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There’s this very specific brand of infosec guy I keep coming across that just loves shitting on people who don’t know a great deal about the subject for extremely minor things while having a ring doorbell, fitbit, and half a kitchen that’s online and please, just one tiny iota of self awareness. Just one. A grain. A spec.
They accept cookies? Ok, well you drive a fucking tesla.

—@doot

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This is an utterly ridiculous name for a #ScreenReader user to have to hear. This is someone’s youtube name I came across in the comment section of a video, and I think the best way to show you how annoying it is to listen to, is to show you an audio recording of what my phone does, when it comes across it. Standard letters really do suffice, people. It is not necessary for all this. Even with my phone set to the normal speed at which I listen to speech, it takes an age to get through this, not to mention that youtube actually repeats names twice before reading out the comment.
It’s just trying to say ‘Sinister Potato.’
ˢᶦⁿᶦˢᵗᵉʳ ᴾᵒᵗᵃᵗᵒ

—@FreakyFwoof

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People are calling today the 30th birthday of the web; more accurately it’s the 30th birthday of CERN releasing the source code. I vividly remember websites being a curiosity among FTP servers, Usenet newsgroups, and gopher holes.

Here’s to this marvelous technology, Earth’s biggest Choose Your Own Adventure book, one of the most backwardly compatible systems ever built. Modern browsers may be elaborate interpreter-compilers but they still render the first site: http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

—@ianholmes

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I’ve seen a few people repeating Roy Wood Jr.’s joke about Clarence Thomas being an NFT.

And I’ve got to say, I’m a little conflicted on this – because I don’t really believe that’s our (and here I mean white people) joke to make. Calling someone a token is something Roy Wood Jr. can do. I don’t think it’s something we should be doing as white people.

I mean, I get it, it’s a killer burn, and it feels good to have something to give an apparently corrupt judge that’s insulting. But I think when we (white people) use it…well, it’s just not our place to make that determination.

If we want the fediverse to be more diverse, we need to see to at least some of the background radiation of racism. This is that kind of thing.

—@oldladyplays

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Accessibility needs to be more than just going over a compliance checklist.

WCAG audits can be useful, but if all you’re going to do is sporadically order someone to make a list of pass/fail next to numbers, chances are you’re not gonna see much meaningful change.

For that you need to understand:

– What effect the (in)accessible solution has on the experience of disabled users
– How disabled people use the web
– How AT / a11y options work
– Techniques and tools you can use in your work
etc

—@fossheim

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Contacted Microsoft support to resolve an issue with paypal. Perfectly normal, cordial chat. The support person said I was the only nice person they’d talked to today… Which, yay, I’m awesome, great. But it made me feel bad for them! No reason to yell at people who are there to help you. I was wondering why they buried the text chat option, now I understand: people are assholes. If you think this is shitting on corpos in some cool way, or whatever, believe me when I say to you: it is not.

—@objectinspace