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Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3)

Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial #synthesizer, Moog, in 1964. She created the scores for iconic movies including A Clockwork Orange (1971), The Shining (1980), and Tron (1982). She even won three #Grammy awards in 1970 for her album Switched-On Bach. (First trans woman to ever win one!)

She was also one of the first public figures to disclose that she underwent a feminizing gender-affirming surgery (she got the procedure in 1972, went public in 1979).

#transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts

Photo of Wendy Carlos surrounded by keyboards, electronic music equipment, and holding a Sphynx cat in her lap. Wendy is a white woman with shoulder length brown hair with an endearing and awkward smile.
#history #music #transgender #trans #synthesizer #funfacts #musichistory #transhistory #grammy
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Mariya Delano

History of trans musician Wendy Carlos (2/3)

I learned about this incredible woman after coming across an old video with her on YouTube the other week (see part 3 of the thread for link).

And I thought it’s important to share given that trans history is being actively erased from public consciousness these days, and right-wing politicians / pundits are trying to claim that trans people are invading and ruining culture. In reality, people like Carlos have been here this whole time, creating the very culture that these jerks claim is being ruined by “woke”.

This is also telling. Carlos said about the public’s reaction to her transition, back in the 80s:

"The public turned out to be amazingly tolerant or, if you wish, indifferent ... There had never been any need of this charade to have taken place. It had proven a monstrous waste of years of my life."

#trans #synthesizer #Grammy #transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts

#history #music #transgender #trans #synthesizer #funfacts #musichistory #transhistory #grammy
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Mariya Delano

History of trans musician Wendy Carlos (3/3)

And here is the video where I first came across Carlos.

Two bits of context here:

1. This is one of the most impressive explainers of how electronic music works and the different wavelengths that go into turning electric signals into sound that I’ve ever seen (and I studied physics for 2 years in university, so I had at least some background on this.) youtu.be/4SBDH5uhs4Q?si=kll8Uv…

2. At this point, Carlos had started hormone therapy but was not public about her transition. So she’d put on fake sideburns, a wig, and try to appear more masculine.

#trans #synthesizer #Grammy #transHistory #transgender #history #music #musicHistory #funFacts


Wendy Carlos demonstrates her Moog Synthesizer in 1970

Wendy Carlos interview on PBS' NOVA in 1989: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EtH5E1N91YNote: the BBC has posted a longer version available here: https://www...
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#history #music #transgender #trans #synthesizer #funfacts #musichistory #transhistory #grammy
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Closed this "critical" one. Only three to go...

hackerone.com/reports/3480641


curl disclosed on HackerOne: Cross‑Layer State Confusion in...

## Summary: This report describes a state‑level security invariant violation in libcurl where credential‑ or key‑related state may persist or be re‑applied across logical trust boundaries...
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Ever notice how people who spit bigotry and racism immediately turn around and say they have friends who are of the race that they claim to hate? For example. The guy who says I hate black folks and drops the end bomb like it's going out of style. But in the next breath he's all like, I hate black folks, but I have black friends. What exactly is the point in that? I find that very confusing. If it's true that you really are racist, would you not avoid friendships or any kind of interaction with the people you claim to hate?
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Winter blue tardis

That is to add that, there are people who are assholes of any colour, race, group, disability, etc. because they are also unaware of their own idiotic actions. We are all people at the end of the day, and if we can't tolerate each other, then we gotta fix something in ourselves and realise that humanity is humanity, and to not invalidate the struggles of others, too. But the first step is to realise, and some people never pay attention to it, or want to, even if their mind screams it at them. They are too busy with their hate for no reason what soever.

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Hey #support guys who work in a #NOC or #datacenter or provide support for #vps hosting: if I open a support ticket about an issue, and the issue is resolved an hour later without a response to my ticket, what's the Etiquette here? Should I close the ticket as resolved without waiting for an answer? Or does that mess up your quotas or workflows or whatever? Is it impolite to close my own ticket when I notice the problem is fixed without waiting for your response? Am I taking away the satisfaction you get from closing a ticket? Or am I just making your life easier by saving you from dealing with yet one more customer.
#vps #support #datacenter #noc

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“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry

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“This is totally the World Juniors” says woman trying to trick her boyfriend into watching Heated Rivalry - The Beaverton

SUDBURY, ON - Local girlfriend Ashlynn Timbers is currently monitoring her boyfriend as he watches the program she told him was the World Juniors Hockey Tournament, but is in fact the steamy gay romance sensation Heated Rivalry. 
Ian MacIntyre (The Beaverton)

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When Big Tech clouds fail, are censored, or collude with the (US) government, which would you choose for private messaging?

