Athena

Person of illegal gender with an interest in media and technical topics of all kinds. Follow requests are just a precaution, if you have a profile and some posts that don’t give bad vibes I’ll probably okay it. Go read my intro post.

Do not feature me in any “starter packs”.

Toots mostly auto-doot after two weeks.

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Location: Colorado
Radio callsign: N0ESD
Website: https://parthen.online

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2026-08-31 02:16:24 UTC

Human Emacs, an initiative to keep emacs free of LLM code, via a fork if necessary, is looking for more folks to sign on in support. If you use emacs and have strong feelings about language models, I encourage you to check it out at https://human-emacs.org/

2026-07-24 13:33:33 UTC

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the right will moan endlessly about women in media not being sexually attractive to them because of “woke” or whatever while completely ignoring that this movie completely removed the Manly Man protag banging two literal goddesses so that nolan could pretend the odyssey is a stereotypical love story with protestant social mores (which it is extremely not)

2026-07-16 19:24:07 UTC

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your comment somewhere in this thread that it just looks like any other action movie in other formats gives me the depressing thought that it is intentional
In their minds, Richie Rich has Good Important Critical Thoughts About Movies and Classy Taste and therefore deserves the full format but the average pleb just wants actionslop so fuck it crop it down they won’t give a fuck

2026-07-16 19:13:10 UTC

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my plan is to sail the high seas and just watch it letterboxed, because fuck that
I don’t understand why people are so allergic to just letterboxing shit that’s a different format than the screen you’re watching on. Like sure the black bars aren’t my favorite thing ever but I’d rather that than have it arbitrarily chopped up just to make sure every pixel on my screen gets to light up

2026-07-13 13:30:23 UTC

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shaking hands meme: my kids aren’t allowed to read harry potter
my parents generation: because it promotes using magic which is unchristian
my generation: because it promotes a fashy mindset while pretending to be anti-fash

2026-07-08 16:42:22 UTC

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mainline christians get so fuckin angry when i point out “love your neighbor as yourself” is a commandment that requires - not encourages, *requires* - you to love yourself before you can fulfill it

2026-07-02 14:58:26 UTC

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in college a crow took a dislike of me for some reason - I swear I never and would never intentionally harm a crow, and I never understood why - and would dive at the back of my head cawing very loudly if I cut through a certain parking lot where it hung out. It never like, actually attacked or even pooped at me that I can recall but it remains an extraordinarily unpleasant experience and I endorse going out of your way to stay on the good side of the local corvids
Also it definitely told its friends because this started to spread just before I graduated

2026-06-28 16:13:11 UTC

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or you could try like
not making accounts for hashtags in posts from accounts that haven’t opted in to that behavior
you’ve made it clear you don’t think getting that kind of consent is compatible with the growth you want to see tho, so the consent gets trashed to enable the growth. that reprehensible behavior is what I’m on the fediverse to get away from.

2026-06-28 15:33:04 UTC

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this is absolutely hilarious considering the absolute mockery of consent you made with your godawful bot instance.

2026-06-25 18:55:43 UTC

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I genuinely don’t know how anyone involved in that operation looks at that chart and feels anything but terror

2026-05-22 15:07:44 UTC

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fedora be like: whoops things were too stable for a bit there, time to make linux on the desktop a huge pain in the ass again
I really need to get around to installing debian

2026-05-16 03:38:49 UTC

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the given reasoning is “well some people say it’s good so there’s no way to know if it’s really good or bad and we all just have to agree to disagree about the ethics”

2026-05-15 15:09:02 UTC

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cited as reason to allow LLM contributions experimentally:
> Instead of using ethical concerns as a basis for policy, we should justify policy on the basis of how something is impacting our ability as a project to deliver a really great programming language.
if the orphan grinder lets us make a better programming language then FIRE THOSE BABIES UP

2026-05-15 14:32:19 UTC

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gettin’ myself banned from the rust github https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040#issuecomment-4460618392

2026-05-15 14:11:10 UTC

tell me you’re a coward without telling me
> No comment on this PR may mention the following topics:
> Long-term social or economic impact of LLMs
> The environmental impact of LLMs
> Anything to do with the copyright status of LLM output
> Moral judgements about people who use LLMs
> We have asked the moderation team to help us enforce these rules.
https://github.com/rust-lang/rust-forge/pull/1040

2026-04-27 16:44:29 UTC

If you are sharing something you want other people to use or purchase, the landing page should explain what it is and does. This sounds obvious, but a catastrophic number of open source projects and even businesses fail to do this
I cannot count the number of times someone has dropped into a technical channel/forum/whatever with their thing and I have to ask them multiple times “okay but what does it *do*” even after reading all obvious material and I am usually surprised by the answer
(subtooting something on another platform)

