@timbray 👏

In which I argue that arguments about whether #genAI is useful or not are the wrong arguments. The important issues are what it’s for and what it costs.

Having very unkind feelings about the people pushing it.

https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/07/06/AI-Manifesto

@rysiek I can confirm that's how Orca works, but of course a screen reader for Linux isn't exactly the industry standard. They should all be relying on the browser itself to decide what gets focus, but, as you probably already know, computers

@rysiek Elements hidden by CSS display: none should be treated the same as elements with the aria-hidden attribute set by screen readers, ie. they should be ignored, according to MDN. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Reference/Attributes/aria-hidden

Tim O’Reilly: “AI has adopted colonialism as its business model”.
Strong words! But he explains: “Extract resources from others and use it to enrich yourself and your customers at the expense of those whose resources you have taken, without giving much back.”
Guilty as charged I would say.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timo3_proud-of-the-cloudflare-team-working-to-build-activity-7345899260506271745-mlHS

Here’s JD Vance-influencer Curtis Yarvin advocating a return to slavery. So that’s how things are going on this July 4th.

Seems like a good day to repost this.

@ceejbot Well, you wrote all that without once saying "catastrophic climate change" or "fascism" or even "predatory data collection," so you might be approaching this problem from a different direction than some of us.

@dysfun Heh, well, new maintainers welcome…

@kcarruthers @otte_homan Copilot was just a turn of phrase in this case. M$ data centres provide hosting for any number of spicy autocompletes, most notably ChatGPT.

Keir Starmer says good relationship with Donald Trump based on shared family values

This is Mariner. He was born completely deaf, which means he gets to enjoy fireworks with all the sparkle and none of the boom. 13/10 (follow @real_marinertheseapuppy)

Newly formed pro Palestine direct action group names itself “Yvette Cooper” 👨‍🍳😘

Brey, I absolutely assure you that they cannot shoot like 180M people.

So you gonna have to decide, very soon, whether or not you're on the "Good German who doesn't talk about life between 1928 and 1945" rap or you know, gonna do something

Cause clearly the cavalry ain't coming.

Dunno what to tell you. Like it's even frustrating to talk about it. Nothing is going to stop them from establishing the 4th Reich and just killing millions of you, but you.

Choosing not to decide, is still deciding.

*shrugs*

Still think an uprising is too scary or you just gonna let these nazis kill you one by one?

Anyway, solidarity to all my American friends, or enjoy lying in the bed you made, depending on how you voted in 2024.

*Is this a Bluesky meme? This seems more like a Mastodon meme

*Won't get much traction on Xtwitter