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My sister is so smart, and she's a talented pianist, and she's so wired into social justice issues, and she's just confident and makes me proud every day.

Except whenever she cuts cheese. I don't know anyone who cuts cheese worse than her. Every time I pick up a block of cheese and see the havoc she's wreaked upon the cheese block it's awe inspiring and deeply alarming all at once. Me? I leave the cheese a perfect cube every time. My sister leaves the cheese looking like a mountain range.

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Remember to update your curl and libcurl today to fix the latest high CVE. :blobCat_bongo:

De corona-booster is in praktische zin ook beschikbaar voor wie niet in een van de voorgekauwde doelgroepen zit.

Ze vragen mogelijk wel "waarom" je de prik komt halen, en daarmee bedoelen ze te vragen in welke doelgroep je zit, maar ze controleren niet of je echt in de griepprikgroep zit, echt advies hebt gehad van je arts, of echt een kwetsbaar gezinslid hebt dat je wilt beschermen.

Dus als je 'm graag wilt, maak gewoon een afspraak: planjeprik.nl/

Vandaag is het International Coming Out Day. Op deze dag zou ik graag aan iedereen willen meegeven dat "uit de kast komen" niet iets is wat iemand één keer doet. Het is iets wat je steeds weer moet doen, of ervoor kiezen om het niet te doen. Vaak moet je die beslissing in een oogwenk nemen. Want uit de kast komen is niet zonder risico, vooral vandaag de dag niet, terwijl rechtse en extreemrechtse partijen zich steeds meer anti-LHBTQIA+-standpunten aanmeten om stemmen te winnen en haat te zaaien. Wat als de persoon die je in een situatie dwingt waarin je de keuze moet maken om wel of niet uit de kast te komen iemand is die een machtspositie heeft ten opzichte van jou of die jou een belangrijke dienst of product moet leveren? Hoe schat je dan in een fractie van een seconde in hoe die persoon zal reageren als je voor je eigen genderidentiteit of seksuele oriëntatie of die van een ander opkomt? Uit de kast komen is een dagelijkse stressfactor in de levens van alle LHBTQIA+ personen...

(Plaatje van stonewall.org.uk)

The Cypress.io situation is wild! currents.dev/posts/v13-blockin

In short: when installing the Cypress npm package, on postinstall it checks what other packages you installed, and you're using any packages they don't like (e.g. tools for self-hosting that compete with their cloud service) then it refuses to run. More detailed summary from @jess here: twitter.com/_jessicasachs/stat

Very hard to argue your product is good if you have to actively block your customers from even testing alternatives! Yikes.

Sometimes people use the term "respect" to mean "treating someone like a person", and sometimes they use it to mean "treating someone like an authority"

And sometimes people who are used to being treated as an authority say shit like "If you do not respect me, then I won't respect you", by which they mean "treat me like an authority or I won't treat you like a person". And it sounds fair the way they say it, but it fucking isn't, and it is not ok.

Hey, was it free tests or vaccines or both in the US now? I saw links floating around recently but I can't find them anymore.

Edit: free tests available here covid.gov/tests
and get your shots here vaccines.gov/

re: autism, eugenics 

And if you think I'm exaggerating: look for the research that aims to use CRISPR techniques to eliminate autism.

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autism, eugenics 

There seriously needs to be more pushback against 'research' into autism; especially that which is genetic in nature (either identification or modification).

This shit is going to turn into eugenics, the way it is happening now, and there seems to be effectively zero ethical oversight for it.

It's not just one university, either. It's a widely accepted thing, and it *really really* shouldn't be. Especially non-autistic folks should be pushing back against this where they can, because autistic folks are rarely listened to.

The very first web browser, created by the inventor of the web, was released five months after the ADA was signed into law.

Folks signing it were not surfing Usenet or Gopher or BBSes.

This claim from #accessiBe is curiously wrong.

Quote source:
web.archive.org/web/2023100802

#a11y #accessibility

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Software has regressed to the point where we now have billions of dollars invested in hardware and software stacks to automate the equivalent of "Buy a new computer every time you want to run a program just to make sure it works" and I hate this so much.

All day long, the name "Abraham LinkedIn" has been bouncing around my head like a DVD player's logo screen saver.

What do you want from me, brain. I don't know what to do with that.

there should be a video game that never breaks the fourth wall except in one scene a character gets mad at you for not telling them something and your dialogue options include an option that explains how dialogue trees work

Also featuring a positively ancient pick-and-place machine with a CRT 🙃

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This is a pretty cool behind-the-scenes of how the audio controllers for haunted houses in some theme parks are manufactured... literally in someone's backyard! youtube.com/watch?v=cXPJdgxmSi

I hate how it feels like all of my social spaces are constantly falling apart, and it's always the same reason: a handful of people refusing to be considerate of others, in progressively-harder-to-moderate ways

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