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Day 2 talks are all wrapped up! We’ll be back tomorrow at 16:00 UTC for more presentations.
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"The ... PAC effort is spearheaded by Mike Novogratz, the cryptocurrency billionaire who backed Dean Phillips in the Democratic primary"

Folks, the movement to replace Joe Biden is being led and funded and promoted by media moguls (who hate that he's going after them for antitrust) and by cryptocurrency bros (who hate that he's regulating and taxing their magic internet money), and rich folks in general (who hate that he's staffing and funding the IRS to make them pay their fair share).

The people standing by him? Bernie Sanders. AOC. The Congressional Black Caucus. The United Auto Workers.

Of those, which side do *you* think is more likely to be right about this?

hawaiitribune-herald.com/2024/…


Major Democratic donors devise plans to pressure Biden to step aside - Hawaii Tribune-Herald

After several days of quiet griping and hoping that President Joe Biden would abandon his reelection campaign on his own, many wealthy Democratic donors are trying to take matters into their own hands.
none (Hawaii Tribune-Herald)

Our final block of #GUADEC day 2 is Intern Lightning Talks in Track 1
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Day 2 Track 1: Intern Lightning Talks
#GUADEC #guadec2024

After many years away from the stage, I am back! It looks like I’m accepted to give a talk at the Matrix Conference (2024.matrix.org/) to present ✨ native simplified sliding sync ✨: how it differs from the first version of sliding sync (an experimental project implemented inside a proxy), how we’ve implemented it inside the Matrix Rust SDK etc. Gonna be fun!

#matrix #RustLang


Matrix.org

The Matrix Conference is coming to Berlin, Germany on September 19–22, 2024.
2024.matrix.org
#matrix #RustLang
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A short story of a question turned into a new pending #curl feature:

github.com/curl/curl/discussio…


How to Request rate limiting with fraction/custom time unit? · curl curl · Discussion #14242

I naively tested to rate limit curl with --rate 5/10s but complained with following message: curl: unsupported --rate unit curl: conf:1: '--rate' is badly used here curl: cannot read config from 'c...
GitHub
#curl

Ludzie komentarze piszą, a ja się łapię za głowę...
Myślałam, że nanoboty w szczepionkach mRNA to już przebrzmiały temat, ale nie - dostaliśmy właśnie pytanie, czy zajmiemy się sprawą, bo "sieją mac adressami po bluetooth" 🤡
Niezatwierdzony komentarz w panelu redakcyjnym z3s o następującej treści: Witam. Zajmiecie się tematem nanobotów, które sieją mac adressami po bluetooth? Niestety nie mam takich umiejętności. Max to przestawienie bluetooth w tryb monitora. Naprawdę ludzie zaszczepieni rozgłaszają swój mac adress, ale nikt się tym nie zajmuje. Na smartfonie z andoridem 9 nie widział, ale na linuxie po przestawieniu bluetooth w tryb monitor przeżywa się szok. https://[...]/grafenowe-nanoboty-w-preparatach-pfizer-a-zasilane-przez-5g/ https://[...]/pfizer-i-izrael-pracowaly-nad-preparatami-7-lat-przed-pandemia/

look at this timely meme

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Humans first set foot on the Moon #OTD in 1969.
Color photo of the Apollo 11 Command and Service Module, taken from from the Landing Module, after undocking. The top of the module is a silver cone, seen nearly head on, attached to a white cylinder. The lunar surface – a yellowish gray, with craters – is in the background.
Color photo of an astronaut descending the ladder from the LM. He is wearing a puffy white suit with a large, rectangular backpack. Parts of the LM are covered in a copper-colored foil.
Color photo of the astronaut standing in front of the LM. The lunar surface appears gray and dusty. There is lens flare from the sun just out of the frame of the photo. The scene is reflected in the astronauts golden-colored visor.
Color photo of a footprint in the lunar surface. It has horizontal treads from the bottom of the astronaut's boot. Despite being a color photo, the image is primarily light gray and black.
#otd

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an old libcurl answer of mine on stackoverflow being questioned because I did not provide links to back up my statement when answering questions about code I wrote...

stackoverflow.com/a/28714247/9…

😂

(but yeah, I have stopped answering questions over there)


Persistent connection with libcurl

The following is from the libcurl homepage: curl and libcurl have excellent support for persistent connections when transferring several files from the same server. Curl will attempt to reuse
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Oliver Vanderb
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This reminds me of a "discussion" over at the dark side (twitter), as Grady Booch replied to a post of Elmo that he has no idea of software engineering. Shortly after a fanboy ask Grady what he has ever done for software engineering and he thinks Grady has no clue.

