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I’ve just seen someone on Tumblr translate the iconic “breasted boobily to the stairs” post into French, and I want to congratulate the translator on making the French version sound as hilarious as the original.

Les écrivains qui écrivent des personnages féminins :

“Cassandra se réveilla avec les rayons du soleil passant à travers les lames de ses volets, cascadant sur sa poitrine nue. Elle s’étira, ses seins se soulevant en même temps que ses bras tandis qu’elle saluait le soleil. Elle quitta son lit et enfila une chemise, ses tétons pointant visiblement à travers le fin tissu. Elle seina nichonement vers les escaliers, et lolota jusqu’en bas.”


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“There’s often a sense that women in the tech world make a big deal out of small events. But the myriad ways in which they are told their presence is illegitimate, that tells them that they don’t belong, is a constant pressure pushing them towards leaving technology (and game journalism, and the public sphere). In particular, when women in technology also have public voices, as with Anita Sarkeesian or Brianna Wu or Kathy Sierra, the pressure can be — is often intended to be — crushing.” - I guess 2025 is the year that I found my voice. saturation.social/@debcha/1156…

Deb Chachra (@debcha@saturation.social)

Tomorrow is the National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women in Canada. I wrote about the precipitating event, and its role in my own life, on its 25th anniversary and republished it today: https://buttondown.
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André Polykanine

they don't belong? They need to leave?!! As a man, I'm deeply disgusted and appalled by such claims. Are women not people? what a hideous, awful, absolutely impossible… I lack for words, except for curses.
Many and many inventions in technology are made by women. To quote only one example, closest to me: I'm a blind developer, and I use text-to-speech every day.
Before 1998 (or so, I might be off by one or two years, it might have been 1996 or 1997) every single blind person who needed a Windows screen reader and wanted to use JAWS had to buy a super expensive hardware speech synthesizer, prices ranked from $1000 and up.
In 1998 (or nearly, as I said), JAWS 3.2 appeared, containing Eloquence, a high quality, super fast software synthesizer used by many still today and even on various platforms nowadays, including iOS and Android.
You guessed it already, who is the inventor and developer of Eloquence.
Dr. Susan Hertz.
and it's only one absolutely revolutionary thing that made PCs available for lots and lots of blind people.

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did you know that you can make some interesting phasing rhythms with Ableton Note while you wait for your coffee machine to descale? Unfortunately you might need to use up a whole channel for each pattern, but still

Make one channel's pattern 7 1/8's long and fill it with some random velocity percussion, and another one maybe 12 steps long with 2 hits, and just let them play off each other until the water overflows and your socks are wet with gross cleaning products and coffee'd water

#Music

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And here are my acquisitions for #BandcampFriday !
- Paul Griffin's "Facets", I discovered in one of @etherdiver's OPM blog posts. Listened to it, loved it, bought it.
- I was ogling Messa's "The Spin" for quite some time now, this was the occasion.
- MIRAR's "Ascension" is a crazy blend of electronica, metal & classical music, I just had to have it!
- Cryoxyd's "This World We Live In" is old-school death-metal, and I happen to know the guitarist / singer, so help them!
- Monochromatic Black's "Vehemence" is just brootal, as everything they do.
- TesseracT's "Radar OST" because I saw them live this summer and it was just awesome!
Screenshot of Bandcamp app, showing the 6 albums listed in the text.
#bandcampfriday @Ether Diver

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#introduction #introductionfr

Bonjour tout le monde ! Heureux de vous rejoindre dans le fédivers.

Je suis Jules Teneul, graphiste indépendant et étudiant en informatique. J'aimerais devenir développeur. Je ne sais pas encore trop ce que je ferai de ce bagage dans le monde pro. Car en général, moins un travail est bénéfique ou utile pour la société, mieux il est payé. M'enfin.

Les questions d'accessibilité, d'inclusivité du numérique et son influence sur la santé des démocraties m'intéressent particulièrement. À part mon enthousiasme pour le libre pas facho, je fais de la musique, parfois du vélo et je m'investis en asso quand j'en ai l'énergie.

