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Tristan

@tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy

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Avid reader, music enthusiast, chronic autodidact, liberal, 3d printing & DIY, software engineer, accessibility coach, coffee addict, rarely a creative writer […] [bridged from hachyderm.io/@tristan on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy ]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 18/10/2026

60 degree mornings are far and few between here and I am unquestionably here for it. Meanwhile, next week, a low of 40 and a high of 85. Back to normal, I see.

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Linux doesn't care about blind people,: the never-ending saga

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/10/2026

@jedsetter Get an Audible sub *and* use: getlibation.com to immediately convert your purchased books to non-DRM audio files. If you're feeling spiteful and anti-Amazon (and don't plan to continue needing books), return the audiobook and go along with your day. ...or use […]

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Flipboard News Desk @newsdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

The U.S. federal government is backing away from a decades-old disability rights promise, @19thnews reports. "Lois Curtis and Elaine Wilson won a victory that gave people with disabilities the freedom to choose where they live. That legacy is now under threat." flip.it/t2w2mO […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

The future of independence is interdependence - onlys.ky/independence-is-interdepen…

The future of independence is interdependence

Every one of us depends on others; the only difference is how visible that dependence is.

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Overjoyed to announce that my AT-SPI bridge for Asahi Linux was just merged with muvm, bringing out of the box accessibility to applications like Steam and various other games that use 4K page sizes on apple hardware! This was my second Rust project and was written completely without an LLM, and […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Overjoyed to announce that my AT-SPI bridge for Asahi Linux was just merged with muvm, bringing out of the box accessibility to applications like Steam and various other games that use 4K page sizes on apple hardware! This was my second Rust project and was written completely without an LLM, and […]

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Eric Eggert @yatil.social · 25/09/2026

For years and years and years we are explaining to everyone that all experiences need to be accessible and then WAI drops this bomb: > For example, an accessibility barrier in a form to pay my community chorus dues is not nearly as important as a form to apply for medical treatments […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

In other news I am going to the Texas Tribune Festival later today to see the Pod Save America folks, Maggie Haberman, a bunch of panels on AI regulation, future technology, APple history, THC, and space. TIckets even include free trivia. Who could say no?

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Evil company does evil things. Mass outrage. Evil company does good things for blind people. Mass outrage and it's clearly just a PR stunt. Look I hate meta as much as the next guy but *come on*. I gotta start unfollowing some people or just take another year-long break because good lord some of […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

I have around 10 domains with Cloudflare. The last week claims around 2.5+ million visits through analytics, which is absurd. I don’t know how marketing folks are pivoting in this time of LLM scrapers, especially when they’ve mastered the art of showing up as regular browsers. Even Javascript […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

I had to get back into IRC because I’ve been doing Linuxy things and IRC is basically a requirement, so consequently I vibe-coded a bunch of features into Adispeak by @fastfinge since a lot of my desktop computing still happens on Windows. Sub-buffers for events/chats/mentions/other things per […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

It's interesting to think about where we all draw our own personal line on AI and surveillance. For example, I personally use OpenAI and Anthropic products, but the idea of using Grok and Muse makes me inwardly wince a little. Maybe because the harms propagated by those companies are much more […]

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Matt Campbell @matt.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Hot take: Complaining about some tasteless or even harmful thing that someone did with generative AI, then proclaiming "No AI!", doesn't make any more sense then complaining about spam, or any of the other bad things that the Internet enables, and then proclaiming, "No Internet!". We should […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@matt @prism The harms exist, but then these same people go on to say “LLMs are simple markov chains” or “The AI hype is unfounded, all they produce is slop” or “But the gallons of water you waste on every prompt!” (what about the gallons of water that go into all of the unnecessary food and […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@prism This is fair and the conclusion to my post was, dare I say, not holding that the situation is nuanced. I hope people migrating away can sincerely boost these platforms with their existing knowledge! I’m just tired of hearing about it in this binary fashion where something is either good […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@matt People like Richard Stallman spring to mind. Without his persistence, we probably wouldn’t have things like an open C compiler and the myriad of other GNU tools. I think the thing I take issue with is the internet warriors that feel the need to turn everything into a social justice fight […]

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Matt Campbell @matt.toot.cafe.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

@tristan On the other hand, "all progress depends on the unreasonable man" (or person). So let these people push as hard as they can in the direction that they consider progress. If they're actually running NetBSD or Redox or whatever and not just talking, I respect them for caring enough to do […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

The people that are replacing Linux servers with BSD or whatever because Linus allows LLM contributions are… welll… I can’t even comprehend it. These are the same people that are happily posting on Mastodon instances which are hosted by huge datacenters controlled by unethical companies like […]

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Not trying to be mean or judgemental with this (for once) but sooo many posts are like, I wish I could do X, but am afraid of the backlash from Y. That is so not how to live. You gotta make you happy first. The rest comes later.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Friends, I promise it's okay to not be an extremist about everything and have some perspective. At this point, the anti-AI folks are about equally annoying as the AI-pilled people that seem to have entered a state of AI psychosis. Not everything has to be open source and sometimes it's better […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

It's lawsuit-worthy that Apple thinks it's okay to consume anywhere from 20 to 30 GB of storage for Apple Intelligence while offering no way to turn it off. The old method of deleting Apple Intelligence from recovery with SIP disabled no longer seems to work in #macOS 27, and I now have 25 GB of […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

And yes I already did a diagnostic and booted back into macOS, don’t blame Linux for this one.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

Welp. OG MacBook Air M1 screen is all kinds of screwed up. Horizontal purple lines with half the screen blacked out and a small patch of visible window in the top left corner. Good thing I just installed Linux on it! Hello new random server...desktop linux test bed…or something. Certainly not […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026

