Month: 16 Adar 5783 (March 2023)

Using #vim is easy once you learn a few basic keybindings.

h and l – move left and right
j and k – move down and up
η and λ – move backwards and forwards through time
ξ and κ – translation through additional temporal dimension (if applicable)
ᚻ, ᛄ, ᚳ and ᛚ – moving left, down, up, and right through celestial spheres
𐤄 and 𐤋 – switch deity to pantheon member to left or right
ᛄ – supplicate to chosen deity
ᚳ – challenge chosen deity (dangerous)
:q – exit

—@ids1024

A girl comes home from work to this! She thinks she should get a pay raise! #DogsOfMastodon
#ServiceDog

—@Pawpower

I think the reason why the US wants to simply ban TikTok instead of having a privacy law is because the likes of the FBI and NSA will be crippled with a federal privacy law. whatdyathink?

—@rom

If you have been sleeping on the national security threat that are data brokers, finally we have a story that connects people’s political agendas to their data buying strategies and how they used the current systems to dox a gay priest https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/09/catholics-gay-priests-grindr-data-bishops/

—@thezedwards

“Every day that lawmakers waste hand wringing about TikTok is another day that we don’t have a national privacy law in the United States.” -@evan_greer #DontBanTiktok https://www.businessinsider.com/tiktok-ban-us-china-tech-war-distraction-data-privacy-experts-2023-2

—@team

Lauren Boebèrt proudly announced that she’s about to be a 36 year old grandmother. Not trying to shame anyone, but…😬

As David Pakman points out, she opposes teens transitioning, yet is happy about her son following in her footsteps as a teen parent. I remember how hard it was raising kids in my late 20’s and 30’s. Teens should be making dumb mistakes, not pretending to be grownups.

Just hoping her grandkid is raised better so they at least learn about birth control.

https://youtu.be/gw0hjNC8m-A

—@biobrain

For Throwback Thursday, June 2020 roses blooming in the front yard.
Alt text: three photos showing different angles on rose blossoms that simultaneously display a range of yellow and pink tones on each flower.
#TBT #flowers #roses

—@jrosen707

I’m a huge fan of the many fine folks at the Verge, but covering #a11y press releases with “well, must be better than nothing!” treatments lets companies off the hook for the many (often long-standing) accessibility gaps in their products and fails even to probe whether these incremental improvements actually work as advertised.

—@blakereid

I know some Microsoft #a11y folks follow me here: the Accessibility Assistant for Word is all well and good, but the absolutely wretched Style mechanics and Word->accessible PDF workflows have been borked for years and are directly responsible for generating enormous quantities of inaccessible content. Detecting contrast errors comes absolutely nowhere close to covering the waterfront. And I wish journalists covering this stuff would be more skeptical. https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/9/23632562/microsoft-accessibility-assistant-365-office-ability-summit

—@blakereid