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#a11y / #accessibility, software, #libraries, #archives, publishing, children's & YA lit, #disability, #W3C

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gnomicutterance,
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I like his reply to the second (expunged) comment as well: “AI won’t take our jobs, it will just create value but even if it does take all the jobs we won’t be poor because GDP will go up and when number go up, we steal underpants, ???, PROFIT!”

gnomicutterance,
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Also

> “Unless you’ve used benzodiazepines before and know what dose you need, you should probably google around for dosing guidance”

Yup, kids, you should google for safe benzo usage. That’ll be safe. Yup. Super rational.

gnomicutterance,
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I love the HN response that’s basically “soooo, usenet with trn, then?” Though a client that handles email reply bottom posting with “>” prefixed fragments more accurately describes this use case.

Either way there is nothing new under the sun.

gnomicutterance,
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Can we take a detour to mock Dwight Garner as well?

> What pushes Levy’s stories beyond being merely on the level of smart magazine essays is the empathy you can sense below the starkness of her sentences. A typical observation: “When I’m at a party and I look across the room I can see everyone holding their red Solo cups and hurting.”

So the kind of faux deep lyrics & poetry we all wrote in our spiral notebooks at 14 is unusual empathy in stark sentences.

gnomicutterance,
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It is if you're Peter Thiel, I guess. America went wrong in 1920, doncha know.

gnomicutterance,
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> "Ok, so I finally got to check this and I simply can’t reproduce your results at all."

/me stands on one leg

Software that doesn't have reproducible results is buggy software. The rest is commentary.

18+ Vaccinations in Book Form?

A while back, I set myself the project of figuring out how much of the MIT undergrad physics curriculum could be taught from free online books. The answer, so far, is more than I had anticipated but much less than what we deserve. But working on that, along with a few other conversations, has got me to wondering. We’ve seen...

gnomicutterance,
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Oh I love McPhee and I've never read this one, I am absolutely looking it up. The Control of Nature changed me, absolutely complicated the way I think about the world.

patrick_h_lauke, to random
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of course he does, the culture war sniveling cunt that he is https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmmqq4qv81qo

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke https://kuntandthegang.bandcamp.com/track/rishi-sunak-is-a-rat-faced-cunt

gnomicutterance,
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"Mr. Nvidia, tear down that firewall!"

-- Ronald Reagan, probably

gnomicutterance,
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To be fair to google, hiring disabled people, bragging about it in DEI puff pieces, and then refusing to give us accommodations is practically a national pastime. Although this story is an amazingly egregious version of the same.

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archive.is.
private and incognito windows.
wayback machine.

gnomicutterance,
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Also, disabled people are so disadvantaged in the job market (and a disabled Black woman, whose job accommodation requires an interpreter, no less), that it's not a question of naïveté. It's a question of paying the rent.

(Per the BLS, "In 2023, 22.5 percent of people with a disability were employed--the highest recorded ratio
since comparable data were first collected in 2008." Look, ma, an improvement!)

gnomicutterance,
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You're not taking advantage of google to expect your rights under U.S. law to be upheld, and you have both an ethical and legal ground to complain about it.

Your argument boils down to:

  1. Google illegally and unethically discriminates against people from certain backgrounds.

  2. We all know about it.

  3. So if you get a job with a company that we know discriminates illegally, and then you make a fuss about it, you're being unethical.

That's not how any of this works.

gnomicutterance,
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"The only reason I can understand to go work at them is money"

Well, yes. That's why all of us work anywhere.

gnomicutterance,
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"He brought up the example that in the past building a stadium for a sports game took six months. In the past year, it took six weeks, and it's not unnatural to think that in the coming years, it'll take six days."

Does anyone know what the hell he's talking about? Even in Qatar and China, not countries known for their sterling commitment to workers' rights, building a stadium takes 2-3 years.

