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grysbok

@ grysbok @lemmy.sdf.org

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I'm a systems librarian in an academic library. I moved over the Lemmy after Rexxit 2023. I've had an account on sdf.org since 2009 (under a different username), and so I chose this instance out of a sense of nostalgia. I do all sorts of fiber arts (knitting, cross stitch, sewing) and love dogs.

  • The Looming GOP Battle Over Whether You Have to Go to Hell and Back to Cancel Amazon Prime

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  • I have Prime but I don't pay for it. Way back when in college, I got on my parents' plan as a student. I've graduated and moved a few times since then. Still don't pay.

    I don't get Prime videos, but that's fine by me.

  • TIL when applying for a British passport online, your identity has to be confirmed by someone who is not a relative, knows you for two years, and has to be from a specific (weird) list of professions.

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  • I'm disappointed that Librarian isn't on the list. We're super trustworthy! Edit: some librarians might count as civil servants. I'm tbh not sure where that line is.

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  • The main service my period tracker provides is a notification telling me "hey, it's PMS time. If you're emo it's ok, it's probably just hormones and not the real end of the world. You're also likely to hyperfixate on something. Pull out your knitting a fixate on that, instead of risking fixating on something someone said off-handedly a decade ago that now makes you cry".

    (The message is user-configurable. Mine doesn't say that verbatum, but that's the gist.)

  • Help the poor guy out

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  • Chosen family > assigned family

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • I'm happy with the built-in privacy, muchly because I'm using it on a work computer so I have no expectation of real privacy anyway.

    And fair.

  • Mozilla Foundation lays off 30% staff, drops advocacy division | TechCrunch

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  • I've moved to Vivaldi recently and it's been refreshingly not-suck.

  • Poll: Harris has massive lead among swing state college students

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  • No, that was me leaning into the silly as a millennial.

  • Poll: Harris has massive lead among swing state college students

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  • No cap. Ohio. Cowabunga.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • Thanks :)

    I didn't think I could go back to not having a backup camera, heated side mirrors, and that feature that detects when your wheels are slipping and makes adjustments so you still go the way your steering wheel indicates.

    Airbags and ABS are non-negotiable.

  • Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

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  • The other day I saw a mid-90s shitbox in the parking lot and it made me so hopeful for my 2008 car. Like, that's a sign my car has at least 10 more years in it.

  • What is your Brown M&M?

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  • Partner and I once test drove a car that had "passed" a something something-point inspection at the dealer. As partner turns onto the highway he realizes it doesn't have a rear-view mirror. We were not impressed with that dealership. (Partner later said that when he got in he made sure the mirrors were adjusted, but his brain didn't clock that there wasn't a rear-view mirror until he had to use it. TBF, the missing mirror wasn't pointed the wrong way.)

    Same dealership tried to badmouth my Prius in order to get it as a trade-in. Partner had introduced me as his roommate and driver, which made it even weirder.

  • “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock

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  • Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't suck. At least I have no contact.

  • “I am still alive”: Users say T-Mobile must pay for killing “lifetime” price lock

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  • I'm on Mint Mobile and they've not disappointed me yet. TBF, I have minimal expectations.

  • FCC mandates all mobile phones in the US to be compatible with hearing aids

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  • Same thing over on education. US government entities down to the local level have to comply with WCAG 2.1 by April 2026 iorc, with some exceptions for content created before the cutoff. The exceptions aren't clearly defined which is causing me a bit of a headache.

    I mean, I'd love for all of our legacy documents and images to magically get image descriptions and quality OCR, but the archives have a terabyte of images and PDFs. It doesn't help that the ruling uses "archives" to mean "legacy stuff unlikely to be used" and we use "archives" to mean "stuff about the history of the college, which students are encouraged to consult".

    Anyways, I'm all for accessibility. It's good. I'm just borrowing worries from tomorrow about implementation.

    I just had the thought that some of our documents are handwritten in ye olde handwriting. That will be the biggest pain in the neck to transcribe. (Shout-out to Transkribus for making it suck less, but it'll still need to be proofread). I worry that we'll scan and post fewer of our documents going forward if we have to provide a transcription when we post them.

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  • I, for one, am extremely inconvenienced by not toggling "blind" or "vision impaired" mode in my OS or browser. The existance of a high contrast mode also offends me. The thought that websites might be navigable using speech readers keeps me up at night.

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  • Adorbs, but can't hold a candle to the garden eel. Mostly because they both live underwater.

  • "Famous" AI Artist Says He's Losing Millions of Dollars From People Stealing His Work

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  • One thing I know about violins is that they're smaller than cellos. Cellos are what, 4 feet long? That tardigrade is like 1mm big or something, much smaller than a cello. Therefore, it's holding a violin. Or maybe a bowed mountain dulcimer. /kidding

  • A sorcerer appears and states that they will erase any one song from existence - which song would you choose?

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  • Ah, I thought you were being racist against people who might sing a song in a non-English language.

  • A sorcerer appears and states that they will erase any one song from existence - which song would you choose?

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  • Nah, it's just wicked repetitive and I hate it. I had a cubicle neighbor that played the radio and it felt like that frigging song played in a loop, alongside the "kars 4 kids" jingle.