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

Very good read for anyone working on accessibility:

Avoiding the engineer-saviour trap - Jenny List, Hackaday
https://hackaday.com/2017/08/03/avoiding-the-engineer-saviour-trap/

"And in that moment, I almost fell into a trap. I was setting myself up to be the Engineer-Saviour, riding in on my white charger to deliver the users of the room from the ceaseless hell into which its designers had put them. The overwhelming smugness of Helping Someone Less Fortunate Than Myself was reaching out to envelop me, and it was time to put the thought down and back away real slow."

#accessibility #a11y

A bit late now but thanks for the info

hey guys, one of my friends is an ukrainian queer refugee that is currenty residing in Germany with his mother that has chronic health problems. they're near Munich, in Ergolding.

they have been experiencing troubles with housing and healthcare.

does anybody know any services or groups that help find a place to stay and medical assistance for ukrainian refugees in this area? please provide contacts and links.

this question is time sensitive, we have a week or so. please share.

Are journalists thinking about this? Are major news organizations internalizing this into their threat models? Are politicians and civil society actors? What are people thinking?

At this point the most important elite social media network in the western world has been captured by a partisan actor who is weaponizing internal company (and possibly user) information for partisan / ideological purposes, with uncertain consequences for the next American elections.

I am not sure if this has fully sunk in.

#FediBlock is not a meta tag

FediBlock tag is not a place to muse about if you should block someone or even saying you did not block them

FediBlock tag is not for posts that are not about blocking someone or a server

make your own tag to “defend” instances, or just dont block them. not satisfied with the “proof?” dont block them.

not everything requires your input.

do not include the actual tag if there is no one to block, you are flooding the tag with useless posts

The problem with #RaspberryPi proudly hiring an ex-spy cop and seeing nothing wrong with it isn’t that they were unprofessional in their replies to criticism on the fediverse. It was the fact that they proudly hired an ex-spy cop and see nothing wrong with it.

If what you want is corporations* to be better at whitewashing what they do, be careful what you ask for because that’s all they want too.

* They’re an offshoot of Broadcom and their “foundation” has multiple for-profit companies.

#RaspberryPi own the two main organisations teaching coding to children today (Code Club and CoderDojo). And they see absolutely nothing wrong with proudly hiring an ex-spy cop who brags about having built surveillance equipment using their boards.

I resigned from the board of directors of Code Club many years ago because they didn’t see anything wrong with legitimising Google (a surveillance capitalist) to children.

These people are creating curricula for your kids. You should be worried.

it's genuinely difficult to think of something funnier than "we hired a cop with a background in electronic surveillance" to post here. it's like if you asked me to come up with a magic phrase that would cause everyone to lineup and kick you in the nuts, i wouldn't suggest that because it's TOO on the nose.

No, for real. Your life is not and endless pit of despair, it's capitalism. Capitalism is the reason why you feel isolated and lonely and meaningless. Capitalism is why you feel guilty every time you're having a good time or just taking your time to do stuff. Capitalism is the reason why you see your peers as rivals, not mates. Capitalism is why you feel you're unworthy of love.

If you're gonna be all 'You shouldn't *tell* people not to federate with nazi instances, you should only inform them that those are nazi instances', you can fuck off, too.

No nazis in the bar, outside the bar, on top of the bar, heading towards the bar, putting on their nazi boots ready to head towards the bar - no space for nazis, no space for people who make space for nazis.

a thing about me is i really do have npc vibes when nobody else is around. just wandering around my house saying shit like "Oh... ohhh.... my old bones...." and "Hmm... I wonder...... could it be time for lunch yet?"

WIP of a personal project: a colombian city where people is cheering for something i'll tell in the future
#wip #pixelart

I saw a post on Reddit about how to cancel an Adobe subscription without the asshole "early cancellation fee" and figured it's worth sharing:

1. Login to your adobe account
2. Go to plans and payments
3. Find your current plan and select "Manage Plan"
4. The third box on the right should say "Cancel Plan"
5. It will ask you why, tell them "Go fuck yourself" and press continue
6. It will offer you to change plans, select "Photography plan (20GB)" - $9.99
7. Confirm the change
8. Now go back to your Plans and it may say "You'll be able to manage this plan shortly" and that's because there is a waiting period after starting a plan, probably to ensure you forget to cancel or something. Took about an hour for it to go away, so if it's there just walk away and refresh the page every 15 minutes or so.
9. Once you are able to manage your plan, repeat steps 3, 4, and 5. This time actually cancel the plan. There will be no early cancellation fee AND you'll be refunded the $9.99.

Fuck adobe.