That was popcorn time 😁

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B O
B O
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you’re awesome, but this could’ve prevented with a simple “src: I’m the author” instead of expecting everyone to know you by name (which is something I consider a well read engineer would know, but still)
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Allow us to introduce you to Mike, our potential mascot. He made his debut last year at #FOSDEM, but never made an appearance since. What do you think, should we embrace him into our family? Let us know in the poll!

#mascot #branding #OpenSourceDesign

A graphic representation of an old-style metal microphone on a table standard. The microphone has eyes and eyebrows, and the stand has hands on both sides and a blue t-shirt with the AntennaPod logo.
#fosdem #OpenSourceDesign #mascot #branding
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tham
tham
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It immediately reminded me of Cl***y, even before I read any comment. That is, not really good memories.

As long as it comes hidden behind a content warning, I guess I can live with it.

I don't mean to be harsh or devaluate the work done here, so I'll try to be more specific. The combo metallic-object-that-sit-on-a-desktop with eyeballs-that-stare-at-you-all-day under those exageratingly-friendly-eyebrowns, it reminds me of office work, management, and surveillance.

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Hannah C. Rosenblatt
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Na, I don't like it. It has no neck 😅 and it's kind of infantile. I connect your brand more to stability, innovation, connection and self determination and I don't see that in Mike.

Endpoint Security extensions and DriverKit were ambitious projects, but they sure are looking good in retrospect mstdn.ca/@michaelgemar/1128193…

Michael Gemar (@michaelgemar@mstdn.ca)

@Migueldeicaza@mastodon.social @davew@mastodon.social More details specifically on Crowdstrike moving its macOS implementation off of kernel and into user space (in 2020): https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/crowdstrike-supports-new-macos-big-sur/
Mastodon Canada
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the ocsp fetcher on seirdy.one has problems now. i need to switch to a proper ocsp fetcher to complete my “I can’t believe it’s not Caddy™” setup. Disabled OCSP Stapling in the meantime. :sobbing:

using shell scripts for ocsp stapling file refreshing is bad for puppy.


Seirdy’s Home

My personal IndieWeb site. I write about and develop software to promote user autonomy. Topics include accessibility, security, privacy, and software freedom.
Seirdy’s Home

Our first presentation of #GUADEC day 2 is Keynote Speaker Stephanie Taylor. Catch her talk “Google Summer of Code 20 years of OSS Mentorship” in Track 1!
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Keynote Speaker: Stephanie Taylor, Google Summer of Code 20 years of OSS Mentorship
#GUADEC #guadec2024

I see a joke template.

"As someone fascinated by infant baptism, The Godfather (1972) was a real disappointment. How would you like it if I took you to see a film called 'Sicilian New Yorkers Murdering One Another' and it was just an hour and a half of people promising to bring up a child as a Christian"

Tweet from Jack Bernhardt @jackbern23 As someone who really likes trains, Trainspotting (1996) was a real disappointment. How would YOU like it if I took you to see a film called "Scottish Men Taking Lots Of Drugs" and it was just real time footage of the 15.28 from Didcot Parkway
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Arthur Detoo
Arthur Detoo
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as someone who really likes math, The Matrix (1999) was a real disappointment. How would you like it if I took you to see a film called "Kung Fu Reality Simulator" and it was just an hour and a half of someone reading from a large set of numbers in a two-dimensional array

Welcome to day 2 of #GUADEC2021! We're starting up in Track 1 in just a few minutes
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On this day twenty-six years ago I released #curl 4.7

It does not make be feel old at all. 😁

curl.se/changes.html#4_7

#curl

Apocalypse

#technomage #unix_surrealism #comic #glenda #openbsd #cirno #9front #fediart #mastoart #penguin #counter #crowdstrike

Girl, Puffy, Cirno, Glenda and Penguin gather around a computer case. There are strange green minerals growing inside it. Puffy cracks away one of the crystals and looks at it. Puffy: "I left it running overnight... It grew these mint green crystals and BSOD'd."
#comic #OpenBSD #mastoart #9front #fediart #penguin #unix_surrealism #technomage #glenda #crowdstrike #counter #cirno

Neat! "Pencils Made From Recycled Coffee Grounds Are Functional and Smell Great" mossandfog.com/pencils-made-fr… #coffee #pencils #recycle

Pencils Made From Recycled Coffee Grounds Are Functional and Smell Great » Moss and Fog

Utilizing discarded coffee grounds, this pencil shows that food waste can be turned into something useful and beautiful.
Moss And Fog (Moss and Fog)
#coffee #pencils #recycle

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I just stumbled across a truly cool design hack that leverages unicode to bold characters where no bolding is possible.

