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Fake O'Reilly-style book cover called Coding with GPT (7th Edition). Subtitle: "Introducing the uncanny into your codebase". The animal on the cover is a weird hybrid of a collie dog and an emu, joined together at the midsection.

When Hillary Clinton was the nominee, she was called "Hillary” by fans, opponents, and media alike. I was told “that's because 'Clinton' means 'Bill' in people's heads," and I didn't entirely agree, but OK.

Now Kamala Harris is the presumptive nominee, and she's "Kamala,” not "Harris.” There is no other President Harris.

Trump isn't "Donald," Biden isn't "Joe,” Obama wasn't "Barack.” In 2016, it was possible that this wasn't gendered. But I can’t buy that anymore.

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Since I started posting music on Soundcloud in 2015, if I sum all the money I've earned from my music across all the streaming sites, including Apple Music, Spotify, and YouTube, my music income is $40.51.

My yearly Soundcloud subscription is $145 a year.

I pay for my music to be available for you to listen to.

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In case you missed it: Accrescent is now mirrored in the GrapheneOS App Store! This helps GrapheneOS users securely and easily obtain Accrescent from a trusted source.

GrapheneOS highly values privacy and security as we do, so we're excited about this collaboration.

grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

#privacy #security #accrescent #appstore #android

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GrapheneOS App Store now includes a mirror of Accrescent, which is a privacy and security focused alternative to the Play Store distributing developer builds of apps: https://accrescent.
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#android #privacy #security #AppStore #accrescent
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Accrescent
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@PaintedDurian We don't plan on allowing other app installers such as Obtainium in Accrescent at this time. But in general, all apps in Accrescent are uploaded by their respective developers, so it's up to them to determine whether they want their app in Accrescent.
@FDA approved :verified: lychee

The Simpsons predicted it.
Two pictures side by side with Lisa Simpson and Kamala Harris wearing alike outfits: Blue jacket, lighter blue shirt underneath, pearl necklace and pearl earrings. Below a scene from the Simpsons, where President Lisa simpson is in the oval office with her staff. Caption "As you know, we've inherited quite a budget crunch from president trump."

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Today, Reaper's release candidate tightens up tab order and labelling in a single reworked dialog. No changes other than accessibility. Nada. Zip.

TBH it was already solid enough that I wouldn't have been at all mad if they'd decided to press go and refine in the next update, but instead, they went one more round and made sure that keyboard/screen reader users have a decent UX on arrival.

Why is this small gesture a big deal? Well, I might be able to take a day off at some point! I mean, name another DAW developer who's done that without anyone asking/convincing. I'll wait...

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victor tsaran
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@jcsteh Let’s ask our good Reaper friends to improve the a11y for some of their stock plugins. My forum posts didn’t get any traction. I really think that part of Reaper has been a bit undertaken-care-of. I know JS stuff is hard, or nearly hard, without some serious extra work, but VST? :)
@Jamie Teh
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Scott
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@vick21 @jcsteh Have you checked them lately? I did a full run through of stock plug-in GUIs and had them clarify a load of labelling, there have also been improvements in js GUIs in recent times. They've even adopted OSARA's keystrokes for adjusting sliders in stock plugs now.
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victor tsaran
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@jcsteh Good call, and thank you! I was so used to the old way of doing things. It didn’t even occur to me to just tab around… Thank you! One immediate thing I see though is that when the tab stops on a slider, VoiceOver on Mac OS doesn’t speak anything. SLiders are workable if you use VO navigation though. But at least edit fields can be typed into! :)
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Scott
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@vick21 @jcsteh Yeah VO navigation still needs some love, that's a much bigger project and I've got no idea when it'll happen. Sorry to hear sliders are still acting goofy with VO, thought they'd already been fixed. I'll chase that up.
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victor tsaran
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@jcsteh No worries! We still have the old way as a plan B! :) Cockos guys have gotten us so far already! :)
@Jamie Teh

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories disabilityin.org/releases/disa…

Disability:IN Announces 2024 Inclusion Awards with Winners in 12 Categories - Disability:IN

Companies can now analyze and progress their disability inclusion efforts in Brazil, Canada, Germany, India, Japan, the Philippines, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Allyce Torres (Disability:IN)

Color me surprised.

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After years of uncertainty, Google says it won’t be ‘deprecating third-party cookies’ in Chrome

After much back and forth, Google has decided to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser. Turns out all the fuss over the years wasn’t in vain after all; the ad industry’s cries have finally been heard.
Kayleigh Barber (Digiday)
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Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement locusmag.com/2024/07/hugo-awar…

Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement

Glasgow 2024, A Worldcon for our Futures, released the following statement today: In the course of tallying the votes on the final ballot for the 2024 Hugo Awards, the Glasgow 2024 Hugo Administrat…
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From Hadley: Reading Apps, Gadgets, and Resources: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

From Hadley: Reading Apps, Gadgets, and Resources: Tuesday, July 23, 2:00 PM Eastern Time

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From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Workshop Recording Available; Learn About Computers for the Blind groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Workshop Recording Available; Learn About Computers for the Blind

