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felyashono

@felyashono@disabled.social

He/Him/His.
Autistic gamer, tech/SciFi/Fantasy geek, Apple fanboy.

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felyashono, to HashtagGames
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Everything Cliff Clavin said was true. Every single thing.

#FakeSitcomFacts
#HashtagGames

rysiek, to random
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Dear community, would you mind a question?

For a long while I had an ASCII-art hacker glider emblem in my profile bio. It was this:

. ۬. :

At some point I realized this might be a problem for people using screen readers. So I removed it from my bio.

I am still somewhat fond if it though, and wonder if maybe it wasn't in fact that big of a deal?

And more generally, what do you think of small ASCII-art bits like this? Are they extremely distracting? Are they acceptable?

Thank you!

felyashono,
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@rysiek
I'm not blind, so this response is mostly off-topic for the question you posed…

I recognize and appreciate the art and what it represents. 😊

In your bio, you could even add a line below it that reads something like “Alt-text: ASCII-art rendering of a glider structure from Conway's Game of Life.”

Not only have others established that the art won't run afoul of screen readers, but also this would make the depiction accessible.

metaning, to apple
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Can we just take a moment to consider that #Apple, who for some reason are considered a collection of the “smartest guys in the room” didn’t take into account that you might have two different devices (six years apart) unlocked at the same time, and provided no way to distinguish between them when you want to #AirDrop files, because it doesn't display the device name.

felyashono,
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@metaning
It most certainly does display the device name. It's the smaller, grayer text under your name. It says “iPhone.”

This is not Apple's fault. You just set the device name to “iPhone" on both phones. You can change one or both in Settings > General > About > Name

chevalier26, to actuallyautistic
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What are your thoughts on self-diagnosis being belittled by many in the autistic community?

For clarity, I’m not asking to start a debate, just a genuine discussion. I currently don’t have the option to get a diagnosis, but feel fairly confident that the research I’ve done over the past year and a half has been legitimate and credible.

I don’t feel comfortable saying that I am definitively autistic, but I am ok with saying I’m “self-suspecting.” @actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@chevalier26 @actuallyautistic

I’m all in favor of self-diagnosis. I was purely self-diagnosed for a long time, and worked myself into verbal contortions to relate to it.

Now I have a diagnosis. But not really. I never did the full neuropsych eval thing. My autistic-specialized psychologist merely said “yeah. Uh huh. Oh, yeah, you’re autistic!” And that’s plenty good enough for me.

I think I speak for the majority of people here in saying welcome to the community!

darrellpf, to actuallyautistic
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Is there a term in the autistic world for "outing" someone? In the gay world we have often very accurate "gaydar".

I was watching a mom and son on a television show. On one hand I want to talk about them and their interaction, but on the other hand I don't feel right about "diagnosing" them, particularly in a public way.

@actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@darrellpf @actuallyautistic
Yes, we can have what I've heard as "autism radar,” similar to gaydar.

I thought “outing" was used to convey disclosing to others without the subject’s consent. Am I wrong?

felyashono,
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@darrellpf @actuallyautistic

I would follow the gay world's example and say “absolutely not.” As always, it comes down to agency and consent.

jrefior, to apple
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What are some decent speakers to pair with an iPhone or iPad on a modest budget?

Mostly for podcast and radio; some music. Don't want loud bass.
—
#speakers #apple #sound

felyashono,
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@jrefior
If it’s just inside your home and doesn’t need to be portable, the Apple HomePod mini is quite good.

dpnash, to random
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After a period of relatively restrained handling of "AI" topics, my division at work decided that all the developers, designers, engineers, whatever, ... need to "use AI more in our everyday work". (Oh, joy.) This included a series of workshops designed to introduce everybody to some representative examples.

One workshop involved Github Copilot, and the following things happened to one development team, all senior developers:

  • Copilot generated a unit test case that was hard to get to pass.
  • When asked to generate empty test cases, Copilot generated the same (irrelevant) code over and over again.
  • Copilot stopped giving suggestions to one developer after a while.
  • Getting useful information out of Copilot frequently required a lot of fussy or non-obvious prompt editing and tweaking.

I won't supply direct quotes without the explicit consent of the people involved, but there was a very clear general sense that Copilot was not fit for purpose -- even when it did produce something not totally wrong, it was not a useful timesaver for the types of work this team was doing.

It wasn't just Copilot that seemed half baked. The workshop's guidelines (which are themselves part of a fairly polished Github repo) were poorly proofread. One example had a prominent typo in some HTML you were supposed to generate: '<button class=""btn" ...>' (note the extra double-quote). A newbie to web development would very likely add the spurious double quote mark to otherwise ok Copilot output to make sure it matched the instructions.

Finally, our IT department disallows results from Copilot that come from training on "public" code, for what should be fairly obvious legal concerns regarding copyright and similar issues. For one developer, Copilot repeatedly started to generate a result but then stopped, with an alert that the result appears to match known "public" code.

If it wasn't clear before that Copilot's basic mode (no "private code" option) is a copyright-laundering and license-laundering tool, it's really obvious now.

felyashono,
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@dpnash
I would never trust anybody without substantial Subject Matter Expertise to proofread and fact-check any LLM output. And even then, I wouldn't consider it a productive use of time. Producing the content personally has got to be more time-efficient than convincing oneself the LLM output doesn't contain hallucinations.

LehtoriTuomo, to actuallyautistic
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Mentioned to a coworker that I'm getting some books, for example on autism, and as they showed interest in the topic, proceeded to lightly info dump. Did give some space so that it was a true conversation. However, it reminded me of a thing I've been pondering.

As I present male, I've always been overly cautious of not mansplaining -- or at least ever since I learned about the term. Now that I know I'm autistic, I understand it's entangled with having learned that NTs don't like infodumping.

Whatever the cause, I have a tendency to stay silent even if I know about the topic at hand but aren't 100% certain that it's appropriate to talk about it. Sometimes it makes me sad.

@actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic

I saw a post somewhere not long ago that suggested a key component of mansplaining was not being sensitive to the fact that the recipient already knows about the topic.

I too often remain silent though I'm knowledgeable and have something to contribute. I think it comes from all the failed social interactions in my past, including unwanted infodumps.

RickiTarr, to random
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People with Anxiety: No worries.

Also People with Anxiety: Imagining every scenario where they need to worry.

felyashono,
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@RickiTarr

Also people with anxiety: worrying about whether they forgot to worry about some scenario.

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