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  • Definitely second switching to heliboard- open board is abandoned unless it got picked up by someone, heliboard is a fork thats actively maintained and has made a bunch of improvements

    Its a strict upgrade, I think you’ll be happy with it :)

    If you dont have a gallery app I really like both aves libre and lavender photos. Lavender is newer but the Dev has been super nice every time I’ve made a bug report or something. Aves is super feature complete and works really well. Both have a great user interface and user experience



  • Duckduckgo having crap results doesnt really change my point that I included several options compatible with America being a “stay strapped or get clapped place”, or substantiate the point that my only suggestion was a soup kitchen (which to be clear, is absolutely valuable praxis that improves our abilities to work together on bigger issues). I dont think it even really matters if its a huge important organization, I just want people to have options put in front of them so people start to consider what they can be doing, and theres all kinds of things people can do to contribute. And if you feel thats important, Ice watch orgs (siembra where I live, who’s also a workers rights org) are pretty big, the stop detention centers NC signal is pretty big, and thats just the scale of what’s local to me. The stop cop city project in atlanta has been pretty massive, but I’m not sure how things are doing after their more recent legal troubles, I’m not in Atlanta.

    My frustration with them comes from the fact that they were ignorant about what I said and still responded with some bullshit in various places in this thread. There are people in my community whos families dont know where they ended up. People I love are afraid for their saftey.

    And its the 2nd result on both google and brave search, kagi put it like 7th or eighth. Duckduckgo and the bing results it pulls from are just frequently not great. Google pulled it up even when signed out or in cromite so its not just search personalization





  • My guy, people have been out in the streets ripping people out of the hands of ice

    I get its fun to be cynical in the current moment but americans have absolutely been doing shit. I know, because there are folks in my community organizing, and they’re doing so in the image of other community organizing efforts across the country

    If you’re reading this go find a way to get involved IRL. Meet your neighbors. Join food not bombs or a soup kitchen. Get involved in ice watch. Find your local DSA or PSL chapter and see if they’re people there and projects that you feel like you can build with. See if you have a local SRA chapter. See if your area has any tool libraries or community gardens you can participate in. Lots of states have a stop cop city, or stop detention centers project, go see if your area has one you can get involved with. People only do shit if people like YOU decide its worth doing







  • Yep, which is why I acknowledge that thats not my ingroup and while I think we should be considerate of potential issues with ai as a accessibility solution, its important to listen to people who actually depend on things like alt text. I’ve heard from people who are frustrated that ai gets treated as a standin for other humans caring about accessibility and find it unable to fill their needs, and I’m sure there are also people who find it really helpful. I couldn’t claim to know what perspective is more common among folks with visual disabilities 🤷🏻‍♂️

    But I do think its worth considering and not just saying “ai solves this problem, let’s just give visually impaired people ai descriptions” without trying to discuss what that means for people and listen to folks on whether thats what’s needed or wanted


  • While I understand the potential value of that, it is worth also acknowledging that ai will never understand the human, social, contextual meaning of things its providing alt text for, and theres a fair argument to be made that folks with disabilities deserve those things

    Id welcome perspectives from folks with relevant disabilities who use or depend on alt text :)