RE: https://beige.party/@rooster/117000952913461604
we really got genderfluid avocados before gta 6
@Em0nM4stodon Needs to be filed under "Why abled people should care when disabled people bring up issues"...
At least at the University of California, for disabled people at UC (whether students, staff, or faculty), there used to be human notetakers for those who had that access need. It was a good work/study job for abled students to be a notetaker.
But since disabled people are always seen as a risk and cost "to be managed", the moment that abled decisionmakers could fob it off to Otter .ai, they did. This compromised privacy of disabled people. But people didn't care when it was mostly happening to disabled people...
Of course, as soon as the tech was available to have these AI notetakers in online meetings, abled folks began to notice.
The cruel irony is that AI corps love using "accessibility" as cover for their work. But if abled decisionmakers cared about accessibility, everything would already be accessible as possible. It's not about accessibility.
Wind and solar have just overtaken fossil-fuel power in Germany
F-Droid, home to thousands of free and open-source Android apps, calls Google's developer verification an "existential threat." An estimated 85% of F-Droid apps could face distribution issues because their developers signed through F-Droid, not through Google. @keepandroidopen #KeepAndroidOpen https://keepandroidopen.org
My 81-year-old mom, who's a widow and has no current photo ID was rejected today when we tried to get her a photo ID card. She's been living in Alberta since 1978 and has no current passport.
She had her birth certificate but because she changed her last name when she got married in 1964, they could not issue her an ID card without her marriage certificate.
We did not know where she may have stashed her marriage certificate since she moved into a senior's residence three years ago and had to downsize a lot of her things.
These new rules are going to disenfranchise a lot of people hoping to vote in the referendum. We need to get the word out. If you are contacting another province for birth or marriage certificates, that will take time.
Luckily for my mom, after searching through an old trunk with multiple albums and brown envelopes, we found the original marriage certificate. We'll be back at the registry in a couple of weeks to try and get that ID card.
This UCP government is pure evil.
Yo, I'm heading up a brand-new community project. 👥
We write code by hand. 🤚🏽⌨️
It's a growing opt-in directory of software developers who write code by hand. When you hear someone tell you “nobody does that” you can point to this and say “well these folks do.”
If you're #ProCraft and care about the future of handcrafted software, please add yourself to the list! I'd love to see this grow to 100s of signatories (I know y'all are out there!) and really send a message.
TIL in the 2000s people from Brighton fucking loved to listen to FIP, a french radio station designed to broadcast only calm music with no adverts
except they were receiving a pirate re-broadcast of FIP by one guy who loved the station so much during his holiday in France he wanted to share it around it
OG equipment and documentation that was used to build Tomb Raider in the mid-90s and beyond.
This seems like a game changer for Godot mod accessibility
"GDPatch, a versatile Godot mod loader! we've built a mod loader for all Godot 4.x games with a focus on script patching and runtime hooking"
by notnite
post from over on bsky https://bsky.app/profile/notnite.com/post/3mrdxzopomeow
docs: https://gdpatch.dev/
code: https://github.com/GDPatch/GDPatch
blog: https://notnite.com/blog/gdpatch
Do not follow me for more just felt worth getting the message out
Honestly, this worked
I was in a mode where I was stuck scrolling social media, and now I'm in a mode where I'm doing things, neat!
Trans woman, bisexual, someone's fiancée, forever a programmer, poly, and former total mess
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