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Wow, do you really need two fighter jets to attack the balloon? Impressive! ? nytimes.com/live/2023/02/04/us…

Shooting down the balloon ended a dramatic chapter in a diplomatic crisis.

The airborne surveillance device was first spotted earlier this week over the western United States, setting off a diplomatic crisis. President Biden had been discussing military options with the Pentagon since Tuesday.
Helene Cooper (The New York Times)

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My good friend @stasp has just released his first song on streaming services, and it's banging! Gice it a listen:
YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=EN9-wDhzrN…
Spotify: open.spotify.com/track/2NxgbIm…
Apple Music: music.apple.com/us/album/i-do-…
It's on most of the others too, so go search for "Mudb0y - I Do Care About You" wherever you stream your music!

I Do Care About You by Mudb0y

Listen to I Do Care About You by Mudb0y on Apple Music. 2023. Duration: 3:36
Apple Music
@Mudb0y

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Did you know that American police officers receive the fewest hours of training in the developed world? Are you aware that their training emphasizes violence much more than police training in other countries? Did you know that Americans are vastly more likely to die in the hands of police than citizens in any other democratic country--no matter what their race?

Those are just a few of the things I discovered researching this article. #tyrenichols

greatergood.berkeley.edu/artic…


Can We Train American Police to Turn Away From Violence?

American police are not well trained compared to those in other countries. That needs to change if we want to prevent incidents like the one that killed Tyre Nichols.
Greater Good
#tyrenichols
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There's an interesting new paper in the journal Ecological Economics. The title is:

"Assessing US consumers' carbon footprints reveals outsized impact of top 1%"
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…

This is from the abstract --

Unsustainable environmental degradation and extreme economic inequality are two of humanity's most pressing challenges. They are intimately linked. Climate-altering greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions are disproportionately driven by consumption among wealthy and socially privileged groups, yet poorer and socially marginalized peoples face disproportionate climate harms.
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What really grabbed me, however, was the chart below, created by Andrew Fanning using data contained in the paper. It clearly illustrates the massive scale of carbon inequality in our modern society.

#Inequality #GreenhouseGases #Emissions #ClimateCrisis #ClimateJustice

Chart showing household greenhouse gas emissions in 2019 by income group, within the United States and across other countries. Bottom 10% (globally, by household income) = avg. 17 tons annual emissions Average USA household = 42 tons Top 90-99% (globally, by income) = avg. 81 tons Top 1% (globally, by income) = avg. 173 tons Top 0.1% (globally, by income) = avg. 955 tons Super rich & billionaires = avg. 3,443 tons
#Climatecrisis #ClimateJustice #inequality #greenhousegases #emissions
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Předpokládáme že 9.2. přestane fungovat bridge.nolog.cz - nástroj pro automatické postování nových příspěvků mezi Twitterem a Mastodonem.

Není to naše rozhodnutí, Twitter se rozhodl zpoplatnit přístup k rozhraní které nástroj využívá a provoz nejspíš nebude udržitelný.

Moa: Mastodon/Twitter/Instagram Crossposter

Link your Mastodon account to Twitter and Instagram
bridge.nolog.cz

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Was completely unaware of "Clascal" ("an object-oriented dialect of Pascal designed by Apple with Niklaus Wirth") and the Lisa Application ToolKit (a "forerunner of most modern frameworks, including MacApp and the NeXT frameworks"). Incredible how much of this kind of software engineering genealogy is forgotten today.

Thanks for the history lesson, @eschaton! eschatologist.net/blog/?p=314


Lisa Source Code: Understanding Clascal

On January 19, Apple and the Computer History Museum released the source code to the Lisa Office System 7/7 version 3.1, including both the complete Office System application suite and the Lisa ope…
Eschatology
@Chris Hanson

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Just came across a few-day-old blog post (daringfireball.net/2023/01/mea…) which says that third-party Android apps, particularly Mastodon clients, "don’t even try to achieve the look-and-feel comfort, fun, and panache of iOS apps." And it occurred to me that the kind of polish that he praises in iOS and misses in Android is probably entirely missing from the experience of blind users across platforms, not least because we mostly use GUIs indirectly via a bolted-on screen reader. (to be continued)

