Henrik Hemrin @hehemrin@librem.one

Hear from Todd Weaver (@todd), Purism’s CEO and Founder, featured in CNBC. In 2014 started Purism, a Social Purpose Company with a clear vision to respect freedom, security and privacy. Read how Purism is advancing Made in USA electronics➡️

https://puri.sm/posts/how-purism-is-advancing-made-in-usa-electronics/?mtm_campaign=organic&mtm_source=promo&mtm_medium=librem-social&mtm_content=ls-purism-is-advancing-made-in-usa

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See our good friend and frequent guest, @kyle, discuss supply chain security in this CNBC piece on manufacturing consumer electronics in the USA. We're excited to see @purism in the news!

https://youtu.be/YdbA7Z8Ae4w

#security #supplyChain #infosec #manufacturing #electronics #hardware #phones #teamKyle

An article on how to write an effective #AltText #ImageDescription for #accessibility...

MAIN POINTS:

• describe the image only, not the photographer credits or keywords
• write a description appropriate to the context (ex., a post about photography vs. a celebrity)
• make it as concise as possible, except if you are transcribing text in an image
• no need to start with "An image of..." as the screen reader says that by default
• end with a period to provide a pause

https://axesslab.com/alt-texts

@hehemrin

DFRI-replik om e-legitimation på DN Debatt idag:

”Diskussionen om e-legitimation saknar frihetsperspektivet”

https://www.dn.se/debatt/diskussionen-om-e-legitimation-saknar-frihetsperspektivet/

@dfri

Over the past few weeks we have seen a massive shift away from a centralized, proprietary social media platform (Twitter) onto a decentralized, federated, open one (Mastodon) that along with a few other indicators points to the pendulum starting to swing back toward an interest in open protocols, networks, and technologies beyond social media.

Read this latest post by @kyle, President, Purism.

https://puri.sm/posts/swinging-back-to-open-standards/?mtm_campaign=organic&mtm_source=thought_piece&mtm_medium=librem-social&mtm_content=ls-swinging_back_to_open_standards

FYI, starting to see what my gut tells me are "pig butchering" pitches in my DMs here. (Generic complements and requests for "friendship", etc, from attractive strangers)

Be careful.

For the non-virologists: My lab wants to understand how a virus rearranges the innards of a cell to turn it into a virus factory. The simple RNA viruses we study, such as the common cold virus and other respiratory viruses, do this quickly (3-4h) and ruthlessly. If one virus gets in, hundreds will emerge, and the cell is dead within several hours. #virology #LoveVirology #AFM

As a blind individual, I have to say that #Caturday on #Mastodon is far far more enjoyable then at #Twitter, where the vast majority of cat photos are not described.

It is also been fascinating for me to hear descriptions written by those who sent the image, immediately followed by Apple image recognition’s attempts to describe the same image. Only rarely does that add anything to the ALT, & often directly contradicts it.

There is no auto magical solution to image description. It is something best done by a human, for only that human can explain the “why” of the image: the reason that image was chosen to speak so eloquently without words for those who can see it. ALT allows you to provide those words.