tantramar

tantramar, 2 months ago to random

people keep mispronouncing “nazi sympathizer”

“sympathizer” is silent

tantramar, 10 months ago (edited 10 months ago) to accessibility

Those of you using cutesy font/display settings in your usernames — cursive, flipped, reversed order, or rotated/upside-down letters — please understand that this is aggressively hostile to users of screen reader software, which will announce each character in exhaustive, technical detail. Please don’t do this. It becomes a massive speed-bump in their timelines. If failing to use alt tags on images is passively bad, this is actively bad. #accessibility #Mastodon

tantramar, 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to animals

The cat, at the back door, demanding to be let inside first thing in the morning.

I don’t have a cat. #caturday #earlyCaturday #CatsOfMastodon #ToeBeans #BeanShow #NotMyCat

tantramar, 9 months ago to random

When the pandemic hit, Zoom became ubiquitous overnight. I urged caution to the economic development board I was on who wanted to join the bandwagon. I cited its history, silently installing server software on Macs — which Apple (unprecedentedly) had to remove from everyone’s computers.

Yes, Zoom smartened up after that, but the thought that festers is “how did you ever think that was ok?”

People forget too quickly and forgive companies too easily — especially when it’s convenient to do so.

tantramar, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to art

Late #caturday post. Pica sitting at the bottom of my stairs. October, 2017, sketch in black ink and Copic markers on Moleskine watercolour paper. #art #mastoArt #drawing

tantramar, 10 months ago to alternative

this is your regular, friendly reminder that lots of us on here who would love to boost your content won’t if you’re not including alternative ( #alt) text on your images. #Accessibility matters — and more people take it seriously here than in many other places. :)

tantramar, 6 months ago to random

“so you’d like to fix your toaster; let’s start with some fundamentals. Once you’ve Liked & Subscribed, we’ll dig into how covalent bonds between elements work…”

vs.

“Just fix it. What are you? Stupid? Geez.”

—the extremes of YouTube DIY

tantramar, 1 month ago to random

10 make tea
20 forget I made tea
30 tea gets cold
40 goto 10

#basic #runProgram

tantramar, 1 month ago to random

Sometimes I think about how stressful it was, years ago, having a server co-located in a facility a 2.5-hour drive away — and what a hassle visiting it in person would be if, say, a software update went sideways — and then NASA/JPL comes along with Voyager and shows how the grown-ups do it.

tantramar, 8 months ago to random

2012: bought a new bed for the dog. It was an immediate hit. #Pica #CatsOfMasdoton

tantramar, 7 months ago to random

understanding regular expressions enough to get real work done with them is a double-edged sword: it’s a power verging on magic, but it also lures you down the time-suck/rabbit-hole. #regex #grep @bbedit

RickiTarr, 3 months ago to random

I would say reincarnation, but both people are still alive, extra points if you can tell me who the person on the left is without looking it up!

tantramar, 3 months ago to art

I’m unfollowing accounts posting AI-generated “art”.

No, I don’t think your prompt is clever, creative, or makes you an artist. No, I don’t care how close this is to conceptual art (which is no more interesting) or some long-dead studio model with masters & apprentices.

What posting this stuff says — even if only intended as entertainment — is that you see no value in artists or their work.

#art #AIGenerated #MastoArt

tantramar, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to random

Black-capped Chickadee — Official bird of New Brunswick and of Maine. Shot outside Amherst, Nova Scotia, of course. ;) #bird #chickadee

tantramar, 3 months ago to random

There will be coffee.

tantramar, 4 months ago to random

Never give HP a dime. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/01/hp-ceo-blocking-third-party-ink-from-printers-fights-viruses/

tantramar, 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago) to random

this whole OpenAI/Scarlett Johansson thing really boils down to… a man who thought he could take what he wanted from a woman even after she clearly said no.

tantramar, 2 months ago to random

time not found

tantramar, 4 months ago to random

Still writing “1987” on my cheques.

tantramar, 2 months ago to random

Remember that time Laura Ingraham gave a Nazi salute at the RNC in 2016? These people have never hidden who they are.

But please, do tell me more about how awful Biden is.

tantramar, 5 months ago to art

2017 #watercolour of houses bordering the Sackville Waterfowl Park in downtown Sackville, New Brunswick. #art #mastoArt #painting

tantramar, 2 months ago to random

Watercolour of a farm a couple of kilometres from my house; October, 2018. I’ve sketched this property many times. Sackville, New Brunswick, Canada. (In a private collection in the United States.) #MastoArt #watercolour #painting #CanadianArt

tantramar, 1 month ago to random

This is very sad. I videotaped David demonstrating the observatory at St. Mary’s for the astronomy CD-ROM I put together at Mount Allison in the mid-1990s. https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/david-lane-astronomer-dead-nova-scotia-st-mary-s-university-telescope-1.7160453

tantramar, 3 months ago to random

In honour of the Mac’s 40th anniversary week, a shot of my first Mac using @Iconfactory #BitCam. https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/bitcam/id1114990619 Also includes the long Allen key used to disassemble the Classic II (to do a RAM upgrade).

mudboot, 3 months ago to random

show me your cat's "where is my dinner" face. here's one of mine