I'm tired of the US threatening my country. I don't have much power, but I'm at least going to stop paying the US for tech services, and invest that money into other services instead. Today I switched my search engine & stopped paying for US cloud storage.
I wanna get back into learning the bagpipes, i got a practice chanter but not sure if any tutorial/lesson videos are blind friendly. #bagpipes #PracticeChanter #blind
Looking at the #Grammy nominees this morning. On a whim, we decided to look at best arrangement. Glad we did! This is gold! Super Mario Praise Break : youtube.com/watch?si=K2atEiZeN…
THIS ARRANGEMENT HAS JUST BEEN NOMINATED FOR THE 2026 GRAMMY AWARDS in the category of Best Arrangement: Instrumental or A Cappella!! THANK YOU ALL!Luigi loc...
Show us by your actions, not just words! So far you've shown in your actions, both for those with #MobilityImpairments on Captchas and for #blind users a screenreader issue, that your platform is not at all about #DigitalIndependence or real change, unless you've got neither disability set nor anyone you communicate with does.
#DisabledPeople are the subset of the population most denied our independence and yet which is most easily helped by modern technology, so this slight on your part is a continuation of the larger problem set, not a legitimate change to the status quo. #DisabilityAccessibility #DisabilityRights
@BrahmaBelarusian "convince your friends to join…" Nope, sorry not sorry. Not only will I never encourage anyone to join an inaccessible solution, but I'll always discourage anyone I can and tell everyone to avoid it at all costs. Also, there's EAA, the European Accessibility Act. I won't sue you of course, just don't have enough money, time and motivation. P.S. Also cool, my account was marked as sending spam emails, although I've never used it basically and I've never given it to anyone, so now I can't even log in to show one or two most prominent accessibility issues. Just another argument to convince people to join, I believe 😂 #Accessibility
@menelion The continued bashing of #Protonmail which is a little better on the #ScreenReader issue but identical in the #Captcha problem doesn't exactly help their cause on this front.
At this point I won't really recommend #disabled users switch to either one of these still very different platforms myself, because of this needed improvement.
Tuta, I hope you are listening here. Even with the best intentions, if you exclude a certain segment of the population then you will never get the buy in you want. And especially nowadays with the awareness of web accessibility, there really are no more valid excuses not to be.
XMPP is listed at the ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) as an alternative chat option and the community created switch recipes to enable users to migrate to independent messaging.
The German initiative ‘Digital Independence Day’ (DI.DAY) has been kicked off this year to enable users to migrate to open-source software alternatives in various contexts. Beside others XMPP is listed as an alternative chat option and …
Das würde in der Männer #Bundesliga sicherlich nicht passieren - "Spielerin, die schon vor ein paar Tagen zum #HSV wechselte, ist halt noch nicht im System angelegt?"
On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses.
Enough is enough.
is such a celebrity that just minutes after his presentation has started, the greatest hall of FOSDEM had to be closed for late newcomers. Well, hoped last talk in person, but couldn't fit inside. Online it is less cool, at least network can finally handle video stream.
Wo finde ich eine Anleitung zu Friendica-Nachrichten-Relais?
Relaisserver sind großartig, um Inhalte in deinem Server zu verbreiten, besonders für kleine Server - stimmt! Entsprechend würde ich nach dem Tod von gup.pe gerne ein Nachrichten-Relais aufsetzen, welches Beiträge mit #Brettspiele auf kleinen Instanzen sichtbar macht. Nur: Wo finde ich eine Anleitung, was nach Festsetzung des Kontotyps zu tun ist? Und wieso kann ein Relais-Konto keinem anderen Relais-Konto folgen? Hier erscheint neuerdings die Fehlermeldung
Dies scheint ein Relais-Konto zu sein. Diese können nicht von Nutzern gefolgt werden.
@Oliver hat Relay in Friendica noch eine andere Bedeutung? Ich kenne das nur in Zusammenhang mit ganzen Servergruppen folgen. z.B. relay.rollenspiel.monster/
@Oliver @Tealk Relaisserver und Kanalrelais sind zwei unterschiedlichen Sachen. Kanalrelais sind Nutzerkonnten reposten nur Beiträge die anhand eines Filters auf den der Instanz bekannten Seiten finden. Also normaler User kannst du diesen Kanalrelais folgen. Aber die Instanz selber kann den Kanalrelais nicht folgen.
