transister.social

local puppygirls devastated

happy pride babe:)

oh hey btw i got my hair cut and also it's sunny in seattle

(media cw: eye contact, outside)

AMAZON KNOWS TOO MUCH

the gmail iphone app no longer fits on a single CD-ROM

time to break out the Zip drives

my new religion just dropped and here's My first mortal sin: if I click on a tracking number in a "your order shipped" email and that sends me to your login page? straight to hell for eternity. it's legal to murder you now even.

#ginduism

gross. super gross.

also what the fuck is GBTQI+ about

yeah my server was down because i fucked up my DNS how'd you guess

I would never have guessed how Forgejo is pronounced, even if you gave me a hundred guesses

saw this at the stoplight leaving Seattle Children’s Hospital, a $5 billion a year corporation that denies trans kids healthcare

people named Al that use sans-serif fonts probably struggle a lot these days

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"a vaccine is a biological preparation that provides immunity to a particular malignant disease" yeah okay i guess this tracks

show me a man that doesn’t want to be loomed over by his much taller and more successful girl and i’ll show you a boy not worth my time

we got both kinds of nexus, torment and gamers

i lowkey think a transfem graphic designer slipped this by without anyone realizing

the dotcom bubble was the best, when companies just crammed the latest fad into their business model it just meant that they made their website all AJAX’y and hired a ruby on rails developer

Honestly curious what people think: how can parents keep their children safe on the internet?

This is many questions, but the more interesting to me aspects are:

• as technology exists now, what can a parent do to both provide their child access to the internet while not being negligent to their safety

• what could technology do or change to make things safer for kids, and also give parents some peace of mind that this is the case?

fun fact: the original author of the USB draft specification had a typo; the author mostly wrote during his breakfasts and we almost had UCB (universal cereal bus)

one of my first projects at work was testing a billing backend for what is now google workspace. i used my own credit card because the system wasn’t hooked up to a real merchant processing system and the credit card number had to validate checksums and i was too lazy to walk and buy prepaid debit cards

after 6 months of this going flawlessly i got a call from my bank “this is a fraud alert, have you attempted to purchase …. umm, it says… twenty million dollars of services from Google?”