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Jeeze. Hopefully I can yield some open source thing that's actually useful to people. 😭

So far this rollator is looking like what I'd want. Might see if I can find one in meatspace to try out first. lucasmobility.com/en/lucas-rol

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Also for context, I'd need to be able to get it shipped to Canada if it's not already something I can just buy in a store.

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Not sure if this will reach the right audience, but do folks have recommendations for walkers? I've been thinking of getting one so I could have something to lean on and sit down when I'm out and about.

Preferably with a seat and collapsable.

Boosts and links would be appreciated. 🙇

today i'm imagining a pictographic programming language not rooted in any spoken human language, so that a programmer need not know english to write software, and so programs could be reduced to language-independent patterns rather than language-specific stylistic choices.

If the battery life of steam decks was better I think I'd seriously consider switching to one. :x

Can’t we all just get along?

No, not when your fucking white privilege has you proudly proclaiming “I don’t care” about social injustice just because it doesn’t affect you and attempting to shame those who do by accusing them of perpetuating “outrage culture.”

If this is you, fuck you.

You’re the problem.

And if you’re going to defend that or tone police me for calling it out or warning people from that person’s instance, just fuck off right now and save me the trouble of blocking you.

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.

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.

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CAN NEVER BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE

THEREFORE A BILLIONAIRE MUST NEVER MAKE A MANAGEMENT DECISION

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The local-only web.

With the File System API there's an interesting area of the web (kinda pioneered by TiddyWiki and put into practice by logseq) of having web apps store their data outside of their normal sandbox and not synced to the cloud.

paul.kinlan.me/the-local-only-

The large tech layoffs wouldn’t have happened with unions in place. (Effective, mass-membership unions.)

Oh well, maybe next time.

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.

It’s depressing that there is probably an entire generation of people who only got to know the internet through venture capital driven apps and companies that only cared about manipulating people for their attention. And don’t fool yourselves, we (the people who grew up on the open web) let that happen as well.

In some sense we’re back to the late 90s with *the open web* being a thing that a lot of people explore for the first time now.

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 love e-ink ereaders because they're like this vestige of when tech was good

The battery lasts like a month

They work fine (better) without an internet connexion

You can interact with them using the file manager and it's perfectly good

The files are an open format

It isn't surveillance ad-tech

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