My pie has ov'flowed
Burns on the oven's bottom
House is full of smoke.
Burns on the oven's bottom
House is full of smoke.
I studied capitalism in college because it was a particular interest of mine. I hated it. I also wanted to understand it, so that I could know why it rubbed me the wrong way and live intentionally to push against it.
There was this moment when I was in a grad course and the professor was talking about self-optimizing markets. That's when it hit me. I literally stood up in the class, interrupted everything and went like "wait, the math isn't optimizing for income inequality". It was kind of funny watching more than 100 little economists in training suddenly start tearing apart the equation at once. You could literally hear the sound of frantic spreadsheeting and charting.
In the end, the professor himself said that it was true, you could achieve a fully "optimized" economy with literally everything being owned by a handful of people. Made me think.
How is a system supposed to be beneficial for us all when the mathematics at its core don't actually consider societal benefit?
If an economy is fully "optimized" but everyone is sick, sad, and angry - is it actually optimal?
A mathematical model can make sense without being sensible. This is why I have an implicit distrust of algorithms and other systems of optimization. It's also why I'm a socialist.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
There was this moment when I was in a grad course and the professor was talking about self-optimizing markets. That's when it hit me. I literally stood up in the class, interrupted everything and went like "wait, the math isn't optimizing for income inequality". It was kind of funny watching more than 100 little economists in training suddenly start tearing apart the equation at once. You could literally hear the sound of frantic spreadsheeting and charting.
In the end, the professor himself said that it was true, you could achieve a fully "optimized" economy with literally everything being owned by a handful of people. Made me think.
How is a system supposed to be beneficial for us all when the mathematics at its core don't actually consider societal benefit?
If an economy is fully "optimized" but everyone is sick, sad, and angry - is it actually optimal?
A mathematical model can make sense without being sensible. This is why I have an implicit distrust of algorithms and other systems of optimization. It's also why I'm a socialist.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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I don't think anyone is out here with 30 legs anymore. A big trend in evolution seems to be less is more.
Insects all have six limbs. But trilobites have... a lot. Shouldn't we regard a trilobite with 30 as very different from one with 18?
Well, today I learned that we've known for some time that such things aren't fixed for a given species. Much like centipedes they change as they grow. It's a bit complex! #evolution #trilobites
Insects all have six limbs. But trilobites have... a lot. Shouldn't we regard a trilobite with 30 as very different from one with 18?
Well, today I learned that we've known for some time that such things aren't fixed for a given species. Much like centipedes they change as they grow. It's a bit complex! #evolution #trilobites
OMG what? textList.append(item)
AttributeError: module 'speech' has no attribute 'IndexCommand'
AttributeError: module 'speech' has no attribute 'IndexCommand'
Yes, I made a #Tumblr thing. It's gonna mainly be a crosspost hub, though, where you go to my main website to read the rest of my content, but still, if you wanna follow my thoughts about Disability in #Romance and #RomanceLandia in general, here is another place you can find me. I'd suggest you subscribe to one of these better options, though! https://sightlessscribbles.micro.blog/subscribe/
I think we need this in Canada, https://youtube.com/watch?v=yv4hVaSu6eM&feature=share
The Case for COBD's Bowen Island Centre for the Blind and DeafBlind
This video describes the case for COBD's Bowen Island Centre for the Blind and DeafBlind and the vital skills blind, DeafBlind, and low vision Canadians lear...YouTube
Setting up a #mastodon server is really, really hard. You do the slightest thing wrong and all the services start correctly, all looks good until you visit the page and it sits there failing to load. what's even more enfuriating is when the page title is registered and no actual html or anything comes through.
If it has the ability to set a custom character limit and works with Semaphore without much messing around, then I'll definitely give it a look.
this reply is coming from semaphore.social. Also, you can change character limit. I have an instance set up on social.stormux.org for people who are interested in seeing accessibility fixes before they get pushed to the stable branch. If you want an account to look around/try it, pm me your email and I'll set you up. It's invite only instance.
Home · Semaphore
An alternative web client for Mastodon, focused on speed and simplicity.semaphore.social
Old Dell XPS 13 battery was down to <60% of the original capacity, so ended up getting an official part replacement off of Amazon (yes, yes, I know); lucked out, and managed to get a Prime delivery as well.
