Samantha Rose

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Autistic and trans. Pro Choice and 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 rights. Interests: Human rights, #avgeek, tech. Speaks for myself only.

Anti genocide. Pro 🇵🇸.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦.

Note: Feel free to request follow - I approve most people who don't have glaring red flags.

If you know me, my name is probably different than what you have seen before...

Avatar: Photo of a Red Panda.

PRONOUNSShe/They
LocationDublin, Ireland, Terra, Orion Arm, Milky Way (Sector ZZ9 Plural Z Alpha)
Linkhttps://pronouns.cc/@samantha

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@clemens/116327545888885411

Some people might argue that spending millions on an advertising campaign pitching something as a productivity tool, when its own terms of use explicitly prohibit using it for work, constitutes misleading advertising.

reposting for the day crowd: I ran into a memcmp implementation that only compared 25% of the bytes, and the issue wasn't caught in the build because the vendor toolchain failed to emit a warning.

https://blog.poly.nomial.co.uk/2026-03-31-watch-out-for-missed-warnings-on-vendor-cpp-toolchains.html

Watch out for missed warnings on vendor C++ toolchains - Graham Sutherland's Blog

Hej everybody!
Happy #transvisibilityday!

Humans here want to decide for themselves where they are visible or not, but don't worry, I'm visible for them!

#Blahaj #HajVisibility

With only 5 days left in the campaign, we've unlocked the bookmark design! It's now included in each full package and available as an add-on! 🥳

Now I got to get to work on the freebie for all the backers because that's ALSO JUST BEEN UNLOCKED! 🤩

Join the campaign here! 🥳 : https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/leoniejonk/cozy-gamer-collection

#MastoArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #Kickstarter

In 1967, IBM introduced the System/4 Pi line of aerospace computers, packing mainframe performance into a compact box. 4 Pi computers powered everything from military aircraft to the Space Shuttle to sonar systems on submarines. Thread...
A random red panda picture

The Narwhal (@thenarwhal) is “hiring a BIPOC community and policy reporter to join [its] growing Ontario bureau.”

Location: Greater Toronto Area (hybrid)
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday – Friday, full time
Salary: $61,800 to $73,816 FTE
Type: Fellowship, ten-month contract with the possibility to extend to one year
Application deadline: April 17, 2026
Start date: June 1, 2026

https://thenarwhal.ca/ontario-reporting-fellowship/

The Narwhal is hiring a BIPOC reporting fellow in Ontario

We’re hiring an Ontario reporting fellow to cover Queen’s Park and the ways Ontario government policy affects people in racialized communities

The Narwhal

Not only that, but also gave credit to the first prototype that was done in India.

> https://mstdn.jp/users/landley/statuses/116302658049955944

Rob Landley (@[email protected])

The University of California didn't just explain how they're covering their exposed canals with solar panels to save billions of gallons of water from evaporating, they interviewed the woman behind it rather than appointing a man to take the credit. https://youtu.be/EtJzOtOpYdo

mstdn.jp
@cwebber did you know that if you wrap if statements with double curly braces they get extra special secret powers? https://github.com/xtellect/spaces/blob/422dbba85b5a7e9a209aaab2e9ac19c892528d39/spaces.c#L1649

@compositioninq I would expect Google Photo's AI to be better, but Google Photos has also regularly given me receipts etc. as "X years ago".

(I shopped using Google Photos so I don't know if it has gotten better.)