demifiend

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by demifiend 6y ago
I've only been doing government-related web dev for a decade, but what about WCAG 2? Are accessibility guidelines not a design standard? They seem to cover issues like contrast, at least. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG
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by demifiend 6y ago
> If you can't tell if something is sentient or not after an extensive interaction with it, then for all intents and purposes it's sentient. I'm pretty sure my cat is sentient, but I don't take that to imply that it c
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by demifiend 6y ago
Websites, RSS feeds, and email. Anybody who can't figure out how to run their own website can just do without. Social networking was a mistake. Human relationships and identity are not things that can be reduced to third normal form an
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by demifiend 6y ago
I feel the same, and TBH this site really isn't much better. It's a groupthink incubator just like Twitter and Facebook, and though I've only been here less than 12 hours I regret signing up.
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by demifiend 6y ago
I got into better shape during lockdown by buying secondhand kettlebells and working with them with my laptop mic muted during conference calls where I'm expected to listen without saying anything.
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by demifiend 6y ago
I'm already there and don't need this article. If hard work was enough, single parents with jobs would be billionaires.
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by demifiend 6y ago
Right, and people can't figure out how to do this by reading? Medium alone seems to have at least a dozen articles on how to build your own website, though I haven't bothered to read them and thus can't say whether they just
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by demifiend 6y ago
And what, exactly, is a "trained Marxist"? Can they quote chapter and verse of Capital and The Communist Manifesto from memory? Having spent a few years on the Fediverse, I've found that "the left" in the US con
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by demifiend 6y ago
I tend to look at things from an individual scale because I don't have the tools to do otherwise. Methodological individualism is my hammer, and so everything looks like a nail.
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by demifiend 6y ago
Why should the nmap developers change their license for IBM's convenience, since Fedora is a Red Hat product and Red Hat is now part of IBM? One might suggest that IBM needs nmap more than nmap needs IBM.
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by demifiend 6y ago
> Political parties should have to earn your vote every election rather than relying on a "force of habit". That would be nice, but I've practiced "sucks less" voting since I was old enough to cast a ballot. I vo
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by demifiend 6y ago
> I mean we just got done watching Trump get labeled a terrorist merely for having a political rally. I've been to political rallies. They don't typically involve storming government buildings and forcing elected officials to e
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by demifiend 6y ago
I think you're this close to making an argument for publicly owned infrastructure or for regulating DNS providers and ISPs as public utilities obligated to serve as common carriers. Was that what you had in mind?
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by demifiend 6y ago
I see no need to cry for Josh Hawley when Regnery Publishing will most likely be happy to publish his book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing
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by demifiend 6y ago
What if streaming multimedia on the web was a mistake? What's wrong with downloading media and viewing it in an external player, like VLC?
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by demifiend 6y ago
First: good riddance. Let the neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists make do with Stormfront or 4chan. Second: regardless of your politics/beliefs, this is what people get for not self-hosting. 1. Putting your site on AWS is not s
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by demifiend 6y ago
I don't see the value proposition here, and I certainly wouldn't use this even for my "professional" presence under my "real" name. 1. How is this different from https://about.me ? 2. What advantages
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by demifiend 6y ago
> Of course, it also mean, people have the right to criticize what someone else says, too, that is also important to have. The right to criticize is part of the right to freedom of speech. However, you are not obligated to listen to your
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by demifiend 6y ago
Give the kid a secondhand Thinkpad running OpenBSD, teach him basic shell, and tell him about the man command. He ought to be able to figure the rest out on his own.
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by demifiend 6y ago
> Why I must opt-out from selling my data? Opt-out is more profitable than opt-in. If adtech had to make do with opt-in, it would starve to death for lack of data because most people make do with the default option and—as you pointed out
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by demifiend 6y ago
Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists already have a safe space that nobody seems to care about knocking offline. It's called Stormfront, and it's not Mozilla's fault if a web forum running since the 1990s isn't good e
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by demifiend 6y ago
This reads like a paraphrase of David Graeber's "On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs" but with chan-speak loan words like 'brainlet' mixed in for flavor. Is the author trying to suggest that software development is a
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by demifiend 6y ago
My idea of "meaningful work" is work that doesn't enrich anybody but me and the people I cherish. I'm not convinced this is something your product can help me find. Instead, it reminds me of a lot of the touchy-feely eng
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by demifiend 6y ago
I don't care if contact@ gets spam. That's what it's for. If I reply, it'll come from a different address on that domain.
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by demifiend 6y ago
I hope it helps. A woman I worked with a decade ago impressed upon me the importance of accessibility and sometimes I try to pay it forward.
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by demifiend 6y ago
I'm tempted to argue the value of SEO when to me it has come to mean catering to Google and trying to game its algorithms, but no. You're not wrong.
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by demifiend 6y ago
I can't and won't speak for anybody else, but if I wanted to provide random strangers with a free soapbox I wouldn't bother with a static blog. I'd just fire up a new Fediverse instance. IMO, there's no need for com
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by demifiend 6y ago
Whenever people do stuff like this, alternative text protocols like Gemini make more sense.
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by demifiend 6y ago
> The question is how do we go back to the old more free internet, or if anything how do we free ourselves from the yolk of the likes of Zuckerberg? I'm already free from Zuckerberg, Dorsey, and their coterie of techbros nostalgic f
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by demifiend 6y ago
Yeah, it looks like somebody at Roku didn't think this through to me, too. Don't they have enough better-quality content that they don't particularly need Quibi's library? If Quibi themselves couldn't profit from th

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