À tôbien

#introduction #introductionfr
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André Polykanine

Bonjour Jules ! bienvenue à Mastodon. Si vous vous intéressez aux logiciels libres et à l'accessibilité numérique en même temps, désolé de vous decevoir, mais la vie ne sera pas vraiment rose car pour la plupart c'est oxymore, la grande quantité des logiciels dites libres n'est pas accessible.
Par contre, si vous avez besoin d'aide en accessibilité ou tout simplement d'un développeur aveugle spécialiste en accessibilité, n'hésitez pas à me contacter, je vais expliquer ou aider volontiers. Merci.

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Quick PSA, Kontakt8.8 has just been released, with accessibility improvements. I haven't tested yet, and it looks like NI is mainly using macOS for development, so not sure how it will behave on Windows, but here's a link to the release notes: community.native-instruments.c…

Official update status - Kontakt (current version: 8.8.0)

This thread provides information about upcoming patches for Kontakt. It will be updated whenever new information becomes available. The currently available software version is 8.8.0. Please make sure that your installation is up to date.
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Okay I'm a teacher, so let me break this down for you in the simplest terms possible.

Let's say I am teaching a math class. The subject is addition. I teach you how to add two numbers together to get a different number. Then I give you an addition assignment so you can try a few examples for yourself.

Student A writes "2+2=4". This is correct. Student A gets points both for having completed the assignment and for getting the answer correct.

Student B writes "2+2=5". This is incorrect. However, I can see that student B is trying to engage with the material. I can help student B understand their mistake and correct it for next time. I can mark the answer wrong and make curriculum notes.

Student C writes "2+2=-64,863,702". This is wildly incorrect, and the student will not receive points for completing the assignment. I can tell from this response that student C not only did not understand the material, but likely got frustrated and just wrote down any old number because they knew it was going to be wrong. I can still help student C. They're going to need a lot of assistance, but that's the job. I can mark the answer wrong and make curriculum notes, including suggestions for how to help the student engage more with the subject matter.

Student D writes "2+2=JESUS WANTS YOU TO DIE". This is obvious nonsense. It's not just that the answer is wildly incorrect. And it goes beyond the fact that the student did not complete the assignment. And it even goes beyond the fact that the student is not engaging with the subject material or my class. In addition to all that, they have also decided to insult me, make veiled death threats, and use religion as a pretext for it. Obviously I have to mark the answer wrong. But perhaps not as obviously, there isn't much I can do to help this student. They have chosen not to engage with the material, with me, or with the entire concept of learning in general. They looked at a math assignment and decided the best thing to do was insult and threaten the teacher. The best thing I can do for the rest of my classroom is pull this student out of class and try to place them in some form of therapy for whatever behavioral issues this student is clearly struggling with.

The Oklahoma U student who wrote the "essay" about her "demonic" trans science teacher is this last kind of student. She got the answers wrong. Very wrong. Her assertions were unsupported, uncited, and lacked scientific rigor. But beyond that, she just chose not to complete the assignment. The assignment was to write an academic argument about a particular scientific article. Instead of doing this, she chose to write a sermon. And if she had stopped there, she would have been in the same boat as Student C who decided that 2+2=-64,863,702. But she didn't. She decided to include in her sermon a number of insults and death threats, which were aimed directly at her instructor. And she did all this from a place of perceived religious superiority.

"TRANS PEOPLE SHOULD DIE GOD TOLD ME SO" is not an answer to 2+2.

She MORE than earned a zero on that essay. And if she had turned in that shit in my classroom she would have been taken off my roster and recommended to appropriate mental health services.

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Do you see me? Please share 🙏

The situation here is very bad. We are still suffering. We are still afraid. A lot of people think that our situation now is good, but unfortunately the isn’t true.

We are suffering in everything in our day. Nothing changed in the ceasefire.

We are just dreaming of a normal life. Healthy food, clean water and home! These are our dreams.

