183231bcb

@183231bcb@transfem.social

Hi, I'm Beth. I'm a #queer #mathematician. I'm also a #webcomic and #musical theater enthusiast. I am #AroAce, #Trans, #Enby, and #ActuallyAutistic

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Original text and images I post here are public domain unless otherwise stated. Anything I share that I didn't write or draw probably isn't.
Old accounts:
@183231bcb (2023-07-19 to 2023-08-22)
@183231bcb (2023-05-29 to 2023-07-20)
@183231bcb (2020-08-29 to 2023-06-17)
#fedi22 #geometry #topology #combinatorics #math #asexual #aromantic #Sondheim #TeamStarkid #PandorasTaleWiki #RainverseWiki

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183231bcb, to random

Good news: I managed to recover my data and reinstalled Mint. Now just waiting for my package installer script to finish so I can go back to reading webcomics. Oh, and maybe fix the issue with my game controller that started this whole mess?

anthropy, to random
@anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz avatar

Being against our ToS is against our ToS. Your report has been reported.

I get that you get that you're excited to be here to be here, but that isn't this isn't it. This isn't bluesky that isn't mastodon that isn't tumblr that isn't bluesky. We're rebuilding a kindred unsafe to be safe to be unsafe community of communities here. This kind of vibe isn't the post that we vibe with.

183231bcb,

@anthropy You stole my meme!

RE: https://transfem.social/notes/9nx69bq20u7900yi

183231bcb, to fediverse

Welcome all new fediversians coming from Tumblr!

183231bcb, to Matrix

Use XMPP! It's totally secure and federated. The only thing you can use it to talk about is how much you love XMPP and how much you hate Matrix.

https://xkcd.com/191/

josh, (edited ) to Matrix
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    183231bcb,

    @josh @ubuntu I hope increased adoption will eventually lead us to having more than one stable server implementation.

    mentallyalex, to random
    @mentallyalex@beige.party avatar

    https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-invent-new-hybrid-food-by-growing-beef-inside-grains-of-rice

    After a moment of screaming inwardly at the visualization of "meat and bone grown in rice" this is a very promising article for sustainability.

    183231bcb,

    @RickiTarr @mentallyalex Also what if cats and dogs who need to eat meat could eat meat without us needing to kill other animals for them.

    183231bcb, to linux_gaming

    Okay fedifriends, please give me advice on buying a game controller.

    Some background: I currently play indie games with native Linux support. But I grew up with consoles, and I still think that I'd be more comfortable with a controller for some kinds of games than with a keyboard In particular, I'd like to play precision platformers with a controller. I also think a controller would be good for homebrew made for old consoles.

    I have a strong preference for wired peripherals over wireless, and a strong preference for peripherals that don't require their own batteries.

    When I sit down to game, I generally want to be able to start playing right away without much set-up. If a game won't launch, I might spend a few minutes adjusting drivers or settings, or I might immediately give up on that game and pick a different game.

    Hence, I'd prefer if possible to find a controller that works "out of the box" with a large number of games. I don't want to spend a lot of time configuring button mappings.

    So with that in mind, what controller would y'all recommend I buy?

    BlackAzizAnansi, to random
    @BlackAzizAnansi@mas.to avatar

    So is this the year of corporations just dropping all pretense and kicking their employees and customers in the ass?

    183231bcb,

    @BlackAzizAnansi They've been trying to replace employees with machines for decades. I don't think this is new.

    183231bcb, to random

    STOP DOING CHARACTER LIMITS!
    Years of imposing artificially low character limits on social media yet NO REAL WORLD use found.

    Want to write a short post? We had a tool for that, it was called "write less text than the maximum allowable length!"

    We went from 100,000 character limits on forum posts in dial-up days to 500 character limits on Mastodon or 3000 on Misskey.

    Look at some of the character-limited posts that character-limiters want us to take seriously:

    1. OTOOAIBOOAOMTGMKCIITMOM <--A giant acronym that's incomprehensible to anyone outside of the in group, just to save characters.

    2. An image containing a giant wall of text with no alt-text using 100 times as much data as the text on its own would use just to circumvent a character limit and exclude creatures who need accessibility.

    3)Here's my very short post: a thread (1/2395872935)

    These are REAL character-limited posts dreamed up by REAL social media users!

