Rachel Greenham / is on Nostr

she/they; I quit my career as a software developer so I could spend more time coding.

GitHub: https://github.com/StrangeNoises

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2024-07-09 11:46:20

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I'd like to think so; at least the section 28 comparison wrt education really ought to concentrate their minds. Also I wonder if Braverman kicking off today may actually give them cover to do the opposite to demonstrate contrast.
it's sad that we can't trust them to do the right thing from first principles, but i hope that they're sufficiently non-ideological about it that they'll just realise there's no benefit to them from attacking us.

2024-07-09 11:25:26

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and if they do not, it becomes Starmer's Section 28. It will hang around his neck. He'll live to see his successor apologise for it.

2024-06-29 14:51:59

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the patriarchy, and authoritarians in particular, don't understand consent. that's also why they think their "slippery slope" arguments re: eg: sexuality mean anything. They have no guard-rails for consent. everyone, in particular the young and pretty, exist to service the Big Man.

2024-06-21 14:34:00

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i would ask real child protection agencies and organisations to ask, why is it governments keep jumping at half a chance to do *this*, and not all the other things you want them to do to help children in bad places? have a care for what you're being used for.

2024-06-19 08:41:04

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because you know it's satire, and you know there's someone out there who gets the absudity too. it's not just you being mad. :-)

2024-06-16 22:54:12

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ok, maybe I've wrangled the cmd-I, cmd-B to toggle emphasis and strong-emphasis respectively (it being necessary to restart the app for the toggle to work). Let's try living with that for a bit.
It's customary to also use italic text for certain foreign or out-of-context words. Semantically I wonder what that should be called? Emphasis seems wrong.

2024-06-16 22:39:00

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accessibility check faulting every single damn paragraph when all you've been doing is typing, is useless. the only sane reaction is, "sod that then”.

2024-06-16 22:37:24

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I mean, it would mark a whole paragraph and say "there's direct formatting in here" and I'd be thinking "no there bloody isn't; nothing that I've done, and nothing visible” But if I do a manual clear direct formatting, the warning disappears, so there *was* something. But it was nothing *I* did. So wtf? *Any* manual fix for this is unscalable. The default action should be correct.

2024-06-16 22:29:10

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... but it gets worse. Because it turns out, the Accessibility Check was faulting *every single paragraph* for the same thing, even for the majority that had no direct formatting, or even character styles, in them at all that could be revealed by the user interface.
So basically, that's useless. Useless false positives unless it can explain to me what's wrong.

2024-06-16 22:27:25

Accidentally hit (and discovered) the Accessibility Check feature in @npub1tgg…qwzh At first it seemed, every time I used italics, it faulted me for “The text formatting conveys additional meaning." I'd be quite happy to use something more semantic. there is an “Emphasis" character style, for instance. I can even set it to turn on when I do cmd-I. But not turn off again. So that's useless. Unless someone can tell me how cmd-I can toggle it. (and bold/strong-emphasis for that matter)