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Hey. So as major platforms start to fall apart, don’t necessarily look for the next big one.

Dust off your blog.

Go back to establishing web-rings.

RSS feeds. Remember those?

This is the way to share good stuff. You don’t need a centralized platform for that.

As hams, we should know that.

—@KC8JC

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I strongly encourage you to demand your Mastodon instance use AUTHORIZED_FETCH.

The basic story is this:
If you block someone, you can’t see them & their posts, etc. BUT without AF, they can still see you & your posts.

What does AUTHORIZED_FETCH actually do?
https://hub.sunny.garden/2023/06/28/what-does-authorized_fetch-actually-do/

Why AUTHORIZED_FETCH isn’t defaulted on… Knowing what I now know, I would move to a new instance if my admin would not turn AF on. It’s a huge security issue.

It’s a stalkers field day without AUTHORIZED_FETCH.

—@Yehuda

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Newest Reaper version, right at the top of the changelog, are accessibility items. Oh, but not just the typical accessibility items, the new fixes are all to improve accessibility of the Video Processor. A lot more blind people must be using Reaper as a video editor now, and that’s kind of amazing. “add preference to use standard (screen-reader accessible) OS editing control for video processor code” and “improve keyboard navigation of video processor presets” http://reaper.fm

—@bryansmart

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Never thought I’d be one of those folks going on about how great their company is on social media but here I am.

We have a web-based terminal that pre-installs/auths our CLI so you can upload code and launch apps from the web. As a blind screen reader user, I don’t often need web-based terminals, but when I need them I need them and usually they’re a11y hot garbage.

Asked in Slack where the code for ours was, pulled it down, discovered it used xterm.js which has a screenReaderMode flag which, I’ve learned, is essentially what VS Code’s terminal uses.

15 minutes later and my PR adding this in is up for review. Waiting for it to get more testing to determine if we’ll need to make it a toggle, but I fully expect this to be live within the week.

I’ve made a lot of small, quick win a11y changes on our platform over the past couple months. Meanwhile I met with the vendor for our collaborative wiki, suggested some very simple landmark changes that they could have made in 15 minutes, and guess whether any of those are in?

Company culture really does make all the difference, and the Fly folks have gone out of their way to empower me to change things, and to make things more accessible for me without me having to ask. A thousand points to them.

—@nolan

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It’s cool, everyone, I’m sure mega-rich GOP-patron coup-supporting fascist assholes just want what’s best for the Democratic Party and America by bankrolling an enfleshed-horseshoe-theory dipshit whom exactly zero people OTHER than Republicans and Naomi Wolf want to run for president and who only Naomi Wolf and the handful of people who still think Naomi Wolf is smart will vote for.

#RFKjr

https://popular.info/p/gop-donors-fuel-rfk-jrs-presidential?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1664&post_id=135053567&isFreemail=true&utm_medium=email

—@GrimmReality

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Because #AI trains on content it finds on the Internet; and because most of the frontpage stuff you find with a Google search now is just AI-generated junk…

I think we’re about 8 months from the entire Internet being like one of those barely-legible, recompressed-a-million-times jpegs you see on your uncle’s Facebook… but in paragraph form.

—@RxBrad

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For abled folks: Next time you’re about to argue you’re not ableist, think about the fact that there even need to be laws to create a bare bones accessibility ….that it wasn’t something abled ppl just wanted to do to include their fellow human beings.

Then contemplate that these bare bones laws are very often disobeyed and society isn’t in an uproar about it.

https://techhub.social/@hosford42/110731056959777636

—@glightly

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I absolutely hate the “yes or later” UX patter with all my fucking heart. If you were asked whether you’d like to be hung today, would “no, but please ask me next time we talk” be an acceptable answer for you? Because it sure isn’t for me, and that’s how I feel like when I’m forced to click that “later” button. Even if a software, in fact, is going to ask me later, it should at least have the decency not to rub that fact in my face. NVDA’s “skip donation this time” is a much better wording here.

—@miki

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If we truly want people to join the #Fediverse, the *best* way to do that is to post content that you can’t get anywhere else.

I haven’t seen anyone do more in that regard than @Deglassco, who is not only sharing American history, but American history that many politicians on the right are actively trying to erase from public school curricula.

*This* is how you do it. 😎

If you aren’t already following @Deglassco I encourage you to take corrective action immediately. 😊

#Mastodon #history

—@gulovsen

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Republicans are moving ahead with plans for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to testify before a Judiciary subpanel after he falsely claimed Covid-19 was “ethnically targeted.” (RKF was not, as he claims, misunderstood. He is a anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist and his appearance at a GOP hearing just demonstrates how specious the hearing is.) https://www.politico.com/minutes/congress/07-17-2023/jordan-gop-rfk-covid/

—@GovTrack