    "Oh, I love short character limits: it means I don't have to spend time reading long posts. Instead I'll spent 20 times as long reading long posts split into threads and continually have to find my place!"
    --Statements dreamed up by the willfully ignorant.

    @Amelia and her headmate can't even agree on what character limit to use: is it 3,000 or 5,000? They have completely played us.

    tante, to random
    @tante@tldr.nettime.org avatar

    Study finds that Github Copilot lowers code quality and maintainability:

    "We find disconcerting trends for maintainability. Code churn -- the percentage of lines that are reverted or updated less than two weeks after being authored -- is projected to double in 2024 compared to its 2021, pre-AI baseline. We further find that the percentage of 'added code' and 'copy/pasted code' is increasing in proportion to 'updated,' 'deleted,' and 'moved 'code. In this regard, AI-generated code resembles an itinerant contributor, prone to violate the DRY-ness [don't repeat yourself] of the repos visited."

    The paper concludes: "How will Copilot transform what it means to be a developer? There's no question that, as AI has surged in popularity, we have entered an era where code lines are being added faster than ever before. The better question for 2024: who's on the hook to clean up the mess afterward?"

    https://visualstudiomagazine.com/articles/2024/01/25/copilot-research.aspx

    183231bcb,

    @GhostOnTheHalfShell @larsrosenquist @tante

    If you have access to Microsoft Word it's also your duty to paste randomly-generated gibberish into documents, save them, and upload them to OneDrive.

    alternativeto, to random
    @alternativeto@mas.to avatar

    The Nitter project, a privacy-oriented X/Twitter front-end, has been discontinued by its owner. The decision is linked to X/Twitter's move to disable the creation of guest accounts, on which Nitter was heavily relying.
    https://alternativeto.net/news/2024/1/privacy-oriented-x-front-end-nitter-is-shutting-down-following-changes-to-guest-accounts/

    183231bcb,

    @bluemoosh @alternativeto You can still browse reddit.com without an account (but yeah it's worse than libreddit was).

    mekkaokereke, to random
    @mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

    Now that y'all have seen the differing career impacts, media coverage of, and societal reactions to, Black women being accused of plagiarism (Claudine Gay) and white women being accused of plagiarism (Neri Oxman)...

    you can understand why I say that widely used automated plagiarism detecting software that advertises a false positive rate of 1%🤦🏿‍♂️, is devastating for Black students.

    Another flavor of: in a racist country, being falsely accused has devastating consequences

    https://www.law.umich.edu/special/exoneration/Pages/Race-and-Wrongful-Convictions.aspx

    183231bcb,

    @mekkaokereke In Fall 2020 I was forced to use HonorLock, an "anti-cheat" suite which recorded videos of students taking tests in their dorm rooms and then used AI to determine whether or not they were cheating. I had to manually override it a lot because it automatically determined
    a)All black people are cheating because it can't recognize their faces at all,
    b)Anyone who has a roommate is cheating, because it's impossible to take a test in the same room as someone else,
    c)Anyone with autism or ADHD is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
    d)Anyone with photophobia or related eye conditions is cheating because their eyes move in unexpected ways,
    e)Anyone using accessability software is cheating because there's software running on their computer
    ...and a whole bunch of "cheating" accusations that I couldn't discern any reason for.

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    Popular Self Help Books are:

    50% Common Knowledge Advice That Everyone Already Knows

    40% Personal Anecdotes That Are Basically Useless

    10% Absolute Lunacy

    183231bcb,

    @Gustodon @RickiTarr They also work for the publisher.

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    Yeah, New York Times, where would they be getting that idea?

    Few Transgender Children Change Their Minds After 5 Years, Study Finds But the study, which began in 2013, may not fully reflect what’s happening today, when many more children are identifying as trans.

    183231bcb,

    @RickiTarr Men who identified as The Founding Fathers decided that newspaper articles could be copyrighted to "promote useful arts." But their decision, made in 1787, might not reflect the reality of today, when more hack opinion pundits are identifying as newspapers.

    183231bcb,

    @RickiTarr @RickiTarr I wonder how many people have previously subscribed to the New York Times before later regretting it. Clearly New-York-Times-Reading-Identified people don't face enough gatekeeping before they make an irreversible life-altering decision.