2026-04-13 14:26:19 UTC

So someone threw a Molotov at OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s house, followed a day or two later by someone doing a drive-by there. Now his house is listed as a barbecue restaurant open 24 hours.
https://chaosfemtw.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/116/397/858/735/492/850/original/9dbed0b82652d7d4.png

2026-01-21 06:06:18 UTC

I just watched a video of a guy trying to deep fry an egg with the shell intact and uh I feel this should not be necessary to say but apparently it is
DON’T FUCKING DEEP FRY AN EGG WITH THE SHELL ON
heating a pressure vessel in high temperature oil is a great way to put someone, probably yourself, in the burn ICU, which is a spectacularly bad time. Around with 400F oil thou shalt not Fuck

2025-11-10 17:37:38 UTC

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I have been thinking along these lines. I spent most of my school years at a homeschool co-op (which my mother helped run for most of that time, even) and while it certainly wasn’t perfect it was a damn sight better for me (and I think a lot of my neurodivergent peers) than public school at the time would have been. As public schools get increasingly fucked I expect this to be a significant community need. I don’t know exactly what to do but… something.

2025-09-29 20:23:40 UTC

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hey dave if u don’t like how trans people reacted when you made fun of them you’re not gonna believe this next guy

2025-09-29 20:16:06 UTC

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I mean I gotta say if someone *did* go wildly off script and got themselves executed for lese-majeste that would be a hella baller way to go out in 2025

2025-09-27 18:12:14 UTC

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GLAAD ForceFlex

2025-07-24 04:21:19 UTC

Trans activists honestly need to start demanding stuff that’s not in the Overton window. Give me those ideas that should be reality but feel unhinged to even suggest:
HRT over the counter and free
Puberty blockers free at every school nurse
All transition surgeries and hair removal free
Prosecute “conversion therapy” torturers
Strip nonprofit status from any org which refuses to allow trans people to use the correct facilities
Hit me with your best shot

2025-04-19 01:04:54 UTC

good to print off a few copies in case your ISP has an outage and you need to send some packets in an emergency
https://chaosfemtw.files.fedi.monster/media_attachments/files/114/361/929/270/880/232/original/3934d7320eaceaa8.png

2025-04-12 15:23:08 UTC

You may hear discussions about trans kids in schools and the ways teachers are required to treat them. When thinking about and discussing this, please understand:
The presence of 1 (one) accepting adult in a trans kid’s life - literally *any adult*, not just family - reduces their risk of suicide attempts by [roughly 40%](https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9991447/ ).

2025-03-30 19:23:35 UTC

You know how it feels when you walk through a spiderweb and you catch it right in the face? You get the immediate, visceral disgust reaction and try to GET IT OFF as quick as possible.
But like, nobody can really see it. You can’t see it well, so you kind of flail around trying to catch enough of it to get it off of you, and everyone just sees you flailing around is like “what’s up with them??” cause they can’t see it either.
And then even after you get off (which is such a relief!!) it still sometimes feels like there’s some caught in your hair (even if there isn’t) or something crawling on you (even if there isn’t), which makes you mess around even more trying to get rid of it.
Anyway, gender dysphoria is like having a spiderweb on your face your entire life and transition is flailing around trying to get it off.
Thanks to my transmasc friend Ty who has no public online presence for this analogy.

2025-03-29 16:28:20 UTC

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Linux is finally ready for the desktop, right as we turn the corner into “nobody but tech nerds has a desktop”

2025-03-29 16:27:19 UTC

Linux workstation report: the desktop experience is about a decade behind the modern experience, which means everything works more less out of the box with a googling here and there and is pretty pleasant to use after some quality time with the the settings dialog.
This is a considerable step up from the out of the box experience with a Mac, which demands you sign into things right away and wants money for fairly basic software, and especially windows, which is an outright assault.

2025-02-24 04:37:17 UTC

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if anyone reading the replies wants inspiration, I posted the comment I submitted here: https://chaosfem.tw/@Athena/114039922072143335

2025-02-18 18:21:46 UTC

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thanks!! I was thinking LTO-6 if I can score one for a halfway decent price, I think that would work better for the data volumes I’m working with without spilling out to silly numbers of tapes.
Good to know about the speed/shoe-shine thing, I had not encountered that as a possibility yet. What kind of IO speeds are we talking here, if you have a good sense?

2025-02-18 17:58:57 UTC

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I have been considering tape but don’t know much about the requirements; anything you’d recommend looking into sooner rather than later as far as practical aspects?
I don’t know much beyond the various capacities and very general characteristics of the medium.