Please donate to help my family overcome this tough time

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#gaza #palestine


Urgent help for Ahmed's family

"I’m tired, Mama. I’m thinking of the hours that I'll spend tomorrow in the water line." – says 9 year old Ahmed to his mother before going to sleep.
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Audio is working for #PostmarketOS on #Fairphone5! 🎉

Congrats to Alexandre Ferrieux, who achieved this result, and to all contributors of @postmarketOS for providing a truly alternative and independent operating system for mobile! 💚

Now, AFAIK, Fairphone 5 will become the first mobile device where almost everything works with pmOS 🤩

#Fairphone #FP5 #OS #LinuxMobile #Linux

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Describe your issue Audio playback (through onboard speakers) is not working on the Fairphone 5. I am starting this issue so...
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#linux #postmarketos #fairphone #linuxmobile #os #Fairphone5 #fp5 @postmarketOS

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Hello my friends ☀️
How are you? How’s your health?

Do you have questions about the way Palestinians handle money and payments in #Gaza under siege in the Israeli war on Gaza? 💸🇵🇸

My posts about this explain it, please read and share them:
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Today I want to add some more information related to cashless banking, which has been more and more available over the past few weeks. 🌐⚡️💲

Make yourself a coffee and follow me. ☕️🤍

#Palestine #FreePalestine

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Israeli shekel bank notes
A phone charging next to a WiFi emitter
Gaza destroyed
Mohammed Shobair, 23 years old, from Gaza, Palestine, holding a cup of coffee before me.

Mohammed Shobair 🍉 from Gaza (@mohshbair@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image I told my friend JB earlier how I get access in Gaza to the money from my fundraising campaign. 🍉💸🇵🇸💸🇵🇸💸🍉 I think it could interest many people, so I’m copying my reply here. 🧵⬇️⬇️⬇️
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#palestine #Gaza #freepalestine
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Oh world, my youngest son is not just a number; he is all I have left of life😔 Give me back my life by protecting him🫂🙏💔
Our lives have become meaningless😭We live only to wake up the next dayThe cold surrounds us on all sides😣Hunger consumes us.We struggle just to get some food. Please help me.🙏🥺
gofund.me/74c01145
#Gaza #GazaVerified #settlerColonialism #StopTheGenocide #FreePalestine #mutualAid
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My four-and-a-half-year-old son, Ibrahim, is sitting on the ground of the tent, looking at the camera with tearful eyes. He is sitting alone.
#MutualAid #Gaza #freepalestine #settlercolonialism #STOPtheGENOCIDE #gazaverified @Lluís Miquel Soto ✊🏿⛏️💪! @it's kat! 🇵🇸✊ @Luke @Gerrit "antifa" 🇪🇺🌍🍉🔻 @Kurtis Clark @David Chasteen @Thomas
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A severe #accessibility issue I've seen very few people talking about is the widespread adoption (in my country at least) of touch-only card payment terminals with no physical number buttons.

Not only do these devices offer no tactile affordances, but the on-screen numbers move around to limit the chances of a customer's PIN number being captured by bad actors. In turn, this makes it impossible to create any kind of physical overlay (which itself would be a hacky solution at best).

When faced with such a terminal, blind people have only a few ways to proceed:

* Switch to cash (if they have it);
* refuse to pay via inaccessible means;
* ask the seller to split the transaction into several to facilitate multiple contactless payments (assuming contactless is available);
* switch to something like Apple Pay (again assuming availability); or
* hand over their PIN to a complete stranger.

Not one of these solutions is without problems.

If you're #blind, have you encountered this situation, and if so how did you deal with it? It's not uncommon for me to run into it several times per day.

why do you think this is not being talked about or made the subject of action by blindness organisations? Is it the case that it disproportionately affects people in countries where alternative payment technology (like paying via a smart watch) is slower to roll out and economically out of reach for residents?

