Posts by menelion@dragonscave.space
(DIR) Post #AjENNysS3uG4U13krw by menelion@dragonscave.space
2024-06-23T13:33:14Z
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Again unpopular opinion, but I don't care.Those eco-activists lobbied a law that all plastic bottles should have attached caps.I wonder only one thing: why everything they do is so fucking annoying, inconvenient and just extremely shitty? environment is good, protection, less waste, whatever, angels, flowers and butterflies, — everything is good, but why, for goodness sake, must it be so awfully inconvenient to use or simply disgusting, like those damned paper straws that smell and taste paper glue?Bottles with attached caps. First, it's messy: when you want a bottle of water in a hot street, you'd be rather careful now, because drinking with that dangling thing near your mouth and not to spoil everything (let alone if you are eating something along with it) is nearly impossible. To drink only a part of it and put the bottle in your bag — also fucking impossible, because the cap doesn't close the bottle so strong anymore, and your liquid will be in your bag.to buy larger bottles to drink a glass and leave everything for later? Also nope, because again, the cap is no longer reliable, and your bubbles of beloved carbon dioxyde will happily fly into the air.Solution? Easy-peasy! Tell 'em that you take those bottles for 25 cents, you take those caps for 10 cents, and you take a bottle with a cap for 40 cents. That's it! No more bottles, no more caps, no nothing at all! They will be fightin' for them!And me, with my character, I'll be keeping those small scissors in my bag just to cut those cap-attaching strings and drink my water, or cola, or whatever I want. Nobody will do as you want for the sake of some righteous ideas if, not hurting anyone, it ruins their comfort!
(DIR) Post #AmKCnlJ75DmtsDYmES by menelion@dragonscave.space
2024-09-24T09:54:38Z
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У создателя известной онлайн-библиотеки «Флибуста» обнаружили большую злокачественную опухоль мозга, и прогноз, очевидно, весьма неутешительный. https://flibusta.is/comment/3561561Грёбаный рак! #Флибуста
(DIR) Post #AnnJcBrfKpcJFrHFwG by menelion@dragonscave.space
2024-02-19T00:31:32Z
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Re last: Please please please, don't use #HCaptcha! We blind people call it HateCaptcha, and it's for a reason. Their accessibility so-called innovative technology is simply broken and doesn't work reliably. You can't imagine how much time I spent fighting with this so-called accessibility cookie. Please don't use it, for goodness sake. #MastoAdmin
(DIR) Post #AsvLtqN9AT0wZwbtdQ by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-04-09T19:20:04Z
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@frameworkcomputer Good luck, I hope you still have plenty of markets. Love your company and I really hope you'll be OK.
(DIR) Post #AtS24Oh3PpZfaMo03s by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-04-25T13:43:19Z
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@ricci That is even more cocerning given the fact that Hetzner, for example, can block your account without any explanations (google for a Reddit thread about it, it's quite at the top of search results).
(DIR) Post #AtxTWTOIma5V91b0Oe by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-05-10T11:52:56Z
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To all #OpenSource and #Linux warriors, to all saying "Ditch windows, install Linux", to everyone and every single person: please, spend several minutes and read this. I want you all to read this so you really understand the problem (if you want to understand, of course). And a huge, huge thanks to Aaron @fireborn for starting this post series. https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-want-to-love-linux-it-doesnt-love-me-back-post-1-built-for-control-but-not-for-people/ #Accessibility
(DIR) Post #AurOLPpEgTakiUVMiO by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-06-06T16:40:06Z
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The #Zed text editor (https://zed.dev) finally opened early access program for their #Windows builds. I suggest everyone from the #Accessibility dev community to sign up for it, hopefully (maybe!) we will be able to shape its accessibility. Many sighted people from the Apple land praise it for speed and amount of useful functions. I won't quit using #VSCode of course, but why not to have another tool in the box?
(DIR) Post #AwUYlM5vawf04mHV0C by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-07-25T12:35:14Z
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@futurebird Leftists? Don't value propaganda? Sorry, no. Their propaganda is other in values and matter, but it's as strong, as pressuring and as aggressive as the right propaganda. Just for other things.
(DIR) Post #Ay1woJzUvD0XKzETQW by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-09-09T13:01:47Z
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@aral and not a single word about Jerusalem terror attack of September the 8 congratulated by hamas btw.
(DIR) Post #AyR8f4p88tWAKBaoyW by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-09-21T16:43:00Z
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@bortzmeyer https://hosting.com, depuis 2012. Je ne veux pas vraiment me battre avec les spam-filters de Google par exemple.
