Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Google killing off their basic HTML version of Gmail due to basic HTML not including 'full feature functionality' seems like code for 'we don't make ad revenue off this version'.

We relied on the basic HTML version while doing arctic fieldwork in 2017 using low bandwidth satellite internet. Gone were extraneous graphics and junk ads getting served - just mail. It's also no longer possible to auto sort messages in the full version without enabling tracking to serve ads.

https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/25/gmail_basic_html_discontinued/

@lePetomaneAncien @futurebird @natty @neckspike @adamp Yeah, we're getting "right to repair" for mobile phones, but not for medical devices people rely on to be functional members of society

A friend asked me "how do i get amazing frontend chops?"

I answered off the top of my head:
- Go implement some challenging designs
- Go sit with a designer who really cares about their work, and iterate like mad in parallel with them.
- Animate some complex shit.
- Drive your browser with only a screen reader for a week.
- Go work on implementing data tables with 100,000 rows.
- Oh, and try using the web at 400% zoom for a while. Fix everything that's busted on your site when you do.

(Add your own! There's so many great ways to learn the expertise required)

A little teaser of a talk I'm doing for #DC212 tomorrow about the #PirateBox project and how we're reviving the idea. In this day and age, I think we need to bring this project back to the forefront more than ever!

There are some folks who want a faster-moving, constantly-updated AP and AS2 docs.

We have a great process for making new extensions and applications of AP and AS2. It moves fast and is really loose:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

And you can do this kind of development outside of the FEP process, too.

AP and AS2 need to move slow and stable so everyone can build on them. Extensions can be fast and wild, because that's where new things happen.

NEPHEW: Does life get easier when you're older?

ME: [eating "ranch blasted" taco shells directly from the box because they are basically giant corn chips] Life doesn't get easier but you learn to adapt

@mcc imagining the timeline where nobody figured out chemical batteries and so all electrical capacitors everywhere run on clockwork

materials science is less interested in finding room-temperature semiconductors and more in finding materials for making the smallest, sturdiest springs possible

@mauve@mauve.moe In Oslo, 20 years ago there was an art exhibition on 3 central subway stations where they changed all the ads with art for a couple of weeks. It was suddenly so nice to wait for the subway withouth being forced to watch all this stuff that is really shouting. No movement and just food for thought, if you wanted to take it in.

Did you know that the CEO of General Motors, Mary T. Barra, is also on the board of The Walt Disney Company?

They are, and the UAW are quite literally up against the same people SAG-AFTRA and WGA are up against. Their fight is our fight.

Maybe concentrating wealth and power in only a few hands was a bad idea.

#ActorsStrike #WritersStrike #AutoworkersStrike #SAGAFTRAstrike #WGAstrike #UAWstrike #SAGAFTRAstrong #WGAstrong #UAWstrong #UnionStrong

Sometimes I think about how bees just know to collect pollen and build hives while we need instructions to even make bread. But then I remember, bees never built a Furby, did they?

It sucks there's not swappable face plates for major kitchen appliances and stuff.

My stove, fridge, and dishwasher (all hand me downs) are all different colors. I'd be willing to pay to get them to match too, but replacing any one of them is basically $1000 for a good one $500 for a super cheap one maybe actually worse than what I have

one of the least well hidden rituals in the death cult known as capitalism is the deliberate spoiling and discarding of useable food