Disassembly and re-assemby took about 15 minutes, and now I'm back to 100% capacity. I should be able to squeeze a couple more years out of this 2016 laptop—which is still the best one that I've ever had that.
Disassembly and re-assemby took about 15 minutes, and now I'm back to 100% capacity. I should be able to squeeze a couple more years out of this 2016 laptop—which is still the best one that I've ever had that.
Strange to find decent app in a tiny collection of @fdroidorg apps, when I could not found the one I could stand in the vastness of Google Play.
Feel like commercial competition leads to bloated apps full of useless features, which then need to make more money from ads, resorting to unbearable ad integrations.
Feel like commercial competition leads to bloated apps full of useless features, which then need to make more money from ads, resorting to unbearable ad integrations.
Good news! Mona will be a one-time purchase app, and will be available on App Store this Spring:
Free trial: 14-day full-feature access for free, with no recurring fee.
Mona Essential: full-feature access on a single platform (iPhone, iPad, or Mac) for 10 USD.
Mona Extra: full-feature access on 3 platforms (iPhone, iPad, and Mac), and supports family sharing. Mona users can upgrade from Essential to Extra for 7 USD.
If you have purchased Spring or Spring mini, Mona Extra will be just 9 USD.
Free trial: 14-day full-feature access for free, with no recurring fee.
Mona Essential: full-feature access on a single platform (iPhone, iPad, or Mac) for 10 USD.
Mona Extra: full-feature access on 3 platforms (iPhone, iPad, and Mac), and supports family sharing. Mona users can upgrade from Essential to Extra for 7 USD.
If you have purchased Spring or Spring mini, Mona Extra will be just 9 USD.
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@nick Thanks for the recommendation Nick. Yep, good sound is a must, especially for social media. Tritone/other default app sound to me just says 'Not important. Move on.' Usually LinkedIn or sometimes PayPal. Iconic sound is *just* as important as iconic visuals, perhaps even more so, but that's my personal bias talking. Blind man's perspective here :)
This is the last weekend I’ll be working on iOS Access for All, the tenth edition. On the final pass, the dopamine hits come more quickly, as I sign off on another chapter’s tweaks and twiddles. It’s been gratifying (and also nervous-making) to receive so many notes asking when the book will be ready.
Looks like Google wants to get in on subscriptions to independent sites. The product is called Google Reader Revenue that they are pitching to publishers. It controls the payment infrastructure for a publisher and uses what looks like using a Google cookie to keep people logged in across sites.
Given how Google abandons products I would stay far away, if I were a publisher. If you don't own the payment relationship you don't own the relationship with your subscribers.
Given how Google abandons products I would stay far away, if I were a publisher. If you don't own the payment relationship you don't own the relationship with your subscribers.
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Day 74. When presenting a UI component that overlays the existing UI, you may have found that VoiceOver starts to randomly jump between the overlaid UI and the elements underneath. To avoid that, you can set its accessibilityViewIsModal to true.
#365DaysIOSAccessibility
#accessibility #iOSDev
#365DaysIOSAccessibility
#accessibility #iOSDev
When setting the accessibilityViewIsModal to true for a view, VoiceOver will ignore its sibling views, treating it as if it was a modal. Useful when presenting custom popups, popovers, modals, action sheets, etc.
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/nsobject/1615089-accessibilityviewismodal
https://developer.apple.com/documentation/objectivec/nsobject/1615089-accessibilityviewismodal
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Day 75. Even when setting a view as modal for accessibility, you may notice that VoiceOver's focus stays in the same place, instead of moving to the presented view. You can post a screen changed notification and pass the view that should get the focus.
#365DaysIOSAccessibility
#accessibility #iOSDev
#365DaysIOSAccessibility
#accessibility #iOSDev
So liebe Leseratten, ich habe meinen Teil getan: Soeben gingen weitere 23 #eBooks live. Es sind nun also zum 12jährigen Bestehen von "Izzy's freier Bibliothek" in selbiger über 12-tausend eBooks verfügbar 🥳
Nun schaue ich auf die von https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/catsugg.php gesammelten Eingaben und… Keine einzige? Funktioniert die Maske nicht? Oder lässt sich keines der über 2.500 unkategorisierten Bücher einer Kategorie zuordnen? Oder lest Ihr einfach nicht 🙊? Menno… 😭
Nun schaue ich auf die von https://ebooks.qumran.org/opds/catsugg.php gesammelten Eingaben und… Keine einzige? Funktioniert die Maske nicht? Oder lässt sich keines der über 2.500 unkategorisierten Bücher einer Kategorie zuordnen? Oder lest Ihr einfach nicht 🙊? Menno… 😭
@tucholsky Oh ja, da ist tatsächlich was 🤩 Aber sollte "Der Bau" aus "Verschiedenes" nach "Verschiedenes" – oder auch nach "Drama"?
