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felyashono

@felyashono@disabled.social

He/Him/His.
Autistic gamer, tech/SciFi/Fantasy geek, Apple fanboy.

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felyashono, to HashtagGames
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Everything Cliff Clavin said was true. Every single thing.


rysiek, to random
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Dear #Blind community, would you mind a question?

For a long while I had an ASCII-art hacker glider emblem in my profile bio. It was this:

. ۬. :

At some point I realized this might be a problem for people using screen readers. So I removed it from my bio.

I am still somewhat fond if it though, and wonder if maybe it wasn't in fact that big of a deal?

And more generally, what do you think of small ASCII-art bits like this? Are they extremely distracting? Are they acceptable?

Thank you!

felyashono,
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@rysiek
I'm not blind, so this response is mostly off-topic for the question you posed…

I recognize and appreciate the art and what it represents. 😊

In your bio, you could even add a line below it that reads something like “Alt-text: ASCII-art rendering of a glider structure from Conway's Game of Life.”

Not only have others established that the art won't run afoul of screen readers, but also this would make the depiction accessible.

metaning, to apple
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Can we just take a moment to consider that #Apple, who for some reason are considered a collection of the “smartest guys in the room” didn’t take into account that you might have two different devices (six years apart) unlocked at the same time, and provided no way to distinguish between them when you want to #AirDrop files, because it doesn't display the device name.

felyashono,
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@metaning
It most certainly does display the device name. It's the smaller, grayer text under your name. It says “iPhone.”

This is not Apple's fault. You just set the device name to “iPhone" on both phones. You can change one or both in Settings > General > About > Name

chevalier26, to actuallyautistic
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What are your thoughts on self-diagnosis being belittled by many in the autistic community?

For clarity, I’m not asking to start a debate, just a genuine discussion. I currently don’t have the option to get a diagnosis, but feel fairly confident that the research I’ve done over the past year and a half has been legitimate and credible.

I don’t feel comfortable saying that I am definitively autistic, but I am ok with saying I’m “self-suspecting.” @actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@chevalier26 @actuallyautistic

I’m all in favor of self-diagnosis. I was purely self-diagnosed for a long time, and worked myself into verbal contortions to relate to it.

Now I have a diagnosis. But not really. I never did the full neuropsych eval thing. My autistic-specialized psychologist merely said “yeah. Uh huh. Oh, yeah, you’re autistic!” And that’s plenty good enough for me.

I think I speak for the majority of people here in saying welcome to the community!

darrellpf, to actuallyautistic
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Is there a term in the autistic world for "outing" someone? In the gay world we have often very accurate "gaydar".

I was watching a mom and son on a television show. On one hand I want to talk about them and their interaction, but on the other hand I don't feel right about "diagnosing" them, particularly in a public way.

@actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@darrellpf @actuallyautistic
Yes, we can have what I've heard as "autism radar,” similar to gaydar.

I thought “outing" was used to convey disclosing to others without the subject’s consent. Am I wrong?

felyashono,
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@darrellpf @actuallyautistic

I would follow the gay world's example and say “absolutely not.” As always, it comes down to agency and consent.

jrefior, to apple
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What are some decent speakers to pair with an iPhone or iPad on a modest budget?

Mostly for podcast and radio; some music. Don't want loud bass.
—
#speakers #apple #sound

felyashono,
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@jrefior
If it’s just inside your home and doesn’t need to be portable, the Apple HomePod mini is quite good.

dpnash, to random
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After a period of relatively restrained handling of "AI" topics, my division at work decided that all the developers, designers, engineers, whatever, ... need to "use AI more in our everyday work". (Oh, joy.) This included a series of workshops designed to introduce everybody to some representative examples.

One workshop involved Github Copilot, and the following things happened to one development team, all senior developers:

  • Copilot generated a unit test case that was hard to get to pass.
  • When asked to generate empty test cases, Copilot generated the same (irrelevant) code over and over again.
  • Copilot stopped giving suggestions to one developer after a while.
  • Getting useful information out of Copilot frequently required a lot of fussy or non-obvious prompt editing and tweaking.

I won't supply direct quotes without the explicit consent of the people involved, but there was a very clear general sense that Copilot was not fit for purpose -- even when it did produce something not totally wrong, it was not a useful timesaver for the types of work this team was doing.

