One in ten US deaths last week were due to pneumonia, flu, or COVID-19.
That's about a 50% higher rate than the CDC's epidemic threshold.
Bottom line: this country is in the midst of a severe respiratory disease epidemic that nobody's talking about.
Learn more about the weekly influenza surveillance report (FluView) prepared by the Influenza Division.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The #XMPP Newsletter for November '22 is out!
Read about the latest XMPP universe updates, such as ejabberd turns 20, Prosody, Conversations and Spark in version 3 + the latest updates on our #Standards!
Enjoy! 📰 ☕
xmpp.org/2022/12/the-xmpp-news…
#jabber #xep #interoperability
XMPP End of the Year Talk 2022!
Let's have a good time with the #XMPP Community folks!
Short talks:
- On #ActivityPub, #Movim, #Prosody development, XMPP + #QUIC
When: 6th Dec 2022, 19:00 CET (tomorrow!)
Join via this instance: bbb.sfconservancy.org/b/ste-fd…
(technical issues as always)
You have been invited to join Home Room using BigBlueButton. To join, click the link above and enter your name.bbb.sfconservancy.org
Privacy Cell 1.9 has been released.
Whether you are disabled or not, accessibility is really useful for everyone. Accessibility makes social media easier to use and lets your posts reach a wider audience.
You can find out how to make your posts more accessible at:
➡️ fedi.tips/mastodon-and-fediver…
Special shout out to @norrumar who has just created a Spanish language article about Mastodon for users of the free open source NVDA screen reader:
➡️ nvdaes.github.io/mastodon (in Spanish)
#Fediverse #Mastodon #Accessibility #Disability
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
We are all stardust.
That oxygen you breath? That comes from dying massive stars, ending their light in a supernova.
The iron in your blood? Some massive stars dying, but mainly white dwarfs, the leftovers of dwarf stars like our own Sun, exploding.
The gold ring on your finger? Mostly merging neutron stars, leftovers from supernovae.
Excited that my first post on @Mastodon is announcing that the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto is hiring!
- Assistant Professor – User Experience Design/Human-Computer Interaction
- Associate Professor – User Experience Design/Human-Computer Interaction
- Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – Information Systems Design (ISD-HCDS)
- Assistant Professor, Teaching Stream – User Experience Design (UXD)
Canada’s Global Information Schoolischool.utoronto.ca
Our team enjoyed talking to so many people at the booth at the Capitole Du Libre in France!
Big thumbs up to the whole Librem 5 phone, Librem 14 laptop and PureOS teams and our backers for what they have achieved together👍
Check out the details🎉
puri.sm/posts/purism-at-le-cap…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Reasons to Be Cheerful
Different (Performed by Miley Cyrus & Joan Jett)
youtube.com/watch?v=rT70HTbh4a…
Happy Hippie Presents: Backyard Sessions - Different performed by Miley Cyrus & Joan Jett. Click here to donate: http://happyhippies.org/#donate Original...YouTube
📢 FOSDEM CfP 📢
We got exciting proposals already, and were asked to extend the CfP by a few days so people could finalise theirs.
We’re extending the Matrix.org Foundation and Community devroom CfP to December 8, 23:00 PT.
matrix.org/blog/2022/11/16/cal…
Mails with an unsubscribe link coming to my inbox without me having subscribed, get subscribed to my spam folder (which is then automatically fed to Pyzor, Razor etc). They asked for it. I don't even bother unsubscribing as that would only confirm the mail address used exists and is read by a human.
I even thought about automating that ("whenever there's an unsubscribe link…") were it not for a few legit ones…
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debugging strategy: try out a new tool
(are there any major categories of tools I'm missing here?)
Installer and launcher for Windows based audio games under wine for Linux.GitLab
Typefaces are the foundation of accessible visual reading experiences, so choosing a performant typeface that enhances legibility and readability for people with poor vision, learning disabilities…Gareth Ford Williams (The Readability Group)
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This tutorial describes how to build an accessible main navigation of a website. You learn about semantic HTML, accessibility, and how using ARIA attributes can sometimes do more harm than good.web.dev
OMG! I'm in the Ꭰɾմʍ βҽąէҽɾ winners list for the" Month of LibreOffice, November 2022", awarded by @libreoffice, for "spreading the word on Twitter and Mastodon"
I'm writing the email to claim my stickers pack. I'll share them with the first three 𝗺𝘀𝘁𝗱𝗻.𝗺𝘅 members who show me, via Mastodon, a selfie using #LibreOffice 
I'm feeling like that guys of Mad Max (picture 2) 😂
Is Google Analytics illegal in the EU? Yes and no, but mostly yes.
tutanota.com/blog/posts/is-goo…
Using Google Analytics in a legally compliant way is still possible in Europe. Here we explain how.Tutanota
We played chess against it yesterday. It worked okay for about 13 moves until it lost track of the game state and started to accuse us of cheating (while trying to make illegal moves, it was pretty hilarious).
But it took a bit of prompt massaging until it would consider actually playing chess. It initially just wanted to comment on what good opening moves would be. :)
Hi #Histodons -- Today is (roughly) what the #AngloSaxons and #Jutes would have called the start of Ærra Gēola [ ᚫᚱᚱᚪ:ᚷᛖᚩᛚᚪ ] or "First/Before #Yule"; their name for #December.
