robin_reala's comments

On: 5,300-year-old 'bow drill' rewrites story of ancient Egyptian tools

[robin_reala]

people living on islands should be sufficient evidence of boats

Historical sea levels were wildly different at different times, so not necessarily. For instance, the British isles were settled at a point when it was a part of the mainland: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Doggerland.png

[MarkusQ → robin_reala]

Certainly. Land bridges are also a thing. As is swimming, in some cases.

On: An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened

[robin_reala]

There’s also a free text field for you to say why you’re cancelling.

On: More Mac malware from Google search

[robin_reala]

Apple are just number two, half a trillion behind nVidia. Hopefully that’ll soon change when the bubble pops.

On: A11yJSON: A standard to describe the accessibility of the physical world

[robin_reala]

I originally found this after being surprised at the lack of this sort of information in Schema.org microdata. Seems like a curious admission.

[hypito → robin_reala]

So much this!!

I co-created this, the same thought has been on my backlog for a while. We've experimented with Linked Data/Schema.org compatibility – if this is related to your work, I'd love to move this issue forward. If this is your aim, let's talk (sebastian@sozialhelden.de) :)

[westurner → hypito]

Schema.org > #254 "Accessibility of places" https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254

Re: US ADA Symbols: https://github.com/schemaorg/schemaorg/issues/254#issuecomme... :

Accessible tourism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accessible_tourism

ADA signs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADA_Signs

International Symbol of Access (wheelchair sign) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Symbol_of_Access

...

"Find wheelchair accessible places with Google Maps" (2020) https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/whe...

On: TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe

[robin_reala]

The fines are typically accompanied with a requirment to change the illegal behaviour.

On: TikTok's 'addictive design' found to be illegal in Europe

[robin_reala]

This is the owl image I got when I finally made it to the “delete my account” page: https://drive-thru.duolingo.com/static/owls/sad.svg

On: Mermaid ASCII: Render Mermaid diagrams in your terminal

[robin_reala]

Note that by doing ASCII you’re sacrificing possible accessibility; WCAG 1.0 specifically called ASCII images out as a problem in 1999.

(Mermaid isn’t accessible by default either, but there’s current work in that direction: https://github.com/mermaid-js/mermaid/pull/7349)

[ozim → robin_reala]

Just imagined what a garbage would screen reader spit out.

On: U.S. government has lost more than 10k STEM PhDs since Trump took office

[robin_reala]

Ask the indigenous Americans.

[spankalee → robin_reala]

I think if you're going to argue that we shouldn't have contemporary immigration because of the harm to native Americans, then you should show what harm is caused _now_, that native Americans actually oppose immigration, and probably that you support other ways of helping them like giving them land back.

[throwaway173738 → robin_reala]

If you go back far enough everyone comes from a line of invaders, so I fail to see how this contributes to anything.

[gavin-1 → robin_reala]

Not a fair comparison.

Immigrants are not killing Americans en masse nor taking the land by force.

On: The Enchiridion by Epictetus

[robin_reala]

…also available as Kindle, ePub and Kobo-flavoured ePub as part of a longer compilation at https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/epictetus/short-works/geor...

On: Fedora Asahi Remix is now working on Apple M3

[robin_reala]

I use an M1 Macbook Pro for work and an M2 Macbook Air for home, and I basically don’t see any major difference.