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@crazypedia I'm glad this is a useful strategy for you. I think this is how people are supposed to banish imposter syndrome. The connection between others noting good work and imposter syndrome shutting up cannot be more direct, in my mind.

It is also absolutely absurd how synonymous being a woman in tech and dealing with imposter syndrome is. I see it at almost every gender minority event I attend, and I assume it's the same way for other folks with minority experiences, too.

So uh, congratulations to you. Next step, go tell other people they're right, too. Especially if they're a little different from you. :)

@GI_Jack@hackers.town see the fork here: https://github.com/temporary-audacity/audacity

I drew up a basic comic guide to getting started with the tympan audio processor as an assistive device. Plan to spend around $350+ including mounting stuff and headphones.

Apologies for the lack of full transcriptions, I'm kinda tired. Please let me know if you need them for personal use, though, and I can type them up for ya.

Happy disability pride month! 💙

Just ordered more adapters for my cyber ear. Thankfully, the adapters are pretty inexpensive, so the accessories for my commercial sound processor come out to about $4/week.

If your hearing is currently not a subscription service, take a moment and enjoy your ability to hear sounds while in wet environments like rainstorms, at the beach, and while showering. In case you didn't know, most hearing devices aren't remotely waterproof and will be totally fried by exposure to liquids.

Also, your hearing probably is actually a subscription service. Go check that you've got some earplugs on hand. Not all hearing loss is exposure related, but sufficient exposure will cause hearing loss in anyone.

The more you know! 🌈✨

Anyone who wasn't upset about this before, place kindly upset yourselves? Surrounding a man and his date in a nice neighborhood with unmarked vehicles in plainclothes and opening fire is not 'keeping the peace'. It's a execution without due process. This. is. not. okay.

For folks who don't live here, this happened in uptown, a predominantly white, kinda yuppie area. Winston Smith and his date were probably one of two black couples their server saw the whole night. They likely paid $75-150 for a nice date together, and had only been dating for a few weeks. Uptown is a lively, bustling area. It's a place where people want to be, at least a little bit. And this.. It just seems like they were killed in cold blood for being black and parking in the yuppiest parking ramp in town for a nice date night. This is egregious. Our police department would never do this to a white couple. Small, incremental reforms just can't unseat this kind of stark racism. There needs to be a fundamental change in how the department functions.

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2021/07/01/passenger-officers-didnt-id-selves-in-fatal-smith-shooting