objectinspace

@objectinspace@freeradical.zone

Welcome to my tiny corner of the internet! I'm an accessibility specialist for WhatsApp, which is about the least exciting thing about me. I also play video games--while blind! I hosted a politics podcast with Matt Cooper called The Game Is Rigged from 2017-2018. I've produced and acted in the Worm full-cast Audiobook project. I host a weekly show called Thoughtfood on Venom.FM from 12 to 3 PM PST on Sundays. I also sing and play drums. I'm even a snappy dresser--though this is disputed!

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davidbisset, to ai
@davidbisset@phpc.social avatar

Website that lists all known agents (including autonomous chatbots and data scrapers) on the internet, in case you want to update your robots.txt.

https://darkvisitors.com/

Annalee, to random
@Annalee@wandering.shop avatar

Hello. I have ~10 years experience as a developer and today I spent fifteen minutes of my wild and precious life debugging why an if check was returning true on a boolean variable when it was set to false only to eventually discover it was actually set to the string "false".

So if you're ever feeling like you're not smart enough to be a programmer, just remember: none of us are smart enough for dynamically typed languages.

nonlinear, to random
@nonlinear@praxis.nyc avatar

The NYPD Spent $150 Million to Catch Farebeaters Who Cost the MTA $104,000

NYPD is a public resource (we pay for it) and is used as security for private companies.

MTA is for-profit where it matters. Being "on the brink of disaster" is their business model.

We are financing our own oppression.
https://hellgatenyc.com/the-nypd-spent-150-million-to-catch-farebeaters-who-cost-the-mta-104000

be, to random
@be@floss.social avatar

Bitwarden now supports WebAuthn to log into the vault on free accounts! 🎉 Finally, a password/passkey manager I can feel comfortable using. I didn't consider it worthwhile before because I don't want my access to everything gatekept on my ability to pay, which I might not always have in the future. And there was no way I'd trust all my credentials to a single password without WebAuthn, nor to a proprietary password manager.

https://bitwarden.com/blog/fido2-webauthn-2fa-in-all-bitwarden-plans/

be,
@be@floss.social avatar

Bitwarden recently implemented support for storing passkeys (discoverable FIDO2 credentials) in its vault, but unfortunately that isn't supported to log into Bitwarden yet, though it is planned soon. When that is implemented, I plan to send a Yubikey to a geographically distant friend in case of natural disaster/house fire/robbery. If your backup plan isn't resilient to those, rethink it! https://community.bitwarden.com/t/sign-into-bitwarden-with-a-passkey-google-apple-microsoft/41053/

WisdomExplained, to random

Heaven and hell seem out of proportion to me: the actions of men do not deserve so much. Jorge Luis Borges, Argentine writer, essayist, poet and translator (1899–1986)

WisdomExplained, to random

Have the patience to understand that most all of us our simply trying to find our place and purpose in a very complex world. John Cena, American professional wrestler and actor (born 1977)

DeliaChristina, to random
@DeliaChristina@sfba.social avatar

I don't claim to have the answers to anything, but I thought about this a little yesterday during my spa day.

🤜🏾 How to fight .🤛🏾

Voting doesn't stop fascism. Not when the party that's supposed to oppose it seems pretty inept at even recognizing it's on our doorstep.

(Don't come at me about Joe. Just don't.)

So it's up to us. I've mentioned that speech by Mario Savio (thanks to the folks who identified that for me!) in the 60s about throwing our bodies onto the gears of the machine when the machine has become odious to operate.

That's where we are. Looking at a machine is starting to gear up faster and faster.

So here are my measly two cents and they're free to anyone - Black, white, whoever:

👥 Identify, build, and support (which includes defense) your chosen community.

(note: if there's a community that you want to join please don't put on your big britches and start stomping around.)

🛠️ Find your wrenches, big or small, and hurl them into the part of the machine that's in front of you.

lunchmeat,

@DeliaChristina I feel like this is a powerful message - I believe Capital is made up of people. Corporations are mechanisms driven by the choices people make. We need people with consciouses in places to make choices, no matter how small, that will liberate us. Sometimes that is big subversion and sometimes it’s very incremental. What’s important is that we remember that we have the ability to choose. What the fascists want more than anything is for us to believe that our choices don’t matter

kate, to random
@kate@fosstodon.org avatar

I’m playing this first-person open-world game called ‘Life’, and it’s so hard it’s almost unplayable. The character classes are really unbalanced, and you don’t even get to choose one: it’s just assigned when you start playing. They introduced some assists to make things easier (if you can find them buried in the menus), but the elite players complained and they’re being patched out again. Accessibility features for those with disabilities are severely lacking. And it only has permadeath mode.

mark, to random
@mark@tapbots.social avatar

John Oliver discusses Elon Musk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo3zORUGCbM

Somewhat of a cathartic watch for me, but also terrifying to be reminded how many industries the companies he owns has such a stronghold in.

swordplay, to random

“I must not tweet. Tweet is the mind-killer. Tweet is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my tweet. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the tweet has gone there will be nothing. Only toot will remain.”

