Mx. Amadi Lovelace (@amaditalks@wandering.shop) (The Wandering Shop)
It’s notable that the same people who say that books about children’s experience in the holocaust and about famous baseball players need to be removed from schools, drag queen story hours can’t happen, adolescents can’t have access to contraception, and accurate history can’t be taught in order to “protect children” have absolutely no problem with children in workplaces where they absolutely do not belong. Almost as if everything they claim to believe is a lie. https://mastodon.lol/@brooklynmarie/109988456677638283
Stefan Bohacek (@stefan@stefanbohacek.online) (Stefan's Personal Mastodon Server)
Tik Tok is next to tell you what kind of links you can put on your online profile. "TikTok has begun blocking links to app stores in creators’ bios, [....] The block [...] also extends to third-party link-in-bio solutions like Linktree." And this is why you need to own your web presence, even if it's a basic, single page hosted on https://neocities.org or https://glitch.com. https://techcrunch.com/2023/03/08/tiktok-begins-blocking-links-to-app-store-pages-from-creators-bios/ via @Sarahp@mastodon.social #IndieWeb #OpenWeb #news #TikTok

Please boost for reach: Fedora Linux is focusing on accessibility for the next five years. I’d love to see people with disabilities, very much including blind people, comment on this. If you’re interested in Linux, or free and open source software, your voices are valuable. I hope Fedora finds our voices valuable too.

https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/fedora-strategy-2028-focus-area-review-accessibility/46898/12

#accessibility #linux #fedora #foss

@devinprater

Biden FCC nominee withdraws, following bruising lobbying battle. “It is a sad day for our country and our democracy when dominant industries, with assistance from unlimited dark money, get to choose their regulators,” Sohn said in a statement shared exclusively with The Washington Post. “And with the help of their friends in the Senate, the powerful cable and media companies have done just that.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/07/gigi-sohn-withdraws-fcc-nomination/

@kswenger

It’s international women’s day.

While you’re talking about solidarity, don’t forget:
– trans women
– disabled women
– Black Women, Indigenous Women, and Women of Colour
– women in prisons
– women with addiction issues
– old and elderly women
– women who are sex workers

…the list goes on.

Remember all the women who are ignored and forgotten, even on days they’re meant to be remembered.

“The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free.” – Maya Angelou

#iwd
#InternationalWomensDay

@aby

Give these Navajo women credit for making the Apollo Missions possible:

“The historic Apollo moon missions are often associated with high-visibility test flights… But intricate, challenging handiwork — comparable to weaving — was just as essential to putting men on the moon… the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer… who wove the computer’s core memory.”

#Navajo #Indigenous #Native #WomensHistoryMonth

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa

@westernspinster

Hey folks! As yall know, we’re getting married to our lovely @3of47 soon, and we’d love to, as well as getting photos, capture the whole thing in the best quality audio possible. With that in mind, we’d like to ask for your help to crowdfund $99 for some Sound Professionals BMC3 microphones. With these mics, we can record the entire wedding in binaural audio, allowing us to actually feel like we’re back there, at that park, on that day, when we listen back to the recording. If any of yall can help, Paypal details are: paypal.me/nickilynnwa and nicolelynnperry88@gmail.com #wedding #crowdfunding #microphones #crowdfund #QueerCrowdFund #TransCrowdFund

@12

We talked about it here a month ago when it was still in development, so I wanted to give y’all a heads-up:

Jetpack 11.9, scheduled to be released in a few hours, will include a Mastodon sharing button.

I talk about the feature and how it can be customized in this blog post:
Share your blog posts on Mastodon with Jetpack

Hopefully it can be useful for some of you!

#WordPress, #plugins, #YouHeardItOnTheFediverseFirst

@jeremy

This blog post by @signalapp is excellent. It talks about how there is “no such thing as global communication norms”. Some features, such as stickers or voice memos are massively more popular in some regions than others.

This is something to take into account of what’s going to happen if/when the fediverse starts to scale.

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-for-everyone/

@fediversereport

So I know it’s only been like two or three people so far, but sighted developers asking how to use Orca on Linux to test for accessibility, shows that the time is fast approaching where accessibility is going to matter on Linux. I don’t know if it’s gonna be the explosion of the SteamDeck, or FOSS communities, or the rising interest in non-corporate computing and social networking and stuff. But this is already trickling down. Developers are needing to know about accessibility. They use Linux. I’m so glad to see KDE working on accessibility, and I hope that, one day, blind people can boot up a Linux installer, be told how to enable a screen reader, be guided through setup and onboarding after installation (with no unlabeled buttons please even though it’s just a slideshow Gnome (And an accessible Internet accounts adding process)). Shoot I’d even be glad to write tutorial information for it, like I did for QuickDocs in Fedora. But the time is now to focus on it, not when accessibility hits the FOSS community like a train. And I appreciate every single developer that comes to me, wanting to learn and understand. It’s miles, **miles** better than not giving a damn.

#accessibility #foss #linux

@devinprater