aral

aral, 17 days ago to random

Fedora: “The Fedora Quality Team is joining Week of Diversity with an Accessibility Test Week!

Much like other Test Days, the goal of this week is to put Fedora through its paces and catch as many accessibility related issues as we can for our disable users.”

Me: Fedora, your screen reader is broken.

Fedora guy: Patches welcome 👍

Me: reaches for block button

From the actually-what-you’re-referring-to-as-ableism-is-GNU/ableism department

#foss #a11y #accessibility #fedora #ffs

aral, 3 months ago to random

Mastodon.social rolling out the red carpet for Threads is like an independent shop inviting a supermarket to set up next door.

But what’s done is done. And I’ve wasted enough words on this whole sorry affair over the last year.

So this is the last you’ll hear about it from me. When, eventually, you’re writing your “what went wrong?” articles, feel free to look up what I’d written on the issue back when.

#threads #mastodon #mastodonSocial #zuckerberg #facebook #meta #fediverse

aral, 3 months ago to random

When privileged folks tell me at my talks “I don’t care about my privacy / I have nothing to hide / Give me one example of the ramifications of surveillance capitalism / etc.”, I tell them “you will care when your health insurance premiums go up because your Smart Fridge tells the insurance companies what you’re eating/drinking.” This is basically the same thing. Sad that it takes things hitting their own wallets for privileged folks to pay attention.

🤷‍♂️ https://social.lansky.name/@hn50/112077137922790367

aral, 4 months ago to random

Dear instance admins,

Please set your account sign-ups to manual review. Your instance doesn’t need to grow at any cost.

Remember: Quality, not quantity.

#fediverse #mastodon #spam #resiliency