kellyaster

kellyaster , 6 days ago

This is trippy, I didn't know Starship was a thing. JFC, I feel like I've been living under a rock. I'm reading up on it on their site, and I'm impressed by the range of shell support and customizable options.

This is gonna be really helpful for me, especially for work... I'm constantly switching between several perpetually-open terminal windows used for different things, and it's real easy to confuse what local dir I'm in and/or what repo/branch I'm connected to. I didn't realize I needed this in my command line. Thank you for posting this!

kellyaster , 11 days ago

Republican candidate for Missouri Secretary of State Valentina Gomez – who rages at all things “weak and gay”

So much Boomer energy. Too bad it can't be used for anything other than hate.

kellyaster , 11 days ago (edited 11 days ago)

Usernameblankface@lemmy.world, there's !pocketknife (aka https://lemmy.world/c/pocketknife). It's not super duper active, but some of the regulars there might have whetstone recommendations for you.

kellyaster , 26 days ago

Women wistfully holding glasses of wine together. So hot right now

kellyaster , 25 days ago

Fuck off, Nazi

kellyaster , 1 month ago

You can buy stickers of this that you can put on your laptop. I've seen it on AliExpress, it's like two bucks.

kellyaster , 1 month ago

telling you you're part of the problem because of your existence... It's not hard to see how that can really impact one's sense of worth to the world.

I don't mean to invalidate what you're feeling, but that's what it's like to be a minority in America. I have dealt with that in some shape or form for as long as I can remember. Sorry, I don't have any answers, but I do empathize with you.

kellyaster , 1 month ago

new Spiced Gold label featuring the new, less fun Captain Morgan design

This is the new Spiced Gold label. They did keep the barrel instead of changing it to a chest, but overall it's not exactly what I'd call an improvement. They had the equivalent of Dustin Hoffman's Captain Hook as their logo and they replaced him with David Arquette

Edit: also, he's holding his sword like it's a cane. Wtf lol

kellyaster , 2 months ago

It's certainly a nice idea for a community, but there's already content in there that can be used to spread/reinforce climate change denial.

For example, this chart showing the decline of air pollution deaths: https://reddthat.com/post/16771065. That's exactly the kind of thing that right wingers point to and scream "See? Fewer people are dying, the planet is fine!" Again, the intent is admirable, but this kind of content is ripe for repackaging as anti-climate propaganda. It's going to do more harm than good if you collect that kind of messaging all in one place like this.

kellyaster , 2 months ago

Hey, I saw the other post you made. Sorry I missed this. I'm stoked you finally have a lead, so congrats and good luck with the referral!! And it sounds like the patient advocate did you a solid, so good on them!

Side note: what's up with the toxicity here? Jeepers, has the Casual Conversation community always been like this?

kellyaster , 2 months ago

Flying Squid, I'm so happy for you! It must be a relief to finally see some progress.

kellyaster , 2 months ago

I'm sure it is stressful. The unknowns that lie ahead can give you a lot to think about. I realize it probably sounds like a shitty consolation prize, but you are moving forward. I hope everything works out ok. We're all rooting for you, brah!

kellyaster , 2 months ago

Stacked is right! I just looked up the cast, and it's wild to see some of these names. I didn't know John Malkovich was in it?? I didn't pay any attention to this flick when it came out... I just heard it was ass and filed it under "Nah" in my head. Yeah, looks like the script was just unsalvageable.

kellyaster , 2 months ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b159a3d4-8c0a-438b-9cc7-ae351621db6c.gif

kellyaster , 3 months ago

These schmucks keep repeating "RICO" like it's some dumbass SovCit incantation or something.

kellyaster , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

I picked up Tekworld #1 eons ago, back when I was a young voracious comic book collector and would buy anything off the "New" shelf. I never bothered to read it...I figured it couldn't be worse than TJ Hooker, but it appears I was terribly mistaken. I'm sorry I contributed to this shitty franchise, I thought it would be worth a fortune when I got old (it's not).

Also, wrt:

I’m not sure how thankful I should be that someone made William Shatner’s TekWar more accessible to me, but at least I didn’t struggle with PGUP and PGDN to move my virtual neck.

Yeah, thank your lucky stars that gaming with a mouse became a fuckin thing, because hitting PGUP and PGDN to pan up & down sucked back then too.

kellyaster , 3 months ago

You know what, you're right. I'll make sure child me from 30 years ago doesn't do it again.

kellyaster , 3 months ago

This would come in handy for temporary outages or worst-case scenarios where the instance doesn't come back. Should be interesting to see how it develops

kellyaster , 3 months ago

JFC, this troll again. You're the one who's been stalking Stamets for the past several months, posting shit about him constantly. What, did you get bored with your other account? Piss off.

kellyaster , 3 months ago

the crow said don't look!

kellyaster , 3 months ago

I’ll be honest, I’d never heard of the idea until recently when a friend of a friend mentioned it to me on a night out.

I'll be honest, I don't think I can trust a word this guy says. He writes about online tech for a living (including social media coverage) and he's only now hearing about the Fediverse?

Curious to learn more, I decided to canvass some experts for their opinions on it – whether it’s desirable or even achievable.

He's just learning about the Fediverse, so who does he interview for his first article about it? Let's see...(1) the chief marketing officer at Los Angeles-based event planning company Breezit, (2) the head of events at Web3 consultancy CryptoOracle, (3) the CEO and founder of social media app start-up Calaxy, and (4) the founder of cryptocurrency Tether.

LOL what the capitalist shit is this? This article is trash...it says absolutely nothing about the tech behind the Fediverse though it's supposed to be a tech article on a tech news site, barely mentions Mastodon in passing (in the teaser line, of all places), doesn't mention any other parts of the 'verse like Lemmy or any urls for that matter, doesn't bother investigating why the Fediverse is gaining in popularity, interviews executives from unrelated tech companies, and shoehorns shills crypto. Holy fuck, what trash.

kellyaster , 3 months ago

I'm curious about lemmy.world server upgrades. How do you test something like this? Do you upgrade a private staging server and run scripts that simulate user interaction at scale, or is it more like "fuck it, v.73.9.0.367.12.42.0.9 looks safe enough, just deploy it on production"? I'm trying to think of how you would handle any kind of maintenence for something as massive as lemmy.world, and it makes my brain hurt. Frick.

Best of luck with the upgrade tomorrow, gang!

kellyaster , 3 months ago

Whoa, trippy. Your comments all have an orange-brown background?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/31a1962c-2073-43f2-8544-cb4df49de856.png

edit: oh wow, mine too.

kellyaster , 3 months ago

"Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world — it’s true! — but when you're a conservative Republican they try — oh, do they do a number — that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune — you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged — but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me — it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are — nuclear is so powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right, who would have thought? — but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners — now it used to be three, now it’s four — but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don't, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years — but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us, this is horrible."

kellyaster , 3 months ago

Yes. The shoes make us go! But we have to put them...put them. We put them on a. Put the. We put. The shoes put us. The put. I. What I talk about again?

kellyaster , 4 months ago

Hey Squid. I'm sorry I missed this post. I'm glad you are gonna get treatment at Mayo, and I'm also glad to see you're asserting an "I need support, not advice" boundary. It's inspiring, as I'm trying to do that for myself right now... because JFC, hearing proposed solutions is exhausting when what you really need is someone to listen and empathize. I'm just now realizing people cannot read my mind, so I guess I gotta be direct.

I wish you the best, man. DM me any time you need to vent, even if it's just a quick "argh dammit this sucks!" I won't ever recommend Vitamin F supplements or whatever

kellyaster , 4 months ago

That is really trippy. I didn't know such things existed! It could be a neat thing to use in an rpg.