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

People who post almost exclusively in a language other than#English but write their #alttext entirely in English fascinate me. As a #blind monolingual dude, I appreciate the alt text! It’s also fun to have something like the experience a sighted person might have when watching a video without subtitles; understanding the visuals but not the words is a fun and weirdly unique experience for me as someone who is blind, and I think there’s an interesting #art space someone could explore here. But #accessibility isn’t just a privilege for English speakers. Have we really become that western centric? If you are someone who does this, I’d love to try and non judgmentally understand your reasons. #a11y #i18n

Idea: A new #InfoSec conference called "The Boring Security Conference". It covers topics and hands-on advice that are what actually keeps organizations secure. No zero-days, no APTs and no "if the criminal does these 39 things in precise order and you're not watching your owned" talks.

looking at a online style guide for a not to be named organisation: "you may obtain our corporate font by requesting permission from us and contacting the foundry"

or: by reading the CSS and just downloading a TTF

and i am of a staunch opinion that once the shackles of the capitalist and statist oppression will finally be destroyed and the spirit of the person will be freed, there will be a boom in artistic expression that no generation has ever seen before. and i hope that i can live for long enough to see it happen before my eyes.

what elon musk's speech about there having to be trillions of people so we get thousands of mozarts is leaving out is that there are already millions of the likes of Einstein, Sartre, Bach, Simone, Tarkovsky, Camus and others that walk in the same crowds as we do. the problem is that 99% of them die unnoticed because they're burdened with being homeless or working 9 to 5 jobs in office until their heart gives in.

@hyenagirl64 i agree. it also sends a pretty disgusting essentialist message that you can be a successful artist or academic only if you have the "right genes". not only it disregards the amount of work and reflection people put in to become excellent at what they love doing, it also has possible eugenicist or racist implications

Me: Knock knock?

You: Who's there?

Me: You're.

You: *confused* You're... who...?!

Me: YOU'RE CUTE 🥰

*flees with extra flee, giggling*

Someone should make a "year in review" thing that scans journald for useless stats.

* Your longest time without a reboot this year was 5 days and 3 hours.
* You messed up your sudo password 1/3 of the time. Once it took you 5 attempts.
* Your most segfaulty program is kwin_wayland.
* Hidden gems: did you know you had mysqld running all this time?

"I thought people from this marginalised group deserved human rights, but one of them was rude to me once, so now I don't anymore."

oklch() retains perceived lightness for different hue angles (7min) a very cool demo by @stefan so that you can test this yourself. I need to start playing around with oklch(), but, no time at the moment. Meh
https://www.stefanjudis.com/today-i-learned/oklch-perceived-lightness/

#Colors #CSS #OKLCH

To that end, I'm going to try to get into the habit of sharing cool, perhaps lesser known websites and projects under the hashtag #WebMadeThis. Perhaps others will do so as well. <3

Here's a first one, for fans of #retro computing:

https://deepsid.chordian.net/

This is wicked cool web-based player for C64 music (8-bit #chiptune stuff). It takes a while to explore its features but I'm just blown away by the love & attention to detail behind it.

A common refrain is that the web is _turning into_ garbage because of LLMs.

But that's not really true. It's just that the garbage is _drowning out_ everything else, especially in search engines that themselves have decided to go into the garbage generation business.

What can we do? We can promote the #IndieWeb right here. Highlight the good, perhaps obscure websites and blogs you come across, especially the ones that aren't loaded with ads & trackers.

The web is still full of awesomeness.

From the EC's text on overlays:

Automatically repairing accessibility issues requires that those issues can be found automatically. Claims that a website can be made fully compliant without manual intervention are not realistic, since no automated tool can cover all the WCAG 2.1 level A and AA criteria. It is even less realistic to expect to detect automatically the additional EN 301549 criteria. Moreover, automatic repair is more challenging than the automatic detection of accessibility failures. 
In addition, some overlay tools have been reported to interfere with the assistive technologies used by people with disabilities. In other words, overlay tools may make a website less accessible for some users.
...
Neither of the above categories of tools can substitute for the manual work of making a site accessible. DG COMM cannot endorse any tools or products that fall into the categories of overlay tools or widgets.

#EU #a11y #overlays