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If any of you don't yet know about the Scottish gritters - zoom in and enjoy: traffic.gov.scot/gritter-track…

My favourites both sound like Carry On film names or characters:
- Spready Mercury
- On Her Majesty's Slippery Surface

More names can be found here: scotsman.com/news/scotland/sco…


Scotland Gritter Names: The full list of Scottish gritter names and how to track them as severe weather hits Scotland

Here’s how you can track Scotland’s gritters – including a full list of Scottish gritter names.
Lauren Jack (The Scotsman)

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"Haben Sie denn mal Knochenleitungskopfhörer ausprobiert?" - fremde Leute, die eine gebärdete Konversation im öffentlichen Raum mitbekommen.

(Eine Person vokalisiert teilweise beim Gebärden - manche Schwerhörige oder Ertaubte tun das - und erzählte, dass sie demnächst mit ihrer Nichte in ein Kindermusical geht.)

A: Das ist übergriffig.

B: Es ist wie mit allen Behinderungen, nur weil eure Verwandschaft "das auch hat" wisst ihr nicht (!), was andere Personen brauchen.

#DisabledAlltag

#disabledalltag

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It will never, ever stop annoying me that #SQL has "LEFT" and "RIGHT" joins.

These keywords' names are horribly inaccessible for those with Left–right confusion, which is A REAL THING that affects MANY MILLIONS OF PEOPLE.

Including, yes, myself.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left%E2%…

inability to differentiate left and right directions

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#sql
in reply to Amir E. Aharoni

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Amir E. Aharoni

In general, any usage of the words "left" and "right" in computers is at least a yellow flag, or even a red flag. Anywhere. User interface strings, help pages, visual design documents, programming language keywords, and so on. It's a likely #accessibility problem for people with Left–right confusion and a likely #localization problem for people who read right-left (#RTL) languages. I happen to belong to both groups.

#L10n #A11y

#a11y #Accessibility #l10n #localization #rtl
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André Polykanine

Also it's a huge problem with blind people because in general we don't have notion of left and right, we read all interfaces in a virtual environment line by line (in web) or in tab order (in native dialogs). So "top right" tells nothing, given also that most screen readers place the elements into virtual view in order of *code*, not in visual order. #Accessibility
#Accessibility

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Die Deutsche Bahn mag wohl keine Tandems und Liegeräder? Oder denken die dass das sowieso niemand nutzt?

Die sowieso schon homöopathisch klingende Mitnahmeregelung ("Ausnahmsweise können ... in besonderen Zügen... sofern im Einzelfall ausreichend Platz vorhanden
und die sichere Unterbringung gewährleistet ist.") wird gestrichen zum Fahrplanwechsel.

#fahrradbubble #bahn #bahnbubble #tandem

bahn.de/agb


Beförderungsbedingungen der Deutschen Bahn AG

Laden Sie hier die Beförderungsbedingungen der Deutschen Bahn AG sowie Informationen über länderübergreifende Beförderungsbedingungen und Vertragspartner herunter.
www.bahn.de
#bahn #BahnBubble #tandem #fahrradbubble
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Schaust Du hier: chaos.social/@leah/11585994142…

Leah

2026-01-08 14:26:47

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Leider sind mir jetzt die Ideen ausgegangen die Instanz wieder flotter zu bekommen. Ich hab zwar die ein oder andere Sache gefunden, aber den Durchbruch hat es bisher nicht gebracht. Ich hab jetzt schon etwas über 3 Tage meines Urlaubs da rein investiert und möchte jetzt den Rest des Urlaubs gerne genießen. chaos.social wird also mindesten ein paar Tage weiter hin und wieder slow.social sein. Genießt die Zeit der Entschleunigung und macht am Besten was schönes ohne Social Media.

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NVDA stopped reading characters when I pressed the arrow keys, so I restarted it.
Then it stopped reading text at all in the Thunderbird composer, so I restarted it again.
Then my alt+tab stopped working, so I restarted Explorer.
I'm not exaggerating when I say that I feel like I can't do a single thing on any one of my computing devices without encountering an accessibility or usability problem. I feel like I'm going insane.

