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Imagine how different tech spaces could be if folks developed identities that aren’t “I am the tools that I use.”

I’m not saying don’t be amazing at using those tools and be known for being so. I’m just saying don’t be a tool.

: What are your 'comfort games'? I'm especially curious about anything that has some sort of crafting or building mechanic (it can be an unusual one!) :boost_requested:

Snark about so much of Open Science advocacy 

Before you do your Open Science advocacy thing, may I suggest that you ask yourself this question:

Are you just harassing early career researchers and students who don't get to make decisions about these things?

And if the answer is "no," ask yourself:

Really? Are you sure? Maybe double-check.

AI 

I hate that when I write a particularly good email at work, nowadays everyone will just assume I used ChatGPT. Even if I’m still better at it than the bot. Something I’ve always taken pride in has been commoditized. Without getting into whether or not that’s good for the world, it’s a bad feeling for me personally.

Heeft iemand van jullie wel eens mensen met de auto naar station Gouda gebracht en kun je bevestigen dat je daar gewoon van zuid naar noord doorheen kan teleporteren? Apple Maps denkt dat het kan namelijk.

A TV show about a group of trans people who all live together in a run-down house/apartment, and they live the daily struggle but still manage to find beauty, laughter, and joy between the ugliness, struggle, and sorrow of it all.

From Life With a Side of the Unexpected:

"A lot of disabilities are invisible. Your reaction to them isn't."

#DisabilityPrideMonth #InvisibleDisabilities

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Lieve mensen. Ik begrijp dat je niet de tekst van een halve krantenpagina als alt-text kunt toevoegen, maar plak dan in iedergeval de link naar dat artikel. Met in de alt-text de woorden 'Zie link in bericht'.

</einde mededeling>

call to commit a crime 

One crate of the beverage of choice* to the person, who hacks the displays with binary genders of ÖBB nightjets to display advanced options ⚧️

*I mean it. Luxurious drinks (> 100€) excluded.

I needed to measure my necklace and grabbed the first ruler in sight. Yeah, not falling for that one, having an off-by-one error tattooed on my body is enough already. :blobhaj:

question: I would like to use libsodium for secret-key encryption, but it requires a nonce, and I need the encryption to be deterministic/convergent (for deduplication).

Is "deriving the nonce from the data by hashing it" a reasonable solution to this problem, or does that have some issue I am not aware of?

#OH: a transfem card costs 49eur in germany i think

🦾 How Much Is a Browser Worth?
@wezm

「 Apparently people are excited about funding independent browser efforts this week. I have little interest in funding yet another browser built in C++ in 2024 but Servo is still alive. Since Mozilla refuse to let us directly fund Firefox I shall set up a recurring donation to Servo 」

wezm.net/v2/posts/2024/how-muc

#Servo #Browser #Opensource #Rust

re: CW-boost: nlpol 

I don't think we're allowed to make fun of Belgian politics anymore, going forward

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@ktemkin ..and if we change the room number, it shows the checkin information for that room instead :p

LLM-meuk 

Ligt het aan mij of is deze tekst (en vele andere productteksten op de Gamma-site) gegenereerd met een LLM? gamma.nl/assortiment/suki-mask

“Ik weet het niet. Het is een soort guilty pleasure. Alleen hoef je je er niet schuldig over te voelen en dat het nou een pleasure is kan ik ook niet echt zeggen.”

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