    183231bcb,

    @farah @RickiTarr Marriage needs to be banned because it's a totally irreversible process that you'll regret but be unable to do anything to fix. But also a lot of people are reversing their marriages with divorce, and that's somehow also proof marriage is bad even though it contradicts my previous argument.

    Also, marriage isn't real: it's biologically impossible to get married, and that's why we have to ban marriage.

    fluffypaws, to random

    "isn't polyamory basically just cheating?". common misconception! polyamory is not about cheating on ur partners. polyamory is about gathering enough people to have a dnd party.

    183231bcb,

    @fluffypaws From now on I will not say "multiclass." I'll say "polyclass."

    183231bcb, to linux

    It's official: @Sharkey is the best Linux distro, and @netbsd is the second best.

    RE: https://transfem.social/notes/9o0kspa95mec0mff

    elaterite, to random
    @elaterite@fosstodon.org avatar

    Our society is broken.

    At CES, I read everything is "AI"--confirming my suspicion that AI is all about marketing and not about intelligence, especially in the consumer.

    Among the "AI" products on display are: AI pillows, AI vacuum cleaners, AI refrigerators, AI bird feeders, AI shoes, AI belts, AI dog bowls, AI baby strollers, AI plant pots, AI mirrors, AI baby cry translators, AI BBQs, AI toothbrushes, and so on. Oy.

    183231bcb,

    @elaterite AI dog bowls but not AI cat bowls?

    This is proof that cats can smell AI, and will refuse to eat out of such a bowl. Dogs, by contrast, will eat it before bothering to check if the AI bowl generated a grape.

    RickiTarr, to random
    @RickiTarr@beige.party avatar

    Imagine finding out you're a powerful wizard, and you still have to go to school for 7 years! Also, a guy is trying to kill you the whole time. Are the grown up powerful wizards going to help you? Nope, not really, you have to ask other students to help you not die, but some of them are also evil, sooo watch out for that. But at least you're not living under the stairs all the time, I guess.

    183231bcb,

    @RickiTarr Also, you're protected by a super strong "love" spell tied to your family, but "family" for the purpose of that spell is only who your close genetic relatives are, and not who loves you.

    Oh, and also, you inherit a slave and your favorite principal encourages you not to free him.

    183231bcb,

    @MayInToronto @RickiTarr The Hogwarts ethics class would just try to convince them slavery is ethical.

    183231bcb,

    @Jennifer @HumToTable @RickiTarr The indie video game A Hero And A Garden by @npckc is about someone who tries to be a hero but that doesn't work out so he becomes a magic gardener instead. Also all the characters are explicitly shown to be queer so it's obviously way better.
    https://aheroandagarden.npckc.net/

    183231bcb,

    @LeonianUniverse @RickiTarr

    Eglamore: I never got over my love for one woman who chose someone else.

    Lemony Snicket: Me too.

    Severus Snape: Me too.

    Eglamore: She died, but left a kid behind.

    Snape: Same for me.

    Lemony Snicket: Yes, the woman I loved had three kids before she died.

    Eglamore: But I knew what I needed to do: I was a mentor for her daughter, a stand-in father figure when her birth father was absent.

    Lemony: I'd make a terrible mentor, so I couldn't do that. But I managed to remain friends with her and her eventual husband, and after they died I wrote 13 books about how badass her kids are. Badass is a word which here means "a positive quality that my ex, her husband, and all three of their kids possess that I do not." I did offer to directly help them but they declined my help, and they were probably right to do so.

    Snape: Well I dealt with my jealousy by joining the Wizard Nazis even though they want to kill people like the woman I claimed to love, but I didn't see the contradiction because she's One Of The Good Ones. Then after she died I abused her son for seven years because I hate that he exists.

    Eglamore:...
    Lemony:...

    Snape: And my author says that I'm a hero!

    mira, to random

    can someone explain the differences between state-capitalism and state-socialism?

    183231bcb,

    @mira In state capitalism each state has one town called the capital of the state (e.g. Richmond, VA).

    In state socialism the state runs a social network.

    183231bcb, to random

    Genuine question: Who would win in a fight between a "Who would win in a fight?" question, a rhetorical question, and a bad-faith question that starts with the words "genuine question"?

    You agree that a question starting with "genuine question" is the most annoying form of question, don't you?

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