― John Mastodon, Dune


WebAxe, to accessibility
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The 10th WebAIM Screen Reader User Survey is now available for responses! 👉 https://webaim.org/projects/screenreadersurvey10/ Results to be published in Feb2024.

rebrafsim, to random

the best way to make sure no supervillain ever plots to take over the world is to make sure the world is a place nobody would ever want to take over, so nice job, people

ianbeck, to random

Look, if your site loads an advertisement within 1 second, and then 20 seconds later the rest of the page is still blank…I’m leaving, and never coming back. Hope you enjoyed shoving that single, unclicked advertisement in front of me.

Josie, to random

Don’t forget:

Strength is being able to crush a tomato.

Dexterity is being able to dodge a tomato thrown at you.

Constitution is being able to eat a rotten tomato and survive.

Intelligence is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

Wisdom is understanding tomato doesn’t belong in a fruit salad

Charisma is being able to sell someone a tomato based fruit salad.

Because… really…. Isn’t salsa just a tomato based fruit salad? ​:neofox_thonk:​
… the primary ingredient is a fruit afterall ​:neofox_think_owo:​

Em0nM4stodon, to privacy

I’m having nightmares.

This US bill could push mandatory age-verification on all major platforms (meaning you would have to give your ID to someone likely to abuse or not protect very well your sensitive data).

Imagine how more horrible and more unsafe that could make the internet.

Imagine how much worse that would be for any marginalized groups.

Imagine how much that could endanger vulnerable people.

Imagine how destructive that would be for anyone’s .

If you live in the
please please do something NOW to help us all. It will affect us all if it becomes law: https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids

QuanZillan, to random
@QuanZillan@thicc.horse avatar

Did you know I also maintain my own list of Good and Bad (for sexual content) Places? I've recently updated them include a social media section. Please share these around as much as possible. As far as I know these are the only list detailing the TOS of various sites and services w/r/t sexual content.

Boost are appreciated :boost_anim_vanilla:
Contributions even more so 🙏

https://github.com/Qwaxi-Lixard/yes-porn-allowed
https://github.com/Qwaxi-Lixard/no-porn-allowed

selzero, to mastodon
@selzero@syzito.xyz avatar

Appreciation toot for everyone on following, interacting, and being awesome on this platform and helping grow the federated community.

You get one wool heart each.

Wool gnome knitting wool hearts.

transparenttech, to fediverse

Hello ! We are The Coalition for Independent Technology Research. We aim to advance, defend, and sustain the right to study the impact of tech on society. By building a coalition of academics, journalists, civil society researchers, and community scientists, we are committed to supporting research by individuals as diverse as the societies we share. The Coalition and its members are, and will remain, independent of the technology industry we study.
Learn more: https://rb.gy/gd5du

sezduck, to random
@sezduck@twit.social avatar

Some people post the weirdest, most nonsensical bullshit on here.

I would like to sincerely thank those people.

shauna, to random
@shauna@social.coop avatar

Going through my notes on There Are No Accidents by Jessie Singer (@JessieSinger), and I figured I'd share them here as I process them.

This is a book about how our systemic decisions make America a dangerous place to live. It really made clear to me that Covid is nothing new. We've always been needlessly cavalier with each other's lives - especially the lives of the poorest and most marginalized among us.

You can get the book here: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/There-Are-No-Accidents/Jessie-Singer/9781982129682

@bookstodon non-fiction

shauna,
@shauna@social.coop avatar

"To review: Boeing built a plane that was difficult to fly, then added software that autocorrects these difficulties, but decided that if that software fails, the pilot should save the day by figuring out how to fly the difficult-to-fly plane."

They didn't even tell the pilots about the software.

The pilot of the first crashed 737 Max spent his final minutes "paging through the pilot manual, trying to determine what was going wrong. This was futile; any mention of MCAS had been removed."

It’s fundamentally embedded in the handling qualities of the airplane. So when you train on the airplane, you are being trained on MCAS,” CEO Dennis Muilenburg told reporters when news of the omission came out. “It’s not a separate system to be trained on.” So it went unmentioned. Boeing defended this decision by explaining that the purpose of MCAS was to make the plane feel like it flew the same as the earlier generation of 737s. Boeing kept pilots in the dark because, to make sense as a design decision, MCAS, which corrected a known aerodynamic inefficiency in the plane, had to be considered like any other integral machinery in the plane. The New York Times reported that before the first 737 Max crashed, the pilot handed control over to the co-pilot. He then spent his final minutes, before he began to pray for his life, paging through the pilot manual, trying to determine what was going wrong. This was futile; any mention of MCAS had been removed

mekkaokereke, (edited ) to random
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io avatar

Happy !

I'm still not onto Black history. I'm still on white US history.

Q: Why were Black folk so happy when OJ was acquitted? To be honest, it feels disgusting. Why does it seem like you're happy he got away with murder?

A: Racism. Black folk did not like OJ that much. In fact, many Black people think he did it. Black folk didn't "celebrate OJ." Black folk celebrated the hope that a brutally unjust, evil, and racist system, could be defeated at all.

Stoned_Deva_, to random
@Stoned_Deva_@mas.to avatar

Assert your dominance by climbing back into bed.

MissingThePt, to random
@MissingThePt@mastodon.social avatar

The best part of running an account called Missing The Point is that even if you truly do miss the point, no one knows. You’re bullet proof.

_xhr_, to random
@_xhr_@cybervillains.com avatar

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

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