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

also, libraries aren't a charity, they're a public service

the anti-IA people say the IA allows anybody to borrow while "real" libraries exist for the poor but that's not the purpose of a library & RL libraries don't just exist as charity for the poor

we as a society have lost the concept of what a public service is, we only see things in terms of profit and charity

public libraries exist b/c our societies decided that access to culture, to information, to knowledge, and to a public space that preserves those things is a public good, it's something everybody should have

public libraries are not and should not be a charity that we only minimally fund b/c some people are too poor to partake in capitalism and therefore need a little handout so they can get smarter to partake in capitalism

looking (still) for an instance to host a, artwork-cetered account, (wanted to use it as a catalog for about a jillion things I have done that are lying around) EU hosted preferrably.also want something with custom emoji reacts. boosts welcome, replies even more welcomer

As much as I talk about image descriptions, which yes, are very, very important, I'd also like to bring some light to describing audio posts. This is just as important as describing your images. There are people who aren't able to access your audio posts for any number of reasons. Yes, audio can sometimes be difficult to describe, just as images can I'm sure, but at least trying is good. There are many, many people on the fediverse who appreciate that immensely.

Does anyone know of any good Mastodon CSS themes?

Many designers misunderstand what accessibility is and have a limiting believe that accessible design has to look “ugly.”

Accessibility is not at odds with aesthetic.

Some of the most beautiful designs I’ve witnessed were more accessible.

Engage your mind and look deeper, you’ll see it too.

Tweedehands 10 bar tankcompressor, gratis op te halen in Rosmalen als je er een (anarchistisch of vergelijkbaar autonoom) goed doel voor hebt.

Gebruikt, maar niet heel veel. Is vervangen i.v.m. geluidsniveau - let op, je hebt echt gehoorbescherming wanneer deze ingeschakeld is! Compressor zelf in goede staat, slang/luchtpistool ontbreken, filterbehuizing moet gelijmd/vervangen worden (beiden standaard koppeling, volgens mij).

Specificaties in foto/alt-text. Stuur een DM als je interesse hebt!

In light of the Internet Archive losing its appeal to hachette, I just wanted to point out some websites you should avoid:

* https://annas-archive.li/
* https://downmagaz.net/
* https://ebook-hunter.org/
* https://forcoder.net/
* https://freemagazines.top/
* https://liber3.eth.limo/

If you were to download books from these websites, you might cut into hachette's more than three billion dollars of annual revenue. So make sure to avoid those websites and the following:

* https://libgen.is/
* https://oceanofpdf.com/
* https://pdfroom.com/
* https://pdfstop.com/
* https://pdfdrive.to/
* https://pdfmagazines.club/
* https://sci-hub.se/
* https://singlelogin.re/
* ... or any of the other sites listed at https://rentry.co/megathread-books

#internetarchive

Puh-lease cut it out with the tiny scrollbars, designers, there are people who use desktop, who want to scroll with a mouse/stylus using the scrollbar, or simply depend on proper scrollbars.

This has been frustrating me for years. This one is of a, well, sorry, Mastodon social.

"The developers are no good at <insert name of thing you've not allowed them to gain any experience at>"

@vyr incidentally, this type thing is what I hear every single time someone tells me they're definitely qualified to talk about moderation because they worked in "Trust and Safety" at some kind of social media company

Back in the era where distrohopping meant having a whole spindle of burned CDs with distro names scribbled on them in marker.

Unimportant poll, but please boost.

If you lost your phone and needed to call someone in an emergency, how many close friends' or relatives' phone numbers do you have memorised?

Me: I should make an effort to meet some people my own age

People My Own Age: It was lovely to meet you last week. I seem to be having a gender crisis now, can you help?