Notices by Super Genius Stuff (mdm@mcnamarii.town), page 21

@swauger So... much... Louisiana! :P

The state of Android tablets these days is piss-poor. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

Something less than 10 inches, with frequent security updates? Is there any company doing that?

@ajroach42 Don't hack our planet; we live here! :P Let's hack Mars.

@srol It's probably just one option, used by one group, hopefully!

I remember the push to start storing all medical info electronically a few years ago, but there's no one application/platform that's being used at all.

Hiding accessibility features from users who don't need them seems to be a non-existent feature in HTML. I've found lots of tutorials about hiding things from users that *use* accessibility features, but not the other way around.

For instance, I need to include a very detailed description of an image, that includes more than just simple text (it's tabulated data).

Perhaps, instead of using accessibility features, include a link to an appendix section with longer descriptions?

@Canageek @Anna Oh yeah -- perhaps one can cram an entire table into some sort of alt-text. Perhaps it's time to brush up on some aria/html tags that do this (hide things from screen readers, and vice-versa).

Why, oh why, does the "mute" button a pair of earbuds *end* a call on the iPhone? Who thought this was a good idea?

I just angrily threw a pair of apple earbuds across a room because of this.

@Anna Do you find that most readers and reading software allows you to zoom into images easily? IIRC, I remember the Kindle allowing that pretty easily, but I don't think the Nook did.

@Anna Fascinating, and that makes sense, I agree. I've made a fair amount of EPUBs for academia, and I've made quite a few tables in them.

I kinda like this idea about having an image for a table -- I have always resisted having images with text in my EPUBs unless it was absolutely necessasry (any text in them won't reflect differences in font, font size, etc), but they're probably better than tables for displaying tabulated information for accessibility reasons.

@Anna As someone who makes EPUB files for a business as a part-time job, I've always tried to keep accessibility at the forefront of my design -- making sure text can always flow when the size is increased, decreased, etc.

However, tables are always difficult and hard to make flow right. Do you have anything you'd recommend, or would you recommend a book maker just try to skip using tables at all?

@Antanicus Could be! A strange exception to everything seems to be IBM. Acronym-named companies seem to exist in their own place.

@Antanicus Interesting difference between the fictional names and the ones we're actually stuck with: the fictional ones all have something like "coporation" or "industries" in the name, to let you know they're a company.

Our real companies like to pretent they're just our "friends."

"We're not a company; we're your friend! Talk to us just like you would a friend. Come on, give it a try."

@CobaltVelvet I don't know what this is, but I can tell something got better! Congrats and thank you for your hard work.

@theoutrider The benefit of that very rigid toolbox of palettes/shapes that was available on the N64, I've heard

@minx Flexibility for ports, yes, but Yubikey still seems to only be supported by Google Chrome, at least on Linux (what I'm using now). I've only sometimes used it on Windows, and I think it was the same there.

Instead of a USB-based key, I wish we could buy something like an old RSA token, where we could just input a secret key, and it would give us 6-digit codes, kinda like authenticator apps do today. I'd buy something like that.

@minx I have a Yubikey, but honestly it's sketchy and I usually have to fall back to a software token anyway. Is there a specific service you're wanting to use a Yubikey with, or are you trying to build in support to a service/application yourself?

@baldur I've always liked Josh T's writing, but it's really starting to bother me when somebody talks about all the problems with Twitter, but continues to keep an active account there.

@ajroach42 Ha! That was a neat read. Now I have several new books to put on my reading list.

@theoutrider @HereticSoul Fascinating. I think Road Warrior might be the only one with nudity (I think), and there's definitely lots more violence in it compared to the other two.