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Scarlet Phoenix Collective
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They're not a bad program. I would warn folks that since the computers are donated, they might not be the latest and greatest.-t

Master these Windows 11 features to supercharge your efficiency pcworld.com/article/2403670/fo…

Master these Windows 11 features to supercharge your efficiency

How to be efficient with innovations such as virtual desktops, multitasking and clipboard history.
Martin Appel (PCWorld)

Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology blindinstituteoftechnology.org…

Celebrating 34 Years of the ADA and Explaining the Latest DOJ Web Accessibility Regulations! - Blind Institute of Technology

Join us Tuesday, July 30, 2024 at 11:30 MT for a very special webinar! We will be celebrating the 34th year since the signing of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and exploring the latest DOJ regulations! We will be joined by Ken Nakata, form…
James Warnken (Blind Institute of Technology)

The First Doctor and Steven reunited bigfinish.com/news/v/the-first…

The First Doctor and Steven reunited  - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
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Do y'all have any suggested resources for writing a resume when you're career switching?

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Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 has been released.

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Privacy Browser Android 3.18.1 – Stoutner

www.stoutner.com

Wir alle so:
Foto eines bedruckten Sweatshirts, auf dem "Internet" steht. Darunter, vor einem bunten Hintergrund, surfen Kinder auf Tastaturen.

:drgn_think: Why on earth have we failes to make it easy to hook up our most sophisisticated document renderers to locally running applications, while it is trivially easy to point them at some centrally hosted application on any other computer.

No localhost isn’t the solution, why can’t the application talk to the browser without involving the network?

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Seirdy
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I think I understand, but I think a separate local web server that accesses the sockets used by any number of applications to “translate “ this protocol to HTTP is probably a better solution than teaching a browser to use this new sockets-based protocol, simple as it may be.

This sounds similar to CGI and its cousins.

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Seirdy
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This is because the browser still needs an HTTP stack anyways, not just for browsing but just to keep its components and extensions up to date. Either way, it’s using the network. What you’re describing is better for a basic webview than a full-fledged browser.

Cool OSPO job at UC Davis, within the library system, focused on sustainability. This could be really interesting for the right person. CLOSES THURSDAY so pull the trigger quickly if this is you.

#getfedihired #OpenJobs #opensourcejobs cc @jobs @osjobhub

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Kinda tired out tonight, so obviously I spent it doing a bunch of art stuff and then I made a fake safety infographic as side content for my game projects, instead of actually working on those.
A safety infographic with the following text: Caution: Zone of Discontinuity. There have been reports of discontinuity or “time-damage” phenomena in this area. If you encounter any of the following: Deja-vu Event Sudden memory loss Unexpected Doppelganger Dizziness Time skipping or slipping Reality shift (you will hear the distinctive sound) Extremely strong smell of ‘pears’ Continuum Collapse Please remain calm and quietly vacate the space, then report to your nearest Mulligan Institute operative, who will handle the situation from there. Do not attempt to resolve the situation yourself. There is then an monotone image of a screaming woman with her hands to her head, and a series of blocky symbols. A final box contains the text "Stay Safe: remember the time rhyme" "If there's more, shut the door. If there's less, tidy the mess." In the background is a watermark with the text "Mulligan Institute"

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El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco:

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos por balones o porque otros fueron despojados de sus tierras. Se trata de una zona declarada Patrimonio Cultural de la Humanidad.


El futbol llanero devora las chinampas de Xochimilco

Desde hace más de una década en cientos de chinampas ya no se siembra, se juega futbol. Ya sea porque los propios chinamperos decidieron cambiar los cultivos...
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T minus 33 hours or so until #curl 8.9.0 ships.
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qerupasy
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I know it's probably just the time until midnight eastern time, but my head canon is now that you have a beeping countdown clock on your wall that counts down the seconds until your ultimatum from the elder council runs out.

Original PaX emulates the NX-bit by marking all non-executable user pages as supervisor mode pages, thus causing *any* access to fault, or using segmentation hacks.

I'm not sure it is worth emulating NX-bit anymore in 2024.

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Matt Campbell
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Computers that old are the ones that can least afford the performance overhead of emulating a hardware feature in software. Seems not worth it to me.

🎶 In jedem sechsten Ei 🎶 Oops? Besser als Ü-Eier? Schauen wir mal…

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#izzyondroid
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Andreas :tardis:
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Was zählst du denn da? Sicherheitslücken? Repeatable Builds? Neue Apps vs. Updates? 🤔
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
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@andunix Darf ich dazu mal den Rudi zitieren?

🎶 Lass dich überraschen… 🎶

Aber nein, keine "77 Sombreros" 🙈 Und das "fünfte Ei" wird es wohl erst _nach_ der Bekanntmachung geben…

@Andreas :tardis:

uspol but constructive and pro-fediverse

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uspol but constructive and pro-fediverse

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I also just found that my bns, instead of... you know, turning on, howls like a banshee. in fact, all 3 of my 640's do. sad times.

