Of course, if you are visually impaired you have no idea what this post says because it's a picture, not text, and there's no alt text.
No, I don't consider myself part of the alt text police, but I really think that posts consisting of pictures of text are pretty inconsiderate on a platform that is trying to appeal to all users. 🤷🏼♀️
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Yep, another idiotic meltdown, even dumber because as commenters point out, Smithfield has controlled the Nathans brand for over a decade, they're simply shifting from licensing to owning.
Throwing out random phrases as i start the kettle, start coffee, begin coffee, engage coffee… That last one, i would if i could, laws and morals be damned
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Saturday morning marked the third shooting by federal agents in Minneapolis this month. “How many more Americans need to die for this operation to end?” said Mayor Jacob Frey.
We've reopened registrations on #Holos. The first phase helped us identify and fix a bottleneck. All registrations now go through the app. The web version shows where to download it at holos.social/signup Currently we only have our direct download link, but #FDroid/#AltStore and Google Play/App Store (if they accept) are planned.
Welcomed by "Mobile App Required". Is desktop support planned at all? I can see that it's open source, so I guess being mobile-exclusive is not due to the usual reasons of lock-in and tracking.
@csepp We're starting with mobile apps because they present unique challenges (offline support, network switching between WiFi/cellular, mobile-specific constraints, etc.).
If users want a desktop version later, we'll develop it. For now, we're focusing on solving the mobile-first use case.
Yeah, I know, seems to be every day I post about my misadventures with Fediverse software, right? Seriously though, somethings are moving really fast...
#holos just released 17-1, that's like five versions in less than a month, and Federation finally works, yay... And we seem to have a new problem, I seem to have followed a few new people without following them, that's a weird new glitch @Holos Social Still, it otherwise works great, extremely fast to update, in fact the biggest problem is with my phone which seems to go to sleep when the screen goes off, and all notifications stop, obviously a problem here. Beyond that, its really me, while I do the occasional message from my phone, I'm an old grey muzzle, and prefer to leave the net on my computer, so I don't think I'll be sticking around, maybe to the end of the month, maybe less, but if'n you're the type that does most things from your phone, give this one a look, its a really neat project, a really good alternative to Mastodon.
#Loops , maybe it'll work, I really wish it would.
#wafrn now this one, this one I'm really in love with. Sure, there's a few features I wish it had, and unless I can find a way other than hashtags to sort my content, it won't replace this place completely, but it could very easily become my main and replace my #Mastodon . Honestly I think it might kill #diaspora , don't get me wrong, I love Diaspora, but I think the lack of #ActivityPub has done it no favors, and Wafrn may be the first viable replacement for it. Either way, for those not familiar with it, its basically the Fediverse's answer to Tumblr, and while it doesn't look quite the same, it looks quite nice, and has some fun features including the ability to bite people.
I looked at #Wafrn and am not quite a fan of them trying to block VPNs or them storing IPs for when you register, send an image, or when you last logged in, presumably to punish VPN users.
Just not crazy about that because using a VPN has become more important than ever.
@Luigi.exe (Dragonheart System) Is that Wafrn the software, or the site? I'm on bark.wolp.chat rather than the original and would switch to my own hosted instance if I decide to move mostly over there.
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Surely you understand that the real victims are rich (bastards) whose celebrity status could be blemished by that publication.
Did you notice BTW, that X is hosting a massive amount of well-documented #csam and they not been shut down or blocked anywhere like any normal website that would do that?
a character from the show "What we do in the shadows". He's an energy vampire and basically does what you say in your short story. But mostly he drains people by annoying then with boring talk and trolling them online.
The US Department of Justice has slashed funding and training resources for law enforcement working on investigations and prosecutions of #SexCrimes against children under the #Trump administration, which limits their ability to carry out this work.
The sweeping cuts, enacted soon after Donald #Trump began his second term as US president, are putting vulnerable #children at risk and impeding efforts to bring child #predators to justice, according to four prosecutors and law enforcement officers specializing in cases of child #sexual #exploitation, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
Hey Washington, there's a profoundly bad law making its way through the state level.
This law, will require ALL 3d printers to send copies of the files you print directly to the government to be check against a database of "banned shapes".
Literally turning your 3d printer into spyware. And if you don't voluntarily turn your printer into a spy, you will be a class C Felon.
This law is using the boogyman of 3d printed guns.... which notably still need bullets and barrels, so... maybe regulate those actual GUN parts instead??
The issue is that this law in plain english says you are no longer the owner of your device. You don't get to choose what firmware to run, only the govt approved ones.
It's so broadly written that it appears to apply to ALL CNC machines.
At the end of the day this is end of right to repair in WA if this passes.
Not only does this bill prevent you from modifying your machine this database of banned shapes is clearly the infrastructure needed to police EVERYTHING you print.
Oh that shape of a part for your car? Yea that's copyrighted and if you try to print it your in trouble!
Oh whats that, your medical device is over charging you for simple plastic parts? Go kick rocks!
You modded a printer and made your kid a toy, that's not copyright approved? You're a felon now!
Definitely put in my complaints already when I saw it a couple days ago or whatever.
It's a poorly written law that doesn't understand the tech, the feasibility of enforcement, and what companies would do instead of bothering.
Glowforge is based out of Seattle, and as much as I tell people not to buy one (at minimum because it requires the internet to function), that would hurt.
I ain't using my laser cutter to make guns, but it sure would be covered by this stupid law. 😕
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I don't know. I don't think I've seen a really pro-gun person my circles be up in arms about this yet.
Some friends were like generic 😮 response and those who were really concerned seemed to be those who did regular, non-weapons manufacturing themselves / owned a laser cutter, etc.
Could be it's not circulating in those groups because "Well, this doesn't affect my ability to [legally] own a gun or get more, so why should I care?"
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in reply to Alex Gulotta • • •Of course, if you are visually impaired you have no idea what this post says because it's a picture, not text, and there's no alt text.
No, I don't consider myself part of the alt text police, but I really think that posts consisting of pictures of text are pretty inconsiderate on a platform that is trying to appeal to all users. 🤷🏼♀️