Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

It is the year 2026, and in order to buy a BrailleNote evolve and to get my SensePlayer repaired, I have to give AT companies my credit card number over the phone. I am being told by an AT company that their system is "encrypted and secure," yet they don't have a way to send a simple payment link for a repair. My freshly minted cybersecurity degree is absolutely screaming at the thought of transmitting raw cardholder data over an unencrypted voice line, but sure, let's pretend oral tradition is a valid compliance framework. And, because they don't support a standard and accessible online payment portal that I could just use independently with a screen reader, I now have to spend the next few days arranging for a sighted person to help me read my non-brailled physical credit card details just so I can call a rep and read them out loud. Nothing says "we specialize in independence for the blind" quite like forcing a blind customer to compromise both their financial security and their autonomy just to pay for an essential hardware repair.

More than 200k users said NO!

More than 70 organisations signed a letter saying NO!

#FDroid wrote posts on why NOT!

We've talked with you and your representatives, around the world.

We've made the #KeepAndroidOpen website to explain it.

If you read the #Android tech news, you saw it.

If you use a search engine, you found it.

If you've asked their own #Gemini, you got the summary.

But who didn't see, hear or read anything from above? Yes, #Google

For your saftety? https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html

"I shouldn't have to be decent, you should be tough" is such a meaningful measure of a human.

You don't have to. That's the entire premise. Your body doesn't force you to be kind in order to keep you alive. It's optional. You can choose to be decent and respected or not and not.

No one is holding a gun to your head ordering you to be likable.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@arstechnica/116841255596329539

WELP, I find old.reddit.com the only way reddit is palatable; and I don't login to reddit.com anymore. So I guess it's going to be dead to me.

i think that is how obscurantism works. if you slog though some barely readable word slog, chances are you will attach some greater veracity or meaningfulness to whatever you get out of it.

additionally it makes it harder to isolate the claims and reformulate them, imagine test cases, etc.

uBlock Origin on the client, Fail2Ban on the server, wash your hands with soap when you enter the kitchen or leave the bathroom. It's all just basic hygiene now.