EmilyIsTrans

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does vibe coding sort of work at all?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  In my experience, an LLM can write small, basic scripts or equally small and isolated bits of logic. It can also do some basic boilerplate work and write nearly functional unit tests. Anything else and it’s hopeless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be aware that buying electrical items from Ali Express might not be too clever.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff you buy from physical Aussie store shelves have been validated to meet our standards though. Doesn’t stop me from buying plenty of stuff from AliExpress though

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah no fair enough, thanks for hearing me out. Those kinds people are exhausting

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree, it feels like we’ve been arguing over semantics. When I (and I’m assuming the person you originally responded to) say “real”, I don’t mean to claim that it doesn’t have material effects, I mean that it has no biological basis - i.e. it is socially constructed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You do not need to believe race is a biological reality to acknowledge that the perception of others as you (+ your ancestors) being a member of a race has materially affected your identity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t really think I can come up with a more concise way of summarizing the idea than anthropologist Audrey Smedley did on the first result of the Google search “race social construct”

  Race is a culturally structured systematic definition of a way of looking at perceiving and interpreting reality.

  I would recommend you read something like “Feminism and ‘Race’” from Oxford Readings in Feminism or some of bell hooks’ work to understand the idea better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's the best way to respond to someone who says "transracial is just as valid as transgender"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saying that race isn’t real is not the same as saying that we live in a post-racial society.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty of legitimate reasons for Google to provide extra support and exceptions to parts of their guidelines to certain parties, including themselves. No one is claiming this is a consequence-neutral decision, and it’s right to not inherently trust these exceptions, but it is not a black and white issue.

  In this case, placing extra barriers around sensitive permissions like MANAGE_EXTERNAL_STORAGE for untrusted parties is perfectly reasonable, but the process they implemented should be competent and appealable to a real support person. Google should be criticized for (and “heavily fined” by the EU if that were to happen) their inconsistent and often incorrect baseline review process, as well as their lack of any real support. They are essentially part of a duopoly and should thus be forced to act responsibly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh yeah for sure. Google, extremely large companies, and government apps essentially have different streams and access to support than the rest of us mere mortals. They all receive scrutiny, but they have much more ability to access real support and may have slightly altered guidelines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nextcloud cries foul over Google Play Store app rejection⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve experienced this exact issue with the Google Play Store with some clients and it’s just the worst. Google is trying to do the Apple-style comprehensive review of apps but basically as a incompetent half measure. Apple offers thorough reviews pointing to exactly how the app violates policy/was rejected, with free one-on-one support with a genuine Apple engineer to discuss or review the validity of the report/how to fix it. They’re restrictive as hell and occasionally make mistakes, but at the end of the road there is a real, extremely competent human able to dedicate time to assist you.

  Google uses a mix of human and automated reviewers that are far more incompetent than Apple’s frontline reviewers. They will reject your app for what often feels like arbitrary reasons, and you’re lucky if their reason amounts to more than a single sentence. I have yet to find an official way to properly reach a human from that point. Unless you know someone in Google’s Android/Developer Relations team, good luck.

  I’m actually certain that the issues facing Nextcloud are not some malicious anti-competitive effort, but yet more sheer and utter incompetence from every enterprise/business facing aspect of Google.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How many times will i hear about the evil left if the greens loose their leader⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been really concerned about this. I know their real power is in the senate but the Greens have done well to pull things to the left in both houses.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe, what I said is mostly based on the experience I have with Blender’s Cycles renderer, which is definitely not real time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Could I render the computer-generated graphics from Toy Story (1995) in real time using a single modern home computer?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not a computer graphics expert, but considering Toy Story uses ray-traced lighting I would say it at least depends on whether you have a ray-tracing capable GPU. If you don’t, probably not. I would guess you could get something at least pretty close out of a modern day game engine otherwise.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  C’mon, that’s what PR’s, RCs, and betas are for

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will move Android AOSP development behind closed doors⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s important to note that this is them moving in-development branches/features “behind closed doors”, not making Android closed source. Whenever a feature is ready they then merge it publicly. I know this community tends to be filled with purists, many of whom are well informed and reasoned, but I’m actually totally fine with this change. This kind of structure isn’t crazy uncommon, and I imagine it’s mainly an effort to stop tech journalists analysing random in-progress features for an article. Personally, I wouldn’t want to develop code with that kind of pressure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Would you consider me a “dry texter”?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would assume you don’t want to talk to me (as in, don’t like talking to me) and are trying to end the conversation as quickly as possible. Why aren’t you asking questions? Or even writing more than one word responses? You can write formally or dry, I do, but like, you have a responsibility to uphold your end of the conversation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the pros and cons to buying a smart watch from temu?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just buy a cheap Casio if that’s your budget. It’ll keep better time and is less likely to end up in a landfill