@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itWow. I've dealt with various toxic personalities in software development, but a good portion of the time those toxic personalities were at least extremely knowledgeable in their (often, very limited) domain.
AI, however, seems to be enabling toxic personalities *who are completely clueless*. Impressive!
https://github…
@maxheadroom@hub.uckermark.socialAs beautiful as a sailboat looks. In my eyes it's totally not worth the effort to own one (on lakes in Germany). While I enjoy helping my friends with their boats occasionally ... the amount of maintenance just confirms my bias every time :D
@cdarwin@c.imThe Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS),
India’s largest Hindu far-right organization,
initiated a well-funded lobbying effort in the U.S. earlier this year
Squire Patton Boggs,
one of the top lobbying firms in the U.S.,
registered as a lobbyist on Jan. 16 for the RSS, according to lobbying disclosures
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.social«Peronism really only exists in Argentina, and there’s a good reason for that: it’s an incoherent mess, to the extent that it’s hard to tell what its tenets even are»
In some hilarious way this sounds to me like the historic precursor to the German Pirate Party's "we're neither left nor right" claims, which also doomed the whole effort. 😂
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialInside the downfall of the BBC's top bosses: many see their departure as part of a wider political effort to shift BBC reporting to the right on key issues (Michael Savage/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/ng-i…
@cdarwin@c.imThis week, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem staged a bizarre photo op in Portland that appeared designed to bolster Trump’s effort to deploy Oregon’s National Guard against ICE protesters in the city.
Noem stood on a rooftop observing protesters below, and MAGA influencers hailed it as a moment of extraordinary heroism against a powerful, implacable enemy.
“Noem just stared down violent Antifa rioters on the roof of a Portland ICE facility,” one wrote.
Alas, it turn…
@whitequark@mastodon.socialkickstarter to launch a satellite that could be used as a sovereign ground for the principality of sealand
if you have, like, $150m or so you could just do this, right? it's effectively exterritorial unless somebody spends the effort to bomb it out of the sky (which isn't going to happen). you can just stream pirated content from it, run a casino, whatever
@roland@devdilettante.com"The Marshall Plan did help rebuild Europe. The Civil Rights Movement did end Jim Crow. Smallpox was eradicated through an international coordination effort. The Montreal Protocol did address the ozone hole. Are these perfect success stories? No, they all happened through a series of shitty compromises, through flawed execution and with unintended consequences." <-- Thanks Joan!
@theodric@social.linux.pizzaToday was one of those 100-watt days (as in: that's all the solar panels are putting out from their 4kW theoretical peak, but it also sounds about right for how much effort I'm able to muster).
Don't take an Illinois boy and put him in miserable, dim, drippy north-western Europe and expect peak performance from October through March!
@ruari@velocipederider.comAs fun as the previous face was, I decided I wanted a bit more information displayed.
So I switched to this alternate ternary dial (also made by my friend).
The colours are all customisable. I have the minutes in a different colour to the hour so that I can locate them quickly at a glance, as I tend to decode them first (given I usually know the hour already).
This face can also show a step count but that is way too much effort to decode right now! 🤣
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyzExcellent article from @…, including both an overview and illustrative examples.
As an occasional web-tinkerer, I couldn't fully understand the web design details like a professional would. But from the parallels with event organising, I can tell that the overall vibe is spot-on: don't treat access as an afterthought which can be tacked on later, build it in from day 1.
"If you don't know enough about disabled users to understand their needs: find out. Knowing enough about accessibility to know when to seek out specialist guidance, and to understand it when you get it, should be a core competency for standards engineers. ...
"Getting this right requires a bit more work up-front, but – just as it is with front-end development – ultimately saves potential years of clean-up work (or having to scrap projects after years of effort), as well as avoiding harming disabled users."
#access #design #standards #WebStandards #accessibility #a11y #disability #UX
