Did you know? The menu theme for the old Monkey Business audio game is a MIDI file called rastamon from Passport Designs. Here's my attempt at replicating the render of the file that appears in the game. As played on the S-YXG50 VSTi, with the 2 mb ROM and XGLite enabled. Thanks to @pitermach for the initial discovery. MIDI: web.archive.org/web/1997070321…

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We are pleased to announce that we got selected in another funding round by the EU’s NGI via the @NLnet Foundation @NGI0 Entrust Fund to work on some important features in Monal: nlnet.nl/project/Monal-IM-UI/

In short this consists of the following tasks (in no special order):
Implement Dialpad, Rewrite Chat UI, Implement Message Reactions, Rich Replies and Stickers, XSF work and a documentation of Monal's internals

#monal #ios #macos #xmpp #nlnet

This coming Friday, July 26th, is the one year birthday of a major accessibility issue in documentation for website developers being pointed out, and little has been done.

Let's put it to bed without birthday cake.

Brain cancer has removed my ability to help, but I hope it's possible. If you've written HTML or CSS take the time to read over the issue, this is important.

Boosts appreciated 💜

github.com/orgs/mdn/discussion…

Aira Officially Launches Remote Incident Manager Integration, Making On-Demand Remote Visual Assistance Fully Accessible! pneumasolutions.com/aira-offic…
in reply to Jessica Dail

@KE8UPE RIM is free if you're the person who is receiving assistance. I don't know if AIRA's free tier allowing for daily five-minute calls provides this capability so it would be better to ask them about this. Even if it did, you would be pretty limited as to how much help you could receive because of the brief time allowed per day. Now if Be My Eyes had agents who could do it that would be pretty amazing.

Verizon Just Added 378,000 5G Home Internet Customers, Putting Pressure on Comcast & Spectrum As Cord Cutting 2.0 Grows cordcuttersnews.com/verizon-ju…

We could generally use anybody interested in web development or design of basically any skill level to take interest in our websites. This is a place where we don’t have a very active community. Our web presence is maintained but it isn’t vibrant and exciting. Great opportunity for some excited young people to take ownership!
mastodon.social/@elementary/11…

If you or someone you love (or even vaguely tolerate) is using #accessiBe, perhaps send them this information about the class action lawsuit against accessiBe for lying about its #overlay:
lflegal.com/2024/07/accessibe-…

#accessibility #a11y

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📣 Do-It-Blind DIB online Besprechung am Montag, 22. Juli, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion

As expected after their customer survey, @protonprivacy released a "AI mail writing bullshit assistant".

On Reddit, two kinds of reactions:

1. The negatives: asking about the privacy, the ecological impact, the money/time spent on this instead of other features.

2. The positives: thanking the developers for not enabling the feature by default.

Despite this, I’m sure people at Proton are convinced that this one the most important/urgent thing the Email world needed.

redlib.freedit.eu/r/ProtonMail…

#Nextcloud: Wer ein paar Plugins installiert, bekommt ein Hauptverzeichnis voller Ordner, die jeweils zu einem Plugin gehören.

Für neue User ist das verwirrend.

Ich fänd gut, wenn diese Ordner alle in einem versteckten Ordner gesammelt würden.

Wer will, kann dann in diesen Ordnern Dinge tun. Aber wer sich dafür nicht interessiert, sieht sie auch erst einmal nicht.

Bitte unterstützt meinem Feature Request dazu:

github.com/nextcloud/server/is…

Just watched @danyeaw’s talk at #guadec2024 on the state of PyGObject. We’ve been able to make a lot of progress over the past year. Let’s see what next year brings.
youtube.com/watch?v=ynIKMiRwn3…

We have landed. Debian Developers, Contributors, and Maintainers have started to arrive for this years Debian Developers Conference held in Busan, South Korea. #debian #korea #DebConf24 #debiankorea micronews.debian.org/2024/1721… #debian

SFFBookClub August poll

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I’ve suffered through many over-the-top renditions of the national anthem, but the one from this year’s Republican convention was by far the most extra. They threw in an orchestra, a choir, and at least eighty-seven key changes. I can’t even. Please just sing the damn song FFS. youtube.com/watch?v=h8MqnFQw3q…
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in reply to Drew Mochak

That orchestral arrangement reminds me of an evangelical Christian singer named Sandi Patty whose career peaked in the 80s, so, during my childhood. Yes, she did key changes like that, too. Of course, she's well past her prime now.

Somewhat to my surprise, the rendition you linked *was* Sandi Patty's arrangement. Sounds like that other singer used the same track. I don't actually recall hearing Sandi Patty's version of the national anthem growing up.

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@jdking92 Her version of the national anthem wasn't even her most over-the-top song when it came to key changes. As far as I know, that dubious distinction goes to one of her more obscure religious songs, "Unshakable Kingdom", which went through a total of 6 keys (A flat, A, B flat, C, C sharp, and finally E). No, I don't remember that from when I was like 7; I listened to it again more recently.
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USPol, evangelicalism

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