thinking about it, i'd go one step further
if you are not actively fighting the hostility B/VI users experience when self-advocating, redirect that energy
i often don't feel safe on fedi crowdsourcing image descriptions because i've been told that i am the reason people leave fedi (despite around 75% of mastodon dot social's images being undescribed), that me expressing frustration at how inaccessible things can be (not even to that person, in general) is the reason they will now no longer provide image descriptions at all, and that my request is amounts to forcing someone to provide labor without compensation and the world would be better off without me.
it doesn't seem to matter how much i tone police myself, how clear i make it that it's not required they do it, no matter how much i wring my hands over it. sometimes it's fine. it goes great. but when it doesn't...
the human system regularly dehumanizes me. expecting B/VI folks to engage with that to get basic needs met is also dehumanizing.
The latest Halide update was rejected because, after seven years, a random reviewer decided our permission prompt wasn't descriptive enough.
I don't know how to explain why a camera app needs camera permissions.
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This was one of those rejections where they're like, "If this is a bug fix, we can accept it for now, but you need to fix this in your next update."
We replied, "Yes, please approve, we'll fix it." 36 hours later, they approved, but we still need to deal with this.
I submitted an update with our permission prompts in iambic pentameter. It was approved.
(We won't release it. I just had to know.)
The Department of Energy Wants You to Know Your Conservation Efforts Are Making a Difference
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This is good
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keby zajtra donesiem ľad v niečom udržiteľnom som boh ale nič preto nemám
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Cuando mi hija era chiquita, en el Mixup les dio una época de vender los DVDs de Studio Ghibli, en paquetes de tres películas dobladas al español.
Una de ellas era El Castillo en el Cielo.
Se la pusimos una sola vez; tendría unos 3 años. Dejaron el nombre de la ciudad intacto, y uno de los diálogos climáticos es "¡Laputa sí existe!".
My favourite talk from this year’s #id24 is How to consider non-native English speakers in UX. They talk about some really good things that also apply for cognitive accessibility and these things are so easy to overlook if you don’t carefully consider the impact language can have on understanding
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the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]
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[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/592599 "[The poem has been written in the shape of a deciduous tree with letters (or ‘leaves’) missing from the text]:
comm n pr ble whe writin p ems
in the shape of decid o s trees
is t at once t ere ar ives
the fir t sti rings of he new aut mn breeze,
he oems will begi to shake hemselves ge tly
ntil their letters loos n like leaves,
an they d start to float down
then
[The missing letters from the tree have landed on the last line to form the phrase]
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[The final ‘d’ is floating down to complete the phrase.]")
It's actually hilarious how many plants we cultivate specifically for their defense mechanisms
Alliums: We have nasty sulfur compounds that turn into literal tear gas when our cell walls are broken! No animals are getting at our sugar stores!
Humans: Mmm tasty sulfur compounds, I'm gonna eat you with everything
Tea and coffee: Haha, bugs die when they try to eat us because we grow our own pesticide!
Humans: Ugh don't talk to me until I've had my pesticide
All manner of herbs and spices: Nice try, critters! But we are filled with volatile oils that are dangerous and offputting!
Humans: Ooo this one is good with my pesticides, this one tastes great with the sulfur compounds, this one makes amazing desserts, oh my god yes.
Spicy peppers: Fucking mammals grinding up our seeds in their gross molars! No more! Only birds can tolerate our heat!
Humans: I'm gonna dry you up, grind you into a powder, and use you as a staple seasoning for entire continents' worth of cuisine
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A massive success for the first conference, the governing board meeting in person, and an MSC written in real time. What a week in Matrix!!
Thank you all for making the first annual #MatrixConf such a wonderful experience! We're already looking forward to the next one, slated for France in late 2025.
Our small-but-mighty team is properly exhausted and looks forward to sharing more – including recordings, photos, and takeaways – after resting up.
#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS
I am brimming with pride, gratitude, and joy after the 1st annual Matrix Conference. So much to say!
Grateful to punctuate a great week sharing a lovely time at
Café Botanico, a delightful garden-to-table restaurant hidden in the heart of Neukölln, with some of my colleagues at the Matrix.org Foundation. Thanks for being amazing, team 💖
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr, @travisr@mstdn.ca, @matthew@mastodon.matrix.org, @amandine@mastodon.matrix.org
Robin Bedrunka 🐞
in reply to Archos • • •Archos
in reply to Robin Bedrunka 🐞 • • •Jj čekám, že do měsíce odstoupí Blažek 🤭
Robin Bedrunka 🐞
in reply to Archos • • •brabitom
in reply to Archos • • •Unterwasser
in reply to Archos • • •Archos
in reply to Unterwasser • • •No uvidíme, mají na to ještě rok.
Unterwasser
in reply to Archos • • •A jestli se do Parlamentu vrátěj i komanči, tak to nám pomoz pámbu.
Petr Skála
in reply to Unterwasser • • •Na druhou stranu bych Babišovi přál, ať si ty dluhy, které navařil a sliby které dal hezky užije sám a ponese za to plnou vládní zodpovědnost.
Archos
in reply to Petr Skála • • •Těm co ho volí to bude jedno, všechno hodí na Fialu a přidají důchodcům a ty jim ještě zatleskají. Dluhy zaplatí naše děti.
@unterwasser
Archos
Unknown parent • • •To jsem přesně říkal. Prostě tam není žádný lídr 🤷🏼♂️
@unterwasser
Vitex
in reply to Archos • • •To kdyby se paka do kamery culil že "to všechno děláme pro naše lidi" aspoň by nelhal ... a bylo by to v pořádku pokud tedy jeden neví kdo "ty naši lidi" jsou ...
Unreed
in reply to Archos • • •Archos
Unknown parent • • •Přesně tak 👍👍
@Unreed @Petr90
Unterwasser
Unknown parent • • •@Unreed @Petr90
Já jsem s vládou taky do určité míry spokojený. Jen... nejsou vidět a slyšet.
Kde je ten zvednutý ukazováček, který bude do voličů stále dokola prát fakt, jak Karel Havlíček okrádá klienty? Proč oni kvičí kvůli každé blbině, i lživě, a z vlády není slyšet nic?
To je zásadní chyba. Zásadní. Nejsme jako oni v určité chvíli přestává platit.
Unterwasser
in reply to Unreed • • •No, na toho jsem v průběhu času zapomněl. To znamená, že pro mne (voliče STAN) není vidět.
Unreed
in reply to Unterwasser • • •𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔
in reply to Archos • • •A v podstatě už nemám příště koho volit...
Archos
in reply to 𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔 • • •Unterwasser
in reply to Archos • • •𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔
in reply to Archos • • •Archos
in reply to 𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔 • • •