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Every man “in tech” over 35 should probably revisit this once a year or so, to remember the ugly costs of the way we collectively changed the world. For that matter, everybody else might want to read it to reflect on how to avoid those mistakes.

(It’s hard to write a content warning more precise than “every bad thing from 2000-2015” but it is A Lot so be warned.)

dancingsausage.net/2017/11/30/…

The Dancing Sausage Web Journal › memoirs of the midwives of horror

Strunk and White enabled. Very definitely in transition.
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> Nobody wrote profiles when their free market, composed mostly of engineers, made a bet on high-end graphics which wouldn’t run on the low-end laptops that everyone else could afford.

My brother was affected by this when he tried to run a WPF-based desktop app that totally didn't need high-end graphics on a 2007 budget laptop. Luckily for him, I could just buy him a new laptop, but still.

I worry that the current efforts to use GPU compute for 2D rendering will lead to more of this.

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Interesting and valuable! "10 types of cognitive bias to watch out for in UX research & design" bootcamp.uxdesign.cc/10-types-… #uxDesign #uxResearch #UIDesign #usabilityTesting

10 types of cognitive bias to watch out for in UX research & design

Understanding cognitive bias's are not only important for UX Research and UX design, but also for navigating every day life. Bias seeps into our judgement and thinking which can warp the reality of…
Steffan Morris Hernandez (Bootcamp)
#uidesign #uxdesign #uxresearch #usabilitytesting

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I have mixed feelings about this.

Apple quietly launches a catalog of #books narrated by #AI on its Books app, in a move that publishers, authors, and agents warn may upend the #audiobook market.

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#Bookstodon


Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash
Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)
#books #AI #audiobook #bookstodon
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Pratik Patel

Here's a good piece that lays out some advantages to #AI narrated #audiobooks. The trouble is that there is no analysis of what happens when an author or publisher decides to forego hiring a human and go directly to this method.

Why AI audiobook narrators could win over some authors and readers, despite the vocal bumps

theguardian.com/technology/202…

#books #bookstodon


Why AI audiobook narrators could win over some authors and readers, despite the vocal bumps

Apple and Google’s AI turn in a booming market may sound less than human and raise the ire of voiceover actors, but it has cost benefits
Lois Beckett (The Guardian)
#books #AI #audiobooks #bookstodon
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Pratik Patel

If you're looking for samples of #audiobooks narrated by AI, search for the term "Narrated by Apple Books" in the Apple Books app. It will pull up a list of books converted to Audio by #Apple.

Here are a few samples:

books.apple.com/us/audiobook/i…

books.apple.com/us/audiobook/i…

#bookstodon #accessibility #audio


‎Loving From Afar

‎Romance · 2022
Apple Books
#Accessibility #apple #audio #audiobooks #bookstodon

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Inclusive Web Design Checklist github.com/Heydon/inclusive-de… by @heydon #webDesign #inclusiveDesign #a11y

GitHub - Heydon/inclusive-design-checklist: Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever

Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever - GitHub - Heydon/inclusive-design-checklist: Aims to be the biggest checklist of inclusive design considerations ever
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#a11y #webdesign #inclusivedesign @Large Heydon Collider

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“Many browsers and anti-spyware applications are designed to reject and delete third-party cookies. Adobe ensures that cookies can always we [sic] set even if third-party cookies are blocked.”

That feeling when you admit you’re spyware.

#Adobe #surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #adtech #spyware #SiliconValley #BigTech via @GossiTheDog

Screenshot of the first-party cookies page on Adobe’s experienceleauge.adobe.com site with the quote mentioned in the post highlighted.
#surveillancecapitalism #bigtech #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #adtech #Adobe #spyware @Kevin Beaumont
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A black man wrongfully jailed for a week in Louisiana after face recognition error, report says. Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight or the mole on his face.

#blackmastodon #facialrecognition

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Facial Recognition Tech Used To Jail Black Man For Louisiana Theft - He's Never Been To Louisiana

A Georgia man spent almost a week in jail after Louisiana police wrongly identified him as a fugitive using facial recognition software.
Samara Linton (POCIT. Telling the stories and thoughts of people of color in tech.)
#facialrecognition #blackmastodon

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PSA: We're aware of an issue affecting #Thunderbird users using #IMAP to connect to certain #Microsoft account servers (for example: outlook.office365.com).

These users are receiving an error message that says "User is authenticated but not connected."

We believe this is caused by Microsoft running certain services with broken #IPv6 functionality.

WORKAROUND: Disable IPv6 networking in Thunderbird's advanced config.