@WeirdWriter Sadly, this is Mastodon in a nutshell. Replace Linux with AI and it’s literally the same narrative today. AI bad at all costs, make people feel bad for using AI. I have seen countless blind people that use AI to get image descriptions trolled and insulted. It’s pretty toxic, and […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Unpopular opinion, I’m sure. I don’t care. Did not enjoy the latest Ted Lasso episode as much. This season started off simply spectacular, and I’ve especially been enjoying watching Ted try to find himself and the intra-team dynamics, but the rest of the show is quickly turning into some kind of […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

@prism If you’re using Opus it’s definitely a crackhead model and needs to be babysat constantly. I’ve been losing faith in Claude compared to Astra lately, with the exception of UI work.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

There’s a blind person posting in the r/ClaudeAI subreddit with some inspirational post about selling a product and solving an access problem. And of course, comments range from “Inspirational!” to “How do you manage/offload bandwidth when dealing with high complexity subjects, juggling […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

"I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT. Also, that it was IN RETROSPECT A GREAT IDEA TO PUT EVERYTHING ON COMPUTERS." […]

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 16/09/2026

Ed Sheeran could have easily looked like a hero in this story and built his following and earned worldwide respect by showing just a bit of solidarity. He didn't have to say "Free Palestine" to stand with the artist he calls a friend. Bob Kraft ends up the bad guy, Sheeran stands for free speech

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

RE: mas.to/@avidrissman/117276111993588… I actually can’t remember the last time I used an SSH password…

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Certainly feeling called out by my ~400 haphazard packages though. I need to finish my conversion to nix-darwin someday.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Homebrew now has an official GUI that dropped along with Homebrew 7 and, shockingly… it’s pretty good. brew install --cask homebrew-app

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

The HackerNews thread for the iOS 27 release is comprised of multitudes complaining about bugs that have lasted forever, while simultaneously praising the performance and usefulness of Siri. “It’s good, but [lists half a dozen bugs that have lasted for 4 years]” seems to be the general sentiment […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

I refuse to defend Apple; many of these, especially button labels, are inexcusable. But some perspective and context is important. We rarely actually look deeply at the historical data to inform, just vibes.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026

Data always tells a story. Purely on the numbers, the last iOS release with this many serious accessibility bugs (as reported by AppleVis' stellar digests every year) was iOS 8, with 8 serious accessibility bugs. In case your curious, I did the math on the total bugs per year, aggregating […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

I haven't been logged into IRC in years, basically since a bit before the LiberaChat/Freenode split. Looks like Freenode failed so hard they're now some kind of news publication for AI, crypto, and open source with IRC on the side.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Desktop Linux Shenanigans, day 2: Figuring out why logging in with the display manager seemingly causes PipeWire to lose my MacBook speakers and abruptly decides to yell “Screen reader off” at maximum volume in the living room in full glorious surround sound. My solution was to remove […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 12/09/2026

Fuck it, make it anyway - www.joelotter.com/posts/2026/09/mak…

Fuck it, make it anyway

Carrying on in the face of creative devaluation.

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Hrefna (DHC) @hrefna.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

"We’ve lost about 5mil gallons of water for people to make those shitty 80s AI posts. This is bullshit." Let's grant the number for the sake of argument. So about equivalent to ten acres of corn or soy. Not including harvesting or processing. There are nearly 97 million acres of corn in the […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

Today’s side project was getting Asahi, Fedora Remix on the M1 Air. This has been the first time I’ve used desktop linux since… Ubuntu was sending out free CDs. (I still have an Ubuntu 7.04 CD in a box, somewhere.) Anyway, this whole experience has been very Linuxy. From me having to compile […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026

If we filter out all of the AI rage and passive aggression, whining about privacy, and complaints about Donald Trump, what percent of the fediverse would be left? 5? 10? An optimistic 15? Seriously.

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

@tristan How many DECIDUOUS forrests were annihilated so we could have terminal art? Alternate take: how many months until they decided we need an idle game to play while it is burning tokens.

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[…]The dots are just super annoying in general and make it really hard to read the text in a large prompt. The CLI has so many issues, yet they felt the need to introduce "is my screen broken" speedrun any %!

Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The Codex CLI has received a smattering of decorative unicode characters to simulate a sparkle effect when using GPT-6 Astra in terminals that support true color, and the latest version defaults this to on. If you're a screen reader user (or you just want to get rid of this in general), add […]

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Noel Romey @ner.fwoof.space.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

I use the my noise app and have done so for a ng time. Has hundreds of cool soundscapes and randomized music for noise masking and relaxation. The dev totally redesigned the app about a year ago and the accessibility was so bad that the dev was nice enough to point me to the old app which they […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

[Unhinged Developer Monolog] I'm doing everything I possibly can to avoid making an account system, but I strongly suspect the accountless mod rating system for BlindGaming.net's API will only stand up until an LLM crawler reads the developer docs. I really, really don't want the data burden […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

As someone with a Pro Max phone and an iPad Mini, the iPhone DUo appeals greatly, in an I-like-new-shiny-things way. But I think I’ll wait until they figure out FaceID in the 20th anniversary phones next year.

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Drew Mochak @prism.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026

A non-exhaustive list of projects you will need to avoid if you want no LLM-generated code in your life: Windows, oSX/iOS, Android, Chrome, Firefox, Debian, RedHat, and the Linux kernel. In other words you will have to learn to live off the land and grow some potatos or something 'cause IDK how […]

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Tristan @tristan.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026

Related to accessible gaming, it definitely bothers me a little how overloaded the term “accessible” is, especially in blindness spaces. “Accessible gaming” does not solely mean “blind accessible”, yet the Accessible Gaming wiki is basically blind central. Blind people have dramatically […]

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