Blind man struggled to get paid job for 20 years bbc.in/41JUPay
Original tweet : twitter.com/BBCNews/status/164…
The RNIB says it is working with employers to make workplaces accessible for people with sight loss.By Ben Price & Rowenna Hoskin (BBC News)
PipeWire 0.3.70 is out now with fixes for critical issues in the previous release and also some new features. You can see the details here:
Flipboard brings editorial curation to Mastodon with ‘desks’ for news and discovery
An #anthropologist attends a #CPAC conference ( #conservative #RightWing #America) and reports on their findings of the attitude towards #trans folks.
This being @SAPIENS_org, it is well thought through, fully supportive of trans folks and focused on debunking some of the #myths that the right perpetuate.
I'm really pleased to see serious #academic #writing focused on supporting trans folks. Will the right wing read this? Probably not. Will people who are unaware of the attacks trans folk experience every day read this? Quite probably. Will it help to increase understanding, empathy and allyship? I sincerely hope so.
sapiens.org/culture/transphobi…
An anthropologist attends the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC)—ground zero for anti-trans rhetoric and legislation in the U.S.Emily Sekine (SAPIENS)
IETF take on the current global status of IPv6 deployment.
rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9386.htm…
Tl;dr: Slow but steady.
I normally post these on Twitter, but it just occurred to me I could try doing so here: MIT Technology Review has an open call for pitches, for our upcoming issue on ⚖️ethics⚖️. We're looking for *big* swings: features, investigations, profiles, and sharp essays at the intersection of #ethics and #technology. Rates: $1-2/word.
Pitch deadline is tomorrow: April 20. Short notice, I know! If you have an idea, but need a day or two to write up a pitch, send me an e-mail (see technologyreview.com/how-to-pi…)
MIT Technology Review welcomes pitches from freelance writers across a broad range of topics. We encourage writers of all skill levels, and from all backgrounds, to pitch us.MIT Technology Review
Ich hab mal ne ganz bescheidene Frage, gerne auch an die #neuhier Fraktion:
Was fehlt euch an #Mastodon ?
Gerade Anfangs habe ich immer vermutet, dass es die grossen Medienhaeuser, bekannte Persoenlichkeiten und Politiker:innen benoetigt, um so ein Netzwerk mit Leben zu fuellen...
Inzwischen hat sich fuer mich herausgestellt, dass die Communities hier auch ganz wunderbar ohne diese den Laden in Schwung halten.
Und bei euch so? Gerne auch fehlende Features der Plattform nennen.
Apple Responds to Report About Thieves Permanently Locking Out iPhone Users
macrumors.com/2023/04/19/apple…
The Wall Street Journal's Nicole Nguyen and Joanna Stern today published a report highlighting how thieves can use Apple's optional recovery...Joe Rossignol (MacRumors.com)
Back at the Rhodes booth with Dan looking at the new Rhodes MK8 now with FX FX board. This flagship model has the preamp from the preamp version of the p...YouTube
TIL about /dev/full and bugs in Hello World.
I don't really buy that #TheCrueltyIsThePoint. I'm a materialist. Money talks, bullshit walks. When billionaires fund unimaginably cruel policies, I think the cruelty is a *tactic*, a way to get the turkeys to vote for Christmas. After all, policies that grow the fortune of the 1% at the expense of the rest of us have a natural 99% disapproval rating.
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Musím uznat, že Nostr vypadá vážně zajímavě. Ryzí decentralizace. Uvidíme, jak se to bude vyvíjet, až se zaplní větším množstvím uživatelů.
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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.
The full lesson is on my website: cassandragoodhistorian.com/202…
#histodons #history #teaching #ethics
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…Cassandra Good
díky za tip!
#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?
Learn here why we must keep fighting for strong #encryption: tutanota.com/blog/posts/why-a-…
#OSB #CSAM #ClientSideScanning #Privacy
Politiker wollen wieder einmal die Verschlüsselung untergraben. Wann werden sie jemals lernen, dass eine "Hintertür nur für die Guten" einfach nicht möglich ist?
By demanding encryption backdoors, politicians are not asking us to choose between security and privacy. They are asking us to choose no security.Tutanota
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.
A write-up of the results with a lot of details can be found here: coaxion.net/blog/2023/04/build…
#RustLang #GStreamer #GNOME #GTK #meson #cargo #BuildSystems
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ejabberd 23.04 has been released !
This a big new release with many changes including support XEP-0425 (Message moderation), realtime block lists and several SQL improvements.
You can read more on our blog: process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-…
#xmpp
This new ejabberd 23.04 release includes many improvements and bug fixes, as well as some new features.https://www.process-one.net/blog/ejabberd-23-04/#author (ProcessOne)
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!
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.Law Office of Lainey Feingold
Wow! But by the word "broken" it is easy to guess who put this together! :) mindly.social/@BorrisInABox/11…
sSo this happened.
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.
blog.thunderbird.net/2023/04/m…
Having recently joined us as a full-time Android developer, Wolf brings his passion for building mobile applications to the Thunderbird team.Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
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.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
community, LibreOffice, office suite, free office suite, Document Foundation, get involved, opportunities, developers, testers, localizers, translators, documentation writers, users support, native-lang, designers, marketers, marketing, design, admin…www.libreoffice.org
Jaká data o nás sbírají technologičtí giganti a co se s těmito daty děje? 🧐
Na to si posvítil pořad Bilance České Televize 📺.
Vyzpovídán byl @davidslizek i @jancibulka, nám se v dokumentu povedlo alespoň naťuknout téma digitálního vyloučení.
Sledujte tu:
ceskatelevize.cz/porady/140213…
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.Česká televize
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.netzpolitik.org
Messenger-Überwachung: Irischer Rechtsausschuss zerpflückt Chatkontrolle
netzpolitik.org/2023/messenger…
gefährdet #sicherheit #privatsphare #meinungsFreiheit
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…netzpolitik.org
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.
That's very nice to hear.
The multi-line previews will make it much easier to parse my inbox compared to the current design, which I still find too dense.
Also the overall design currently is pretty gray in my opinion and could use some sprinkles of color
Twitter made it easier to harass transgender users
theverge.com/2023/4/18/2368819…
Twitter quietly removed a piece of its Hateful Conduct Policy that protects transgender users from targeted deadnaming and misgendering.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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...GitHub
Jak zprovoznit autokameru LAMAX N4?📷
👉 infoek.cz/jak-zprovoznit-autok…
Máte novou autokameru LAMAX N4 a nevíte si rady, jak ji zprovoznit? V tomto článku jsem se podíval na to, jakAdolf Pupík (Infoek.cz)
Netflix: autoplay next episode is off, yet it still does.
Also Netflix: are you still watching?
WTF.
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.
Another fabulous talk from William.
youtube.com/watch?v=V-7zMIgGO1…
(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...YouTube
Quick #introduction & #firstpost.
Twitter is doing my head in with
- Algorithm changes
- Limiting external links to #substack etc
Through reading a blog I ended up here looking for change and the future of social DEX platforms.
I welcome your TIPS in being here.
- CC
PipeWire Project
Unknown parent • • •All devices have a unique node.name property that you can use to identify it. 'pactl list sinks short' can show those. To automatically load/save links you will need to make a script (using pw-link, for example) or use one of the jack tools like jack-matchmaker to link based on pattern matching.
Roland L. Taylor (RolandiXor)
in reply to PipeWire Project • • •I just want to say that Pipewire has dramatically improved my setup and experience with audio on Linux, even more so than Pulseaudio did some years ago.
Thank you to the developers and contributors for making this such a solid platform and delivering a top notch experience to the wider community.