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  • I can’t hear bat noises but there are humans who can echolocate

    I once got bored like 15 years ago and tried it for a few days after reading about a blind boy doing this to fi d the hoop in basketball.

    I couldn’t dream of that kind of resolution, but I was able to detect a wall / doorframe and whether it was 1m away or 10cm.

    But I used clicking noises.




  • She started out with the comic (regular on reddit), added kinky ideas to her protagonist (depicting herself), posted the occasional selfie, felt encouraged by results and decided to show some more on OF. At least that’s the timeline I observed. She’s a good gal, nothing wrong with bashing hypocrites and also being kinky and earning extra money :)



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    3 days ago

    Ok, I should have phrased that differently. I did get that bit. I just found “ahhh” inappropriate to mimic a bat (a is a deep vowel, not a screech), and “right there” or “that’s it” inappropriate for acknowledging that you got an echo. It feels really forced for the purpose of making a joke, and it didn’t click with me at all.







  • Computers being math, and the human sense of touch being pretty dang sensitive, means that other peripherals than screens, can represent that nuance required to reverse engineer, or anything else relating to computer code.

    I am genuinely interested in what’s available today on that level - the last I checked, it was still Braille displays, and those were not good for much beyond text.

    There are blind programmers, I am very much aware, and I could definitely see myself still enjoying development would I not be able to see. But for myself, I always assumed I would need someone else with normal eyesight to debate the algorithms and help me implement.

    The term for what you are doing and which isn’t something that requires malice, is ableism.

    Aren’t you jumping to conclusions now? I never made any comments about her skill, I expressed - poorly worded, I now admit - my curiosity. But the answer I was expecting was “yes, she is visually impaired but she did all of this anyway”, which would be all the more impressive. You do agree it is harder to work on graphics drivers as a visually impaired person, don’t you?

    […] just from a critique based on perception of facial features from a picture

    Let me quote my original comment verbatim:

    She has this out-of-focus look that makes it seem like she’s visually impaired or blind - but I guess then she wouldn’t be working on graphics drivers, of all things?

    Where / how do you read any form of critique into that?