"The actual words don't matter," the witch said, "only the cadence, and the strength of feeling."
"That was a healing spell?"
"Keeps me focused."
"You swore, with the worst profanities I have ever heard, for two minutes."
"Your leg's not broken anymore, is it?"
"Fucking hell!"
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Bob, an experienced sky diver, was getting ready for a jump one day when he spotted another man outfitted to dive wearing dark glasses, carrying a white
cane and holding a seeing-eye dog by an extremely long leash.
Shocked that the blind man was also going to jump, Bob struck up a conversation, expressing his admiration for the man's courage. Then, curious, he asked,
"How do you know when the ground is getting close?"
"Easy," replied the blind man. "The leash goes slack."
Via Kyle Griffin:
Leader Schumer will introduce the No Kings Act today — an attempt to reverse the #SCOTUS 's immunity decision.
The No Kings Act would make clear that presidents and vice presidents are not immune from criminal law and clarify that Congress — not the Supreme Court — determines to whom federal criminal law is applied.
Literally setting billions of cash on fire in the hopes of printing money through some “AI magic” while laying people off.
futurism.com/the-byte/microsof…
Microsoft Is Losing a Staggering Amount of Money on AI
Microsoft has spent a staggering amount of money on AI — and serious profits likely remain many years out.Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
The original #hackerone report for #curl's CVE-2024-7264: ASN.1 date parser overread is now published:
curl disclosed on HackerOne: CVE-2024-7264: ASN.1 date parser overread
## Summary: When a specially-crafted certificate is passed to `Curl_extract_certinfo` to parse, it may read bytes beyond the end of the buffer in which the certificate is held. According to the...HackerOne
I see Vance has chosen party (racism) over family.
(He has bi-racial kids and is clearly signaling they are allowed to identify with only one ethnicity and how they speak will be a measure of how well they match that ethnicity, which you can be sure he will assert is ‘white’).
Ref: washingtonpost.com/politics/20…
Trump attacks Harris’s Black identity. Harris says Americans ‘deserve better.’
Donald Trump also berated a Black reporter who questioned him about his record of offensive comments about Black people.Brianna Tucker (The Washington Post)
A new #law goes into effect today in #Louisiana that will make it a misdemeanor for anyone, including #journalists, to be within 25 feet of a police officer if the officer orders them back.
Louisiana is the 4th state to enact one of these so-called #police "buffer laws," which allow officers to order people to keep their distance.
propublica.org/article/louisia…
Louisiana Makes It Illegal to Disobey a Cop’s Order to Back Away
Louisiana is the fourth state to enact a so-called police buffer law, which allows officers to order people to keep their distance. Journalists say the law will make it harder to document when police use excessive force.ProPublica
Well y'all, I think I've reached the next stage in my Linux journey. Yeah yeah I know I'm writing this on Windows, eat me. Anyway, I used a computer all day today. No surprise. I got ready to go home, so I reached on my desk to grab my (Windows) laptop to put it in my bag. But it wasn't there. It had been in my bag the whole time. I really had used Linux, with only the few issues that I've talked about on here, the whole day without really realizing it.
#foss #accessibility #linux #Fedora #blind
@asael Enafore for Mastodon, and... Telega in Emacs for Telegram, if you can deal with Telega.
enafore.social
GitHub - zevlg/telega.el: GNU Emacs telegram client (unofficial)
GNU Emacs telegram client (unofficial). Contribute to zevlg/telega.el development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
#ZXspectrum #games #8bit
zx-spectrum.cz/index.php?cat1=…
ZX-Spectrum Games
The best games for ZX Spectrum - descriptions, solutions, maps, pokes, online playing.www.zx-spectrum.cz
I really like this thread. It's much more in line with what I've been saying about expanding our imagination about what's possible with decentralized platforms.
hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus…
Once again, mastodon's affordances (and missing affordances) are framing everyone's imagination. There are other options than simply allow list vs deny list federation. Personally, the one I want to see is multiple named federations:Right now, there's just one federation, named public. There's absolutely no reason we can't have more than that.
I love your ideas on this. It's kind of what I'm thinking also, the future is probably going to be some flavor of "I interact with ActivityPub using X client and Y server that applies rules I agree with and that keep me safe".