Meanwhile, Over in Androidtown

Spending a few hours perusing the state of the art in Android Mastodon clients gives me the distinct impression that Android is forever stuck in its Window 3.x era of UI polish and design. It’s rough.
Daring Fireball
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Matt Campbell

To be clear, it's great that mainstream apps, content, and services are accessible; I wouldn't dream of suggesting that we should exclusively use UIs designed specifically for us. But I wonder what "look-and-feel comfort, fun, and panache" would mean in a Ui designed specifically for blind people. What immediately comes to mind is gimmicky stuff like pre-recorded prompts and lots of sound effects, that would just get annoying in everyday use.
in reply to Matt Campbell

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miki

Look at Elten (on Windows) to see what is possible in terms of blindness-first UI. The app never really became popular outside the Polish community, but an English version does exist. To give you just a few examples, it has stereo sounds for scrollbars, which are extremely useful once you get used to them, audio icons for file types and statuses like “unread” or “blocked”, a clock sound, which is an audio version of a loading spinner, and quiet ambiences for menus and modals.
in reply to miki

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miki

Also replacing most messages with audio queues, so E.G. instead of saying “new message from foo”, it just plays the new message sound and says foo. It also does Teamtalk-Style channels, except with HRTF and moving around, so you can actually have multiple groups of people taking about different things, and you can move around and come up to the people that seem interesting.

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I'm in Brussels attending @fosdem this week-end to talk about Podcasts 2.0 and @Castopod!
Let's meet this sunday at 1pm, auditorium Janson.
“Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability (How Podcasting 2.0 will save the Open Internet)” #fosdem #podcasts
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2023 - Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability

fosdem.org
#fosdem #Podcasts @Castopod @FOSDEM

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I'm in Brussels attending @fosdem this week-end to talk about Podcasts 2.0 and @Castopod !
Let's meet this sunday at 1pm, auditorium Janson.
“Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability (How Podcasting 2.0 will save the Open Internet)” #fosdem #podcasts
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2023 - Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability

fosdem.org
#fosdem #Podcasts

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🎙 A new home for the Irish Left Archive Podcast! podcast.leftarchive.ie/

Hopefully the transition will be relatively seamless, but please let us know if you have any issues.

You can now get updates by following the podcast on the Fediverse @ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ie.

Thanks to @Castopod@podlibre.social for their work on free software podcast hosting.

#IrishLeftArchive #IrishLeftArchivePodcast #Podcast #Castopod #FreeSoftware

#FreeSoftware #podcast #CastoPod #irishleftarchive #irishleftarchivepodcast @Castopod @ILAPodcast@podcast.leftarchive.ie
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

@Parlons Linux Great to hear that @Castopod :oss: :podcasting2: is working well for you. It's pretty young software!

I haven't visited a Castopod page before, it looks great and has exactly the stuff one expects to find on a podcast page.

@Castopod @Parlons Linux

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Je suis ce week-end au @fosdem à Bruxelles pour parler de Podcasts 2.0 et de @Castopod !
Rendez-vous dimanche à 13h00 dans l'auditorium Janson.
“Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability (How Podcasting 2.0 will save the Open Internet)” #fosdem #podcasts
fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

FOSDEM 2023 - Podcasting 2.0: it's all about Interoperability

fosdem.org
#fosdem #Podcasts @Castopod @FOSDEM

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Time for today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid – with 11 updated and 1 new apps:

* MyMood: simple and minimalistic mood tracker

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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

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New year, better privacy? It's February already, time to check whether you have achieved this #NewYearsResolution to #DeGoogle. Switch to better alternatives now! 😀🥳

Probably you have - since you are here on Mastodon. 👏

tutanota.com/big-tech-alternat…

Top privacy apps for 2023: Tutanota, Signal, LibreOffice, Firefox.

Secure email: Tutanota free encrypted email.