The two main celebrations for this time of year were the Winter Solstice (Yule) and Mōdraniht [ ᛗᚩᛞᚱᚪᚾᛁᚻᛏ ] or "Mother's Night" (on the 25th, though might be apocryphal).
I like to think they maybe it was a celebration of the the other Mother Goddesses celebrated through the year:
Hrêða [ ᚻᚱᛖᚦᚪ ]
Ēostre [ ᛖᚩᛋᛏᚱᛖ ]
And finally the Winter Goddess herself, Frīg [ ᚠᚱᛁᚷ ]
Artwork by me, the first is Hrêða -- she is announcing that her sister Ēostre is coming. The second off of Ēostre, under the three of life. Both in the #Early #Medieval Style
#Winter #Advent #Yule #Yuletide #Runes #pagan #paganism
@histodons @folklore @folklorethursday
This year's chili harvest from the balcony should be over now except for a few late ones. Next these are all prepared properly for drying. The left ones are already from some time in summer, the right ones are newer.
Not as much as last year but that should be enough until next summer, especially with last year's leftovers 🌶️
![Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (verified) @realDonaldTrump
So, with the revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude [begin text highlight] allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. [End text highlight] Our great "Founders" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/387093 "Truth Social post by Donald J. Trump (verified) @realDonaldTrump
So, with the revelation of massive & widespread fraud & deception in working closely with Big Tech Companies, the DNC, & the Democrat Party, do you throw the Presidential Election Results of 2020 out and declare the rightful winner, or do you have a new election? A Massive Fraud of this type and magnitude [begin text highlight] allows for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the Constitution. [End text highlight] Our great \"Founders\" did not want, and would not condone, False & Fraudulent Elections!")
let four_cats: Vec<(Cat, Color)> = vec![rand::random::(Cat, Color); 4];<br>let cats = [vec![rand::random::(Cat, Color); 2], four_cats.clone(), four_cats, vec![rand::random::(Cat, Color)]].into_iter().flatten().collect::<Vec<_>>();<br>Ahhh, this one was tricky 😅
Source: mastodon.nl/@ErikSchouten73/10…
#cat #CatsOfMastodon #rust #RustLanguage #RustLang #RustCataStructures
Adam Silver, interaction designer and author of Form Design Patterns, based in London, UK.Adamsilver.io
Thunderbird for Android releases next year, and development is moving forward at a promising pace.
Here's an early (but not final) preview of what the Message View will look like: blog.thunderbird.net/2022/12/t…
#K9Mail #OpenSource #Email #Thunderbird #Android
As we continue down the road to Thunderbird for Android, here's a preview of the redesigned, modernized message view.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
On Dec 2, 1859, Abolitionist John Brown was the first American ever executed for treason. The second ever executed for treason was Aaron Dwight Stevens (March 15, 1831 – March 16, 1860).
Their crimes? Attempting to free the enslaved. The first Americans executed for treason was for the crime of freeing the enslaved.
Legality is not always a measure of justice & morality, but a measure of power. This was only two life spans ago.
May we learn from these atrocities & uphold justice forever.
With #Galactica and #ChatGPT I'm seeing people again getting excited about the prospect of using language models to "access knowledge" (i.e. instead of search engines). They are not fit for that purpose --- both because they are designed to just make shit up and because they don't support information literacy. Chirag Shah and I lay this out in detail in our CHIIR 2022 paper:
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In our latest blog post, "The Era of Mastodon", Elena write about the current wave of Mastodon adoption.
Features a few Collectives on the Open Collective platform like phpc.social with @ramsey and newsie.social with @jeff.
But also @pixelfed, sunbeam.city and @SocialCoop.
blog.opencollective.com/the-er…
How communities are decentralizing social networking, no billionaires required. With the mass exodus of Twitter users following Elon Musk’s takeover, alternative platforms are gaining popularity among these ‘digital refugees’.Elena Rubashevska (Open Collective)
The WP Community Collective (WPCC) officially launched on Friday as a new nonprofit organization dedicated to funding individual WordPress contributors and community-led initiatives.
The WPCC is using Open Collective Foundation as the fiscal sponsor for its 501(c)3 status.
The WP Community Collective supports and funds individual contribution and community-based initiatives for the open-source WordPress project.opencollective.com
Na creator.nightcafe.studio jsou denní soutěžní výzvy. Taky se občas účastním a včera téma surrealismus. Taky máte občas nějaké ujeté nápady?
#Al, #painting, #surrealism
AI Art Generator App. ✅ Fast ✅ Free ✅ Easy. Create amazing artworks using artificial intelligence.NightCafe Creator
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Sex Pistols ( http://www.agoravox.tv/tribune-libre/article/god-save-the-queen-her-fascist-30057 : " God Save The Queen, Her Fascist Regime ! ") - God Save Th...YouTube
Jak Linux #EndeavourOS zprovoznit ve VirtualBoxu?
👉infoek.cz/endeavouros-virtuali…
Už vás operační systém Windows nebo macOS nebaví a chcete si vyzkoušet něco nového? Co si třeba zkusit nějakouAdolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
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