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Robin Whittleton, accessibility lead at IKEA in Malmö, Sweden. Opinions my own, or at least not IKEA’s. Mastodon: @[email protected] Github: @robinwhittleton Everywhere that isn’t HN (because here usernames are apparently immutable?): @robinwhittleton Web: https://www.robinwhittleton.com/

In my spare time I produce PD/libre books for Standard Ebooks: https://standardebooks.org/. My productions listed at https://www.robinwhittleton.com/books/

Submissions

Your ’App’ Could Have Been a Webpage (so I fixed it for you)

danq.me
3 points·by robin_reala·21 uur geleden·1 comments

Mastodon, the Only Good Choice

tbray.org
8 points·by robin_reala·eergisteren·0 comments

Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership

pcgamer.com
2 points·by robin_reala·eergisteren·0 comments

Poison Book Project

sites.udel.edu
1 points·by robin_reala·3 dagen geleden·0 comments

Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again

theregister.com
7 points·by robin_reala·4 dagen geleden·3 comments

Euclid scientists discover most distant known quasars

euclid-ec.org
2 points·by robin_reala·5 dagen geleden·0 comments

Very Average Prototypes

goodnameforablog.com
2 points·by robin_reala·7 dagen geleden·3 comments

Ensuring fairness and safety: €3 customs duty for low-value parcels

commission.europa.eu
2 points·by robin_reala·9 dagen geleden·0 comments

Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts

writethatblog.substack.com
2 points·by robin_reala·9 dagen geleden·0 comments

Stop handwaving away nearly every petition that gains traction on this website

petition.parliament.uk
25 points·by robin_reala·10 dagen geleden·5 comments

Vera C. Rubin Observatory Begins Capturing the Greatest Cosmic Movie Ever Made

rubinobservatory.org
4 points·by robin_reala·10 dagen geleden·0 comments

Il-Verse, a spatial writing tool

tekstien-marginaalien-keskus.aalto.fi
2 points·by robin_reala·13 dagen geleden·0 comments

These are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation

discuss.systems
19 points·by robin_reala·16 dagen geleden·2 comments

ESA's Euclid captures the Milky Way's crowded heart

esa.int
13 points·by robin_reala·16 dagen geleden·0 comments

Big Tech's $2.7T AI bill comes due: Chart of the Day

finance.yahoo.com
3 points·by robin_reala·17 dagen geleden·1 comments

Curl 8.21.0

daniel.haxx.se
12 points·by robin_reala·17 dagen geleden·0 comments

Designing services for people who've lost trust online

designnotes.blog.gov.uk
3 points·by robin_reala·18 dagen geleden·0 comments

EU Member States (and Google) suddenly want to keep cookie banners

noyb.eu
50 points·by robin_reala·18 dagen geleden·19 comments

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy – The Game – 30th Anniversary Edition

bbc.co.uk
12 points·by robin_reala·19 dagen geleden·1 comments

The Web Is for People

torgo.com
5 points·by robin_reala·20 dagen geleden·0 comments

comments

robin_reala
·20 uur geleden·discuss
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism

Why shouldn’t the Meta precedent also apply to them afterwards?
robin_reala
·20 uur geleden·discuss
Meta’s negative qualities have been obvious for a decade or more at this point. If you’ve joined them as an employee or invested in them then you knew what you were getting into.
robin_reala
·20 uur geleden·discuss
On [0], you don’t have to use Google. There are plenty of other better options these days.
robin_reala
·gisteren·discuss
A friend was woken up by his young kid trying to surreptitiously lever his finger onto the TouchID sensor to pay for a game dlc.
robin_reala
·eergisteren·discuss
They’re considerably bigger than even the normal non-Mini iPhone. They’re only just smaller than the iPhone 17 Pro Max: https://phonesized.com/compare/#1863,2767,2760,2738,2736
robin_reala
·eergisteren·discuss
I don’t think you realise how massive the two phones just suggested are: https://phonesized.com/compare/#1863,2767,2760

(For reference, I would really like something a little bit smaller than the Mini, but there’s nothing remotely modern that exists.)
robin_reala
·eergisteren·discuss
There’s at least 3 of us still on iPhone 13 Minis, and I plan to keep it going until Apple caves and makes a sensibly sized phone again.
robin_reala
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
This only seems to be standard overground trains. If you add in metro networks like the London tube, or light rail / trams like in Manchester, then you’d get at least hundreds more.
robin_reala
·5 dagen geleden·discuss
There’s something about resurrecting underloved media, isn’t there? I recently did a Catherine Louisa Pirkis collection[1] for Standard Ebooks; most of her stories had scans on archive.org / Hathi that I could use, but “Trooping with Crows”[2] was only available from the British Library as a physical copy. We paid for it to be scanned and I’ve uploaded those to archive.org now.[3] I’d be surprised if anyone had read it in the last decade, if not longer, yet it’s a perfectly good Victorian genre romance with a strong lead.

[1] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/catherine-louisa-pirkis/sh...

[2] https://standardebooks.org/ebooks/catherine-louisa-pirkis/sh...

[3] https://archive.org/details/12641-cc-26-001
robin_reala
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
“Unions trample human rights” is such an absurdist statement that I don’t even know how to respond. The vast majority of the countries at the top of any human rights index have strong union cultures, and the vast number of those at the bottom have no unions at all.
robin_reala
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
I’m a Unionen[1] member, so at least in Sweden this isn’t a requirement.

[1] https://www.unionen.se/in-english/this-is-unionen
robin_reala
·7 dagen geleden·discuss
Reminder (which the article mentions only once in the context of worker productivity and pay growth): https://ethanmarcotte.com/books/you-deserve-a-tech-union/
robin_reala
·9 dagen geleden·discuss
Blog, from web log, from log (written), from log (wood), from Middle English logge. No French involved, which is where the `ou` phoneme is from.
robin_reala
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
There are plenty of good sources for this information without linking to AI slop.
robin_reala
·12 dagen geleden·discuss
I had that SF to Heathrow once, though I recollect four seats? Only time I’ve ever had a lie-flat bed on an aircraft.
robin_reala
·15 dagen geleden·discuss
Given the outsourcing of thinking, I’d argue that the author has got their book analogy the wrong way around.
robin_reala
·16 dagen geleden·discuss
I broadly don’t use LLMs (once or twice a month), yet I’m still being hit by hardware price increases.
robin_reala
·18 dagen geleden·discuss
99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes.

US or globally? Got any stats to link to on that?
robin_reala
·20 dagen geleden·discuss
…in the US (and some other countries): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father%27s_Day
robin_reala
·20 dagen geleden·discuss
It’s a problem because regardless of whether it needs to be or not, it is.