Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

In case folks aren't aware, the Internet Archive now has a scholar version with a huge collection of academic work available.

https://scholar.archive.org/

#academicchatter #academicmastodon #academic #education #open

@djsundog and I are launching a project to build federated, open source, #bandcamp alternative.

We're building this because we need it. We're doing it ourselves because it will become a part of the larger media production and distribution ecosystem we have planned.

We welcome other open source projects, and we might even contribute to a few of them, but for the next several months, this is our full time gig.

Long term vision: https://mountaintown.technology/

Repo: https://code.communitymedia.network/MountainTownTechnology/aural_isle/

How and why: https://ajroach42.com/the-uncertain-future-of-bandcamp/

The wave of new AI tools comes with a ton of new #privacy concerns.

A new website where you can upload a photo to identify people shows it’s not limited to those who use AI themselves. And it shows why you should avoid giving your data to random companies.

Do these developments worry you? They worry us..

https://www.entrepreneur.com/business-news/controversial-tech-pimeyes-fuels-privacy-concerns/463483

Pedestrians, it should be our right to be distracted. It should be our right to walk and listen to music / look at the sky / cute dogs / snowflakes and not worry about getting killed. Nothing about that is dangerous except for CARS. Don't let them make you believe you are the problem.

@nasser @mauve

It's funny: Both Bandcamp and Patreon had the easiest and most straightforwardly long-term profitable business models imaginable: Sit between indie creatives and their fans, provide some basic services for mediation (comment sections, media posts, semi-global payment) and take enough of a cut of any payments to cover the costs and then some.

But because that business model wouldn't scale forever, they are instead being gutted, because ever _increasing_ growth is the only model capital accepts

Bash history https://bash.cyberciti.biz/guide/Recalling_command_history

Whereas, women need pockets, and
Wheress, the fashion industry is improving but moving too slowly to address their previous problems,
Therefore, I submit the following schedule of charges amending the Fashion Crimes Amendment of 1982, title II, p 7, s iii to cover all genders of clothing:

Two or more roomy pockets: no crime
One roomy pocket: misdemeanor (FCA II.3.iv)
No pockets: felony (FCA II.3.v)
Fake pockets:
- first offense, felony plus charge of fraud;
- second offense, summary execution

here are some things that would help me as a blind person regarding online accessibility (mobile for me):

- all apps should display all text sizes (iphone goes up to 310%)
- all apps should display bold text if it's turned on in the system settings
- there should be a standard for text size; if my text size is 100% across all apps, then an instagram post, a toot, a text message etc. should all be the same size, no more "instagram and tumblr are always slightly smaller for some reason" bs
- an app's formatting (such as buttons, alerts etc) needs to be compatible with large text! large text doesn't help me if all the buttons are suddenly overlapping or i can't get out of an alert window because they forgot to program the ability to scroll. no more overlapping shit, no more missing shit, no more "i can't get out of this window without closing the app and changing my text size"
- usernames, channel names, all word and sentences should be fully visible even with large text! i don't know what channel "# ge..." is on discord. find a way to make it visible, either make it multiple lines, give me the ability to side scroll or make it move like a spotify song title
- make sure things that shouldn't be affected by large text aren't! if i need to scan a barcode and my large text settings make it unrecognisable to the machine, that's unhelpful
- all apps should have a light mode and a dark mode! certain conditions make it easier to see light mode, others make it easier to see light mode
- dark mode should be as high-contrast as light mode, i.e. white on black, not white on dark grey
- probably have other options beyond regular dark and light mode
- on apps that let you customise your profile a lot visually, give the option to view it in your phones' settings, i.e. if someone's got a dark red on black serif-font tumblr, i wanna be able to make it into a white on black plain font tumblr
- alt text should be accessible without a screenreader
- there should probably be a dedicated field for video descriptions too
- apps that give hashtags a different colour than the rest of the text should let you choose the colour
- all apps should let you view someone's profile picture in full size
- this one is specific to instagram: let us fucking zoom in normally! why do i have to do finger gymnastics just to stay zoomed in and read text on a picture? the zoom should work the same way it does in my photo library and literally everywhere else

most of these shouldn't be that hard and they would make my life a hell of a lot easier. i'm tired of running into issues because i'm too blind to read regular size text.

#disabled #accessibility #blind

reminder: tomorrow, October 13, 2023 will be the most difficult day to play nethack for years in either direction and ascending during this confluence of bad luck would be turboswag. https://nethackwiki.com/wiki/Time

#nethack #roguelike

a good thread

the root of all evil in the modern web is monopolism and copyright. the web started getting shit -- truly shit not just banner ads but really bad -- when the acquisition-as-growth monopolism started emerging with tech companies, and when DRM became the default mode of creating lock in.

rather than building new stuff, sufficiently large companies could just buy startups. and so rather than risk losing users, companies could just acquire potential competitors and avoid the risk

and to keep those users locked in, they could add the slimmest of DRM and turn webscraping into a felony

the larger a company is, the more incentive it has to do this and the more resources it has to do this

the solution is to break up the tech giants and repeal section 1201 of the dmca

https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/110672711639616140

i go to mastodon. i complain about bug. rando says "treatment is simple. great clown maintainer is on github tonight. file an issue. that should fix your bug." i burst into tears. say: "but rando.... i am maintainer"

This whole "real names in open source" discussion is kinda amusing to me, because at one point I was in the credits of a project under three separate names.