action. https://mastodon.social/media/QjmXD-Kwsz1U573DeWQ
Ok. Who's got the best guide on running your own #masto instance?
There's a riot.im room, right?
Hm. I seem to get login issues often. Icosahedron is saying the password is incorrect, but I use a password manager so it's not like I'm using the wrong password.
i have a bajillion video games on my pc and no idea which one i wanna play