2025-02-12 13:39:35 UTC

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I’ll have to look into it. And yeah, Bennet jives. Hickenlooper is a good little cowardly neoliberal pet who’s going to ratfuck us the first little chance he gets.

2025-02-12 05:36:24 UTC

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which Senator?

2025-01-12 16:07:27 UTC

If you want to help out a kid with the whole world set against them while you get your fix of peanut butter heroin or mint crack this year, buying it from a trans Girl Scout is a good way to do it.
I’d love to know if there’s something like this for trans/nonbinary Boy Scouts. https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2025-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies?publication_id=994764&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=8r85b&utm_medium=email

2025-01-08 21:00:49 UTC

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Are packet radio worms allowed by FCC rules?
Like as long as the transmitting station properly identifies and does not obfuscate the purpose of the message, and arguably publicly documents the message, I don’t see anything in Part 97 prohibiting it. Nothing really addresses the possibility of an unauthorized takeover of an automatically or remotely controlled station; arguably 97.219(c) and (d) indicate that responsibility for transmissions would remain with the control operator of the station regardless.
This question is entirely academic, to be clear; as cool as I think the idea is I definitely don’t have the time to write a worm right now lol
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2024-12-25 01:32:22 UTC

Of course there are segments of the ham hobby where people spend a ton of time setting up broadcast-quality dynamic mics with vacuum tube preamps (for the Rich, Warm Tone™️) to go into a fucking 2.9kHz single sideband voice transmission.
Of *course*.

2024-11-17 22:58:58 UTC

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I think the point I’m trying to make is that I want the other way around too; that bluesky devs should understand why those of us who refuse to touch it don’t want to be there. But that would be against their interests, to be honest, so I don’t hold out much hope
I’m not even sure it’s “too lazy”; see also that thread going around a while back talking about how eugen keeps writing shittier versions of PRs from trans women who put a shitload of work into them and then got ignored

2024-11-17 22:49:38 UTC

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I wanna be clear I’m zero percent disagreeing with your general point here. People go to bluesky because it’s legit better for their use case and mastodon devs need to pay attention to why that is.
Also being on a small instance run by and for trans folks is the best experience I’ve had with social media, period. We don’t federate with what seems to be a substantial portion of “fedi” and I’ve never missed it; I will not be joining bluesky because even with good blocking tools (which fedi badly needs, tbc) I feel much more secure here than in one big shared space where I need to block thousands of people (even if doing so is easy). That depends on the work of my awesome instance admin (thanks @npub1qdd…2qrs!) for sure and that’s not scalable, but like, there IS
a reason there’s a fair few trans folks on here.

2024-11-15 16:33:40 UTC

Mozilla wants to know what you want them to focus on in the next few years. A lot of them are stuff about AI. Y’all should tell them how you feel about that https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/100

2024-11-09 04:03:30 UTC

Did you know that the CIA has a declassified field manual detailing the kinds of sabotage an ordinary person can do with lots of plausible deniability? With like, details for both specific industries and also general office work? I’ll quote some of the office work section, but the whole thing is only 20 pages.
“(1) Insist on doing everything though “channels." Never permit shortcuts to be taken in order to expedite decisions.
(…)
(4) Bring up irrelevant issues as frequently as possible.
(5) Haggle over precise wordings of communications, minutes, resolutions.
(G) Refer back to matters decided upon at the last meeting and attempt to re-open the question of the advisability of that decision.
(…)
(8) Be worried about the propriety of any decision — raise the question of whether such action as is contemplated lies within the jurisdiction of the group or whether it might confict with the policy of some higher eschelon.”
https://www.cia.gov/static/5c875f3ec660e092cf893f60b4a288df/SimpleSabotage.pdf

2024-11-06 14:54:42 UTC

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I’ll miss seeing you around. Athena.121 on Signal if you want to connect more privately.

2024-10-25 20:43:10 UTC

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FUCK. YES. This is how you handle a Ben Shapiro right here. Do the same thing he does. Just fuckin’ talk right over him, plow him out of the way to call him directly out on his bullshit and then clown him like the dumbass loser he is. Fascists don’t debate if there’s an audience, they perform, so if you try to debate their performance you’ll lose. Wrong tool for the job. You need to do a better performance, not make a better argument.

2024-10-18 19:29:03 UTC

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a security engineer’s “are you sure?” and a D&D DM’s “are you sure?” are identical

2024-09-09 16:06:00 UTC

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does 2008 count as “early” 2000s (ignore the previous version of this toot that misremembered my regdate)