Kind: Reposts

I know that a lot of people have no idea where food comes from or don’t have relationship with food other than it comes from groceries/restaurant/mother/wife. This. This is wild.

—@xgebi

As a Brit the name “GitHub” will never stop being amusing to me. (Git being British slang for a nasty, unpleasant person, generally a man.) So I’m like “GitHub? Sounds like some pubs I know, amirite?”

—@beecycling

Just what kind of nonsense is this? I’m shocked. I’ve had to reboot my brain twice when I saw this. Not only is it terrible for accessibility, but it is also stupid. Registration, I can mostly understand. Login is stretching it dangerously thin. But searching? What kind of questions are those, anyway? It wasn’t enough to ask to break our brain decrypting the first part of that ridiculous challenge? #accessibility #blind #captcha #disability #wtf

—@xogium

There’s this growing trend of certain video essayists (not naming names) editing things in a frenetic style with lots of flashing effects and quick cuts and it’s too much to handle as someone with #epilepsy

I expect nothing to change with big production media, but I’d hope smaller creators would have just a little consideration.

I swear one creator (or their editor idk) did it more in response to me saying it was too much for me to safely handle and just added a warning for flashing lights at the beginning.

I’m so tired. That warning might as well say “fuck you.”

—@Bec

Wild Geerters
@steinkobbe

The Elon fanboys have invented an alternative reality now where Elon personally created Twitter

https://twitter.com/steinkobbe/status/1677659131166040066

—@davidgerard

What are people envisioning when they wring their hands about one or another social media service becoming an echo chamber?

When they say “you can’t expect to only see things you agree with” I feel like they’re imagining a spirited debate centering on a fringe take on NAFTA rather than like, you know, someone posting a picture of your front door with a Bowie knife plunged into it.

—@andrew

So let me get this straight… #Threads collects massive amounts of data, the platform is full of brands and celebrities, AND it uses an algorithm-driven feed. It tracks users, serves ads, and has quickly filled up, according to reports, with trolls, Nazis and the far right. Oh, and the site makes a shadow account for everyone with an Instagram profile, whether they want to participate or not. But still new users are flocking to the platform?? It’s a case of FOMO, and I don’t think it will last. F*ck Zuck and the corporate trojan horse he rode in on. Very disappointed in those I know who have bought the BS. That’s all I have to say on the matter. #TwitterMigration #TwitterMigrants #SocialMedia #Meta #Zuckerberg

—@CharlieMcHenry

Hey designers, don’t prescribe screen reader pronunciation.

Hey devs, don’t override screen reader pronunciation.

Hey testers, don’t file WCAG violations over screen reader pronunciation.

https://adrianroselli.com/2023/04/dont-override-screen-reader-pronunciation.html

#accessibility #a11y

—@aardrian

Me: there is an ongoing problem of a lack of empathy for disabled people within bike infrastructure advocacy circles.

Way too many bike people: deluge me with replies which directly and perfectly demonstrate that lack of empathy with its most common iteration: the assumption of what disability looks like, what disabled people need, and how the thing that’s exactly what they want must by all means be good for disabled people too.

—@amaditalks

If you lock the stall door while you go to the bathroom, you should also encrypt your data, for the same reason.

—@topher

Firefox 115 Released: Last Version to Support Windows 7 and Windows 8, Fix For Users of Windows Magnifier https://groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/4507

—@DavidGoldfield

One line sarcastic shitpost?

50 favorites, 23 boosts, 4 replies.

Post explicitly marked :BoostOK: to get reach so we can perhaps make a difference for #DisabilityPrideMonth ?

2 favorites, 3 boosts, no replies.

Ok Fediverse. I see you.

How many of you have actually *muted* the #DisabilityPrideMonth tag and won’t even see this?

—@dentangle

W3C is working on a charter for a Privacy Working Group
“The mission of the Privacy Working Group will be to improve privacy on the Web both by advising groups developing standards on how to avoid and mitigate privacy issues with Web technologies and by standardizing mechanisms that improve user privacy on the Web.” A formal AC Review is expected in August
https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-new-work/2023Jul/0000.html

—@w3c

I would strongly recommend all #Mastoadmin apply patches for #CVE202336460 #TootRoot – i.e. get to the latest release.

I’ve done some surveying and a significant percentage of instances haven’t patched, and this one is very likely to see in the wild exploitation.

Widespread exploitation across many instances is as simple as sending a single toot.

—@GossiTheDog

Here’s a quote from a YouTube video I heard earlier today. ‘In the modern age of the internet, we live by the motto that if something is online, it stays there. But the truth is that our creations are bound, sooner or later, to be cast into obscurity and forgotten’. Truer words were never spoken, and that’s why, if you come across any you and/or others find valuable, I very strongly urge you to back it up and archive it anywhere you can, in as many places you can, be it OneDrive, Dropbox, the Internet Archive or your own website or file storage server. Let’s work together to fight #DataRot and preserve as much of our online creations and discoveries as we possibly can! #data #archival #backup #preservation #DataArchival #DataBackup #DataPreservation

—@seedy

So, fun story. In the middle of ActivityPub’s standardization, the Social Web Working Group nearly got shut down because we couldn’t get the big corporate players to pay attention to us, and the W3C’s membership structure required paid membership participation.

We tried *desperately* to get Twitter, Facebook, Google, etc to look at us. They weren’t interested. What I heard was that they had written off the idea that decentralized social networks could exist or work by then.

Luckily, management agreed that the SocialWG’s work was interesting enough that we should continue. And later having seen what happened when big players entered a standards group… ActivityPub was probably a better spec for being written by people passionate about it instead.

But anyway. That’s all to say… it’s so *weird* now to be in the present moment, as you can imagine…

—@cwebber

Hey folks!
I thought today of all days, when a new social media platform is grabbing all the attention, would be a great time to tell you all I have a brand new website! Let’s get anachronistic!

https://designthinking.lol

—@designthinkingcomic

The morale of the story?

Hire a professional to work on your website.

I know it is difficult to filter us out of the rest of the bunch consisting of gold diggers, fraudsters and hacks, but we are usually available on a short notice in case something like this happens.

—@alda

Then an actual Linux cron job was being run on the old server every 3 hours. It would run wget on index.php with that specific GET parameter set.

If there was no response or the status was not “200 ok”, it would try again and again.

Again and again, until the machine crashed.

—@alda

It turns out that the guy who had been contracted for the accounting software integration had modified the active theme to include an obscure and weird PHP class that syncs the available products/SKUs with the accounting software.

This was a heavy task and took about a minute to run manually and was triggered by a request to index.php, using a specific GET parameter.

—@alda