Lara @lara@mond-basis.eu

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you a moment of calm ✨

crochet and/or knitting: The art of making knots that are so complicated you can wear them.

When did it went from "AIs trying to recognize real-world images submitted by humans" to "real-world humans trying to recognize AI-generated images"?

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you a bit of encouragement ✨

"Water simulation on kinetic display makes water noises, has no sound device" - if there was a buzzfeed for hackers, that would be the line. ^

RT @motus_art@twitter.com

1of4: Water simulations running on my large flip-digit kinetic display. #kineticdisplay

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you resilience ✨

Reminder that just because you’ve been through worse, that doesn’t mean you have to put up with bad stuff now

For any trans people who need to hear this:

Your body is beautiful. You're worthy of being desired, if that's something you want.

Whether you choose to transition (and in whatever direction you want), and wherever you are in that process -- you're seen, you are believed, and I'm proud to be your sibling.

When you look in the mirror, you deserve to hear, "Hey, Beautiful." If you don't hear it in your voice, hear it in mine.

Your strength is incredible. You come from a long tradition of transgender people, stretching back to the earliest days of humanity.

Let the haters shout into the void. You don't need to. The Void already loves you. ✨​

(cis people please boost)

I seriously wonder if AWS infinidash comes with or without it’s own turbo encabulator or if one has to build their own.

WHEN is Mastodon going to let you set your post’s visibility to “Mutual Follows only”? (ie, people you follow and who also follow you).

I often want to post things that I don’t want every person who Follows me to see.

*** Is this a feature you want too? ***

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you progress on something you care about ✨

Hey does anybody know if there's a wiki (or at least a website) for video game accessibility features?

Also, is there anywhere that tells me whether I can play any given game as a girl?

Boosts appreciated!

Good morning folk and friends from far and near!

Today I wish you the ability to be kind to yourself ✨

I much prefer very algorithmic, synthetic speech for this. Not only is it very predictable in how it pronounces things, but it also speeds up much more. If you speed up, for example, Google's Wavenet voices, they start slurring words. This is obviously no good at all. It's authentic, sure, but it's annoying to me. I'm happy to use AI speech, for example the Siri voices that come with the new MacOS, if I'm reading something longer like a book, story and so on. But for every day use? No thanks. I think it's important that we don't get too carried away here. If I had the choice, I would choose a non natural voice. And that by quite a big margin. Here's your fun fact of the day!

smal dragn