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"The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told."

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BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash

Exclusive: Decision to make episode about natural destruction available only on iPlayer angers programme-makers
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Du hast unseren SHIFTtalk verpasst? Kein Problem.
Hier kannst du dir die Zusammenfassung ansehen.🙂

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#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #shiftphone8 #smartphone #shifttalk #crowdfunding


SHIFTtalk recap 2023 Februar - SHIFTphone 8

Liebe SHIFT-Community! In diesem Video findet ihr die Highlights aus unserem SHIFTphone 8 - SHIFTtalk vom 08.02.2023. Sollte euch nur ein bestimmtes Thema in...
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#smartphone #shifthappens #crowdfunding #shiftphone #shift #shiftphone8 #shifttalk

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🎉 SPA view transitions have landed in stable Chrome!

But, this is just the start! We've got more view transition features planned. Here's what we're looking at next:

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SPA view transitions land in Chrome 111 - Chrome Developers

The View Transition API allows page transitions within single-page apps, and will later include multi-page apps.
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What impact, if any, does this work have on accessibility? Is there yet a standard way to tell screen readers that the equivalent of a new page load has happened, so the screen reader can provide its desired UX for SPA navigations, rather than the application having to provide its own off-screen ARIA live region announcement or focus something that shouldn't be focusable?

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App accessibility: Commonly overlooked accessibility practices for mobile apps
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App accessibility: Commonly overlooked accessibility practices for mobile apps

It’s hard to believe even with an approximately 80% smartphone penetration globally, most apps are still not accessible. Most companies still deem accessibility-related use cases as “edge cases”, and…
Ryan Tan (Bootcamp)
#a11y #uidesign #mobiledev #mobiledesign

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Our In-Process blog post is out, and it's a bumper edition this week! Info on NVDA 2023.1 as expected, plus all the details of our upcoming trip to #CSUNATC23, thanks to @dequesystems #Axe-Con #AxeCon plus an in-depth look at just what all these add-on breakages are about: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

In-Process 10th March 2023

We’ve got a bumper issue for you this week: A release candidate, conferences and add-on info! NVDA 2023.1 Release Candidate The big news this week is the release of the NVDA 2023.1 Release Ca…
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#axecon #csunatc23 #axe @Deque Systems

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"Dezentrales soziales Netzwerk": Meta prüft Twitter-Alternative im Fediverse
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Google Talk 2.0? Erinnert das noch jemanden an den ehemaligen XMPP Client? Embrace, Extend...


"Dezentrales soziales Netzwerk": Meta prüft Twitter-Alternative im Fediverse

Bei Meta gibt es Überlegungen, ein soziales Netz einzurichten, das ans Fediverse und damit auch Mastodon angeschlossen ist. Als Basis soll Instagram dienen.
Martin Holland (heise online)

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The no-cloning theorem says you can't build a machine that will duplicate a quantum state. But what about classical mechanics? Back in 2008, I raised the possibility that you can't perfectly duplicate a classical state either.

There's been a lot of progress since then. In 2010 Aaron Fenyes showed that you *can*, but only using a machine that is more complex than the system you are trying to duplicate. In 2012 Nicholas Teh wrote a great analysis of these issues.

Now Yuan Yao has shown that if the space of states of your classical system is topologically nontrivial - like a sphere, for example - you *cannot* build a machine that duplicates states of this system via any process that proceeds continuously with the passage of time.

These are rough versions of what Fenyes and Yao showed. Read my blog article for precise statements:

golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2…

Yao's new work shows that there's a lot left to learn about classical cloning - or if you prefer, limitations on the accuracy of a purely classical xerox machine. As far as I can tell, nobody had thought before about the importance of topology in this business!

https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2023/03/cloning_in_classical_mechanics.html Cloning in Classical Mechanics Posted by John Baez Everyone likes to talk about the no-cloning theorem in quantum mechanics: you can’t build a machine where you drop an electron in the top and two electrons in the same spin state as that one pop out below. This is connected to how the category of Hilbert spaces, with its usual tensor product, is non-cartesian. If the dimension of a Hilbert space H exceeds 1 there’s no linear map that duplicates states: Δ: H → H⊗H ψ ↦ ψ⊗ψ There’s also no linear way to take two copies of a quantum system and find a linear process that takes the state of the first copy and writes it onto the second, while leaving the first copy unchanged: F: H⊗H → H⊗H ψ⊗ϕ ↦ ψ⊗ψ But what about classical mechanics?

