maj @maj@computerfairi.es

The Gender Census 2019 is now open until 25th March!

https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/gendercensus2019/

It's for anyone whose genders (or lack thereof) aren't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and the results are useful in academia, business, and self-advocacy.

Masto have you seen Billy Porter's dress??
https://twitter.com/theebillyporter/status/1099807766728794113

have you ever noticed that someone post a screenshot of text without providing an image description, preventing you from being able to read it? or maybe they posted a huge amount of text that just can't possibly be described with the image description feature?

simply tag @OCRbot in a direct reply to the image. it will download the image and scan it using tesseract OCR to output the text contained in the image!

because OCRbot runs on fedi.lynnesbian.space, it has a character limit of 65535, so even the longest images should work OK!

check the reply to this image to see it parsing the attached screenshot!

Hello nice community,we have a big announcement to make! 🎉 Halcyon.social went down one year ago short before we took over the project.It was a huge centralized service using this code.Starting today it's online again - Not as a centralized #Halcyon instance but as a information page with a improved instance list and much more.You can visit it at https://www.halcyon.social .We hope you like it 😍

Some accessibility lessons:
- Excessive symbols and emojis (e.g. in names) are annoying. Stupid zalgo or math characters or whatever are read one by one.
- Links are spelled out with all those "slash slah colon" stuff.

Bombenalarm im ICE: Passagiere werden evakuiert, nur ein Rollstuhlfahrer nicht - https://www.stern.de/panorama/gesellschaft/deutsche-bahn--rollstuhlfahrer-musste-bei-bombenalarm-im-ice-bleiben-8581738.html?utm_campaign=&utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=mweb_sharing via @sternde@twitter.com

A couple things I saw and thought "Mastodon will love this":

- Alias, a 3D-printed "parasite" that sits on top of your Amazon Echo or Google Home, feeding white noise into its mic until you say the wake word: http://bjoernkarmann.dk/project_alias

- The adminbook, a wonderfully ugly design for the ideal sysadmin notebook: https://m.habr.com/en/post/437912/

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So in two weeks time there‘ll be another round of my #comics workshop in #Berlin.
It‘s unique in that it‘s not a basic course but an advanced project mentoring for everything you ever wanted to start/finish.
I already have enough attendees, but hey, we‘ll have comics phenomenon Ulli Lust talking about her creative process, we‘ll be printing an anthology and presenting it at this year‘s #ComicInvasion festival.
DM me for details if you're interested.

Also, heute 19 Uhr Offener Abend FLITtchenkneipe #Hamburg mit Infos zu #Freifunk! https://flittchenkneipeblog.wordpress.com/2019/02/08/offener-abend-im-februar/ FLTI only!

I feel weird asking for financial support for my bit of music-making, writing and writing about music. On the other hand, we're still in a bit of a financial pinch - no thanks to the still ongoing marriage recognition saga (thus no sposal tax benefits) and me having had a bad year businesswise in 2018. And I feel much better about asking for a tip for my creations than just straight up asking for money.

So I'm trying this ko-fi thing: http://ko-fi.com/modern_dragon

Gardener surveyed 1400 women in IT in 2014: “What surprised me was that they felt, ‘I did all that work!’ They were angry. It wasn’t like they needed a helping hand or needed a little extra coaching. They were mad. They were not leaving because they couldn’t hack it. They were leaving because they were skilled professionals who had skills that were broadly in demand in the marketplace, and they had other options. So they’re like, ‘[expletive] it — I’ll go somewhere where I’m seen as valuable.’ ”