This is the less tech-y, more social alt for https://infosec.exchange/@varx — but it's still going to be full of nerd stuff, naturally.
software developer ␥ security nut ␥ tree-hugging dirt-worshipper ␥ probably cooking right now
| pronouns | he/they |
| languages | 📖 en, ~es; ✍️ en, ~es |
| location | Somerville, MA, USA |
There were bottles of "prune juice" at the grocery store.
I have (mostly linguistic, but possibly culinary) questions.
I enjoy Europe as much as the next urbanist, but years of living and traveling there never uprooted one of my most unpopular opinions: Streets numbered in sequential order are a wonderful thing for the cities that have them. I was recently in Bogotá, Colombia and found that, while the city is as overwhelming as […]
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My #Wikipedia request for comment just closed, finally banning #AI content in articles! "The use of LLMs to generate or rewrite article content is prohibited"
Kudos to all who participated in writing the guideline (especially Kowal2701) and the whole WikiProject AI Cleanup team, this was very much a group effort!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_articles_with_large_language_models/RfC
For people who have never seen a faint like this, it can look pretty scary, and might seem like a seizure. The most dangerous part is just the risk of the person hitting their head if they don't get safely to the ground in time. But they should recover from the faint in a minute or so.
The most unpleasant part is the loss of bowel and bladder control during the faint. Also there's often disorientation, etc.
Very different from the media portrayal.
Someone I know has a #blood/injury type #phobia—the kind that causes full-on #fainting, not just stress/fear.
I'm trying to help them get through a blood test. (The phobia is so severe that just *discussing* the topic can cause a faint.) If anyone has advice, *especially* from direct experience of this, I'd be grateful.
Looking to address both the fear and the faint response.
(Before offering advice, remember to check the full thread!)
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