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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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This is a must-read post from an admin of beehaw.org on why they will not be forking #Lemmy. I largely agree with @Gaywallet@beehaw.org.

Lemmy may not be perfect. Perhaps it’s even problematic. However, it makes the world less worse than it already is — and less worse is better than worse.

That’s what’s important to me.

Now if Lemmy proves to be too much of a barrier, there is #Kbin. But since Kbin is so young, it’s not a perfect replacement for Lemmy either — though it’s turning out great.

My own goal is to facilitate growth of the Fediverse. For this, #SpaceHost will be supporting both Lemmy and Kbin.

RE: https://beehaw.org/post/524300

—@atomicpoet

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Hiring a software engineer in their late 40s:

Pros:
* Understands your stack better than you do after glancing through the repo for five minutes.
* Will rewrite said stack 2x as fast, and half as buggy if you let them.

Cons:
* Gives zero fucks.
* Knows we’re not *really* like family here.
* No, seriously, absolutely zero fucks given.

Do not cite the deep magic to me, product manager, I was there when it was written.

—@saramg