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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 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·1 comments

Mastodon, the Only Good Choice

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

Xbox layoffs hit accessibility leadership

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

Poison Book Project

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

Zombie 'who owns Unix?' lawsuit comes alive again

theregister.com
7 points·by robin_reala·4 วันที่ผ่านมา·3 comments

Euclid scientists discover most distant known quasars

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

Very Average Prototypes

goodnameforablog.com
2 points·by robin_reala·7 วันที่ผ่านมา·3 comments

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

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

Developers React to AI-Scented Blog Posts

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

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

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

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

rubinobservatory.org
4 points·by robin_reala·10 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

Il-Verse, a spatial writing tool

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

These are real, actual slides from a SoftBank presentation

discuss.systems
19 points·by robin_reala·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·2 comments

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

esa.int
13 points·by robin_reala·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

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

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

Curl 8.21.0

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

Designing services for people who've lost trust online

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

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

noyb.eu
50 points·by robin_reala·18 วันที่ผ่านมา·19 comments

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

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

The Web Is for People

torgo.com
5 points·by robin_reala·20 วันที่ผ่านมา·0 comments

comments

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

Why shouldn’t the Meta precedent also apply to them afterwards?
robin_reala
·20 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·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 ชั่วโมงที่ผ่านมา·discuss
On [0], you don’t have to use Google. There are plenty of other better options these days.
robin_reala
·เมื่อวาน·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
·เมื่อวานซืน·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
·เมื่อวานซืน·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
·เมื่อวานซืน·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
There are plenty of good sources for this information without linking to AI slop.
robin_reala
·12 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
Given the outsourcing of thinking, I’d argue that the author has got their book analogy the wrong way around.
robin_reala
·16 วันที่ผ่านมา·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 วันที่ผ่านมา·discuss
99% of bike fatalities involve car crashes.

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