which ninja turtle used bat'leth

One of many things I will proudly die mad about

"Convection oven" is a confusing name because who the hell calls it "forced convection"? It's just a fan, bro. Just call your oven "fan forced" like everyone else does.

@ositalinguista Almost exactly the same thing. They generally have a faster fan than a convection oven. My air fryer has a "bake" mode which runs the fan at a speed more typical of a convection oven (and also allows lower temperature selections).

But generally, yeah, that's all they're doing: blowing hot air instead of relying on natural convection.

One reason why many Allistics have a problem with Autistic people, who "don't look autistic" and call themselves disabled, is their thinking pattern of hierarchy and competition. We are "too different" and "too similar" at the same time. They don't want to support someone, who might be even "better" in any aspect than they are. In their view only people who are lower in their idea of hierarchy, who for sure can't be serious competitors are allowed to call themselves disabled and be supported.
#ActuallyAutistic
@actuallyautistic

@EbThen If there's a line of sight from one room to another, a pedestal/box fan could do a decent job of moving air between them. Done that myself in a pinch in the past, to decent effect.

reminder: "4K Ultra HD" is pronounced "fork ultra head"

Native technologists call for the Apache® Software Foundation to change its name.

https://blog.nativesintech.org/apache-appropriation/

I am not Indigenous, but I join their request in allyship.

#ASF #NativesInTech #software #programming #openSource

@AutisticAdam @actuallyautistic
I think we have a very beautiful sense of authority. It has to be earned and lived, independent of social status. It goes along with integrity and fairness. It takes critique as a chance for improvement.

Allistics‘ understanding of authority based on social status, being upheld by believers and followers, is just vanity.

It's really unfortunate that today is the first time I heard the idea (from @todd) that things like #ChatGPT should be thought of more as an index than a source of facts. As he pointed out, half of being good at computers is knowing which index to use.

The primary issue then is that most people are not good at computers (or well, indexing) 😬

Dear fellow techies:

If you have a great idea for a fediverse tool, and it's amazing that nobody's done it yet... ask around. Especially ask PoC and LGBT folks.

There might be very good reasons it hasn't been done yet.

Or--it might have been done already, multiple times, and raised a storm of protests that drove each developer into shelter. You don't want to be that person.

The fedi needs tools! The fedi needs activitypub hackers! Don't waste your time writing code nobody wants, work with the community.

Hint: we don't want indexers or search engines.

Under the Australian uniform defamation laws, dead people are unable to be defamed, since they cannot by definition feel shame or humiliation.

Just leaving that observation there for no particular reason

*** Without explanation, Elon's #Twitter bans crucial Washington D.C. metro bus/subway account used for sending out important information for riders ***

As I have repeatedly warned. No government agency, no firm, nobody, is safe from Elon's chaos. Anyone still depending on Twitter for anything of importance is deluding themselves and taking an enormous risk. Get off Twitter now, *before* you and those persons who depend on you suffer a disaster at Elon's hands. -L

https://localtoday.news/wa/twitter-bans-the-metrobusinfo-account-used-by-the-dc-area-subway-system-158944.html

@forestfae @ScribblingOn @Dynamicallydisabled That's exactly what I'm saying, but emotionally it's really hard to tease those apart when the only reason they're like that is because they just won't put the damn effort in.

At some point, it's on them to grow.

@neonabyss I get a real "cargo cult" vibe from some tubers, like they're just doing copycat behaviour without it being particularly effective.

@neonabyss It's not that they don't know or are lazy.

It's a bid for interaction, because like other platforms, YouTube uses "engagement" as a metric for deciding who to promote. GamersNexus pointed this out in a few of their videos when they became aware of it and Steve began prompting for comments in his scripts, saying that "it boosts engagement which helps us make more money out of YouTube", or words to that effect.

@V @HourlyPornhubbedHeathcliff That's what I'm wondering.