Metal Mutton 🤖🐏 @SteelWool@computerfairi.es
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- Early 30s
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- they/he
🇲🇽🏳🌈 Nonbinary Mexican on the autism spectrum that does hobby gamedev.
🔞 I'm an adult and posts may be NSFW. Do not interact if you're a minor.
Joined Dec 2022
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Don't use color alone to convey information. Marking required fields by only using colored labels won't help people who use screen readers or who can't distinguish colors. If using color, also add text like asterisks and/or "required."
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I've saved exactly three textbooks from my undergraduate education, as totems of my electrical engineering roots. Although I was never a chip designer, my first couple jobs after graduation were adjacent in the semiconductor industry. Conway & Mead was a classic at the time.
RIP Lynn Conway
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.Your Fat friends don't have to make you feel secure about your body.
.Disabled people aren't required to be "inspirational"
.And ffs People of Color don't have to make you feel better about your racist jokes and thoughts.
.LGBTQ+ People don't have to fit into your stereotype of them, to make you feel comfortable
.Women don't have to be maternal.
.Men don't have to be "strong and masculine".
.Older people don't have to be treated like children or be "sweet".
Feel free to add your own mini rant.
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If the problem is cultural, the solution will not be technological.
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Just a reminder that friends don't let friend use the Brave browser
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Dark mode isn't the default in OSes for a reason folks. It's one of those accessibility aids that's grossly inaccessible to a ton of people.
Respect the OS settings if you're making an app!!!!!!!
If a user has chosen light mode and reduced motion, don't fucking launch with dark mode and swishy animations!
Don't be an asshole!
Too many devs are being absolute assholes!
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Really sad to hear of Lynn Conway's passing. She made key advances in CPU design that ended up being an influence on everything we use today. http://www.myhusbandbetty.com/wordPressNEW/2024/06/11/lynn-conway-january-2-1938-june-9-2024/
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RIP Lynn Conway, a trans pioneer who made major contributions to computing, noted in this article from last year:
"She had already been forced to restart her career from scratch with a new identity in 1969, after being fired by IBM for telling her bosses she was transitioning. The rupture meant she could not claim credit for techniques she had invented there, even as they became standard practice across the industry.
And so, over the past two decades, Conway has been investigating – and attempting to reverse – what she describes as her "disappearance" from history, chronicling her experiences both as a computing and a gender trailblazer.
Slowly, that recognition is coming to pass. In 2009, she received an award from the engineering trade group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). In 2020, IBM finally apologised for firing her 42 years earlier.
And this October she was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame as the co-creator of VLSI – 14 years after Mead received the same honour."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iphone-science-trans-woman-lynn-conway-b2458269.html
"She had already been forced to restart her career from scratch with a new identity in 1969, after being fired by IBM for telling her bosses she was transitioning. The rupture meant she could not claim credit for techniques she had invented there, even as they became standard practice across the industry.
And so, over the past two decades, Conway has been investigating – and attempting to reverse – what she describes as her "disappearance" from history, chronicling her experiences both as a computing and a gender trailblazer.
Slowly, that recognition is coming to pass. In 2009, she received an award from the engineering trade group, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers(IEEE). In 2020, IBM finally apologised for firing her 42 years earlier.
And this October she was inducted into the National Inventors’ Hall of Fame as the co-creator of VLSI – 14 years after Mead received the same honour."
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/iphone-science-trans-woman-lynn-conway-b2458269.html
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In making new friends, what is the most important factor?
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reminder that euphoria is a much better identifier of being trans than dysphoria
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heyyy girl ,,,, i totally dont have any security vulnerabilities ,,,, there’s like , toootally no way to execute arbitrary code onto me ,,,, it would like toootally suck if u tried doing that ,,, haha , ,,, ,, ,,, ,,,, ,,, , , , ,,, ,,
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DOOM FOR SNES SOURCE CODE AND ASSETS ARCHIVED! https://archive.org/details/jeffs-doom-snes-disk-images
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Disabled and low income people deserve to have nice stuff and don’t need to justify their purchases to anyone
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UK: Devon's first transgender mayor appointed
'At the age of 73 years old, Rachel Clarke is proud to call herself the first transgender mayor in the westcountry and only the second in the UK'
'I knew from the age of three something wasn't right. I was stuck in a man's body but how could I explain that to anyone? Like a lot of men of my generation, I did the whole thing of getting married and had four daughters and now have eight grandchildren'
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/devons-first-transgender-mayor-appointed-9320970
