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#Accessability is vital for for SOME people ALL of the time, and ALL people SOME of the time.
If your app or site is not accessible, it is broken.
Not just for disabled people, but for me If I:
- Have misplaced my glasses and can't read your grey on grey fine text
- Have my hands full child caring and would sure love a screenreader to read your site to me
- Have broken the touchpad on my laptop and have to tab through buttons to use your nasty app
We are all only temporarily NOT disabled.
I'm at #rustweek2026 and Greg Kroah-Hartman from the Linux Foundation is PREACHING🙌 :rust:
Cracks in the bubble,
they're all getting desperate.
Emperor's new clothes.
(I might be a lousy poet, but I write my own damn material)
#ai
New video!
An unusual one today, I came across Relationship Anarchy when researching a topic for @lostterminal@namtao.com last year, and found it gave a framework for many ideas I already had floating around in my mind.
Hack Your Brain with Relationship Anarchy
how, after all these years, does xkcd keep on smashing it?!
We're really entering the endgame of Google's 15 year monopoly plan, huh.
https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users
Delighted to wake up to Vimjoyer's intro video to devenv, which you should watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj9AxyiaVvU
I've been using devenv for a year, combining the best of:
- docker,
- package management,
- per-project toolling,
- task running
all without the overhead of containers.
It's the power of nix without the upfront complexity of nix 👌
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Prediction: Unless regulation requires it, YouTube will remove #AI labels when it suits them just as they removed the downvote count.
Their business requires that we, the viewers, have no ability to decide what videos to watch for ourselves, instead trusting in the algorithm to select for us.
rip downvotes
rip subscriptions
rip tags
rip AI labels
rip downvotes
rip subscriptions
rip tags
rip AI labels:rust: `bacon clippy` basically taught me Rust.
I would not have the job that I do today without the work of the excellent @dystroy@mastodon.dystroy.org, who ALSO built #broot #dysk, #lazy-regex and a bunch of other Rust tools!
The crazy thing? Despite this, he's currently looking for a job or freelance work - imagine having him on your team!
If you're not hiring, you can support him directly, like I've just done, right here:
https://github.com/sponsors/Canop
Who could have predicted this!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/22/anthropic_mythos_hype_nothingburger/
I have never felt more autistic than explaining my ACTUAL Obsidian second brain systems on yesterday's livestream.
Fun, though! 😅
If you'd like to sign up to support my work, the recording of the stream is here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/recording-of-100-154826013
New video!
The biggest unanswered question in nearly every book, article, and video on note-taking I have seen is:
WHAT DO YOU DO AFTER YOU HAVE TAKEN #NOTES?!
Well, to misquote the great Carl Sagan, before you can write an essay from scratch, you must first invent the universe:
Obsidian for Learning Part II: Process
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I note The Slate's hilarious description of OpenAI as a "nonprofit research group!"
As I said in my last video on this topic:
AI is not designed for you:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lxk9NMeWHg
AI Is Not Designed for You
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@larsmb@mastodon.online agreed, and there are many queer folks who have this experience that can speak to that better than I - and I have linked to many of them in the bibliography in the video details 😅
By popular (for some reason!) request, I'll be continuing my "100 Obsidian Plugins" livestream on Sunday 6pm London time, all patrons invited, deets here:
https://www.patreon.com/posts/157503066
@aurochs@todon.eu a fine sentiment, but is *3-Nines* of uptime too much to ask?? 😆
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@devdacerto oh, so it's suddenly illegal to organise and automate every iota of my life to the detriment of friends and family? 🫠
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@rakulamenta@troet.cafe thanks! check my sources, and if the video format doesnt work at the moment, the article is here: https://www.namtao.com/relationship-anarchy/
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@sparklepanic@infosec.exchange swiped from the wikipedia page, i turned it into vector using inkscape!
Grab my png from the article here: https://www.namtao.com/relationship-anarchy/
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@devdacerto quite understood, and don't worry, I was being silly, sorry I should have made it clear! 😀
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@isaaccorbrey.com virt-folder is a really great piece! i struggled to put the pieces together in a visually appealing way before it. now, to polish my project management system for video 3!
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@kii_chan glad it works for you! IMO there is room in the world for thousands of markdown note takers...
provided they work on real markdown files.
BTW if the db updates comes to logseq, I would urge you then to consider if your brain being trapped in a sqlite db that you have to write code to access is a viable long-term plan.
How do you sync that? you use logseq sync or nothing. how do you sync a folder of markdown? let me count the ways! 😅
BTW my latest find is https://lib.rs/crates/ekphos
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@kii_chan wonderful! logseq is great for specific things, but I found that obsidian's more mature plugin ecosystem and more flexible file based model means I can mould it into the shape of my brain!
Is there any movement on logseq's rewrite to be database-first? I was sad to read that a while back, files being the source of truth is so powerful for an ecosystem outside of obsidian!
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@kii_chan@tech.lgbt my pleasure! also if you want a super general solution, check out watchexec
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@don@chaos.social apologies, out of town for the weekend, but it's SUPER easy to make: download the pdf, open it in Inkscape (free open source) and use the "trace bitmap" feature to convert it to vector.
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@cwg1231@defcon.social the real reason they removed dislike is because it allows the user to exercise their judgement - a hostile action to the advertisers 🫠
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@don@chaos.social a cynical person might say they already broke this by killing google reader...
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@patmalo you could try the official obsidian widgets, but also think outside the box: any app that can write to markdown files works with your vault, i have enjoyed both Markor and Zettlr on android, dozens more exit!
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@kinnison@social.flarn.net ah, lovely! thank you very much, folks have also fixed me using native fs commands instead of the standard library tools 😅