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@VA3DSO@mastodon.social Yep, same here. In the early 2010s I was aware of the sex slang but not the ableist meaning when I asked my drafting instructor, who was paralyzed and used a wheelchair, if I could download and use GIMP for something. Having had never heard of this obscure piece of software, he very understandably was not happy with that!

@VA3DSO@mastodon.social Yep， it's a shame how many contexts I've been unable to use GIMP in. I love it for my hobby work, but it's been incompatible with professional and educational contexts just because the authors wanted to name it after a form-fitting full-body sex-torture fuck garment.

@silhouette right?? i usually don't see the "people on mastodon suck" thing but there are a lot of people very detached from reality. it sucks we live in a world where windows is the dominant desktop OS but i still want the people on that OS to be able to send me messages on signal. we have some more important things going on

@Gargron@mastodon.social I'm basically 'anti-AI', but the term "AI" is about as meaningful as the term "smart" was. It can be arbitrarily broad, to support any "AI is good" argument. Take OCR, audio transcription models, simple classifiers, etc. These are genuinely useful! And SOTA is genuinely better in 2025 than it was in even 2021. They aren't LLMs, but they're neural networks. Anyone can call them "AI" if they want.