forestrywat

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by forestrywat 2mo ago
That's either very very naive or a joke about how it's absolutely an invasion, but the admin will call it something "inoffensive". Hard to tell these days.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Not equivalent, inclusive of. Starting to do x can absolutely include getting ready to do x. When I'm starting to go to bed, I usually take the dogs out one last time, go turn the lights off, etc. When I'm starting a new team, th
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
IME companies hire an ethics team to say they have an ethics team. The ethics team has no sway, no influence, and will never be able to move the business. They will try, and they will make reasonable recommendations, but the company will sa
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
People who are still Harry Potter fans, especially ones active enough to make this happen, are pretty much self selecting to not care much about the lives of others. It's a pretty good litmus test for lack of empathy, ime.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Is this "I'm losing so I think we should change the rules"? Because it seems like that.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Aria spec is nearly 20 years old, with the first drafts being out in 2006. Labelledby was a core part of the first spec, and is not particularly complicated. There is no way to make a change to title attribute that isn't breaking to so
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Even if that was consistent, the other reasons are not addressed. And the spec for the title attribute is for "advisory information", which isn't necessarily the same as descriptions. A title attribute could be used to give a
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I'm assuming good faith question here. Good faith answer: The title attribute may not be read by all screen readers by default, if at all. Some will, but some won't. Additionally, when users are keyboard only, touch input, or usin
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
That has nothing to do with the accessibility. That was table stakes for this person's button design.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
They've also never had stronger access to mass surveillance, had more militarized and capable police forces, dealt with a global climate catastrophe, or had more people in prison.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I'm not super interested in debating the specifics because I was trying to point out that people will disagree about what "better" means and prevent progress. Thank you for so succinctly and promptly demonstrating that point,
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Why would you think that?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
This sure suggests that we're all choosing to build this dystopia we're trending towards. I agree very much with the idea that we should be making the world better little by little, but better... better for who? Who benefits is a
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
The addition of the single attribute "aria-labelledby=..." is horrible? It's a single, very small addition to the code here. The element structure was already there, this was just signaling where to get the alt text for a but
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I think you'll find they don't have to compel you to write code. They can simply prevent you from doing something else if you don't meet an obligation. Many many industries have compliance obligations that compel speech. Ther
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I renew my tabs online a few times a year. Site is state wide and works great. Take like five minutes and it's super manageable. Seattle city light works well and has a solid outage map when there's bad weather. capitol.wa.gov is
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
It says right at the top of the description "Turns sign language (fingerspelling) into..." It should just say fingerspelling. Conflating these two is like writing "Translates Shakespeare (Sonnet XC) into ..." It's w
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Of course it helps, but where are you going to dilute more co2 these days?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Amazon is not capturing this amount of carbon. And the offsets are all smoke and mirrors.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Assume good intent, imo. Most of us live in a community with a predominant single sl, whether that's ASL, BSL, etc. Learning one is how I interpreted their comment.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I know this is well meaning, but you should know that in the disability community it's very common to have people invent tech for us without fully understanding our needs. (Smart canes, for instance.) What your demo shows is a model un
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
The one your community uses?
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
You keep saying things that agree with me, smugly insisting I don't understand. You are very confusing to converse with.
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Yes, in the Wilamette Valley the indigenous folks maintained Gary Oaks and prevented other trees from growing there. This was open oak savannah, and when the settlers came in they took the land and turned it to agricultural land. What they
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
All forests in the American west, barring a few relatively small parks, are new growth. Predominantly from settlers cutting them down. Indigenous practices changed which trees grew, for instance the Gary oak was much more prevalent in areas
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
Do you get angry at people for calling sea stars starfish? "They aren't fish they are echinoderms!" Or perhaps you get angry at people who call light utility vehicles "trucks"? Language evolves. People accept colloq
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by forestrywat 2mo ago
I am a small scale forester (hundreds to thousands of acres). Supposed to burn is ... complicated and not necessarily true. Many forests in the PNW have had indigenous Americans burn them regularly because it improves forest health. These f