@AudreyJune I wish chat programs came with the ability to turn typing notifications and read receipts off, they just make me anxious.
@polychrome @256 The screensaver that came with that theme used to scare me as a kid, it had jungle sound effects.
ReactOS has an almost perfect recreation of the win9x look, it would be nice if it could be ported to other operating systems.
meta , fedi discourse, invisible ableism, chill out y'all
fedi people need to chill tf out in discourse rn, its so heated that me, an anticapitalist anarchist, got called a racist capitalist pig in a thread about environmentalism where I agreed with the OP, and a stalker for accidentally sending a second follow request to someone once!
Can discourse exist on fedi without turning into instant hateful misinterpretation and gaslighting? I hope so, because it makes it harder for neurodiverse people who can't pick up on y'all's signals to not get yelled at for trying to add a mild amount of nuance to somebody's take when we AGREED. I know at least three other people who've left because they were ostracized by your bullshit craving to cancel someone once a week when they didn't even do anything wrong. Can we save cancelling people for, y'know, transphobes and such, rather than our comrades who have trouble reading your mood over the internet? Frankly it is ableist, and yes, using slurs isn't the only form of ableism that exists. Thanks for listening instead of cancelling me less than halfway through reading this post, you've done a better job than most lately.
fedi ideas
@jookia That would be nice. I would like to have groups. I've heard that GNU social has them, but I haven't used that.
accessibility tooling, design
for blind or vision impaired, having the application hide everything that the screen reader wouldn't see would be a great feature. you could think of this as a 'text' version of the application even, but spatially hiding elements and just position the text the screen reader would read over the elements would bypass the need to install a screen reader or learn to espeak (impossible if you're deaf too) as well as not give a sense of a sense of familiarity
accessibility tooling, design
it's (current year), why is it so hard for developers to make software accessible? it's ironic to think that software accessibility is inaccessible. it's something everyone wants to do, but it's just difficult to do. one thing that technology can actually help with is making things accessible and easy to do, so let's dream of what would be cool to have
@jookia That's annoying, you'd think that accessibility would be most important for a help program. I think the gnome help app had the same issue. I directed him to the wiki pages online, and those work, he just prefers having a local copy of documentation for programs he uses.
@jookia I've been helping him more with that recently. We tried GNOME first, but he had issues with Orca getting stuck sometimes, so we switched to MATE, which has been working a lot better. He has been having issues with the MATE help app though, it won't let him read anything, and just tells him that there is a cursor. I tried looking through the documentation, but I'm not sure what he needs to do to switch modes and read it.
Most other apps seem to work well. He has been getting used to some of the differences between Orca and NVDA.
I love #emacs, #gnu, and #freesoftware
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I'm an intactivist, all children have the right to be protected from genital cutting before they can consent, regardless of their genitalia. A consenting adult has the right to do what they want with their own body. #intactivism #i2 #autonomy