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· 1 Iyyar 5779 (Monday 6 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

Amazon Help now requires an inaccessible capptcha in order to add gift cards to your account. Multiple calls and chats basically tell us: your screwed get a friend or someone to help you. Are we still going with moderate advocacy? Are we still going with moderation in the pursuit of justice? Asking for a fuckton of friends. Because really, how many times do we have to offer a pass on what has been around for twenty plus years before we’re allowed to say enough? How many times do large organizations with a metric ton of resources with which they can handle accessibility get to fuck this stuff up before the dipplomatic wing of the blind community allows the rest of us to to express anything other than walking on eggshells when it comes to advocating for accessibility? How many times does Amazon or similar get to be called out on accessibility-related matters before the dipplomatic wing of the blind community decides that maybe it’s time to either help by not scolding the rest of us regarding advocacy methods, or get out of the way if it can’t help? Once again, asking for a fuckton of friends.

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Mark Zuckerberg to publishers: Work with Facebook, or “I’ll be holding your hands with your dying business like in a hospice”.

Amanda CAARSON

· 28 Nisan 5779 (Friday 3 May 2019) · 1 minute to read

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This doesn’t just apply to news organizations. Anyone who publishes to Facebook is deemed a publisher by them. And anyone who has worked in the accessibility space for two seconds knows that if you don’t have stakeholder buy-in, efforts to remedy a situation like this are doomed to fail. So don’t hold your breath on Facebook’s global head of news partnerships being able to hault Zuck’s advancements toward publishing dominance.

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No one disputes the fact that Gab’s founder has the right to fork Brave. We just don’t think nazis add value to anything, including code bases

Amanda CAARSON

· 24 Nisan 5779 (Monday 29 April 2019) · 1 minute to read

Gab is forking Brave, and Brave is forking furious by Guillermo Jimenez

Gab is creating its own web browser using Brave’s open-source code, scrapping the BAT token, and replacing it with Bitcoin Lightning Network integration.

Torba says he doesn’t understand the controversy: “The entire point of open source is to allow others to build upon an existing codebase and add more value,” he says, adding that Brave itself “is a fork of the Google Chromium project,” from which it benefited greatly.
“Open-source projects are forked all the time, GitHub even shows the fork count on every repo and the community uses it as a badge of honor. I can’t imagine any legitimate reason why Brendan or anyone else would have a problem with this.”

He forgot the part about how nazism doesn’t add value.