STRONG Men need to actively take a stand in their relationships with other men, and flat out state that misogyny is unacceptable behaviour towards women, when and as it happens. Consent is King & Queen.
Reject the casual violence against POC, gays and minorities that WEAK men perpetuate.
10.6.26
Masculinity
9.6.26
Captions
There is a disturbing trend I've noticed, especially with YouTube videos, and their declining caption quality. For the last several years it has been getting worse. It has to be auto-generated, because lately the same 'error' keeps popping up, seemingly at the start of a sound stream.
I will see the words "heat" repeated three times [heat heat heat], then the software will suddenly pick up mid-sentence (usually) what was actually being said. It has made the experience worse, especially while dealing with homonyms. Experienced readers will be able to pick out and disregard these errors, however live broadcasts have their own issues, such as garbage characters and missing entire sentences.
Right now, it's an awful experience. It's a wonder anybody can spell English, because you can't learn it from watching television captions.
Subtitles are a different thing in case you were wondering, that's not what I'm talking about here. Bring back the classic caption interface - humans.
1.6.26
Batteries
You guys know about this trick about replaceable hearing aid batteries, right? If you don't have a device for testing, you can just bounce the battery on a table-top. If it bounces, the battery is depleted. If it lands "flat", it's still good.
25.5.26
Muppets
The trick to working with Muppets is to pretend they're people. Unfortunately most people can't manage that with regular people.
18.5.26
Traditional T9 Keyboard
Ever since I made the switch from pressing plastic buttons to tapping on glass, I had been wishing for a T9 Gboard mode. A developer named Karaivanov was tired of waiting as well I imagine, so they built their own. It's called "Traditional T9" and you can get it from F-Droid & the Play store.
11.5.26
Society
Racism & its silent partner, Ableism. What a ghastly couple Hearing society has adopted as its head of state.
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I have a theory. There's a bunch of us in the world who want to see things done correctly - "the right way"; then there are th...
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This morning while I was unable to sleep my brain offered up this little factoid: Nobody in my life has been willing to learn sign language ...
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There is a disturbing trend I've noticed, especially with YouTube videos, and their declining caption quality. For the last several year...