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Tris ✨🚞 @tris@social.tris.fyi

"infrastructure lesbian" and "map witch" who enjoys using public transit "the normal amount"

hacker, union member, occasional photographer, jan pi toki pona

follow requests welcome! just try to make it obvious that you're cool

pronouns: she/her

website: https://tris.fyi

where: Somerville, MA

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

i asked wmata to give me all of their announcement audio files almost exactly six months ago, and then promptly forgot about it. today they all⁺ showed up in my inbox. i don't remember what i was going to do with them anymore. enjoy!! https://tris.fyi/wmata/

⁺except for 21 Forbidden Audio Files. it seems that the contents of the 21 Forbidden Audio Files are forever unknowable unless you work for the authority

Almost Every 7k Announcement tris.fyi

Tris shared 6 hours ago

jade

@leftpaddotpy@hachyderm.io

yes > /sys/class/rock/boulder0/roll_up_cliff

sysfs pushing a boulder

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

you know what, i'll accept it

intersection of "short st" and "shorter st" on a map

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

long usps procedural question

bureaumancers greater than i: any tips on passing usps change of address identity verification for a po box that you have just closed? the creative solutions i can think of involve voter fraud or potential conspiracy to commit mail fraud involving a notary public, which doesn't seem good

alternatively, has anyone had luck with a paper ps form 3575 recently? the retail clerk i talked to made it sound like they've been completely discontinued but the dmm says they still work and would bypass this process completely

Tris shared 5 days ago

TiconderogaNo1

@TiconderogaNo1@mastodon.sdf.org

Has anyone ridden a #BlueBike from Hyde Park to Salem? 31 miles. Seems like it would cost a bit extra.

Blue bikes map. Furthers apart stations appear to be Hyde Park and one at the end of Salen. Auburndale is about the same distance from Salem as Hyde Park.

Google maps biking directions from Hyde Park to Salem. 2hr 52min and 31 miles. With a membership, you get 45 min free and then $2.50 additional for each 30 min.

Tris shared 5 days ago

mcc

@mcc@mastodon.social

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@float13 "Unity: It's easier to buy than health insurance"

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

why do all library cards start with a "2" and where do the next 4 digits come from. are library card numbers (semi-) globally unique??

Tris shared 5 days ago

Scott Jenson

@scottjenson@social.coop

Whenever I explain my #research at Google into mobile text editing, I'm usually met with blank stares or a slightly hostile "Everyone can edit text on their phones, right? What's the problem?"

Text editing on mobile isn't ok. It's actually much worse than you think, an invisible problem no one appreciates. I wrote this post so you can understand why it's so important.
https://jenson.org/text
#UXDesign #UX

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

ground coffee

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

OH: there are two main queer pride flag designs in use today, the progress pride flag and the congress pride flag

Tris shared 8 days ago

$ Enya🔥 [prns.cc ] 🚲

@kix3n@0w0.is

(they’re dating)

Tris shared 8 days ago

Emma 

@ipg@wetdry.world

"Windows NT" stands for "Windows and Nintendo Technology", due to their partnership when developing software for the Nintendo GameCube

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

need someone to hold me like MBTA dispatch holds red line trains

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

sqlite> insert into registration_numbers select distinct registration_number from (select distinct registration_number from coordinates union select distinct registration_number from registrations union select distinct registration_number from entities);

Tris shared 11 days ago

Leah Neukirchen

@leah@blahaj.social

OH: PPPoE is when you have three phases over Ethernet.

Tris shared 12 days ago

J. Rosenbaum (they/them)

@minxdragon@wandering.shop

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r/GradSchool u/cluuuuuuu • How to cite a dream/hallucination in APA 7th? sophisticaden_ • What? < Reply OP . I want to include something that was revealed to me in a vision in one of my research papers. But I do not know how to cite it.

Tris shared 13 days ago

[std_logic] novie, all city 

@novenary@akko.wtf

share your favorite anti-licenses

I'll start:
- the Fuck Around and Find Out License (https://sr.ht/~boringcactus/fafol/) this one is mid, but the name is funny; the ethics clause is intentionally so vague it's impossible to comply
- SOLIPSISTIC PUBLIC LICENSE (https://github.com/Gallefray/SPL/blob/master/LICENSE)
- BIG BILL HELL'S LICENSE (https://lifning.neocities.org/BBHL)
- The Following Software License Is Intended For Jim Boonie Only (https://artemis.sh/2022/02/11/the-following-software-license-is-intended-for-jim-boonie-only.html)

The Following Software License Is Intended For Jim Boonie Only artemis.sh

Tris shared 13 days ago

Taras Grescoe 🚇

@straphanger@urbanists.social

By 1920, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Waterville, Maine, to Sheboygan, Wisconsin—a journey of 1,000 miles—exclusively by electric trolley.
🚋🧵

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

just found a totally normal setup.py, the first thing that it does is checks if it's been invoked as "realsetup.py", if it isn't then it does some stuff, copies itself to "realsetup.py" in another directory, and tries again

Tris

@tris@social.tris.fyi

STOP doing inductive loops in roads to charge battery electric vehicles

DECADES of transportation network yet NO USE found for inductive battery charging

wanted to have an electric bus that didn't need large batteries anyway? we HAD a TECHNOLOGY for that, it was called trolleypole and overhead catenary

LOOK at all these inextinguishable fires that they made for us with our rare earth metals (these are REAL incidents, made by REAL battery electric vehicles)