Daily Archives: 2024-06-23

Article note: It's such a perfect microcosm of accessibility (and platform in general) discussions. _Everyone involved_ is using intentionally charged language and being an asshole. Fedora is - alternately - entirely controlled by IBM or just some poor volunteers doing a community project, depending on which is narratively useful. "Patches welcome" is pretty reasonable for hobby projects... but less so after they tossed a scheme that the worked for affected users, and even less so for commercially supported projects right under a banner declaring how they're making accessibility a priority. The old "bad" X11 system is janky but works, but the new "better" Wayland system is so poorly thought out and inflexibility "securitized" it's not clear if it will ever be able to reach feature parity without an extensive redesign that will undercut other promises. And so on.

Article note: Our culture is _packed_ with fake charitable efforts. Every "Round up your purchase for our corporate tax deduction," a tide of purpose made fraud-adjacent spend-millions-to-make-thousands charities, a large proportion of churches (especially if measured by dollars), commercial middlemen who do fundraising-as-a-service and pocket most of it, "medical service foundation" structures, ... Late stage capitalism is a hell of a drug, everything is an extractive hustle. It's hard to envision how we're going to rein this shit in.

Article note: I've been playing with some Minisforum Venus 690 variants (SFF Ryzen boxes) for a side project on campus lately, they are really nice in terms of design and function (but the plastics feel just a hair cheap). Way better cooling/acoustics than I expected. I didn't know they were doing laptops and such, and I'm also interested in a small carryin' around laptop that offers a full Linux environment and also has decent stylus support, so this thing is intriguing.