Kind: Reposts

here is a recording of Phoenix and Callisto chewing on each other very gently, while Phoenix rants about her hard day at work and her big feelings.

—@Pawpower

Okay, Mastodon friends, I rarely ask for amplification about my day job, but I personally pushed for my employer to make a big investment in enabling the fediverse, and I’d love for everyone to show that the support is appreciated. On June 28, you can join us for a (FREE!) hands-on conversation about how the Fastly team worked to support @Mastodon while the service was under a *massive* DDOS attack. Everyone who cares about scaling the fediverse should join: https://learn.fastly.com/security-mitigating-ddos-and-traffic-surges-with-mastodon @devs

—@anildash

BORG: We are the Borg. Resistance is futile.
MY 5 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER: Why?
BORG: We will add your biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.
5YO: Why?
BORG: To expand the collective.
5YO: Why?
BORG: So that we may achieve perfection.
5YO: Why?
BORG: To reach the pinnacle of our evolution.
5YO: Why?
BORG: *sigh* Because it’s just something we do, ok?
5YO: Why?
BORG: … you know what? F this …*opens a transwarp conduit and leaves*

—@drmaddkap

At this point I am literally just begging you to stop putting hCaptcha in your apps. Please. I don’t know what else to do. Please. Please don’t do it. If it’s on a website we at least have a chance. As bad a chance it might be. But if it’s in your app anyone who can’t do a captcha is completely locked out. So please. Do not do it.

—@talon

Remember how WebAIM showed #UserWay was lying to us by manipulating its WAVE results?

UserWay is undoing it:
https://twitter.com/UserWayOrg/status/1667238112282419218

Of course it admits no wrongdoing *and* tries to paint itself a peer to WebAIM.

I updated my UserWay post of its lies:
https://adrianroselli.com/2021/09/userway-will-get-you-sued.html#WAVESpoofUndo

#a11y #accessibility

—@aardrian

Hot take: it’s fun to joke about Frodo and Sam being gay, but it’s not actually good. Straight dudes supporting each other and genuinely loving each other platonically is a good thing and we need more non-toxic masculinity in the world 🥺

—@daeken

#News: Dozens of websites tied to the national mental health crisis hotline—988—are sending visitor data to Facebook.

By @jonkeegan and Colin Lecher, copublished with @STAT: #MentalHealth #Privacy #Data https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2023/06/13/suicide-hotlines-promise-anonymity-dozens-of-their-websites-send-sensitive-data-to-facebook

—@themarkup

This needs to be repeated occasionally: Alcohol is a disinhibitor. It does not change your personality. It degrades the self-control you use to conceal your real personality.

WHO YOU ARE WHEN YOU’RE DRUNK IS WHO YOU REALLY ARE.

Someone who’s “only a jerk when they’re drunk” is a jerk ALL THE TIME. They’re just able to control it when they’re sober.

Alcohol is NEVER to blame for anyone’s conduct.

—@wesdym

Why do new appliances play a jaunty little tune to let you know they’re done? For a full month, I’d run outside with a handful of cash thinking the ice cream truck was coming. But, nope. Stupid dryer.

—@the_etrain

The fediverse has a huge community of blind and partially sighted users, as well as people accessing the internet from bad or limited connections that don’t load images. Alt-text helps everyone.

*Please* make an effort with it. If you’re on .art especially, we expect you to be either adding alt-text or using one of the many options available to ask for help with it, which can be as simple as adding an emoji to your post.

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

—@Curator

I haven’t watched the talks from #CSSDay yet, but this post from @adactio really resonates with me.

https://adactio.com/journal/20238

I’m in the middle of writing an article on how little one needs beyond web standards today to craft engaging content on the web, but I also feel like there’s so much cognitive dissonance keeping a ton of people from enjoying the evolution of these standards.

I’m with Jeremy and other like minds in thinking we need to keep making all the noise we can about this.

—@colepeters

Today is an important day in assistive technology history. On June 13, 2003, the version of DECtalk that shipped with Window Eyes was compiled. To celebrate the 20th anniversary of this event, I have published a blog post titled “The strange mystery behind Window Eyes and DECtalk, evidence and analysis.” It can be found at https://datajake.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-strange-mystery-behind-window-eyes.html

—@datajake1999

In light of the Trump indictment over alleged mishandling of classified documents, listen to a discussion from January with Benjamin Wittes, Quinta Jurecic, Scott Anderson, and David Priess on the differences between the Trump, Biden, and Pence cases dealing with classified documents: https://www.lawfareblog.com/lawfare-podcast-even-more-classified-documents

—@lawfare

You old fucking fidiots need to step back and let people who actually know what the real risks are to this stuff do the talking.

Half these old fuckers can’t even program the clocks on their old 1980s VCRs, and we want them talking about how to approach AI? No, thank you.

Safeguards should be a thing, but let people who know something about it sort it out, not some dumbasses who think it’s a good idea to hook AI up to our weapons.

https://mstdn.social/@cnbc_rss/110537277077848569

—@LavenderPawprints

Just posted: Improving Mastodon developer documentation – many things to work on, and things are moving along! @fedidevs@venera.social @fedidevs@a.gup.pe #MastodonAPI #fedidevs #DevRel https://dev.to/andypiper/improving-mastodon-developer-documentation-12cm

—@andypiper

#Lemmy just broke 100,000 users!

Right now, it’s the 7th most used server software on the Fediverse. It’s on pace towards overtaking Pleroma and Microdotblog. And we don’t know how much Lemmy growth will happen during the next two days.

The #RedditMigration to the #Fediverse is now in full swing.

https://fedidb.org/software

@fediversenews

—@atomicpoet

New Post: Blindness Briefs – Edition 76 https://www.worldblindherald.com/blindness-briefs-edition-76

—@worldblindherald

Weird how every content moderation problem that Musk identifies has a proposed solution that involves sending him money…

He could have saved himself a lot of time and frustration by reading @mmasnick ‘s excellent article – https://www.techdirt.com/2022/11/02/hey-elon-let-me-help-you-speed-run-the-content-moderation-learning-curve/

—@Simon

People often ask me, “How do I interact with Lemmy”?

Well, in my previous post, I just interacted with Lemmy by quoting @Gaywallet@beehaw.org‘s post. If you’re on Calckey or Misskey (or anything that supports quotes), this will look seamless.

On Mastodon, the Lemmy post will be rendered as a URL. If I wanted to make that Lemmy post look like “native Mastodon”, I could have just boosted it, but I wanted to add additional commentary.

The point, though, is that I’ve interacted with a Lemmy post on a platform that is not Lemmy. This is possible through ActivityPub. The Fediverse is quite magical in that sense.

If you’re on Mastodon, Pleroma, Calckey, etc., I urge you all to follow Lemmy and/or Kbin communities and users and start interacting with them. It’s important that former Redditors see a bustling community.

—@atomicpoet