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In reply to @jason.

@jason Well, for starters, because Bluesky has promised federation, but has yet to do so. Next, there are concerns about what BS will do with content it has access to as a result of federation should it federate, because apparently it's the typical data hoover with the typical end result, selling data to create revenue. Hope this is helpful.

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The FDA DID NOT end its ‘ban’ on blood donations. It EASED the restrictions. There is a MASSIVE difference.

Before:

Men who have sex with men must ABSTAIN from sex entirely for 3 months to donate.

Now:

People who have sex with a NEW partner, or more than one partner, in the last three months, cannot donate. And still no anal sex for 3 months before you donate.

Slightly better? Yes.

Now EVERYONE is being judged by the same criteria. But…. To say “No anal sex for 3 months before you donate” is STILL primarily targeting gay men.

And that is not better.

I remain perplexed, since it’s not like the labs aren’t checking donations to make sure you don’t have some surprise disease (I know someone who learned they had leukaemia from a donation).

Make a note and let them donate.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-65566500

—@ipstenu

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We appreciate that AccessiBe’s CEO is at least publicly attempting to repair their reputation. But actions speak louder than words, and unless they completely give up on the one-line-of-code-will-make-websites-accessible pitch and get serious about accessibility, this apology is merely the first step on the all too typical rehabilitation tour. https://nfb.org//images/nfb/publications/bm/bm23/bm2305/bm230503.htm

—@worldblindherald

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ok, like, you can’t ask people to opt out of features which can cause disorientation and other epileptic symptoms. this is usability 101.

telling me there is some checkbox that you can check to make misskey turn off animations is missing the point.

the checkbox should be to *opt into that feature*.

—@ariadne

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FedEx has a new RESTful API. Great! We’re migrating to it at work. Finally, we can throw out SOAP and XML, and use JSON. Great! FedEx didn’t release any client libraries for this, not even in popular languages like PHP or Java. Annoying, but okay. Request a response, and you get headers and JSON. Great! Exactly what you’d expect. But what’s this? If your request results in an error, you get… You get… GZIP? Why? FedEx, why are you compressing 200 bytes of error data? WHY????

—@alexhall