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Fracture Sounds have released a really beautiful upright piano library and I wrote a little track using it.
fracturesounds.com/product/hom…
in reply to Andre Louis

Sweet! After so many years of problems, I am finally healed enough to listen to music properly. I am excited, so I shared the excitement of being able to listen to yours as well. :)
in reply to Andre Louis

It makes me happy when people make music. As someone who didn't sing for years, because of my own issues both physical and mental, it made me appreciate those who make music more. So, yep, that's probably the least I could do.
in reply to Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺

@tardis I have two spotify profiles, one as 'Andre Louis' and one as 'Onj' which is the name I use when collaborating with other artists.
in reply to Andre Louis

Ah, nice! I also followed you. Woopsies, there is no way to accept requests from blue.


The moon appeared inside the Olympic rings on the Eiffel Tower, in breach of the Olympic Brand Guide.


Rust 1.80.0 is now available! 🦀🌈

This release brings you LazyCell, LazyLock, checked cfg names & values, exclusive ranges in patterns, IntoIterator for Box<[T]>, Option::take_if, split_at_checked, and more! ✨

Check out the announcement and release notes: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/07/25/…



FYI Informed consent is an essential component of health care.

If you do NOT speak French and/or are NOT otherwise fluent in French, you cannot give informed consent in French. FULL STOP.

PS FUCK THE CAQ.

montrealgazette.com/news/local…

#assnat #polQC #languagepolice #caqastrophe #fuckthecaq #polcan #cdnpoli #healthcanada #informedconsent




Is this new to you❓ Activate email preview now under Settings - Notifications on Android & iPhone!

Plus: Subject lines will be included soon as well. 🎉

in reply to arutaz

@arutaz Tuta does not use Google Push on Android or iOS. In fact, when implementing the push notification service, we did so in a zero knowledge way - meaning even notifications are encrypted and the server does not know anything about your data.

If you use the Tuta app, this happens automatically.





Comcast California Announces Live American Sign Language Interpreting Services at Several Bay Area Xfinity Store Locations | Comcast California california.comcast.com/2024/06…


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"I believe reCAPTCHA's true purpose is to harvest user information and labor from websites," asserted Andrew Searles

"If you believe that reCAPTCHA is securing your website, you have been deceived."

reCAPTCHA has used:

819 million hrs of human time

$6.1 billion USD in wages

134 petabytes of bandwidth

7.5 million kWhs of energy

7.5 million pounds of CO2

theregister.com/2024/07/24/goo…

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Google drops it's plan of disabling 3rd-party tracking cookies by default in Chrome. 🍪

Looking for a Chrome alternative? Check out our recommendations.
👉 tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…
#browser #email #privacy #encryption #foss #cookies

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Tuta
@astudillojuanf These are included in our full blog post list : )


This is pure cartel behavior: Reddit and Google have cut a deal that will freeze out all other search engines from indexing Reddit, where volunteers do essentially all the work.

This should not be legal.

It is VITAL to replace Reddit, and it will take a global village to do it. If we don't, the cartel wins.

And Google should be broken up by Congress, if the antitrust people won't try.

404media.co/google-is-the-only…

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Today I worked out that the UK would nearly fit 1:1 scale on a sheet of A-39 paper.

That's using the A paper scale, where A0 is 1m^2 and each number down the scale doubles in area, keeping a 1:sqrt(2) aspect ratio.

That's A minus 39. I make a sheet of that 741.455km x 1048.576 km

(Done in #QGIS using 'Shape tools' plugin)

#GisChat

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righteousit.com/2024/07/24/hid… is beautiful and obvious and is someone now going to rewrite an eBPF-based version of ps


Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source
zdnet.com/article/switzerland-…
The United States remains reluctant to work with open source, but European countries are bolder.
in reply to kim_harding ✅

No, Switzerland does not.

The law that they just passed requires software developed by or specifically for the government to be open but it contains a loophole allowing the use of proprietary software and it contains no incentive to avoid proprietary software.

When we adopted a similar policy at NASA in the 80s the loophole meant that there was no change in the amount of proprietary software we used. I expect the same in Switzerland.

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for no particular special occasion but I'm selling my roguelike game for 50 cents if you buy it directly from my website. DRM-Free, Win, Mac, Linux and Android, and you also get a Steam key. Sale ends in 2 days!
questofdungeons.com

#indiegame #roguelike

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in reply to David Amador

Just got it on Google Play. First game was a great succes! 10/10 would play again.


I must not buy this. I must not buy this. The new Unihertz Jelly Max. I love baby phones! ( kickstarter.com/projects/jelly…
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Just Martin
@fireborn @Lynessence @Bruce_Toews They have an app locker thing? Didn't even notice. lol! Now I'm curious.
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@fireborn @Bruce_Toews Once IOS 18 comes out in September, you won't need an iMessage bridge because anyone who uses ios 18 will use RCS messaging.


Začínáme sklízet, vosy a ptáci už nám to hodně decimujou. Ale vypadá to skvěle, tohle je z jedné větve. Letos se broskve opravdu povedly.



Tohle se #pirati myslím moc nepovedlo. Sice ta jeho kampaň byla nic moc, ale byl aspoň vidět. Byl na kandidátce a dělal kampaň 🤷🏼‍♂️🔓

denikn.cz/1480831/ferjencik-na…

in reply to Archos

@marcel_kolaja No my ten článek nepsali :-) Btw to, že byl Ferjenčík tak dole na kandidátce mělo své důvody. A nejen předchozí sněmovní volby.




