kalloway @kalloway@fedibird.com

Just got a robo-call that asked me "are you a bot?" over and over again, like a baby bird in the book looking for its mother.

It’s actually been an incredible run to last 78 years for a company whose primary selling point is you can buy its products once then reuse them practically forever.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gdprv2ddxo.amp

Autumn
#tmycat

So there's an anti-LGBTQIA+ list of queer games out there, and today I found out Hypnospace is on it. First of all what an honor tysm!!!! So I did what any far-left-queer-socialist-cat-dad would do and stole it and turned it into a positive!

Enjoy this list of over 700 (!!!) games that make creeps just so so angwy - plz do read the disclaimer at the top:

✨🌈💖🏳️‍⚧️ 🏳️‍⚧️💖🌈✨
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vRZdSqg6YncRfX0gunE7IKb7KAcsCV65SAmvronz1EdLsI4HewYwWcm1hEM_7KwLd9-JQasiRFpHVOe/pubhtml?gid=0&single=true

let any adult get sterilized if they want!!!

mRNA vaccines stopping pancreatic cancer?

Popsci article: https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/first-ever-mrna-vaccine-halts-pancreatic-cancer-in-its-tracks/

Source study: https://clinicaltrials.gov/study/NCT05968326

Happy #midautumnfestival , i love to share my culture with my non-Chinese friends! And we are more similar than you'd think... especially east meats American south

## Chinese Moon Cake
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mooncake

> Mooncakes are usually eaten in small wedges, accompanied by tea

## American Moon Cake = Moon Pie
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moon_Pie

> The snack is often associated with the cuisine of the American South, where they are traditionally accompanied by an RC Cola.

RC Cola = tea of the south

🥮 🤝 🇺🇸🦅

hello internet! i am nora reed and i work really hard in my jewelry shop to bring you interesting jewelry to wear on your body.

http://nora.jewelry/

here's some of my fused glass, which i make in my kiln.

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here.

A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places. The walls are brightened up with posters offering helpful services for people fleeing domestic violence. The security guards on the door are cautiously indifferent to anyone walking in. The air is filled with tense conversations between partners - drowned out by the noise of screaming kids.

In the middle, a young woman sits on a hard plastic chair. She is surrounded by canvas-bags containing her worldly possessions. She doesn't look like she is in a great emotional place right now. Clutched in her hands is a games console - a PlayStation Portable. She stares at it intensely; blocking out the world with Candy Crush.

Or, at least, that's what I thought.

Walking behind her, I glance at her console and recognise the screen she's on. She's connected to the complementary WiFi and is browsing the GOV.UK pages on Housing Benefit. She's not slicing fruit; she's arming herself with knowledge.

The PSP's web browser is - charitably - pathetic. It is slow, frequently runs out of memory, and can only open 3 tabs at a time.

But the GOV.UK pages are written in simple HTML. They are designed to be lightweight and will work even on rubbish browsers. They have to. This is for everyone.

Not everyone has a big monitor, or a multi-core CPU burning through the teraflops, or a broadband connection.

The photographer Chase Jarvis coined the phrase "the best camera is the one that’s with you". He meant that having a crappy instamatic with you at an important moment is better than having the best camera in the world locked up in your car.

The same is true of web browsers. If you have a smart TV, it probably has a crappy browser.

My old car had a built-in crappy web browser.

Both are painful to use - but they work!

If your laptop and phone both got stolen - how easily could you conduct online life through the worst browser you have? If you have to file an insurance claim online - will you get sent a simple HTML form to fill in, or a DOCX which won't render?

What vital information or services are forbidden to you due to being trapped in PDFs or horrendously complicated web sites?

Are you developing public services? Or a system that people might access when they're in desperate need of help? Plain HTML works. A small bit of simple CSS will make look decent. JavaScript is probably unnecessary - but can be used to progressively enhance stuff. Add alt text to images so people paying per MB can understand what the images are for (and, you know, accessibility).

Go sit in an uncomfortable chair, in an uncomfortable location, and stare at an uncomfortably small screen with an uncomfortably outdated web browser. How easy is it to use the websites you've created?

I chatted briefly to the young woman afterwards. She'd been kicked out by her parents and her friends had given her the bus fare to the housing benefits office. She had nothing but praise for how helpful the staff had been. I asked about the PSP - a hand-me-down from an older brother - and the web browser. Her reply was "It's shit. But it worked."

I think that's all we can strive for.

Here are some stats on games consoles visiting GOV.UK

Interestingly we have 3,574 users visiting https://t.co/CcU3PLPTpj on games consoles:
• Xbox - 2,062
• Playstation 4 - 1,457
• Playstation Vita - 25
• Nintendo WiiU - 14
• Nintendo 3DS - 16

20/22

— Matt Hobbs (@TheRealNooshu) February 1, 2021

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-unreasonable-effectiveness-of-simple-html/

#HTML5 #web #WeekNotes #work [参照]

@davidaugust @realcarlallen My friend Gary died of polio. I was five, he was seven. He was the boy next door. I remember playing with him in the stream where he likely contracted it. I remember going to the community centre for the sugar cube at the local vaccination drive that followed. Those of us that lived through it need to tell our stories.

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Among my son's 12 year old classmates... having an #AI "girlfriend" is slowly becoming normalized.

I dunno how these kids are finding out about & accessing these things... but there are no adults around, & no limits on their devices. I'd bet this is so far off their parents' radar that it might not even seem real.

#parenting

boss: it's come to my attention that your performance has been degrading the last couple of months. what's going on?

me: i'm just trying to fit in

営業中 (eigyouchuu) means “open for business”; you’ll commonly see a sign like this when a restaurant’s open. However, this sign reads 営魚中 (eigyochuu) using the kanji for “fish.” One of our tour clients translated this as “open for fishness” and I think that’s perfect.

#japan #unseenjapan #travel #food

Pilots on Facebook are sharing stories + images of #SpaceJunk breakups and alerts they have seen. Surreal that this is seemingly a regular occurrence in #Aviation now.

*There is still no such thing as a `'digital archive' #deadmedia

https://www.mixonline.com/business/inside-iron-mountain-its-time-to-talk-about-hard-drives