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Blind employee sues VA for discrimination, claiming new $10B records system cannot be used by visually impaired workers bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?re…

Blind employee sues VA for discrimination, claiming new $10B records system cannot be used by visually impaired workers

A blind employee with the Department of Veterans Affairs has filed a discrimination lawsuit against the agency claiming its new $10 billion electronic health records system cannot be used by clinicians who are visually impaired.
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So I turned off the new Firefox advertiser-friendly stuff.

But somehow I feel this isn't enough. I want to do more than just turn the feature off, I would prefer to submit poisoned and false data to it continually.

Anyone know a plugin that will flood this bullshit system with fake AI lies or anything like that?

In the page explaining why they silently forced this bullshit on me they say "Attribution is very important to advertisers"

Fuck advertisers. Fuck them. You get that Firefox? It is not your job to be kind to advertisers, it is your job to fuck them on my behalf.

#firefox #adverts #tracking

Firefox's new "privacy" control: Website Advertising Preferences. Allow website to perform privacy-preserving ad measurements is now unchecked.
#firefox #tracking #adverts
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Adam Dalliance

I looked at Librewolf and it seemed like it'd be perfect. Was still able to send tabs around from machine to machine and sync bookmarks and stuff, which is the thing I suspected wouldn't work. All worked okay, was just firefox without the bullshit they do these days.

Until it just threw javascript errors on my TTRSS install and I couldn't read my newsreader.

Only on my desktop machine mind, it was fine on the laptop.

Maybe I should try harder. Perhaps it was just a fleeting thing that would be fixed next version.

#librewolf #firefox #advertising #bullshit

#firefox #librewolf #Advertising #bullshit
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Adam Dalliance

I'm hearing that Mozilla worked with Facebook to build this malware that they silently injected into our machines.

Reminds me of that episode of Batman where Batman teamed up with the Penguin to develop a more citizen-friendly system of crime and extortion so that the Penguin could stop having so many people murdered.

Oh, no, wait. That never happened because Batman knows who the fucking bad guys are.

#firefox #mozilla #meta #facebook

#firefox #facebook #mozilla #meta

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Thanks to gitlab.com/ab-amal and gitlab.com/Glitchyi we have a redesigned home page for diasp.in

#XMPP #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OpenSource

We are hosting a public XMPP / #Jabber service for 8+ years and you can request an account now. You can learn more about XMPP / Jabber at joinjabber.org

With a diasp.in account and app like Monocles Chat or Monal, you can talk to users of many others messaging apps like Quicksy or Prav.

Advaith Narayanan · GitLab

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#FreeSoftware #xmpp #foss #opensource #Jabber

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My latest: Apple this morning announced a new “midnight” HomePod mini, which, while ostensibly ho-hum news, is a great opportunity to remind able-bodied people in the tech media that accessibility matters a whole lot when it comes to smart speakers.

forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…


Apple’s Refreshed HomePod Mini Reminds Smart Speakers Are Invaluable Tools For Accessibility

The hands-free operation matters a lot for accessibility.
Steven Aquino (Forbes)

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**Join the Apple Accessibility Feedback Team: Your Voice Matters!

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**Join the Apple Accessibility Feedback Team: Your Voice Matters! | AppleVis

Calling All Blind and Low Vision Users! Exciting news! I’ve reached out to Apple Accessibility, and they’re on board to collaborate with us. They’ve asked me to put together a team so we can work directly with their team and engineers.
www.applevis.com

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If you like science, sports, and smart critiques of gender, Rose Eveleth has a new podcast called Tested from CBC/NPR about the weird/horrifying practice of testing female athletes for "femaleness" -- and what happens when a group of runners are deemed "not female" and disqualified from participating in the Olympics and other competitions. These are not trans women -- they are AFAB but don't fit arbitrary norms. The pod is wild, fascinating, & heartbreaking. cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/173…

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The maritime crews keeping Africa connected to the internet. Maintaining internet connectivity globally depends directly on the right of this type of ship. Article on @globalvoices globalvoices.org/2024/07/15/th…

The maritime crews keeping Africa connected to the internet

“These are uniquely skilled artisans and technicians who retrieve and repair cables, sometimes from depths of multiple kilometres under the ocean.”
Global Voices
@Global Voices

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@mozilla are you mad? Seriously, this is not a metaphorical straw, it's a big fuck off to all the privacy sensitive users - no, actually to all your users - who supported you all these years and a clear, final renouncement of any remaining hope you will stop going full surveillance.