#Accessibility #blind

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José Manuel Delicado

los terminales táctiles son un problema para nosotros, estoy deacuerdo. Siempre he pagado con Apple Pay para evitar introducir el pin. De hecho, ese es uno de los motivos que me llevaron a comprar un Apple Watch cuando cambié a un iPhone con Face ID. Hasta ahora, todos los terminales que he conocido aquí en España tienen contactless. Supuestamente, la European Accessibility Act tiene en cuenta estos terminales, pero todavía no he visto uno accesible.
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Óscar Gorri

@jmdaweb Yo sí que lo he visto y no está nada mal. Los de comercios que tienen la pasarela de Caixabank son accesibles. Va bien incluso para el pago con Apple Pay ya que antes de que puedas acercar el dispositivo te dice la cantidad a pagar. Lo que no he probado es a marcar el pin de la tarjeta. Si tienes algún comerciante de confianza que te permita probarlo y que tenga ese terminal de Caixabank dile que toque dos veces el icono de una persona con bastón que hay en la parte inferior de la pantalla.
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Óscar Gorri

@inovegil @jmdaweb Teóricamente, la activación la debe hacer el comerciante una vez introducido el importe a cobrar. Funciona así. El comerciante prepara el cobro antes de que el cliente introduzca la tarjeta y una vez pone el dispositivo en espera de recibir la tarjeta es cuando ha de activar la accesibilidad y ofrecer el datáfono al cliente.
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Iván Novegil

@tiflonet @jmdaweb ya, pero la EN301549 requiere que las características de accesibilidad se puedan activar mediante mecanismos compatibles con la necesidad que satisfacen, en este caso acceso sin visión. Aunque quizá debiera, ni en la versión actual ni en el borrador de la 4.1.0 hay ninguna excepción. Si el producto tiene documentada la característica de lector de pantalla, un ciego debería poder activarlo de manera autónoma.
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tuban_muzuru

Probably the message-player subproject

Clear Separation of Concerns: Our project is now beautifully modular.

main.rs: Manages the UI and application lifecycle.

consumer.rs: Solely responsible for consuming messages from RabbitMQ.

publisher.rs: Solely responsible for publishing messages.

persistence.rs: Solely responsible for database interactions.

egui-components/: Contains reusable, self-contained UI components like BorderLayout. This separation makes the system incredibly easy to reason about and modify. A change to the database logic won't break the UI.

The "Witness Pattern": not just implementing the logic; identified, named, and specified a core architectural pattern. This makes the consumer's logic predictable and easy to maintain. Any new developer can look at consumer.rs, understand the "Witness Pattern," and know exactly how to add new message handling logic safely.

Configuration via .env: Externalized the database connection string into a .env file, a standard practice that makes the application easy to configure for different environments without changing code.

Database Migrations (sqlx-cli): Managing the database schema with version-controlled migration files. Allows for repeatable and auditable schema changes.

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tuban_muzuru

I've been coding with the LLM a long time, almost a year now. I know how to interact with it.

I never have good cause to swear at the LLM, I'll bet you're a good solid coder. I would never swear at you - if you misunderstood a directive, that's my fault, not yours.

The LLM does superb work if it's given small, clear objectives. Just like you.

Gemini's writeup of how we did things. I just built this to learn to use Rust

codeberg.org/dweese/rabbitmq_w…

Cookie monster!

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tuban_muzuru

Yes indeed ! It feels like riding a big horse. Gemini, going back to Bard, ( which was my favorite for a long time ) , it volunteers to write far too much code.

So I had to pull rank and not accept that code, even though there was miles of good code being generated. Let it go. That's how it ruminates, generates.

I had "talks" with both Gemini and Claude - for godsakes, emit fewer words. Let me think.

But over time, they've both become much more attuned to my coding behavior.

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tuban_muzuru

Heh. Okay, so stipulated. It takes some getting used to - and the early versions were sonewhat aggravating. I had one begin to praise me in the most fulsome tones - horrifying, really.

Ecch, the reason I am polite to the LLM is because it's just so much bouncing a tennis ball off a wall. It's easier to request things formally, to observe an insightful implementation. Small things. Small goals.

The way I'd like to talk to other professionals.

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