I recently discovered that the OpenCore boot loader has a screen reader built into it, which makes it the only boot manager accessible to the blind. OpenCore contains UEFI drivers for different hardware and filesystems, and one of them is an audio driver that works with Intel HDA cards that are very common on both desktop and laptop motherboards. There is an option in its configuration file called PickerAudioAssist that enables the screen reader if the audio driver is configured. When this is enabled, OpenCore will speak which operating systems are available to boot, and then it will speak the selected option when you press an arrow key, and it will say which option it is loading when you press enter or when the timeout expires. It uses audio files of the words and phrases it speaks instead of using a speech synthesizer, so it is limited in what it can speak. For example, there are audio files for Windows and MacOS but not for Linux, so it will say "other OS" for any linux distribution. However, this is still much better than only hearing a beep and having to guess where you are or memorize the menu to figure out which option is selected. OpenCore was designed to boot MacOS on non-Apple hardware, so it implemented audio and screen reading functionality similar to what Apple implemented on Intel Macs but for all X86 computers, and you don't need to install MacOS to use OpenCore if you don't want to. dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Po…

OpenCore beauty treatment | OpenCore Post-Install

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Elijah Massey
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@vick21 @weirdwriter I'm not sure since I only started using OpenCore very recently. Have you gotten it to work?
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victor tsaran
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@weirdwriter No, I actually busted my old Mac and need to get back to it to recover. Hopefully, then I will be able to upgrade to the latest version of OC to try it out.
@Robert Kingett, blind

Yep, a self-healing metal.

Scientists have discovered that metal-halide perovskite, a next-generation semiconductor material, can self-heal from radiation damage in space. And this could be a game-changer for space-based solar panels and future power generation.

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#Space #Research #Engineering #News

Space radiation can damage satellites − my team discovered that a next-generation material could self-heal when exposed to cosmic rays

Spacecraft exteriors that automatically heal from radiation damage would change the game − one material shows promise.
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If a person with a disability tells you they can’t do something it’s not because they’re lazy or don’t want to.
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Strictly Come Dancing left Paralympian Will Bayley with injuries he'll 'never get over'

Paralympian Will Bayley was left in "horrific pain" after falling from a jump in rehearsals.
Yasmin Rufo (BBC News)

Having some fun playing around with PipeWire's midi support today using various applications from Flathub. #linux #pipewire #rosegarden #qwgraph #qsynth #fedora_linux
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Well this is a fun little bug in twenty-two year-old software. Also a throwback.

accursed storage

#unix_surrealism #technomage #monochrome

Mage retrieves a memory card from a hacker duo.
#monochrome #unix_surrealism #technomage

#uspol Republican playbook hilariously upset. Energy and hope.

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I find it really frustrating that people take the first attempts of disabled people to do something as an indication of whether they can do it or not, without realizing that anyone can fail when doing something for the first time just because they have never done it before. This is a huge double standard that I don't hear people talk about often for some reason. Today I saw a parent forbidding their blind child from cooking because she once accidentally spilled salt on the counter. The fact that the girl is rarely ever allowed to cook and doesn't have much experience somehow slipped their mind. Not to mention that such things can happen and do happen to literally anyone. I've also been in situations where people wouldn't let me go somewhere on my own, because they saw me get lost once. The fact that it's normal to sometimes get lost and not know the exact route if you have never been to that place before, again, slipped their mind. And God forbid if I tell them about this one time when I didn't get to the right place with Google maps. I keep being reminded of it every single time I want to go somewhere. I understand that those people are worried and everything, but damn. This only makes things worse because it's normal to learn from mistakes, and it's normal to make such mistakes. Maybe... I guess not for us.

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modulux
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Very good point. It's not like sighted people don't get lost, do clumsy things, drop stuff, burn food... But for them it's an incident, whereas for a disabled person it's assumed to be a permanent limitation.

We've partnered with Abside to create a groundbreaking secure communication solution for government agencies. Our Liberty phone, featuring Made in USA Electronics and running our non-Android PureOS, now integrates with Abside's N79 5G private network. The result? A fully American-made, ultra-secure platform for government personnel to communicate and access critical data on the move. Privacy, security, and performance – all in one package. #Purism #Cybersecurity #Abside

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Abside and Purism Partner to Deliver Secure Mobile Solution for U.S. Government and NATO Countries – 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.
Purism SPC
#purism #cybersecurity #Abside
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Joshua Crawford has moved
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Does that mean that there is a 5g modem for the librem5 that will be available soon?
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Free Soft&Hardware Enthusiast
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what is the status of upgrading the librem 5 pureos to crimson? has this effort been abandoned or will this be pursued?

Just got GNOME Mobile 46 built and running in @postmarketOS on my OP6, here at #GUADEC2024 in Denver, so the folks in Berlin aren't the only ones that can try it out!

Come find me at the BoFs tomorrow if you want to play with it!

Thanks @cas for the help getting it building!

A OnePlus 6 running GNOME mobile 46 on postmarketOS
#guadec2024 @postmarketOS @caleb 🌈

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