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Welcome to the RB family, Presents 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.l…

Presents is an app that helps you keep your wishes organized, and instantly share them with all your friends. Its developer having identified and fixed the final culprit keeping it from being reproducible, it now is :awesome:

#IzzyOnDroid #ReproducibleBuilds


„Presents - A Desired Surprise“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

The ultimate wishlist app to share your wishes with all your friends!
IzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Oh good grief Jensen, just cut to the chase and call them "rebellion-free slaves" already, your target audience know exactly that you mean
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Tom's Hardware (@tomshardware@mastodon.online)

Attached: 1 image Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says robots are 'AI immigrants' that can address labor shortages — can 'do the type of work that maybe we decided not to do anymore' Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, said that a wave of robots will serve as "AI…
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Please boost this post for reach.
Thank you.
Get off the fucking Internet you sun of a bitch!
I know that you are here to stalk us, please stop with this!
I know you are not going to listen to me at this point.
For everyone else, please make sure that your Mastodon profiles are locked for next time.
This is what you get,Ramon Salazar!
Ramón (R) requested to follow you. Totally blind pro-life conservative from Miami, Florida who's a firm believer in The Lord God The Father Alone, God of all gods, God The Father, Father of all fathers and mothers, Lord of all lords, King of all kings and queens, who's Above all, over all, through all, beyond all, around All, between all, in all, in me, in you, in himself too in no one indescribable God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob through Yahusha HaMessiach., 42 seconds ago.
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No matter how secure a system is in theory, it must be put into practice. After all, information security is not a value in itself, but is intended to protect people from unauthorized access to their data.

Find out which aspects are key in this guest article by @nwalfield of the @sequoiapgp project: prototypefund.de/en/blog/zentr…


Centrally managed or decentrally distributed?

Centrally managed or decentrally distributed?
@Neal Walfield @Sequoia PGP

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 6 updated and 2 added apps:

* WiFi Password Manager: uses Shizuku to manage WiFi passwords 🛡️
* PlaneSpotter: shows aircrafts for your locations 🛡️

RB status: 786 apps (61.2%)

1 #Magisk module has been added at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

* Auriya: a performance tweaker written in Rust

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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It's so sad I'm now even more stuck in a loop than I was before. Like, I'm looking forward to the weekend, just to know on monday everything starts again, and that not until some kind of holiday. No, until I decide I take some days off. And I only have a limited amount of days off. Until then, enjoy the 8 hours of office loop. I mean not trying to sound naive or something, yup I guess that's life but I think I'm getting more and more sure that I don't wanna do a plain office/development job my entire life. It's nice to have the apprenticeship and stuff, but I really need to shift fields afterwards, or do something entirely different otherwise I'm the perfect candidate for midlife crises later lol.
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David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

The original yacc had a limitation that it couldn’t complete a parse if the last token was a valid token and required a white space character afterwards. This ended up being incorporated in specifications in a bunch of places. It’s undefined behaviour in C to not end a file with a new line because early C compilers couldn’t handle it. I presume the crontab rule in POSIX is the same. Modern yacc implementations don’t have this limitation and so there’s little reason not to accept things with missing terminating newlines (in both cases, the program is free to accept non-conforming inputs). At the very least, there’s no excuse for not raising an error.

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Time for a midweek tease of the current Other People's Music! This thread offers the first line of each of this week's reviews, along with links to the music, socials and full review.

Don't need a tease? Read the whole thing here:

etherdiver.com/2026/01/02/opm-…

#music #musodon #MusicDiscovery

OPM: A New Start in a New Year – Ether Diver

www.etherdiver.com
#music #musodon #musicdiscovery
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I must be some kind of weirdo because this LONG nerd-fest documentary is REALLY entertaining to me! It's a history of ARP. I consider myself quite jaded and completely immune to most hype. But if it's got voltage-controlled oscillators and a filter and some interesting modulation possibilities, you can bend my ear and I'll listen!! Moog and ARP are still some of my favorite sounds. #arp2600 #analog_synthesizers #synth
youtube.com/watch?v=l31RXiVSI9…

Electromotive - The Story of ARP Instruments

"Electromotive is the definitive documentary charting the rise and demise of one of the world’s most influential and pioneering synth companies. It dives dee...
YouTube
#synth #analog_synthesizers #arp2600
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I've memorized many parts of #Canadian Charter of #Rights and #Freedoms - part of the #Constitution of #Canada. I like to educate poorly educated 'law enforcement' on actual laws & listing the ones they're breaking while trying to silence #dissent against government corruption.

Canadian government - just like any other capitalist driven colonizer exploitive lying government - violated many citizens #humanrights to satisfy the greed of their corporate lobbyists. They do not want a large portion of citizens to be highly educated. They don't want to deal with a whole bunch of highly educated dissenters. They rule over us better, when they're corrupt as fuck - over poorly educated citizens - especially when some sellout/foolish citizens do their BS PR for them.

