Every year I do an activity on the fugitive slave law & civil disobedience. We talk about whether protest is worthwhile and when, if ever, it's ok to break the law to stand for moral principles.
In past years, most students were pretty cynical & said protest wasn't helpful; they wouldn't risk their own safety and security for civil disobedience. Today, numerous students said that the risk to the country of not protesting for what is right was greater than the personal risk of getting arrested.
What has changed, beyond the random mix of students? My best guess is that the frequency of protests, esp by young people, has an influence, as does the very real sense in their generation that there are serious and urgent problems in the world. That said, when I asked how many of them had ever engaged in protest or civil disobedience, only 3/23 had.
Several years ago, I designed a lesson as part of a faculty ethics workshop at Marymount University that has now become one of my favorite discussions of the semester in my early U.S. survey course…
In 1930, the 22-million-pound Indiana Bell building was rotated 90 degrees over a month at a rate of 15 inches per hour, while 600 employees worked inside. Despite the slow movement, there was no interruption to the building's services, and none of the employees felt it move. #ConstructionHistory #StructuralEngineering
#ChatControl #OnlineSafetyBill #EarnIt - Lots of politicians want to undermine encryption once again. When will they ever learn that a "backdoor for the good guys only" is simply not possible?
Politiker wollen wieder einmal die Verschlüsselung untergraben. Wann werden sie jemals lernen, dass eine "Hintertür nur für die Guten" einfach nicht möglich ist?
Over the Easter holidays I experimented a bit with building Rust code with meson instead of cargo.
Specifically I tried building a GStreamer plugin with a few dozen Rust dependencies, but the same applies in a similar way to GTK/GNOME applications or literally anything else.
OK, friends. I could use your boosting powers on this one AND I could use your eyes for 5–10 min if you'd like to be helpful.
I've done the launch on the updated, multi-lingual & multi-device version of my font-spacing research test site. Please have a visit to letter.fit and take a look at a sample or two.
You don't have to be in #fonts #type or #typography — this is just "look at this sample, highlight things that stick out"; the value is in wide samples & lots of variety!
Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) is one month from today. Here's my 2022 GAAD article, still relevant today... and throughout eternity, across the galaxy: lflegal.com/2022/05/hitchhiker… #a11y
I finally read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams. I thank the Twitter accessibility community for ensuring that I did not miss this 1979 classic.
A few years ago, I made friends with one of the best waiters I've ever had in a restaurant in my life. I'm not sure if it's weird for me to say this, but this man is an angel on earth. I recently got wind that his wife has cancer, and they're trying to raze money to help keep their home, as well as pay for their children's activities while she recovers. I would be very grateful if you can donate, and I'm sure they would be too. gofundme.com/f/rzcz8u-cancer-f… @mutualaid #mutualaid #MutualAidRequest
Having recently joined us from Berlin as a full-time #Android developer, @wmontwe brings his passion for building mobile applications to the Thunderbird team. He’ll be helping to develop new features and an updated interface for K-9 Mail as we transform it into #Thunderbird for Android.
We talked about his first PC (and hacking on games to get them to run), what he hopes to accomplish for the Thunderbird mobile app, and how our community of contributors can help.
would this mean that k9 and Thunderbird would join parts in the codebase and also mobile linux platforms could profit from a Thunderbird in the very well k9 mobile optimized way? Or would both project go their own way while having the same branding?
Last year, we released two major versions of @libreoffice, with many new features. Find out more, in The Document Foundation's Annual Report 2022: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
In 2022, LibreOffice celebrated its twelfth birthday. Two new major versions of the suite introduced a variety of new features, while minor releases helped to improve stability as well.
@druid You can submit an enhancement request on bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we have very limited resources! So to get a new feature more quickly, please consider helping our community to implement it, or fund a developer: libreoffice.org/community/get-… 😊
Nabízíme šest televizních kanálů, mezi které patří ČT1, ČT2, ČT24, ČT Déčko, ČT art a ČT sport. Vysíláme 24 hodin denně. Zajišťujeme doprovodné služby včetně teletextu, elektronického programového průvodce i skrytých titulků.
Der britische Online Safety Bill ist eine Chatkontrolle auf Steroiden. Mit geeinten Kräften stemmen sich die größten Messenger, unter ihnen WhatsApp und Signal, nun gemeinsam gegen das Projekt und fordern die Regierung zum Umdenken auf.
Der irische Rechtsausschuss lässt kein gutes Haar an der geplanten Chatkontrolle. Das Vorhaben gefährde die Sicherheit, Privatsphäre und Meinungsfreiheit aller Bürger:innen und sei inkompatibel mit EU-Recht, heißt es in einem Bericht der Abgeordneten…
Hey @thunderbird i an running the 113 beta version of thunderbird at the moment. It feels like a big improvement already with regards to ui changes.
It still doesn’t look as shiny as the screenshot I’m your roadmap though. Is the roadmap picture more of an idea, or will thunderbird look like that at some point in time?
