Richard Bairwell

@rbairwell
6 Followers
762 Following
1.4K Posts
Moved to https://mastodon.org.uk/@rbairwell
Main Mastodonhttps://mastodon.org.uk/@rbairwell
Pronouns (he/him)https://name.pn/richard-bairwell
Personal Bloghttps://blog.rac.me.uk
Neurodifferent Mastodonhttps://neurodifferent.me/@rbairwell
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
Mark O - Hall monitor typeNov 18, 2022
Self explanatory statements below. I have a theory on this.
Please boost if you take part
Thanks
#poll #extrovert #introvert #mastodon
Extrovert enjoying Mastodon
12.5%
Extrovert not enjoying Mastodon
1.7%
Introvert enjoying Mastodon
79.1%
Introvert not enjoying Mastodon
6.7%
Poll ended at .
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
Just to let everybody know, I'm going to be migrating my account from mastodon.social (where it's been my home since 2017) to @xvilo 's https://mastodon.org.uk for a more "local"/smaller experience. You shouldn't have to do anything.
Mastodon.org.uk

General purpose mastodon instance

Mastodon hosted on mastodon.org.uk
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
John OpdenakkerNov 12, 2022

Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in Linux?

Their ancestors are vi-kings.

Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
snipe ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒ Nov 20, 2022

I am so mad at myself for laughing at this 😂

RT @[email protected]

'A cannibal once took my girlfriend to see a Russell Crowe film'

'Gladiator?'

'No, I really miss her'

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/PaulFound17/status/1594023348169715713

Paul Found on Twitter

“'A cannibal once took my girlfriend to see a Russell Crowe film' 'Gladiator?' 'No, I really miss her'”

Twitter
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
Augie RayNov 20, 2022

RT @goldengateblond
full quote is "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, vox populi, vox dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit.”

it translates to:

"Do not listen to those who say the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."

Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
CurmudgeonNov 18, 2022

There seems to be a lot of misconceptions about how to set up Mastodon.

1. You do not have to sacrifice a duck. Any waterfowl will do.
2. The bit about dancing around naked in a forest glade? While dancing is fun, you may just walk.
3. When the demon appears, you needn’t chant in Latin. It is fluent in all languages.

The rest of the guide is correct.

Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
If Mastodon instance A defederates/blocks instance B, does that mean that users on B lose the list of people they were following from A? (re-worded: If sombody is "late migrating" from a defederated server, do they still have a complete list of followings)?
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
Léonie WatsonNov 18, 2022
If you use a screen reader and are worried about reports that Masto is less accessible than we'd like, try https://pinafore.social/ - it's a webapp with a much more simple interface than Masto itself plus it has thoughtul wellbeing settings too!
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
James ScholesNov 19, 2022
As a #ScreenReader user, I find #hashtags at the end of a post to be suboptimal. As I'm unable to visually scan, I don't know that you haven't written anything after the hashtags, and hence have to choose between: listening to them anyway, or being okay with potentially missing content. When written inline within the flow of your text, this problem doesn't occur. #accessibility #a11y
Richard BairwellNov 20, 2022
Mastodon•ART 🎨 CuratorNov 20, 2022

Please add alt-text to your images for accessibility!

https://mastodon.art/@Curator/109279035107793247

If you don't have the time/energy/spoons you can use  or just ask people to describe the images in replies for you, or tag
[email protected] (with another @ at the start) to provide descriptions.

For a reminder, follow @PleaseCaption who will DM you if you post media without alt text.

Mastodon•ART 🎨 Curator (@[email protected])

We have a lot of blind and partially sighted users on the fediverse. Accessibility is important here, and as such, it's good form to include image descriptions (alt text) when we add media to our posts. When someone uses a screenreader to read the timeline, and the screenreader comes to an image with no alt text, it just says 'image' (as far as I know). That's boring, unhelpful, and provides no clue as to what the image actually *is*. This differs slightly depending on how you're using (cont)

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