Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

for those ready for next year's class, the language setting for your toots actually matters for accessibility!

it's not just helpful for those of us an instances with a translation feature

see, my screenreader has a voice for both french and english because i read a lot of content in those two languages

so my screen reader attempts to read anything tagged as english with the english voice and anything tagged as french with the french voice

if things are tagged not as either, it informs me and doesn't attempt to butcher it!

but the synthesizers for French and English are ridiculous when swapped, worse than a bad stereotype movie accent - to the point that sometimes i can't understand the text at all

so yeah! try to make sure your language is tagged correctly. this is true in your web design as well and a huge thing i often see missed! if you have any level of multi-language text in an HTML file make sure that's tagged.

this is all!

#accessibility #a11y #AccessibilityTip

Hello, Toronto! Have you been in want of a hackerspace that caters to software tinkerers, game jammers, demosceners, and tech art makers? Do you wish there was a community hub for weird nerds right near Spadina and Bloor?

Then the Queer Computer Club is your space! Come by this Sunday for our first open house. Meet people, chat about tech, and maybe become a member?

More details in the link below. We hope to see you there!
http://queercomputerclub.ca/events/

Hey #WebXR people, as we are still stuck on Android rather than a proper Linux XR headset, could we at least put a Linux instance on a Web page, an immersive one? 🐧​😎​

It's "flat" but what if it didn't have to? Started as https://github.com/leaningtech/webvm/issues/90 and working now, partly.

Kudos to the whole AFrameVR, threejs and WebVM communities for that, amazingly enough I only put it all together and voila, working GNU environment in WebXR.

Once entering XR the terminal based on xterm.js and https://github.com/AdaRoseCannon/aframe-htmlmesh by @ada works... but freezes, no input (despite term.focus() ) nor refresh (despite term.refresh() or reset()) so suggestions welcomed!

Running nginx in termux as on device HTTPS server works on a standalone HMD too.

Adding tech to household appliances makes them less reliable and more expensive.

[Refrigerators with net-connected computers and screens. Wifi-connected dishwashers, clothes washers, etc.]

Improving the technology of a household appliance usually makes it more efficient or cheaper.

[Heat pumps are more efficient air conditioners. High-capacity inverters make refrigerators, air conditioners, microwaves and induction cookers more efficient... to the point where induction cookers wouldn't be residential devices without them.]

Over the weekend, I learned that in modern JS, you can just make up your own events and create listeners to respond to them, and *nobody can stop you*. Like, you can add a listener for an event you call `control-reset` or `text-edit` or `steve` or *whatever*, and then when something on the page dispatches that event at the listener, the listener will act! It’s event anarchy!

abandonware ought to be public domain

if your company made it and decided its no longer going to support it, the commons at least deserves a chance

fixes forced obselesence very effectively

@jonny "if our wildest dreams for "open science" are to pay amazon to rent our own data... we need better dreams" 💯 there is this weird push for expensive (and carbon-unfriendly) cloud hosting of raw data in neuroscience. everything else on the poster is also awesome.

Open source maintainers are often good at writing code but not good at asking for money

Companies aren't very good at giving money away, but they absolutely know how to hire consultants - and they often have a training budget set aside already

Spend that money on maintainers!

Fission Tech Talk now: Willow talk with @gwil and Aljoscha https://lu.ma/fission-tech-talk-willow-overview @fission #FissionTechTalk

Because these billboards are just monitors rotated 90 degrees, they’re invisible to polarized sunglasses. It’s like a real-life ad blocker!