Alex Sirota
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Alex Sirota
@alex.sirota.org
Nerd from the SF Bay Area. Neurodivergent, disabled, queer. (he/they)
WPI '29
FIRST Robotics Competition team 6238 (Popcorn Penguins) alum
I use alt-text and so should you.
What device is that?
August 3, 2025 at 1:20 AM
Never mind! As it turns out, they removed the arbitration clause from their terms in 2021: www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/b... (gift link)
Amazon Ends Use of Arbitration for Customer Disputes (Published 2021)
www.nytimes.com
June 18, 2025 at 6:38 AM
(saw your post in the disability feed)

Sadly, that's probably not feasible. Amazon almost certainly has a "all disputes must be resolved through arbitration" clause in their terms of service.
June 18, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Reposted by Alex Sirota
thread of photographs i took at my local protest (3)

this trump supporter was the only counter-protestor i saw, and the police forced him to stand on the other side of a creek far away from the crowd of thousands — all alone, he helplessly kept trying to shout "you are the minority!"
June 14, 2025 at 6:21 PM
I did take the stickers off

Also scoring the sticker doesn't really do anything, they're already fairly brittle as-is
June 14, 2025 at 10:21 PM
What do you think of mine?
May 27, 2025 at 11:52 PM
You are limited to non-commercial use on the free version (unless you're a student or educator), and all your documents have to be public, but depending on what you're using it for that may be fine.
May 20, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Onshape? It's web-based but surprisingly cromulent despite that. I've used it a ton and haven't seen any issues that I can attribute to the browser environment
May 20, 2025 at 9:33 PM
@aviva.gay I think this is a deer.social feature request
May 9, 2025 at 5:16 AM
No, or at least not visibly.
April 28, 2025 at 4:15 AM
that looks really cool, if you showed that to me I would not say that came out of Onshape
April 14, 2025 at 9:18 PM
oh no
April 9, 2025 at 10:45 PM
(These photos were both taken by myself!)
April 9, 2025 at 3:20 AM