shagoli @shagoli@computerfairi.es

The only real purposes of a gender field are marketing data and automated pronoun systems. The former is unnecessary and the latter is better served by not hiding it behind a gender label and just letting people pick a set of pronouns.

🎥 Wednesday Weekly Livestream: Landscape!
https://www.youtube.com/c/DavidRevoy/live
(soon! 14h30, Paris time)
#krita

Since the Facebook debacle I have:

Deleted Facebook
Deleted Twitter
Cut back everything Google to just gmail
Dumped the chrome browser
Switched from windows to Linux Mint
Started using Firefox
Started using Proton Mail

Quit being a product, starve big tech where your information is concerned.

I trained a neural network to invent some really confusing April Fools pranks.
#machinelearning
http://aiweirdness.com/post/172345256807/april-fools-pranks-written-by-neural-network

PSA: Wipe your goddamn drives before donating them to a charity shop

Or otherwise getting rid of them, but especially if you're donating them to a charity shop

I've realised that some non-English-English speakers may be confused by the British reaction to Mark Zuckerberg sending other people in his place after his invitation to speak to the UK Parliament

While "you are invited to Parliament to speak on this subject" may be interpreted as "we'd like you come and talk if it's not too much bother" to some foreign ears, the phrase actually means "COME HERE RIGHT THIS SECOND YOU LITTLE SHIT AND EXPLAIN YOURSELF"

If you want to help me survive, it'd be very nice to help me out in whatever little way you could

thank you

http://ko-fi.com/charlotte

https://www.patreon.com/CharlotteFields

haha cowards betcha didn't expect an April fools joke a week early cowards

Made a colour edit to the tiled pattern this morning, but I still like both versions.

Later on, I might order some of this stuff from Spoonflower so I can sell textiles. I have a few people asking about fabrics. I'm not really sure what I'm doing though!
https://computerfairi.es/media/qcRZK6Y-gx7uk1-5Sg0 https://computerfairi.es/media/qsxH-UgDe188qlC-GLM

Actually, I was wrong. I did have time to do the grapes before bed. https://computerfairi.es/media/evFuynGKLWq7_NOVLtk

don't text me if its not from one of these

Here's your problem for the night:

At what point do they cease being groceries and become food?

Better yet, at what point to they BEGIN being groceries?

So it seems the government is offering me an ultimatum: drop out of my studies, or starve.

I'm a nonbinary computing person, and have experience with Systems Administration, Formal Methods, Desktop Development and Functional Programming, looking to find work ASAP.

My resume can be found here: https://averylychee.neocities.org/online_resume.pdf

I'm hoping to find work in Sydney, but I'm also open to working remotely

Here is a useful list of mobile apps, browser extensions, bots, etc for Mastodon users at https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/Apps.md.

There is a small link at the bottom of the Getting Started column by I expect many #newusers may miss it. Not all the mobile apps are in the official stores.