Tutanota is the secure email service, built in Germany. Use encrypted emails on all devices with our open source email client, mobile apps & desktop clients.
Tutanota
#degoogle #newyearsresolution

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Creating A High-Contrast Design System With CSS Custom Properties smashingmagazine.com/2023/01/c… #css #webdesign

Creating A High-Contrast Design System With CSS Custom Properties — Smashing Magazine

Managing our colors can truly help people to access our content. In this article, Brecht de Ruyte takes a deep dive into how we can create a high-contrast system while maintaining a balance between designing something accessible and respecting the lo…
Smashing Magazine
#css #webdesign

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Mike Nolan speaks on winners and losers in FOSS. What open source 'won'? #Fosdem2023 #fosdem

With a link to the slides: bit.ly/3HuJ5QL


Winners and Losers in FOSS

Winners and Losers in FOSS Open Source Has "Won" - Have We? I’m Mike Open@RIT Federation of Humanitarian Technologists OES Scholar of Political Economy of Science and Technology Political Economy is the study of how economic systems and political sys…
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#fosdem #Fosdem2023
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Learn about software-driven #environmental harm and how to combat it with #FreeSoftware!

Come to 📍 Room AW1.126 (#energy devroom) at #FOSDEM from 🕟 16:30-17 (CET).

Or 🖥️ watch online.

More information here: fosdem.org/2023/schedule/event…

#KDE #KDEEco #BE4FOSS #FEEP #FOSS #OpenSource #sustainability #environment #ecology

Two pie charts comparing (left) the greenhouse gas emissions of the aviation industry in blue with the ICT sector in green, and (right) projected estimates for emissions from the ICT sector by 2050 if nothing changes. Data is from ACM's 2021 Technology Policy Council report.

FOSDEM 2023 - Combatting Software-Driven Environmental Harm With Free Software

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#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #sustainability #fosdem #KDE #environment #Ecology #energy #feep #be4foss #KDEEco #environmental

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Now streaming at #Fosdem: 10 years of anti-tracking at #Mozilla: matrix.to/#/#2023-ua2.220_guil…

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversation
matrix.to
#mozilla #fosdem

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#XMPP at #FOSDEM

Some impressions from the #Realtime Lounge today!

We are on the K building 2nd floor, beside the elevator.

Map: osm.org/go/0EoSs4ysn?m=&relati…

Chat xmpp:summit@muc.xmpp.org?join

#opensource #decentralisation #interoperability #rtc #jabber #europe #standards

Impression from FOSDEM Realtime Lounge
Impression from FOSDEM Realtime Lounge
Impression from FOSDEM Realtime Lounge
Impression from FOSDEM Realtime Lounge

Relation: ‪Ville de Bruxelles - Stad Brussel‬ (‪58274‬) | OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #fosdem #interoperability #decentralisation #europe #standards #realtime #rtc

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Tak jo. Jdu zkusit sílu Mastodonu. Dočetl jsem knížku "Zrádná paměť" od Lisy Gray
Recenze na mým Insta: instagram.com/p/CoPHMb6rPCE/?i…

A teď síla Mastodonu: Chceš si tuhle knížku přečíst? Odpověz na tento příspěvek, proč bych měl knihu poslat právě tobě. Já platím poštovné i balné.

Vítěze vyberu příští sobotu 11.2. ve 14:00

#lisagray #knihazaknihou #docteno #soutez #knihazdarma #knihazaodpoved #thriller #bookstodon


Pavel Janíček on Instagram: "Napínavý a čtivý thriller s tak trochu očekávaným koncem. Malé městečko postupně vydává svá tajemství a Jessica díky tomu rozmotává případ vražd, které se staly před mnoha lety... Celkové hodnocení ⭐⭐⭐⭐ #knihazaknihou #docten

2 Likes, 0 Comments - Pavel Janíček (@paveljanicek.cz) on Instagram: "Napínavý a čtivý thriller s tak trochu očekávaným koncem. Malé městečko postupně vydává svá tajemství a Jessica díky tomu rozmotává případ vražd, které se staly před mnoha lety...
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#thriller #bookstodon #lisagray #knihazaknihou #docteno #soutez #knihazdarma #knihazaodpoved

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Digitalisierung und #Datenschutz: Schluss mit Ausreden!
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Schluss mit den faulen Ausreden bei verschleppter Digitalisierung, fordert @ulrichkelber - zu Recht!


Digitalisierung und Datenschutz: Schluss mit Ausreden!

Wenn es bei der Digitalisierung hakt, zeigen die Finger schnell auf den Datenschutz als vermeintliche Bremse. Damit muss Schluss sein, kommentiert der Bundesdatenschutzbeauftragte Ulrich Kelber – damit der Blick auf die echten Hindernisse frei wird.
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#datenschutz @Ulrich Kelber
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