Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Update: moved this to my new writing site so there’s a new URL.

Every hashtag on every post on every platform should ALWAYS be pascal case. I wrote this to illustrate how screenreaders read hashtags based on their case.

It’s a small thing that all of us can do to build a more inclusive, accessible internet for all. Please take the time to use pascal case.

Read more:
https://markwrites.io/hashtag-accessibility-by-everyone-for-everyone

#Accessibility #WebAccessibility #Usability #Readability #Hashtags #SocialNetworking #Blogging #UX

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On our digital collections site someone on staff accidentally uploaded pictures of birds from their phone, with accompanying text from anti-war pamphlets. The result is modern art

Frog life

I just launched a blog section on my website!

Here's the first article: an animated tour through various types of netcode, notably ROLLBACK NETCODE, and the challenges they try to solve!

https://bymuno.com/post/rollback

#gamedev #pixelart

Huntsville TX - The local library had a Pride display so city official sent in the cops and then privatized the entire fucking library

https://bookriot.com/huntsville-public-library-privatization/

When I worked at Nokia, years back, one of the other teams on the phone we were building wrote an app, which put up a randomised bingo grid of cliches managers say in meetings so we could all sit there with the prototypes and look like we were paying attention

So OpenAI just released a detector of AI-generated text, I assume because of concerns in education / homework.

https://openai.com/blog/new-ai-classifier-for-indicating-ai-written-text/

Maybe this is good?

No, it's very bad.

They claim 26% true positives, 9% false positives. Assume 10% of submitted homework is chatgpt generated, you get the classic counterintuitive outcome of poor predictive power: if a homework is flagged, there's a 3:1 chance it's *human* generated.

This is going to cause a lot of harm. It should be immediately recalled.

Words like 'idiot, nuts, crazy, insane, mad, stupid' etc. are ableist and have been used as slurs. Just because *you* might not be offended by them, or your friends might not be offended by them, doesn't mean that they haven't been used to harass and abuse people.

Make an effort to cut them out of your language. 'Wild' is a good all-purpose replacement word, but there are many. Find your own flavour of non-ableist language to replace these words.

Well moderated German-language instances please?

Got my first invoice from the Origami Society and don’t know what to make of it.

In April of 2015, almost eight years ago now, I posted a long thread on Twitter about American privilege, a unique form of Western privilege that applies to the United States of America.

Since very little has changed since then, and any discussion around US-centrism in online circles are still notoriously difficult to have, especially when a space is dominated by Americans, it's time to revisit this.

Let's define what I mean by American privilege, first.

#AmericanPrivilege

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@punkonbus1701 @GTLC This actually bothers me, as it does something the US "left" lets the right do all the time.

"Woke" was NOT a derogatory term made by the right, it came from the black community, and was then adopted by white people before the conservatives started using it as an insult.

For the love of all that's good, stop letting the conservatives dictate your language. They already did it with pro-life/pro-choice, and so many other things, and it's poisoning discourse.