| Pronouns | She/her |
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A problem someone should probably be working on: high quality high performance stepper motor drivers (ala TMCs) as open source firmware to run on dirt cheap commodity MCUs.
Both supply chain instability and fascist regimes wanting to restrict ordinary people's access to CNC machinery (including #3dprinting) risk making it hard to get commercial drivers, and they're overpriced anyway. But general purpose MCUs and mosfets are easy to get.
@whitequark you did not hear about this?
they trained on everyone's data and then started making suggestions in an "expert review" feature
so, for example, "Ariadne would say X about Y"
they did this to basically everyone who used grammarly who was notable
then they quickly backpedaled after they realized a lot of us are quite willing to sue
new blog dropped, grammarly has been excised from my workflow on this one and replaced with a libre alternative plus some homebrew tools I built to maintain tone and find sources using google news.
i will probably have to rework the latter because google news will probably become 100% AI slop soon. but whatever, smoke em while you've got em.
please let me know if there are errors.
I am a huge fan of machine learning for tasks that it is genuinely good at.
I am NOT a fan of the large LLM companies. At all.
Those two statements are not mutually contradictory. I want computationally efficient models trained on ethically sourced data that can be run locally.
Reminder for those who may not be aware that those "fancy/custom text" things using special unicode characters that bypass ASCII fonts to make your name look cool or fancy or whatever ruin accessibility, like hard.
They break screen readers hard, since most, if not all, don't know how to handle them properly and end up pronouncing something like "Special character S" or whatever. They're also significantly harder to read than a user's chosen font, or the default fonts on any reasonable operating system or website, especially for neurodivergent and in particular dyslexic people.
Please stop using them, and maybe nudge your friends to stop using them.
Boosts appreciated for awareness
RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116338321170772746
there is nothing like MAGA antiblack misogyny.
even their transphobia is rooted in their hatred of us Black women. lest we forget, fascists mainstreamed their transphobic hate with their campaign against Olympian runner Caster Semenya.
i have fuckwads sealioning about βitβs class not raceβ and i just don't have time for that ish. go elsewhere with your fuckery.
even with my ashy light-skinned ass, i have had to deal with this hate. ALL. MY. FUCKING. LIFE.
get rid of your racists.
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