Notices by Drew Mochak (objectinspace@freeradical.zone)

@evan Okay, what I mean is, who is not a worker? Presumably the CEO and board members are not workers, the external shareholders are not workers. What about senior leadership? Or the executive staff? Are managers also workers?

@evan Who is a "worker"?

@pcottle Would you mind describing the image? I can't see it.
@crepels

I've asked this before but can someone please make (or link me to) a table with all the Mastodon forks and other Activitypub-based microblogging services with some helpful stats about their archetecture and the features they support? This would be amazingly helpful for me to make an informed decision about which one meets my needs. Right now I am seeing a lot of cheerleading for one project or another which just tells me there is stuff out there, but I don't have time to try them all.

So I've figured out that Mastodon, Misskey, and Pleroma are three similar but different microblogging services. I also know that Glitch, Hometown, Iceshrimp, Firefish, Soapbox/Rebased, Akkona et al. are popular forks of these.

But what are the differences? Why use one over the other?

Is there a full writeup? I have seen a few guides that compare some of them, but most are old and none of them show the full picture.

If not, could someone smart write one please?

@SingingNala @tjolsen The only difference between the internet of 2040 and 2023 is the letters A and I.

@tjolsen @SingingNala Dick pics: not just for the sighted anymore!

Not sure why the post by that idiot fuckwad from the Gnome Foundation whining that accessibility's too hard is getting boosted again, but thanks for reminding me that guy exists, I guess.

"if an accessibility expert comes across as an asshole, I now assume it’s saltiness built up from years of exhaustion answering the same bullshit questions over and over like “Do blind people really matter?”…" Truer than a very true thing.
https://daverupert.com/2023/10/accessiblity-shamed/

an AI product launched and claimed to generate “production ready” code. But it also generates code with accessibility problems, which contradicts “production ready”. When someone called this out publicly, a community showed itself from its worst side. What can we learn? https://hidde.blog/interactions-about-accessibility/

The nerve of us blind people, expecting people to caption their images so we can engage on their content.

If you think that's offensive, check this out! https://www.ada.gov

We are so powerful, we make you leave parking space unoccupied! in fact, we have too much influence. Let's give some back, as an olive branch to the ableds. Maybe we let them design doors that are less than 32 inches wide? In exchange for which, you describe your f*cking images.

Something like that? Open to ideas!

@nq4t @SingingNala Excuse you, but I have it on very good authority that not only do blind people play pinball at high levels of skill, but deaf and dumb people as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHc7bR6y06M

Need to broaden your horizons sir!

Finishing Star Trek Borg, and then more scary games! Remember Descent into Madness? That's right, it's an actual halloween stream on Halloween! What a concept. https://twitch.tv/object_inspace

I ran some Simlish through Eleven Labs' dubbing tool to "translate" it into English. It... didn't work. Or DID IT?!

Does anyone even use <video>? I mean, why bother when you can custom code your very own video player from scratch with a couple of divs and javascript! Who wouldn't prefer that solution?

🙃

@feditips @luca Oh wow it still works?! I was convinced all those things were shut down by now.

@tek Did some QA for Google back in the day.

The vendor I worked for had a 90-day password recycling policy (and of course, you could not use an old one.) If you wanted it recovered, you had to call a phone line that would email a PDF of a screencap of your temporary password. (Which I couldn't see, naturally)...

My work email from google (the one I actually used) had none of these restrictions.

There is a lesson here, but no one was inclined to learn it.