Kanalrelais kann, wenn es der Admin erlaubt, eine User selber anlegen. Relaisserver kann aber nur der Admin hinzufügen damit die Instanz von denen Beiträge bekommt oder sie weiterverteilen.
in going through a bunch of old files in my downloads folder, I found an old zip of the source code for fleksy/flicktype Any iOS coders or Vibe Coders want this to hack on? It was open source for a while until he close sourced it for some reason. I have no idea what state the source is in, I just remember grabbing it thinking I bet it'll be useful some day when he pulls the source off gh. I can tell you the date I got the zzip from github was 6/16/2018 So if someone wants to be a hero and revive flicktype let me know and I'll send the archive.
It's convenient to think that boycotts don't work because then we can just keep buying whatever we want. But boycotts often do work. As recently as a few months ago pressure was put on Disney for suspending Jimmy Kimmel. There's a much longer history of successful boycotts. Ever heard of Rosa Parks?
Of course, #Apple is HUGE. Even more reason to stop giving them all the money. No one forces you to buy a new iPhone every other year or subscribe to AppleTV.
X and Grok are still on the Apple App Store, the safest and most trusted place to get apps (citation: Apple marketing materials). https://9to5mac.com/2026/01/28/as-37-us-states-respond-to-grok-csam-problem-apple-really-needs-to-act/
If Apple-focused YouTubers and podcasters are actually fed up and as disgusted as they often profess to their audiences, they should step over the line and actually call for a boycott. There's no shortage of reasons at this point. Start naming specific grievances, list them out. Repeat them. And use the word boycott over and over.
Move on from criticism. If ever there was a time for #tech media folk to actually take a stand, 2026 is that time. Passive "reporting" helps #Apple. Do better.
If you're an #Apple user that doesn't like Tim Cook's fascist booklicking and if you've seen enough of Apple's increasingly fucked up conduct, stop giving them your money.
- Stop using Apple subscription services like Music, AppleTV, etc - Move your data out of iCloud. Start gradually, find other services (YES, they do exist) and gradually downgrade your iCloud plan. - Stop upgrading hardware. Use what you have until it no longer works. You don't need the latest, greatest new thing.
Performed by Yan Tabachnik and his band "Новый День".Please turn on the captions to sing along.Thanks for watching!If you're willing to make a donation, you ...
#Fedra is now on GitHub releases! Beta 2 gives you some new hotkeys for switching timelines and interacting with threads, makes the binary smaller, fixes deleting posts, and a couple other small tweaks. github.com/trypsynth/fedra/rel…
@JonathanMosen Also, as excited as I am about how far you can go with just one executable in this new tech stack, you may eventually hit some constraint that forces you to ship other files as well.
No, Elon Musk is NOT serious about putting a million data centres into orbit. It can't work: laws of physics say "nope".
But SpaceX is expected to go public this year.
Elon is talking up his company's future prospects in front of gullible investors because he needs a growth narrative beyond Starlink, which is already priced in. Something to justify the Starship proram beyond NASA's lunar ambitions.
hay gente a la que denomino gente ping. Su misión en la vida es hacer ping a la gente, como si fueran servidores. —Hola —Hola —¿Qué tal?—Bien, tú?—Yo también, me alegro.Y ahí acaba la conversación. Ping exitoso.
Gerade Info-Mail bekommen: Die Antidiskriminierungsstelle des Bundes sucht weitere Teilnehmende für ihre Umfrage zu Diskriminierungserfahrungen. Die Umfrage läuft noch bis 28.02. und ist in verschiedenen Sprachen verfügbar. Vor allem werden noch Jugendliche ab 14 Jahren für die Teilnahme gesucht, da diese Gruppe noch unterrepräsentiert sei.
How did we end up in the timeline where instead of writing a note on a post-it and sticking it to the door one needs A HUNDRED THOUSAND GPUS WHICH COST A TRILLION DOLLARS AND BURN A TERAWATT OF POWER WHILE GIVING ZERO FUCKS ABOUT COPYRIGHT OR CONSENT?
Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
Some genius made his AI remind him to get milk in the morning and it used up his $20 account balance overnight because it kept checking if it was morning every 30 minutes. Lmao. “AI”
#seattle is in the #superbowl and I couldn't think of a more perfect birthday present than a personalized item, unique experiences, or a practical item tailored to my specific hobbies and interests.
@mattmay we met at a Seattle "scripting enabled" meetup, and hung out at CSUN occasionally. Many years ago. I have a vivid memory of a Karaoke bar in San Diego with taps of sticky slushies.
They spent $40 million making it, and $35 million marketing it, and as expected it earns only $5 million.
