Amanda Unvarnished

Every day, a new bill is released that targets the transgender community in new and cruel ways. HB991 in Florida is the newest example, which could charge people $35k for transphobia accusations.

Given the Court’s extreme new stance on the Second Amendment, it’s time to consider removing the issue from the federal judiciary’s jurisdiction.

Twitter Spaces no longer lets you use captions if you’re listening on iOS. When listening to a Space on the web, captions don’t show. It’s unclear why they are gone.

Covey was fired after his video showing rows of empty bookshelves inside a Florida middle school was blasted as a "fake narrative" by the Republican governor.

A Realistic Look at Implications of ChatGPT for Cybercrime by Marcus Hutchins (malwaretech.com)

Analyzing ChatGPT's capabilities and various claims about how it will revolutionize cybercrime.

Jira went down, Slack's gone, and site performance is degraded. What's next?

And an alleged arms trafficker claims he was targeted over Hunter Biden

At the heart of every bot-detection tool is a human's gut feeling—and all the messiness that comes with it.

Try it! I've been comparing the two -- even though I have 1/10 the followers, I have TEN TIMES the engagement on Mastodon. From real humans!!

A short little reflection on why spending time reading through the RSS feeds Tim Kadlec subscribes to has been a daily habit over the years that he continues to find to be valuable and incredibly enjoyable.

Some GOP leaders want to celebrate good news during Black History Month while erasing what came before and what remains to be done. That leaves us poorer.

A coda to Marjorie Taylor Greene’s “national divorce” proposal.

Shadow DOM allows web developers to create and use components which encapsulate their internals. Like encapsulation in any other programming context, being able to hide the implementation details of an HTML component has many benefits to both developers using the component in their web pages, and the developers who author and maintain the component. However, there is one major way that, to date, Shadow DOM's encapsulation mechanism is in conflict with techniques authors use to provide an accessible user experience.