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

I was excited to receive my Talkback 14.0 update, as it was promised that it would bring support for the NLS e-Reader via USB. Once I plugged it in and powered on the device, TB recognized it immediately and I said okay to my Pixel using the e-Reader as a braille display. It looked like it would be a great experience, as I was able to read what was going on on my phone's screen. However, when it comes to writing, the experience changes dramatically. In fact, I feel discriminated against. It does not recognize dots as I input information. For example, when typing characters with three or more dots, such as l, d, g, etc., I literally must push each key individually while holding down the others in order for the right character to be placed in my document. This is deplorable. GoogleAccessibility should have done better. What would it look like if a phone was released to the sighted with a broken virtual keyboard? Do better #Google; have more blind people testing before releasing.

I am not exactly surprised anymore when people start arguments with me in other online spaces and flippantly dismiss when I bring up the impact racism has on an issue because it inconveniently staggers their argument.

Not surprised; just disappointed.

Keeping notif sounds disabled makes fedi boring enough for me not to be addicted to it

Not having notification sounds should be one of standard digital health features of open source software

Not saying "don't have notification sounds", but mayybe software should be designed in a way where it doesn't absolutely fuck neurodivergent people's attention

"Let's wait and see what happens" is the same trap as "go do your own research"... it's an appeal to ego. You can easily be fooled by a bunch of credible sounding intentionally deceptive fake science in a field you're not studied on. If you get your ego feed to think that you *can* navigate centuries of scientific knowledge you've never touched before, you're a mark, and you'll be duped. Ignoring endless reports of abuse because "I want to see for myself" is the same self-centering.

Abolition is about alternatives. It’s about not asking cops with guns to handle situations they’re not trained for. It’s about building a society that helps those who need it instead of sending punishers to them. It’s about foundation building and community.

(Passage from Derecka Purnell’s “Becoming Abolitionists”)

https://defundthepolice.org/alternatives-to-police-services/

#Abolition #DefundThePolice #Policing

"AI is tragedy of the commons".

Shut the fuck up. Tragedy of the commons is a conservative meme to delegitimize public and common administration of resources without middlemen.

one quote that haunts me every day.

"i was so shocked to learn in the research that the opposite of belonging is fitting in.

because fitting in is assessing a group of people and thinking 'who do i need to be? what do i need to say? what do i need to wear? how do i need to act?' and changing who you are.

and true belonging never asks us to change who we are.
it demands that we be who we are.

because if we fit in because of how we changed ourselves that's not belonging."

brene brown

I was chatting about #SocialMedia experiences, and shared how I visualize #Mastodon in my head:

Mastodon is a fleet of cute little spaceships all traveling together. You're on one spaceship but you can communicate with and see all the other ships. When an instance "defederates", one ship is acting badly and another ship goes "Ugh" and blocks them/cuts them out of the fleet so they're just floating off alone 😆😂

(I think it's because "federate" and "defederate" give me cool space org vibes)

Minnesota passed a law that people making under $80k/year can go to any state college or university for free.

Guys, I might actually be able to get my Computer Engineering degree after all 😭

Boer aangevallen door een wolf... De wolf is doodgeschoten. De BBB is boos en wil wolven bestrijden.

Boer aangevallen door een koe. De koe is niet doodgeschoten. De BBB houdt zich stil.

Ook die vraag alleen al. Is er in Nederland wel ruimte voor de wolf? Waarom is er dan zo weinig ruimte voor wilde dieren? Misschien doordat 80% van ons landoppervlak voor de dierlijke bio-industrie gebruikt wordt? Als we daar nou eens mee stoppen is er ook veel meer ruimte voor wilde dieren. Goh...

I don't mind Electron apps. Thanks to them I have access to a bunch of apps on the Linux desktop that otherwise never would have been available to me and I would be using Windows or macOS as my daily driver instead. The idea that if Electron didn't exist pepole would write the equivalent native app for each platform doesn't hold up. That didn't happen before Electron existed and "before Electron existed" has been around a lot longer than "since Electron existed".

With relatively little effort, Electron apps can also be much more accessible than some native apps. Especially native apps written in custom GUI toolkits or game engines that score a whopping 0 on accessbility. Electron is a browser with HTML. Browsers are actually pretty good at accessibility, and we have WAI-ARIA to help us further.

That said, this is getting a little ridiculous:
$ pacman -Qq | grep electron
electron
electron19
electron22
electron25

For disabled pride month, here are a few disability emojis I've made! Feel free to add them to fedi servers and discord and stuff if you want :D

Starbucks was ordered to rehire half a dozen employees they fired illegally (with compensation for back wages plus interest) , reopen a store in Ithaca, NY that they closed in retaliation for union organizing and much more. The case file, including described remedies, is linked at the end of this story.

https://ithacavoice.org/2023/07/nlrb-judge-orders-starbucks-to-reopen-ithaca-collegetown-location/

#Starbucks #UnionBusting #Labor #Union