Gamayun 🖤

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Hey, Jens here!
#translation #writing #freesoftware
#GNU #linux #emacs #scheme #lisp #guix
Websitehttps://jens.zete.tk
Pronounshe/they
Flags🏴 🏳️‍🌈 🚴 :missing:
Languagesen ru da de fr es

UPDATE: Lucy has been found alive and relatively ok. Thank you all for your help with sharing the message! 🩷💜

Original text:
This is my friend Lucy who is currently missing in Wellington Pōneke. She is vulnerable, low on resources, and may be experiencing paranoia and disordered thinking so if you see her please be gentle and straightforward. Her mother is now nearby and can come to wherever.

#NZTwits #Aotearoa #Wellington #Pōneke

Шагаа-биле! 🙏🥳
It's also pretty telling that AI bot farms do us more harm than someone who is actively trying to hurt us.

Jeg har den dybste beundring for klimaforskning og forskere og bidrager selv som jeg nu kan.

Men her bliver jeg for en gangs skyld nødt til at påpege, at Politiken har 100% ret i deres overskrift:

Det her er første gang jeg ser noget der bare minder lidt om, at danske klimaforskere tager ekstremværdistatistikken seriøst.

Taget i betragtning hvor fodslæbende klima og miljøpolitik er i Danmark, må jeg dog medgive, at jeg tvivler på at det gør den store forskel, at de først kommer ind på den bane nu.

Men I stedet for at spilde tid på hvor vi skal bygge diger og højvandsbeskyttelse, som alligevel kun virker i 50-100 år før vandet stiger over dem, er det nu vi skal lave en plan for at flytte Danmark op på tørt land.

Start med at forbyde alt byggeri under kote 10.

Beslut dernæst hvor den ny hovedstad skal ligge.

Og hold så op med at hælde penge og vand ud af ørene om jeres ejendomsværdi: Det er jeres egen generation der er skyld i problemt.

https://politiken.dk/klima/art10120762/Almindelige-stormfloder-vil-oversv%C3%B8mme-tusindvis-af-danske-boliger

Den havde forskerne ikke set komme: Almindelige stormfloder vil oversvømme tusindvis af danske boliger

Nye beregninger viser, at stormfloder, som optræder hvert 10. år, allerede i dette århundrede vil gøre tusindvis midlertidigt hjemløse. Staten må hjælpe med at sikre byerne, siger eksperter og borgmestre.

Politiken - Den levende avis

Well, it's boom time in the fediverse, and I've finally gotten around to trying out my own little instance!

I've unfurled the solar sails and set out as: @jens

Since #GoToSocial is still in development, and the instance is, shall we say, experimental, I won't migrate everything over.

But don't be too startled if you get a follow request - and feel free to follow me there as well... 

If fascists and protofascists tell each other "don't come to fedi, it's an awful censored place and it'll never take off" I'm not going to step in and correct the misinformation.

GURPS Hero System (1/2)
In 1996, when their partnership with ICE ended, Hero Games began to look around for another publication partner for their products. An initial deal was made with SJG.

The initial fruit of this union was GURPS Hero System. After several months of development, a hybrid system was developed that could supposedly run both Hero System and GURPS adventures without conversion.

Critics were unkind, dubbing the system a "mechanical nightmare"
#GURPS #LostGURPSBooks #HeroSystem

OK #Mastodon. I've seen several toots on #accessibility for #screenreader users, however, I've not seen one from a screenreader user (as far as I know). I've used ZoomText, Outspoken, JAWS (AKA JFW), Supernova, NVDA (Windows), and VoiceOver (both on Macs and iPhone). I don't have experience with Windows Narrator or TalkBack. I would like to rectify and clarify a few small things.
First off, any awareness of accessibility issues, and endeavours to make things more accessible is great. Keep going!
But…
Blind/low-vision people have been using the internet as long as everyone else. We had to become used to the way people share things, and find workarounds or tell developers what we needed; this latter one has been the main drive to get us here and now. Over the past decade, screen readers have improved dramatically, including more tools, languages, and customisability. However, the basics were already firmly in place around 2000. Sadly, screen readers cost a lot of money at that time. Now, many are free; truly the biggest triumph for accessibility IMHO.
So, what you can do to help screen readers help their users is three simple things.
1. Write well: use punctuation, and avoid things like random capitalisation or * halfway through words.
2. Image description: screen readers with image recognition built-in will only provide a very short description, like: a plant, a painting, a person wearing a hat, etc. It can also deal with text included in the image, as long as the text isn't too creatively presented. So, by all means, go absolutely nuts with detail.
3. Hashtags: this is the most commonly boosted topic I've seen here, so #ThisIsWhatAnAccessibleHashtagLooksLike. The capitalisation ensures it's read correctly, and for some long hashtags without caps, I've known screen readers to give up and just start spelling the whole damn thing out, which is slow and painful.
That's really all. Thanks for reading! 😘
Our team have just finished health checking and changing transmitters on #kakapo on Whenua Hou. With 91 kākāpō on the island, it involves a lot of work. Ranger and artist Sarah Little (https://www.instagram.com/sarahmaylittle/) explains the process! #conservation
Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. Via #StreetsblogUSA, read their article linked below. #bikelanes #bikes #cities #transportation #mobility #sharrows #infrastructure #urbanplanning
https://usa.streetsblog.org/2019/05/29/protect-yourself-separated-bike-lanes-means-safer-streets-study-says/
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says

Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.

Streetsblog USA