Well done to the person in Philadelphia government who sent an emergency text to everybody in area with a link to chubbyparade.com, a porn site, instead of a weather site
When I did the promotion for the Firefly movie back in 2005, Universal gave the website and Browncoats stuff to me (unpaid) and instead spent the marketing money on merchandise to give out.
Unfortunately they got the website name wrong and printed a porn site name on everything, so it had to be destroyed.
Cloudflare just published a vibe coded blog post claiming they implemented Matrix on cloudflare workers. They didn't, their post and README is AI generated and the code doesn't do any of the core parts of matrix that make it secure and interoperable.
I wonder, if I'm nominated for something and two people need to second, then there's a second second required, so is a second second really a third? Anyway, I'll try to be patient and wait more than a second for people to second.
Re: last boost (mastodon.world/@anttipeltola/1…), I'm American, and I'd like more of that (open protocols, open source, no gods, no masters) over here as well.
Whatever this European tech sovereignty formulates into DO NOT give us European Big Tech.
Open protocols, open standards, open source. Like the 1990s internet I enjoyed as a kid. The European governments finance the projects and largely leave us the fuck alone.
Whatever this European tech sovereignty formulates into DO NOT give us European Big Tech.
Open protocols, open standards, open source. Like the 1990s internet I enjoyed as a kid. The European governments finance the projects and largely leave us the fuck alone.
Interviewed on Al Jazeera today about ICE killing Alex Pretti and Renee Good, and made it a point to speak the names of all 9 people ICE has killed so far in 2026. Including Keith Porter, Parady La, Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos.
We need unity of humanity against fascism and autocracy.
Apple just rolled out an update for a few older iPhone and iPad models that ensures iMessage, FaceTime, and device activation continue working smoothly.
Carney's bill to counter the 27% increase in food prices over the last few years will mostly serve to subsidize the big 5 grocery stores - Loblaw, Sobeys, Metro, Costco & Walmart - which have already profited billions by that same 27% price increase:
Carney's bill includes: $11.7 billion boost of 25% to GST benefits over 6 years. Canada Groceries and Essentials Benefit to 12 million low income Canadians. $500 million to help businesses address the costs of supply chain disruptions without passing costs on to consumers. $150-million Food Security Fund that will help small- and medium-sized businesses to expand greenhouses and abattoirs. $20 million to food banks.
Poilievre said in the House yesterday that he will support the bill.
Agriculture Canada did an inquiry into Canada’s grocery industry and found it extremely “vertically integrated”. The differenent suppliers all owned by the same corporations that “compete” (NOT) to supply groceries.
Ag Canada is being cut back, these analysis will be abandoned to fund the tax break that offers minor relief while falling to challenge the issue, subsidizing these corporations allowing the profits to further integrate the industry.
Grocery corporations invest their profitability in becoming more profitable through integration. Until politicians are willing to recognize and challenge this the problem will continue to become more extreme
It's worse than that. Mandatory, authoritatively checked age verification is a short, slippery slope directly to mandatory, authoritatively checked internet access. This isn't hyperbole. Gating VPN access is just a short stop in between.
UK PEOPLE: this is REALLY IMPORTANT. If the government bans under-16s from using VPNs, then logically they must intend to REQUIRE AGE VERIFICATION FOR ALL VPN USE. Which will affect adults too!
*Your* privacy and right to anonymous web browsing is at risk!
@gamingonlinux@mastodon.social You might be interested in giving this petition opposing the motion a signal boost: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/754408
Small steps forward in the cross border railway ticketing. After many years, I finally succeeded in buying a single ticket covering an end-to-end journey between not just two but three countries.
Question for #blind and partially sighted folk on the fediverse:
If you go to a museum or gallery, do you prefer braille or do you instead use a text to speech app?
(Or both, or something else)
I've got a bit of money to refurbish a small UK museum space with better provisions for Deaf and Blind folk, so I'm keen to know what will be the most useful.
Please Note: This is a question specifically for blind and partially sighted Fedi users, rather than fully sighted folk.
For quickness I prefer to hear what's going on. Braille is nice to have for sure, but if there's a lot of info, would spend more time reading than enjoying. Definitely a personal opinion, and just like anything it's very subjective. I have done sound design and audio queues for museums in the passed so understand that more, as it were.