(DIR) Post #AyRAgfHiGagbbWqaUi by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-09-21T17:05:43Z
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@bortzmeyer Franchement dit, j'ai d'abord eu des domaines avec eux, puis j'ai ajouté d'autres achetés ailleurs.
(DIR) Post #AyUtHWi0ttD4ao2lPc by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-09-23T12:09:30Z
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@futurebird Electricity, actually. Without electricity we wouldn't have been a civilization we are. but from what you proposed, Internet so far, maybe LLMs also but in the nearest future.
(DIR) Post #AyxSEOSO3tuSx6r06q by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-10-06T23:22:07Z
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I don't know why everyone is running from #BlueSky, but anyway, welcome to you all. Hope you'll find friends here on #Mastodon. It's not easier than everywhere else, probably, but if you have a hobby, a passion, a particularity, even the strangest one, the chances are high someone on Mastodon shares it with you.
(DIR) Post #AzDDv2tlhXV5l7tsAa by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-10-13T21:50:14Z
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Calling all #Signal experts. I'm getting this: "Something went wrong with your username, it’s no longer assigned to your account. You can try and set it again or choose a new one." Tried setting from the phone and from the laptop (iOS and Windows respectively), no dice. What should I do now? @signalapp
(DIR) Post #AzcvjDqkVbHGJXoRWq by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-10-25T16:59:22Z
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Re last: I mean, character limits should be settable by every admin from the admin panel! Come on, it's 2025 and it's nearing its end already! #MastoAdmin
(DIR) Post #B0NnJLAlVXT0HfzcDw by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-11-18T21:12:33Z
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@wthinker Ну шутка не шутка, а слово crutch (в отдельных случаях даже costyl/kostyl) — костыль, что-то, что сделано в программе через оную пень-колоду и на временщинку, но обычно сидит там годами, — так вот, это слово знают уже очень многие англоязычные народы.
(DIR) Post #B0zh7NCSUAOE8rER4y by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-12-06T19:42:39Z
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@irene they don't belong? They need to leave?!! As a man, I'm deeply disgusted and appalled by such claims. Are women not people? what a hideous, awful, absolutely impossible… I lack for words, except for curses.Many and many inventions in technology are made by women. To quote only one example, closest to me: I'm a blind developer, and I use text-to-speech every day.Before 1998 (or so, I might be off by one or two years, it might have been 1996 or 1997) every single blind person who needed a Windows screen reader and wanted to use JAWS had to buy a super expensive hardware speech synthesizer, prices ranked from $1000 and up.In 1998 (or nearly, as I said), JAWS 3.2 appeared, containing Eloquence, a high quality, super fast software synthesizer used by many still today and even on various platforms nowadays, including iOS and Android.You guessed it already, who is the inventor and developer of Eloquence.Dr. Susan Hertz.and it's only one absolutely revolutionary thing that made PCs available for lots and lots of blind people.
(DIR) Post #B1FeIW5WaZXlYmyABE by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-12-14T20:24:20Z
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I've just seen an absolutely disgusting article. I said "seen", not "read", because I'm blind and I could not read it.for your reference, here's the first beautiful sentence of this article:"ffGE ARrj XRejm XAj bZgui cB R EXZgl, Rmi mjji jrjg-DmygjREDmI XgRDmDmI iRXR XZ DlkgZrj."I don't know the technology behind this BS, but screen readers see it as scrambled text, kind of encrypted or something like this. I guess it's some font juggling (ChatGPT supposed it's gliph scrambling, where random Unicode values are mapped to random letters — I'll trust her in this because I really don't care about the tech behind it), but if you have a tiny little grain of empathy, never ever ever do this, for goodness sake.https://tilschuenemann.de/projects/sacrificing-accessibility-for-not-getting-web-scraped#Accessibility #Blindness #Empathy #BadPractices #Web #Text
(DIR) Post #B1ScQgxSeUGvCiCbDc by menelion@dragonscave.space
2025-12-20T14:19:31Z
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@joomy Interestingly enough, in Russian computer slang "meter" is a megabyte. And software "weighs" (also in slang). So, there used to be a joke: "How to make a physics teacher crazy? Ask them to solve this problem: A piece of software weighs 2 meters. What time is needed to pass it through a 56 kbps channel?"
(DIR) Post #B1u6dvZlrE6OCLGb8i by menelion@dragonscave.space
2026-01-02T17:20:30Z
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@afilina Interesting observation, thank you. How do you cope with it, do you use voice input more, IDE autocompletion or simply don't care too much about the speed itself? I'm blind and I struggle with virtual keyboards on touch screens. It's related of course, but not much, I know lots of blindies who type quite fast on them, it's just not my piece of cake, give me my hardware QWERTY 😊