PS: Deinem Nick nach darf ich schonmal raten, was als nächstes dran ist? 🙈 Danke Dir!
PS: Deinem Nick nach darf ich schonmal raten, was als nächstes dran ist? 🙈 Danke Dir!
Happy #DataPrivacyDay! 🥳
Here are some privacy-first apps frequently recommended by the Tutanota community.
What are your favorite apps to quit #BigTech?
#DataProtection #Encryption #Security #Privacy
Here are some privacy-first apps frequently recommended by the Tutanota community.
What are your favorite apps to quit #BigTech?
#DataProtection #Encryption #Security #Privacy
The #Memphis Police Department has disbanded the unit whose officers beat to death motorist #TyreNichols
https://breaking.iavian.net/article/328286
https://breaking.iavian.net/article/328286
The Memphis Police Department has disbanded the unit whose officers beat to death motorist Tyre Nichols
Breaking News App - stay abreast on what's happening, news delivered as it happens. Download the free app now from App and Play StoreBreaking News App
I have downloaded #Ubuntu 22.04 and made a bootable USB image of the distro. I will "Try Ubuntu" in the morning from the Live Image to see if the installer is accessible or not with a braille display.
I would prefer to be able to install the distro myself without sighted assistance, just like I can with #Debian and #Arch Linux using only a refreshable braille display. I have no speech recognition so I am unable to hear Orca speak.
#Linux #Accessibility #a11y
I would prefer to be able to install the distro myself without sighted assistance, just like I can with #Debian and #Arch Linux using only a refreshable braille display. I have no speech recognition so I am unable to hear Orca speak.
#Linux #Accessibility #a11y
@devinprater Hook the display up via USB, as long as it's not one of the new HID humanware displays it should work out of the box. ALT+SUPER+s is your friend.
Napadá mě, že voliči se v průběhu roku nerodí rovnoměrně, ale počet úmrtí v lednu bývá obvykle vyšší.
The first beta version of #Tusky 21 is out!
✅ Editing
✅ change your preferred reading direction
✅ improved (bigger) media previews
✅ add accounts to lists from their profile
✅ view all your followed hashtags
full changelog: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v21.0-beta.1
⚠️ There is a known issue of 21.0 beta 1 crashing on Androids below 11 that is already being fixed
✅ Editing
✅ change your preferred reading direction
✅ improved (bigger) media previews
✅ add accounts to lists from their profile
✅ view all your followed hashtags
full changelog: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v21.0-beta.1
⚠️ There is a known issue of 21.0 beta 1 crashing on Androids below 11 that is already being fixed
Release Tusky 21.0 beta 1 · tuskyapp/Tusky
Support for post editing (Mastodon 4 feature) New setting to control preferred reading direction Improved media display in timelines Media previews with aspect ratios between 1:2 and 2:1 are now s...GitHub
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So let's say there's stuff on Amazon Music I'd like to have as normal FLAC files. Is there a tool to do that?
What I see on Twitter has gotten basically random. "Following" definitely doesn't show me everyone I'm following. Notifications definitely aren't showing me all replies. Feels to me like the algorithm is some dilapidated, chugging Model T that's about to break down entirely.
If Twitter is so eager to monetize: I would pay a monthly fee for a) a simple, no-frills, reverse-chronological view of the tweets of people I follow, that b) actually showed all & only those tweets, and c) didn't f'ing jump around at random.
Such a small ask.
Such a small ask.
@devinprater it used to be so easy to switch to chronological view. Sadly Twitter is no longer simple and it supposedly knows how and who I want to see. Wonder how much money spent on algo could have been spend to make it accessible.
here's a refresher for those of you wanting to attach files to a mastodon post (which also applies to peertube).
