Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 69

You anger Swifties and shit gets real.

@swachter Just asked @laura and she said most folks still put them on their web sites apparently but maybe also to add a link to ThreadLoop (https://threadloop.app).

@urlyman “Build the world you want to live in.” Been telling people that in nearly every talk for as long as I can remember.

https://ar.al/notes/encouraging-individual-sovereignty-and-a-healthy-commons/

@setz5 Soz fam, it don’t work that way.

@raganwald #winning

I mean, when you think about it, what do you really need? Clean air? Fresh water? A climate suitable for human life?

Or billionaires?

It’s billionaires, amirite?

Capitalism is the best system possible according to every billionaire we surveyed.

@pomegranate_stew Of course, anytime :)

Capitalism. Because “sell yourself to buy shit or die” is too much of a mouthful.

@cemedia Here’s a helpful guide on how to write effective alt text: https://accessibility.huit.harvard.edu/describe-content-images

@cemedia Alt text: map of world with most of the landmass in green with North America, Australia, and some European counties and the UK in grey.

Countries that recognise Palestine
As of May 22, 2024: The State of Palestine is recognised by 146 countries around the world – The Palestine Project

@mikarv Interesting 🤔

@MusiqueNow Just out of curiosity, does the documentary include opposing autocracy in Qatar?

@tee Love it 💕

@by_caballero Hadn’t heard of multibase (just looked it up, nice idea). This is just a basic map optimised for encoding/decoding ed25519 secret keys with a one-to-one mapping of bytes to emoji.

https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/src/lib/KittenMoji.js

@parismarx Goodness I fucking hate that asshole.

The kings, at least, I can understand. They’re the natural, psychopathic beneficiaries of an obscenely unjust and unequal system. It’s the courtiers kissing their asses for a place at court that I can’t stand.

Yes, this is about tech.

Yes, you know who you are.

@kkarhan Yep, it should. But it never has. And Fedora, for example, has been shipping with Wayland by default and without a working screen reader for the past nine years.

https://ar.al/2024/06/23/fedora-has-been-shipping-with-a-broken-screen-reader-for-nine-years-but-the-real-problem-is-me/

@Shebeencounter Thank you for providing the alt text.

@RadicalGraffiti

@freakazoid @blogdiva You remembered correctly: There are 3,790 in total in Unicode 16 (https://www.unicode.org/emoji/charts/emoji-counts.html) but that’s with modifiers.