Accessibility fedi, may I nerd snipe you a little. At the makerspace we have 9 doors. I'd like to repaint each door a unique colour, so we can have simple stuff like "lock on blue door broken" and remove ambiguity. Except, as xkcd has proven, colours are hard.
Is there a set of 9 (maybe 10 to allow for future expansion) unique colours that work with all colour blindnesses, and related visual accessibility needs?
Sorry, I don't know what you are up to, but think about blind people, or, if it's not pertinent, about color-blind people. I'd suggest to proceed with painting but have other reference, like "third door" or "wooden door" or "door with a flower on it", I'm making stuff up now but color alone is a no-no per any accessibility standard. #Accessibility
In iOS 26.3, Apple introduced a new privacy feature which limits “precise location” data made available to cellular networks via cell towers. The feature is only available to devices with Apple’s in-house modem introduced in 2025.
My rabbit hole for today is a Youtube channel of someone who took their sweet time and not only recorded different phone announcements across the world but also went through the ITU and ETSI recommendations and actually recreated different telephony signaling sequences from different parts of the world at different times going back to 1955, then did some more tinkering and did the same with some cordless phone ringtones. Just to get a break, they simulated a couple of international calls, putting the right signals and probably TTS-created voicemail greetings at the right places. Enjoy! youtube.com/@tonsoftonz?si=yN3… #Telephony
Has anyone here listened to the Harry Potter full cast audio books? Why, for God's sake, does Madam Pomfrey have a male voice? I swear it's a woman! WTF.
What the actual fuck. It's not April Fools Day, right? This is real?! Fuck you, SpaceX. Maybe this will help regulators realize how fucking shortsighted companies' plans in orbit are?
Surely the FCC won't rubber-stamp-approve this one??... ONE MILLION STARLINKS FUUUUCCCKKKKKK
After a very long time I've returned to Mastodon. If anyone remembers me, that is. I've recently got a lot of spam followers for some reason, so I thought why not to log in actually and see what's happening.
Gibt es eine ernstzunehmende Alternative zu »Vimeo«?
Ich bin derzeit bestrebt, mich von einigen Firmen und derer Apps etwas freizumachen, respektive möchte ich gerne meine Daten immer mehr auf europäische, bestenfalls deutsche und schweizer Server legen.
Nun möchte ich gerne Videos meiner Bands »Bellybutton & The Knockwells" und »DramaGold« (ca. 20 GB), die bislang bei Vimeo liegen, eben von Vimeo wegziehen lassen.
I'm fed up of standard answers such as "received, we'll pass it on" when I report accessibility issues to @Tutanota - I switched to paid subscription after they quickly enough resolved a captcha issue, but now it is at least since summer that I do not even manage to read e-mails from my web browser. And on TUTA web page they publicly declare they respect anti-discrimination values.
I am blind, I am an accessibility advocate, no one has the right to silence me any how.
I am not saying this is something intentional or malicious, I am looking at the result. The real life result of what maybe is an unwanted effect of even a single component update. As inaccessibility is fought through money, if within 3 months I'm not getting an effective concrete response, I'd ask for all my 36€ back till the last cent. No time to do this yet, I want to trust them once more.
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That's why I hate this anti-GAFAM hysteria. they preach great values, but most of them don't care about accessibility, so anti-discrimination and "solution for all, free and blah blah" is only on paper. #Accessibility
@menelion But it's not escaping in silence that we solve the problem. If we just say "it's not for us" and continue using big tech without even looking around, we will continue to be monopoly's hostages. And with this anti-diversity open advocacy by multi-billionaires, there's a very high risk to be cut off forever. So, we have to use both technologies, taking advantage of current empowerment we have now, to make them more aware as possible. These are mostly small communities and if they don't know we exist as blind people, they will never get back to our needs.
@menelion that's why our duty is to push, to make noise, because we are customers like others. Yes, the problem comes from 25 years of accessibility existence with little learning spaces. Or campaigns made just of empathy with no real life concrete effectiveness. We can't say everything is lost if we do not even fight.
> See this > take out phone > while taking the picture, another person stops next to us, does the same thing > We all look at each other: "FOSDEM?" and laugh 😂
If in the EU. Try WERO and tell your bank how to make it better if you truly care about an alternative to PayPal and the Visa/Master duopoly. Don’t expect the perfect solution. Understand that alternatives are never better or perfect from the get-go but that we need to tell them through using them how to become better and better.
Fun ways to spend a Saturday afternoon. Just decommissioned four AirTags and swapped them out for the next generation. Still have a few to go. It’s cool that the Apple Store is doing same-day delivery here now.
in their final slide for absolutely no reason other than because foxes are pretty good
i wanna see which networking vendors fedi prefers
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