Summary: A response to Jakob Nielsen’s blog post declaring accessibility to have failed and proposing an artificial intelligence-based solution. I critique his claims and his solution, and identify what I perceive to be a fundamental misconception of what accessibility is.
I just had to check and I haven't posted much on leap days either! It's also a weird trip down memory lane to look at my site archives in 4-year chunks!
404 Media reports that Automattic is planning to sell its data to Midjourney and OpenAI for training generative models:The exact types of data from each platform going to each company are not spelled out in documentation we’ve reviewed, but internal communications reviewed by 404 …
Thanks to Samantha Cole at 404 Media, we are now aware that Automattic plans to sell user data from Tumblr and WordPress.com (which is the host for my blog) for “AI” products.
You gotta be kidding me. So much for wanting to help the open Web; they're going to opt to sell people's contributions to the Web. Reddit: https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/17/24075670/reddit-ai-training-license-deal-user-contentWordpress/Tumblr/Automattic: …
I helped work on the Jamstack TV project (now dormant with the rest of the jamstack.org site, though the feature is still up), which used a lovely Algolia integration to allow deep searching of video transcripts. It was a really cool feature.
Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact: Everything around you that you call life was made up by people that were no smarter than you and you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
“Flying is a miracle. . . . But flying is also miserable.” In the first page of his new book, Why Flying Is Miserable and How to Fix It, Vanderbilt law professor Ganesh Sitaraman sums up the often maddening experience of flying today. Travelers experience opaque prices, …
Micro.blog has always had per-blog pricing. Hosting one blog was $5, two blogs was $10, three blogs was $15, and so on. On top of that, Micro.blog Premium added additional features either to a specific blog (like podcast hosting, video, and email newsletters) or across the …
Sometimes it’s hard to talk to each other these days. It’s just never long until we all get to the fear or the loathing or both, like the whole world’s problems tag along to every coffee, every glance at a face to see if it’s familiar. These days abstract doom floats around like …