#CDNpoli #MapleMAGA

#HumanRights #canada #canadian #cdnpoli #rights #constitution #maplemaga #freedoms #dissent
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Send this to all the Substack folks in your life who want to move to Ghost: luma.com/mp1i5386

Lex knows so much about this and can help (and you might end up working with me too in your Ghost migration) (I help out at Outpost coz they are really cool)

#Ghost #Substack


Get started with Outpost for publishers switching to Ghost (Free event)

This is a free event, held in partnership with Outpost Publishers Cooperative. Are you switching to Ghost? Come learn how to use Outpost to get, keep and win back more paying subscribers. Outpost is a marketing and monetization tool for Ghost.
luma.com
#substack #ghost
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Delta Chat

@bmcd this message might be a leftover from a prior version of the channels. The current experimental channels released with v2.35.0 should remain operable also in future releases. But there remains a tiny chance we need to change things in an incompatible way, so therefore the more careful warning/wording.
@users/bmcd
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Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽

I remember when the govt made a law to force porn magazines to have a plastic bag with a black box over the cover images, and now the Government actually endorses a nazi app that undresses girls and spews social discord and disinformation.

A vile social sickness has infected our governments, and they're apparently fine with it.

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I got a new multifunction radio, with the ability to receive AM, FM, VHF and shortwave bands, among other things.
It can also act as a bluetooth audio device, and when it's switched to Bluetooth mode, it plays a shortened version of the Logon sound from Windows 8 of all things.

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I just commented on issue 7751 of the Nextcloud client. Please thumb it up if you agree and boost this post for more range and awareness, that would mean a lot!
github.com/nextcloud/desktop/i…
#a11y #accessibility #blind #nextcloud

The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version.

Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...
SebjuFrab (GitHub)
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #nextcloud

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I often hear Americans & rich brits justify buying oversized, polluting vehicles by claiming they need them because they live in the "countryside".

I call bullshit, Ladies and Gentlemen, allow me to introduce, the Citroen C15⬇

#C15 #carBrain #CarDependency #SUV #NoSUV #Pickup_truck

A Citroen C15 van
#carDependency #CarBrain #suv #c15 #NoSUV #pickup_truck
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#selfhosting week 1, phase 3B bis: Disappointment.
Subscribed to a Ionos vps in alternative to Hostinger, but the interface is much, much more complex (I'm referring to the vps and domains management) - thought Hostinger was the worst.
But, if accessibility declaration on Hostinger says "partially accessible" giving an e-mail address (not dedicated, it's the generic support), Ionos makes me point to an Italian paragraph where they claim barrier-free then says "for support, contact us through contact form", redirecting to a German accessibility page where NO FORM is displayed. Is it this way to treat customers?
Does @fsfe and @EUCommission have something to say? These are fake accessibility declarations.
You can't say you respect all customers, when you make your showcase site mostly accessible but most important feature (the vps/firewall management panels) impossible to use. To give an example, the "edit" button for a single firewall rule is labeled as "y", the delete is "]", the add rule is "@" ... Not to say that @yunohost on Ionos creates ipv6 issues, the port TCP 25 is closed and I need to call them with EXACTLY my phone number to have them open the port for me...
I must definitely try to talk to them and start the refund procedure.
Unfortunately though, Ionos would give me 240 gb hard disk for storage while hostinger, even upgrading, would give me 100.
WTF. #accessibility #blind #frustration #selfhost #vps
#Accessibility #blind #selfhost #selfhosting #vps #frustration @Free Software Foundation Europe @YunoHost @European Commission
in reply to André Polykanine

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Elena Brescacin

@menelion I had to listen to my best friend on this topic. "double resources/storage for half the price, where's the trap?" Alex is right once again even without knowing a single letter of Linux, hosting, shared vs. vps, and all that stuff.
Another big issue I had, was that you can assign an IPV6 address to your server, but then you must MANUALLY configure it by editing a file. /etc/network/interfaces or /etc/netplan. I found the documentation confusing and it is a very risky operation, you can unblock it through the ionos remote console, but, what about accessibility of that one?
It's like a guy telling me we're completely safe, and he has a condom in hand. A condom with braille dots on it to make it accessible. Got the idea?
Note for non-braillists: the Braille dots, in paper, are made through a pin which causes a hole on one side, the dot on the other.
@André Polykanine

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Steve Russell—the man who made the first video game—is still alive. Not a myth. Not a footnote. Walking around, same as the rest of us.

In 1962, Russell coded Spacewar! on the DEC PDP-1 at MIT. It spread fast. So fast that it directly led to the formation of Atari. Their first arcade release, Computer Space was essentially Spacewar! shoved into a coin-op cabinet.

Russell didn’t stop there. He wrote the first two implementations of Lisp. He later taught Bill Gates and Paul Allen how to use a computer.

Video games. Programming languages. Microsoft.

Same guy. Still alive.

A close-up of a vintage PDP-1 computer display running *Spacewar!*, shown on a circular CRT screen inside an angular metal housing. Green vector lines and glowing dots form a starfield with two small spacecraft maneuvering around a central gravity well. The room is dim, with the machine sitting on a table alongside papers and pens, emphasizing the early, experimental era of computer gaming.
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