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Interesting catch by @zackwhittaker - although we don't know the number of people impacted by the Adform breach has they haven't commented, Adform say they serve 1.5 billion adverts a day, and the breach lasted at least 5 days.

Pretty compelling reason to use an adblocker.

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My cyberdeck makes it so easy to commune with my codebase from anywhere. Just sitting under a tree and debugging while I wait for my partner's appointment.

On the web, the less you do the easier it is to keep your site acessible. It's the fancy custom buttons and dynamic content that gets yah.

Multiple links below.

I'm tired, and I don’t want to do free accessibility consulting for this website owner, so I'll outline only one way this won’t work for screen reader users out of many.

Aside from the fact an LLM made the website, and the font as well, the reason it doesn’t work for screen reader users because, even on that demo page, a timer has to be activated. A button must be pushed. A timer activates, and a screen reader user must find the fixed bit of text again. The website makes it sound as if it should be just automatically accessible/visible to the screen reader, and that fails.

Aside from the screen reader issues, that's not the only one, but I don’t want to do free accessibility consulting for this website, some of the other issues include but are not limited to…

It doesn’t prevent scraping.

It doesn’t prevent taking a snapshot and then doing OCR on that screenshot.

It breaks custom fonts anybody has disabled or enabled.

It breaks copy and paste.

It breaks for people without JavaScript enabled.

It breaks for anybody using a good ad blocker.

It prevents search from working on the website.

And many, many, more things that are in my replies.

If you want to learn about me and my screen reader, my FAQ page is below the website I'm talking about.

If you use this font to protect your text from AI, it also blocks *me, a human* because I use a screen reader. I did try the demo. If you want me to remove your RSS feed, this is the best font to prevent blind people from reading your blog/words. That timer is an inaccessible solution and that isn't it's only screen reader failure. shieldfont.org/#hero

My FAQ page sightlessscribbles.com/faq/

#AI #LLM #Accessibility #A11y

I've been touching too much grass. *cracks knuckles* It's time to log on.

I know I've said several times that I don't want to make more social accounts but if MySpace comes back I will 1,000% re-learn HTML and spend all my time over there filling out surveys and changing my profile song every hour.

That brain feeling when you figure out a race condition that requires weird IPC timing issues that are hard to track down in tests. 🤤

@lvk If we can have backtics or triple quotation marks for multi line string parsing, it should have been just as easy to extend the single line strings to support multi line parsing. 🤷

Also these environments usually have multi line comments too? Bah humbug

It's weird that so many languages don't support wrapping text strings over multiple lines by default and use special syntax instead.

@futureisfoss Mostly folks I know in meatspace I guess? The online spaces I talk about slop dev in, they either hate it too hard or love it too hard.

Love how the term "slop dev" and "slopping code together" is spreading in my circles 😈

@hazematman yeahhh. Just saw that too. Been upping my deey dose for walks. 🥲

I really appreciate places where it's just some single user rooms so people don't need to pick a gender before going in. The extra privacy is nice too.

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It'd be nice if there were more gender neutral washrooms.

I have over a dozen mosquito bites that are super irritated AMA

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