Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Commander Riker,

There has been a security breach in our computer system. Your search history is being broadcast to the entire crew.

Worf

"Removing focus indicators for keyboard users is like hiding the cursor for mouse users." - @matuzo in Web Accessibility Cookbook

Brilliant comparison!

In fact, it made me wonder... can you hide a cursor for mouse users? Yep, you can set it to a custom png file that's completely transparent.

If you want to see for yourself how annoying that is, visit https://nonvisualwebsite.com/ #a11y

Can anyone recommend me an *offline* horizontal timeline-making tool?

I'm looking for something akin to TimelineJS or Tiki Toki (pictured), to visualise some periods of my life, but given the current state of internet scraping, I don't particularly want to upload a bunch of personal info to someone else's server.

I'm not after Gantt charts or vertical-scrolling timelines.

(Open source would be ideal, but I'm willing to buy a product if it's good enough.)

“The Woman Who Could Smell Parkinson’s - The New York Times”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/14/magazine/parkinsons-smell-disease-detection.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ck4.qfQL.LUj1Izb7kVzU&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

This is amazing

#OnThisDay, 13 Aug 2014, Iranian mathematician Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal for her work on complex geometry. She was the first woman to win it since it began in 1936.

She died in 2017, aged just 40. Multiple awards and initiatives are named after her.

#WomenInSTEM

@tshirtman @quietmarc @SallyStrange There was a meta data paper where someone studied all the papers on archeological digs as a whole and worked out that something was wrong because something like 80% of all bodies were “male” which obviously isn’t right. So they went back and reexamined findings and basically because gender from physical remains was somewhat guesswork they based gender also on grave goods which, of course, was a circular argument. Now they are better at it (not perfect) so we now have female roman gladiators found in London, Shield Maidens found in the north of England, and a Galli follower of Cybele (trans woman) also in Northern England.

Finally resumed work on my "booleans as a service" platform for enterprise.

In the free edition of the API, a `GET` to `~/Values/True` will return `1`. Rate limits apply.

In the professional tier, you get the features of the free edition, but also, a `GET` to `~/Values/False` will return `0`, plus, rate limits are higher.

In the enterprise edition there are endpoints such as `~/And/1/1` (which returns `1`!), and many more endpoints. All of these, of course, depend on an LLM.

If you support folks on Patreon, make sure you start your subscription on the website rather than via the Patreon app, since in-app payments are subject to extra payment processing fees (it’s *especially* bad on iOS but Android does it too).

Better yet, don’t use dedicated apps for things that should be websites, and also consider using support platforms that care more about actually supporting folks, like ko-fi. Patreon ultimately only cares about how much money comes into Patreon.

So there's a car on my street that's been dumped as far as I can tell (or for sure cannot be moved - because the tires are flat for ages - see pic)

I contacted the Ordnungsamt

You can leave a car as long as you like on the street providing it is not of danger to anyone or not blocking anything 🤷‍♂️

Your child may not feel any form of attraction to other people now or ever. Your child may never feel romantic or sexual attraction to others as they grow up. Your child may fluctuate in their attraction to others, if they feel attracted at all. Your child may feel attraction to others, but in a very limited or restricted way.

This is okay. This is normal. Not everyone grows up to be what society expects us to be. Do not assume that your child will feel attraction, and make sure they understand that not feeling attracted to others is a valid option, despite the heteronormative pressure of society that says otherwise.

#Asexual #Graysexual #ASpec #LGBTQ #Queer

After the whole Logitech "subscription mouse" junk I decided to see if there was an open hardware thumb trackball, and there is! I just built a Ploopy Thumb trackball, and the hardest part was soldering on the sensor. I even printed out my own orange buttons. I will mess with the firmware (QMK!) later this week.

Edit: link to kit: https://ploopy.co/shop/thumb-trackball-full-kit/

My point is that you are explicitly taught why you need spare capacity in an MBA so people with MBAs have no excuse for not understanding what getting rid of all the spare capacity will do.

Hey, so, heads up: the shipping packaging for the lgbtunicorns binder I got off of Amazon has the name, website, slogan “my body my rules” and “match your mind with your body” emblazoned on it.

Which, like, could be a problem for a number of people who live in circumstances where discreet packaging (and the lack of it) is a safety concern.

Update: it’s a new(?) Amazon misfeature. Upshot is, we need to tell Amazon to ship some things in packaging vs manufacturer container.

#transmasc

Just found this website from April 2000 about installing Linux on Amigas and other similar machines, this is fascinating

http://www.linux-m68k.org/

hey linux people

what are some good music players for the desktop? on Windows we’d use MusicBee but everything on Linux seems to either be kind of underbaked (Rhythmbox) or the ugliest app you’ve ever seen (Clementine/Strawberry)

We’re looking for something that has an iTunes-esque layout, and we find album grid view very important

One of the pups tested positive for rabies and they are still trying to find everyone who went. So if that’s you or you know someone who might be looking at puppies, more details and a number to call here. https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/09/colorado-puppy-adoption-rabies/