#privacy #security #decentralization #securemessaging #matrix #xmpp #simplex #deltachat #signal #poll #polls #askfedi

  • Matrix (10%, 8 votes)
  • XMPP/Jabber (24%, 18 votes)
  • SimpleX (2%, 2 votes)
  • DeltaChat (62%, 47 votes)
75 voters. Poll end: 1 hour ago

#xmpp #matrix #privacy #askfedi #signal #security #decentralization #poll #polls #deltachat #simplex #securemessaging

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Well, we finally opened our Christmas gifts today now that we're not feeling so awful. And there's a particularly useful one I got I want to highlight here. As a blind person with not a lot of training I've always struggled with keeping my fingernails trimmed independently. I'd cut them too short, or uneven, or have difficulty getting the nail to cut at all, or sometimes really hurt my finger. The clippers in this house also aren't the best. Now that's changed! One of our Christmas gifts this year was the Edjy fingernail cutter, a clipper which is loads easier to use and comes with blade guards so you physically can't cut it so short the nail bed is overly exposed. It makes clean, precise cuts without near the amount of fiddling traditional clippers require, and it even stores the clippings in a little basin inside it that can then be dumped into a garbage can or whatever instead of just launching them anywhere immediately. The only thing I'd say is that depending on the curvature of your nails, you potentially can't clip the entire nail at once, I have to do mine in three pieces. Best is one side, the middle, then the other side. Used it this morning and got a perfectly rounded and even cut on all of my fingernails including my thumbs, which the normal clippers have trouble getting at sometimes.
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#blind @mastoblind

EDJY Fingernail Cutter

Experience perfectly smooth nails with the EDJY Fingernail Cutter. Crafted with a precision single blade, EDJY provides effortless cutting and a built-in collection system for easy cleanup.
EDJY
#blind @Group 4 Blind & VI people

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It’s #winter. The buzzing has stopped - mostly.
So what’s happened to all the #bees?
Let me explain.
Please #repost this thread.
Don’t just like/look.
It literally takes you a second. Costs you nothing.
Bees are in trouble and need you good people to help.
Thank you.
#share
1/14
#repost #winter #share #bees
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The Bee Guy

In a world that appears ever more divided, ever more angry, ever more willing to embrace the obvious annihilistic option we refuse to give up on the premise that most #people are #decent. That most people #care deeply.
Maybe we can #unite over #bees.
Do the right thing for once.
Make the good choice.
Maybe?
Please share this thread far and wide.
#repost
We know you care.
Show us.
Show one another.
Show the bees you care.
It’s okay to care.
It’s more fulfilling than hate.

14/14 Part 1/2

#repost #people #CARE #bees #decent #unite

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Cory's rousing #enshitification talk mentioned how capital always imagined the web as a kind of interactive cableTV, a series of walled gardens, reminded me of this text of mine from 2013, one of many on how the internet cam to be centralized. #39c3

public.monster/~dmytri/scratch…

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The September that never ends

Scratch-off the Facebook logo, and you’ll find the CompuServ logo underneath.
Dmytri Kleiner
#enshitification #39c3

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In the Netherlands we had a weird law introduced a while ago: to fight sodas the government introduced a tax on all drinks, with the exception of dairy (because, you know, lobby). For some reason it was exceptionally difficult to make a distinction between sodas and fruit juice, so they got swept up in the tax.

The food industry retaliated by adding trace amounts of milk to their fruit drinks. After all, there’s no legal distinction between a milk drink with added fruit flavor or a fruit juice with added milk.

So we got this kind of nonsense: fruit juice “with a twist of dairy” to avoid the tax. Dutch innovation at its best I guess.

Do they sell these in other countries though?

Photo of a box of Coolbest, with the text “with a twist of dairy” on one of its corners.

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I got weirdly good sleep last night. It could have been better, but at this point I'll take what I can get. I've had my usual two cups of coffee and I'm pretty sure breakfast is happening. I'm not 100 percent on that but even if not it's all right. I switched back to old WhatsApp which has improved things a lot, hoping I don't get force updated, again, if I do I'll cross that bridge. Even though there is some physical discomfort I'm in an oddly good mood. Hoping to stay that way. I've been down as of late and I hate it. Fuck you depression.

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Do you want help with using Mastodon or the wider Fediverse?

Please feel free to ask if you have any questions about using this place! There's no such thing as a silly question, it's fine to ask about anything however simple.

I'm especially keen to help new or non-technical people on here 🙂 And yes I am a human being, I don't use AIs!

(Alternatively, you can browse my website at fedi.tips which has lots of easy-to-understand help and advice.)

#FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse


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An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
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#fediverse #Mastodon #FediTips
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MariahL

@JEkis Before doing all of this, make sure that you uninstall whatsapp that you installed from microsoft store.
First download this zip file:
drive.google.com/uc?id=12Z3kjH…

Enable developer mode in windows.
Extract the wa folder from inside the zip file you downloaded to c:\.
Open powershell and enter this command.
Add-AppxPackage -Register "C:\WA\AppxManifest.xml"

Google Drive - Virus scan warning

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@Justin Ekis

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Heutiges Knie-Update: Heute blieb das Pflaster drauf, morgen auch noch, um dem Knie eine Chance zur besseren Heilung zu geben. Es zieht und tut an der Wunde leider immer noch weh beim Beugen oder Strecken, oder wenn ich aufstehe. Hoffentlich beruhigt sich das bald! Ansonsten war der Sonntag ruhig, und es gab von einem Lieferdienst noch einmal lecker Ente mit Rotkohl und Knödeln.

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RE: mastodon.n6.io/@graham/1157896…

Great presenter too! :)

Graham Pearce

2025-12-27 04:38:00

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I just found an interesting video segment on PBS about the old Eureka A4 Braille computer, featuring it singing, playing music, and more. youtube.com/watch?v=84C5SFRh81…


The Computer Chronicles - Computers and the Disabled (1992)

Special thanks to archive.org for hosting these episodes. Downloads of all these episodes and more can be found at: http://archive.org/details/computerchroni...
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Die #39c3-Principles-Infobeamerfolie spricht von physical & psychological circumstances — physischen und psychologischen „Umständen“.

Hier der Reninder, dass wir dafür ein Wort haben. Es ist „disability“ oder „Behinderung“. Es ist kein böses Wort. Lassen wir doch einfach die ewigen Euphemismen für und in diesem Fall auch ganz besonders der Individualisierung von solchen Problemen sein.

#39c3

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I'm just making a note of this because I'm old enough to remember and a lot of people aren't – I saw someone claim that Google stole the name Chrome "from Firefox's internals", which makes no sense.

Back in the early 2000s, "chrome" was common programmer slang for "user interface". Like in general. Any user interface at all was "the chrome." I have no doubt Firefox's older source code refers to it as chrome, because I'm pretty sure I was referring to UI as "chrome" in my own university homework assignments at the time.

The term became much less common after Google Chrome launched because it became too confusing. Google's own claim is that the name was inspired by sports cars, and the programmers found it funny because having less "chrome" in the UI sense was an explicit goal. Whether that's true or not: they definitely didn't spitefully steal some secret Firefox codeword???

The above post is not to be construed under any circumstances as general approval of Google and everything they have ever done ever, and anyone yelling at me about how I'm a bad member of their religion because I said this SPECIFIC accusation is ahistorical will be blocked to the moon and back.

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my latest blog post, which feels kinda like a work in progress, but helped me organize some of my ideas about this somewhat cryptic klezmer's mutual aid society.
alte.klezmor.im/2025/12/28/som…

#klezmer #immigrationHistory #NYhistory #MutualAidHistory #MusicHistory #ResearchBlog

Some thoughts about the Progressive Musical Benevolent Society – Old Klezmers – Alte Klezmorim

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#klezmer #musichistory #immigrationhistory #nyhistory #mutualaidhistory #researchblog
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