But on the bright side, old Jeff gets to support the Trump crime family without people boycotting Amazon and burning down his stores — the way they torched Teslas after Musk got Trump elected — because this new money transfer is a bit more opaque.
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It could actually be seen as having overperformed at $2,9 million.
Estimates were $1-5 million and this projects to around $5m.
I can't paste that. Did you select all in the text file instead of select all >copy >paste? if so, do a quick post edit and do that instead. The data's a bit different and will parse properly. I'm curious...
I'm doing another update which will mean that CTRL+Shift+C copies the clipboard with more metadata including tempo and title, this is made for sharing. I cannot believe that I accidentally vibe-coded a music sharing platform...
Лучи ненависти сервису HCaptcha и тем, кто его использует. Ситуация: надо пройти челенж. "Вслепую" челенж пройти, как вы понимаете, невозможно. Но HCaptcha хорошие. HCaptcha заботливые. HCaptcha сердобольные. HCaptcha придумали как незрячие могут пройти челенж! Они придумали устанавливать кастомный Cookie-файл в браузер, по которому, в последствии, фрейм проверяет и скипает задачу. Ну, это они так думают. Наивные. В реальности фрейм HCaptcha упорно утверждает, что куки-файла нет. Установил. Куки-файла нет. Еще раз установил. Куки-файла нет. Еще раз. Нет. "Вы использовали разрешенное на сегодня количество файлов cookie." Спасибо, бл*дь! Горите в аду! Есть же Recaptcha, ну что вам неймется-то? Аааа! Задница полыхает, что твой вечный огонь.
О, Денис! Привет! У нас в англоязычных слепецких кругах её называют обычно либо HateCaptcha, либо HellCaptcha. Надеюсь, что их кто-нибудь таки засудит за их псевдодоступность.
Да сомневаюсь. Доступность есть? Есть. Работает? Ну, раз есть, значит работает. Тестировалось? Ну, у нас тестировалось. Жалобы есть? Ну, есть, но мы же не боги.
Right, so I got the Pixel 6 Pro and like 5 additional cases for 50 bucks, battery has been replaced with an original, the screen has a few dead pixels, but the guy even gave me the old screen and battery. Now I have a device to test Graphene OS on, yippi.
Re: last boost (dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…) about Fedra, @TheQuinbox's new Mastodon client, what makes this project notable to me is that it's written in Rust and uses wxDragon, a project to provide Rust bindings for wxWidgets. The result is a desktop application with top-tier accessibility for screen reader users, in a self-contained executable that's quite small by modern standards (~10 MB for Fedra). I hope this project will become a reference for future applications by and for blind people.
Note: Fedra is currently Windows-only. There are some complications in using wx to create non-trivial accessible interfaces across the three major desktop platforms. I'm sure Quin will work those out over time.
This is also a resounding success story for Cargo, Rust's build system. I just pulled Quin's repo, updated my Rust stable toolchain, then ran "cargo build --release". That was it. Out popped a stand-alone executable. On Windows! "Fused silicon", to use @glyph's old metaphor (blog.glyph.im/2006/04/fused-si…), has never been easier. Granted, this is my dev box, so I already had a recent Visual Studio installed, but I don't recall having to do much if any futzing with it.
I do realize, that as @glyph pointed out much more recently, a stand-alone executable isn't the whole story, especially on non-Windows platforms. blog.glyph.im/2023/03/no-exe-i… We need packaging, digital signing, notarization on macOS, etc. But there's work happening on that stuff in the Rust ecosystem as well. For example (and I haven't yet seriously looked at this): github.com/crabnebula-dev/carg…
@glyph Much better than how Paperback used to work, make sure you clone with the submodules, then init vcpkg, then make sure you're in a dev cmd prompt, and then run these three commands. Cargo is one of the things that keeps me coming back to Rust, despite me finding other languages that have draw in their own ways.
Can anyone recommend a citation software that is easy to use? I need something like this for my homework assignments. Does anyone have any experience with this? Boosts appreciated. #software #accessibility #citation
I just saw a short on Youtube about how many musicians find it hard to tell the difference between an augmented and a diminished chord. To me, it's pretty obvious, not because I have a firm grasp of music theory. I really don't. It's always been sub-par. I just play things that sound good to me. The reason it's obvious to me is because of the Casio SK-1 I had as a kid. It had dedicated keys for different types of chords, and someone once told me what they all were, probably when I was about four years old. Stuff like that sticks around forever.
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