@inthehands this next election is going to end up at the supreme court no matter what. Republicans probably already have a court strategy to make sure that if a Democrat wins they're going to take it to court for whatever BS reason they can muster. We need to make sure that everything on the Democrat's side is locked up and 100% water tight. No risky legal maneuvering or last minute changes.
@Gargron@p4trick maybe I'm missing something but as a third party if I wanted to easily view someone's photography on Mastodon, relying on tags, I'm not sure how I would do that. Their profile's media tab doesn't seem to have any granularity for that. That's at least in part why I keep a separate Pixelfed profile.
@thomasfuchs the people stuck implementing or contracting out for this garbage are probably just normal state employees who don't necessarily agree with the law. I bet there's some folks doing their bare minimum to comply and keep their jobs. All this kind of work would be done in SLC and SLC definitely is way more reasonable and progressive than the rest of the state or most of the suburbs. One of the many reasons I left there a long time ago.
@thomasfuchs having written a lot of assembly and low level C (I'm an electrical engineer) I can wholeheartedly say I like the engineering which is writing about how everything works and works together and how the system must behave, but then just typing out the code after that is pretty boring. Kinda like when I was kid, copying basic programs out of books and magazines. Unfortunately I think a lot of developers consider writing code and engineering the same thing.
@thomasfuchs the hyperbole on Mastodon is something else. Consent is a hugely complicated subject . These are the kind of folks who think if I go to kiss my wife without asking first, well, it goes without saying.
@thomasfuchs Karl Guttag (https://kguttag.com/) has a lot of experience in the AR/VR field and understands the optical challenges exceptionally well. He's written extensively on head mounted displays for years and there's a ton of good information in general and a multi part series on the AVP itself. It's not all negative but there are huge challenges to overcome and it doesn't seem like Apple has learned enough lessons from what's already been done in the industry.
@thomasfuchs it was super enlightening when I went back to school in my 30s to become an electrical engineer after working in odd jobs ranging from the arts to restaurants. I thought I'd be around a lot of sciency folks. Now I work alongside a ton of really smart people with terrible critical thinking skills. Also a ton of racism, sexism, and homophobia. And lots of folks who "don't like to read"
People who are really smart in one area can convince themselves that all their opinions are smart.