Notices by Kara Goldfinch (karalg84@dragonscave.space)

Bandcamp's play buttons are still unusable with Firefox and NVDA. I've reported this to Bandcamp probably half a decade ago now but they clearly have done fuck all.

I have a lot of good memories of using Skype but I'm glad they're finally getting rid of it.

@amir Oh excellent. I didn't know they were still working on it. My version's way out of date. Thanks for letting me know.

@amir Agreed that it's disappointing. Another issue I've have with Bookworm if it hasn't been fixed yet is that book sections are arranged in alphabetical order rather than using the book structure. So if you have an epub where chapters have file names of chapter x, they'll appear before the preface.

Good god have attention spans gone that bad? In Tom Scott's latest newsletter he tells you to give a video 20 seconds to get to the good bit.

I'd love to listen to some modern reggae but I'm not sure where to start. The style I like is artists like Bob Marley, Dennis Brown, Beres Hammond, Janet Kay, that kind of thing.
Any recommendations welcome.

A photo of a beaver lodge from Wikimedia commons. The description is LLM generated from me asking Be My AI to describe the lodge specifically, and my wife confirmed that it's pretty accurate.

I've just been reading Wikipedia's article on Beavers (the rodents before you lot get any other ideas). I didn't really appreciate how amazing they are before.
Their dams and lodges are proper structures. I didn't know they build lodges, and they've learnt how to ventilate them.
Also beavers are way larger than I thought. I imagined them being at most as big as a rat.

When creating an account on Wikipedia and all other Wikimedia projects, you still have to fill in a captcha with no accessible alternative, apart from asking someone to create one for you.
The issue ticket about this will be 20 years old next year and still nothing's being done about it.
https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/T6845

Really regretting telling my wife about the "One does not simply walk into Mordor" challenge.
She is adamant we do it, and has spent most of the afternoon using her work-life Excel skills to make a ridiculously complicated spreadsheet to track our progress.

@steter Awesome. They're beautiful instruments.

I love the sighted bass players who debate if fretless bases should have lines on them or not, when there's blind fretless bass players like Rachel Flowers that don't need silly stuff like that.
Rachel playing Jaco Pastorius' Portrait Of Tracy, followed by an oddly non-descriptive tutorial on how she plays it.
https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZUriJ6hMpq0

I tried playing a fretless bass in a shop and just made a horrible noise.

I've just rediscovered Nested, that universe generator. Works surprisingly well on iOS with VoiceOver as you can explore the screen by touch. I was able to get a better idea of where things are in relation to each other.
https://orteil.dashnet.org/nested

Apple there was nothing wrong with Touch ID. Please bring it back. And yes reply guy I know you have no problem with Face ID.

If I ever say that I'm asking for a friend, I will literally be asking for a friend.
weird that I feel the need to post this but with internet culture being weird as it is...

@cachondo @graham @BorrisInABox Yeah. I've never been able to find anything that has something like the Classmates feature.

This post is intentionally annoying to read.
💪 if a post starts 🎬 with an emoji 😀 and is peppered 🫑 with them like this, it's usually an influencer 🫵 and I skip ⏭️ them.

@Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof Yeah I dread to think.
My wife showed me this video of this bloke that talks constantly in his sleep. It was like a full-on one-sided conversation that sounded like a business deal or somehting. lol

@Fragglemuppet @FreakyFwoof A college friend actually yelled out loud in real life while she was asleep.