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I really prefer to be chill and collegial but I think coddling the mass of dudes who can somehow keep up with the minutiae of decades of software disputes but demand that every race and culture conversation grind to a halt while they demand a basic orientation has turned out to be a terrible strategy.

—@kissane

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So, I noticed that a lot of trans people from Florida are seeking housing assistance, financial aid and other help as they seek safety in the US.

If you know any US-based initiative or a NPO that helps displaced trans people that flee abusive homes, please respond with them in this toot.

I’ll later compile a large list of all NPI and NPOs that people in Florida and from Florida can access to reach help quick.

—@YukiDeer

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“Of all the cruel tricks in software engineering, this has to be the cruelest. Most of us entered this field because the machines are so much more logical than people. And yet, even when you’re writing code explicitly intended for the machine, you’re still writing. For other people. Fallible, flawed, distracted human beings just like you. And that’s the truly difficult part.” https://blog.codinghorror.com/coding-its-just-writing/

—@codinghorror

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I really don’t understand why braille is so expensive. I’m not even talking about multiline refreshable braille displays or whatever the new tech craze is. I just mean printing braille on a surface. The thing that makes braille the most useful. The Perkins braille writer is $800–not the new one that’s supposed to be modernized, the one I went to school with that’s existed since the ’50s. The new one is 2000 dollars! Or the LoganTech thing you can type on to make labels, that’s $1100! Why?

—@objectinspace

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House GOP: There’s no such thing as “systemic racism”, it’s a myth.

Also House GOP: “The military was never intended to be, you know, inclusive.” This amendment will block all military funding until the Pentagon gets rid of these woke diversity programs. “And it has nothing to do with colored people”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/07/14/gop-lawmaker-says-he-misspoke-referring-colored-people-house-floor/

—@kennwhite

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I’m exhausted and kinda grumpy so I probably shouldn’t post this today but I will. We as blind people want to have our pictures described to us, which is great. But why then are we posting audio without descriptions of what the audio contains for those who can’t hear? We know what it’s like, so why are we passing that along to others? And we have plenty of characters so there’s no reason for links without any additional text. Too often we don’t think beyond ourselves.

—@technolass

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Shit, i just realized. Remember Brandolini’s law?

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

LLMs becoming increasingly available has significantly lowered the cost of bullshit, making Brandolini’s Law obsolete, but not in the good direction…

—@nicuveo

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But seriously, people who don’t support #open #standards, how are we gonna achieve a #StarTrek future where we can easily have video calls among ships from different planets and races, including #Klingons and #Romulan ships?

Do you think the #Ferengi created a video call app to unite races from all over the Universe and they’ll never take advantage of owning that app?

Would you trust the #Ferengi? Then why you trust the tech bros?

—@nulliver