Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
Esme Povirk
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A Texas jury has found that feeding the homeless is not a crime.
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"At first we believed that programmers were latently sexist/transphobic, and due to their demographics had never thought about the fact that minoritized communities might need to change their name or gender marker. However with further research, we discovered the problem was larger: Programmers had never thought about anything, at all"
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I've long believed that the crucial advantage of the term "queer" over the acronyms is that is acknowledges that diversity is not something you can exhaustively enumerate. we must be always prepared to embrace diversity that we hadn't considered before. this is the most consistent inclusivity
@Sophie Readable JavaScript is so cool though. Someone might see it and learn something. 🥺
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OpenAI discontinues its AI writing detector due to “low rate of accuracy”
Research shows that any AI writing detector can be defeated—and false positives abound.
@wuest There used to be projects for embedding Gecko, but as I understand it none are maintained anymore as upstream Firefox doesn't make this easy to keep working.
If someone finds a way to skip the privacy questions please let me know.
Reminder that the Windows account creation process has speed tech. You can skip the tutorial by logging out with Ctrl+Alt+Del and logging back in.
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‘Stop calling it Twitter’ says guy who deadnames his own child
https://chaser.com.au/general-news/stop-calling-it-twitter-says-guy-who-deadnames-his-own-child/
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Google’s “Web Integrity API” sounds like DRM for the web
It's just a "proposal," but it's also being prototyped inside Chrome right now.
😣✋: Traveling the country to sightsee.
👉👉: Traveling the country to meet your Internet friends.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Still trying to get good enough at foot controls to get through BIT.TRIP Runner.
I'm gonna say mojeek is.. situationally useful. It's good for when I have a set of seemingly-unrelated words and I want to find a page with all of them.
@zaxusemk I do not have ADHD, but I am autistic. Best I've been able to come up with is to find something else to do (ideally taking advantage of your scattered nature to make progress or at least plans for things you don't usually get to), but that may not work depending on the situation.
Easy mode in Klonoa helps out a lot more than I expected, as I'm working with significantly less dexterity than in the past.
stream announcement
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Just doing some casual Klonoa today.
religion/proselytism
The Jehovah's Witness who sent me a letter never responded to my email. It's almost as if they were never interested in a conversation at all, and had no interest even in politeness once it became clear that my Quakerly ways weren't going to be convinced by some passages in a shady translation of an old book. :(
@hergaiety so far it's... generally less helpful than ddg has been
Neurospicy ramblings
@Sophie That sounds like progress, hopefully you'll get better at the diagnosing part too.
We tend to lean on different system members for this, such as an emotional protector or someone with stronger bodily awareness.
Joined Aug 2018
