Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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the longer you spend using software that does not make deliberate efforts to run your inner peace through a wood chipper in order to monetize it
the more jarring it is using something that does
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Apparently Meta is afraid of Pixelfed. Clearly, @dansup is doing something right. Can't imagine a bigger compliment.
"CONFIRMED: Facebook has *banned* anyone from linking to Pixelfed. #metablockingpixelfed"
h/t @ajsadauskas
Maybe tech media should pick this up. Seems like a good story!
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January 12, 2025- “The hygiene hypothesis is being eroded
Infections at a young age correlate with severe infections later in life, few infections in youth correlate with less infections in adulthood
Where was the “strengthening of kids immune system” from infections?” - AJ Leonardi, MBBS, PhD (01/06/25) - https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/antimicrobial-stewardship/early-life-infection-burden-continues-throughout-childhood-new-data
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The enshittification of AI has lead to the choice of AI used by VLC to be groaned at. I even saw a post cross my feed of someone looking for a replacement for VLC.
VLC is working on on-device realtime captioning. This has nothing to do with generating images or video using AI. This has nothing to do with LLMs.
This is not generative AI.
While it would be preferred to use human generated captions for better accuracy, this is not always possible. This means a lot of video media is inaccessible to those with hearing impairment.
What VLC is doing is something that will contribute to accessibility in a big way.
AI transcription is still not perfect. It has its problems. But this is one of those things that we should be hoping to advance.
I'm not looking to replace humans in creating captions. I think we're very far from ever being able to do this correctly without humans. But as I said, there's a ton of video content that simply do not have captions available, human generated or not.
So long as they're not trying to manipulate the transcription using GenAI means, this is the wrong one to demonize.
#AI #Transcription #VLC #HearingImpaired #Deaf #Accessibility
@octopus@weirder.earth No, but not doing them has historically made me feel worse over a longer term. I think baths and walks were a substitute for resting before I learned how to actually rest.
@hollie NIST specifically recommends including this option: https://www.netsec.news/summary-of-the-nist-password-recommendations-for-2021/
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boost with cw: human rights
Again I hope cis friends realize this: trans rights are literally YOUR rights
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"...the rise of singlehood among young people is not a result of women not wanting marriage or children—but rather women finding the bargain on offer not particularly attractive."
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/the-crisis-of-gender-relations/
- Having a binary gender would be really cool but that doesn't feel right to me. I'm demi at most.
- I'm on feminizing HRT. I can no longer deny myself womanhood. And I feel joy in it.
- I also feel joy in being a man, now that I know it doesn't limit me.
- I cannot be misgendered because I will internally adjust to how I am addressed.
- I guess I'm both binary genders?
- Identity, including gender, is a clay that I can shape at will. Each new shape holds its own unique joy.
@oldladyplays I went through a gradual progression from:
- My assigned gender is an incidental fact about me and holds no particular internal meaning. I enjoy when people mistakenly refer to me as a girl, and I don't understand the apologies that follow. Being a girl is awesome, why would that be insulting?
- I guess I'm nonbinary because I wanna wear cute femme things but I don't feel any particular connection to being a girl, or to being a boy.(con't)
I tried visiting the URL again without Discord running, and it redirected to a page on 127.0.0.1:6463 which failed to load. It seems Discord handles this by running a (presumably temporary) webserver on localhost. So, if someone sends me to one of those links, I'll get redirected to localhost, which will fail because I'm not running a webserver.
Still creepy.
Apparently, the first time you run Discord on a new machine, it opens a URL with your default browser that, if you're already logged in, also logs you into the desktop app. Without asking on either end.
Which was convenient but also creepy and feels like a security concern. Like, someone can generate a web URL that if I visit it logs them in as me? How is that safe?
(Update: After playing around a bit, it appears that it is safe, I'll explain why in a reply.)
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my name is `adduser`
and my brother's `useradd`
one of us is good
and one of us is bad!
which of us is which?
there is no way to know
we change names sometimes
to keep you on your toes!
@recursive Maybe I'm weird but I take off Thursdays and work Saturdays. 2 days is more of a break than I know how to use effectively, and 5 days is more than I feel good working in a row.
@recursive For me, it feels like the danger generally comes from working for too long without seeing any positive feedback. Changing things up helps, particularly doing quick bug fixes as a break from my long term projects that won't pay out for a while.
I think having that as my main concern is a sign that my workplace is really good, in other ways. I work a sustainable number of hours, with few arbitrary barriers, on things I really do care about.
I really want to use the term "cis-compilation" for the opposite of "cross-compilation" but it'd probably just confuse people.
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just learned about recency bias. my favourite type of bias for sure
@riesi Engrampa complained about it but 7z figured it out.
Haha, one of these is a rar file incorrectly renamed to .zip
Joined Aug 2018
