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emma wrote

Reply to gamification is a scourge and productivity metrics are a joke. that said, i would also like my git commit history to accumulate experience points and levels by twovests

github engineer standing in a sea of rubble, formerly san francisco. every major city wiped off the face of the earth.

"we didn't think the 'break prod' achievement would incentivise that kind of action," he mutters.

the dozen or so survivors disperse. one uncovers a crate full of juicero juice packets, with an expiration date of november 2017. it is a joyous occasion for everyone.

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emma wrote

Reply to comment by flabberghaster in secret message to all just post ers by flabberghaster

i have successfully cracked it now. honestly it didn't even look like a real pgp message to me, like there's clearly two different base64-encoded sections, and a blank line that's necessary for some reason. but i guess i'm just used to other pem-based formats.

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emma wrote

Reply to the original zelda is a game so good they remade it 9 times. the reason was it sucks by twovests

if only there were a better zelda on the nes

oh wait, there is. it's called Zelda Ⅱ: The Adventure of Link®, and has been unfairly maligned by babies for nearly 40 years

"i will progress in this dungeon by bombing this wall that looks like all the other walls. let me go around bombing every mountainside. this game is a masterpiece." <-- actual beliefs held by actual zelda 1 fans

zelda 2 otoh doesn't rely on obscure item placements or sequences of events to progress, and just has way better combat. idk how zelda 1 got to be the favourite

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emma wrote (edited )

Reply to Super disappointed to see a cryptographer I respect removed BDS from his homepage D by twovests

after the outcry in the wake of the invasion of ukraine, and the deafening silence on palestine, i've come to the conclusion that the vast majority of the tech community simply don't see palestinians as human.

which is to say (without knowing who the cryptographer in question is), it's quite possible his homepage does reflect his current stance

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emma OP wrote

Reply to comment by hollyhoppet in i think we should have daily threads reassuring ourselves that we aren't weirdos for hanging out on here instead of that other bigger website, and also frequently share and froth at the rage bait from the other bigger website that we're glad we aren't using by emma

i'm very self-conscious of answering this, because it feels like i'm on the edge of doing the thing i'm criticising.

so i'll be vague instead: you can substitute 'on here' and 'other bigger website' for ones that rhyme with 'gastrodon' and 'mritter', respectively. i'm dependent on using gastrodon's explore tab to find interesting accounts to follow, but thanks to people screenshotting all the bad things from mritter, i get to see all the bad things from there on gastrodon instead, interspersed with self-satisfied wanking about how gastrodon isn't full of the things it's full of screenshots of.

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