La Quadrature publie un article révélant une volonté policière a priori sans précédent de criminalisation de pratiques numériques que notre association a toujours défendues. Nous détaillons les éléments de cette affaire ici.

laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/af…

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Salir a "poner multas" se ha convertido en un pseudo-hobbie complementario a entrenar en la calle, caminar o quedar con amigos.

Todo empezó cuando hace unos años una pareja majísima de madrileños salieron en el periódico por hacer exactamente esto: las funciones dejadas de la Policía Municipal.

Ahora puedo confirmar con orgullo que al menos hay otras cinco personas activas en mi ciudad que hacen lo propio porque me vieron a mí dar un toque a los servicios municipales.

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José Manuel Lorenzo publica un estudio cada dos días. Es una cifra inverosímil. La Universidad de Vigo, en la que es profesor asociado, ha llegado a proclamar que es “el mayor experto en carne del mundo". Su caso ilumina el lado más oscuro de la ciencia elpais.com/ciencia/2023-06-03/…

Cuenta atrás de cinco días para una candidatura de unidad que permita a la izquierda dar la batalla el 23J eldiario.es/politica/cuenta-ci…

Más claves:

– La evolución del voto del PP: el triunfo en las municipales no tiene por qué anticipar un vuelco en las generales eldiario.es/politica/evolucion…

– Electores ‘borrados’ del padrón tras mudarse que se quedaron sin votar el 28M: “Me han arrebatado mi derecho” eldiario.es/politica/electores…

– PODCAST | Alberto Garzón: el viaje del pionero eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/podcas…

The “#a11y is not accessible” discussion wants to get back to the early 2010s.

It’s a signifier, for some users (for example who are dyslexic) it’s easier to type, you need some explanation, like any in-group language. Even accessibility needs explanation.

It’s not a big deal and the energy is better used elsewhere.

a11yproject.com/posts/a11y-and…

#accessibility

(Edit: LOL mistyped accessibility in the hashtag…)

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In times when Reddit fades away, accessibility-wise, the dev of HackerNewt, a pretty new HackerNews iOS client has submitted their first #Accessibility patches. The work is not complete yet, but this is the best I've seen in a HN client so far with almost everything labelled. The proper grouping of items and rotor actions are still planned. Feel free to check it out: apps.apple.com/app/id644820197…. Feel free to join our discussion on the app's bug tracker, especially the point on the comment's section. I have a feeling this could be done like in Dystopia but the dev thinks otherwise. Any tips? github.com/devandsev/HackerNew…

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@glaroc It's a client to have an easier time browsing HackerNews, a site where people post links to projects, articles, videos etc. that sparked their intelectual interest and want to have a discussion about it. If you're into tech, science, culture, language etc. you will enjoy yourself browsing it.

What a beautiful story of #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #software from #ABC news from Kristine Taylor and Susan Chenery - @kristineataylor@twitter.com and @chenery3@twitter.com - Jamie Teh - @jcsteh and Mick Curran - @md_curran@twitter.com, who both live with #blindness, created #NVDA software which is a desktop #ScreenReader - and continue to give it away for free.

abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

Get the software here on @github github.com/nvaccess/nvda

#a11y

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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid might not bring you any new apps (just 12 updated ones) – but then something I announced a few days ago just went live. Enjoy a preview of what soon will also show up in your F-Droid client, see the reasons why an app might have been flagged with "this anti-feature".

This currently only applies to my repo. Others will follow soon™ 😉

So, enjoy #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

The Sears case cuts to bone

With its massive catalog, >100y experience w production/inventory/fulfillment & millions of devoted customers, Sears was ideally positioned to move online as THE dominant online retailer

Instead, investors [edited to add: /management] gutted the golden goose

And that’s just one example in @pluralistic’s rundown of the long history of heists like this being pulled by private equity

pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plu…

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We recently updated the @fdroidorg Inclusion How-To with a new section explaining why we consider #ReproducibleBuilds to be best practice and are hoping developers will support our efforts to make as many (new) apps reproducible as we reasonably can (whilst hopefully making sure it's clear this is not a mandatory requirement):

f-droid.org/docs/Inclusion_How…

I just read this rant about ChatGPT and the like replacing creative humans or at least putting them out of work: catvalente.substack.com/p/the-… and the following part got my attention:

> It’s just barely possible, but, you know, we could give a shit. If we wanted. We could decline to purchase anything written by ChatGPT. Consume any automated performances. Buy anything with AI-generated art on or in it.

I might just do that. I probably have nothing to lose in that small act of resistance. 1/?

