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aral

@aral@mastodon.ar.al

I make small things.

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aral, to ireland
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Capitalism: a social system where the rich live and the poor die.

Ireland’s two-tier cancer drug system: ‘I can give one drug to one lot of patients, not to another’

https://www.irishtimes.com/health/2024/05/20/irelands-two-tier-cancer-drug-system-i-can-give-one-drug-to-one-lot-of-patients-not-to-another/

#capitalism #ireland #cancer #healthcare

aral, to random
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Thank fuck for helicopters and orcas is all I have to say.

aral, (edited ) to random
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To those Americans getting offended that their president and country are being criticised for arming a genocide may I just remind you that there is something a tad more offensive than being criticised for arming a genocide which is arming a goddamn genocide. Get some fucking perspective.

aral, to Israel
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Joe Biden could still turn this around and not lose to Trump by defunding Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people. If he doesn’t, there will be only person to blame for Joe Biden losing to Trump in six months and that’s Joe “I am a Zionist” Biden.

aral, to Israel
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“The soldiers at several points fired bullets next to their feet in an effort to terrorize them, perhaps to make them amenable to following orders.

“Every time they shot at us, I instantly poked my back to check if I was still alive,” said Ahmad, recalling the soldiers’ giggles at how scared he and his family were.”

https://mondoweiss.net/2024/05/what-its-like-to-be-used-as-a-human-shield-by-the-israeli-army/

aral, to random
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Elon Musk was a mistake.

aral, to random
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Hint: Microsoft doesn’t have climate ambitions, it has profit ambitions. Ditto any other corporation. https://noc.social/@Norobiik/112460447324706332

aral, to random
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Colonialism is alive and well and living in white people’s minds.

aral, (edited ) to fedora
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This is great but can we please also have Fedora (& Ubuntu, etc.) acknowledge they started shipping operating systems without a functional screen reader when they switched to Wayland and that that’s still the case?

This is not to name and shame. Unless we acknowledge this as an error on par with shipping without monitor support and unless the culture is altered to make accessibility a showstopper, it’ll happen again.

https://fosstodon.org/@fedora/112450335722898487

aral, (edited ) to random
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What if we changed the rules so that if a US presidential candidate that supports arming Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people wins, 15,000 American kids are randomly chosen and killed. (Unlike Palestinian kids, they’d be killed as painlessly as possible, not screaming in anguish from having been blown apart by American bombs.)

What would you do? Still vote for Biden as is or move heaven and earth to have him change his policies and/or get the Democrats to pick another candidate?

aral, (edited ) to Israel
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Who is worthy of your criticism?

aral, to random
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If your democratic process leaves you no option but to vote for genocide, your democratic process has already failed.

aral, (edited ) to Israel
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  • #Israel is carrying out #genocide in #Gaza.

  • Context! You must go back… all the way to October 7.

  • Sure, let’s go back: let’s go back 76 years to May 15, 1948, to the #Nakba; the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinian people where 750,000 people were “expelled from their homes or made to flee, at first by Zionist paramilitaries through various violent means, and after the establishment of the State of Israel, by the Israel Defense Forces.” (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba)

  • No, no, not like that.

aral, to random
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USian liberals, real talk: If Biden were selling arms to a group that had so far killed over 35,000 Americans, including over 15,000 kids, you wouldn’t be telling folks to vote for him. You’d be in the streets demanding he be removed from power. The reason you’re not? Because it’s Brown people on the other side of the world being slaughtered and you, quite frankly, couldn’t give a shit.

aral, to random
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Democracy is more than just a polite vote every four years and an Instagram photo of your achievement sticker.

aral, to Israel
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Given the outpouring of empathy and care as well as the condemnation of violence from European politicians, can someone please inform them that over 35,000 Prime Minister Robert Ficos have been murdered in Gaza by Israel, including over 15,000 baby Prime Minister Robert Ficos.

aral, to SmallWeb
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The new and improved Settings section for Kitten (Small Web/peer-to-peer web) apps is coming along nicely.

Should be live this week.

#Kitten #SmallWeb #Settings #SmallTech #p2p #peerToPeer #web #dev

Screenshot of same page showing the Domain section: 🏠 Domain Your Small Web place was not deployed by Domain. Here are some ways you can deploy your site. Using Domain: Use an existing Small Web host like small-web.org. Run your own instance of Domain and deploy using that. On any computer that runs Linux[1]: Deploy your site to any server (like a tiny single-board computer or your own VPS server somewhere) using Kitten’s deploy command. With systemd (this is not some political statement; it’s just easier for us to support with limited resources). We recommend Alma Linux as that’s what we deploy with at small-web.org but it should work with any Linux with systemd. ↩︎
Screenshot of same site showing the Evergreen Web section: 🌲 Evergreen Web Did you have a site here before? You can preserve it and keep existing links to it on the Web from breaking by redirecting pages that cannot be found here to the older version of this place that is now hosted the domain set below. Redirect missing pages to the following domain: Clear button. Not sure what to enter here? Please see 4042307.org
🆔 Identity This is your public identity for localhost (ed25519 public key). Copy button SSH This is your SSH public key. Copy button

aral, (edited ) to Israel
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Don’t worry, dead Palestinian kids, this is the good guy.

https://apnews.com/article/us-israel-arms-gaza-ebe971ca8878ff430ce6458c04151585

aral, to random
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“European values” https://mastodon.social/@contreattaque/112441525563122303

aral, to web
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Here’s a niche gotcha with the clipboard API’s navigator.clipboard.writeText() method that’s unique to Safari:

If you access a function from a module within your gesture handler (e.g., click handler), you will get a permission error.

The (sadly hacky and not as robust) workaround is to set a global variable from your module instead.

Full gist:

https://codeberg.org/aral/gists/src/branch/main/clipboard-writetext-permission-error-when-using-modules-in-safari.md

#Safari #clipboardAPI #JavaScript #ESModules #web #dev #gist

aral, to ireland
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A little tour of the Greystones coastline from my OneWheel. (Decided to treat myself to a crepe and make the most of the dregs of the good weather from this week.) :)

https://vimeo.com/946204435

aral, (edited ) to ireland
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Interesting: I just tried following someone on mastodon.ie with an unlocked account and it got turned into a follow request.

Has mastodon.ie silenced me?

If so, I’d like to know why.

CC @mastodonie

PS. This won’t affect you if you’re already following me. It will mean my posts would get hidden from the public timeline and wouldn’t show up in trending posts, etc., on your instance. Hence “silenced.”

aral, to random
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You wouldn’t keep getting surprised by “the good guys” supporting horrible things if you would just let yourself see the uncomfortable truth that they’re not the good guys, even if they happen to be your guys.

aral, to random
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Capitalism (n): see enshittification

aral, (edited ) to design
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If you design a system such that you cannot differentiate people from corporations and bots and that’s your defense for calling all of them “users”, you’ve designed a system that conflates people – who are mortal, have feelings, can feel pain and be hurt and who have human rights that must be protected – with the very entities that oftentimes exist to exploit them.

Design for people. Call them people. All else is secondary.

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