Tusky? You fools, that's just the name of the app, the actual social network is called... GNU/Tusky or as I've recently taken to calling it GNU Plus Tusky.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 19:39

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 19:39

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*beats fist on table*

Listen, the average age being so low during medieval times isn't because no one grew old, it's because babies kept dying!

So everything was fine!

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 19:36

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 19:36

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subtoot

"I don't they understand how voting works."

Are you gonna lose again?

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 19:34

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I've given up on the hassle and just switched to Spotify as the main music app on my phone, the only true unfortunate thing is that I can't add stuff like a random medieval style rendition of pumped up kicks to a playlist, because no legal service would allow any old cover like that.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 16:19

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 16:19

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"Should I stay or should I go?
If I go there will be trouble,
if I stay it will be double."

How is that a dilemma? Seems like an obvious answer.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 15:36

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 15:36

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Being a 'provocateur's' 'frequent accomplice' seems like a sorry state.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 14:50

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 25, 2020, 14:50

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"Yandere Simulator Decompiled Source Code Review"

Where am I?

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 24, 2020, 18:08

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 24, 2020, 18:08

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The best Bond song is actually "three blind mice".

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 24, 2020, 17:13

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J.K. Rowling reveals Harry Potter was an anime all along and our mind is just playing tricks with us.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 24, 2020, 11:10

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 24, 2020, 11:10

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New inkscape looking smooooth.

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**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 23:15

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medical accuracy rates

@InspectorCaracal And then they act like they've thought you something really valuable about what it means if a test says you have a certain illness.

But if medical testing is anything like AV scanning that is such horrible result when it comes to false positives that I don't believe whoever designed the medical test didn't try to massively reduce that number.

So they may have thought you something about the phrase '99.9% accurate', but nothing about actual medical tests.

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**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 23:15

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medical accuracy rates

@InspectorCaracal So I've seen a lot of mathematicians talk about how if a test is described as 99.9% accurate in detecting a certain illness, but there's only a 0.1% change you actually have the illness that if you, say, test 1'000'000 people you'll get the following results:

- 1000 people will have the illness
- 999 of the 999000 not ill people will be wrongly detected as having the illness (false positive)
- 1 of 1000 ill people will not be detected (false negative)

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 22:54

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 22:54

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medical accuracy rates

Working in AV when medical/mathematical people talk about the issues with interpreting the concept of something being 99.x% accurate when it comes to very rare things my thought is always that yes, that phrasing doesn't separate false negatives from false positives so you'll have loads of false positives, but surely in reality medical tests are made to reduce the false positives independently of the false negatives and this is just semantic nonsense?

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 21:41

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 21:41

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meta

While I 've qualms with the fediverse's unsearchability* it at least locks me out of finding current "discourse", because the people I follow reference but don't engage in it, and getting annoyed by it.

* 1) "You can just use hashtags" simply doesn't work, people don't and people don't agree on what hashtags are best.
2) This doesn't scale at all: I should be able to search the fediverse, I'm resposible enough not to abuse it.
3) Super narcissistic: I mainly want to find my own old toots.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 21:29

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 21:29

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Retooting myself from a locked conversation

Camembert is the president of taste I believe.

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 20:08

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 20:08

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My brain just said "silky smooth like satin" to me. How about like silk, you fool!?

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 18:34

**my own handle 🎏** @kurt@social.thiskurt.me · May 23, 2020, 18:34

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Being decreasingly mildly drunk I can answer the question I had a long time ago when I was more drunk about whether drunk people make more spelling mistakes or that they just care less about the ones they make anyway and the answer is: a bit of both.