The #game jam co-organized by Dave Thompson, CTO at @spritelyinst, starts today and are an excellent opportunity to test-drive the #Spritely#Hoot project's #Guile to #WebAssembly facilities.
Get inspired by last year's jam, and join the 10-day event..
Saddening me time and again is seeing individualism and fragmentation in #FOSS.
#Collaboration between projects that's so often low-hanging fruit, yet never happens. More anticipation of needs, helping each other, be stronger together. Yet it hardly shapes up to the extent that it could.
We seem to lack time to become sustainable, let alone 'win' from #Hypercapitalism. No time to seek collab as we prod on alone.
There are exceptions of course, and better collab tools are becoming available.
This makes no difference if new projects actively choose to go for proprietary platforms instead, and then make up excuses afterwards as to why this choice is supposedly valid.
The #FOSS community needs to understand that they need to actually use free software where possible, or collaboration will be never work out.
@guenther yes, guess you can say so. I don't know about all its (social) features, as I am not someone using it myself, but I get frequently passed Loom vids. Often used for giving feedback, where seeing the speaker in the circle is major part of the experience.
Seems to work on #MissKey.> They can convey meaning well
If everyone agrees on the meaning of the picture, sure, but this is not the case. Various emojis can have vastly different meanings to different groups of people. If you're also going to add in custom emojis this is going to be even worse, you're throwing around emojis that are literally undefined by the majority of the world population.
With your example "boosts appreciated", making a hashtag BoostsAppreciated is clear, concise, and accessible to all. I've never even heard of a dedicated emoji for this, and if you suddenly started to use those I'd have to wonder what you're trying to convey, and use the alt-text to actually get anywhere. Seems like more hassle than just using text in the first place.> They can be used in addition to other textual hashtags
This is true, but do you expect people to just use double the hashtags going forward? One with readable text, the other in image form which you then have to hope works in every context?> textual hashtags [...] aren't always as accessible in their meaning either
Everyone can make "bad" hashtags, but I don't think making the pool worse is going to improve that. If any, it'd make it worse, now people can make bad hashtags with both text and images.> There are cultures around emoji use, that give meaning in certain contexts, and those cultures are part of social fabric and cohesion then
That sounds like a rather big assumption. Are you aware of any cultures that are currently unable to use hashtags, that have a strict need to use basically any image they can think of? To me this sounds incredibly unlikely, especially in the context of the #Fediverse.
Thanks. Yea, the cookies don't trouble me. I have my ad-blockers and stuff. It is the principle that troubles me. This cookie dialog had a literal "I withdraw my consent" which I clicked. Ignoring that just shows that they care at all.
Why is it so hard in #Ubuntu and with #Gnome to show thumbnails of the screenshots I made, so I know which image to select without painstakingly opening them one by one from separate file window?
There's many images in my screenshot dir, all having thumbnails, except those created in the last 5 days. Why no thumbnails here? Why?
I created a filter that based on a CC mail address put a Label on every match, favorited the mail and put it in a separate folder.
Great. Except that there were 1600 mails using that CC that were filtered which shouldn't have been matched. I made a mistake.
And now there's NO way to correct, except for manually opening each and every mail to unfavorite and remove the label, then place it in the folders they originated
Filter action just completed. I only needed to filter the 1600 msgs in one folder, but it only processes all messages. The filtering took nearly one hour. 🤯
"Welcome in the #commons sweat shop, my dear friend. Slave away with us until the whip of #Hypercapitalism wears you out. Here's a set of FSF quality approval labels to plaster on your work of hard labour."
"Thank you! Let's change the world then. I'll start burning myself out, right away.. 😍"
Yesterday in #LibrePlanet chat I named the #Makepad project, a real adorable 😍 effort that's still lacking on the #a11y side, i.e. could do with some #AccessKit on board.
Today I found out that Makepad is apparently part of a #Rust appdev effort, called #Robius. Another project here is #Dioxus.. also in for @accesskit#accessiblity support.. maybe. 🤔
Robius looks like a very loose conglomeration of independent projects. Maybe AccessKit is even a fit to it?
@smallcirclessigh getting Makepad to use AccessKit is going to be hard, because they're very strict about what dependencies they accept. They obsess over compile time. Of course, if they want to use our code as a starting point for their own, minimal-dependency accessibility implementation, that's fine with me.
> #a11y has long been confined to only a handful of the largest, most well-resourced UI toolkits, leaving a large proportion of #FreeSoftware inaccessible to disabled people. AccessKit [provides] an accessibility abstraction and glue layer that can be reused by many toolkits across programming languages.
In #LibrePlanet talk about #GNU#Taler the speaker Iván Alejandro Ávalos Díaz is warning us about our future in 2050 where we no longer have #Freedoms to choose our payment systems, pay with cash, or pay at all if we were behaving 'naughty'.
@smallcircles I saw the reply button, but that just opens a regular mailto window that would result in a top-level thread reply, instead of the reply to a specific message that I would want. 😦
Maybe it's kind of a generational divide, but joining a mailing list just to quickly chime in on an ongoing conversation seems like a lot... but I'll consider it.