The n-Category Café

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Work (molecular bio) people being amazing

Huge huge gratitude to the brilliance & integrity of Dr Ichiro Matsumura at Emory U. He open-source published the sequence of a genetic tool he built back in 2010, free to use. I want to weep. It's a beautiful design, and his group (and many researchers he shared it with) showed it works in a truly stunning variety of microbes.

I can't tell you how many papers and sites I've slogged through to find this. So many perfect sounding tools that weren't usable because nobody uploaded the sequence to the national database and weren't for sale anywhere. So much stuff for sale built on proprietary data, so you have no idea wtf it actually is.

This, this is a true scientist. (I know nothing about him other than this. I hope he's a decent fellow.)

Ichiro Matsumura, thank you. We stand on the shoulders of giants such as you!

Screen photo of text from a 2010 paper, the important part here is "we intend to distribute pBAV1KT5 without regard to intellectual property considerations. Microbiologists could employ it as a genetic tool to elucidate the pathogenic mechanisms of poorly understood bacteria." Which is exactly, exactly what we are trying to do.

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Microsoft Authenticator prompts the user to accept sharing analytics during the first launch. The prompt only dismisses when the user taps on "Accept." In fact, the app starts sending analytics even before accepting the privacy statement.🤦‍♂️

In this video, we downloaded the authenticator app from the App Store and we opened it as we monitored the iPhone network traffic. While the app was showing the permission prompt, we captured at least 3 calls made by the app sending diagnostics to Microsoft. The app sent 14 KB of analytics even before accepting the prompt.

The message on the prompt actually says that Microsoft needs to collect diagnostic data in order to keep Authenticator secure and up to date. 😵‍💫

#Privacy #Cybersecurity #2FA #InfoSec #Security #Microsoft

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Privacy: Microsoft Authenticator sends analytics even before accepting the privacy statement

When opening Microsoft Authenticator for the first time after downloading it from the App Store, it prompts the user to accept sharing diagnostics with Micro...
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Coming up at 00:00 UTC (7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: two hours of relaxing #newage, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Northern Lights: The New Age Show

Northern Lights is a weekly live and interactive show featuring the best mix of relaxing music from independent and mainstream artists. Genres you’ll hear include New Age, Ambient, and music …
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We just got a new completely blind friendly mainstream game release - BROK the InvestiGator, which is a point and click adventure with some RPG and Beat Em up elements. I played for about an hour and the work that was put into it is really impressive, going so far as to have additional audio descriptions of scenes, characters and objects. forum.audiogames.net/topic/479…

BROK: The Investigator (Page 1) — New releases room — AudioGames.net Forum

BROK: The Investigator (Page 1) — New releases room — AudioGames.net Forum — Discuss audio games!
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I know some Microsoft #a11y folks follow me here: the Accessibility Assistant for Word is all well and good, but the absolutely wretched Style mechanics and Word->accessible PDF workflows have been borked for years and are directly responsible for generating enormous quantities of inaccessible content. Detecting contrast errors comes absolutely nowhere close to covering the waterfront. And I wish journalists covering this stuff would be more skeptical. theverge.com/2023/3/9/23632562…

Microsoft 365’s new assistant will flag accessibility issues in your work

Microsoft has unveiled a collection of new products and services targeting disability inclusion and accessibility, including a new “Accessibility Assistant” for Microsoft 365 office software.
Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
#a11y

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Das konnte ja keiner ahnen!

Amazon Ring: Selbst Wohnzimmer-Aufnahmen sind nicht vor Polizei sicher
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Amazon Ring: Selbst Wohnzimmer-Aufnahmen sind nicht vor Polizei sicher

Ein Mann aus dem US-Bundeststaat Ohio sollte der Polizei Aufnahmen aus seinem Wohnzimmer vorlegen, obwohl nur gegen seinen Nachbarn ermittelt wurde. Als er sich weigerte, legte die Behörde einen richterlichen Beschluss bei Amazon Ring vor.
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Here is the latest update on the fulfilment of the Librem 5 #phones.

As the number of Librem 5 customers grow, we look forward to greater community participation to develop new #software for it!

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Where is My Librem 5? Part 3 – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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