feeling a twinge of joy from doing a local full-text search of an intentionally-misspelled word in my personal photos. no cloud shit here, or "did you mean".
Step one for my audio-only setup is done. I can have audio (and speech-dispatcher) running without a graphical session. Next I'll either keep banging my head trying to get these TTY screen readers to work or make my own one.
"open source" is powerless to do anything meaningful at all, we even use the term for binary blob LLM weights that nobody can reproduce without a million dollars and a hoard of stolen data.
Years ago, during my second time at IndieCade, and when I was fairly new to attending video game events, there was a lot of talk about prioritizing events that focus on local community over an international crowd. The conversation being that it was more important to build things …
it doesn't make any sense. linux and the gpl have no technical reason to exist. one could've just bought a copy of unix, right? oh, some people couldn't afford unix, or wanted a bit more control about their own computers? "well that's a you problem" or what. remember the bill …
At The Web You Want event in Amsterdam last month, Léonie gave an absolutely fantastic talk. You can now read the whole thing: Accessibility is resistance!
I recently found out that someone has cloned my personal blog and changed the content (likely using AI). So, I did the next logical thing: I fixed the most annoying bugs on my website that I'd never bothered with before 😀👍 Enjoy your horizontal scrollbar!