It wasn't just Copilot that seemed half baked. The workshop's guidelines (which are themselves part of a fairly polished Github repo) were poorly proofread. One example had a prominent typo in some HTML you were supposed to generate: '<button class=""btn" ...>' (note the extra double-quote). A newbie to web development would very likely add the spurious double quote mark to otherwise ok Copilot output to make sure it matched the instructions.

Finally, our IT department disallows results from Copilot that come from training on "public" code, for what should be fairly obvious legal concerns regarding copyright and similar issues. For one developer, Copilot repeatedly started to generate a result but then stopped, with an alert that the result appears to match known "public" code.

If it wasn't clear before that Copilot's basic mode (no "private code" option) is a copyright-laundering and license-laundering tool, it's really obvious now.

felyashono,
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@dpnash
I would never trust anybody without substantial Subject Matter Expertise to proofread and fact-check any LLM output. And even then, I wouldn't consider it a productive use of time. Producing the content personally has got to be more time-efficient than convincing oneself the LLM output doesn't contain hallucinations.

LehtoriTuomo, to actuallyautistic
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Mentioned to a coworker that I'm getting some books, for example on autism, and as they showed interest in the topic, proceeded to lightly info dump. Did give some space so that it was a true conversation. However, it reminded me of a thing I've been pondering.

As I present male, I've always been overly cautious of not mansplaining -- or at least ever since I learned about the term. Now that I know I'm autistic, I understand it's entangled with having learned that NTs don't like infodumping.

Whatever the cause, I have a tendency to stay silent even if I know about the topic at hand but aren't 100% certain that it's appropriate to talk about it. Sometimes it makes me sad.

@actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@LehtoriTuomo @actuallyautistic

I saw a post somewhere not long ago that suggested a key component of mansplaining was not being sensitive to the fact that the recipient already knows about the topic.

I too often remain silent though I'm knowledgeable and have something to contribute. I think it comes from all the failed social interactions in my past, including unwanted infodumps.

#ActuallyAutistic

RickiTarr, to random
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People with Anxiety: No worries.

Also People with Anxiety: Imagining every scenario where they need to worry.

felyashono,
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@RickiTarr

Also people with anxiety: worrying about whether they forgot to worry about some scenario.

felyashono, to random
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I've had an epiphany. Somebody I don't know showed up in a hashtag I follow, blaspheming one of my favorite fandoms. As I drafted replies in my head, and explored their profile, I realized:

  1. They are a profoundly angry and hateful person.

  2. Their anger is not directed at their target. I suspect its directed at themselves.

  3. I am not their therapist. It's not my responsibility to help them understand their issues.

So I just blocked them.

drahardja, to apple
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The new iPads are once again mind-blowingly amazing hardware showcases, hamstrung by software and an extractive App Store gatekeeper that limits what users can effectively do.

There is now such a large overlap of prices between iPad and MacBooks that we’ll probably never see a touchscreen Mac, because it would be a superior choice over iPad in most cases.

What I want, really, is macOS running on desktop, laptop, and tablet form factors, with a relatively open software environment not solely owned by the App Store.

I think Microsoft actually got it right with Windows 11 (minus the #enshittification ads). If only they pushed more strongly on the Surface lineup…

#apple #macOS #iPad #windows #Microsoft

felyashono,
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@mariani1 @drahardja

That's a really interesting idea. A big selling point of SwiftUI has always been that the rendering of the view code adapts to the platform. If it could do so as the platform changes within the same hardware config…

If you're suggesting that when "docked" to a Magic Keyboard, the UI looks like macOS, and when undocked, it looks like iPadOS, I worry about the cognitive dissonance of everything changing appearance.

A more unified look/feel would require a lot more work.

felyashono,
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@mariani1 @drahardja

I'm inclined to agree, and I think that sense is foundational to Apple's design choices. What makes a touch-screen interface usable is substantially different from what makes a mouse-driven interface usable.

I once had a reason to use iTunes for Windows on a Surface. It was utterly unusable. The buttons were the right size for a mouse cursor, not my finger.

But that was many years ago, and I assume Windows 11 has fully rearchitected it?

felyashono,
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@drahardja @mariani1

Where is it? It's in iOS and iPadOS right now. Apple's UI guidelines allow large enough icons and paddings that every button is individually targetable with relatively large finger-pads. Not all interaction models translate directly, but as you say, the OS doesn't have to solve all problems.