MORE INFO: answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ou…

Redirecting

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#thunderbird #microsoft #ipv6 #imap
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I’m not going to use bloody bugzilla, so if anyone from Mozilla sees this, your enterprise flow for adding certificate authorities (CAs) to Firefox on Linux fails on Fedora Silverblue.

Since Fedora Silverblue is seen as the possible future of Fedora/Red Hat, you folks might want to talk to the Fedora folks about it and come up with a solution.

github.com/fedora-silverblue/i…

#mozilla #firefox #fedora #fedoraSilverblue #bug #tls #ssl #redHat #linux #enterprise #certificates


Cannot add certificate authorities to Firefox using enterprise policy · Issue #397 · fedora-silverblue/issue-tracker

In Firefox version 64+, you can add your custom certificate authorities to Firefox using an enterprise policy file and by copying your certificates to /usr/lib/mozilla/certificates or /usr64/lib/mo...
GitHub
#linux #firefox #mozilla #fedora #redhat #bug #FedoraSilverblue #tls #certificates #enterprise #ssl

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It’s not going to be the DPC’s week.

Their suggestion of appropriate fine to levy on Meta for bundling a legal basis for user tracking and profiling into their terms and conditions was rejected as being approximately 10 times too mild by their peers across the EU.

washingtonpost.com/politics/ir…

nytimes.com/2023/01/04/technol…


Meta Fined $414 Million After Ad Practices Ruled Illegal Under EU Law

The decision is one of the most consequential issued under the E.U.’s landmark data-protection law and creates a new business headwind for the social media giant.
Adam Satariano (The New York Times)

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This actually isn’t surprising at all, but it still needs to said over & over — the biggest barrier to more urban biking in cities is the fear of cars.

“A study confirms that if we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.”

Via @lloydalter #TreeHugger #bikes #cities #urbanism #cars #BikeLanes
treehugger.com/fear-of-cars-bi…

Person on bike riding on bike-lane next to river in city

Biggest Barrier to Biking Is the Fear of Cars

If we are serious about getting people on bikes, they need a safe place to ride.
Lloyd Alter (Treehugger)
#cars #bikes #urbanism #cities #bikelanes #treehugger @Lloyd Alter

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I can finally share the results of my work last year! Earthstar is a small and resilient distributed storage protocol designed with a strong focus on simplicity and versatility, with the social realities of peer-to-peer computing kept in mind. v10 adds:

📎 Attachments. Sync pictures, music, gigabyte-sized videos, or whatever kind of data you want.
🔏 Read-only shares. Share your data publicly while restricting write-access to a limited group.
🧠 Efficient sync. Fast sync - even when your data sets are very large.

Home-cooked social spaces. A community library of ePubs. Resilient, private data archives. Or just a blog!

Explainers, tutorials, specs, and documentation at earthstar-project.org

An illustration of three people networking their very custom computers together.

Earthstar

Storage for private, distributed, offline-first applications. Earthstar is a specification and JavaScript library for building connected applications owned and run by their users.
earthstar-project.org

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Pokémon GO app not accessible for visually-impaired users, N.J. man says in lawsuit

google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…


Pokémon GO app not accessible for visually-impaired users, N.J. man says in lawsuit

A Hudson County man says in court papers that Niantic, which created the popular Pokémon GO game, is violating the Americans with Disabilities Act.
Anthony G. Attrino | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)

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hey @thunderbird, this really should be addressed ASAP.

connect.mozilla.org/t5/discuss…

Thunderbird v102, calendar reminders cannot be minimized

I have linked my google calendar to Thunderbird 102 via the Caldav format. After the update to 102 the calendar reminders cannot be Dismissed, neither Dismiss single reminder nor multiple. Does anyone else have the same problem?
connect.mozilla.org
@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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Was having strange connection issue on @thunderbird
for #office365 accounts via IMAP

Message indicated:
User is authenticated but not connected

Found the solution on #reddit:

switch ` network.dns.disableIPv6` to `true` in the config editor

reddit.com/r/Thunderbird/comme…

r/Thunderbird - Came back to Thunderbird after Christmas and now it won't connect? Authenticated but not connected.

19 votes and 30 comments so far on Reddit
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#reddit #office365 @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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Here's a quick recap of what we did in the #LibreOffice community in 2022! Well, just a few of the many things 😉 youtube.com/watch?v=iyHQ1yRLA9…

LibreOffice recap 2022 – Project and community

Check out some of the things we did in 2022, in the LibreOffice community! New versions of the free office suite, events, meetups and more...Music: All That,...
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#libreoffice

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I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journa…

#journalism #twitterexodus

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely on centralized platforms to create and distribute vital information. Journalists — among many information providers and users — should move to decentralized systems where they have control of what they say and how they distribute it. And philanthropic organizations have a major role to play. Here is a way forward.

