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patrick_h_lauke

@patrick_h_lauke@mastodon.social

WCAG trash panda, web evangelist, ronin, sour kraut. uninvited expert. vague, but exciting. antifascist. european. #toryScum #a11y #pixelart #pixelfonts #photography #cisgender he/him

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patrick_h_lauke, to random
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3K_9fAvRr0o #RishiSunak #isARatFacedCunt

sil, to random
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“Is it raining? I hadn't noticed.”

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson @sil "not a dry seat in the house"

zeldman, to random
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They’re right. (So how are they still undecided?)

Undecided voters are concerned that if Donald Trump returns to the White House, he’ll never leave.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2024-05-21/voters-fear-trump-won-t-leave-if-he-wins-2024-presidential-election?sref=MIBMEEoj

patrick_h_lauke,
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@zeldman undecided whether or not they can still turn that into a personal advantage for THEMSELVES

catmachine, to random
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The 403 error "The server understood the request, but is refusing to fulfill it" always makes me laugh as it implies the server is being belligerent.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@catmachine god, that made me flash back to Chav Pingu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cfrmeWGyD5k

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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another day, another example of how utterly shit Apple Music's search is. once again, it seems that it simply ignores compilation albums when searching your local library. I'm not asking for AI or some other bullshit...just some basic string matching. C'mon Tim Apple, sort this shit out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvWiRr3-Bgw

RobW, to random
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That Microsoft considered protecting DRM content before protecting users in their new keylogger really shouldn’t be shocking, but somehow was. Classic capitalism.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@RobW also...is there any evidence anybody actually asked for this feature? feels like a solution looking for a problem. (also, how dare they decide that my local disk space is theirs for the taking? i don't want a constantly growing storage of screenshots eating up my HD)

brucelawson, to random
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I'm an agnostic, but I wouldn't bet against Paula Vennells, former Post Office CEO and Anglican priest, suddenly being struck down by a thunderbolt when she goes into the witness stand today.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson so even the invisible sky friend only really cares about when people get caught and publicly called out. otherwise he'd have thunderbolted her at the time. what a hypocrite!

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson "skyfriend only became aware of the problem after watching 'Mr Bates vs The Post Office' on ITV..."

nhoizey, to random French
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Raaaaah ! 😡

patrick_h_lauke,
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@nhoizey that's why i always carry some rouge...or rather, why i'm still a fan of having my own files rather than just streaming

patrick_h_lauke,
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@nhoizey inspired by our conversation, btw ... https://mastodon.social/

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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this evening's quick recreation: the large/fat font from jaleco/chris gray enterprises' "the young indiana jones chronicles" (1993) on the https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1414/

patrick_h_lauke,
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...and, to go with it, the colour version of the large/fat from jaleco/chris gray enterprises' "the young indiana jones chronicles" (1993) on the https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1415

patrick_h_lauke, to music
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throwback tuesday https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EMFvkcWMSY

aardrian, to OpenAI
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So an founder leaves:
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/14/openai-co-founder-ilya-sutskever-says-he-will-leave-the-startup.html

Its risk team was disbanded:
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-superalignment-team-disbanded/

After team leaders left due to safety concerns:
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/openai-dissolves-team-focused-long-term-ai-risks-less-one-year-announc-rcna152824

While OpenAI was potentially cloning a voice sans permission:
https://www.npr.org/2024/05/20/1252495087/openai-pulls-ai-voice-that-was-compared-to-scarlett-johansson-in-the-movie-her

And we’re supposed to believe a safety pledge?
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/05/big-ai-companies-sign-safety-pledge/

Not liking this track record.

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian @starbreaker last names? i thought they were clone version numbers...

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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today's quick late lunchtime recreation: jaleco/chris gray enterprises' "the young indiana jones chronicles" (1993) on the https://www.splintered.co.uk/experiments/1413

patrick_h_lauke, to OpenAI
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it's certainly ballsy for to unashamedly go for the "i'd wank to Scarlet's voice so hard!" techno-incel market

patrick_h_lauke,
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also, good job Sam Altman for disintegrating all that goodwill he received (unwarranted, in my view) when he made his damascene conversion that time warning about the "dangers of AI". clearly, it was all a bullshit facade, like most of us predicted...

patrick_h_lauke,
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@brucelawson nothing against artisanal wanking. craft wank.

craiggrannell, to random
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As a child of the 80s who was into Transformers and had a G1 Optimus (which a friend broke – fume), I should be the target market for this kind of thing. And I probably was, right up until I discovered it costs 80 bucks. For a transforming Hot Wheels 1:64 scale toy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UTHh_iXNNjs

patrick_h_lauke,
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@craiggrannell at first i thought "oh well, 80 quid sounds reasonable for the 'now in their 40s-50s with disposable income' nostalgia market" ... and then I saw the actual size of the toy. what the hell? sure, it's metal and sturdy, but that price tag is wild for what is essentially a complex fidget toy

access42, to accessibility French
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Blog 📝 — Vous ne comprenez pas pourquoi vos zones live ARIA ne sont pas restituées par les lecteurs d’écran ?

Découvrez des pistes d'explications dans ce nouvel article de notre collègue Cécile Jeanne !

https://a42.fr/aria-live-regions-restitution

#a11y #ARIA #webdev #RGAA #HTML

patrick_h_lauke,
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@access42 a voir aussi: https://tetralogical.com/blog/2024/05/01/why-are-my-live-regions-not-working/

patrick_h_lauke, to pixelart
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some research... name that tune!

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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want to open a barber shop called Occam...

patrick_h_lauke,
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@sil great minds etc etc

aardrian, to accessibility
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I would be pissed with Google’s new fake search if I was WebAIM. It directly sources WebAIM (from an old survey), but it doesn’t link to the WebAIM survey results it cites. Instead it links to BoIA (an company) and Assistiv Labs.

The option to see web results is buried in the “More” kebab, and even then the link is third from last.

Reminder not to use Google to search (in case you still do).

patrick_h_lauke,
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@aardrian i seem to have been spared the generative AI experiment so far ... but good lord

Richard_Littler, to graphics
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A while back, I re-created a graphic that featured in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was a very minor graphic in the film's cornucopia of special effects but I've always liked it. My original version of the BBC 12 logo contained a couple of errors (including the typeface), so I thought it was time to update it...

#graphics #movies #kubrick

My re-creation of the BBC 12 logo/screen as seen in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey

patrick_h_lauke,
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@Richard_Littler might need a touch of extra darkening around the characters themselves, like a soft harsh dark drop shadow, for that "unsharp mask" type look that high contrast had on old TVs

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