Dear anglo-saxon devs, Ö is not a special character. If your system fails to process unicode and any variation of the latin alphabet, it sucks. If I can't enter my own name without resorting to some tricks in a field on a form, it sucks. #software #opinion

Big-Tech muss gezähmt werden. Gemeinsam mit über 70 Organisationen wie @lobbycontrol haben wir in einem Manifest dargelegt, wie Daten und Technologien dezentralisiert, umverteilt und demokratisiert werden sollen.

Was wir von der Politik fordern?
⚒️ Zerschlagt und besteuert Big-Tech
💰 Investiert in offene digitale Infrastruktur
🆓 Mehr Freiheit durch Verpflichtung zur Interoperabilität

...und mehr. Zum Manifest geht es hier:

https://wmde.org/SFpLj

You do not require permission to create accessible code. It doesn’t have to be explicitly stated in the requirements, you don’t have to be specifically told to do it. You don’t require permission. Create accessible code.

Hey Tech colleagues?

Maybe when a little girl gets her face blown off by pager bomb placed by a state?

You should worry less about the technology used and more about the little girl.

That's why no one trusts us.

@Tutanota Why should the EU fund free and open software, if not even the activists advocating for it use it themselves?

Seriously, the EU funded a lot of Fediverse software, including @peertube . Why dou you need to point people to YouTube instead, even while advocating for freee software support by the EU?

Please, help us **normalise** free and open software and platforms by **using** it and showing that you do!

Homelessness should be illegal, but for the state, not the Homeless. If your State is run so poorly that you have a significant number of Homeless, then you are committing a crime against the people that live there. You've let rent get higher than wages, you aren't adequately funding mental and physical Healthcare, you're under providing Unemployment benefits and Disability, you're not regulating unnecessary layoffs.

Are there going to be a few people who still choose Homelessness, maybe, but these are problems with solutions 99% of the time.

@maxmustermann @Lioh If someone got hurt in any type of communication, acknowledging the fact my words or drawings could hurt and taking seriously their pain, then apologizing for this is −IMO− the least minimum one can do.
Also, please don't use 'illiteracy' when someone doesn't know a meme. We all discovered these meme at one point. I still learn new one on weekly basis, and I don't think it is a sign of illiteracy on my side.

Habe eine obdachlose Person im Kiez vermisst. War plötzlich wieder da. Frage was war. Saß wegen Schwarzfahren im Knast - wurde nach 10 Tagen frei gekauft (vermutlich vom @freiheitsfonds) - hätte eigentlich bis 30.10. sitzen müssen.

Ist zwar frei aber kein Bürgergeld mehr („da müssen sie neu beantragen“ und das wird gerade schön verschleppt) und aus der Substitution raus geflogen.

„Ich habe Angst vor dem Winter“

Indiscriminate bombings are evil, they are always evil, you're killing innocent bystanders, therefore I award you negative five-hundred humanity points and you have to reincarnate and start over as a slug.

It's clear what #Mozilla leadership was actually paid for.

Really looking forward to explaining to my kid that his PII has been compromised for basically his entire life because he had the audacity to be born at a time when the positive incentives for computer security were nearly nonexistent and the regulatory penalties favored doing the bare minimum you can get away with.

#privacy #cybersecurity

Stickers seen around NYC in the days after cops opened fire in the NYC subway, shooting a fellow officer, two bystanders, and an alleged "fare evader" they were attempting to apprehend.

#permaculture #solarpunk #structuralism #systemsthinking

Mozilla leadership
(in ref to https://mozilla.social/@mozilla/113153943609185249 )

#comic #firefox #mozilla

Come on Servo, just a bit and you will be a full grown browser soon

#Emacs 30.0.91 pretest is available for download at https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2024-09/msg00305.html

So I've been seeing a lot of white folks going the sad but predictable route of not believing any of the Black folks on here who have stated repeatedly that Eris and her cronies are super racist. So, even though a number of you still won't believe me, I'm going to give you examples of a few of the times that she has specifically targeted me with racist mistreatment (that I know about).

My direct experiences of her began when I wrote this short essay about white supremacy and gender binarism, which you can read here: https://medium.com/@evasblog/gender-binarism-and-white-supremacy-69df9b7c1cd7

Now, I'm going to just highlight that I spoke specifically about how white supremacy has, via the patriarchy, long sought to crush gender diversity as part of the process of colonization. White colonizers would consistently characterize people of color (especially folks who today would be considered Black) as savage and "uncivilized", and they would point to their differing gender norms as proof.

They were explicit at the time that their goal was to spread white supremacist patriarchal norms in order to culturally dominate these other societies. Nowadays, we live in the world they built. I'll come back to that later.

Eris did not like that I wrote this essay, I assume because I called out that people who claim to fight transmisia but fail to divest from white supremacy are actually enforcing the gender binary and are therefore transmisic by default. She made a post disagreeing, including the section highlighted below (more to follow in next post):