Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Been watching tiktoks by a partially blind guy that does training for blind and low vision folks on how to use their canes.

It was cool because as a seeing person I saw the person demonstrating what they did with the cane, and then tried to experience it with audio only.

I kinda want to do this more to get better at describing things without using visuals. #blind #accessibility

@unmellow Yeah, personally I always used the mobile web version of Twitter so migrating to Tusky was nice since it's got even less BS to deal with.

Mastodon web made smaller so it's about the same experience.

I can imagine the frustration in not having whatever workflow folks are used to.

Honestly been meaning to make my own client to match my flow.

@heapwolf Yeah kinda what I've been thinking lately. Like, photoshop used to be a lump sum you paid and it was way less shitty than the current subscription based thing.

@heapwolf software also blurs the lines due to post scarcity of distribution. If I buy a carpet from an artesan they n
lose it and now I have it.

Once code is written it can be created infinitely with zero extra cost. But the coder spent time on it. And they need more to make new and better versions possible. But then the cobsumer feels like its being gate kept and rent seeked. SaaS is the worst of it tho

It feels weird to me that the state of tech means having a billion apps for chat and no unified system for consuming those chats.

Like, why is it I need to jump through hoops to get my signal and telegram channels in one place.

Modern tech really can't compare to scifi in terms of being useful and cool.

Nothing like the rush of fixing your live demo literally at the last minute.

Honestly very thankful to be in the social bubble that I currently inhabit.

@cwebber@octodon.social The loss of things that were easy is so painful too.

Like, everything is so dependent on the internet and these large centrally coordinated systems, and whenever something goes down it's catastrophic since we don't have backups for stuff that's taken for granted.

@cuaxolotl Yeah, else Rocko's basilisk will getcha! Or even worse, AI zelots will consider it an invitation for a debate. 😱

As much as I love fancy tooling, it pretty much always bites me in the rear whenever I stray even slightly from the happy path in their README.

This message brought to you by trying to use fastify and swagger and multipart/formdata at the same time. 🙃 Very surprising that it's not just built in. I'm guessing people that use swagger don't generally use file uploads?

I wonder if one could compile Chrome OS from within a chromebook.