The mockup definitely informs the final Supernova design. And that "final" design may not materialize immediately upon release, but happen in stages throughout the Supernova cycle.
I think the biggest element still missing is multi-line message previews, and that's coming! We also have a lot of polish and prep to accomplish before 115 lands in July.
Introducing "awesome-azuracast", a new community-driven, curated repository of helpful tools, scripts and software to make your AzuraCast experience better: github.com/AzuraCast/awesome-a…
We've already started with a few popular options, but your contributions are always welcomed!
A curated list of tools, scripts and supporting software to help improve your AzuraCast broadcasting experience. - GitHub - AzuraCast/awesome-azuracast: A curated list of tools, scripts and support...
@archos Kamera bude u nás oficiálně dostupná 26. 4. 2023 za stanovenou cenu 1 499 Kč s DPH. K dispozici bude i přímo v oficiálním e-shopu výrobce: lamaxshop.cz/cs/kamery-do-auta… . Tam bude i k dokoupení GPS modul.
Kamera do auta s nativním Full HD/30fps, Wi-Fi, mobilní aplikace, originální nenápadný design, superkondenzátor, podpora H.265, automatické zapnutí a nahrávání do smyčky, zabudovaný mikrofon, až 128GB paměťová karta.
As we recap our fantastic #EverythingOpen talks, next up is William Brown @firstyear from @SUSE who walks us through #passkeys for #web #authn, showing us their ambiguities, how they work, what their limitations are, and what we need to be thinking about when we implement them.
(William Brown) Many people and businesses are starting to talk about Passkeys, Webauthn, FIDO and more. With a veritable tsunami of jargon in the space it c...
This hearing test app is awesome. If you connect it to Apple health, you can use the audiogram it generates with AirPods. So cool. apps.apple.com/ca/app/mimi-hea…
The Mimi Hearing Test is the easiest way to assess your hearing ability. This hearing test will give you understandable results in about 6 minutes.
- Modern hearing assessment: Easy-to-use and in-depth testing of a wide range of frequencies.
Apparently, on this day in 1877, the phonograph was unvailed. To celebrate, I bring you this terrible and obnoxious thing I did in the summer of 2007 after a combination of a few drinks and not nearly enough sleep. It's the fake playback of a late 19th century digital phonograph... or something.
Credit: NASA/JSCWhile in orbit around the Moon on Christmas 1968, the Apollo 8 astronauts read a passage from the Book of Genesis in the Bible.JSC 790 - (197...
Let's say example.com/foo.txt returns a 302 with a Location set to foo-timestamp.txt. Is there a way to tell curl to save the file as foo-timestamp.txt? -LO uses foo.txt.
Sounds like Reddit wants to follow in Twitter's footsteps and make API access payed, though it sounds like they're specifically targeting companies scraping the site to train AI language models, while access for academics and making bots or apps that help using the site would still get free access. We'll have to see how all of this turns out in practice techcrunch.com/2023/04/18/redd…
Reddit followup: The Developer of Apollo (by far the most popular 3rd party iOS client) had a meeting with them about the API changes. Full details are in the post below but the TLDR, sounds like Reddit doesn’t want to get rid of third party clients, but they want to charge for the API usage by them - IE to offset the cost of ads people wouldn’t be seeing. So in the case of Apollo it couldn’t have a version anymore. What this means for apps like Dystopia or Nthantech’s client remains to be seen. reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comment…
@Rich Let’s hope the dev will be able to keep working on it or at the very least get it to a point where it could leave the state of perpetual beta it’s been in.
Build good accessibility defaults A11yFirst has done a good job highlighting how CKEditor could be built more accessibly. Including elements like: User guidance on headings Support for Language of ...
There are times you just don't want to update your favorite app because you heard from your friends that the new version broke accessibility. It's possible to turn off automatic updates for specific apps on google Play Store. Here's how erisilebilirandroid.com/turn-o…
There are times you like your app as it is and you may be worried that a future update might break things, it is easy to turn off automatic updates for a specific app on Google Play Store. Here's how.
🚨 Only 2 days left to apply for the Responsible AI Challenge!
Don't miss the chance to showcase your innovative AI project. Total prize pool is now $100,000 — including mentorship from industry leaders to develop your idea. future.mozilla.org/builders-ch…
Desde ayer a medio día no hay internet. Hoy me encontré la excavadora que cortó la fibra óptica ayer; es en la obra de Arco Sur. Los de Telmex estaban ahí junto reparando algo y les pregunté. #Xalapa
Interpretada por Artistas y Cantantes en 1989 por mensionar algunos Tatiana Sasha Angelica Vale Garibaldi Lucia Mendez Daniela Romo Cesar Costa Timbiriche ...
Funky, up-beat and containing some crazy Latin grooves, check out 'Mind Vibrations' by myself and Born74 on your music platform of choice: truthoughts.ffm.to/mindv
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