How to design a GDPR-compliant cookie banner:

Heads-up if you who care about people that are blind or use screen readers (software tools that read text from the screen for you) in general:

I occasionally see people use "fancy looking" text, here's a great example attached.

To someone that can read it, this clearly reads "free art raffles" followed by a heart and some icons.

Google's "Talkback" screen reader reads it as "Heart. Hermitian conjugate matrix."

So: the heart and the name of the last icon. None of the text that is, actually, symbols, not text.

Different screen readers handle this differently, but this can happen.

So, if you want to treat people fairly, don't use "fancy" over "working".

Sadly, the whole user profile looks like this.

This is intended as well-meant info, no rant! ♥️

#Accessibility #ScreenReaders

The government is putting more and more pressure on journalists reporting on ICE.

We all must speak out against these chilling tactics.

https://freedom.press/issues/ice-wants-to-work-in-secret-we-shouldnt-let-it/

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying  I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.

✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.

We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before!  

#Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

Why not check out a #FediArtist and comment on their music (or even buy a release) for today's #MusiciansDay?

For the most exhaustive list of #FediArtists head to https://indieart.support

Fresh releases, reviews and lots more are at https://nham.co.uk

And a whole lot of great recommendations by Fedi folks can be found at the https://isitfairtrademusicfri.day archives. (Also keep your eyes peeled for a reboot of it in the very near future).

Go on, make a muso's day and buy/boost their stuff 🎶 💙