Maggot 'BR 26354' McFear @tankgrrl@mastodon.social

Guess I ought to do one of these. I'm Maggie, a maker, gamer, electronics butcher, 3D-printing zombie, mad scientist, sci-fi nerd. By day I work in HPC/Research Computing at a crimson-hued university in the #02138
• she/her/they
• queer/bi/genderqueer/whatevs
• single and happy that way
• fucking opinionated
• fucking curse a lot

So, saying someone can no more stop lying than stop breathing is me promoting harm. FFS. I'm locked out for 10 hours.

Just dropped in to see if Eugen is ready to sell.
I have $10 and some pogs, my best final offer, Eugen.

https://www.gnome.org/news/2019/10/gnome-files-defense-against-patent-troll/

"Evil has nothing stopping it doing what it wants. While Good has one hand tied behind its back." Farder Coram

Sturgill Simpson is a goddamned musical genius.

Deckard gets called back in next month and meets Rachel on November 19th.

Good. Also, fuck Facebook. https://www.wired.com/story/facebook-losing-cover-libra-more-members-flee/

Amazon: "Fuck it, we'll just play the game for you." https://www.engadget.com/2019/10/10/google-stadia-negative-latency/?guccounter=1

eBay seems to think that I have a 1985 Pontiac Fiero for some reason.

Sudden hankering to re-watch House of the Devil and The Innkeepers.

Every last one of the genesis cartridge PCBs I just had made are fucked. Goddammit. And it's all my fault. I somehow modified the ground plane w/out noticing and... shorted a ton of pins. $ in the trash.

Same old 'crypto wars' arguments from the '90s resurfacing again and again. Nothing new here but the names on the memos. Rights are inherently designed to make police work harder. Not easier. https://gizmodo.com/ag-bill-barr-is-reportedly-kicking-off-a-new-encryption-1838748796?utm_medium=sharefromsite&utm_source=gizmodo_twitter&utm_campaign=top via @gizmodo

Free to use LGBT illustrations. https://streamlineicons.com/ux/lgbt-illustrations.html

Uhhhhhh.... Super Bus HTML 5.

#DoNotCongratulate https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/09/25/atari_retro_console/

#DoNotCongratulate https://www.pcgamesn.com/atari-vcs-update-2019

Art is political. And this political art is badass and beautiful. https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/with-a-brass-band-blaring-artist-kehinde-wiley-goes-off-to-war-with-confederate-statues/2019/09/27/178bbb04-e16c-11e9-be96-6adb81821e90_story.html

Some of you older kids will recognize these socket shapes. Soldering up a TerribleFire TF530. I'm done except... I forgot to order the oscillator and don't have 1 SMD cap value.

Don't judge, but that giant Santa Claus-sized sack is just t-shirts and only the ones that are currently dirty.

The spider in sector C is still alive. Plan your route accordingly and expect delays.