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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

For non-health reasons, I have used in the past now and then the magnifier and the text-to-speech assistant in Windows and had noticed they did not always work with all sites and apps and also the apps themselves had a significant negative impact on the OS performance. I haven't tried these things on Mint Linux yet, but I would've thought hard to believe Linux is somehow even worse than Windows when it comes to accessibility. Also, that makes me feel like even this limited accessibility only exists for the sake of legal compliance... Ableism is a huge problem and, yeah, able people should be more woke about it.

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Europe is running the risk of falling even further behind global digital market leaders like the United States and China. The EuroStack initiative aims to counter this trend by developing Europe's own comprehensive digital infrastructure. This industrial policy framework integrates technology, financing, economic development, political governance, sustainability and public interest considerations. An analysis by the Bertelsmann Stiftung, led by innovation economist Francesca Bria and an international team of experts, estimates that this transformation will take roughly a decade and require investments of around €300 billion.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Check out rule #4. The server is based in Germany.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Android and Linux

Some of the issues with accessibility in Linux seem to come down to FOSS developers not willing to take an extra mile complying with accessibility standards, others have to do with how the big corporations have much more resources for it. Sadly, that seems to be the situation - I am surprised myself to learn there's much to be improved in this department.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

I don't have much programming knowledge, however at this point I'm grateful if I can at least download my FB data - I haven't tried it yet and, honestly, I'm afraid they might ask for my gov ID. I never wanted to do that, as they tried to when my account, where my main name was my pen name, got busted for "fake name". Funnily, they didn't ask for ID anymore when I inputted my legal name! I hate them for doing that - but now I also hate Bluesky for suspending my freshly started alt account and asking for ID via email - which is just bonkers and discourages me from sticking long term to Bluesky. Which sucks cause right now there's a lot more activity on Bluesky than on even Mastodon, as far as I can tell.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The last poster says: "I found a roundabout way to go at it by transfering the posts to wordpress, I'll figure it out from there :)" I would have liked more info on that, though I'm afraid there would still be a catch - I don't use Wordpress anymore and never was a power user, so I'm not sure it would be possible on a free tier to stash an entire Facebook archive on a Wordpress page - and then what about importing it into the fediverse? There should be a guide for this somewhere.

 

Ok, this might be a dumb question, but is it really technically possible in any way - even a convoluted one, like manually downloading HTML pages from Facebook? - to mass import posts from one's Facebook into Mastodon or Friendica instead of painstakingly copying them one by one? I've got a 10+ year archive to port and it's a daunting task to go through them...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

Or you could just use a Mastodon instance with a higher limit of characters, unless you really need intricate formatting and/or more than one picture.