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But, I didn't simply ask ChatGPT to write the story. I've been prompting it to write one scene at a time, sometimes with fairly detailed prompts, and then I edite the results. And I wonder if that's so bad. I think ChatGPT is better at writing a first draft at a scene than I am (note that I'm a total dilettante at fiction writing), particularly at writing descriptions and coming up with incidental details. For those things, it has a better imagination than I do. 3/?
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So, maybe I really should throw away that story I've been prompting ChatGPT to write one scene at a time, walk away from that side project until I'm sure I won't quote any of the ChatGPT-generated text verbatim, and only come back to it if I decide to write the whole thing myself, the tried and true way. Losing what was already written might not be much of a loss anyway. 5/5
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To me, an AI does just as much plagiarization as an author who read those stories, probably even less because of the sheer amount of content it has access to. If a human author is writing fantasy, they’re almost inevitably drawing on Tolkien, because everyone in fantasy is drawing on Tolkien. If you write Sci Fi, you’re probably drawing inspiration from those guys in Slovakia who invented the idea of robots. You learned to write by reading how others write. Why is an AI any different? I really don’t get where people see the difference.

Listen to the most recent episode of my podcast: Reddit is cutting off accessibility and they don’t care anchor.fm/the-evil-chocolate-c…

Alright, here's a response article to @martijnbraam's "Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak". I'll be addressing some of their claims by explaining why some of the design decisions make sense the way they are.

theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023…

Edit: should there be a response article to mine, I'll respond it here (unless it doesn't address any of my points).

#Flatpak #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

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Here we go #DrupalCon!!

Please stay home if feeling unwell.
Please take a rapid test before traveling.
Please test while at the conference.
Please, wear an N95 mask with over the head straps, flatten the metal nose piece and bend to fit, check no gaps, and verify tight seal for the best protection for yourself and others.
Please eat outside, when possible.

johnsnowproject.org/primers/wh…

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver

Here is one of my favorite field recordings from this day in 2007.
This was done with a home-made Jecklin disc, an Edirol R1, and a pair of modified Panasonic WM-61 microphones. Lots of editing to comp for broken things.
The image is somewhere between binaural and a spaced omni pair, so headphones are recommended, but it works better on speakers than binaural.
POOR DOGGY!
Starts with wind and rain, then thunder. Very loud clap at 5:46.
borris.me/audio/Storm-04Jun200…
#audioMo

Coming up in October! #LibreOffice x UbuCon Asia 2023 – in Surakarta, Indonesia. Join us there: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #conference #foss #opensource

I have just read the Interview with Georg Romer from University Hospital Münster in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" titled "Wait and See is Not an Option!"

He is a child and young adult psychiatrist. The interview is really very long.

But the gist is that this Georg Romer is really one of the Saints that we wish for.

The questions asked by the newspaper were great, mentioning all the controversy in society, asking tough questions (but in a very respectful manner), asking things like "what about the impression that transition numbers just exploded and that this is 'fashionable' at the moment" and so on.

During the interview Alexander Knote from LMU Munich was also mentioned aht Georg Romer was asked why he refused to talk / discuss with Alexander Knote.

In essence, A. Knote says that "coming out as trans gender has become fashionable among the AFAB." He then continues to prove that by showing that in Germany 85% of trans gender people AFAB trans men.

Georg Romer takes that as data and looks at "why is that so" in a different way. He analyses the societal environment and comes to the conlusing that the actual number of trans woman is significantly higher than the 15% but the fact that trans women have a significantly higher chance of being discriminated against, hated, or even experience violence is the actual reason why we don't see more trans women coming out. And yes, contrary to A. Knote, Georg Romer has scientific data on that.

A few machine translated excerpts:
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Some of your colleagues report that young people are becoming more and more demanding and doctors are called transphobic if they do not immediately accept being trans as given without question. Do you experience that too?

Not at all. If we want to avoid an escalation of sensitivities in the doctor-patient relationship, it starts with ourselves. We must understand and respect that there is already a long history of discrimination, pathologization and bullying of trans people in medicine at every first encounter. I think the young people immediately feel the attitude and agenda with which they are met.

So it is the responsibility of the doctors how well the young people cooperate?

We doctors have to get away from the idea that we define whether someone is trans or not. It starts with the speech in the waiting room. I always ask first of all with which name someone would like to be addressed. With this, I do not determine anything for the future, but I signal: I see you, I respect you, I listen to you.
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At the end he says:
I also think of a sentence in a letter that the mother of a 13-year-old trans boy once wrote to us: Without the treatment, we would steal the boy's youth. Every person deserves the chance to remember a happy youth for the rest of their lives. If we force young people to live through these years in the wrong sex, then this hardship of the children is in every class photo, in every memory of a school trip that you still had to experience in the old sex. People who only begin their transition as adults often eras these years of youth in their memory. That's very sad. A coherent identity, even in youth, contributes to the happiness of life.
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The interview is here: if you can get it free and want to read it in your language, I guess you need a machine translation

sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…

#Trans #YoungTrans #TransPride

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I haven't posted music in a bit so... A while ago, when I was figuring out Surge XT accessibility, I thought I should make some Psytrance. The problem was... I had no idea how to make psytrance. I ended up with this... and decided to leave it there. I still don't know how to make psytrance. Surge, however, is awesome. I definitely did not leave *it* there.

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My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.

Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.

It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography