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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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
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Kitsune Tails has a release date! As just announced on Wholesome Direct, our Mario-like featuring queer fox girls will be coming to Steam and itch.io (Windows, Linux) on August 1st, 2024!
Wishlist now on Steam at https://store.steampowered.com/app/1325260 or find more info at https://kitsunegames.com/kitsunetails
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saw someone on twitter say that it felt like we had drawn over SMB3 sprites for kitsune tails and i want to set the record straight on that: the reason it feels like that is because three artists including myself jammed on our sprite for yuzu until we had something that screamed "OMG ITS MARIO" to the primitive lizard brain. our art was done from scratch and is 100% original
and i can prove it, because i saved the iterations the design went through as we jammed through it
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FOSS discussion on image editors,
49 dead 291 injured
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THIS. This is why 'I don't want to put a label on my child' is harmful. If you don't know you're not neurotypical, you end up thinking it's a personal failing that you don't fit in/keep up, and that you're not trying hard enough even though you've been trying hard all your life.
Neurodivergent Kids Flourish When They're Taught How Their Brains Work - Scientific American
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neurodivergent-kids-flourish-when-theyre-taught-how-their-brains-work/
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Cows kill more people than sharks.
Personally I’m surprised cows kill any sharks at all.
