Kind: Reposts

Gonna start a page called Older Fans, where it’s just me telling everyone what hurts today and what miniscule task I was doing that caused the pain.

Today it’s: My neck; Sleeping.

—@juglugs

@nash

“We will add your technological distinctiveness to our own.”

“Have fun with Java, suckers!”

—@bde

In case you didn’t know…

The Great 78 Project at the Internet Archive:
https://great78.archive.org/

Blurb: “The Great 78 Project is a community project for the preservation, research and discovery of 78rpm records. “

Tons of vintage, nearly impossible to find recordings.

Also on Mastodon at:
https://mastodon.archive.org/@great78
#Great78project #history #recordings #vintage #InternetArchive

—@tuckerteague

Hey folks, new to the server and thought an #introduction was in order.

I’m Nolan, A.K.A.. Lights Out Games, a blind game developer making audio-focused games. Check out my profile link for examples of what these sound like.

I also do lots of open source work, much of which currently involves game accessibility in some form. Notably, recently I helped integrate the #Bevy engine with platform accessibility APIs via AccessKit.

Look forward to meeting you all.

—@lightsoutgames

Muffins are just business cupcakes.

—@cosmicallyf

The Turing Test was a lot more fun when it was a thought experiment and not something you have to do every time you see something on the Internet.

—@schizanon

The, after breakfast, recliner Olympics has commenced.
I think the winner is my husband, who looks forward to this morning ritual.
Summer brings the juice and retrieves toys for as long as he will keep throwing.
She is a happy dog, for sure.
Good morning, Mastodon.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@norcalgrandma

oh sure, when the fed prints money, they’re “fixing inflation”, but when I do it, I’m “committing a felony” and “violating the HP end user license agreement”

—@deia

New: The Roundup episode 14

This week’s #fediverse news gathered into an easy reading. Some standout ones:

🎉 Mastodon hits 11M accounts, signing up 1M accounts in 25 days
💻 New initiatives and energy about fediverse developer cooperation
📈 https://beta.fedidb.org/ is live, a dashboard for fediverse statistics

If you want to get the weekly Roundup in your mailbox a day early on Sunday, sign up at the fediversereport.com

@fediversenews

Read everything here: https://fediversereport.com/the-roundup-episode-14/

—@fediversereport

Beautiful talk by Aoi Yamaguchi at #btconf about Shodō, the “way of writing”, her inspiring calligraphy work, and the meditative process behind it. 🖤

—@matthiasott

Here are my slides for #BTConf @btconf if you want to dig into my mapping typography talk and see the links: https://www.figma.com/proto/7hZ9z8OXLAaIhqrFJK503f/Mapping-Typogrpahy?page-id=0%3A1&node-id=2-38&viewport=2046%2C345%2C0.02&scaling=contain&starting-point-node-id=2%3A38

—@scott

So a guy on this Teams call has a photo of his home office, taken when it was very clean and organised, as his virtual background. It just crashed or something, and the effect was his office magically become messy and disorganised with papers, coffee cups and snacks.

—@geordie

🤯 watched this, mind blown

“Tristan Harris and Aza Raskin discuss how existing A.I. capabilities already pose catastrophic risks to a functional society, how A.I. companies are caught in a race to deploy as quickly as possible without adequate safety measures, and what it would mean to upgrade our institutions to a post-A.I. world.

… This presentation was given before the launch of GPT-4.”

https://youtu.be/xoVJKj8lcNQ

#AI #ethics #safety #Politics #GLLMM

—@SteveFaulkner

Of course TwitterWrite is inaccessible.

• 10,000 characters with no `<p>` or other breaks between paras (all one `<span>`).

• Bold text is in `<span class=”r-b88u0q”>`

• Italic text is `<span class=”r-36ujnk”>`

https://twitter.com/TwitterWrite/status/1646674962055565319

#a11y #accessibility

—@aardrian

Frankly, I hope Twitter makes emoji a paid-only feature. That might make the platform *more* accessible.

In the meantime, as I shared earlier, maybe get your brand off Twitter:
https://tweesecake.social/@JonathanMosen/110202586329863510

—@aardrian

becoming ungovernable

—@vegetablegremlin

The @thunderbird betas have a rewritten main window UI. This has a lot of accessibility problems. Unfortunately, I currently don’t have the energy to file the bugs myself. Here’s what I found:

1. Too many tab stops. Toolbars should definitely be a one-tabstop container and employ the ARIA toolbar design pattern.
2. Speaking of which, the containers should all be made into proper toolbar containers in the process.
3. The main messages list should be a tree with tree items, since they are collapsible. List and list items are not. Also, there are a lot of focus issues still remaining when deleting messages/threads or when the view refreshes from the IMAP server.

Perhaps someone on the team can convert these into proper bugs in Bugzilla, or maybe most of these are already filed. Like I said, I unfortunately currently lack the energy to do so myself.

—@Marco

Once a month, I buy fresh raspberries, blackberries, and blueberries in bulk, put them on cookie sheets, freeze them and put them in the freezer in the garage, and then bag the frozen fruit for the kitchen freezer. (I eat it for breakfast.)

I store the frozen fruit in quart-sized freezer bags.

When I’m bagging the fruit, two of the dogs hang out in case I drop some. (I rarely do LOL.)

Here’s last night’s view.

—@CharJTF