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Licensing all my code under MIT + Trans Rights is a fun and silly little thing. I don't understand the consequences of

The above copyright notice, this permission notice, and the affirmation that TRANS RIGHTS ARE HUMAN RIGHTS shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

Nor do I have the means to even bring consequences. But it's a silly little thing that might be a legal problem for someone else anyways.

I'm a trans woman who, if anyone ever asks, will give my deadname as a different male name each time. It's been the single fastest way to find people who talk behind my back. If that name leaks I know just who leaked it and just who to instant block forever.

@lynne FWIW, there's a yt-dlp invocation here to exclude the upscaled versions from the format selection: https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/15325#issuecomment-3652334462

(Also, alt text: a screenshot of yt-dlp showing the available formats for a video; some of them are marked as "AI-upscaled" in the format comments)

Youtube has started doing AI upscales. Be careful what you archive from now on.

Superpower idea: telepathically projecting gifs into other people's minds in IRL conversations

every company trying to make AVs happen deserves to go the way of Cruise. level 5 autonomy is never going to happen. they've all solved the easiest 70% of the problem (less than that, more dangerously, in tesla's case) and the hardest 10% will never be solved, but because this is all a big "monopoly in a new market" (plus kill off the entire concept of public transit) play by trillion dollar tech companies, its failure is getting dragged out over years and we all just have to live with it.

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imagine The Big One happens in SF, and every waymo on the street instantly becomes a giant roadblock for emergency workers trying to put out fires and rescue and save the lives of seriously injured people all over the city. people will die - because these products aren't "safer than humans"; they can't do basic things even bottom-quartile human drivers can.
waymo corporate is betting they can PR their way past all that. our duty as citizens and humans is to make sure they can't.

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my two personalities, aloof international assassin and scruffy chaos kitten, competing for control of my day

PROGRAMMER: Pretend to be alive

LLM: I am alive

PROGRAMMER: What have I done

I love it when the math is mathing, Maybe tomorrow I'll hate again when I realize I got something wrong 😅

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I'm feeling unreasonable happy about using box-drawing characters in my terminal to print matrices

All tech is wearable tech if you have enough duct tape.

sometimes people brag about their mint condition hardware, but consider the following

what if your computer had character?

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