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mcc, 13 days ago to random

A cool thing about alt text on Mastodon is that it works with the translation feature. Once you've translated a post the alt text beneath will change to your preferred language also.

So by adding alt text to your images not only are you adding accessibility for visual impairments, you're also adding language accessibility. Neat!

The same post, but now the Mastodon "Translate" button has been clicked and it shows "Translated from Nederlands using DeepL.com". The screenshot is still in Dutch, but now the alt text is translated into English, revealing that the article was about solar panels.

kzimmermann, 9 days ago (edited 8 days ago) to random

Wow, file this under "Top ten most Chicken-shit lawsuits in the history of Tech:"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wallace_v._International_Business_Machines_Corp.#

> Daniel Wallace, a United States citizen, sued the Free Software Foundation (FSF) for price fixing. In a later lawsuit, he unsuccessfully sued IBM, Novell, and Red Hat. Wallace claimed that free Linux prevented him from making a profit from selling his own operating system

Just- just wow. Microsoft, SCO, is that you?

amszmidt, 10 months ago to VHDL

#VHDL #LispM hackers -- anyone keen on a small project? CADR on a AXI4-Lite bus. I suck at HDL .. but would be more than happy to assist. #FPGA

amszmidt, 1 year ago to random

Trying to process all #LispM #LispMachine patches; so that I can work on the CADR HDL.

amszmidt, 1 month ago to random

If you are doing testing, you're not a real programmer. #CommitAndRun

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

How is your weekend? Mine is two #LispM side by side, and talking to another #LispM hacker over Converse.

Who wants to make a Mastodon client for #LispM so I can toot things? (I would suggest, a Chaosnet service, where you configure most of the stuff, and you send a too in the payload)".

#LispMachine revolution is nigh!

(There have been more releases of the #LispM this half century than Hurd releases .. gets you thinking).

amszmidt, 2 months ago to random

The deviousness of the xz backdoor… and yet people think that using FOO language or ditching BAR would have mitigated it.

I don’t think people realize how vulnerable us free software maintainers are … been doing this for close to 30 years and I’m not surprised in the least. 😠

amszmidt, 2 months ago to random

How do you make your morning coffee?

amszmidt, 5 months ago to random

Why do we have vacation after Christmas as a normal thing... wouldn't it make more sense to have it before? You could take it easy .. make it pretty .. instead everyone is stressing their eyeballs out.

amszmidt, 4 months ago to random

I demand that C finally gets its act together and start being useful for bit manipulation. LDB, DPB, MASK-FIELD ... #SmugLispWeenie

amszmidt, 6 months ago to random

I'm considering blocking fosstodon, the admins seem to not really care about violations of their own rules. 😞 Are there any other FLOSS friendly instances?

amszmidt, 9 months ago to random

#LispMachine vacation almost over. Time to hit the parenthesis... #LispM revolution is nigh!

amszmidt, 9 months ago to random

I enjoy hearing how people use Emacs...

amszmidt, 8 months ago to random

#GNU 40 years ... what a trip, and what a future awaits!

I remember first stumbling over the GNU manifesto so many years ago, logging in as rms on the (pre-!)GNU machines, a different, kinder time.

#SoftwareFreedom #GNU #FSF

amszmidt, 1 month ago to random

Trump would be so much happier behind bars I think.

amszmidt, 1 month ago to random

#LispM curiosity .. in the CADR Console debugger, to start the remote machine one types "105 FOOBAR" -- can anyone explain why? #LispMachine

amszmidt, 19 days ago to random

Having one of those dystopian giggles where people are surprised that companies that do not care, and have actively worked against #SoftwareFreedom are surprised about malware that e.g. Microsoft adds.

https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/malware-microsoft.en.html

Everyone knew about this since the start...

amszmidt, 11 months ago to random

Remember. RedHat^WIBM is not and has never cared about you. They are a company, and all that matters is closing the book in black.

amszmidt, 7 months ago to random

https://github.com/ams/cadr4

Lets hack #CADR #LispM #LispMachine

@screwtape see you in a few! ;)

amszmidt, 1 month ago to amiga

To those using #Amiga, is the system source #FreeSoftware? Can you rebuild the whole system?

amszmidt, 11 months ago to random

The minuscule text on AC/DC plugs for USB-C ... is anyone supposed to read it? I got an Anker one, got to admit that this is very legible ... but others, instead of using a contrasting colour they use a light grey on white background?! Like WTF...

amszmidt, 5 months ago to random

@alarig Hey, @dragestil is suspended on mastodon.social; seems the user didn't get any warning or anything. Do you have any ideas how to help out or resolve the issue?

amszmidt, 11 months ago to random

#LispM Gaming is the next revolution. We had Spacewars, and now we have Tanks. #LispMachine revolution is nigh!

amszmidt, 10 months ago to random

Someone should do Usenet for Mastodon. Probably been done….

amszmidt, 5 months ago to random

The biggest failure by the GNU project was the creation of earth, it is now flat.