Sven Slootweg @joepie91@pixie.town

I #love this.

Oops. Pro-tip: cover your cup of tea before folding sheets nearby (especially if your sheets have been sitting gathering dust in a laundry basket for 6 months), lest you end up with fluffy tea.

the reason for the "show it anyway" change is that the community has amply adopted the CW field for not just content warnings but:

- polite content descriptors for topics that aren't particularly triggering but some people just want them to be opt-in for any reason

- overflow dampener for trending topics that overly dominate timelines

- subject indicator plus collapse mechanism for long toots/threads

- a way to offer advice or comments "if wanted"

- set up for jokes

- other stuff I don't even know

and gargron likely thinks everybody is doing it wrong and wants to coax us all into using it as a content warning field, strictly.

the reasons that gargron would want that, are probably 1) that he's into playing number games and figured out that less CWs=more exposure/knee-jerk reactions/controversy = Engagement, and 2) that he's got a long history as a control freak who gets off on putting down community wishes to exert his individual will top-down.

Open source: you all should use open source and private services because we’re not a corporation out to exploit you or your data.

Disabled users: hey, your registration edit field is not labeled so I can’t use my adaptive technology to register or even use your platform. Could you fix it, because, right now, the mainstream/corporate offering has taken accessibility more seriously and I’d rather use a tool/service that I won’t need to struggle with in order to operate.

Open source: what exactly do you expect? We can’t be expected to make things accessible for you, so you can either fork it yourself or just not use our software/services. We’re a small team and corporation has more money than we do so they can devote more time and effort to accessibility. You can always fork the project though and make accessibility yourself!

Disabled user: well, I can’t code, so it looks like I don’t have any other choice but to go back to using this corporate offering that at least took the time to label their registration field correctly and actually took my request more seriously. Oh well, maybe open source tools just aren’t for me.

#OpenSource #Accessibility

Somewhat recently, I've started using chopsticks.
And I think it's a wonderful example of just how good we are at tool use.
I had basically no experience with them, they seemed alien to me for a while, then I watched one short video and suddenly was...passable at it.
Like any other tool, you (eventually, generally) don't think about moving your fingers, only about what you want the tool to do, even if it might seem strange and complex to the uneducated.

Yet another app sacrificed on the alter of Kafkaesque app store bureaucracy. Granted unlike iA Writer they are going to only pull the Google Drive feature not the whole app. Another lesson why I never want to rely on Google for the back end #programming #google blog.panic.com/end-of-the-road…

hello fedi folk, i hope that everyone is ok. this is a request for advice/help from a US lawyer who deals with name changes and can handle international complexity please. boosts very welcome!

thank you

When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.

While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.

If you’re also put off by the new content warning styling, please vote on this issue:

https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/32352

#mastodon