#as-if — Public Fediverse posts

Disk image performance: the cost of encryption rises

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/23/disk-image-performance-the-cost-of-encryption-rises/

Explainer: Disk images

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2026/03/21/explainer-disk-images/

#PennedPossibilities 832 — Imagine This: The zipper of your MC’s costume breaks. How would others react to seeing them in a Halloween costume on November 1st?

#ForYou: Oh, Rhys would go out of his way to offer the MC do undress him delightedly
#AsIf: Most people from his school would laugh with him as just yet another part of their constant bullying
#ArkanCotton: He'd never get into one in the first place, only over his dead body

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#amWriting #ZuriStories

Normally I set up rules on my email when joining a company to delete most circulars after six months. As I’m only going to be in my current job for a year or so, I haven’t bothered this time, but today I made the minor effort to delete anything more than six months old. You’re welcome. We won’t have hosepipe bans now. #AsIf

#macOS #Tahoe brings a new #disk #image format

Disk images have been valuable tools marred by poor performance. In the wrong circumstances, an encrypted sparse image (#UDSP) stored on the blazingly fast internal #SSD of an #Apple silicon #Mac may write files no faster than 100 MB/s, typical for a cheap hard drive. One of the important new features introduced in macOS 26 Tahoe is a new disk image format that can achieve near-native speeds: #ASIF

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/virtualization/vzdiskimagestoragedeviceattachment/

#WritersCoffeeClub APR-01 in-jokes, hidden messages, easter egg

#AsIf: In the hospital there's a brief blink-and-you-miss-it crossover with #ArkanCotton from one of my other stories
#SubconsciousMind: The story is based on the novel "Geography Club", which, coincidentally gets chosen to be that year's school play in the story
#FindingMe: The story is full of geeky recurring humor that is understood without explanation between the lead chacters

#amWriting #ZuriStories

#MaximoPark #StreamOfLife #Vinyl #FridayNightJukebox #NowPlaying

Same as it ever was.

As splendid as they've ever been.

A gift that keeps giving.

#ThereNoSuchThingAsSociety #AsIf

To film #SubconsciousMind, I just had from Europe to get to Alaska (preferably without flying).

Most other stories (#ExGayHusband, #ArkanCotton, #AsIf, #ForYou) could all be done as low budget productions and could be shot mostly on location

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As the UK Home Office prepares to set the police on scared, vulnerable people in a desperate attempt to solicit votes from its racist base, we should all remember the words of historian and journalist Neal Ascherson, from 2017: #AsIf
https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/15384883.neal-ascherson-scotland-must-act-independence-nation/

#WritersCoffeeClub MAR-21 Do you ever regret killing a character, or the manner of their death?

Well, my readers did everything to make me regret and eventually take the death of the protagonist's love interest back. However, they are not God and one cannot just cherry-pick. It's the natural course of life. The character's death was more logical to me than his survival—so he had to die. Plain and simple.

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #AsIf

#PhantastikPrompts MAR-01 Hast du Insider-Gags oder Cameos eingebaut, die nur für dich oder eine kleine Gruppe von Menschen von Bedeutung sind?

Im Krankenhaus bei "Als ob!" begegnet die Hauptfigur Jannis auf dem Krankenhausflur Arkan Cotton, die Hauptfigur aus meiner gleichnamigen Kurzgeschichte, der sich gerade gegen den Rat des Krankenhauspersonals selbst entlässt. Mehr Berührungspunkte haben Jannis und Arkan nicht

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #AsIf #ArkanCotton

#PhantastikPrompts FEB-10 Was steht bei deiner Geschichte auf dem Spiel? Was würde z.B. geschehen, wenn deine Antagonistenfigur bekommt, was sie will?

Arkan Cotton wäre tot (und könnte nicht in #AsIf auftauchen 😉). Damit würde es wahrlich keinen Unschuldigen treffen, aber ist Rache wirklich der richtige Weg? Auch wenn Arkan Cotton unsympathisch ist, als Autor*innen fügen wir unseren Charakteren ja nur Schmerzen zu, weil sie fiktiv sind

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat

@strangeseawolf I'm currently editing an older story of mine (#AsIf) with my editor. Somehow, we can't find its epilogue so it ends terribly (for the readers and my editor, I quite like that ending). Let's hope for him, we find that epilogue 😉

#PennedPossibilities 35. Does your MC consider themselves an introvert or an extrovert?

Jannis is the textbook example of an introvert, besides being an underdog. He's never invited to parties of "the cool kids" and wouldn't care if there wasn't at least some peer pressure, even he couldn't escape. But when he's finally invited, he feels quite awkward and out of place. Good thing, he has his extrovert best friend Ced with him.

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #AsIf

#PennedPossibilities 210 How is your MC typically seen by others? Does it ring true to who they really are?

Jannis is treated as an underdog. When he's invited to Kai's party, he's probably not the only one surprised. But in one thing, they are right: They suspect him to be gay

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #AsIf

#WritersCoffeeClub JAN-29 Describe the saddest moment you've written. Share an excerpt.

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #AsIf

#PennedPossibilities 200: How does your MC handle grief?

Barely. He doesn't know how. On top of that, the funeral is held when he's out of town for a day, and nobody told him. He only finds it out after his return. That literally breaks him.

#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #AsIf

#WordWeavers JAN-23: If your book were a movie, what would it be rated and why?

#ForYou: FSK 16/X-Rated
Features multiple same-sex sex scenes and people who are uncomfortable with their sexuality

#FindingMe/ #AsIf: FSK 12/PG-Rated
Characters deal with loss and grief

#SoulBearerLegacy: FSK 16/X-Rated
A scene featuring a public execution and characters deal with loss and grief

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#amWriting #ZuriStories #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #SoulBearer #asexual #homophobia

#writephant Q2 What changes in your MC’s world to kick off the story?

Jannis couldn't believe it, when he's invited to a party by the school's most popular boy. He could believe it even less when something happens at the party with Kai. Maybe he misinterpreted something—but what if not? As if …

#amWriting #WritingDiscussion #WritersChat #ZuriStories #AsIf

#WordWeavers JAN-05 What characters in your story are obstacles but not antagonists? Why?

The society as a whole—or more specific: His classmates—display #homophobia and #microagressions intentional or unintentional in various forms and intensities. They behave hostile to him, but after all, they are NPCs and are not distinct from each other. So I wouldn't exactly call that 'evil'.

#amWriting #ZuriStories #AsIf #LGBT

#PhantastikPrompts JAN-08 — Wie alt sind deine Protagonisten?

#ExGayHusband: 20
#SubconsciousMind: Zwischen 15 und 17
#ForYou: 34
#AsIf: Zwischen 15 und 16
#MichaelAndLucas: Das Paar in ihren 30ern, sie ist in den 50ern
#ArkanCotton: Ende 50er, Anfang 60er
#FindingMe: Anfang 30
#SoulBearerLegacy: Zwischen 15 und 16

#amWriting #ZuriStories #SoulBearer

#AsIf being qualified was ever of concern whatsoever to this human.

#RandomThought

- #ExGayHusband, #AsIf and #ForYou might be placed in the same universe of a #VisualNovel