it has been 0 days since a journalist asked me if foone was my real name
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@iykury oh yeah, it might be. My roommate has a hyphenated last name, a perfectly common thing!
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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.
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@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
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@dysfun really irresponsible tbh
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@lapt0r @puppygirlhornypost2 initials... another thing many people changing their name don't consider!
I was pretty certain I was gonna be named "Foone Alan Turing" until I realized it meant my initials were FAT.
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@foone right to repair when
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@[email protected] @[email protected] ok but consider FAT32
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@puppygirlhornypost2 @lapt0r oh yeah. if I did it now, I'd totally just rock it and call myself "Foone Alan Turing, the 32nd" so I could be FAT32
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@dysfun exactly. humans need a right to repair
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@HoustonDog @dan that'd be a good hacker name, tbh.
a non-maskable interrupt is what many toddlers and some cats should be named
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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.
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@foone But what about a middle name though? That's the secret I want to know. What cool middle names did you pick when you have Foone Turing as bookends
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@Lady_Noremon
My name is Foone B. Mandelbrot.The B stands for Benoit B. Mandelbrot.
And just read that last sentence as many times as you want
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@bytex64 yeah exactly! I've had dozens of names in different contexts over time, it's perfectly fine
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@foone is Schema the guy who types up the cards?
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@lydiafacts probably
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@foone Before my name was Rabbit journalists kept asking me that and saying they couldn't cite me because I wouldn't let them use my legal name. Now it's my legal name and none have asked. I am disappoint.
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@ra6bit awww!
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@foone alright I need to make a site with counters where people reset them. No pii no login just 4 digit pin to reset a counter.
