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Technophobes need to apologise for "just put it in plain English you stupid machine!" because, well for one the decline in accurate error messages in favour of simplicity has contributed to the rise of tech illiteracy, but also because now whenever an "app" has a net connection error it will pop up a box saying something like "oo ooopsie! Your super duper feed went poo poo. We'll try again soon!" which having said to me by a corporation is about 8 million times worse than having to hear the word "network".

#actually this might be the only plus point to having software from the 90s

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Hey tumblr what's up?

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Every one of you needs to read Going Postal by Terry Pratchett right now. Especially if you do anything related to tech, finance, or public services. I am not kidding.

#also the Tiffany Aching books!!!! #THEE series on public service

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Best conclusion from today's programmer training was the programmer mantra, which is "I'm thrilled you're having a great time, DO NOT make me do it with you".

This is actually my reaction to like 90% of Tumblr also.

#perennially relevant reminder that if im doxxing myself NO IM NOT #you did not see me here and i do not see anyone else 🙈🙉🙊

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Grandmas were so right about puzzles and knitting and crocheting and solitaire and reading slow and slippers and baking and watching deer in the backyard send post

#reading SLOW????

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Working site security it's wild to me how many people when called out will say "I've been doing this for years and you're the only security person to bother me about it", as if to say, "you're an idiot on a power trip", when the admission really is, "every other security person who has seen me do this has taken one look at me and immediately decided that I seemed exhausting enough o deal with that they'd risk a reprimand to avoid me"

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I love visiting tiny rural libraries because I put an adblocker on their browser and I'm God now to like 5 or 6 entire organizations. This rules

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weird little brain tweak/reframing that helped me out. i Often find that advice that seemingly helps Everyone Else doesn’t make any sense to me, in ways that are hard to describe, and it can be really frustrating. but when i find a way to explain it to myself that finally seems to break through and make it click, it feels really good

#^^^ tru #Weaponized ADHD comes in handy so much in this job tbh #first conspiracy theorists and then operational planning whoo

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i need “Happier than a necromancer in a natural history museum” to become a known phrase immediately

#iykyk

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#me but with town council

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it's so fucking frustrating to be in college and know everyone uses chatgpt and to be tempted by it constantly while also knowing intellectually that it doesn't work and it's a bad idea. like, i hang out in the library a lot, and i see people using chatgpt on assignments almost every day. and i know it isn't a good way to learn, because it's not really "artificial intelligence" so much as it is an auto text generator. and it gives you wrong information or badly worded sentences all the time. but every week i stare down assignments i don't want to do and i think man. if only i could type this prompt into a text generator and have it done in 10 minutes flat. and i know it wouldn't work. it wouldn't synthesize information from the text the way professors want, it wouldn't know how to answer questions, it just spits out vaguely related words for a couple paragraphs. but knowing my classmates get their work done in 10 minutes flat with it while i fight every ounce of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder in my body is infuriating.

#@prev to be fair i don't think even some of the people with master's degrees in my field #really took anything away from all the assignments about 'writing to different audiences' #even in style it's egregious but when you get into advocacy you realize #just how much they didn't absorb 'why would your PARENTS think you should have a puppy'

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tiffany in i shall wear midnight makes me so fucking sad. like. she's the witch of the entire chalk. she rarely laughs. she calls people NOT EVEN 3 years younger than her 'kids'. she deals with things not even grown man could stomach. she comforts her own father multiple times when he tries comforting her bc she feels BAD for him. she constantly keeps herself in check around EVERYONE. she hates herself for oversleeping or sleeping at all bc she could've DONE things in that time people NEED her. she takes away people's pain every day. she witnesses a murder and its not the first time and she buries the baby and saves the abusive father bc she doesn't want her people's conscience to be tainted with his murder. she plants flowers (WHICH SHE BUYS WITH HER OWN HARD EARNED MONEY) on the grave of an old woman who died bc people said she was a wicked old witch and turned her out of her own house so they wont EVER forget. she has to do it all alone and she wishes she hadn't. she finds in herself sympathy for EVERYONE, no matter how bad they treated her or others. when they lock her in the dungeon her biggest concern is other people . she opened a school bc she wanted ppl to find out who they are like she did. she's not even 16.

#ive said it before #THEE series about working a public service job #the tears are cathartic i prommy

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#this is what all my libraries say as they march out to determinedly and dedicatedly make enemies of the CAO

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Dear professor this assignment did not nourish my fundamentally curious soul so i did not do it No penalty full 100 points please Goodbye!

#me @ my boss when i have to do social media

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General question to reblog and tell me in the tags;

You go into a used bookstore - what are the two sections you head to first?

#true to form i do in fact beeline to my old frenemy JPattz and Inspect his domain #but like. i am a digital girl so I'm not ever actually looking to buy #the Need to Weed has infected my life #(this is not true i just went back and forth between home and dorm too many times and it cured me of packing books) #sometimes I'll check the crafting or gardening sections - gardening specifically for local stuff

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@tardis-stowaway making them go rural is mean, I love it. Wishing all developers a very get yelled at by a farmer whose truck is older than you are because he put his password into the email field again.

My solution for bloatware is this: by law you should hire in every programming team someone who is Like, A Guy who has a crappy laptop with 4GB and an integrated graphics card, no scratch that, 2 GB of RAM, and a rural internet connection. And every time someone in your team proposes to add shit like NPCs with visible pores or ray tracing or all the bloatware that Windows, Adobe, etc. are doing now, they have to come back and try your project in the Guy's laptop and answer to him. He is allowed to insult you and humilliate you if it doesn't work in his laptop, and you should by law apologize and optimize it for him. If you try to put any kind of DRM or permanent internet connection, he is legally allowed to shoot you.

With about 5 or 10 years of that, we will fix the world.