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Aurynn Shaw
@aurynn@cloudisland.nz
mastodon 4.5.18Your friendly neighbourhood Cloud Island administrator.
Aotearoa New Zealand immigrant.
Pōneke resident.
Founder of https://eiara.nz. Does DevOps, culture, and tells you how security impacts everything you design.
Yes, I'm that Aurynn: https://blog.aurynn.com/2015/12/16-contempt-culture/
Tech culture commentator.
Your cutest cyberpunk trans pocket friend.
Moth girl. Occasional voidkin.
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Joined May 13, 2020
Good time of day, Cloud Island!
Wow that’s some rain
Ata mārie, Cloud Island!
Now that macO's 27 is out, and all the Intel Macs are EOL
what if
what if we ported Haiku to them?
Right??
Finally managed to get this essay posted. Only 8 months late.
On 10 years of Contempt Culture.
https://blog.aurynn.com/2026/8/9-ten-years-of-contempt-culture
Ice cold take:
Capitalism should not be involved in essential services like housing, medicine, food delivery, water delivery, or electrical delivery.
Capitalism should also not be involved in social networks or internet search.
If people rely on it, capitalism exists to fuck it up.
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@kyhwana@social.furry.nz @astraluma@tacobelllabs.net look I had to reinstall my Mac and everything broke as a result and I was trying to patch it to have new features and
“I’m not going to waste my time reading something someone couldn’t be bothered writing.”
I like this on LLM slop.
Ata mārie, Cloud Island!
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Also if you buy blu-ray and dvds then not only do you get to keep having them, unlike where Sony is taking away a bunch of “purchased” media
BUT ALSO
You get interesting behind-the-scenes and documentary that you otherwise wouldn’t!
And!
Your friends can look at your shelves and go “oh neat you certainly have that taste that you have!”
Dear Wellington
What the heck with this rain
Since I can’t play guitar anymore (because fibro), does anyone in Wellington have a smol keyboard or a flute or something I could borrow/have so I can learn that instead?
Hey friends
Can you recommend a simple tracker or something for doing some simple musical things? I have GarageBand but it’s a bit much, I need something simpler.
I know the past tense of “wield” is “wielded”, by my brain is trying very hard to tell me it’s “woild” or something else like that.
Did you see that I wrote a new essay on finding paths to the future? I did!
https://blog.aurynn.com/2026/7/02-dreams-light-the-path-to-our-future
Plz recommend alternative macOS terminal emulators.
I currently use iTerm2, because Terminal was bad back in the day.
Is there something new that is more gooder? Faster? Better? Stronger?
Ughhhhhh why is everything so harrrrrd
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@ewenmcneill@cloudisland.nz Oh, I guess I got it early since I was running on the beta, since it offered the upgrade to a non-beta release today
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If you would like to send gifts, my kofi is in my profile. Otherwise I can assemble an Amazon or PBTech wishlist for your perusal.
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@Seirdy@pleroma.envs.net @tanith@social.artemislena.eu you can’t see my expression right now but it is very pained
Wow the wind is hammering the building right now.
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@MastodonEngineering@mastodon.social could admins like maybe get some kind of idea of whether or not I need to be up at 3am for this?
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@bri7@social.treehouse.systems though what gets lost is that WebKit is a KHTML fork, but otherwise yeah.
I wish I’d gotten to try out that NeXT web editor. Hm. I should go find an emulator.
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@duk3luk3@cloudisland.nz holy fucking shit I have not seen this interface in years
This is amazing
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@melanieplageman@mastodon.social Oh he's back to doing random development after selling Hashicorp? Neat. I'll have a look at ghost.
Anyone using Fastly and are using CACHE_BUSTER_ENABLED? I'm wondering what you have as the API URL for that.
#Mastoadmin
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@irix@cloudisland.nz did OpenStep get a source release? Or just straight emulation of the 68k on arm?
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@Styler@cloudisland.nz Why's it murder on the pinkies? I played back in grade school and I don't remember that part
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@dan@discuss.systems That's a bold choice you had there.
Currently hearing kitty and ghostly. And Terminal, I switched out years and years ago, so maybe it's good now?
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@brass75@twit.social Oh it looks like it still might be LLM bullshit, given "claude" is a contributor on the repo
hey friends, can you recommend a FLOSS equivalent to OmniPlan? Asking for a friend.
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@Styler@cloudisland.nz Ahh 😞
I have fairly large hands, so I think I'll be able to hit the keys. And I played back when I was ~10 or so, and I was okay back then, hence thinking I might be able to pick it up again.
If you were okay with letting said flute go?
