PerlBod just chucked some chorizo in the cauliflower cheese we had for dinner this evening.
I think I'm in love 💜
@sun I remember when they actually debunked this but the internet still didn't believe it and still keeps pretending that this was a thing
> They told us the death was initially recorded as a COVID-19 death after the victim tested positive. After the medical examiner and epidemiologist reviewed the death, they say they removed it from the COVID fatality list.
the claim is that you can show that the inclusion process is incredibly bad and permissive not that there were secretly one million motorcycle crashes skewing covid numbers. people found a particularly bad one, and only AFTER a specific one was found, they got embarrassed and removed that single one.
furthermore tons of studies are based on scraping VAERS and there is no pre-verification at all.
@sun
> the claim is that you can show that the inclusion process is incredibly bad and permissive
but that's the way it should be. It's easier to go back and audit and remove entries that are not qualified, but it's going to be nearly impossible to find the ones you missed and record them properly, right?
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Hoy tenemos la comida de navidad.
Misión: evitar sentarse con la superioridad.
It is now, or, depending on your Timezone, just was, John Mastodon Day.
Here’s an appropriate song for the celebration. Enjoy!
John Mastodon (ft. Andre Louis [@Onj])
~#Dgar
dgar.bandcamp.com/track/john-m…
Grab a copy. It’s free.
#DgarMusic #JohnMastodonDay #JohnMastodon #Dgar #Music #Anthem #Bandcamp
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There has been a lot of talk about "raccoon domestication" lately because of one sciencey article discussing it and I saw there was this TikTok or whatever video with a caption like "I'm a raccoon biologist and this is why raccoon domestication is never gonna happen"
Ok sorry you lost me there you are a "raccoon biologist"? I'll believe raccoons can talk before I believe you have a full time career as a "raccoon biologist". There's no way you're making a living in that speciality this has to be a hoax video
Top 5 #accessibility improvements in #GNOME Calendar 49:
1. Focus indicators were added in various places
2. Events are focusable with a keyboard
3. Year/month spin buttons are navigable with arrow keys
4. Calendar grids are skippable with Tab, and cells are wrapped via keyboard focus
5. Calendar list box now behaves like a check box
For screen readers: events and year/month spin buttons have proper semantics!
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Thank you to:
@TheEvilSkeleton (tesk.page/#donate) - who developed the features.
@nekohayo - who outlined all the accessibility issues in detail, and testing it thoroughly.
@tyrylu - who explained how to use some of the accessibility APIs in GTK.
Georges Stavracas - who is single-handedly maintaining the codebase and reviewed the contributions.
and many other contributors.
Welcome to my personal website! My name is Hari Rana (pronounced as Harry). I’m a 24-year-old transgender developer and content writer from Montréal, Canada, and use any/all pronouns.TheEvilSkeleton
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Fancy a digital chastity belt?
The UK government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.
Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.
It's creepy mission creep.
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#surveillance #ageverification #privacy #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple #google
Government seeks “nudity-detection algorithms” in iOS and Android, report says.Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
> Don’t buy this program unless you have lots of RAM to spare. The program itself wants 8 MB (minimum is 6 MB) and you must run a browser alongside it.
This was 30 years ago. Today we have chat programs that want a thousand times this amount of RAM.
Kiddo: 🐀 I've been playing a lot of Kitsune Tails lately
Me: 🦝 Oh aye? What do you think of it, I'll tell the developer
🐀 ...😯 you KNOW the developer?
🦝 We're mutuals on Mastodon
🐀 *jumping in her seat* OH MY GOD
🦝 😏 heheh yeah your dad's kind of a big deal 😏
🐀 OH MY GODDD
This is why you need to buy indie games
Across India, 118 million adult women in 12 states now receive unconditional cash transfers from their governments, making India the site of one of the world's largest and least-studied social-policy experiments.
Long accustomed to subsidising grain, fuel and rural jobs, India has stumbled into something more radical: paying adult women simply because they keep households running, bear the burden of unpaid care and form an electorate too large to ignore.
bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9ez3k…
Some 118 million women in 12 Indian states receive unconditional cash transfers, one of the world’s largest experiments.Soutik Biswas (BBC News)
Another milestone for us at Icelandic Met Office 🎉
This week we launched a new site with #avalanche forecasts and conditions, including recent avalanches. A major update was required in the background, migrating to #Postgres and building the APIs and of course the website handled by our friends at Origo & Metall with maps from MapTiler
FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.FediHost.co
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Two reasons why I think it's unwise to move from Firefox.
First, browser engine diversity matters. If all browsers become chromium skins, this gives Google a very unfortunate amount of power. It can affect web standards, de facto web use, all kinds of things; and there's no guarantee chromium will keep being freely released.
Second, pretty much any other possible alternative is worse across a set of metrics that involve accessibility, access to source code, privacy, and safety.
Servo is promising, but a11y isn't there; so it may as well not exist for me.
Base DBus XML interfaces for accessibility, the accessibility registry daemon, and atspi library.GitLab
The issue for this delightful behaviour:
github.com/InfiArtt/accessify-…
Having just installed the latest version of the add-on (1.6.0), the new global keyboard layer only works once for me and then can no longer be invoked until NVDA is restarted or plug-ins are reload...jscholes (GitHub)
@Bri I don't fully agree with you on this one. The add-on is legitimately useful when it works, and the alternative would be a separate (probably huge) app with global keyboard input, gesture remapping, speech output, etc. needing to be rebuilt.
That said, it does a lot of add-on stuff wrong, like implementing its own autoupdate mechanism for some reason. And the whole not currently working thing.
the way it works is that whenever someone you follow makes a post their server notifies ours about it so we can pull it into your feed.
When our server is offline, the remote server will try again periodically for a while until it gives up completely or gets in touch.
So the bald patch in your timeline should be filling back up.
My issue with firefox soft forks is that even in their most ideal form, they can only be reactive harm-reduction, and any reasonable fork necessitates compromises that introduce some amount of risk (delayed security updates, compromised trust anchors etc.)
Perhaps that is the best anyone can do within reasonable costs.
Perhaps the only affordable proactive actions we can take is to reinforce that front against future inevitable assaults.
Perhaps that must be enough. I wish it were not so.
I've spent time this year gaming out other possible strategies with people. Because the question of "no seriously how do we move forward in a world where every single mainstream browser engine is aligned towards making the web worse?" is one of the important ones.
The only viable path I can see requires that a collection of organizations/soft-forks commit to co-maintaining a shared base browser fork of firefox (something like the base browser used by Tor for TB and Mullvad)
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