TacoEvent

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on Authentic · c/comicstrips · 1 pts · 59d

I see how it could be uncomfortable. From one internet stranger to another, I hope you know it’s appreciated. That kind of empathy already goes a long way. It might not come out that way but I see it from here.

Some real advice for situations where you’re not quite sure how to address the ethnicity topic: you could just ask if they grew up in . If they say no, they might tell you where they grew up. If not, let it pass. Not everyone wants to talk about where they grew up. 1st generation+ Asians can be all over the place on comfort with their identity.

Also, if the vibes aren’t there, they might just not want to talk. That’s fine too.

on Authentic · c/comicstrips · 3 pts · 60d

They’re about even. Offline, people can obviously tell I’m Asian so it doesn’t make much sense to say “I’m Asian”. On the internet, I prefer a certain level of anonymity so I just go with Asian.

It’s super diverse in my city. So identifying with my ethnicity is generally an easy way to connect with others. They don’t even have to share my ethnicity. People love to ice break on ethnicity and I don’t mind that as long as they’re not trying to be weird about it.

on Authentic · c/comicstrips · 10 pts · 60d

I am Asian. There are Japanese restaurants in my city run by white people and I don’t consider it cultural appropriation. Cultural acceptability is a wide spectrum.

on Authentic · c/comicstrips · 31 pts · 60d

Appreciate this very thoughtful mod response. It’s easy to get too wrapped up on yes/no answers when reality is far more fuzzy and complicated than that.

As an AAPI, I didn’t see anything more to this than a funny little nod to the people who actually prepare ethnic cuisines in countries not of their origin.

Dug up an old RPI 3 for the sole purpose of running a bulletproof sandbox for Claude Code. At 1 gb of RAM it’s a little slow but quite tolerable for running —dangerously-skip-permissions and one shot prompts.

Network isolated, Tailscale ACLs in, sudoless user created, and service account tokens setup with minimal permissions to GitHub. It should function almost exactly like Claude code remote. Excited to start testing it.

This is really cool. I feel like people tend to want to gather some sort of critical insight from these graph visualizations but I just enjoy taking in the shape of this data.

Any particular explanation for the topmost featured graph?