Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Calling for the help of the fediverse!
Help spread the word of our browser extension Consent-O-Matic that helps automate answering those ever-present cookie consent pop-ups.

It's developed by researchers at Aarhus University in Denmark and free to use for Chrome/Edge, Firefox and Safari including for iOS.

Also, it's open source, so if you have a bit of technical skill, you can help us improve the rule set for greater coverage.

https://consentomatic.au.dk

you know, i'll take the incessant reply guys of fedi over the style of aggro gotchas on twitter/bluesky any day

at least most reply guys are (ineptly) trying to contribute additional information to the discussion rather than just scoring a point in social media debate club by getting one over on you

Tell me something nerdy that you don't think many people know, but you'd like for more people to know!

I'll go first: the Stargate theme song has lyrics despite those lyrics never being in any opening for the show.

@amy Doors that say they must be able to close in the event of a fire are part of a building's smoke abatement system. Those doors are going to be pulled shut by air pressure as the HVAC system goes into fire purge mode. Air will be rapidly ventilated out through the roof to pull as much smoke/fumes up and out to give people more time to evacuate. If those doors are blocked open, it won't work as well.

@amy
There is a genious survey technique to ask respondents about sensitive questions (crime, sex,. ..).
The respondents get a sensitive yes-no-question and a mundane one, that is naturally about 50/50 (is your mothers birthday on an uneven day of the month?). Before answering, the respondents throw a coin in secret, which decides, which question they actually answer. Now noone knows, which question they answered and the scientists can calculate the actual percentage with a large enough dataset

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