Video formats:
.webm
.mp4
.m4v
.mov
audio formats:
MP3
OGG
WAV
FLAC
OPUS
AAC
M4A
3GP
if on the mobile device, attaching audio files is only doable if using the web version of your instance, either via thy website itself or as a progressive web application.
File length can be unlimited although cannot go over 40 MB.
Video formats:
.webm
.mp4
.m4v
.mov
audio formats:
MP3
OGG
WAV
FLAC
OPUS
AAC
M4A
3GP
if on the mobile device, attaching audio files is only doable if using the web version of your instance, either via thy website itself or as a progressive web application.
File length can be unlimited although cannot go over 40 MB.
if asking why you can't attach audio files to Mastodon posts using a mobile application directly (without converting it to a supported video format [such as MP4] first), it's simple really:
This world is too "video centric!"
This world is too "video centric!"
I started up A Hero's Call after a while of not playing it. I got an error, something about my graphics not being supported. It seems the game won't run under integrated AMD graphics using a 5000-series APU. That's sad, as it was a great game I had fun playing multiple times. Oh well, TLOU comes out on PC in a month.
Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/01/28/0524239/wine-80-released-and-plenty-of-improvements-are-included?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
#wine
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/23/01/28/0524239/wine-80-released-and-plenty-of-improvements-are-included?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed
#wine
Wine 8.0 Released — and Plenty of Improvements are Included - Slashdot
An anonymous reader shares this report from OMG! Ubuntu: Developers have just uncorked a brand new release of Wine, the open source compatibility layer that allows Windows apps to run on Linux. A substantial update, Wine 8.tech.slashdot.org
It breaks my heart to see my Ds so down on himself. Is this my fault, or is this normal teenager behaviour? How do I fix this? Is it even possible since his peers' approval means more than mine, and some kids are just fucking assholes. They aren't satisfied unless they're making fun of someone. #parenting
I am 21 currently and since I didn't have a normal family per say, now I have a 9-year old brother, he's the same. He doesn't listen to me nor doesn't care about what I am saying to him, his friends are more important. This shall pass. Stay strong and supportive
#introduction My name is Patrick and I'm the #admin of TheTaoist.Online! I really want this instance to become a location for #Taoists/#zen/and #Buddhists to come together. I created a #Blog post about my background in Taoism and why I wanted to create the instance.
https://www.patrickstewart.net/l/the-boy-and-the-yinyang/
This server aims to be a place to join other #taoist, #zen students, and followers of other eastern religions.
If you'd like to help support me, please visit my Linktree:
https://www.linktr.ee/patrickstewart
https://www.patrickstewart.net/l/the-boy-and-the-yinyang/
This server aims to be a place to join other #taoist, #zen students, and followers of other eastern religions.
If you'd like to help support me, please visit my Linktree:
https://www.linktr.ee/patrickstewart
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The @Iconfactory has 16.1k “followers” on Twitter and currently about 4.1k here on Mastodon. Our last post received a whopping 9 likes and 3 retweets on Twitter and an amazing 287 favorites and 163 boosts here on Mastodon.
This has been said before by many people but Twitter isn’t worth your time any more. People don’t SEE what you’re saying there, even if they actually follow you. The service is in big, BIG trouble.
Also, thx for following @Iconfactory here, we appreciate all of you 💕🖖
This has been said before by many people but Twitter isn’t worth your time any more. People don’t SEE what you’re saying there, even if they actually follow you. The service is in big, BIG trouble.
Also, thx for following @Iconfactory here, we appreciate all of you 💕🖖
"Disabled people represent more than 27% of the US adult population — making them the single largest minority group in the country. Yet fewer than 2% of NIH-funded researchers report that they have a disability."
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00260-5
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00260-5
NIH faces calls to change its ‘ableist’ mission statement
The US National Institutes of Health needs to include more people with disabilities in its workforce and research, report says.Gewin, Virginia
So here's a random thing that I learnt yesterday. Compasses are region-specific and the needle will "stick" if a normal compass is used in the wrong region! Australia and New Zealand are in magnetic zone 5. If you want a #compass that works anywhere in the world, it needs to have a "global needle", which is built a bit differently to account for the problem of the magnet aiming directly through the earth to magnetic north and dragging the needle down with it.
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