I was checking out this year's #StackOverflow annual developer report that few things caught my eye:

1. They have deliberately drawn the wrong conclusion about most popular operating system. They have interpreted #Linux distro as operating system, so they have separately provided numbers for Ubuntu, Arch, Fedora, and etc., and have concluded that "Windows is the most popular operating system for developers, across both personal and professional use".

survey.stackoverflow.co/2024/t…

1/🧵

in reply to Mehrad

I wonder if it’s not strictly additive; like could one pick both WSL and Ubuntu in the survey?
in reply to Marcos Huerta

@marcoshuerta It says "What is the primary operating system in which you work?" was the question. For IDE, it specified "pick all that you've regularly used." So I suspect this question was actually single selection?


Your browser is not supported! It’s probably lacking some serious API, and we can’t possibly make it work, sorry *

* Just kidding. Spoof the UA string, it’ll work just fine.

beta.maps.apple.com/

in reply to Vadim Makeev

of course. The can't show you the map based on open street maps in an open browser.


What's up with execs complaining that people are using their website at objectively low rates?

We previously discussed the CTO & CEO of Discourse ($21M raised) getting mad at 0.5 QPS, calling this "an attack", etc. : mastodon.social/@danluu/111064….

Now, the CEO of iFixit (supposedly ~$50M/yr revenue) calls 11 QPS, "abuse", saying "you're tying up our devops resources", implying it's reasonable for a $50M/yr regularly viral web property to need significant intervention if traffic increases by 11 QPS.

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Delighted to welcome my friend and accessibility comrade, @SteveFaulkner, to the glorious city of York!


Meet the new Orbit Speak and #OrbitReader Q20 & Q40 by #OrbitResearch. TrueBraille™ meets QWERTY in a sleek, compact design. Independence is just a touch away - check them out at AER Conference Booth 101. #A11y #BrailleForAll #inclusion


Join us at AER Int'l Conference in Charlotte, NC, 24-27 July, Booth 101. Discover our new products: Orbit Speak Notetaker, Orbit Reader Q20 & Q40, Optima Braille Laptop, Orbit Magna Magnifiers, and Orbit Slate Braille Displays. #A11y #BrailleForAll #inclusion


Dave Plummer: The Man Who Scammed Millions: youtube.com/watch?v=ENQNG85sXR…
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Andre Louis
@FluidEscence @fireborn Dave is so far from a scammer. What utter incompetent bullshittery.
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Andre Louis
@fireborn @FluidEscence surely someone has sounded off in the comments letting this idiot know he's an idiot?



One Year of Accessible Android: Empowering the Blind Community Together accessibleandroid.com/one-year… #Android #Accessibility #Anniversary #Introduction

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I’m glad serious eats wrote this article on top instant noodles. My list is similar.

seriouseats.com/ramen-rater-to…

#Food #Ramen #SeriousEats



Derek attributes his experience with NVDA instrumental to his career success and since working at Google has found numerous ways to improve accessibility, both internally and externally.

"A product built by the community, for the community, is better than one built by some company, simply because the community is in charge of what goes into it." - Derek Riemer

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource



GitHub has released an insightful article to accompany the documentary shared earlier showcasing NVDA, OSARA, & REAPER. The article interviews NVDA co-founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh, as well as Derek Riemer, who has used NVDA since 2011. Derek has contributed to NVDA itself & written over 20 add-ons. He also now works as a software engineer at Google.

Find the full article (& short documentary) here: github.com/readme/featured/nvd….
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #FOSS #OpenSource

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because mastodon.social obviously is the mastodon server with the worst funding and it's definitely not small instances that could need some more money to pay for infrastructure, moderators, etc /s
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in reply to unmaintained pink shark app

just call your app mastodon.social if you want it to be a mastodon.social client, jesus christ. it's almost as if mastodon isn't even meant to be a federated server software


My interview with @Tutanota is live! We discuss the world of end-to-end encryption, user privacy, and so much more! I asked some tough questions and it only reassured me their team is the real deal—keep rocking it! 🔥
youtu.be/0wgpuiIoG_g
@Tuta
in reply to Techlore

just to make it clear that sending email from tuta to gmail (or any non-tuta provider) CAN'T be secured in tuta. the lady just gave false sense of security. 💩
in reply to ludiofines

@ludiofines Hi there, you can send encrypted emails to Gmail and other platforms by sharing a password with that recipient. They will receive an email to their Gmail account which includes a link to an encrypted Tuta mailbox where they can use the password to view your message.

We recommend sharing these passwords via an encrypted messaging application like Signal.



uspol, ableism

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in reply to Drew Mochak

uspol, ableism
This is as good a time as any to remind folks that Donald Trump demanded the braille be removed from the Trump Tower elevators, because he didn’t want blind people to stay there. Based! archpaper.com/2018/09/trump-to… (previous link was paywalled)
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in reply to Drew Mochak

@FreakyFwoof Also this is a good time to remind folks that bunch of republicans mocked #Kamala providing a brief visual self description at the roundtable discussion with #disability rights activists. Regardless whether self description is useful for visually impaired people or not, at least she acknowledged and tried to be inclusive. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…


Wow, such a great read... didn't realize how vicious British media could be and what they could gaet away with. audible.com/pd/B0BJ4X9D2F?sour…