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by richbell 4y ago
> I don’t think the issue is awareness so much as accommodation. I think resources are better spent on solving the problems that can be solved rather than raising awareness. This is a false dichotomy: we can do both. And I respectfully d
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by richbell 4y ago
> What’s the written representation of ASL? Is it really a preference to use glyphs instead of letters? That's the thing: unlike most spoken languages, sign languages don't have written equivalents. Deaf people often use the w
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by richbell 4y ago
Yeah, that is a confusing element to explain about sign languages. For example, Spanish Sign Language is called that because it's a language regional to Spain, not because it's related to Spanish.
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by richbell 4y ago
> I always assumed that sign language was taught after reading and writing. Sign languages are often people's first language. If you're like me, you probably learned english as a toddler through magic and were later enrolled in
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by richbell 4y ago
> But they should be faulted so they can correct the fault and do better next time. I don't understand the point you're trying to make. They're clearly trying to do better as this is a fairly novel approach. Is it perfect?
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by richbell 4y ago
> The education system shouldn’t only serve children and is part of a lifelong process. I agree. Unfortunately, in many places it barely serves children, let alone the rest of the community. But this is tangential to my original point, w
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by richbell 4y ago
> If someone learns ASL, isn’t English also the written representation of their “spoken” language? No, because the grammar is completely different. In many cases it isn't possible to literally translate a sentence between ASL and En
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by richbell 4y ago
I suspect there aren't many academic sources detailing the discrimination faced by deaf people, though there might be compilations of first-hand accounts. The deaf community is fairly insular. My partner's father was born in India
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by richbell 4y ago
> Either way, it seems like the best way for the site to accommodate visitors is to use accessibility features so their written content can be used by screen readers for the sight impaired but also sign language displayers for people who
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by richbell 4y ago
> No, that’s why education is important. > If they can’t read, that’s a failure of education; fix it there. You can tackle more than one thing at a time. Improving the education system doesn't necessarily help older generations,
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by richbell 4y ago
I suspect people misinterpret me pointing out that a group has been historically discriminated against and denied education, or at least not being provided accommodations that allow them to participate, as being bigoted. A lot of people don
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by richbell 4y ago
> not useful as deaf/mute people can read Not all of them can: that's why accessibility is important.
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by richbell 4y ago
To anyone confused: sign languages are distinct languages in and of themselves, with their own etymology, not simply a visual medium for existing languages. My understanding is that it's many deaf people's preferred method of comm
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by richbell 4y ago
While I find doxing distasteful, I think it's a bit dishonest to describe it as "sharing private information" and "doxing attacks". The overwhelming majority of dox that I've seen is based on public information
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by richbell 4y ago
> because it doesn't scale Did they give an example of a database that "scales"?
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by richbell 4y ago
Terra was a crypto project backed by Terraform Labs. I don't think it's the same company — just confusing naming like Java and JavaScript. https://cryptoslate.com/do-kwon-accused-of-siphoning-8m-a-mo... https:&#x
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by richbell 4y ago
> You ditched all java over a single bug? A bug in a third-party dependency, no less.
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by richbell 4y ago
> Moderators get rewarded with the rush of 'power' Powermods have been detrimental to Reddit's health. There are some great communities with unpaid moderators who care about and foster their subreddits, but most of the pro
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by richbell 4y ago
Prior to banning /r/The_Donald, Reddit created /r/popular as a default alternative to /r/all to prevent posts from /r/The_Donald from making it to the front page. Interestingly, they didn't ban a
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by richbell 4y ago
> This says an admin was accused of editing posts, it doesn't provide proof. It then says users down voted him not employees of reddit. SubredditDrama is a meta-subreddit. They linked to the post by Spez where he admitted to editing
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by richbell 4y ago
More recently, the post that allegedly got Kiwi Farms removed from CloudFlare — a dubious bomb threat made by a previously inactive account — was removed from the site quicker than Facebook removed the Christchurch shooter's livestream
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by richbell 4y ago
It's impossible to say; I have personally experienced how stress can significantly deteriorate one's health, so I believe it.
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by richbell 4y ago
> But KW's webmaster did not allow it. From what I've seen it wasn't as straightforward as that. The operator, Null, shared the email exchange and there seems to have been less than 24 hours between Byuu's first messa
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by richbell 4y ago
Why not? From what I've seen GTP3 works exceptionally well until it doesn't, which can be easily missed.
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by richbell 4y ago
I am not claiming it isn't. My point is that 99% of people who haven't heard of Kiwi Farms prior won't be able to validate any claims against a primary resource. It becomes a very questionable "trust us, they were bad&qu
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by richbell 4y ago
> I don't know how this still bears repeating in this comment chain - IA still has the site archived, just not publicly accessible. Because if it isn't publicly accessible it functionally doesn't exist, and what remains is
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by richbell 4y ago
There are already dozens of sites like this today. Many are uncreatively named offshoots of Kiwi Farms.
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by richbell 4y ago
> You're also forgetting the countless screenshots and other documentation that exists of KF from prior controversial incidents. Screenshots are not a trustworthy medium. Many of the articles published about Kiwi Farms contain signi
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by richbell 4y ago
Half way through reading your comment I began to wonder if it was machine generated. I laughed out loud when I visited your profile. > Perhaps you'll think my comments are unthinkable. My only response to that is that they were legi
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by richbell 4y ago
> So they deleted videos where they couldn't verify the performers age only. Which is basically all of the "amateur" / non-professionally produced videos. I recall reading that they went from around 5 million videos t

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