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greyivy··on “Latinx” is lexical imperialism
~5% is my best guess.
greyivy··on “Latinx” is lexical imperialism
I can't speak to using "Latinx" or land acknowledgements, but myself and other non-cishet people I know appreciate the normalization of adding pronouns to names/bios by all kinds of people because it helps us feel a lot less othered. I hate being the only one in a Zoom call with my pronouns in my name.

That being said, I know cishet people more often than not do it to signal, but intentions aside, I think it's helpful and I only hope it becomes more common. I'd say about a quarter of my organization does it on Zoom, with almost all of us doing it on Mattermost. It's nice.

greyivy··on Canyon.mid
A real treat was listening to this on the Yamaha softsynth software that came with my IBM Aptiva.
greyivy··on Removing my site from Google search
Any idea why this would be (other than incompetence)?
greyivy··on Ruby removed “Participants will be tolerant of opposing views” from its CoC
Good on them! Makes me want to spend some time learning Ruby.
greyivy··on Facebook invests $50M to build the 'metaverse' in responsible manner
They do. A lot of people do. Scary reality.
greyivy··on Custom Search Engine Built on Searx
Thanks so much for the insight!
greyivy··on Miniflare – Simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
I'd love to help but it's been so long that I don't remember what exactly it was I was struggling with. Thanks for the offer, though!
greyivy··on Nginx playground: paste a Nginx config and play with it
I love this idea so much. It'll definitely come in handy next time I'm writing a config, thanks for sharing!
greyivy··on Teenager on TikTok Disrupted Thousands of Scientific Studies with a Single Video
Your mindfulness is appreciated!
greyivy··on Miniflare – Simulator for developing and testing Cloudflare Workers
No kidding. Wrangler was so bad I stopped using Workers altogether.
greyivy··on Ask HN: How do you make money on the side in tech?
Or better, support a grassroots movement. $500k/years is plenty.
greyivy··on Creative but annoying PayPal dark pattern
And can set an explicit size to prevent layout shift. This certainly feels intentional.
greyivy··on A flawed paradigm has derailed the science of obesity
This exactly. I highly recommend the podcast Maintenance Phase to anyone interested in learning more. They cover a lot of that nuance and the science behind them. Leave your biases at the door and it's eye opening.
greyivy··on Custom Search Engine Built on Searx
I've seen this blog on here a couple of times now. Does anyone know what it's built on (or if it's using a specific theme)?
greyivy··on Built with Workers – Projects across the web utilizing Cloudflare Workers
Workers sound great on paper, but in my experience, the developer experience is very much not there. Between cryptic error messages, seriously lacking docs, and fundamentally broken features, it definitely doesn't feel like a production ready project in its current state.
greyivy··on GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule
Its nuanced and it really depends on what they're removing, why they're removing it, and how it will affect people in the end.

A corporation removing a site with the goal of stripping vulnerable women of their reproductive rights and and policing their bodily autonomy by reporting them to the state is something I support 110%.

HN is all about fighting institutions that are actively eroding our right to privacy until said institutions set their crosshairs on women (or other minority groups). It's tiring.

greyivy··on GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule
Values are supposed to evolve over time. It would be an issue if they went back on this, however. We'll see what happens.
greyivy··on GoDaddy boots Texas abortion “whistleblower” site for violating privacy rule
Conversely, many of us would appreciate a list of companies who have solid values and aren't afraid to take a stand against oppressive institutions like the Texas government. I'd never use GoDaddy for many reasons, but good on them for not caving to the "free speech at any cost" crowd.
greyivy··on How I re–over-engineered my home network for privacy and security
This! unbound (a local DNS server) is painfully easy to set up and one of those programs that just works. Performance has been solid too and it cooperates well with Pi-hole. There are privacy-concious DNS servers that aren't based in the US too, if you insist on not self-hosting.
greyivy··on Police Shared Intelligence on Protesters with Pipeline Company
Innocent, everyday people being targeted ≠ massive oil company that is monetizing the death of the planet being targeted.
greyivy··on Nimforum: Lightweight alternative to Discourse written in Nim
Oh yikes. Can anyone shed some light on what this is about?
greyivy··on Sailfish 4
Graphene was a little too restrictive for my liking, personally. It also felt dated. Calyx has been a sweet spot between privacy and features.
greyivy··on Sailfish 4
Is Sailfish running on top of Android in this case? I'm a little confused on why Android version is relevant.
greyivy··on Ask HN: Do you have a home lab? Tell us about it
USB HDD firmware isn't very good, and certainly isn't built for a NAS set up. Data loss is a lot more probable.
greyivy··on The Coronavirus Is Here Forever
Not the immunocompromised or those who are legitimately unable to get vaccinated? Not a very nuanced take.
greyivy··on Ask HN: Do you have a home lab? Tell us about it
I think so! Not too far off from my setup.
greyivy··on Ask HN: Do you have a home lab? Tell us about it
Yep! An Intel NUC running TrueNAS w/ a bunch of external HDDs (yes, I know the risks), an old laptop running Hassio (processing video frames through TensorFlow all day), and a router with FreshTomato. It's not perfect, but it was cheap and it gets the job done.

Running about 10-15 Docker containers on there, an instance of Windows 10 Pro (to RDP into because I don't want it anywhere near my dev machine), and two Minecraft servers.

greyivy··on FFmpeg for browser and Node, powered by WebAssembly
This must be why so many proprietary apps require you to manually download FFmpeg binaries during runtime. Thanks for the explanation!
greyivy··on OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October
This is not accessible to 90% of SWers, and if it is, it will not earn them a living.
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