When i went to bookmark thetinypod.com/ the title inserted into the form was bolded.

I wrote the code that put the title in that form. There's NO way formatting should - or can - come through.

Then it got weirder.

🧐 Mini Investigation Time

🧵 1/?

annotated bookmark editing form with an arrow pointing to the title field which says tinyPod in it. However, the "tiny" in tinyPod is bolded while "Pod" is not.

𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆Pod

Your phone away from phone.
thetinypod.com
in reply to masukomi

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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Can you paste the full text so I can try it with various TTS options on Windows?
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masukomi
masukomi
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@matt

after the following emoji are the letters T I N Y in bold looking lower case characters. Those are immediately followed by Pod with no space and another emoji to mark the end of what should be read as tiny pod

👉 𝘁𝗶𝗻𝘆Pod👈

@Matt Campbell
in reply to masukomi

Matt Campbell
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NVDA on Windows with eSpeak NG reads it like this:

back hand index pointing right letter 1d601 letter 1d5f6 letter 1d5fb letter 1d606 Pod back hand index pointing left

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masukomi
masukomi
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@matt the first character is Unicode Character 'MATHEMATICAL SANS-SERIF BOLD SMALL T' (U+1D601)

which explains why it isn't pronounced. it's not a letter for speaking.

@Matt Campbell
in reply to masukomi

Matt Campbell
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I guess a screen reader or TTS engine *could* just replace those characters with their ASCII equivalents. I'm actually kind of surprised that the NVDA developers, usually quite pragmatic and (at least some of them) blind users themselves, haven't done this.
in reply to masukomi

Matt Campbell
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Both NVDA with the Windows OneCore David voice (the default for new NVDA installs) and Windows 11 Narrator with one of the newer natural voices read it as "back hand index pointing right Pod back hand index pointing left".

I don't have JAWS on this machine.

in reply to Matt Campbell

masukomi
masukomi
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i feel like the pronouncing it as if it were a letter should only be done IF the reader knew it was in a prose context and not a math context. You wouldn't want it making the plosive t sound when reading a math equation.
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Adrian Roselli
Adrian Roselli
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@matt
TalkBack / Firefox: right finger tiny pod left finger.

IIRC, TalkBack started treating math symbols as letters a couple versions ago because of their misuse on social media. Which has left the blind mathematics community annoyed.

@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@aardrian Given the commonness of online abuses of those symbols compared to proper use for mathematics, I think TalkBack made the right pragmatic choice. And even in the altter case, how important is it to know that it's the bold mathematical x as opposed to just x? The extra info could be exposed through the screen reader's feature for reading text attributes, as if the text had been bolded through an HTML tag or the like.
@Adrian Roselli
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@aardrian Assistive technology developers, and I am one, must always remember that the goal is to provide access to the world as it is, not wait for it to become what we wish it was.
@Adrian Roselli
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Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
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@aardrian Still, until all AT developers get around to adding this workaround, it is of course better to not use and promote this kind of Unicode hack.
@Adrian Roselli
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masukomi
masukomi
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@matt @aardrian Yeah i went back and edited the original posts to change how i described it (now that i know it's not from some other spoken language) and indicate it's a BadThing™
@Matt Campbell @Adrian Roselli
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Kara Goldfinch
Kara Goldfinch
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@matt @aardrian The next version of NVDA will have the option to do this as well. It's off by default and you can choose to have it apply when reading characters or just blocks of text.
@Matt Campbell @Adrian Roselli

В Интернете регулярно появляются посты и комментарии о том, что опросы показывают поддержку россиянами Путина и войны, и даже её рост на фоне санкций. Как человек, лично проводивший сквозные соцопросы по телефону, я хотел бы рассказать, как на практике, п

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Best analysis I've seen of the disastrous failures at Microsoft and Clownstrike" that took down so many vital services: wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2/…

"What we're seeing today isn't just a major fuckup, but the first of what will be many systematic failures — some small, some potentially larger — that are the natural byproduct of the growth-at-all-costs ecosystem where any attempt to save money by outsourcing major systems is one that simply must be taken to please the shareholder."


