Aura V. @auravulpes@computerfairi.es

And, yeah, that latter shit happens. I just got a text telling me that I voted in 2018 but not 2016 and I should vote this year. (NB: I wasn't old enough to vote in 2016.) Similarly is the mailing I got with my "voting report card" that ominously warned me that whether or not I vote is a matter of public record. Like, fuck off, you creeps. Stop digging into shit like that, that's fucking creepy stalker behaviour. Leave me the fuck alone.

I look forward to November 4th, when election drama is still happening, but at least my phone stops getting flooded with spam asking me to vote for biden (or, worse, trying to guilt me into voting by citing my past voting record—no, not vote for trump; they at least are smart enough to avoid asking me to do that).

The cat literally just walked into my room through one door, was released into the hall through the other, then walked back in the the first door. Literally just looped around.

Cats. Am I right?

(Ugh, I really sound like a fool, don't I?)

Meow, meow, I can haz battle, meow?

A while back, I did a blog post on redoing English orthography. I used a *lot* of "aria-hidden" along with some CSS to replace that stuff with a note for those using screen readers. This is necessary, as some stuff just wouldn't have sounded correct otherwise. I can't do that with Gemini. So, it'd be nice to be able to do that. Some way to say, "Don't read this; it'll sound like gibberish. Read this instead."

While I'm giving opinions on software, a quick thought on Gemini, a kinda semi-successor to Gopher: I'd really like a proper way to hide text from screen readers and replace it with something else that isn't visible, but is readable by a screen reader. Why? Well...

Like, if you're on i3, you can *mostly* use your existing i3 config with Sway. Some things will need to be changed, you'll have to switch some programs out (e.g. Scrot), you'll probably want to switch others out (e.g. bemenu for dmenu), and if you're doing multimonitor, you'll have to migrate from Xrandr to, get this, just putting it in your Sway config, but I'd say the maybe an hour that'd take (assuming no major problems) is worth it.

Put it this way: If you don't use a Wacom tablet and you've either got some time to spare to re-setup some stuff or you're using something like GNOME or KDE, I'd absolutely recommend it. If you aren't on those DEs, you'll need to spend some time getting stuff set back up, but with the improvements Wayland is supposed to have, especially security-wise, I'd say it's probably worth it.

This said, I did give Wayland another try. I'd previously been not using it because Wacom tablets are busted, and, well...
They still are.

But they *almost* aren't! I tried playing with Sway, and if it weren't for the fact that there's still some issues, I'd probably be writing this from that, not i3. I actually left saying that I'd check back occasionally to see if it'd started working properly. So, it's *almost* there.

Dear FOSSbros:
If the only thing you have to follow "need a reason?" is unnecessary effects that I don't care about, you're better off just shutting the fuck up.
Love,
Someone who doesn't care that Wayland has effects that Compiz had back in *2009*