Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

I've lived a long and content life, ignorant of this horrible fact: there exists a UTF-EBCDIC encoding. Blessed by the Unicode consortium even. The eldrich horrors of EBCDIC unleashed by the Old Ones, now rise again from their slumber into modern Unicode.

Make your saving throw against sanity...

https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr16/tr16-8.html

current tpyo levels are 62%

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The Japanese Supreme Court has declared that the legal requirement for transgender people to undergo surgery and be rendered incapable of reproduction is unconstitutional.

This is very big news.

"A big percentage of so-called experts today only know how to configure some kind of hype-tool, but they understand nothing about how things work at the deeper level. This is a real challenge and a problem for the future."

🔗https://unixsheikh.com/articles/we-have-used-too-many-levels-of-abstractions-and-now-the-future-looks-bleak.html

"To participate first you must join our Discord."

Ah so you don't want me to participate. Gotcha.

I am not calling Facebook "Meta" and I'm not going to call Twitter "X".

These companies cannot be forgiven for prioritizing profit over people. I will not indulge their attempts at public image cleansing.

Never forget the torment nexus they unleashed.

The company formerly known as Twitter is in deeper trouble than previously thought.

https://futurism.com/twitter-deeper-trouble-advertisers

The “industry standard” modules used in digital braille displays are custom piezoelectric devices, costing around $100 per “letter,” making such displays impractically expensive for most applications.

I just learned about this hackaday prize winner, who has designed digital, refreshable #braille modules that cost less than $1 each, using teeny-tiny magnets and 3D printed parts.

https://youtu.be/BXi1tG78AW4
#OpenSource #accessibility technologies FTW!