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I have just read the Interview with Georg Romer from University Hospital Münster in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" titled "Wait and See is Not an Option!"
He is a child and young adult psychiatrist. The interview is really very long.
But the gist is that this Georg Romer is really one of the Saints that we wish for.
The questions asked by the newspaper were great, mentioning all the controversy in society, asking tough questions (but in a very respectful manner), asking things like "what about the impression that transition numbers just exploded and that this is 'fashionable' at the moment" and so on.
During the interview Alexander Knote from LMU Munich was also mentioned aht Georg Romer was asked why he refused to talk / discuss with Alexander Knote.
In essence, A. Knote says that "coming out as trans gender has become fashionable among the AFAB." He then continues to prove that by showing that in Germany 85% of trans gender people AFAB trans men.
Georg Romer takes that as data and looks at "why is that so" in a different way. He analyses the societal environment and comes to the conlusing that the actual number of trans woman is significantly higher than the 15% but the fact that trans women have a significantly higher chance of being discriminated against, hated, or even experience violence is the actual reason why we don't see more trans women coming out. And yes, contrary to A. Knote, Georg Romer has scientific data on that.
A few machine translated excerpts: --- Some of your colleagues report that young people are becoming more and more demanding and doctors are called transphobic if they do not immediately accept being trans as given without question. Do you experience that too?
Not at all. If we want to avoid an escalation of sensitivities in the doctor-patient relationship, it starts with ourselves. We must understand and respect that there is already a long history of discrimination, pathologization and bullying of trans people in medicine at every first encounter. I think the young people immediately feel the attitude and agenda with which they are met.
So it is the responsibility of the doctors how well the young people cooperate?
We doctors have to get away from the idea that we define whether someone is trans or not. It starts with the speech in the waiting room. I always ask first of all with which name someone would like to be addressed. With this, I do not determine anything for the future, but I signal: I see you, I respect you, I listen to you. ... --- At the end he says: I also think of a sentence in a letter that the mother of a 13-year-old trans boy once wrote to us: Without the treatment, we would steal the boy's youth. Every person deserves the chance to remember a happy youth for the rest of their lives. If we force young people to live through these years in the wrong sex, then this hardship of the children is in every class photo, in every memory of a school trip that you still had to experience in the old sex. People who only begin their transition as adults often eras these years of youth in their memory. That's very sad. A coherent identity, even in youth, contributes to the happiness of life. --- The interview is here: if you can get it free and want to read it in your language, I guess you need a machine translation
I haven't posted music in a bit so... A while ago, when I was figuring out Surge XT accessibility, I thought I should make some Psytrance. The problem was... I had no idea how to make psytrance. I ended up with this... and decided to leave it there. I still don't know how to make psytrance. Surge, however, is awesome. I definitely did not leave *it* there.
I went back and provided severity levels for the 72 oldest #curl CVEs as well (assessed manually) and now every curl CVE since the dawn of time has it set. The full list is here: curl.se/docs/security.html
My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.
Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.
It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography
US National Institutes of Health Study Finds Increased Risk of Long Covid After Reinfection: Study shows risk of Long Covid is very common after Omicron reinfection, but is anyone listening? #covid
10 Amazing Prompts That Demonstrate The Capabilities of ChatGPT to Improve The Lives of People With Disabilities | Aaron Di Blasi | Top Tech Tidbits toptechtidbits.com/163.html
Here are 10 innovative prompts aimed at demonstrating the capabilities of ChatGPT to improve the lives of people with various disabilities. Copy and paste any of these prompts into ChatGPT.
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“While monitoring the traffic of our own corporate Wi-Fi network, we noticed suspicious activity that originated from several iOS-based phones. Since it is impossible to inspect modern iOS devices from the inside, we created offline backups of the devices, inspected them and discovered traces of compromise.”
“The spyware also quietly transmits private information to remote servers: microphone recordings, photos from instant messengers, geolocation and data about a number of other activities of the owner of the infected device”
Hi all, Today we have very big and important news. Kaspersky experts have discovered an extremely complex, professionally targeted cyberattack that uses Apple’s mobile devices.
Is there a way to contribute other apps? :) Also, would be nice to have different tables for different countries. It's not whining nor complaining, I'm ready to help if needed. Anyway, thanks for such a great resource, it needs more advertising definitely. I'll talk about it wherever I can.
@menelion so, thanks for you interest, I'm happy to add any app I can. To understand, project is mostly just a pet project for some technologies and experimenting a bit with SEO. It's super slim and it's direction is not quite clear - going in a opendata or eventually having cheap paid app. This as a preface for contributing. I could go either way. I don't have the admin public yet. In general I need name, links to the stores and the WKT-String of geo coordinates for each region the app covers
Today's #AudioMo is more of a #Music thing actually, and comes from #Jamulus which is an online realtime jamming tool to allow people in different places to make music with each other. In this instance, Alf, the bass player is a few hundred miles from me also in the UK, Martin (guitar) is in The Netherlands, Phil (other guitarist) is near brighton, Mag (drummer) is in Germany and I'm playing Rhodes in London. This perspective was captured by Alf. For more information about Jamulus, check out jamulus.io.
@menelion If it's laggy, everyone will know about it very quickly. That's all there is to it. It uses UDP, so even if you sneeze for 30 milliseconds and your connection goes away, it will be very, very obvious.
@cachondo That's due to having been playing with the same musicians online like this for the passed nearly three years. We're basically a band at this point. We've composed music together, jammed together, it's a thing. And during lockdown, it was a genuine depression-saver when there seemed no end to the misery. I'm not just spewing hyperbole here. I mean it.
@cachondo Once I get better at you know, actually playing music, I might use this. Can't go in there sucking really bad because that'll also be noticeable. I don't have a $12000 Euphonium to play on otherwise I would suck far less since that's my main instrument.
I've wanted to try jamulous but I don't play anything. I just sing, well with the voice I have left anyway. and my mic really is notg the best as I don't have my consoul hooked up.
@ke7zum ANd hey, I use Sonobus, which was originally designed for jamming, as a way to have Bob sound like he was in the studio when he no longer can do so on a weekly basis. Thanks Onj! Planning to put a different machine over there BTW so that we can have Sonobus at less conservative settings.
One way to put an amazing new audio interface through its paces is to record a demo and review of it. So here you go, this is my take on the Audient Evo 16 and it’s brilliant #accessibility features. pnc.st/s/the-blind-podmaker/b5…
From the manufacturer:
Make studio quality recordings with EVO 16’s next-level audio performance. Eight award winning EVO intelligent mic preamps that set their own levels with Smartgain, the all new, groundbreaking Motion UI control system, and eno…
So some Music from @FreakyFwoof, a recommendation from Amazon, and the text given to #elevenlabs. Incredible how ... different, a book synopsis can sound.
if it's a generated one, then they're using Sco Brick as a base. I'd say all their generated voices are based on audiobook narrators. I can't name them but do recognize them. Check Audible for Brick as a narrator and see a sample.
You can do that but you just have to remove my name first. I do that quite often. That's also my version of not quote-posting. I'll boost a post, reply to my version of that and remove the original poster, which will still keep it threaded and they can therefore see my response if they wish to, without being bombarded by whatever I write ntext.
2L leche 800ml leche evaporada (approximadamente 2 latas) 10 huevos (a temperatura ambiente) 2 cucharadas Vainilla 2 varas de canela 2/3 taza azucar (o al gusto, pues)
The article states "A colleague noticed the misconduct and the employee was eventually terminated". I really hope they mean his employment was terminated.
Here at Accessible Android, we have made it possible for you to submit your own content on all things Android and accessibility. With that in mind, Dominic Doyle submitted a guide to setting up a Samsung Galaxy phone for the first time: erisilebilirandroid.com/how-to…
So torhungrig wollen wir die Wölfinnen 🐺 auch sehen.
Im Finale der UEFA Women's Champions League treffen die Damen des VfL Wolfsburg auf den FC Barcelona. Können sie sich ihren dritten Henkelpott sichern?
> “I’m not a fan of Google’s approach,” extension developer and researcher Wladimir Palant wrote in an email. In the days before Chrome, when Firefox had a bigger piece of the browser share, real people reviewed extensions before making them available in the Mozilla marketplace. Google took a different approach by using an automated review process, which Firefox then copied.
> “As automated reviews are frequently missing malicious extensions and Google is very slow to react to reports (in fact, they rarely react at all), this leaves users in a very sad place,” Palant said.
Some of my followers have asked about Computers for the Blind. They are a non-profit organization that refurbishes donated computers, installs accessibility software, and then sell those computers at an affordable price to blind or visually impaired individuals. You can read more about them here. computersfortheblind.org/about…
Blind friends: Do you need a new laptop? Are you receiving SSI benefits? Computers for the Blind is running a special right now. I just called them. If you can show your SSI award letter for 2023 to this organization, they will give you $150 off any laptop in their lineup. This means that you, or an authorized recipient, can purchase a laptop for as little as $50. And their top of the line laptop, which comes with 16 gb of ram, would only be $300. No special on desktops, but remember that desktops are repairable. Those start at $200. So if you buy a desktop and a part dies, you'd be replacing the part that dies instead of the entire desktop. I think this is a great choice for SSI recipients. Even without the special, I still think this is a great option for those who are employed but making a reduced income. The price list for their computers can be found here. computersfortheblind.org/src/d… Or, go here to apply to purchase a computer. Remember to fax your award letter to Computers for the Blind before attempting to purchase using the $150 off special offer. computersfortheblind.org/appli…
We planted some blueberries outside of the flat. There were a few bushes that we decided not to uproot. The problem is, they give berries that cause laxative effect in humans! So, we decided to build a small fence between the blueberries and the pooplant. Green - eat. Orange - eat but regret.
c'était une simulation... L'alarmisme type skynet sur « l'IA » contribue à son overhype et détourne l'attention des problèmes réels et bien plus prosaïques qu'elle pose.
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