Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

Today's realization:

I am not doing "nothing."

I am calm and comfortable, abiding in this quiet space so my brain can rest and heal.

#spoonieAffirmations

this listing is so fucking ominous

@Em0nM4stodon
That EU law does not require a #CookieBanner unless the web site wants to track your clicks or sell your data.

Because people do not understand this, they think "stupid EU law" instead of...

- "website owner has no respect for consumer rights"
- "website owner has no solid business plan and just hopes for a few bucks from the advertisement industry"

#GDPR

I saw this screenshot posted on a Star Trek Discord server today and really liked it. A little digging turned up the original post and reply on Tumblr: https://roach-works.tumblr.com/post/739090278705774592/it-used-to-bother-me-that-all-the-art-in-star-trek

#StarTrek #art #leisure #utopia

@modulux Ads in mobile phones. Two practical examples: An ad shows up, you have to close the app to dismiss it. Two, you read an article in the web, an ad shows up. And then you hear this. "Close. Close. Close. Close." Insert like a 3 second pause between each "close", bonus points if like me you have no idea how to close that shit.

Five versus seven turns

With Firefox having AI added in the recent update. Here's how you can disable it.

Open about:config in your browser.
Accept the Warning it gives.
Search browser.ml and blank all values and set false where necessary as shown in the screenshot, anything that requires a numerical string can be set as 0 .

Once you restart you should no longer see the Grey-ed out checkbox checked, and the AI chatbot disabled from ever functioning.

From a selfish #accessibility viewpoint, things I would like to stop existing:

Discord.
PDFs.
statista.com
Powerpoint/Impress.

What are your "my life would be better if abled users didn't inexplicably choose X" preferences?

Boosts welcome, replies more so.

#a11y #tech

Is JSON-LD worth looking into or are there other, simpler standards I should look at first or instead? I don't need RDF compatibility, for example. At the same time, I'm not quite able to name my requirements just yet, either. Any pointers are appreciated.

I discovered today that if you use an IKEA family card from the wrong country it’ll error with “profile not found” but apply the discounts anyway

we won’t emerge from the threat of modern authoritarianism by becoming little authoritarians ourselves, yelling at anyone who crosses our political trip lines or confuses us with their disagreement.

the opposite of fascism isn’t perfect liberal conformity. the opposite of fascism is art, imagination, the ability to play with the unknown, comfort with what is new and different, the desire to try ideas on like costumery, the ability to laugh at the absurdity of small differences

politics are not just sets of decisions or treatises along a spectrum. ideology is a way of approaching the world, as well as sets of ideas arising from those approaches.

this is not about selecting the correct figurehead and issues — we are emotional mammals easily duped by group think and propaganda and always have been.

it is about how we relate to one another, how we relate to our own imaginations, and how we relate to what is new or frightening or foreign

A conversation no-one had with me when I was young that I hope those of you with young friends and family are having with them is about wearing hearing protection at loud concerts, raves and events. If they struggle to know what counts as too loud and have a smart watch that will track noise exposure, help them set that up. Maybe even buy them quality earplugs if you can (I recommend the Loop Experience ones). I did not use hearing protection when I was younger and some of the concerts I likely did hearing damage at were absolutely not worth the risk.

fuck you