Based on the analysis in this blog post, #visionOS relies on semantic HTML rather than author-defined CSS hover styles in order to render things properly. All of a sudden, things that those of us #accessibility people have been saying about properly using the semantic web becomes important.
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https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2023/thoughts-on-safari-spatial-computing/
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@Pawpower Yay Calisto!
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@gwynnion I'm downright suspicious of them.
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If vaccines really did contain computer chips someone would have ported Doom to them by now and posted to Hacker News about it.
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if, as the saying goes, āwriting is easy, you just sit down at a typewriter and bleedā, then programming is easy too, you just sit down in front of a text editor and get a concussion
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@andrearennick You got this.
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is someone has news from @rarst ? ping @mbootsman
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So, he essentially hired someone to be his mom to fight his “bullies”.
Twitter CEO starts fighting Muskās battles, paying Muskās overdue bills https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/twitter-ceo-starts-fighting-musks-battles-paying-musks-overdue-bills/
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@bruce_toews Something like that yes.
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@bruce_toews Yes that's the idea. I'd say also that you have a responsibility to do so, but also that this isn't something you're going to do all at once. It takes actual work, and sometimes that work involves internalizing things you don't want to hear. Just basing on my own personal experience.
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Coding for a living fundamentally means writing code whose purpose is determined by someone else, in ways determined by someone else, on someone else’s schedule. You’re renting out your body to a stranger who has structural incentives to mistreat it & no structural incentives to make genuine value.
Generally speaking, you’re writing code intended to be used by domain experts in a domain you have limited knowledge of, and you will never meet the users and find out if the code you wrote made their lives easier — but typically the answer is no, because users & customers are disjoint sets with different motivations. Basically, if you’re writing a tool for some field X, you’re implementing a marketing guy’s idea of what a different marketing guy at a firm that does X will want to buy, and the people who actually know how X is done have no power or voice. So you may well work on an extremely profitable but totally useless project.
If you’re very lucky, you’ll be surrounded by sensible people. But inevitably, you will be asked to do something that shouldn’t be done, and your choices are to either do it or find another job that may very well be worse. Most software engineers are employed exclusively to implement code that should not ever be written, in ways that are transparently perverse, to perform tasks that should never be performed in industries that should be abolished.
In this sense, we’re like workers in other industries.
We’re privileged because of the unjustified mystique (produced largely by unnecessarily poor tooling) surrounding programming: non-technical managers acknowledge that we know something they don’t, to a greater degree than other comparable domains, and so it’s possible for at least senior devs to manipulate the planned project away from really obviously bad ideas. But there are pretty strict limits to that. We’re trapped the same way as all other workers.
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rescue 5 rich guys: around the clock media coverage and no expense is too much, because life is utmost concern
rescue countless poor people: rot in jail for 20y you terrorist!!1!
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/node/71822—@zeh
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@bruce_toews No. The best you can do is to be aware of what prejudices exist, and prevent those from effecting your actions, especially in cases where what you do and what you say can harm other people.
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@redcrew Sounds like that's a tab worth closing and never re-opening again. If you can of course.
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Iād pay money to see this
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Government isn’t obligated to provide water to Navajo Nation, Supreme Court says https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2023/06/22/supreme-court-rules-government-not-obligated-to-provide-water-navajo-nation/6741687454499/ (Me: We steal their lands, then confine them to treaty land and then ok to not let them have access to water? Insane and corrupt court!)
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@bubbline If I find myself in a situation where I need to use the word cisgender, and someone says they find it offensive, I'm just going to tell them that I'm just ensuring they have the least woke experience as possible since making linguistic changes in order to avoid harming people has been considered woke by the anti-woke for something like 40 years or so. See also: politically correct.
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@AmyDentata @StillIRise1963 Personally I've been going with "Moms for Mussalini" because they're fascist fuckwits, but that's just me, and also this works too.