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edmistond.bsky.social
Dad, husband, software dev (C#, Ruby, JS, general language polyglot). Deaf. Occasionally post dad jokes. Transplant to the Cleveland area, by way of small town NW Ohio.
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Blogged - My review of Windows Live Captions as part of the Auto Captions Project: davidedmiston.com/post/2025/wi... #livecaptioning #autocaptioning #autocaptionsproject

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Blogged: The Auto-Captions Project returns with a review of Be My Ears for the Mac: davidedmiston.com/post/2025/be...

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"I'm in this photo and I don't like it."

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Strong opinion Saturday: Instagram and TikTok have both led the enshittification of video captions on online platforms. I actually made a on Tiktok last year talking about some of the issues I've come across. M

submitted 108 days ago • 5 comments

We ran a lovely feature about the experience of getting hearing aids last month: slate.com/technology/2...

submitted 117 days ago • 2 comments

Optimist: the cup is half full Pessimist: the cup is half empty Tolkien: but they were all deceived, for another cup was made.

submitted 121 days ago • 6 comments

Hello all: It is with a heavy heart that I remove my Starter Pack of "Trustworthy Mesopotamian Copper Ingot Merchants Within the City-State of Ur." I have been informed about some pretty unfortunate oversights on my part and ultimately platformed some creators who should not have been platformed.

submitted 132 days ago • 175 comments

Also, new folks, please know that when it comes to trolls, jerks, chuds and other undesirables here in the sky, we subscribe to the idea of “Don’t Engage, Just Block.” The block function is superpowered and expunges them entirely from your timeline. They hate it! Block with wild abandon! Don’t wait!

submitted 137 days ago • 121 comments

I have fond memories of going with my mom as a kid when she voted; back when they still used the cool mechnical voting machines with the curtain, the levers you'd flip to make your selections, and then the big lever you'd pull to record the ballot. ... voted 1st time on those same machines in '96.

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TIL: rice cookers know when rice is done because water boils at a constant temperature, so an increase in temp means the rice is done. This will be my contribution to all small talk this week; better than talking about the weather :-) (Feel free to share a better-than-small-talk fact in return)

submitted 147 days ago • 5 comments

when JD Vance whines about being called weird this is what he thinks is normal

submitted 239 days ago • 29 comments

I was just remembering that whole M&M kerfuffle the other day - I don't even know what brought it to mind - and was thinking "you know, that was pretty weird."

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Ohio folks: Today's the day! Don't forget to disappoint the conservative politicians who want to take away your rights and scheduled a vote on a traditionally low-participation date to sneak it by you! In other words:

submitted 595 days ago • 28 comments

A group of crows is called a murder, but only if there is probable caws

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