This is great to hear!

What are those concerns?

Not OP, but I’d bet they meant that deaf or hard-of-hearing people should be able to enjoy the programs

> deaf or hard-of-hearing people should be able to enjoy the programs

This is really important. I have moderate hearing loss but can hear 'okay' with a hearing aid. I place where I worked had a lot of mandatory training that involved video presentations. They introduced one new video and I realised that there was one bit where some important info (it was needed to pass the post video test) was only presented in spoken form, with no transcript or captions. I could follow it but a person with profound hearing loss would have struggled. Because I am sensitised to accessibility issues I decided to make a fuss about this.

In a superb piece of irony, the subject of the training video was actually diversity issues in the workplace. I therefore contacted the training department saying "Did you know that your diversity training discriminates against deaf people?" To give them credit, they said 'oops our bad' and quickly added captions.

That sounds very frustrating. More frustrating than me explaining to senior mgmt why we need to spend money on a11y.

Your example is a great one, but aside from audio and visual problems, a11y covers things like cognitive deficits, which, for some, make watching and learning from videos difficult.

> I decided to make a fuss about this.

Good on you, more people need to be making a fuss about this.

I actually wrote Chris Croyier about a small snippet of example code on his site (CSS-Tricks) that didn't follow a11y best practices. He replied, and updated the code! Nice guy.

That and high traffic cost in developing countries also falls into accessibility category.

Yes, thank you. Anyone that uses assistive technologies.

Or anyone that might want to watch without sound, also falls within “accessibility”.

  len('accessibility') == 13

So a11y stands for "a word starting with 'a' then 11 letters then ending with 'y'".

Compare to i18n, l10n.

I hadn't seen any of these before, and the first word I found for i18n was "iodochlorhydroxyquin". Seemed somewhat unlikely.

Wow, I'm amazed that any HN reader has not seen at least K8s for Kubernetes before... still, xkcd 10,000 strikes again.

I assumed "k8s" was so named by skipping out the syllables "ubern" and slightly mangling the rest.

Fortunately I work in the privileged position of never really needing to consider questions of deployment, and I am extremely happy to keep it that way.

internationalization

The use of a11y-style acronyms fails for r9y reasons.

It sucks for onboarding new devs, but I've worked at companies where I did a11y audits for high-traffic e-commerce sites. The the amount of times I didn't have to type those extra 9 letters must have saved months of my life.

Maybe this is just because I learned to touch-type rather early, but (1) typing "accessibility" is far faster than typing "a11y", because it doesn't require reaching as far from the home row and (2) it is rare that the limiting factor is the speed at which keys can be pressed, rather than the speed at which correct and accurate words can be chosen.

Text is meant to be read, and not just written. I'll agree that there are chunking benefits in acronyms and abbreviations when working in a shared context, but outside of those shared contexts, the abbreviations severely impede communication.

Thank you for the work you guys do! This is nice.

Thank you for your service!

I think it has to do with the RSS standard. As a podcaster ("Eyes of Reason") I like Spotify because I can see things like the age, gender and location of where my listeners are coming from as well as see things like how long they listened. If we can update the RSS Protocol to have these features then it would prevent this sort of Payola and agglomeration from happening.

Maybe regularly ask your listeners to fill in a voluntary survey, if helps support you. I'm sure many would.

FWIW, Spotify thinks it knows my age and gender, but it really doesn't.

RSS fundamentally can’t have those features. Feeds are fetched over HTTP, and the server only has access to what details the client wishes to provide—and web browsers and their users have rebelled against revealing information far less detailed than that which you’re desiring. Location via IP address is the most along those lines that you’re going to get.

Any attempt to demand more information (e.g. respond 403 Forbidden if certain HTTP headers are lacking) would fundamentally fail, and/or fragment the ecosystem: existing clients would be broken on such sites, due to not sending the demanded headers; new independent client software will implement these demanded headers with spurious values, because they’re representing users more than the creators or advertisers, and almost no users want to provide such invasive details. It’s only client software from companies like Spotify that will genuinely attempt to provide the correct details.

You could look at the IP addresses of people accessing your RSS feed to see what city they're in.

Would creepy tracking software really tell you anything about your audience that you don't already know?

As a podcast listener, I'm not willing to use a standard that tracks me any more than RSS enables.

You have to weigh up the value of such data against the privacy wishes of all podcast listeners. It is not clear to me at all how knowing the gender of your audience could improve the product you’re producing.

Yeah it would be interesting to hear of the feature that Edge could not support.

I'm having to fix an issue where a user's workstation uses edge to print PDFs. It is bad at it, it swaps out embedded fonts (random ones) and changes some text. A known issue.

You're correct! I've never thought about that before but when they killed the RSS reader it really left a bad taste in my mouth. Now that I _do_ have the ability to make decisions at the company now, the bad taste did transfer over.

Would you be against other people getting the subsidy?

I'm just trying to figure out if it's hypocrisy or selfishness.

Why not both?

Thanks for wanting to make sure I didn't have dinner on my table as a child while my mom took care of my brother with leukemia.

Really not a good look.

I would like to see evidence of that. Crowder's output towards that guy doesn't even seem comparable relative to the amount of other stuff he produces.