Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

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I’m someone who argued fifteen years ago against Linux fanatics who wanted to pretend #Linux was a viable replacement for the average user for #Windows. As much of a #FOSS enthusiast as I am, that simple wasn’t true at the time - Windows was a much smoother experience in general than Linux.

Today though, I can confidently recommend a major Linux distro and know that they’ll have as smooth an experience as they would on Windows. Not (just) because Linux has improved by leaps and bounds, but also because Microsoft seem to be doing a great job driving Windows to the ground.

Windows really has gone downhill!

While my laptop is away being repaired, I got a rental laptop. I asked for a #windows machine just to if I’m missing out on some latest flashy advances in proprietary land, having been on #Linux for many years now.

And I can’t believe this is the world’s primary OS! It’s a buggy, unintuitive mess (and this is coming from someone who used Windows for 10+ years) where the only “advance” seems to have been in being ever more intrusive and taking more and more control away from the user.

Real answer: because sex takes over everything, while Nazis only wish they could. People come up with all these complicated hypotheses about puritanism and shriveled old men controlling everything not wanting anyone to have fun - if you think those types of reasons would overrule people’s greed for more traffic and more money, you have too rosy a view of humanity.

The simple truth is that once you allow sexual content on a platform, the majority of the content you’ll be serving henceforth will be sexual. Advertisers don’t like that, most parents don’t want that, and your legal team and your PR/marketing team aren’t gonna like the thorny and potentially brand-ruining issues this is going to bring in.

The One Piece live action on Netflix has a Tamil dub, and it actually isn’t bad!

Usually in Tamil dubs, they seem to take out all the flavour of the dialogue, making it very basic. So I was expecting to be disappointed and move back to English when I changed the Audio language, but they surprised me!

#tamil #onepiece #anime #netflix

an example of the plausible-sounding bullshit (about the Venpa rhyming scheme in #Tamil). this one’s not in the “abcb” scheme, there’s no “third” or “fourth” lines, and I think this is not even a Venpa:

#ChatGPT #LLM

#ChatGPT is a great school-essay generator!

It always sounds confident and formal - regardless of whether its showing deep understanding and insight, or spouting plausible-sounding bullshit vaguely related to the question.

Exactly what students do!

Free, light, autumn leaf
Sans home, drifts around, detached
Brittle, dry, fading.

#haiku #poem #poetry

@actuallyautistic

It makes a big difference to go from

“I feel like I wanna cry for no reason at all and I don’t know what to do about it” (- helplessness)

To

“I feel like I wanna cry for no reason at all. Why could it be?
It feels like I’m overwhelmed. By what?
Two days of constant masking in a strange new place is probably it (even if the people around were lovely). What can I do about it?
Quiet time, rest, giving myself permission to disengage from social obligations for a while.” (- making sense of it, understanding myself, and self-care)

It’s taken many years to arrive here, but I’m happy to notice that I’ve made progress.

#ActuallyAutistic #masking #selfcare