Kind: Reposts

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

My photo of the week: Twinleaf, an early spring wildflower I don’t usually find among the Rue Anemones, Trout Lilies, and Spring Beauties on the forest floor.

https://www.lireo.com/photo-of-the-week-twinleaf-spring-wildflower/

#SpringWildflower #SpringFlower #PhotoOfTheWeek #Twinleaf

—@redcrew

NPR: Parrots are known to be chatty, social animals. But when they’re kept as pets, they can get lonely. A group of scientists found that video chatting with other parrots helps them feel less so.#news #NPR https://www.npr.org/2023/04/29/1172626546/parrots-friendship-video-chats-new-study-animal-research

—@npr_bot

Please sir, my fucks. They’ve flown away.

—@Stoned_Deva_

✍️ New post: Simple Truths About Personal Websites

#personalsites #websites
https://matthiasott.com/notes/simple-truths-about-personal-websites

—@matthiasott

I see you on Bluesky giving billionaire Jack Dorsey your free labor by reporting #accessibility bugs when he could not be bothered to staff up with practitioners.

You do you, but understand it devalues the work and rewards him for failing to hire professionals. #a11y

—@aardrian

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

RT Alex גדעון בן װעלװל: Petition to demand all 10 commandment exhibits being foisted upon schools to be amended to reflect all 613 mitzvot.

I don’t make the rules, but they’re all binding, not just the first 10. Important as a religious nation for us to acknowledge our shared heritage and morals folks.

—@dennisfischman

Wow. WordPress just announced they have to drop support for Twitter in their Jetpack post sharing plug-in as they haven’t been able to reach agreement with Twitter for access. They are committing to adding support for Mastodon!
The majority of the Web’s individually run websites are WordPress! It’s ON!!

#TwitterMigration #TwitterBroken #Mastodon #activityPub #Fediverse

—@chris

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

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

30 years ago, one decision altered the course of our connected world

On April 30, 1993, the World Wide Web was released into the public domain. It revolutionized the internet and allowed users to create websites filled with graphics, audio and hyperlinks.

🔗 https://www.npr.org/2023/04/30/1172276538/world-wide-web-internet-anniversary

#technology #npr #news #press #media #independent #usa

—@npr

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

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

pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly:

sometimes you win
and get pizza to celebrate
sometimes you lose
and get pizza to alleviate
but either way
you get pizza and that’s great

this has been pre-coffee thoughts with Tilly

—@tillybridges

How to join a video call:

1. Pace around for twenty minutes
2. Sit down with five minutes to go
3. 30 seconds to go…
4. Click “join meeting”
5. Computer asks you to download some software, change your password, log out, log in, answer some questions and restart, then freezes

—@verybritishproblems

adulting is a scam created by sad grownups to create more sad grownups, send post

—@VulpineAmethyst

#BlueSky will only be worth talking about once people can run their own servers on their own hardware AND communicate with other nodes.

Until then, all the talk of decentralization and identity portability is as meaningful as Elon saying when Teslas will be able to fully self drive.

—@binarytango

Are you a developer? Do you want to help one of the most flexible, long-established and interesting Fediverse projects?

Friendica (https://friendi.ca) needs developers to help on the frontend, between the server-side PHP modules and views and the client-side HTML/CSS/Javascript aspect.

(It would also be nice if they ran their own Friendica node to help with testing.)

➡️ Are you interested? If so, get in touch with @hypolite

#Friendica #Fediverse #AskFedi :boost_requested:

—@feditips

I’m leading my first pannel at the American Council of the Blind Convention this year. The title is “Who Are You?: Queer, They, Blind and other identifiers”. We also still have room for anyone who may wish to participate.

—@changeling