mcneely @mcneely@librem.one

The #RespectForMarriageAct is good and I’m glad it passed and will be relieved when it gets signed by POTUS, but let’s not forget that 169 Republicans voted against protecting gay and interracial marriage today. There is more work to be done, more battles to fight.

Just realised that I can use :has() to lock page scrolling under modals and menus without toggling classes with JS. Handy!

People who use the #accessibility stack on Linux, do you use anything other than Orca?

I'm trying to map out unused code paths in at-spi2-core, and so far I'm considering orca/dogtail, but I'm sure I'm missing something.

#Union #BlackMastodon #Strike #Solidarity

Union staffers at the NY Times will be on strike all day tomorrow (Thursday). Please don't cross digital picket line. No clicks!

"The historic work stoppage is set to go in effect at midnight on December 8 and last for an entire 24 hours. Instead of filing stories, employees will be seen picketing outside The Times’ offices at 1pm, with prominent journalists such as Nikole Hannah-Jones set to speak during a solidarity rally."

https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/06/media/new-york-times-union-negotiations-reliable-sources/index.html

I’m seeing some posts decrying Apple’s decision to implement end to end encryption, and to move away from client-side scanning. Yes, CSAM is harmful, and massively problematic. That’s not in dispute. Neither is seeking to protect fundamental rights and to avoid mass surveillance, any indication of tolerance or acceptance of heinous activities. *Please*, turn your energies to seeking solutions which don’t entail mass surveillance, or infringements of fundamental rights.

When I participated in approving the Cryptographic Autonomy License, the only FOSS license that provides users guarantees of data portability, I thought that this conversation might start to shift. That we'd recognize that running distributed systems at the scale of what users have come to expect cannot be performed by individuals, and that we needed to shift the conversation towards how we can protect users' digital autonomy and inherent rights without them needing to become systems administrators.

Yet there has been no forward progress. I just can't associate myself with "software freedom" while it cares more about software, a tool, than the rights of people, the only reason the tool exists.

Humans have lived and thrived in communities since time immemorial. We specialize because it allows us to scale; no one person can master everything that allows us to have a happy, healthy life.

You may be able to self host a few pieces of software meaningful to you, but hosting your entire digital life by yourself? Well, we already recognize that we can't write all the code, or build all the hardware ourselves---that's why open source is important. So then why the fixation on trying to run everything ourselves?

When software was far simpler in decades past, that might have been a feasible goal! But it hasn't been for years.

The USA is not really a democracy, because there has never been a nationwide election where it was as easy to vote for white voters' as Black voters.

Most US school children are not really taught about the Reconstruction and post-reconstruction period of US history. This was after Black folk got the right to vote but before racists did the above math. Black Southerners won elections!

Then they got Jan 6th'ed and ran out by violence. 🤷🏿‍♂️

Y'all can start warming up your "epic takedowns" and "scathing dissents" of the impending decision.

I don't believe in "States rights," because most all of the time, that just means "States' rights to be racist to Black folk."

About 50% of all white US voters reliably vote for the more right wing candidate.🥲 50% vote against. About 90% of Black voters vote against right wing candidates.

Who wins an election depends on how many Black folk vote.