gem @spurll@ramshackle.town
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Medical student, writer, former software developer, host of the Life, the Universe & Everything Else podcast, and admin of ramshackle.town.
Joined Jul 2021
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News that I should have posted here sooner! Passepartout won first prize in the Bedford Competition! https://bedfordwritingcompetition.co.uk/BWC/php/archive.php
LRT: Currently using Vivaldi and loving it.
I ditched Chrome a long time ago, moving to Firefox briefly and then Opera. The last straws with Opera were their embrace of both crypto and LLMs.
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Your choice of browser matters — Google's Web DRM and the open internet
https://grafcube.codeberg.page/blog/2023/08/06/web-drm-api.html
I wrote this blog post to inform the people I know who aren't as tech savvy or otherwise don't put any thought into their choice of browser. Another goal is to help get enough awareness on the topic and make sure it fails.
@opensource @privacy #webintegrityapi #WEI #google #mozilla #chrome #firefox #chromium #foss #opensource #OpenWeb #privacy #drm #nodrm #drmfree #freesoftware #browser
The only differences are that I look significantly older than Peter Falk, and, unlike Columbo, I have no idea what's going on.
Me, a medical student, returning to a patient's room for the seventh time to clarify something:
I spent five precious minutes that I should have spent studying for my surgery exam tomorrow registering a domain instead.
Anyway, don't waste your time visiting http://ElonsPersonalHell.com.
"So Gem, how's your anesthesia rotation going?"
Well, today I watched another anesthesiologist put my preceptor into a headlock. The two started wrestling, and then appeared to progress to a tickle fight.
Doc I'm working with just shouted out "Argh! I hate progressives!" My head whipped around.
Turns out he was talking about his glasses.
Lowkey one of the funniest final lines I've seen in a news article in quite a while. https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23465274/hundreds-of-twitter-employees-resign-from-elon-musk-hardcore-deadline
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twitter: your mastodon server admin reads every DM you send. they actually read them and assign a score
mastodon admins who roll their own: sorry everyone images aren't going to work for the next sixty-ninety years. what's a DM
99% of mastodon admins who are just normies who pay for shared hosting: we can't read dms. we can't even choose when to update. we can't even turn the lights off in this room
lead mastodon dev: actually they're "mentioned people only posts," hope this helps. Cheers!
I feel that the fact that my evening plans are "study surgery on UWorld" and not "play Elden Ring until I fall asleep" makes me the greatest hero in the world.
Mispronunciations aside, the anesthesia rotation is going well so far.
Yes, thirty-eight years. I was interested in sedative-hypnotics even as a neonate.
How have I gone thirty-eight years pronouncing spelling and pronouncing this wrong?
I was today years old when I realized the word is "barbiturate" and not "barbituate".
Hm, maybe now that I'm on my anesthesia rotation I might actually find some time to watch that Star War that everyone likes. You know, the prequel to that one prequel that was good.
Man, Rogue One was a mess but I loved every minute of it.
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Medical student, writer, former software developer, host of the Life, the Universe & Everything Else podcast, and admin of ramshackle.town.
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