Dana Fried

Staff engineer, Google Chrome. Roller derby athlete. Mom. Gamer.

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2024-08-13 03:13:17

Found out that in order to post to subreddits for topics I'm interested in I first need to go on a rep farming expedition, and while I understand, I am done with social media platforms that require me to take up a second job in order to get any engagement.

2024-06-03 19:29:57

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@npub1hpc…hjn3 you win the internet

2024-06-03 19:26:59

tfw u walk past a guy and you're like "wow, he smells really nice" and you realize that it must be *that* part of your cycle 🙃
(Does it count as bisexual if it's only for like three days a month?)

2024-05-14 19:10:05

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the clusivity is kind of odd; it's "I'm addressing everyone *except* the person I'm talking to" which kind of straddles the line between second and third person

2024-03-15 08:46:13

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@npub14uk…2erc tesla's business plan makes way more sense when you realize it was just doing arbitrage on government subsidies and a little bit of greenwashing, and was only incidentally in the "sell cars to people" business

2024-03-13 18:12:00

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As far as I can tell, the pronunciation of the development is something like /sʌˈnˀɔ.qʷʼ/, which is delightful because they've managed to include at least two sounds and three phonological elements not found in [General American] English.

2024-03-13 18:03:06

This slaps.
Indigenous people really just said, "our people need housing; fuck your zoning laws".
https://macleans.ca/society/sen%cc%93a%e1%b8%b5w-vancouver/

2024-03-12 01:28:05

Mathematically, a first-past-the-post system will inevitably result in a two-party system (perhaps with the occasional success of a regional party).
There is nothing you can do within the system to change that - you can only vote for the party that better reflects your views (and pressure them to continue to do that).
The thing you do to dismantle two-party politics is advocating for other electoral models: proportional representation; single-transferrable vote or approval voting; etc.

2024-02-24 04:05:56

AI is biased because reality is biased.
ML gives you a picture of the world as it is - or rather the subset of the world in its training data, the selection and labeling of which also introduces bias.
All ML can ever do, therefore, is reproduce existing biases; it does this automatically and by default.
ML can never be made unbiased because you would have to account for every structural inequality specifically. At that point you might as well just have a person do it.

2024-01-24 19:16:21

It was not just one mistake to hold the Hugo Awards in Chengdu this year.
The first mistake was holding a con in a place where acceptance speeches could be punished for illegal speech.
The second mistake was holding a con where the government could disqualify candidates.
The final mistake was holding a con where - when the government inevitably put its thumb on the scale - the organization couldn't even acknowledge what had happened for the safety of its members.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/24/science-fiction-awards-held-in-china-under-fire-for-excluding-authors

2024-01-19 20:05:12

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If you're worried that your images have already been scraped for training, be aware:
Training sets tend to be metadata-and-URL-only; nobody actually packages and distributes terabytes of (often copyrighted!) image data,
So, if you replace existing images with nightshade+glaze, any new models will receive the altered payload.

2024-01-19 18:02:31

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@npub1alq…mnj6 @npub1fx5…kq6u @npub10cr…q72n
I want to be clear: this response is fairly damning. And I don't say that to be mean.
Treating accessibility as an afterthought or assuming it's easy ("just make sure the fonts are big enough and the contrast is high enough!") is why there's such an incredible problem with it in the industry.

2023-12-04 16:35:48

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I am so annoyed by this because there are a TON of clever, space-saving devices which we CANNOT USE because they are made for men and which even I - a serious athlete who has spent literally decades powerlifting and who carries 40-50 lbs of extra muscle on her frame - cannot operate.
You should not need a boyfriend/husband to be able to use the stuff around your house.

2023-12-04 16:34:26

Pet peeve:
Devices with friction-based twist-locking that are too hard to actually twist for even a fairly strong woman.
Product designers, please note: Grip strength is one of the most sexual dimorphic components of human anatomy.
Top female athletes have the grip strength of a mediocre, untrained man.
If you cannot hand the device you are designing to your girlfriend and have her easily open/extend/unlock it (and then close it again securely), you have failed.

2023-10-16 23:01:55

Proud to be on Marc Andreessen's enemies list
Tag yourself, I'm "tech ethics"
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/246/709/251/546/953/original/d8ed9fcf7a288a17.png

2023-09-14 20:12:59

Has anyone (other than me) proposed making bottom-posting the default when quote-boosts are implemented?
Bottom-posting is IMO the difference between "hey look at this" culture and "yes, and..." culture. It's a small difference, but I think it frames conversations in a very different way.

2023-08-06 09:12:09

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@npub1s0r…972x this was a delicious read; thank you! (Also I can't wait to see the fallout.)
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/110/841/423/242/708/386/original/e95f91a7418298da.mp4

2023-08-05 22:17:42

Me: huh I haven't been getting as much Engagement™ on here lately.
Also me: *does nothing but post extremely niche bullshit for an entire week*

2023-08-04 20:13:49

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@npub1asa…n9sr YES.

2023-08-04 09:30:12

Every once and a while I check in on the state of college sports and...
Friends, if you follow @npub14uk…2erc you know that college sports are not okay, but let me tell you: specifically, the conference situation is just Out Of Hand.

2023-07-25 19:55:37

On one hand, saying "there's CSAM on the fediverse" is like saying "there's CSAM on message boards". Sure? Software is software, the authors can't control how people use it.
On the other, if you have not defederated from *every* instance where CSAM might be posted, your server might be caching and serving images that are illegal. This is a serious legal challenge *for you* (and your users) and you could be raided by law enforcement.

2023-07-14 17:06:05

If you see someone spouting bigotry on this platform,
Do:
- file a detailed report
- block them
Do not:
- argue with them on a public thread so that I see bigotry that targets me in my feed
I understand that "drawing out the poison" is sometimes necessary to get a good report, but these tools usually have pretty incriminating post histories.

2023-06-24 00:07:11

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Too many people worked too hard on these shows and movies for them to be gone forever.
Even shows I watched as a kid can still be found *somewhere*. Now a show that doesn't do blockbuster numbers in its first season gets wiped from existence as if it had never been made.
We're losing pieces of our cultural heritage just so some billionaire can line his pockets with money he could never hope to spend.

2023-06-24 00:06:01

Given that the streaming services are now permanently memory-holing shows for tax write-offs, it becomes a moral imperative to pirate these shows (if only for archival purposes).
Headline: "Paramount+ Cancels Second Season of Star Trek: Prodigy, Will Remove Series from Platform"
https://www.tor.com/2023/06/23/paramount-cancels-star-trek-prodigy/