I find the investment people have (on both sides) in the narrative of whether Trump was hit by shrapnel or grazed directly by a bullet to be incredibly silly.
Being shot at is terrifying. Being injured by shrapnel can be at least as injurious as being grazed by a bullet. Don’t shoot at people.
Whatever happened, Trump was fortunate to not have been seriously injured, and he remains as terrible a choice for president as ever.
Is there anything that republicans do not mock? A party of mockers! :) mastodon.social/@chikim/112854…
@FreakyFwoof Also this is a good time to remind folks that bunch of republicans mocked #Kamala providing a brief visual self description at the roundtable discussion with #disability rights activists. Regardless whether self description is useful for visually impaired people or not, at least she acknowledged and tried to be inclusive. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…Kamala Harris accommodating disabled people provokes GOP attack
The Vice President began a recent meeting with “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."Eric Garcia (MSNBC)
"Welcome to our website! As we have the ability to list over one million items on our website (our selection changes all of the time), it is not feasible for a company our size to record and playback the descriptions on every item on our website. However, if you have a disability we are here to help you." Talk about a lawsuit waiting to happen.
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Screen reading eff eff conf
In a recent (personal) audit of accessibility and continued struggle to get my head around Voice Over (for macos), I remembered that the spoken sound of "…remysharp.com
@cachondo perhaps a strong opinion, but when I'm on stage introducing the event, and when I talk about the event, I say it as "F F Conf" (and we correct people who call it "Full Frontal")
It's definitely mad that I've tried to jump through hoops when in reality a screen reader is going to sound it out differently depending on the software you use.
As for the right - I've always argued for small and personal sites, you should have the right to experiment, so long as this doesn't hurt anyone.
I think the lengths you've gone to for inclusion are remarkable and I admire the technical aspects greatly.
As you say, though, a person's choice of screen reader, speech synthesizer, voice characteristics ... it all impacts. Blind users will spell what they need to, if they don't already use Braille. It's the difference between calling me Shaun or Shawn or (If you're very british and blind, shorn), when the spelling is sean. It's part of our lives already.
@cachondo on your closing point, I do agree. That's where I nearly (or should have) ended with "am I doing it wrong" in the blog post.
I did also consider changing all instances (across 14 years of micro-sites) from (lowercase) ffconf to (mixed case) FFConf. I didn't mostly because, well, I think screen reader users don't really think (or care) that the event is actually called ffconf (where the F letters aren't pronounced).
there's also a huge disparity between speech engines. Some people want a Human-sounding version of the onscreen text, others see a screen reader as more of a way of accessing data. The predictability of a more monotone voice can allow for faster speeds, for example.
The models used to generate speech have varied wildly over the years as technology has changed.
And then there's the matter of how much the engine should do for you. Is "Dr." drive or doctor. Is MB always Megabyte? Sometimes it's millibars. One of the best examples of this is the Windows properties dialog box, the title of which reads "OS (C:) Properties".
One engine interprets the colon and closing parenthesis as a smily face emoteicon. as a kid I thought it did that when you had loads of space, and it'd change to c:( when space was low.
The post, and eventual "solution" (in quotes because there was no problem) were interesting, and I think the attention to detail is excellent. I always enjoy seeing people learning more about what makes screen readers tick.
Unfortunately, the end result is that screen reader users everywhere will be copying the incorrect event name to the clipboard, creating an impression that they can't write a conference name correctly when they paste it on social media. It also uses more braille cells than needed (10/11 vs six, depending on translation table, repeated across the website).
Given that they end up hearing the "wrong" (in quotes because it isn't) version in the page title before they read any of the "fixed" (likewise) versions, I think the effort was disproportionate to the return on investment. @eric
@jscholes @eric there's a lot to parse (and it's late for me, which is why I'm getting muddled), but! I'd say that *if* someone copies the text on the FFConf.org site, they're going to get the *correct* way to their clipboard (FFConf is correct, ffconf, looks "better" but not the letters I want copied).
Absolutely 100% that the effort was disproportionate to the actual problem - the small upshot is that I learnt more about navigating screen readers and a tiny bit about ligatures
The concern over "data privacy" should be reframed as being about digital surveillance.
Like, making sure the data is secure and anonymized or whatever isn't as much of an issue as every fucking organization in the world trying to track every goddamn thing I do all the fucking time.
I don't understand why the fuck anyone thinks this is okay. I mean, I do (money), but it's fucking insane.
Was just reminded of the TV show called "Stingray": imdb.com/title/tt0090077/
Anyone remember this?
It's kind of the same idea as Vengeance Unlimited imdb.com/title/tt0158421/ a decade later.
Я уже привыкла, что меня бьет статикой на эскалаторах, или от металлических перил
Но сейчас меня ёбом токнула мраморная колонна в метро
это не смешно уже 
The Matrix Conference programme revealed, Circles going to the community, and bots updates.
That and more happened This Week in Matrix!
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This Week in Matrix 2024-07-26
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Matrix.org youtube channel
Channel from the Matrix.org foundation on Matrix protocolInnovation Hub Peertube
I think the whole community is glad to see focus on hardening the base of protocol and targetting long standing problems. 🙌
Do you plan to publish recordings somewhere?
Neither `ni` nor `nih` are in use, so they could be allocated. But I wonder if it has to do with historical standards in Japan. The Japanese have themselves rarely used "Nihongo" or "Nippon"/"Nihon" for the language and the country in the context of communicating in non-Japanese languages. Even their standards bodies use "Japan" for their formal names in English. For example: "JIS" for "Japanese Industrial Standards".
So it might be a conventional thing that was brought into Unicode.
KDE signed an open letter for funding for Open Source. I'm not opposed, but I do want to say - given the billions that go in 'funding' to proprietary software - that changing the purchasing rules in the public sector is, in my opinion, far more important.
re-upping this one again
so many forms of writing are rendered nearly useless if they have no info on *when* they were written
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As California gets ready to do more "homeless sweeps," I feel the need to remind y'all that NYC has more homeless people, and more homeless people per capita, than San Francisco.🙂🙃
But NYC is a much less cruel and much less dysfunctional city than San Francisco, so their homeless people are much more likely to have shelter.
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Periodic reminder that NYC has more homeless people, and more homeless people per capita, than SF. 🙂🙃 But NYC has more shelter spots that are suitable for human habitation, and a more efficient intake process, so has far fewer street homeless (tents…Hachyderm.io
If a shelter is so bad someone would rather sleep on a piece of cardboard in the cold and wet San Francisco weather than sleep in a cot or bed inside ... What does that say about the shelters?
Many of my friends who are homeless have to literally PAY RENT to be able to stay in the shelter.
Yes.
Homeless people.
Get kicked out of their homeless shelter.
Because they can't afford rent.
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X, formerly known as Twitter, has automatically activated a setting that allows the company to train its Grok AI on users’ posts.
X enabled the new setting by default.
The good news is that you can switch it off and also delete your conversation history with the AI.
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According to this Reuters report, it's "estimated that financial losses globally from the CrowdStrike outage could total around $15 billion."
Or, to put it in terms CrowdStrike's marketing team would understand, 1.5 billion Uber Eats gift cards.
ThePhysical Keyboard Challenge: Evaluating the Experience of Using an Android Tablet with an External
From the very first day I purchased my Samsung S9 FE tablet and Logitech K380 Bluetooth keyboard, I planned to write this article. I finally decided to takeSalih Kunduz (Accessible Android)
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Hey!
Do you own a circular slide rule, or know someone who does? Maybe you have a box in the attic or a whole drawer of them.
I am working on an artist’s book with one chapter dedicated to circular slide rules.
If you would like to help me out and get a credit in a really cool book then please scan your slide rule(s) and submit via the form on my site or you can email me lharby@gmail.com.
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"I'm gonna put a test coverage job in your CI", I say, as I sneakily put rust in the CI image to build grcov so I can start putting rust in your code afterwards.
(This is a shitpost about cairo)
It's important to have a good understanding of how technology works.
Not because getting a STEM job is valuable, or because technical knowledge is somehow more important than other types of knowledge.
It's because the powerful will use your ignorance of technology against you.
Systems are designed — out of necessity and intentionally — to constrain your choices. It's important to understand which constraints are technically necessary, and which are just there to exploit or control you.
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This is true of organizations and societies as well as machines. Rules and norms are a kind of technology, in that they have a similar ability to constrain your choices.
Some things are not allowed because of objective, concrete hazards to people and the continued functioning of the whole system.
Some things are not allowed simply because the powerful wish it to be so.
Knowing which is which is crucial to progress.
I'm opposed to most "AI" tech not because of the technology itself, but because the ignorance of how these systems work is often exploited to reinforce existing hierarchies of power.
AI systems trained on data that's biased by historical inequalities, and therefore replicates it.
AI systems like ChatGPT that are imbued with capabilities beyond what is possible, used as justification for demanding more of workers.
Future promises of AI being used to justify inaction and disinvestment.
Etc...
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