I'm always bemused when I come across the keycap emojis for numbers(3️⃣2️⃣) rather than the regular old boring numbers (32). All that extra work needed to find numbers when they're standard things on every keyboard, for what? A slightly fancy design? The wonderful* bonus feature depending on the screen reader where numbers are read out like "key cap three, key cap two", and the fact that you can't read them on braille displays? Obvious improvement right there I'm sure you can agree.
I've just seen a blindness org use them to pretty their social media post. You'd think they'd know better.
*not wonderful at all.

people 50 years ago: "by 2026 we'll have flying cars!"

2026:

TIL that the Archbishop of Manila from 1974-2003 was named Jaime Lachica Sin, making him a literal Cardinal Sin.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaime_Sin
#til #todayilearned
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1riact7/til_that_the_archbishop_of_manila_from_19742003/

#silentsunday

Just had a sighted person tell me they often use features, clients and programs that were made for us, they don’t use screen readers, but they use accessibility features, even when they do not have disabilities, but also clients like a blind Mastodon client, or a text editor designed with screen readers in mind such as the ones I list on my Tools page at the end, as an example, because they said, the interface is 1000 times cleaner, there’s a lot of keyboard shortcuts, clutter free interface, even though the UI is basic, speed, less bloat, and a whole host of other things including, but not limited to, and never having to put up with distracting animation nonsense. You know software development has vastly sank in quality when sighted folk are using blind clients. To see the tools and stuff I use, go to https://sightlessscribbles.com/tools/ #Programming #Software

2003: children shouldn't tell their age, name, or personal information to anyone on the internet for their safety

2026: children are legally required to tell their age, name, and personal information to everyone on the internet for their safety

@TheQuinbox I remember being promised by a retiring computing teacher that, after i'd moved on from BASIC to complete a GCSE in 2004, I'd be able to use a language that let me write all my documentation inline, as code comments.

Toddler pokemon

@remixman @kjsapergia pretty sure I was running it under windows 98.

@kjsapergia always only ever used cdex.
https://cdex.mu

@ppatel by adding up the word counts listed on each fanfic. There were only 5.

My washing machine doesn’t need Wi-Fi.
It's a feature that I would regret.
I just need a way to wash my pants.
Not show them to the Internet.

My oven doesn't need Wi-Fi.
I'd value that least of all.
It's already shielded from getting too hot.
It doesn't need another firewall.

My fridge does not need Wi-Fi.
That is just not useful for me.
I want a place to chill my food.
Not chat via TCP/IP.

@jscholes er ... Possibly 2 or 3...

I appear to have read 1,621,000 words of Harry Potter fanfiction this month during the baby's sleepless nights.

Whoops?

@pitermach @Tamasg defo can confirm eloquence is on my apple TV.

@arfy @fastfinge @quanin bit of a dead duck these days, isn't it?

@futurebird so you can attach one of those old USB drives and ..
Wait for it ...
Burn your CDs!

Callers to Washington state hotline press 2 for Spanish and get AI-generated accented English instead

https://beehaw.org/post/24993318

aww man, not Dan Simmons as well? Another sci-fi pillar.
Sad news for all the #bookstodon followers out there today.

@brian_hartgen Glad she's doing so well, brilliant to hear.