Seán Fenian
zakalwe@plasmatrap.com
<p><span>Слава Україні! Siamo tutti antifascisti!<br><br>pp desc for vision impaired: The N7 (Systems Alliance Special Forces) Seal from the Mass Effect games.<br><br>tl,dr: Neuro-spicy. Autist pretending (sometimes badly) to be human (at least, it often feels that way) while fighting depression and chronic insomnia.<br><br>I write hard SF and fantasy under my own publishing imprint, </span><a href="https://fenianhouse.com">Fenian House Publishing</a><span>. I don't write forever wars or... well, I try to avoid the usual tropes. And yes, I've been accused of being "too woke". Which means I'm a humanist who wants to see us take better care of our planet and each other. Because, come on, how broken do you have to be if you have to find someone to shit on in order to feel happy?<br><b
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@mathowie@xoxo.zone Remember, ICE is just Trump's misspelling of SA.
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@cstross@wandering.shop And yet despite all of this utter barking nonsense, he still has significant (if dwindling) voter support.
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@ZBennoui@dragonscave.space @chemoelectric@masto.ai @hosford42@techhub.social @marionline@autistics.life Truth to tell, I can't imagine trying to write code while blind. I am massively impressed, and don't understand how you can manage it. I'm very uncertain that I could.
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There are 2 hard things in computer science: 0. Cache invalidation 1. Naming things 7. Asynchronous callbacks 2. Off-by-one errors 2. Race conditions (This thought brought to you by the heisenbug in a piece of Perl code that generates calls to an Fvwm3 module that wasn't working, then sometimes working, then working consistently but still declaring mission failure, with no substantive code changes.)
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@ByMatthewPorter@mastodon.social My novel Fireborn includes sections that cover in some depth past emotional abuse and recovery from it. I give a content warning right up front about it, and I warn that if you don't want to read about emotional abuse, then the book might not be for you. Some readers still complain that it's there. Meanwhile I've also been told by therapists that they have recommended Fireborn to their clients to help them to understand what emotional abuse can loo...
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"Online age verification"? You need to know this. https://web.archive.org/web/20260313090844/https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/ tl,dr: ALL of the online age verification bills being presented in multiple states right now were written by Meta, which spent huge amounts of money to get them before legislatures, and they create a pervasive #surveillance layer within the operating system which allows anything running on your co...