Notices by Mx Lottie 💜:autistic:​ (lottievixen@toot.cat)

Now I don't know if this is a firefox thing or a design thing

moving the cursor on an image, to perhaps move the alt text to a more readable position on the screen for you to read.

it won't show again until you cursor off it and back onto it.

noticed a mastodon change I really hate.

the latest security update (that also did visual changes to things)

alt text is harder for people who don't use screen readers, to access.

we now have to cursor over the image to read it even when clicked on to maximise.

I'm sorry but what the fuck.

you shouldn't (in my opinion) hide accessibility or remove useful tools like what we used to have.

It used to show up on the bottom of your screen, made it easier to view alt text

it's just a fancy gated instance, that also feeds all media to hiveai to be labeled (not a fan because manual mark sensitive was literally right there and they still dont have it)

which also happens to have a thing they call a firehose, allowing anybody to not even need to scrape the site using traditional methods as you can just have it fed to you.

I... don't understand bluesky at all.

no audio posts, no animated gifs, no video content at all.

and it feels like everyone just wants to be there because its currently exclusive, both in invites only and generally only the popular to any degree can get on, unless people intentionally break that norm like in my case where someone was asking for trans bipoc people so we could have some sort of voice on the platform

I've met nice people there but honestly.. it's kind of hell.

Gotta love a client intake person at the job centre raising their voice at you because you are so used to last name first sorting and indexing.

them: name?
me: vixen
them after looking through stuff: sorry?
me: V-I-X-E-N
them: first name?
me: charlotte

also that "ah finally" vibe they put out when you conform.

its been a while since I had to interact with them in person but fuck me it still sits in my mind

Also happens with clinics and pharmacies

@Polychrome yeah I guess this is it, I've just never felt the need for it.

I don't know what it is about twitter and bluesky people just literally asking for engagement.. it's part of the culture I've never understood.

"lets get this to X likes or reposts/tweets"

just..why?

@Polychrome it was the first ISP I think I had in the UK

UK to their economy: *inflates you big and round*

@ChlorideCull yes! for years at school i used uh

https://daniel.haxx.se/docs/sshproxy.html

just this guide, setup a laptop at home and connected to it from school