Sherri W (SyntaxSeed)

Tech, gaming & other geeky topics from
Sherri Wheeler.

Occasional handiwork, electronics, parenting and fitness content.

🐘 PHP/JS developer with miles to go before I sleep();

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2024-09-16 23:58:55

Among my son's 12 year old classmates... having an #AI "girlfriend" is slowly becoming normalized.
I dunno how these kids are finding out about & accessing these things... but there are no adults around, & no limits on their devices. I'd bet this is so far off their parents' radar that it might not even seem real.
#parenting

2024-09-14 13:50:07

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@npub1cel…pmxm Wow! 🤩
I'm pretty sure this is the location of a boss fight against a dragon!

2024-08-23 23:24:25

Musing on some thoughts for #Mastodon abuse #moderation techniques.
What if people could 'subscribe' to the block list of everyone they follow. Assuming that following someone implies a mild level of trust & "I kinda like similar things this person likes." Then as people I follow identify trolls & abusive commenters & block them, then those blocks spread to their network proactively.
Would be opt-in and may even later expand to allowing someone to 'share' their block at the time of blocking. 🤔

2024-08-18 00:01:04

Our family will be taking a vacation soon to Pigeon Forge #Tennessee. It will be our first time in the midwest.
Looking forward to combining our #Canadian politeness with some southern hospitality into a megazord of manners! 😁

2024-08-09 03:19:55

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@npub1jpp…u59l LOL. Dead Of Winter. A co-op zombie apocalypse game. Would be even better if it was. 🤣

2024-08-09 03:15:26

Aggressively #knitting a rainbow scarf (leg warmers? 🤔) while playing board games with some religiously conservative friends.
😆🌈
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2024-07-08 11:12:57

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@npub1jpp…u59l Oh yes, I've seen the CapriSun too!

2024-07-08 01:56:45

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How was this not just a temporary fad? To build the brand & stand out from those stodgy tetra pack juice boxes??
Ok Kool-Aid, you won the liquid sugar brand awareness competition. Time to engineer a container you can actually open without showering your lap in food dyes, and that can actually be recycled. 🤦‍♀️

2024-07-08 01:52:51

You gotta be impressed by Kool-Aid's loyal adherence to the worst designed beverage container of all time. Made even better with now the most flimsy cardboard straw on earth.
#engineering #food #PlasticWaste
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2024-06-19 19:02:04

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@npub14qj…ec5c Ug I hate that.

2024-05-28 11:33:21

Wtf #CloudFlare... 😱
https://robindev.substack.com/p/cloudflare-took-down-our-website

2024-05-12 23:57:32

Unlocked a new #DIY achievement today...
First time dumpster diving on a construction site & brought home a bunch of 2x4 & 2x6 odds & ends, plywood, plastic pipe & insulation foam board. 🛠️
What can we add to the ninja course next? 🤣
#carpentry #maker
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2024-05-12 13:27:44

My 12-yr-old figured out how to bypass the parental controls on #DisneyPlus.
He couldn't find the movie Wish on the kids' profile... so he created a new profile. Which doesn't prompt for password or pin & gives you access to all the content. 😬
#security #appsec
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2023-09-13 17:41:23

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Billionaires aren't your heroes.
Corporations aren't doing any thing *for* you.
You aren't free in someone else's garden.

2023-09-13 17:38:50

Unity
Wizards Of The Coast
Twitter
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People keep acting surprised that corporations put profit above all other values. That they run on greed.
How many times is everyone's jaw going to hit the floor when corporations do what they are supposed to do?
We've collectively decided that capitalism is the 'best' way to structure society then we cry when it burns us over and over and over.
#Unity #WotC #Twitter

2023-09-12 02:41:24

PHPgasm! LOL 😆
#PHP #programming #webdev
https://youtu.be/WsnHWxO7Krw?si=-NQZw1bWfFkT8eTP

2023-09-07 12:15:34

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@npub19lt…qfjk They would happily take a mobile number. But these are companies whom I *want* to be able to reach me by phone. Bank. Kids' school. Doctor. So I wouldn't want them to have a throw-away number.
I can see having one 'main' number that I only give to trustworthy contacts (for me that's our house VOIP line, a number I've had for over a decade.)
My cell used to be the "throw away" then I started using it for business.... 🤦‍♀️🤣

2023-09-07 12:08:38

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@npub19lt…qfjk Wow. I can't fathom this. Even our "mission critical" places that have our phone number is over 20. 😳

2023-09-07 12:05:33

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@npub19lt…qfjk I'm so interested in this! Do you also have a main home number used for all your main accounts for things? Otherwise I can't imagine how it isn't a massive pain to update your number at all the zillions of places who need it (utilities, kids' school, bank, doctors, etc etc). 🤔

2023-08-16 13:21:52

It might be time to repurpose the "All posts are my own." Line on everyone's bio to mean "Not AI/LLM generated."
We are about to drown in a flood of #AI generated BS & it's time to start creating conventions for flagging content as either contains or is free from, it.
#LLM #news

2023-08-11 13:20:26

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I can't understand why the management levels think this is so hard.
Employees want to feel like their skills & expertise matters, and to be seen as human beings with lives, families & needs.
Respect the insight of production-level employees who know your product & users more than anyone else. And give them room to have lives alongside work so they don't burn out or resent their jobs.
Fancy offices & fun parties bring short-term delight at best, but lead to questions about spending priorities.

2023-08-11 13:07:05

Overheard 2 businessmen discussing corporate office changes so that employees "won't feel like just a cog in a machine."
They came up with these 'great' strategies:
- Rearrange the cubicles
- Art on the walls
- Seat managers closer to employees
- More team fun events
Notably not discussed:
- More pay
- Profit sharing
- More ownership of decisions & input
- Recognition of employee successes
- More PTO and/or work-life flexibility
- WFH options
Good luck guys! 😆
#business #management #HR

2023-08-11 13:07:05

2023-08-07 03:37:22

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@npub1e0a…eww0 Images like this certainly look fake right off the bat. But that won't be the case for long. It's going to be a dangerous problem when the poisoning of our collective information repository (the web) becomes pervasive. What happens when searching things like "how to change car battery" return wrong instructions? Or when info on medicines gives false results? Etc. People are going to get hurt.
AI generated content needs to be flagged in the meta data & kept separate.

2023-08-07 03:37:22

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