Mauve 👁💜 @mauve@mastodon.mauve.moe

Reverse GitHub Copilot, it doesn't write any code for you, instead it asks you to explain your code with non-specific questions and through the rubber duck effect this causes you to notice bugs and/or realize yourself how to proceed with coding. On the inside it is literally just Eliza (1964)

You should stop using Google Chrome. The company is following through on its threat to ban the ad/tracker blockers that a) help protect your privacy and b) make your web experience much more pleasant.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/11/google-chrome-will-limit-ad-blockers-starting-june-2024/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

I've spent roughly a decade hacking on ChromeOS: patching it, compiling it from source, and deploying it into schools and charities. It was one of the best software engineering projects I've ever seen, but "Manifest V3" marks the end of my work with the platform. Effective adblockers are a basic security tool on the modern web and disabling them makes ChromeOS pretty useless.

if we can use normal every day operating systems to virtualize weird operating systems we can use weird operating systems as our daily drivers and virtualize normalcy, just keep it in a little box when we absolutely have to interact with it.

Me, a bird, to my friend, also a bird: that guy only has one stone. He couldn't possibly hit both of us

Civilization is dead and all books disappeared but there are still a few computers running on fuel generators with copies of libgen. Committees organize to copy the most important things on paper before the fuel run out.

I surprised someone again yesterday by saying that I legitimately don’t think technical issues are the hard part of shipping projects.

I find the constraints are almost always about how to navigate conflicting points of view, deadlines, organization, planning, and budgets. People, planning, and money are the hardest topics. The technical parts seem far less difficult -sometimes even trivial- in comparison.

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.]