Some French motherfucker in 1998-2006 catalogued and converted the whole corpus of The Cantigas de Santa Maria to MIDI. These songs are one of the only large collections we have of medieval European music pre-polyphony (i.e. there are no harmonies beyond a drone) and now they’re available for anyone’s silly computer to render in basic waveforms across the world.
You can literally take this shit and render it in the Fire Emblem 8 or Pokemon or whatever soundfont and it rules.
making it accessible to boomers was a mistake. 21st century UI design was a mistake.
No, making things accessible is great. Exclusion is stupid.
“accessibility” that obfuscates what is going on is bad. it keeps most users ignorant. vulnerable to scams, unable to fix simple problems etc.
People can learn and with the internet they’re able to learn things that would otherwise be completely out of reach. I think anything that obfuscates can’t be termed accessibility. The internet doesn’t keep users ignorant. It does the very opposite. I would agree about there being issues inherent to making things accessible, but to me these are puerile disorders anyone can grow out of. Once that happens the benefits far outweigh the negative aspects. What is the greatest conveyor of critique against the tech industry? The internet. This whole thing self-corrects. What is most true about the internet is it having a profound effect on anyone who uses it, and that is a hard reality to deal with.
they explicitly don’t learn because of how products and interfaces are designed.
the same stuff that allows a toddler to use an ipad is what hides everything from the casual user, things that might spark curiosity to dig any deeper.
That’s an issue of burger icons and so forth, not one of access.
The earlier Web (and general computer UI) design was primarily built by boomers lmao
yeah but it wasn’t accessible to qanon facebook grandpas
I am sorry but I have to be that guy: the World Wide Web (that thing that is commonly and falsy equated with “the internet”) was literally invented by a boomer
provisional rule proving exception on tbl until and unless his politics align with the far right
i can get behind www being a mistake too but that still wasn’t all that accessible to the people who ruin the world because of shit they read online