Esme Povirk @madewokherd@computerfairi.es
Joined Aug 2018
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iliana’s gTLD wishlist:
- .txt: no HTML allowed by registry policy
- .trans: telling ICANN it’s specifically for the transportation industry. winking face
- .corn: new and exciting forms of typosquatting
- .internal: we warned you
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"It is precisely because of the painful history of antisemitism and lessons of Jewish texts that we advocate for the dignity and sovereignty of the Palestinian people. We refuse the false choice between Jewish safety and Palestinian freedom; between Jewish identity and ending the oppression of Palestinians. In fact, we believe the rights of Jews and Palestinians go hand-in-hand."
- A Dangerous Conflation: An open letter from Jewish writers https://www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/online-only/a-dangerous-conflation/
Anyone relate to being a boy but the flesh mech you're piloting is a girl and you want her to look super cute and femme? -Cole
streaming
https://twitch.tv/madewokherd Early stream. Continuing with BIT.TRIP Runner.
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First I hear about EU's intention to force all browsers to accept state-mandated certificate authorities which would enable those same states to subvert TLS encryption at will. This is super dangerous and must not pass. Thanks @mozilla for the heads up!
https://last-chance-for-eidas.org/
I love when a mystery changes from "why doesn't this work in [new situation]?" to "why does this work in [old situation]?"
Realizing that the anniversaries we feel a desire to celebrate (starting HRT and discovering we're a system) were empowered choices we made, rather than choices that were made for us (being born).
It's our syscoversary! 🎉
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the good, useful internet did not make enough money. The broken, ad-blasted, unusable internet also doesn't make enough money
capitalism, ai, other shitty things
If it's like highways (extracting resources creates demand for them), choosing to individually conserve isn't going to turn the dial. We need rules to keep society living within its means.
capitalism, ai, other shitty things
What I'm learning from the way investors (apparently) spend large amounts of cash is: as long as there are more resources to be exploited, someone will buy them up and use them to try to make money, however unlikely that is and however unhelpful or even detrimental the product. This isn't sustainable. So I don't blame the power consumption of large models on those who use them, I blame people willing to subsidize the expense, and the system that enables it.
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The 5 remembrances https://lemmy.world/post/7239728
Update: my joke project from last night is no longer a joke.
programming language feature abuse
Yes, that is the normal python repr (I didn't make my own loop for it), and yes I did make this shell upload itself to github.
programming language feature abuse
meh@Deej:~$ python -i python-shell.py
meh@Deej:/home/meh>>> ls()
python-shell.py
meh@Deej:/home/meh>>> ls('/').lines()
['bin', 'boot', 'dev', 'etc', 'home', 'init', 'lib', 'lib32', 'lib64', 'libx32', 'lost+found', 'media', 'mnt', 'opt', 'proc', 'root', 'run', 'sbin', 'snap', 'srv', 'sys', 'tmp', 'usr', 'var']
meh@Deej:/home/meh>>> (ls('/')|grep('b')).lines()
['bin', 'boot', 'lib', 'lib32', 'lib64', 'libx32', 'sbin']
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The only anti-homeless architecture that actually works is homes.
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I've heard that youtube creators for #BoardGames and #CardGames say the youtube algorithm tells them very few women <4%? watch their channels. BUT. Because I mainly watch board game & card game & video game content on youtube, it classifies me as a man and offers lots of beard-shaving ads, even though I have never told youtube my gender (I'm not a man). So the algorithm and stereotyping of these hobbies is self-perpetuating #Youtube
Joined Aug 2018