Congratulations to your new overlords, they are at least crystal clear in their goals.

github.com/mozilla/explainers/…

Seriously? "we are working with meta" "the price for user is just a bit of privacy" "but look at these huge benefits for adviser!" "we believe more ads is better" "enable by default, b/c, else people may not enable it"?

Dome part of the link with sentence highlighted: Section "end user benefits" "Making advertising better makes it possible for more sites to function using the support that advertising provides." "Our view is that the costs that people incur as a result of supporting attribution is small." (costs are..)"Privacy loss from use of their information." "The value that an advertiser gains from attribution is enormous."

explainers/ppa-experiment at main · mozilla/explainers

Explainers from Mozilla contributors. Contribute to mozilla/explainers development by creating an account on GitHub.
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We’re going live at 8:45 EDT. Join @samsteindc with @joeperticone and A.B. Stoddard for a prime time preview.

youtube.com/live/o2rz9dltVF8?s…


Republican National Convention: Day One | The Bulwark Live

Come watch the Republican National Convention with your favorite Bulwark reporters. The convention will be live-streamed here, with commentary from Sam Stein...
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I recorded a demo of the Roland VT-4, my vocal transformer of choice. roland.com/us/products/vt-4/ If You’re in the market for a box to make your voice do all kinds of silly things, you can hear what the effects sound like and get an overview of how it works. I am curious if anyone else has found a better thing with greater levels of customizability, that doesn’t sacrifice ease of use by making you navigate a menu or read a display.


Roland - VT-4 | Voice Transformer

VT-4: Voice Transformer - Find Your Voice
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I would also add that if all those people who benefited from Biden’s reforms could realize that and also vote in his favor, there would be no chance for reps. But, it seems as though many people who benefit from democratic reforms either don’t know it or simply don’t want to see it, and support the tall guy who promises everything and nothing at the same time. hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/112…

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)

Good morning! Things that are still true: There are millions of Black registered voters, that want to vote for Biden, and plan to vote for him in November.
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Julian Sanchez

I really cannot get over the level of brazen gaslighting here. Trump already sought to seize power after losing one election. He has just picked a VP whose chief qualification is having loudly declared he’d have been complicit in that scheme. He is openly boasting about his desire to weaponise the Justice Department to pursue political foes. If that’s not an existential threat to democracy, I can’t imagine what would be.

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I donate a monthly amount to UNRWA and have been doing this since my government criminally withheld support of this crucial relief organisation.

It's never enough, but all bits help. Please consider a donation, thank you.

aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/20…


Israel’s war on Gaza live: UNRWA headquarters in Gaza ‘flattened’

Israel’s latest ground campaign in Gaza City rages as UNRWA chief says HQ’s destruction violates international law.
Lyndal Rowlands (Al Jazeera)
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Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

@modulux It feels frustratingly little, but it does make an impact. The Dutch state donated €19 million in 2023. If ~65,000 Dutch people would donate €25 a month, we'd already cover this completely.

I was hoping my party would organise a campaign along these lines, but instead we recently decided a blank anti-UN position at our recent congress. I'm sure the people in Palestine appreciate this principled position..

@modulux

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In case you wonder: "SkyTube Extra" will disappear from the #IzzyOnDroid repo with the next sync as it no longer meets the inclusion criteria (gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…). For details, please see github.com/SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube…

(the major culprit is the integrated self-updater with an update checker that cannot even be disabled. Such "updates" would bypass the extra checks established in the IzzyOnDroid repo – so if they're not opt-in with the implications made clear, they're a no-go)


Question on permissions · Issue #1256 · SkyTubeTeam/SkyTube

On the latest release, my scanner just reported: ! repo/free.rm.skytube.extra_48.apk declares sensitive permission(s): android.permission.REQUEST_INSTALL_PACKAGES android.permission.READ_EXTERNAL_S...
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#izzyondroid

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Today, chatting on IRC, the topic of decorative fruit came up. I recently read that lemons, at least in Spain, were decorative originally, and only later people worked out they could be eaten or used for flavouring food.

Someone else pointed out a similar situation took place with pineapples in the UK and posted this fascinating article about it: bbc.com/news/uk-england-534328…

Pineapples were a status symbol, and were so expensive they would be exposed for show rather than eaten, until they rotted. There were pineapples for rent, and they required security and were at risk of theft.

What a world.


The rise, fall, and rise of the status pineapple

For a couple of centuries, the British were in an unlikely frenzy for the exotic fruit.
By Bethan Bell (BBC News)
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