To be fair, the FBI might not be very useful nowadays

(Edit: but still report it)

Groceries over cable? Man, Ethernet has really come a long way

10 seconds

If it’s a video, ESPECIALLY if it’s a YouTube link, I automatically close out

I’m fluent in Spanish and English, currently learning French. I like to describe it as Spanish with all the parts of English that make no sense. But knowing Spanish does make it a lot easier.

French will help you in Europe and Canada

Oh, I can definitely talk about this! I’m a FE engineer (10yr industry) with expertise in accessibility (aka a11y), and have directly made contributions to that space

The good news is that the modern web has very rich support for a11y. ARIA is the technology for assistive web, which is very well supported by all major browsers and can support both static and dynamic content. WCAG provides a foundational set of guidelines for accessible web, but the major players (such as Google) often have their own accessibility guidelines with stricter requirements than what WCAG provides. Visual accessibility modes such as high contrast, dark mode, and zoom are also very well supported by the major OS’s, and are nowadays configurable for your needs. The best screen reader in my opinion is VoiceOver. The worst is JAWS.

Imo most problems arise at the user and implementation levels. Smaller companies and inexperienced devs may not care about making their websites accessible, which can actually create broken DOM trees that screen readers struggle to parse. Similarly, very few users provide alt text for images (which is what screen readers see). The blame here is on the people rather than the technology.

One upcoming technology I’m actually excited for is AI assisted screen readers, which can look at a website and fill in the blanks where ARIA struggles, like parsing images and graphs. It can also parse websites that lack accessibility information. I’ve seen demos where you can even ask it questions about the content, like asking for an explanation of the trend in a graph.

Happy to answer any questions.

Flow arts

Aubrey Plaza

Still is

Probably Star Wars Battlefront, THPS/THUG, or Ocarina of Time

But Oracle of Seasons was the first game I owned

It’s a really good movie

Everyone else on my team but me

/woomi

The only people saying that are pedants who maybe passed a python crash course. In industry no one gives a shit.

Edit: except that engineer is a protected term in some countries

There’s more to sideshow than sword swallowing, there’s more to fire performance than fire breathing

almost

Hmm

It wasn’t overseas but moving my stuff was expensive, yes. Even with my company paying a portion of it. It’s just me and my partner in a 2br apartment so it’s honestly not a ton of stuff either.

Fwiw, I’ve been getting called an alarmist for talking about Trump’s and Republican’s fascist tendencies since at least 2016, if not earlier. I’m now comfortably living in another country.

My point being that people will call you an alarmist for suggesting anything that requires them to go out of their comfort zone. It doesn’t necessarily mean you’re wrong, it just shows how stupid people are.

Æonflux

Ren & Stimpy (especially the adult stuff)

Metalocalypse

I’m perfectly ok with AI, I think it should be used for the advancement of humanity. However, 90% of popular AI is unethical BS that serves the 1%. But to detect spoiled food or cancer cells? Yes please!

It needs extensive regulation, but doing so requires tech literate politicians who actually care about their constituents. I’d say that’ll happen when pigs fly, but police choppers exist so idk

Basic sewing

Also empathy

Honestly nail polish too. Cis men are usually too afraid to wear any, so when they do it’s often a good sign. Bonus points if it isn’t black

As a woman, constantly