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

Oh right, on fedi a cw of “inflation” doesn’t mean a post about economics

Geordi,

Is it possible to add my name to the ship's autocorrect dictionary? I am weary of receiving messages addressed to "Word."

Worf

Wow you use pot-holders? I can't even imagine what that's like.

#ableism #chronicillness #disability #chronicpain

Long COVID friends, need your help.

Friend has #LongCovid. US-based Corporate Employer is bullying them with RTO.
What's the least traumatic way to get a doc's note? Can PCPs provide? Is this covered by ADA?

Pls repost for wider reach 🙏

#Covid #disability #CovidIsNotOver

Some people still don't know that the guy behind Five Night At Freddy's has been donating money to openly transphobic politicians and it shows.

Y'all need to put that license in the bin next to the Harry Potter shit.

Do you have a high or a low tolerance level for ambiguity or 'not knowing' something?

(I mean if things are grey, rather than being black-and-white!)

#AskingAutistics
#ActuallyAutistic

in so many political discussions there is such an unexplainable obsession with throwing things at problems and expecting them to work to solve these problems. "tech will save us", or "we need more police officers", or "we need bigger walls" or something like that.

but like, means on their own mean nothing if you have no ethical principles by which you utilize them.

Wallet security startup founder scammed out of $125,000

January 2, 2024
https://web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=bill-lou-scammed

#nieuwselders We hopen voedingsstoffen te leveren voor nieuwe initiatieven om te ontkiemen in de vruchtbare grond waar een diverse ecologie van bewegingen uit ontstaat. We willen graag even stilstaan bij onze intenties en ervaringen. https://www.doorbraak.eu/compostering-van-coderood/

Your annual reminder that creating single event only corporate domains is harmful because endusers cannot tell if oracle-zoominfo-notice dot com is a phishing domain or real. Guess 2024 will also not be the year of security on the phone :)

Tip: Het voordeel van al die "smart home" hype is dat de conventionele programmeerbare thermostaten (van Nefit in mijn geval) heel goedkoop aangeboden worden op Marktplaats.

watching a talk recording that starts with "I'm a bit under the weather today, so if and when I collapse in a fit of coughs, have some patience please" and people just laugh instead of throwing him out of the fucking building because he's standing there, in front of a crowd, without a mask, admitting that he's fucking sick

@alda Many, many years ago, when I worked at a medical information system, I got to learn some Important Principles from my manager.

The first of them was, a computer must not get in the way of a doctor. The specific example, of which there were numerous examples (because of a recurring data quality issue) was, if a doctor makes a medical record of a man having become pregnant, or more urgently, having gotten his water broken and an emergency Caesarean being necessary, the computer must never try to override the doctor.

A data quality issue can be sorted out later. Somebody dying because a doctor was arguing with a computer instead of doing a life-saving surgery, can't.

And that's even before I learnt the Biological Period, that strange punctuation mark that appears in medical texts all the time. It looks just like a period, but it's pronounced But Biology Is Messy, And Sometimes There's Exceptions. Some people's hearts are on the right. Some people have six toes. Some people might well have two appendixes, so just because one was taken out three years ago is no good reason for a computer to argue a doctor wanting to schedule a new appendectomy. There will be time to count the appendixes later. Saving a life can't wait.

Back then, we often thought of medicine being a uniquely life-critical field of tech, but as decades pass, I keep running into good times to apply this principle increasingly often.

OK, I cannot stress this enough.

KEEP INVITING your chronically ill friends & (chosen) family to things.

Yes, a lot of the time we won't be able to come, but

1. that's our decision, don't make it for us, and
2. it's incredibly hurtful to find out there was an event etc and that we weren't invited. We want to at least know you were thinking of us.

A simple message saying: you are doing X and that you realise we probably cannot make it*, but would love us to be there if we can, is all you need to do.

@chronicillness #ChronicIllness

*which acknowledges you understand our health situation.

Friendly, nay, aggressive reminder that

TAB INDENTATIONS ARE AN ACCESSIBILITY FEATURE

- People that use Braille tablets will represent each space individually, so 4 spaces is 4 cells, 1 tab representing 4 spaces is 1 cell. (visual accessibility)
- People that are hard of seeing, but don't need Braille will often use a large font size, but reduce the size of tabs so lines are not super indented. This is not possible with spaces. (visual accessibility)
- Tabs have special considerations in TTS engines. (audio accessibility)
- Tabs are easier to navigate with a keyboard. (motor accessibility)

If you PROHIBIT tab characters YOU ARE HURTING ACCESSIBILITY IN YOUR PROJECT and YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD

If you do not feel bad, turn in your humanity, fox, pup, or doll card because you are a monster.

You work at a place long enough, and sometimes the answer to "Who created this cool thing that just saved me a ton of time?" is "oh, I created that"