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1. Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:31:25 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

   it has been 0 days since a journalist asked me if foone was my real name

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:34:28 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     my name is realer than some of the publications that have asked that question.

     (it's also older than some of them)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:35:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I think the part that bothers me is how they all seem to be thinking it's some alias for a boring real name, but they're coming to me in the first place for doing weird hacker/artist things.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:36:08 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     are you really that surprised that a weird hacker/artist has a weird hacker/artist name?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:36:51 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     I make weird things!

     and I am one of the weird things I made.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:37:49 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     anyway, both my mom and the government call me "foone", so I don't know how much "realer" I can make this name

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:40:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • anne.💫

     @ann3nova rhymes with spoon. It's the same as the second syllable of "typhoon".

   • anne.💫 (ann3nova@corteximplant.com)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:40:13 JST anne.💫

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     @foone Foo-nuh? Or does it rhyme with spoon? Or something else? :)

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:40:39 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Amber

     @puppygirlhornypost2 do it. I think everyone should change their legal name to the name they use online.

     fuck "real names", hacker aliases for everyone!

   • Amber (puppygirlhornypost2@transfem.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:40:40 JST Amber

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     @foone@digipres.club i should change my name to "puppygirlhornypost2" in solidarity

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:42:22 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • James Grimmelmann

     @jtlg so, fun fact:

     My full name is Foone B. Turing.
     And my story for the "B" is that it stands for "Benoit B. Mandlebrot", and now re-read that sentence as many times as you want to go as deep as you want.

     So my name DOES have a complex part: it's the point called c, in Fc(z) = z² + c: the definition of the mandlebrot set.

   • James Grimmelmann (jtlg@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:42:24 JST James Grimmelmann

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     @foone “It’s the real part. I have a complex name and the imaginary part is orthogonal to human language.”

   • GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:44:47 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     @foone honestly? with stuff like kiwifarms out there? Yeah, I'm surprised prominent hackers use their real names.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:44:47 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • GabeMoralesVR

     @GabeMoralesVR that's the thing. if I was going by a silly fake name, they'd just dox me and post the "real one".

     I've already lost so why try to fight?

   • Osmose (osmose@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:45:39 JST Osmose

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     @foone I've mostly dodged people questioning Osmose these days, but due to poor name requirements in software, at two different jobs, I've had to answer the question "is your last name _really_ 'Lastname'???"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:47:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Osmose

     @Osmose heh. now I kinda wish I had made my lastname "lastname"

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:47:44 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     admittedly the government doesn't always know how to spell it correctly, but I'm gonna get that fixed.

     They currently have it correct on the FRONT of my driver's license, but not the BACK

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:48:15 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     which kinda terrifies me that their schema is so ridiculous that that is even POSSIBLE

   • GabeMoralesVR (gabemoralesvr@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:49:31 JST GabeMoralesVR

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     @foone true, but I didn't know this was your real name until recently. I mean, it makes sense, but if someone didn't know it was your real name, then it wouldn't really matter how long you'd used it, right? I was simply being honest to your question (although I know your real first and last name through publications).

     Basically I'm just spring boarding off this to say kiwifarms really sucks. I miss byuu.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 04:49:31 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • GabeMoralesVR

     @GabeMoralesVR yeah. they've been the organizing point for actions that have lost so many friends. delenda est and all that.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:01:48 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Dan Q

     @dan ugh yikes. that's a mess.

     I ran into a similar problem when I worked for the US government: we had two separate authentication systems (windows and unix), and every system would use one of those two (and it wasn't obvious which one was in use!) so you had to make your username/pass the same.

     they ALMOST had the same requirements. almost. Sometimes you'd change it and then go to change it on the other and it'd be invalid, because one needs 2 digits and one needed 3

   • Dan Q (dan@m.danq.me)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:01:49 JST Dan Q

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     @foone The computers at the passport office of my country permit a single character surname. The computers at the border control do not. You can imagine all the fun that causes me when I return home from a trip elsewhere.

     Nowhere in the world have I experienced so many obstacles and interrogations as I have trying to re-enter the country where I was born and have lived my entire life.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:11:29 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • petabites
     • Dan Q

     @HoustonDog @dan that'd be a good hacker name, tbh.

     a non-maskable interrupt is what many toddlers and some cats should be named

   • petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:11:30 JST petabites

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     • Dan Q

     @dan @foone
     
     a few of my family members resort to a middle name of "NMI" rather than leaving that field blank on computer forms
     
     * Pronounced as: en-emm-ë 🙄

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:23:04 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Chip

     @bytex64 yeah exactly! I've had dozens of names in different contexts over time, it's perfectly fine

   • Chip (bytex64@awesome.garden)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:23:05 JST Chip

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     @foone Also people really cling to the idea that you can only have one real name. “Chip” is just as real as “bytex64”. My mom calls me one and the internet calls me the other but they’ve both been in use for decades.

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:51:12 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • scy

     @scy Nope. But I did think about making my middle name "barne" at one point, to continue the foo/bar theme

   • scy (scy@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:51:13 JST scy

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     @foone If the front says "foone", does the back say "boone"?

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:53:35 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • scy

     @scy exactly!

   • scy (scy@chaos.social)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:53:36 JST scy

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     @foone Oh, so _that_ is where Baz Luhrmann got his name from!

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:58:06 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • petabites
     • Dan Q

     @HoustonDog @dan hah! nice trick

   • petabites (houstondog@mastodon.world)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 05:58:07 JST petabites

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     • Dan Q

     @foone @dan
     
     a foster name for our cats is Kamír (ka-MEER) so they seem ''friendly' when adoptive strangers say "come here" ...

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 07:36:58 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:
     • anne.💫

     @skaverat @ann3nova that's a good idea. I should at least add that to my wiki

   • SkaveRat 🐀 :verified: (skaverat@skaverat.net)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 07:36:59 JST SkaveRat 🐀 :verified:

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     • anne.💫

     @foone @ann3nova that reminds me that I wanted to add a "pronounce" field next to the "pronouns" field in my profile

   • Foone🏳️‍⚧️ (foone@digipres.club)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 09:56:21 JST Foone🏳️‍⚧️

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     • Hybrid 🐘 Elephant - 👻 boo 👻

     @HybridElephant yeah, I worried about the same problems when I changed my name! I have a "lastname" just because I have to, my name is actually just "foone"

   • Hybrid 🐘 Elephant - 👻 boo 👻 (hybridelephant@musicians.today)'s status on Friday, 18-Oct-2024 09:56:22 JST Hybrid 🐘 Elephant - 👻 boo 👻

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     @foone i changed my name in 1984 to a "one name" format.

     since 2000, i have had to invent a "first name" to satisfy computers and other folks who can't comprehend a person who has only one name. 😒🙄