Allie

Femme trans goth raver maker coder. Yeah, that sums it up.

[allie-leth]

📌 About me:

I'm a transfemme goth raver maker coder, I transitioned forever ago at this point and am pretty experienced in this weird life we live at this point.

I post most of my maker/projects/hacking/whatever to my Bluesky

I really did try to keep this blog safe for all ages, but Tumblr is a

corrupting influence, so 18+ please. Anyone is always free to

message me, I am happy to talk and give advice on any topic I can.

Never hesitate to message me, I'm not intimidating and am pretty

friendly, I promise!

In my real life I'm a nerdy software engineer working on her masters, I

enjoy CAD+3d Printing, piano, coding, flow toys, hiking, and…

honestly, I forget, there are definitely more, but I'm AuDHD and I

collect hobbies like pokemon. 🌻

On Tumblr I just enjoy posting pics and being dumb.

Here's me, being me, in my element at a rave. I suggest sound on or I

just look crazy.

Some people requested I add a tag to my more maker related posts, so it's now #allie-makes

[allie-leth]

She gave me the d.

The PTSD.

[allie-leth]

When you stop using tumblr for awhile then come back only to drop the hottest new duck based website.

[allie-leth]

If you ever feel like there are too many ads being forced onto you, just remember, this is the fewest number of ads you'll ever have forced on you.

[allie-leth]

"anyone can build a bridge but it takes an engineer to build a bridge that only just stands up" really undersells the difficulty of building a bridge tbh.

[allie-leth]

Did tech peak in the 2000s?

[allie-leth]

Like I look at all the cool stuff from around then, it was very much hopeful for the future, but I feel like big tech stamped out all the creativity and hopefulness in exchange for walled gardens and now you get 3 choices and nothing else.

[allie-leth]

I think everything got algorithmically optimized for the average and now everything kind of sucks for everyone instead of a bunch of things for various niches

[allie-leth]

I am enjoying the 90s/2000s retro being created right now though. It will be sad when corporations realize that and then abuse that for money.

[allie-leth]

Did tech peak in the 2000s?

[allie-leth]

Like I look at all the cool stuff from around then, it was very much hopeful for the future, but I feel like big tech stamped out all the creativity and hopefulness in exchange for walled gardens and now you get 3 choices and nothing else.

[doll-shell]

i feel like non-walled-garden stuff is still alive and well? i don't really use any of the big service suites like google, microsoft, or apple; i know i'm an outlier but i have a ton of open source software, run linux, have encrypted communication.

there might be less overall future-hope going on around technology, but i think it's just because of people realizing you can technology your way out of people problems. (like, the internet will never make everyone hyper-knowledgeable even though information is easier to access because the tech was not the previous constraint to people knowing things)

maybe for some hardware? idk what buying hardware was like in the 2000s because i was a child then, but there is roughly two companies that sell processors that I could choose from when buying new hardware.

i might just not understand what tech was like in the 2000s, so i'd be happy to hear more. generally, though, i feel like all the good stuff from back then is on the internet still; there's just more other stuff now. it's easier than ever to have a fun personal website, i've made a bunch of friends on the internet, i have hardware with parts i can replace myself.

[allie-leth]

I think the wall garden part means that while those niches are alive and well, they lock you out of interfacing with the walled garden areas which results in fewer people engaging. The communities got smaller relative to the side of the average. Maybe it was inevitable. What I'm trying to say is that everyone is served things that fit their needs at a 5/10 level but is 10/10 convenience. It used to be that niches were served at a like 8/10 level and everything was kind of a 7/10 convenience.

Most people will take the convenience over something that serves them better, which is... destructive? I don't know how to properly articulate this, @foone i think maybe you'll understand what I'm trying to say and articulate it better than me. I'm sick, feel like I have cotton in my head, so I summon you with the power of old tech rants.

[allie-leth]

Did tech peak in the 2000s?

[allie-leth]

Like I look at all the cool stuff from around then, it was very much hopeful for the future, but I feel like big tech stamped out all the creativity and hopefulness in exchange for walled gardens and now you get 3 choices and nothing else.

[allie-leth]

I think everything got algorithmically optimized for the average and now everything kind of sucks for everyone instead of a bunch of things for various niches

[allie-leth]

Did tech peak in the 2000s?

[allie-leth]

Like I look at all the cool stuff from around then, it was very much hopeful for the future, but I feel like big tech stamped out all the creativity and hopefulness in exchange for walled gardens and now you get 3 choices and nothing else.

[allie-leth]

Did tech peak in the 2000s?

[allie-leth]

So the Claude leak showed it had an escalation path when it detected key words like swearing. I had to get Comcast support and the llm did not didn't want to escalate me, so I just put in a string of profanity and it offered to escalate me to a support person.

So, uhh, protip, make the llm-support think you're an escalated customer and it will move you to a person.

Please don't then be mean to the person, they're only getting escalated contacts and that must be awful.

[allie-leth]

So uhhh, the long story short, I left telnet open on my router to the Internet for a week due to a series of events. Oops. Today we doing some scanning and going through some logs.

[allie-leth]

When you stop using tumblr for awhile then come back only to drop the hottest new duck based website.

[allie-leth]

I upgraded some security settings and accidentally nuked the ducks. They have been unnuked and can now once again be pet.

[allie-leth]

This is a weird request, and i would really appreciate you reblogging for visibility, but I need a large list of terf accounts. I'm training a model to detect them so i need known-positives to create the dataset. When I have time I will make an extension to let others see the positives/whatever for easy block list. I feel like shinigami eyes no longer works very well, so I want to try a different approach. I intend this to only be a tumblr-focused extension. Thanks.

[allie-leth]

I would be training the model myself, not just off text, but spiderwebbing their connections.

[allie-leth]

This is a weird request, and i would really appreciate you reblogging for visibility, but I need a large list of terf accounts. I'm training a model to detect them so i need known-positives to create the dataset. When I have time I will make an extension to let others see the positives/whatever for easy block list. I feel like shinigami eyes no longer works very well, so I want to try a different approach. I intend this to only be a tumblr-focused extension. Thanks.

[allie-leth]

I am implementing flux managed argo workflows into my gitlab cicd because my custom resources and plugins on k8s don't interface well with gitlab runners and it's causing me issues when treating embedded devices like k8s resources.

This is for my homelab. I'm in too deep. I think I need like kubernetes anonymous or something.

[allie-leth]

Having to have social media clout to get good customer service is one of the most bullshit things.

[m4gethecat]

quick! all 12 tumblr followers need to go harass amazon

[allie-leth]

Can't even be Tumblr, they don't care about this one.