Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

As a writer, I've found it enjoyable to have reminders to add alt-text to images I upload here. It's a chance for me to, quite literally, paint with words. I try to both capture practical elements of my uploads as well as their emotional experience - that is, the feeling that was evoked in me that led to my uploading the image.

I get to practice my art and, at the same time, promote diverse access. Win, win - and I highly recommend all the other writers here take advantage of it.

#AltText #New #Support #Community #WritingCommunity #Writers #Writing

It's 2023, and this is the sort of surveys some people make in #OpenStreetMap . Gender? Woman, man, or transgender..

🙄🙄🙄
#OSM #gender #queer #trans #survey #TheCisAreAtItAgain

i really don't use the Sigma 28-80mm's macro mode enough

Every time I find a worthwhile website - aka one that isn't a social media site or a news outlet - dedicated to some niche interest, the web design immediately tells me it's from an older version of the internet made by someone who interacted with Online very differently.
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RT @sachajudd
“It is worth remembering that the internet wasn't supposed to be like this. It wasn't supposed to be six boring men with too much money creating space…
https://twitter.com/sachajudd/status/1653109524327460864

"Facebook, Youtube and TikTok content moderators in Kenya form labour #union"

https://nation.africa/kenya/business/technology/facebook-youtube-and-tiktok-content-moderators-in-kenya-form-labour-union-4219046

Dear French engineers: how much amperage were you expecting on a phone line?

Remember: don’t just block things. Report them! Your mods can’t do anything if they don’t know!

I get the sense that tech reporters aren't the most introspective lot around.

Like, a few years ago this was fairly typical of the coverage of Alexa:

"Why Amazon's Alexa is the future of computing"
https://www.vox.com/new-money/2017/1/6/14186076/amazons-alexa-future-computing

And now these same tech reporters are pivoting seamlessly to AI as the next big thing
https://www.understandingai.org/

Nowhere to be found: any form of self-reflection of how they hyped tech in the past

Keep your movement and events clean from authoritarian ideologies and symbols #anarchism #AntiFascism​ #DescribedMedia

GoToSocial (so far) has been trying to maintain compatibility with the Mastodon API, to maximize the number of clients compatible with our ActivityPub server implementation. The Mastodon "base" API implementation is still underway (e.g. we're missing lists), but we have been aware of the fact that maintaining API compatibility with all future features would forever have us in a state of "catch-up".

Given recent announcements about the direction that Mastodon development is being taken, and our own fears about the future of the Mastodon project, we are declaring a cut-off point. GoToSocial will only be attempting to maintain Mastodon API compatibility up to the current stable version, that is, v4.1.2.

Now this does not mean that we will never implement future features of Mastodon, it just gives us more flexibility in exactly what and how we implement things, especially when it comes to the more ethically complex ones (looking at you, search!).

You can make anything look efficient and profitable if there is a social compact to not count some of the costs.

Ah yes this fossil fuel stuff is so energy dense & so cheap. Except for the undrinkable water. Except for the acid rain. Except for the air pollution (and thus the asthma, premature birth and dementia). Except for the wars over it. Except for the climate change. Except for the roads needed to use it to move around. Except for the parking needed for the stuff needed to use the roads

When disabled students have been active demanding online options be available by default..that UC develop, support, and invest in creative, accessible online options, pointing out that it helps us be more prepared for emergencies anyway, many abled students denigrated that activism.

Today, as Davis experienced a 3rd stabbing incident in a week, the UC Davis sub-Reddit is full of several threads demanding online classes.

We need people to listen to us and join us in activism when we point out that creative, accessible online options must be available by default and that development of them should be fast-tracked for accessibility and *other* reasons. #UCAccessNow #accessibility #a11y