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I've only been doing government-related web dev for a decade, but what about WCAG 2? Are accessibility guidelines not a design standard? They seem to cover issues like contrast, at…

> If you can't tell if something is sentient or not after an extensive interaction with it, then for all intents and purposes it's sentient. I'm pretty sure my cat is sentient, but…

Websites, RSS feeds, and email. Anybody who can't figure out how to run their own website can just do without. Social networking was a mistake. Human relationships and identity are…

> If it’s dead cops you want google 2016 Dallas BLM ambush. That's not how this works. If you want to persuade me, it's up to you to provide evidence. Telling me to google somethin…

I feel the same, and TBH this site really isn't much better. It's a groupthink incubator just like Twitter and Facebook, and though I've only been here less than 12 hours I regret …

No police wounded or even fired upon. Only three white militia members got hurt, and their lives don't matter to me.

I got into better shape during lockdown by buying secondhand kettlebells and working with them with my laptop mic muted during conference calls where I'm expected to listen without…

I'm already there and don't need this article. If hard work was enough, single parents with jobs would be billionaires.

Right, and people can't figure out how to do this by reading? Medium alone seems to have at least a dozen articles on how to build your own website, though I haven't bothered to re…

Do BLM protesters openly carry rifles and shotguns like the Black Panthers used to? Do they actually fire on police? I doubt it, and unless you can provide footage from the Associa…

And what, exactly, is a "trained Marxist"? Can they quote chapter and verse of Capital and The Communist Manifesto from memory? Having spent a few years on the Fediverse, I've foun…

I tend to look at things from an individual scale because I don't have the tools to do otherwise. Methodological individualism is my hammer, and so everything looks like a nail.

Why should the nmap developers change their license for IBM's convenience, since Fedora is a Red Hat product and Red Hat is now part of IBM? One might suggest that IBM needs nmap m…

> Political parties should have to earn your vote every election rather than relying on a "force of habit". That would be nice, but I've practiced "sucks less" voting since I was o…

> I mean we just got done watching Trump get labeled a terrorist merely for having a political rally. I've been to political rallies. They don't typically involve storming governme…

I think you're this close to making an argument for publicly owned infrastructure or for regulating DNS providers and ISPs as public utilities obligated to serve as common carriers…

I see no need to cry for Josh Hawley when Regnery Publishing will most likely be happy to publish his book. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regnery_Publishing

What if streaming multimedia on the web was a mistake? What's wrong with downloading media and viewing it in an external player, like VLC?

First: good riddance. Let the neo-Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists make do with Stormfront or 4chan. Second: regardless of your politics/beliefs, this is what people get for…

I don't see the value proposition here, and I certainly wouldn't use this even for my "professional" presence under my "real" name. 1. How is this different from https://about.me ?…

> Of course, it also mean, people have the right to criticize what someone else says, too, that is also important to have. The right to criticize is part of the right to freedom of…

Give the kid a secondhand Thinkpad running OpenBSD, teach him basic shell, and tell him about the man command. He ought to be able to figure the rest out on his own.

> Why I must opt-out from selling my data? Opt-out is more profitable than opt-in. If adtech had to make do with opt-in, it would starve to death for lack of data because most peop…

Nazis, fascists, and white supremacists already have a safe space that nobody seems to care about knocking offline. It's called Stormfront, and it's not Mozilla's fault if a web fo…