This Pride, we’re answering all your digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A.
You asked: is being openly trans on the internet harmful in this day and age with the current political situation?
EFF's answer: In short, yes. But of course it's more complicated than that.
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Want to nap, 2 hours after you get out of bed?
fuuuck i have stupid rhyzhms from heaven stuck in my head now
Surround yourself with friends who are all-in on your absolute worst ideas
e621's April 1st for next year should be a dating service that matches people who search similar tags
I have 1,227,146 unread notifications on Telegram lmao
friendly reminder that you shouldn't record yourself doing crimes and post them to the internet
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Yes, Firefox, I am.
I wonder how big of an explosion would need to occur inside of a Tornado to permanently disrupt it.
The CEA-608 standard says "transmit the standard character that most closely resembles the extended character, for receivers that can't decode it"...
Therefore this CEA-608 sequence would not be out of spec: 0x4341 0x4E41 0x505C 0x1221
Meaning: "CANAPé" followed by "extended set 1 character: É" command, which implicitly performs a backspace. This would output "CANAPÉ" on later decoders and revert to "CANAPé" on earlier decoders arguably without a violation of the spec.
Too bad someone back then didn't really think of doing it. Or maybe this was encoded prior to when CEA-608-B extension appeared, in which case this is not an anomaly but just an artifact of its age...
Found a CEA-608 encoding anomaly on the Little Shop of Horrors VHS (catalog no. 11702). The subtitle is encoded as "CANAPé" instead of "CANAPÉ" as would be following the style.
The usual style for captions is: all-uppercase letters for dialog, normal case letters for whispering.
Why does this anomaly exist: due to CEA-608 encoding specification and desire to support legacy subtitle decoders. Lowercase "é" is part of the basic set (1 byte: 0x5C), so it is widely supported. Uppercase "É" is part of the extended character set 1 (a later extension).
It's a choice... the uppercase "É" is encoded by three bytes: 0x45 0x12 0x21. This prints E and then transmits a control code which - if supported - will backspace and write É over it.
So there IS a way to encode this in a correct way, but they went with the safe way. CEA-608 specification requires accented letters to be replaced with their non-accented equivalents - so encoding "é, backspaced and overwritten with É" can be non-trivial.
Imagine the sophistication that sleight of hand tricks can achieve when you have a hollow plastic fake fingertip that's bigger on the inside.
I've also considered using the apostrophe as a divisor (so 6'3 = 2) because it will frustrate the hell out of people who work in feet.
Just to annoy mathematicians I suggest we use reciprocal multiplication for division: * with a superscript -1
The dearth of fish pilots in the aerospace industry is yet another example of the fishnet ceiling at work 😔
If you're gay, they're gay. Kiss a fish.
I love when YouTube is just a bit unhinged.
