Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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Amazon gets “last rites” from FTC as antitrust complaint looks imminent
FTC's lawsuit is likely to be filed in federal court this month.
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what helps people get comfortable on the command line? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/08/08/what-helps-people-get-comfortable-on-the-command-line-/
Would love more stories of things that helped you in the last ~5 years!
(as usual, no need to reply if you don’t remember, or if you’ve been using the command line comfortably for 15 years — this question isn’t for you :) )
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Shoulder started hurting last night for no apparent reason (this is the opposite shoulder from the one I hurt last year), seems to be improving so I guess I'll just try to go about my routine.
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If you've got 5 minutes to spare, could I interest you in a short survey about titles? Everyone of any age, gender or location is invited, and it's open until at least Monday 14th August 2023.
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyFT9lt5FwRH78NZmQIwbs7W952ZaGtH1srEi_6UApXzTgvA/viewform
Thank you!
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Junk mail with an envelope that says "please recycle". Maybe you could please stop wasting paper instead?
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@octopus @picklish Interesting. I don't think "software development" is the right place to draw the line. If I'm just making a game that's not even going to access the network, being licensed and held to a code of ethics doesn't make much sense to me. If I'm working on a website that handles other people's personal information, then yes I do want that and I want others to be held to it.
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https://twitch.tv/madewokherd More Runner, but I've scrapped the spaced repetition system entirely and made it simultaneously simpler and less predictable. It now accounts for the notion of better and worse scores/outcomes. Will be fun to see how that goes.
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You will never speak to anyone more than you speak to yourself in your head.
Be kind to yourself.
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best thing about wearing a mask out is not catching all of the crud when i go out, but the second best thing is when i get home i can take off the mask with one hand and shake out my long auburn tresses in slow motion, revealing myself to be incredibly hot
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A jargon-free explanation of how AI large language models work
Want to really understand large language models? Here’s a gentle primer.
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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
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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.
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.
Joined Aug 2018
