more digging through my old files hecko, my own terrible art
Forgot I did this! It's bad but I made an icon for a character of mine that I used to run a twitter account for. Her name is Kai, and she was a trans girl hacker fox. I don't play her any more, and I shut the twitter account down, because...
... to be honest it didn't fit so well any more? and I felt like I was... maybe just getting a little too fantastical and weird with it. I wasn't happy how I was writing the story anyway.
disinfo
The term "log on" in technology was actually borrowed from the logging industry, where to get logs floating down the river into the sawmill, they have to be lined up precisely one by one with the sawblades - a process called "logging on" in industry jargon.
This was borrowed by early computing centers as a metaphor for users queueing up at the reception desk with requests to use the computers.
a lot of people find web #accessibility a bit opaque and confusing, and as a result I've seen some well-meaning (but not always accurate) advice circulating. so to clear some things up (a thread)
yeah i'm moving over to chitter.xyz now. Soooo go there! I'm there now.