Lacci

@Lacci@disabled.social
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I studied physics in undergrad and grad school. I do wildlife and landscape photography. I have OCD and hereditary hemochromatosis 🩸🧲
PronounsShe/her
LocationOmaha, Nebraska

This is your regular reminder that it is not un-Jewish or anti-Israeli to oppose the war in Gaza and call out its crimes against civilians. You are taking a position shared by [checks notes] the former Prime Minister of Israel.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/israel-former-prime-minister-ehud-olmert-war-crimes-gaza_n_68333494e4b0b20a268ade65

'Indiscriminate, Unrestrained, Brutal': Former Israeli PM Calls Gaza Assault 'War Crimes'

"What we are doing in Gaza is a war of extermination," former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert wrote in an op-ed aimed at Israeli citizens.

HuffPost

Tesla ownership is having to go to the aftermarket to buy a part to keep your car from killing you

https://fuelarc.com/evs/tesla-owners-are-installing-diy-rip-cords-to-avoid-being-trapped-in-their-vehicles-in-case-of-fire/

Tesla Owners are Installing DIY Rip Cords to Avoid Being Trapped in Their Vehicles in Case of Fire

Tesla owners have started doing something wild... installing DIY emergency escape rip cords inside their vehicles so their passengers don’t get trapped if the car catches fire. That’s not a joke. That’s just how badly the doors are designed. Here's why: Tesla doors are entirely electronic. When you want to get out, you hit a

FuelArc News
This is for two reasons, one, because I find it violating to find my words / art / self mulched into a large language model, and I don't want to give business to a company that is profiting from doing that. But also, if someone is *using* an LLM to "summarize" my words, I do not want them to receive whatever the benefit was they were getting from my speech

I stopped using Reddit because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I stopped using StackOverflow because the company was feeding my words into a large language model, and I will stop using Discord if the company starts feeding my words into a large language model

https://www.theverge.com/apps/673208/discord-ai-forums-anniversary-gamechat

Before you continue to YouTube

crime 🐰

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open

However, the title ā€œWacom drawing tablets used to track the name of every application that you open but now seem to have stopped for some reasonā€ didn’t feel very snappy. I decided to do some more investigating.

This write-up of Wacom's information syphoning scheme is really good, but for me, the best part starts with the snippet I've included from near the end.

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application that you open | Robert Heaton

I have a Wacom drawing tablet. I use it to draw cover illustrations for my blog posts, such as this one.

Robert Heaton
Instead of storing my data in the cloud, I just store it in the bush. It's the same thing, only palette-swapped. More accessible, too.
Still can't believe we made a system that only works if home values go up and housing prices come down