Journalists (And Others) Should Leave Twitter. Here’s How They Can Get Started

Summary: Elon Musk has demonstrated contempt for free speech in general, and journalism in particular, with his behavior at Twitter. He is also demonstrating why it is foolhardy for anyone to rely …
Techdirt
#journalism #twitterexodus
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In light of recent events I've started to reconsider which companies and services I want to trust and rely upon.

Over the coming days I’m going to make some changes to the Conversations development infrastructure.

· F-Droid will become a more prominent way to download and install Conversations
· Translations are moving from Transifex to Weblate¹

In addition to that I’m going to reconsider what role Github will be playing in the future.

¹: translate.codeberg.org/project…


Conversations

Conversations is being translated into 41 languages using Weblate. Join the translation or start translating your own project.
Weblate

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Really glad Sony is finally making an accessibility-focused controller for PS5.

It’s overdue, especially considering all the accessibility work Sony’s been doing on the software side.

Hope they sell it for a reasonable price.

#gaming #VideoGames #Sony #PS5 #accessibility

blog.playstation.com/2023/01/0…


Introducing Project Leonardo for PlayStation 5, a highly customizable accessibility controller kit

Designed to remove barriers to gaming and help players with disabilities play more easily, more comfortably and for longer periods on PS5.
PlayStation.Blog
#Accessibility #gaming #videogames #sony #ps5

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I really enjoy listening to audiobooks and appreciate the emotion and nuance that skilled narrators bring to the story. So I have my (considerable) doubts that AI-voiced audiobooks will be just as good. Hope this doesn’t become the norm. #Bookstodon #BookToot #AudioBooks #AI

theguardian.com/technology/202…


Death of the narrator? Apple unveils suite of AI-voiced audiobooks

Exclusive: tech firm quietly launches new audiobook catalogue narrated by AI – but move expected to spark backlash
Leyland Cecco (The Guardian)
#AI #audiobooks #bookstodon #booktoot

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Early 20th century wall charts of invertebrates. You’ve never seen a cross section of a mosquito look so striking! uwmspeccoll.tumblr.com/post/70…
Anatomical color illustration of a starfish

Sarah Strikes Again!

On December 30, the very last research day of 2022, our former long-time graduate intern and social media science editor Sarah Finn (now the Archival Projects Librarian at the Milwaukee Public...
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Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says #police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.

#privacy #surveillance #acab #FTP #AI
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…


Black man wrongfully jailed for a week after face recognition error, report says

Lawyer says police didn't check man's height, weight—or the mole on his face.
Ars Technica
#privacy #AI #acab #surveillance #police #ftp

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When we see streets primarily as space to move cars, we miss out on the wonderful places for people that streets can be. And our cities are less successful for it. Actually, it’s not even good for moving cars! Rotenturmstraße’s before-&-after transformation in #Vienna via former Deputy Mayor Birgit Hebein.

#StreetsForPeople #cities #urbanism #streets #transportation #cars #Austria #cars #people

Heavy vehicle traffic on a Vienna street
Vienna street transformed as a place for people walking and sitting
#transportation #cars #streets #people #urbanism #cities #austria #StreetsForPeople #vienna
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(see also: Mistakes you apparently just have to make yourself, medium.com/@mcfunley/mistakes-…)

Mistakes You Apparently Just Have to Make Yourself - Dan McKinley - Medium

Over the years I’ve been collecting examples of what I can only describe as non-transferable knowledge. These are all definitely huge mistakes, but no amount of counseling or thought leadership is…
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Researching mines in northern Spain I came across this curious object. It's a canary cage designed to keep the canary alive in the event of a gas leak. If a miner saw the canary laying at the bottom of the cage it was time to abandon everything and leave the mine, but not without first closing the latched glass door and opening the valve of the oxygen bottle to save the bird. A miner would do that on their way out and take the bird with them. It's a signifier of the miner's legendary sense of solidarity, no lives lost to the mine on a miners watch. A solidarity that was also crucial in the fight for workers rights, creating safer and more humane working conditions, achievements of unionization and solidarity that some of us still enjoy today.
a heavy cast metal cube with glass-sided pannels, a latches glass door half open and an tiny oxygen bottle on top, with a canary bird inside

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> No mom it's not a "messy pile of clothes on my chair" it's an L1 cache for fast random access to my frequently used clothes in O(1) time. It needs to be big to avoid expensive cache misses (looking in my closet). I NEED to be minimizing latency, this is important to me. Please.


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