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Farran
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Yo hi! I usually post things about linguistics, science, biology, environmental science, health, and recently, some stuff on numbers. I'm an advocate for freedom of communication I'm a bunch of things but I mainly focus on environmental science, training people into becoming scientists, and an array of aspects about communication. A strong future for humanity and life depends on good community and good communication. I accidentally became a linguist, and I've made a few alphabets, my latest one is called NewEng and it does a good job of encapsulating both English pronunciation & its accents, and English etymology.
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Farran 11 months ago
if you keep refollowing me in an attempt to get me to follow you back, i will mute you. (this probably only applies to generic faceless accounts so don't worry if you're a human account, i'll follow you if you are interesting for me & my path)
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Farran 11 months ago
Font rendering idea: We have variable width typefaces How about the font configuration panel in OSes and apps having a line nib config? In it you'd be able to set the shape of the nib, any onset and coda shapes and flicks, nib angle, etc. This would enable infinitely customisable font appearance
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Farran 11 months ago
something that keeps returning to mind self sovereignty versus large scale majix we ARE being used in occult major arcana used by the rulers in alchemica megalo to achieve their societal manipulation twisting us into polarity inside their economy artifice so the thought is: too many of us are totally unaware thus we cannot align our power to escape if another actor manipulates us without our knowledge or consent with potentially good purpose to combat the rulers is that... ok? ______________ we are SO incongruent that I just don't see how enough of us can EVER become aligned to overthrow the Rulers but if someone were to intervene, through large-scale alchemical manipulation then perhaps we'd unknowingly reach critical mass i suppose this is comparable to the inherent issues of democracy: a) people often want what's best for themselves & don't think of others b) people often don't know what they themselves actually need c) people are uneducated & unaware of politics so vote poorly _______________ i think this might also be something we NEED to think about, sooner rather than later democracy is CLEARLY collapsing the current society and hierarchy are collapsing the economy (as we know it) is collapsing and the ecosystem is also collapsing someone and something IS going to rise to fill the power vacuum perhaps we should be thinking about which form of manipulation we would allow and benefit from something is going to manipulate us may as well be aware and allow the right one in.
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Farran 0 years ago
What would be awesome is if govt legislation and restrictions were irrelevant, and that companies and corporations simply behaved well because it is right, treated the environment well because it is right, treated employees well because it is right Imagine that
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Farran 0 years ago
It's time to fully ditch Google and M3ta and Apple and Amazon and any other tech behemoths that are owning us! Over the next few weeks I'll be posting about all the apps and services that I've been exploring over the past few days. There's a lot of options! I've been lazily dwelling in the Google garden ecosystem for far too long, it's very refreshing to hunt around the web and find new things. Google's offerings are rather antiquated, to be honest.
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Farran 0 years ago
Check out Nostr! A fully decentralised social communication network, totally non-hierarchical, not controlled by any entity, uncensorable, versatile, and you can access it from various apps. Nostr is a protocol, not a platform. Come join us! I'll attach my profile in the next post image
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Farran 0 years ago
Western capitalism: "Socialism is evil! Communism is evil! Etc!" Western families: Go on holidays with their young children to Viet Nam and Cuba and have a terrific time
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Farran 1 year ago
i want a list of companies with a trustworthiness index the trustworthiness is regarding "likelihood to betray fellow humans and lifeforms and the ecosystem and planet" Maybe I'll just make this myself. I have been looking for a grapplable project to start myself off on programming. Would be a great community-contributable platform, too. Cos there's no way I'll be able to set indices for every major company!
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Farran 1 year ago
windows keyboard layout resets after unlocking every time and it's gotta be the most annoying thing in my daily life cos I use a custom keyboard layout with extra letters where the number row is so i NEED this layout, and switching layout is laggy and the switcher popup is laggy, fuck i hate windows so much goddamn when are we gonna mario party microsoft? forreal can someone do that
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Farran 1 year ago
smokers really arrive somewhere, sit down next to a stranger and start breathing smoke into their airspace yo keep your poison and shitty lungs and sickness and wasted money on healthcare to yourself
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Farran 1 year ago
so I was looking for zeronet last week and that's what led me to nostr, via someone's recommendation on reddit and yesterday I realised that โ€” at least on the surface โ€” nostr appears to operate fairly similarly to zeronet, it just doesn't need a local web-server-like aspect can any nostr developers confirm this? of course, I could go learn about it, and at some point I probably will cos I am due to get my teeth into programming pretty soon so I might start with a nostr-related project
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Farran 1 year ago
oh hi I'll get back to all y'all's replies soon! things going on like moving house and other personal issues, brb, afk, ttyl
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Farran 1 year ago
At 4am this morning I woke up and went to pee and I couldn't finish peeing because I was dreaming about base 12 and so 9+1 (10) no longer felt like the end of a set so each time I got to 9+1 I had to keep counting up to 9+3 (12) but that also didn't feel like the end of a set so I was in this recursive loop of counting again and again trying to get to one of the 10s and anyway this is a story of why you shouldn't learn base 12 (but it's basically the only reason)
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Farran 1 year ago
fun fact: you can take full ownership of windowsapps folders and delete any apps that keep running in the background using up your ram and network beware: this increases risks with viruses etc so be super careful to not install anything using administrator privileges unless you really trust it i've deleted: clipchamp feedback hub outlook idk, some other things that kept running my computer is MY computer, thanks very much microsoft
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Farran 1 year ago
When you show someone your creative works and they say "why do that?" and it sounds like they don't have a clue about being creative for pleasure These poor souls
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Farran 1 year ago
Is there really no firewall software that blocks everything by default and pops up to ask you for permission each time a new app tries to connect outbound for the first time?
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Farran 1 year ago
ok I'm looking for some software that automatically force-expires all session tokens for all logged-in accounts on my computer. Malicious cracked software that steals session tokens is becoming increasingly common. Does this exist? Can it be programmed? Can a session token be identified as active or expired? ((Yes, I do steal Adobe's and others' software. No, most creative workers around the world cannot afford their ridiculous licensing fees.))
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Farran 1 year ago
Just opened Nostr and found a bunch of chill replies from a bunch of chill people. Heartwarming, not a feeling I've felt from social media in... Years..since the g+ days actually. Could be because the stuff I post on social media is not marketable, dopaminergic or otherwise algorithm-satiating, so my meaningful posts never gain any reach. Anyhoo, here it is nearly 2am so I'm off to sleep, GN Nostr (and Threads) ๐Ÿฅฐ will read and reply to you all tomorrow โ€” in the Lunar New Year! ๐Ÿ˜ด๐Ÿ’ค
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