Hunter

@HunterXWorld@mstdn.social
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Twenty-nine year old blind programmer, gamer and open source enthusiast from the great state of Texas.
My Bloghttps://rant.li/hunter-x-world/
Hey Germans, please come up with a word that means "the fear of typing `return` vs `shift-return` because you don't know which inserts newline and which sends the message"
I'm rereading one of my very favorite series, so here you go, a poll for book lovers about rereading! Please boost for reach. Every year, how many books do you reread?
I don't ever reread books
I have 1-5 books I reread
I have 5-10 books I reread
I reread more than 10 books every year
Poll ends at .

Back in the day, Twitter used to be really good if I set up a thread to connect freelancers with clients. Let's see if Mastodon can do it.

Clients: if you're looking for freelancers/contractors, get in the comments

Freelancers/contractors: get in the comments

Everyone else: boosts appreciated.

The market is *dead* for freelancers and a big part of that (in my opinion) is fragmentation. Let's get that network effect *back*.

#FediHire

"You can keep your smug purity fantasy. Apple and Microsoft may be flawed, but at least they write software that doesn’t tell blind users to fuck off by default. Your system breaks and then sneers at the person holding the pieces."

https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you-dont-own-the-word-freedom-a-full-burn-response-to-the-gnulinux-comment-that-tried-to-gatekeep-me-off-my-own-machine/

You Don’t Own the Word ā€œFreedomā€: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine — fireborn

Someone who works on YouTube needs to realize that bilingual people exist. For a while now the app insists in translating video titles from Portuguese to English (I use my devices in English). If I change the language to Portuguese, it then translates video titles from English to Portuguese. I just want to see the original content as it was posted by the creator. And now it's even auto-enabling AI dubbing šŸ¤¦šŸ»ā€ā™‚ļø Give me a checkbox to turn this off, please!
Steam is adding screen reader support and other accessibility tools

Valve’s latest Steam beta adds new accessibility features to Big Picture mode and SteamOS.

The Verge
For your listening pleasure: Every verbal appearance of the number 27 in Weird Al songs.

Today in 1983, 42 years ago: the American company Motorola presents the DynaTAC 8000X, the world's first commercial mobile phone.

#OnThisDay

Master Foo, watching a student try to debug a slow #Linux desktop system, offered, "The htop command reveals much. Mostly, that Firefox is still eating all your RAM. The universe, too, has its hungry daemons."
When you wake up at 5:30 because your cat has been using your guitar amplifier as his own personal scratching post. #FML