Notices by Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al), page 76

@clemens Nice :)

@peach Hey David, thanks :) I’m away on holiday (first one in three years, I’ve been told). Happy to help if you have any issues when I’m back (next week) :)

@therightarticle What can I say, it’s not easy being the most moral army in the world while committing the most moral genocide ever. But don’t worry, once Kamala is elected, it’ll be a joyous genocide so everything will be all right.

“I’ve never had COVID.”

– Person who has never tested for COVID

@vaempyr @daedalus IBM: Helps Hitler commit genocide. Still around.

Tobacco companies: in the business of killing people slowly. Still around.

Oil companies: in the business of destroying our habitat and making Earth incompatible with human life. Still around.

Excuse me if I’m somewhat skeptical about the efficacy of traditional regulatory measures.

@daedalus @vaempyr They’re fine (no pun intended) with paying cash money. It’s just a cost of doing business. CEOs behind bars might result in behavioural change.

@ErikUden Good luck 💕

@faab64 @palestine @israel THIS is beyond imagination now 😒😒😒

So France is now a country of authoritarian centrists who get to choose whoever tf they like as PM?

Choosing someone from the party that got less than a quarter of the party that came first!

😒 Pretty good indicator that centrism is even more vacuous and scornful of democracy than it already was

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cqjlxvg2gj7o

@ijk @zleap This might help;

- Getting started: https://kitten.small-web.org
- Tutorials: https://kitten.small-web.org/tutorials/

The easy deployment bit isn’t ready for public use yet but I’d be more than happy to help you with that should you need it. Good luck + looking forward to seeing your site and when it’s ready :)

@andrewrk always-has-been.gif

https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/110975255876452369

@bobdobberson @andrewrk It’s worse: They don’t just receive money from Google, the money they receive from Google is the reason they exist.

“About four-in-ten U.S. adults believe humanity is ‘living in the end times’”

- Why fix the climate when we won’t live long enough to regret it?

I just can’t. Why the hell is what these people believe my problem???

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2022/12/08/about-four-in-ten-u-s-adults-believe-humanity-is-living-in-the-end-times/

Oh, thank goodness not having a fully functional screen reader isn’t a blocker for Fedora 41. We wouldn’t want them to miss their 10th anniversary of shipping an operating system without a fully functional screen reader, after all.

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

#Fedora #RedHat #IBM #a11y #accessibility #screenReader #orca #linux #openSource #FOSS #ableism https://masto.ai/@phoronix/113078851664286833

@Waxingtonknee @pthane I’m shocked, shocked to find that surveillance capitalism is going on in here.

@sknob Yay! Happy to hear it helped :)

@thibaultamartin This is us, by the way, a tiny two-person not-for-profit with no public funding (not for lack of trying):

https://small-tech.org

And the principles that guide our work:

https://small-tech.org/about/#small-technology

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

@thibaultamartin This.

Been working towards this for the last decade (initially the education/awareness raising part, and, for the last six years or so on building an alternative for everyday people who use technology as an everyday thing with the Small Web).

Some links you might find interesting:

- A talk I gave ten years ago when just starting out down this path: https://ar.al/talks/#free-is-a-lie

- Small Web – where we are today: https://ar.al/2024/06/24/small-web-computer-science-colloquium-at-university-of-groningen/

#SmallTech #SmallWeb

What a farce! Time to shut down the ICC and end the charade? What use is a court if its judgments are blatantly ignored? This, and the US basically castrating it when it comes to Israel, makes a mockery of so-called international law. Maybe it’s more useful to openly acknowledge that the concept in general is bullshit and we live under the only law that matters: the law of the jungle. At least then we can explore other avenues for justice, knowing none can be found here. https://mstdn.social/@noelreports/113072374039807217

@haise Exactly ;) https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral/113068490338488868