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katdork

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About katdork

she/her

https://dork.dev https://github.com/kittywitch

Recent public activity

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    Comment #48336654

    the clones are the foundation of many slimevr smol trackers, so it does things other than just keyboards too!

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    Comment #47671182

    The better/real reason for not allowing calculators in certain classes is because doing these things mentally promotes healthy cognitive development. The same way that handwriting …

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    Comment #47656479

    I have no clue why you were getting voted down, but I agree. AI generated music isn't art. There's no soul in that, no experience.

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    Comment #47313795

    It's actually more like the past 10 years? (Certainly was when I was in university back 8 years ago) Maybe longer. But, I like to reference https://marktarver.com/professor.html on…

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    Comment #47289595

    Thank you for licensing your project. I appreciate your commitment to open source. More developers and people should be like you.

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    Comment #47289584

    I'm saying that words have meaning and that meaning should ideally not diluted. But, considering the developer licensed their project as MIT, I'm very happy.

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    Comment #47285492

    It isn't open source, it's source available. You have not licensed your source code, it is thus under copyright. Please read the open source definition; https://opensource.org/osd …

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    Comment #47272100

    as a trans woman, the clotting risk of estrogen proportional to levels is always cited to me by medical professionals when speaking about hrt, the risks, ... i've always found it k…

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    Comment #47242804

    and this is why i, personally, use searxng these days instead of google or duckduckgo

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    Comment #47150701

    atom feed is no longer malformed, appears compliant. added summaries to each post

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    Comment #47145210

    I don't really feel like I've lost any functionality, personally? If I weren't using binary blobs in the firmware, I think I would have more trouble, but that is Canoeboot to my kn…

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    Comment #47132843

    I am a trans woman, yes :o (the user who posted my blog post is not me :p)

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    Comment #47132831

    because the x280 and x270 are similar enough I didn't need to try very hard to get it to post or boot a live USB to further investigate (effectively acting as a decent template for…

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    Comment #47132830

    sorry, I'll look into it

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    Comment #47132826

    Hi! As the author, no! I take a hard line stance against AI use myself. It's just not for me.

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    Comment #47078419

    Outing yourself as not having read the article; an image within and the text clearly shows that Grok provided both her stage name AND her legal name.

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    Comment #47037481

    It's deeply insecure in most of the ways it is used.

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    Comment #46845371

    The word "auth keys" meant nothing to you, I guess: https://tailscale.com/kb/1085/auth-keys

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    Comment #46792025

    I would probably argue the opposite, given that Y Combinator is a venture capital firm. This would be more true for Lobsters than here. (Edit: to go further, it's like... ok, if HN…

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    Comment #46791708

    This misses the point of how "deportation", snatching of those from communities and decision-making for whom is illegal is actually occurring, and how people are being snatched wit…

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    Comment #46772368

    Can use the Hurd kernel. Comes with Linux by default.

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    Comment #46535486

    For sure, yeah.

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    Comment #46530230

    I think the part you're missing here is that the author here is under no requirement to accept changes to their project and everyone else is welcome to fork it if they disagree wit…

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    Comment #46530105

    although I've mentioned this in a subcomment, I want to highlight that the PR itself also seems to be an excuse to get the library he made to be used by TailwindCSS ( https://githu…

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    Comment #46530027

    that's why I complained about it in the PR, mmm, I thought it was grossly unprofessional of him (besides the things he said in the discussion. e.g. Tech changes all the time, that …