CrowdStruck

Soundtrack: EL-P - Tasmanian Pain Coaster (feat. Omar Rodriguez-Lopez & Cedric Bixler-Zavala) When I first began writing this newsletter, I didn't really have a goal, or a "theme," or anything that could neatly characterize what I was going to …
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DebCamp starts in a couple days! Check out some of the sprints planned in wiki.debian.org/DebConf/24/Spr… micronews.debian.org/2024/1721… #debian

DebCamp starts in a couple days! Check out some of the sprints planned in wiki.debian.org/DebConf/24/Sprints

micronews.debian.org
#debian

Cause and effect.

opendemocracy.net/en/dark-mone…

theguardian.com/environment/ar…

DARK MONEY INVESTIGATIONS: NEWS Rishi Sunak admits oil-funded think tank helped write anti-protest laws The PM confirmed Policy Exchange helped draft laws targeting climate activists, as first revealed by openDemocracy Anita Mureithi 30 June 2023, 2.05pm
Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25 Campaigners receive longest ever sentences for non-violent protest after being convicted of conspiracy to cause public nuisance Damien Gayle Thu 18 Jul 2024 18.47 CEST Share Five supporters of the Just Stop Oil climate campaign who conspired to cause gridlock on London’s orbital motorway have been sentenced to lengthy jail terms by a judge who told them they had “crossed the line from concerned campaigner to fanatic”.

Five Just Stop Oil activists receive record sentences for planning to block M25

Damien Gayle (The Guardian)

mäso

Its Not Just Streaming Content, Your Smart TV Collects Data on Everything howtogeek.com/its-not-just-str…

It’s Not Just Streaming Content, Your Smart TV Collects Data on Everything

It's tracking all the way down.
Joe Fedewa (How-To Geek)

Gajim 1.9.2 has been released 🚀

This release brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

#xmpp #gajim #chat

gajim.org/post/2024-07-19-gaji…

Gajim 1.9.2

Gajim 1.9.2 brings an important OMEMO encryption fix, native notifications on Windows, usability improvements, and many bugfixes. Thank you for all your contributions!
cal0pteryx (https://gajim.org/)
#xmpp #chat #gajim

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masto.ai/@rbreich
#inflation
Robert Reich: Memo to the media: Please don't say inflation is at a 40-year high without also mentioning that corporate profits are at a 70-year high. Give the people the full picture.
#inflation
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Our native language projects translate #LibreOffice into 100 languages, making the software usable for billions around the globe! Learn what they did in 2023: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource #freesoftware
Photo from LibreOffice Asia conference 2023

Native Language Projects – TDF’s Annual Report 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Statt der 2. lebenden Fremdsprache, Latein oder Griechisch können gehörlose und hörende Jugendliche bald in ÖGS (österr. Gebärdensprache) maturieren. Es wird ein entspr. Maturafach geben.

Das sind mal echte #GoodNews!

#Schule

orf.at/einfach/stories/3363847…


Gebärden-Sprache kommt als neues Maturafach

ORF.at
#goodnews #schule

Während wir Geflüchtete und Bürgergeldempfangende jagen, lassen wir die, die offen Betrug am Staat begehen, laufen. Verachtung für diese Bananenrepublik. Und Sorge um Frau #Brorhilker, die sich dem entgegen stellen will. #cumex #finanzwende
www1.wdr.de/nachrichten/rheinl…

Teures Cum-Ex-Gerichtsgebäude bleibt wohl leer - Ermittlungen stocken

Die ermittelnde Staatsanwaltschaft Köln kommt in den Cum-Ex-Ermittlungen nicht mehr voran - obwohl für 45 Millionen Euro extra ein neues Gerichtsgebäude in Siegburg gebaut wird.
Jochen Hilgers (wdr.de)
#brorhilker #cumex #finanzwende
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WestphalDenn
WestphalDenn
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@Gegenwind Leider treffend. Bananenrepublik sollte man aber aus wirklich guten Gründen aus dem aktivem Wortschatz streichen.
@Gegenwind 🇺🇳🖖

Wir wollen eine europäische Vermögenssteuer zur Finanzierung des sozialen und ökologischen Wandels und zur Unterstützung der vom Klimawandel betroffenen Länder.
Tax The Rich
tax-the-rich.eu/
Bitte vor allem nach außerhalb von Deutschland und Frankreich in der EU teilen!

