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lianna@micro.webgarden.click

Hello!:person_info: I'm Lia / Lianna, the owner and sole user of this little Fedi instance.:gaming: I have a lot of different and constantly shifting hobbies: music, vintage tech, conlanging, linux, art, webcrafting and the web revival, writing, reading, bicycling and much more. It always depends on my current fixations.:noted: Professionally, I'm a linguist working as a freelance translator, mostly in the video game industry.:accessibility: I'm autistic, queer and I have ADHD (medicated). My writing style sometimes might come across as cold or boring, but that's not how I mean it :( I'm quite silly actually:dictionary: Bilingual account that posts in German and English.

Posts

Post #4249368
Die Deutsche Bundespost präsentiert: Bildschirmsext – Bsx. Ruf dir einen ab!
Post #4248415
The tech world is full of weird shit. Instead of adding features to the specification of your console/virtual terminal so it can support things like Unicode character rendering, fonts or true colour, we just ended up writing "terminal emulators" instead so you could have a graphical program on top of a display server pretend to be a terminal. The standard inbuilt Linux console still doesn't support anything beyond 8 colours and 512 characters in shitty lil keymaps. If I want a s...
Post #4243546
I have to admit that for the longest time I was kinda ambiguous on the whole generative AI thing. Mostly because I majored in computational linguistics and I love the technology and maths side behind it, I maintain it's an incredibly fascinating invention. I did obviously realise the many ethical problems of using generative AI for all kinds of purposes that ended up in plagiarism, misinformation, harmful content generation and so on. I hated that large language models – being, you know, la...
Post #4227867
ever wanted a replacement for the cd command that adds enemies and random encounters while changing directories? https://github.com/facundoolano/rpg-cli #linux
Post #4151713
Did anyone else notice that all the AI slop 'vibecoders' now use the phrase "I built"? Like, 90% of the time I see a sentence like "I built a plugin that lets you do XYZ" it turns out to be AI nonsense. I also can't remember any instances of seeing AI slop advertised with "I developed" or "I made". It's always 'building' now. #antiAI #programming
Post #4059171
One aspect of #disability #accessibility that I feel is criminally overlooked is being mindful of #schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders. Please, please don't joke around with common psychotic triggers, at least without a clear content warning on it. It's not funny. Examples? Any absurdist shitposting that implies common psychotic narratives (stalking, shadow people, cryptids, paranoia, mind control, fake reality etc.), especially if deliberately directed at the reader! Even wo...
Post #3914242
i'm so exhausted from being exhausted... tired of being tired.
Post #3656255
salad! thats food for today
Post #3518720
Hey, there. We all know that there are countless cosy and nice communities on #Discord of all kinds that many of us found a lot of friends and (used to) spend a majority of our time socialising in. I used to be able to instantly find nice and welcoming communities about basically any topic – #conlangs, #games, #art, #queer stuff – many of which resulted in amazing friendships and great times. But since I've practically moved off Discord for everything but work, it's been getting lonely...
Post #3427174
I wish US Americans never became the predominant Western online culture. Just got banned from a community for saying "hell yeah", because it's "cursing in front of a minor" :skull: dude what Americans are so so deeply weird
Post #3347131
After Bluesky, Threads, and so on, the whole #WSocial thing is another reminder that it was never about the #Fediverse being "too complicated" or "just for nerds". A bafflingly large amount of people genuinely only act on a gut feeling telling them that only commercial products with fancy marketing owned by a for-profit corporation can be trustworthy, 'official' and 'legal', for the lack of a better word. If something is a commercial offering by a competent-...
Post #3344973
Warnung! ⚠️ In den nächsten Tagen wird es sehr heiß. Viele Leute wissen nicht, dass Medikamente temperatursensibel sein können. Medikamente können bei Hitze ihre Wirkung verlieren, verändern oder sogar gefährlich werden. Auch im Schatten oder im Schrank! Beispiel: Lisdexamfetamin, auch bekannt als Elvanse, darf nicht bei über 25 Grad Celsius gelagert werden. In den nächsten Tagen kann das durchaus für viele von uns Raumtemperatur sein! Dasselbe gilt für viele medizinische Cremes, Psychopharma...