My phone. I already have it with me. Maybe scan a QR, it opens up to an accessible web page with info on, whether that be audio files the user presses play on, or written text which then is spoken via the screen-reader. If you go the latter route, then anyone who does use Braille and happens to have a display with them, such as deafblind can use that. @jakobrosin thoughts on this? I know you've done similar things.
the benefit of the user already using a device they have with them is less outlay on your side, just the web hosting or whatever. Also means they could in theory take the tour without being on-site at all, though that's bad for business, as there aren't paying customers there. You could charge for the virtual tour as well, but that's a different discussion. @jakobrosin
If you do end up going with Braille, keep in mind that English has two Braille grades. Most native speakers will use and prefer grade2, which introduces abbreviations for common English words, prefixes and suffixes, think "have", "would" or "ing". However, many foreign visitors, *even those who both know Braille and can speak English, may not actually know grade 2 English Braille*, and need grade 1, which has no such abbreviations.
In English-speaking countries, it's often assumed that what you want is grade2, but if the place has a lot of foreign visitors specifically, that may not always be the right choice.
First, as many explorable pieces as possible. You definitely want labels, but yes, for longer descriptions, you might want either some pre-recorded stuff, or some texts on say, a website, and have a giant QR code somewhere comfortable to find.
@matt he's getting up there, but I'd guess we won't have him much longer. He's been one of my favorites since high school, and I think he's done an impressive job staying relevant across decades.
I just failed in creating an account somewhere because I failed the captcha THREE times.
It was some kind of wiring diagram where I had to match the wires on the left to the wires on the right like some kind of water pipeline game. And I had to do it 5 times (and then 6 and 7 times on the retries).
The Studio c'était vraiment très très fort. Mais j'aurais préféré que ça s'arrête là sans saison 2. Déjà le dernier double épisode, j'ai beau m'être marré devant, c'était quand même nettement moins fin. Mais là c'est sûr que ça va se retrouver totalement dilué au fur et à mesure.
ha tiens j'ai pas accroché, pourtant je suis bon public avec Seth Rogen. Chez Apple TV et avec lui, j'ai ri devant Platonic, même si c'est assez gnangnan et que je qualifierais pas ça d'excellent.
I've tried Element and Zulip, and haven't been happy with either from a accessibility POV (specifically using them with a screen reader). Haven't yet tried Mattermost.
pokud se od tohohle nebude distancovat Andrej, tak to zlomí vaz i jemu. Tohle ani ovce nevydýchají. Tím nechci říct že skončí, ale bolet to bude určitě, tohle ho bude stát procenta
už to někdo psal. V tomto okamžiku by měl prezident říct “víte co, dám Andrejovi abolici, táhne se to dlouho, stejně nakonec dostane maximálně podmínku, tak to pojďme ukončit”. A to bys viděl, jak by Macinka fičel. A Tomio by strachy seděl v koutě ve svém kulatém domečku 😇 A možná by na tom vydělala i ČR, protože Andrej by sice prskal na předchozí vládu, ale nechal by se vodit jak Hurvínek většinou lidi.
so after a lot of work, thanks to a few people, here are some links of interest, some of you may want these, others, may not. note, that I was not responsible for creating the contents contained in these archives, I'm just the host of the archives. Hey, you might even like these as test files for speedtests, lol! Firstly, here's the original main menu early years 7 zip file, covering 2000 to 2008, raw from the ACBRadio FTP server, curtisy of @sclower. file size: 5.51GB. downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu_… Next, curtisy of @gallagher123123 is a zip file where he reorganized, into one folder, per year, this same collection from 2000 to 2008. It looks like he also combined show segments into one file per show. file size: 24.5GB. Why it's almost 4 times the size of the previous file, I don't know, lol! downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu2… Next, curtisy of files provided by @Bri we have a main menu archive, organized into a folder for each year, and one file per show, for 2009 to 2015. File size: 18.5GB downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu2… and finally, you want everything from both zip files in one massive zip file, covering 2000-2015? Of course you do! note: this does not include the contents of the 7zip package. File size: 43.1GB downloads.shaned.net/MainMenu2… I hope these archives are of interest, to someone. note these links are perminant, and will not change. Enjoy!
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in reply to Kevin Beaumont • • •When I did the promotion for the Firefly movie back in 2005, Universal gave the website and Browncoats stuff to me (unpaid) and instead spent the marketing money on merchandise to give out.
Unfortunately they got the website name wrong and printed a porn site name on everything, so it had to be destroyed.