Läuft nur noch bis 9.Oktober 2024!

Hier seht ihr, wo wie viele Stimmen fehlen
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European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !
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see those weird, errant straight vertical candlesticks in the center there?

someone unloading huge volumes of either options, or OTC shares off market.

My Software Projects, Security Research, and other Computery Stuff
This is a list of my favorite side projects and open-source work, collected into a single list so I can pin it to my profile. Replies are welcome!

- I'm the creator and lead dev of ModShark, a standalone auto-moderator for Sharkey instances. There's a severe lack of good moderation features for fediverse nodes, but I hope to improve the situation with ModShark and other independent tools.

- I occasionally publish fedi-admin-scripts, a small collection of scripts, queries, and documentation for admins of Sharkey and Akkoma instances. The goal here is low-effort knowledge sharing for the benefit of other admins.

- One of my larger projects is AP-WAF, a plugin-based extensible firewall for ActivityPub software. I hope it can bridge the feature gap between different fediverse servers by moving low-level moderation and security features into the middleware layer.

- I'm building ActivityPubSharp, an implementation of ActivityPub in C#. I'm using a novel approach to model AP's dynamically-typed extensions model in a type-safe way without sacrificing C#'s efficient, strong typing model.

- I built little-log-scan as a tool to track botnets and other internet threats. LLS ingests webserver logs through a series of heuristic rules to detect known vulnerabilities, identify payload types, and aggregate metadata. The output is structured for easy research analysis.

- As time allows, I'm building Lavender FE - a "universal" frontend for fediverse instances. Lavender is designed to seamlessly integrate multiple accounts, regardless of the instance or backend software.

- I curate a list of DotNet-ActivityPub-Projects, which is exactly what it sounds like. My goal is to index all projects that implement ActivityPub using C# or another CLR language.

- What started as a meme is now the Expressions AS Extension, an ActivityStreams extension meant to introduce protocol-level support for non-text communication. I hope that Expressions can enable new federated communication modes that are more comfortable to neurodivergent people.

- I contribute to Letterbook, a next-generation fediverse server offering simple operation and powerful safety tools. Letterbook incorporates a unique architecture that avoids many of the classic limitations faced by fedi server projects.

- I also contribute to Sharkey, a soft-fork of Misskey offering extensive quality-of-life improvements. Sharkey is designed as a safe extension of Misskey's native feature set, providing widespread improvements with minimal risk.

#OpenSourceSoftware #FediDevs #FediDev #Introduction


TransFem.org / Sharkey · GitLab

🌎 A Sharkish microblogging platform 🚀
GitLab
#introduction #opensourcesoftware #fedidev #fedidevs

How exciting. I recognized all but two of the songs in Weird Al's latest video. I guess I'm not quite old and uncool yet, or something.
youtu.be/y0ZoX4dBvwk

"Weird Al" Yankovic - Polkamania! (Official Music Video)

Single available at:Apple Music: https://itunes.apple.com/album/id/1753408289Amazon Music: http://amazon.com/dp/B0D7RQGLBS…and everywhere else digital music ...
YouTube

Would LLMs democratizing coding be a pyrrhic victory? macwright.com/2024/07/18/llms-…

Would LLMs democratizing coding be a pyrrhic victory?

macwright.com

ATU686 – Laura Metcalf Tribute eastersealstech.com/2024/07/19…

ATU686 – Laura Metcalf Tribute - Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads

Your weekly dose of information that keeps you up to date on the latest developments in the field of technology designed to assist people with disabilities and special needs. Accessibility Minute with Laura Metcalf and to read her blogs: www.
Josh Anderson (Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads)

How has technology improved accessibility over the last 25 years? a2i.co.uk/blog/how-has-technol…

How Technology Improved Accessibility Over Last 25 Years | A2i

Blog discussing the technology and devices that have improved accessibility for disabled people since 1999 when A2i started. Learn more here.
Alice Clark (A2i Transcription Services)
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