Notices by Simone S (m2m@sonomu.club)

There is a lot of talk about accessibility all over the web, but very little action. Especially when it comes to web accessibility.

If you're serious about these things, hire professionals gifted with a rare level of empathy, and a brilliant delivery record.

Someone like @silviamaggi

https://mastodon.design/@silviamaggi/113905678996309971

#WebDesign #Web #Disability #Accessibility

@chris @jp I stopped using it long ago. First by switching to Alfred, now to Raycast. Both are working on Spotlight indexes and both are massively superior.

I keep thinking about when Spotlight got a massive update with Tiger (or was it Leopard?). In a fraction of a second it would find precisely what document or email or image I was looking for.

@heymarkreeves @chris @jp I will probably go back to Alfred in the future, as Raycast smells of something that will be sold to yet another shit company.

@kel @chris didn't know about KDE Connect, looks promising! I'm used to Syncthing, but if this can take its place I'll consider it for sure!

"Jaron Lanier had it right when he said that social media was biased, 'not to the Left or the Right, but downward.' [...] Legacy media, desperate for attention, has been producing increasingly negative content because that's what gets clicked on. Social media users, presented with this darker view of the world, share it more readily, which in turn encourages legacy media to produce even more of it. The result is a kind of perpetual motion machine of pessimism."

https://fixthenews.com/282-brain-washing-machine/

@jp I’m on a similar path. Just outlined a mid-long term plan. I think there’s no way back.

Plan for the next few years.

- Move away from Ruby and avoid anything built on a fragile mental stake of dependencies.

- Move to Linux, use Hackintosh to keep tabs on Apple related music software.

- Move to Fairphone.

- Delete YouTube and move to PeerTube.

- Delete Google account.

- Check if I have a Microsoft account. If yes, delete it.

- Move to Framework if I want to keep a laptop around.

- Start self-hosting a few services.

- Avoid the news.

- Radicalise.

As I was about to start replacing the battery of my 2015 MacBook Pro (2nd time in 10 years), I needed to completely discharge the existing battery before the surgery. I watched a video on YouTube about de-googling.

Long story short: I ended up flashing my Android device and I now have LineageOS 20 on an unsupported 2019 cheap phone, working flawlessly.

Then, I checked out PeerTube, and on the first search it suggested @inpc — Listening to Kali Mera now.

https://video.mxtthxw.art/w/jkZJJJC21qVP5xycc2pSKa

#deGoogle

“ We’re not expected to work out “the new way to use a toilet” every few months because somebody decided we were finishing too quickly.

Yet our apps and the platforms we use every day operate by a totally different moral and intellectual compass.”

Ed Zitron

https://www.wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-them/

#tech

"Email's been here for years. But the reason Substack wants you to call your creative work by their brand name is because they control your audience and distribution, and they want to own your content and voice, too. You may not think you care about that today, but you will when you see what they want to do with it."

My position about Substack is very transparent, always has been: I don't touch it. Everything that's on Substack is inaccessible to me. By choice.

https://www.anildash.com/2024/11/19/dont-call-it-a-substack/

Can anyone recommend small independent source of information/news, either about tech, world facts, or both, that are in a similar ballpark as kottke and 404media, but they're not US-centric?

Anything interesting in Europe or elsewhere?

@chris updated on macOS, still don't see the icon. I guess it's due to how I customised the UI?

@chris then I’m utterly surprised I don’t have any copilot icon around. I should triple check. Maybe it’s there but I failed to notice? Weird because I have it on both windows and macOS. I’m syncing the settings so it might be that I’ve enabled that parameter already and forgotten about it 😂

@chris Ah fantastic. I'll check my version at work later today. I knew I did the right thing when I bookmarked this post of yours :D

@chris I’m on 1.92.x are you on a beta channel?

@chris weird, I don’t have any copilot icon.

Pushed a few changes to my website over the last couple days. One of those was a print CSS. Despite the trope that 'nobody prints anymore', I wanted to cater for whomever does, and that includes myself in the first place.

I might not print on paper much, but sure I print to PDF an awful lot, and most websites are utter shite at that.

<rant>
Keep going towards tons of javascript, while forgetting the basics. Good strategy.
</rant>

@kel @chris I've been on Ventura for a while. Tried Sonoma, not my cup of tea, went back.

@chris unfortunately my experience is in line with your comment.

While I agree with Chris' sentiment, my solution was more drastic: I erased the page from my website, and now systematically ignore other people's /uses pages.

Why do we always have to end up with similar site structures, it's beyond me (and I'm one of 'we').

I'll probably get rid of my /now page as well sooner or later.

Uniforming websites, whether they're corporate, personal, independent or whatever, is never good in the long run.

https://sonomu.club/@chris@mastodon.chriswiegman.com/113300399959801344