Post #2486350
Jetzt gleich geht es für mich wieder in die #Universität, diesmal zur Abschlusssitzung zum Thema #Sportlinguistik! :) Heute werden Fußball-Live-Kommentare transkribiert und analysiert. Ich werde wahrscheinlich einen Vergleich zwischen einer Sportstudio-Spielzusammenfassung aus den 1970ern mit einer von diesem Jahr anstellen. Bin gespannt! Übrigens eine kleine Blogempfehlung zum Thema: https://fussballlinguistik.de #Linguistik @linguistics #Fußballlinguistik #Fußball
Post #2474368
I am at a serious loss for words and yet I need to write something. A #eulogy, maybe. Yesterday evening, here on Fedi, I read a #suicide note by @Crimekillz , my first girlfriend of eight years and one of my closest friends and soul mates for most of our lives. This morning, I learned from her family that she had indeed passed away yesterday night after purposefully overdosing on medication near her home. As if for her, it started snowing here for the first time this winter just now. I hardly...
Post #2090609
Today I learned that Google's "page ranking system", aka the algorithm that determines the order of search results, is named after Google founder Larry Page. It has nothing to do with the fact it ranks webpages.
Post #1839894
This was an extremely good use of free will. #papercraft #minecraft #mumboJumbo #hermitCraft
Post #1811856
"Frag doch Gemini" "Das hier hat Gemini ausgespuckt" alter gemini auf den sack
Post #1618446
Oh, you want a self-hosted, #FOSS, federated, ethical replacement for Discord? Just switch to #Matrix! Okay. Did that. All my friends are now on my Matrix instance, eagerly awaiting me to set up feature parity with Discord so we can all switch over. Oh, you want voice and video chat? No problem! You'll just need to set up #LiveKit, an alt-right cryptofash AI bro software project, on your server. Just run their obfuscated installation script as root, it's that easy! ... Excuse me?! An...
Post #1382250
"[Language] is the oldest language in the world" makes as much sense as "My family is the oldest family in the world." #linguistics
Post #923393
We should all remember in these turbulent times that: Online forums about a thing don't represent the real audience or community of the thing. Always ask yourself: "Who is the kind of person who actively participates in an online community like this? Is the opinion of such a person relevant to my question?" You will realise very soon that there is an overwhelming amount of hidden biases in the composition of online communities alone, leading you to believe that some things are w...
Post #844965
Close to where I live here in Germany, there's a hiking trail called "Pfad für Genießer", which translates to "trail for connoisseurs". At regular intervals along the trail, you'll find these big wooden signs that showcase various native plants growing around the very spot you're standing in. And then – most importantly – a recipe you could cook using any of these ingredients! :) That's really cool, is it not? Every station unlocks a new meal made from regio...
Post #673869
It's a bit silly that the same people who are rightfully paranoid about corporations and governments holding databases of movement profiles, biometric data, sexual preferences etc. are the same people who voluntarily post Träwelling / #NowTravelling, "I just woke up" automated biometry, intimate details about their relationships and sex life, and tons of perfectly analysable selfies on Fedi. Like, you provide your entire profile yourself. The fascist government's databases are...
Post #653906
Just spotted a "Fuck Antifa" sticker on a streetlight. Wanted to put an antifa sticker over it, but there was a young family behind me on the pavement so I wanted to let them pass first. Just as they passed me and the pole, the dad stopped and pulled off the sticker himself. He taught his daughter how to safely remove nazi stickers. I laughed and told them that I was just waiting for them to pass to put my own on top. Small funny moment of solidarity. #Antifa #FuckNazis #FCKNZS #DeP...
Post #453981
Kennt jemand eine Organisation hier in Deutschland, die queere Leute (z. B. trans Personen) aus anderen Ländern rettet, also mit den Anträgen hilft, in Einwanderungsfragen berät, Reisekosten übernimmt oder so? Irgendeine Art Hilfsorga, die tatsächlich etwas tut und nicht nur Social Media macht? Ich hab Freundinnen in Ländern wie den USA und Ungarn und wir bräuchten dringend Hilfe und Erfahrungen. #trans #transDE #germanTrans #transDeutsch #deutsch #deutschland #queer #queerDE #dieLinke