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Hello! You’ve Been Referred Here Because You’re Wrong About Twitter And Hunter Biden’s Laptop by Mike MasnickMike Masnick

Hello! Someone has referred you to this post because you’ve said something quite wrong about Twitter and how it handled something to do with Hunter Biden’s laptop. If you’re new here, you may not know that I’ve written a similar post for people who are wrong about Section 230. If you’re being wrong about Twitter […]

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Leaving the Basement
Hachyderm has reached 30,000 users. A 'small sized' service in regard to scale. However, in the process we have hit very familiar 'medium sized' scale problems which caused us to migrate our services out of my basement. This is the outage report, post mortem, and high level overview of the process of migrating to Hetzner in Germany. From observation to production fixes. This is the story.
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Accessibility overlay article out the door for editing. And good thing there are editors because I said bad words in the final paragraphs. No, not the usual four-letter ones. The one that begins with w. And some five-letter ones. Like learn. And basic. I'm probably going to have to write a nicer version but well I read through that whole overlayfacts.org response to the original Overlay Fact Sheet and sort of blew my stack.

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So I'm writing an article on accessibility overlays and why they can't make your site accessible, and I know I shouldn't, but I can't help but wonder why anyone would possibly think that something like making sure your website complies with various pieces of accessibility legislation would be as simple as a single line of code. Overlay vendors are mostly at fault for creating this illusion, but the fact is there's a market for it. The businesses eagerly buying it share culpability. 1/n