Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
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#Violet got her wish of everyone staying home, but she doesn't understand why we got out of bed. #DogsOfMastodon
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It's very disheartening to see that in the space of a month, the majority of images on my feed went from being described to having not even one sentence as a description. I started ID-ing on tumblr but #Mastodon really encouraged me to make it an actual habit.
Please, if you're able to, add descriptions to the pics you post.
#Fediverse #TwitterMigration #Inclusivity #Ableism #Solidarity
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You’re not supposed to put a Qtip all the way into your ear because that’s where the reset button is
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1. Put in four hours at the Joint Office of Homeless Services warehouse moving tents, sleeping bags, etc.
2. All prepared to be unable to leave the house tomorrow.
3. Access to more games than I could ever find time to play.
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Showers taken. Dishes caught up. Devices charging. Fire laid. Faucets slowly dripping. Candles, matches, and flashlights strategically distributed. I think we're as ready as we can be for the inevitable power outage.
So grateful to have shelter and hoping that everyone outside found their way to a warm place.
I have a small number of people (e.g., IRL friends) that I want to see everything about, including what those people boost and (public or unlisted) replies they make.
Clicking on the "notification" bell for these people doesn't show me their replies or boosts. Adding them to a list (this may be @QOTO specific) doesn't show me their replies (except possibly to people I follow).
Is there any way to do this other than in my Home timeline? It seems that, if I don't want to have stuff from this inner circle swamped by the people and hashtags I follow in my "second tier", I have to add the latter to another list and NOT follow them, which seems ... awkward.
Is that the right approach?
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Alternate universe where the '90s trend for calling things "bad", "sick" or "rude" never ended and now we compliment each other's shoes by calling them "catastrophic" and "fundamentally misaligned with my values"
What video game should I play?
Constraints:
- This will be on Windows.
- I'm particularly interested in either (a) a wargame that's about maneuvering my units rather than climbing a tech tree or diploming with seven other factions or (b) something where I'm operating a vehicle (car, spaceship, whatever) but that is easier than actually getting a pilot's license.
- I'm not interested in retro games.
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Shout out to all the unsung heroes who keep running the things that we take for granted!
Shoutout to everyone working in grocery stores as #Portland stocks up for #Snowmageddon.
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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
1. Got groceries and moved some wood inside, so I'm ready for the storm.
2. Our copy of Votes for Women arrived.
3. Finally won a game of Mandala.
I *kind of* want to get immersed in an epic video game, but when I look at the dozens of controls and attributes, the sprawling tech trees and economies to manage, and the volumes of lore, I just ... *heavy sigh*.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
