beeps was here @batbeeps@awoo.space

I've been working from home effectively full time for nearly two years now. Wowsers it does not feel like that long.

Algorithms kinda ruined everything. Twitter would be miles better without an algorithm. YouTube would be miles better without an algorithm. Facebook probably wouldn't have destroyed democracy if it didn't have an algorithm.

Let's just abolish maths.

I've somehow never cut myself on a knife or scissors when washing dishes.

But I've managed to stab myself in the hand with a plate and slice a finger open on tongs *twice*.

@ripp_ Real bat question, that one

Thinking about being one of those people who insists that "batbeeps" is always written entirely lowercase even when it doesn't make grammatical sense.

It's a proper noun and it's my word so nyeh.

@TobySocks @PsyChuan Camp Howl, unfortunately, do not ship to the UK at the moment, due to Brexit bureaucracy.

Source: Really wanted to buy a thing from there recently.

Dull celebrities who won't be seen wearing the same pair of socks in public more than once: T___T

Me wearing exactly the same clothes every day like some sort of cartoon character: :)

I wanna build something that uses Container Queries! And Hygen! And Logical Properties! And variable fonts!

Today's Wordle was hard af

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@srol @PsyChuan I think a lotta folks who learned English as a second language tend to like, actually understand or notice things about it that native speakers don't.

My mother learned it as a second language and she whips the rest of us at Scrabble every single time.

Come next year, there will be legal adults who had not been born yet when I first became involved in the furry fandom.

Spooky.

I might give streaming another crack. I did a couple like, a year ago, but internet and tech foibles messed me around enough that stopped trying.

Also talking to an empty room is kinda hard, yo.

@ripp_ Nice job, past Ripp_

Yeah, Don't Look Up is a pretty heavy-handed allegory for climate change and climate change denial.

The sad part is that I don't think a lot of people would notice that if it wasn't heavy-handed. 🙃️

Everyone always goes right to God is a DJ or Insomnia when it comes to best Faithless tracks but I really prefer Mass Destruction or Bring My Family Back myself. #JustFaithlessThoughts

On that note, if any y'all fuzzies been involved in any interesting projects, or can scan/photograph old con books or whatever, that can all be useful information to put on WikiFur :>

Over the festive period I've found myself trawling through http://Archive.org snapshots and social media feeds trying to drag up as much info about old/obsolete/forgotten furry fandom topics as possible so I can document them somewhere.

WikiFur could use some good quality contributions and TLC as of late; and archival of history is pretty important, especially niche fandom history that probably won't get recorded anywhere else.

@EmilyIsRad Ahoy, randomer who saw this get boosted and happens to do this kinda thing for a living—at least with regard to websites.

JAWS is the most commonly used screen reader by some margin, but it’s unfortunately not free. NVDA (which is free!) is second, with macOS/iOS VoiceOver and Windows Narrator on roughly level pegging behind.

I wouldn’t worry too much about which one you test with, personally, as the main differences between them are in how they’re used and the specifics of how they parse particular things: VoiceOver might not explicitly state that some text is in bold where the others will, for example. You might see more deviation between them depending on the complexity of the document, as there are a few HTML/ARIA features and attributes with inconsistent support.

And to answer the actual question, I test with VoiceOver on Mac and NVDA on Windows.