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oh wait does he mean in a game? Did it really used to take 6 months? (I'd believe it, but I would really want someone to explain why to me, if so. Unless he just means "6 months of FTE hours if you include all the artistic assets and all the shape modelling and getting permission from the stadium owners for IP.")

gnomicutterance,
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Thanks! I know next to nothing about graphic gamedev, so it just seemed so high, but I know it's a pretty complex space.

All I know is that there will probably never be another Dragon Age and this is a source of great sadness.

gnomicutterance,
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there's been a teaser trailer for dreadwolf, but there's no release date that I've seen, and since they've already killed and rebooted the project once, I choose to withhold actual faith until I have it in my grubby hands.

baldur, to random
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That feeling when you have a look at Linkedin and see a former boss write about how LLMs mean the end of coding and programming as a job. That now the only thing needed to get working software is to describe clearly what you want, something they were always manifestly incapable of doing

😑

gnomicutterance,
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@baldur The people who are convinced LLMs replace developers are the same people who always get mad when I ask questions like 'what would you like the system to do if two people share a phone number' or 'okay, what's the definition of Person Is Vaccinated - does country of vaccination matter, does vaccination brand matter?' or 'do you know that you can't extrapolate country of legal residence from dialing prefix? I'm happy to write it but I want to make sure you know that.'

gnomicutterance,
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@baldur 'LLMs will give me some code without telling me inconvenient truths without asking me about edge conditions or definitions I don't care about' is the actual story here.

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
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waiting for the cries of "WCAG has gone WokeCAG" when this hits review https://github.com/w3c/wcag/pull/3680/

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke doing god’s work in the wcag trenches.

jmac, to random
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I want to comment on this by sharing literally any light-hearted anecdote about my own upbringing, but it would sound like I was airing terrible childhood trauma by contemporary standards. https://mas.to/@beatnikprof/112027293818011553

gnomicutterance,
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@jmac I have described light-hearted childhood anecdotes & had people pause and say "whoa, whoa, that's not okay."

If one of my friends sent a 10 year old to school with a key on a string around their neck & then made them walk 3 miles home because you aren't going to arrange alternative transportation after detention, I guess I'd find it weird? But it really was fine. (The problem was structurally not diagnosing ADHD in girls ➡️constant detention, not the latchkey.)

Also hose water was fine.

patrick_h_lauke, to accessibility
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one thing that i'd love the WebAim screen reader survey to differentiate better is how results break down by OS (mainly to be able to have more segmented "on Mac, VoiceOver is effectively the only screen reader used" or similar). it might then also reframe some of the other statements/results, e.g. "71.6% of respondents use more than one desktop/laptop screen reader" ... I suspect those 71.6% are effectively Windows users? https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke I’m still sad WebAim almost never does non screenreader AT surveys. They did once, I think? But if surveys about braille displays, speech rec, etc. came out on the regular, it would be really useful to people. Hell, these days I would love to see feedback from people about which novel tools they’re finding useful for AT, anything from generative AI image descriptions to whisper systems, to just new OS tools (e.g. Talon). It’s really hard to get a good sense of what exists.

gnomicutterance,
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@patrick_h_lauke gap Outside of screen readers, a lot of people developing the new solutions think that they are inventing things that didn’t already exist, because we don’t talk enough about other solutions. So there’s a lot of reinventing the wheel going on.

misc, to random
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Twitter perpetuated the idea that we should have one place where everyone goes to talk, and that same place should also be the canonical archive for our trails of interesting digital detritus. There's been a lot of focus on restoring the former function, while the latter has been an afterthought at best. https://mastodon.social/@misc/111977476220799164

gnomicutterance,
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@misc The one place where everyone goes to talk was a bad idea, too. Everything that made it good (and twitter at its best was amazing) is the exact same thing that made it unbearable, and it worked best when it wasn't everyone. Context collapse + 8 billion people (or even 1.5 billion anglophones) = a collection of networks human capacity for social interactions can't manage.

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