Notices by Garrett LeSage (garrett@mastodon.xyz), page 4

Turns out, toxic masculinity is a threat to the environment... https://psmag.com/environment/how-gender-stereotypes-affect-pro-environment-behavior

utopian future in the 1980s: flying cars
utopian future in the 2020s: no cars

well isn't this next level bullshit

Person A: "What is speleology"
Person B: "The study of caves. Here's a wikipedia link if you want to learn more."
Person C: "Wikipedia isn't a reliable source@!@!!!!"

Me: I wish people would stop mistaking "don't use this as an academic source for citations in a paper" with "this is not a reliable source for getting an overview of what something is." For non-controversial topics, Wikipedia is rarely inaccurate, and controversial topics are typically flagged.

One thing I find confusing about accessibility and compliance is that the WCAG publishes three different levels: AAA, AA, and A. https://www.w3.org/TR/WCAG20/#conformance-reqs

Under the law today, can websites get sued for not meeting A? AA? AAA? Or is it a self-policing kind of thing? As in, do legal departments just set their own targets based on their appetite for risk?

BTW I definitely see performance as an issue of access. If the CEO, the investors, and the developers are all using beefy desktops on fast connections, then they'll never notice what their less fortunate customers are experiencing on a hand-me-down Android phone or a busted laptop with a HDD. It's easy to miss performance problems if you're not paying attention to users with less money than you.

I wonder if one reason more websites aren't accessible/performant is because of the underlying business model. If investors are always screaming at you about growth, then you'll focus on feature, features, features, to the detriment of less salient virtues like performance, accessibility, security, etc.

The *official* :inkscape: forum has launched! Come start a conversation with fellow beginners, artists, designers, makers, educators, and more! https://inkscape.org/forums/

Facebook Messenger still scans all messages, even with end-to-end encryption. Scanning is done locally on the device before text messages are sent and after received messages are decrypted.

Facebook privacy lol

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kalevleetaru/2019/07/26/the-encryption-debate-is-over-dead-at-the-hands-of-facebook/#3e1668c45362

Today is Overshoot Day,
the day where we as a species have used up the entirety of Earths Renewable resources and live on loans paid by the coming generations.

We as FLOSS enthusiasts can be part of a solution by designing not for an ever grander set of hardware, but for the reusage and improvement of OLD hardware.
Making old refurbished stuff attractive again, or ways to repurpose it so it doesn't have to be thrown away.

#OverShootDay #Ecology #FFF

Doomguy IS in the Donkey Kong Extended Universe:

Doom -> Commander Keen -> Minecraft -> Super Meat Boy -> Bit.Trip -> Shovel Knight -> Smash

Resemblance