Notices by Philip McGrath (liberalartist@mastodon.social)

@civodul The non-snap option was removed in Ubuntu 22.04, at which point flavors like Kubuntu that hadn’t made the snap their default in 21.10 also had to switch. (This was one of the last straws inducing me to just switch back to Debian and stop trying to make my Ubuntu more Debian-like.) There was a fair amount of public scrutiny at the time, but I guess most anti-snap folks have found their workarounds by now: I don’t really see much ongoing discussion.

@aral Again, I agree that accessibility is of utmost importance and that cultural changes are needed to emphasize it from the beginning. I just think systems that need some non-default configuration for a functional screen reader are importantly different than "operating systems without a functional screen reader".

Both X and Wayland have limitations that in some use-cases make them not viable. Until Wayland catches up, we each get to decide if we prefer Wayland's bugs or X's bugs.

@aral AFAIK all of the major distros still support using an X session, even if Wayland is the default, so screen reader users and others with needs not yet met by Wayland can still use X, right?

(This is not to detract from the importance of accessibility!)

@fluepke @eloquence There are certainly grounds to critique the W3C, but we are writing these messages using ActivityPub, a W3C standard that has definitely advanced the open web and manifestly is not dominated by “rich” interests.

@technomancy @csepp @khinsen I haven’t used it yet, but @bogdanp has a `#lang lua` in Racket: https://docs.racket-lang.org/lua-manual@lua-lang/index.html

One benefit is the ability to inter operate with other Racket languages.