transister.social

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?”

“x marks the gender” is this anything

this zoo has an exhibit about text based web browsing, kinda cool that they have something for us inside kids

this graph raises approximately 10 questions

may the third be with you

it will never not be hilarious to me that i was wearing my “save ginny” shirt the first time i was clocked as trans (by an angry and very confused man, who then followed me home)

i think it’s dope my origin story has this fun bit that absolutely nobody believes

is VR gaming still a thing people think is fun and cool? i don’t really talk to that kind of nerd anymore since quitting my job (now it’s gender nerds all the way down)

anyway my ex-wife just got one of those facebook ones to play roblox , which makes me assume it’s now for boring olds

maybe i’m a possum girl after all

a dude asked me what yuri is so i had to quickly think up an accessible explanation, using cultural references they would understand:

"it's like Titanic but Jack is the girl. and Rose is the girl too. and instead of a boat they go to the aquarium. someone still might drown though because both characters remain absolutely useless when problems arise."

i think it, i post it

my work-age index was 67 before i bounced

wat?

MoistDrouth.world

i’m working to invent a new compression algorithm so we can have a new file format for the first time since ladies learned to rename ZIP files

(it's more of a gay jog)

i went to the doctor today and told her i got bit by a wolf

she asked "where?" and i said "no, regular"

“if you want an account on my media server let me know - i got gigabit and, like me, it’s bi”

even if punintentional i'm still proud and love them

cishets being entirely normal

privacy tip: always remove the “si” part of links. this is used to track and connect you (person who shared the link) and whomever clicks it (cute catgirl)

eg, instead of: https://youtu.be/-Gq1P2aaDqM?si=surveillanceiscool

send: https://youtu.be/-Gq1P2aaDqM

account linking like this can be especially dangerous for trans folks. sharing a link effectively gives anyone who sees that link access to what account you are on that service. your account can also be recommended to their friends and family

It’s most common in YT and Spotify, with spotify being imo most dangerous

“hey son what’s a nightcore? youtube thinks i’m interested in that and some Yuri guy. spotify wants me to be friends with someone that thinks she’s a robot. never mind im going to cancel wifi and live in the woods” (his daughter becomes a wood witch, so happy ending at least)