Touch-and-hold is a better gesture for secondary (contextual menu) click. I don't think two-finger tap would work well on a touchscreen, like it does as a click gesture on macOS.

felyashono,
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@drahardja @mariani1

But the feature I hear about most often requested is a general window manager for iPadOS. I definitely do not want four windows tiled in quadrants on my 11" iPad Pro. No window would have enough space to be usable. These are tradeoffs iPadOS must make for its form factor. I fear everybody claiming otherwise will be frustrated if Apple ever implements it.

felyashono,
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@drahardja @mariani1

Yeah, and this is what it looks like on an 11" (iPad) Display. For scale reference, my finger is maybe 0.25 inches from the screen in that shot.

KrissyKat, (edited ) to random
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How long before Trump violates Judge Merchan's contempt order of May 6 and ends up in jail for disrespecting the judicial system?

felyashono,
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@KrissyKat
If it were going to happen, it would have already

JeremyMallin, to actuallyautistic
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I originally thought the hashtag ActuallyAutistic was specifically that in part because many of us (as I do) overuse the word "actually".—I learned a long time ago its true origin and meaning though.

I was curious (and still am) what other words we tend to overuse. For me I've come up with these so far:

• actually
• indeed
• fascinating
• interesting

Are there any other common ones?
@actuallyautistic

felyashono,
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@JeremyMallin @actuallyautistic
Awesome
Absolutely
Yes! [I use it to indicate that I understand somebody’s question or concern, even when the concern is negative]

rbreich, to random
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Casual reminder to Ignore the anti-union propaganda from corporate America.

If unions were actually bad for workers, corporations wouldn't need to spend millions of dollars on union-busting.

felyashono,
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@rbreich What are the best ways to tell the good unions from the bad ones?

At my last workplace, a union was trying to get us to call for a vote. A rep approached my wife at our personal residence. I don’t know how they even figured out where I live, but it was creepy!

GottaLaff, to random
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👀Via Emptywheel:

I'm with 'paw.

Not a single participant in a Trump-related case (or Hunter Biden's) has avoided life-altering threats. You can't do this to people serving their civic duty.

nycsouthpaw:

Another Lawfare editor has posted a thread—based on pool reports—compiling copious personal identifying information for all six seated jurors. It’s so dangerous, at least as I perceive the character of the #Trump movement, I don’t even want to link it. WTF are we doing?

felyashono,
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@GottaLaff Do you have a source for this? I did a quick google search, but all I got was references to the Georgia case last fall…

mina, to random
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What's going on?

Since yesterday, I'm suddenly getting ugly messages from Nazis, transphobes, white supremacists etc.

Of course, I block and report them all, but I wonder: Is it just me, or is the Fedi facing an invasion?

felyashono,
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@mina Blocking and reporting works, especially if your instance admins are keeping an eye on the reports. If you notice they are all coming from a common instance, you could partner with your admins to defederate that instance.

menelion, (edited ) to iOS
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Hi dear #iOS users! I have a Health widget on my home screen. Is there a way to make it show steps instead of calories, percentage and what not, or it will be reason number 7001 why I don't like Apple's policies? And if it's the later, please suggest a #VoiceOver accessible app for that? Thanks!

felyashono,
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@menelion No, the fitness app widget will not show step count. But there’s a variety of free apps that will, including Widgetsmith https://apps.apple.com/us/app/widgetsmith/id1523682319

felyashono, to random
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Why do the moon and the sun appear the exact same size during an #eclipse? They're radically different sizes and distances. Is the similarity in apparent sizes pure coincidence (ie the size : distance ratio just happens to be the same), or is there a more profound mathematical explanation?

rolle, to apple
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A question for Apple Watch users: Series 9 or Ultra? Is Ultra too big? Which one to buy? I currently have a Fitbit Sense which is 40.48mm (1.58in) and moving on to the Apple world.

Please note: I am not looking for any price or ecosystem discussion here, I just want to hear more about the Apple Watch user experience. Thanks in advance.

felyashono,
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@rolle I wear the 41mm Apple Watch. The 45mm is big on me, but tolerable. At 49mm, the Ultra is just too big. The first time I tried one on, I thought “Wow, it’s lighter than I expected. But still way too big.”

If you can, it’s worth going in to an Apple Store. You can try on all three sizes and see the colors and band options in person.

Jaden3, to sciencefiction
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I am 💯 obsessed with Sci fi ain gon lie. The biggest wish I would have in the whole world is if aliens from other planets would connect with us . Surely this is a possibility at some time in the future?
Just want to connect with other Sci fi folks to discuss? Tho hope not just fiction 😬
#sciencefiction

felyashono,
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@Jaden3 “If it’s just us, seems like an awful waste of space.”

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