The more different services adopt ActivityPub, the less social media is a location and the more it's a set of interactions you agree to.
Once again, mastodon's affordances (and missing affordances) are framing everyone's imagination. There are other options than simply allow list vs deny list federation. Personally, the one I want to see is multiple named federations:
Right now, there's just one federation, named public. There's absolutely no reason we can't have more than that.
Study uncovers unique brain plasticity in people born blind
medicalxpress.com/news/2024-07…
Study uncovers unique brain plasticity in people born blind
A study led by Georgetown University neuroscientists reveals that the part of the brain that receives and processes visual information in sighted people develops a unique connectivity pattern in people born blind.Science X (Medical Xpress)
@matt Would you believe it’s because the Republicans won’t vote on a bill that Democrats voted for?
I’ll take any victory that stops it, but boy do we Dems need to call our reps about this!
(Congress members are required to log all phone calls and note what they’re about. They don’t have to do that for emails or online petitions.)
What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I've written, and Fediverse discussions I've participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these products is simply that, from a cryptography and security perspective, they're not a real competitor to Signal. For all its other faults, Signal sets the bar for secure private messaging. It's a solid security tool, even if its user experience…
soatok.blog/2024/07/31/what-do…
What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor? - Dhole Moments
A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…Dhole Moments
On break from work today, I tried to get a sense for the current state of XMPP + OMEMO.
Apparently the entire ecosystem is locked into an older version of he spec. Everybody (including Conversations) still implements it.
For want of a stable reference implementation online, I looked at Conversations.
I'm not sure I even want to blog about this. It's such a fucking mess.
If my employer told me today I'm going to spend the next 3 weeks auditing their code, I'd need to frontload anger management before the engagement began.
Please tell me you aren't all using Conversations.
We're like, two weeks out from the Matrix blog post going live, and I have not heard hide nor hair about any fixes.
What this means is: The blog post with my findings will be public on August 14, regardless of whether Matrix fixes any of the issues I reported to them.
If you use Matrix, and your client uses the official Olm library, you're going to want to pay attention to this.
EDIT: A few quick notes.
1. They are not fixing the issues in Olm.
2. When I say Olm, that's the name of the Git repository on their GitLab instance. They started calling it "libolm".
3. After I posted this on Fedi, they pushed a commit to mark "libolm" as deprecated.
#CD Rohlinge werden heute nur noch selten benötigt. Vielleicht liegt aber im Büroschrank noch eine angebrochene Packung?
Nicht wegwerfen!
Denn #Blindenhörzeitschriften werden nach wie vor gern von blinden Menschen mit speziellen Playern auf CD genutzt.
Die @ComputertruheMuenchen hat uns solche zukommen lassen. Vielen Dank!
Für einen guten Zweck und dazu ökologischer als ungenutzt zu entsorgen 
kom-in.de/185/wohin-mit-cd-roh…
Wohin mit CD Rohlingen?
Ungenutzte und nicht mehr benötigte CD Rohlinge für Blindenhörzeitschriftenwww.kom-in.de
Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here
nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.
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@munchkinbear curl has been built into Windows for a while now. I wonder how you ended up not having it installed.
Accessibility for internal UI · Issue #5357 · mamedev/mame
In reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/ceitb9/blind_user_with_a_couple_questions/ The easiest route would probably be to add hooks so OSD can speak the name of the currently selecte...GitHub
Column view. I basiclaly live in DT and that helps me a lot. mastodon.devontechnologies.com…
DEVONtechnologies (@devontechnologies@devontechnologies.com)
Attached: 1 image The latest update to DEVONthink, version 3.9.7, brings a variety of improvements across the app, including new application scripts for web browsers, enhancements to Markdown transclusions, WYSIWYG editing, search, and more.DEVONtechnologies
Hello Jamers 😍
As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲
Are you #multilingual? Your skills can make a real impact! Join our translation efforts and help us break #language barriers! 💪
👀 Want to know how ?
Here's the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters
How to contribute to translations on Transifex - Part 2
Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform. This tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application.jami (Jami)
The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As #Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down.
But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with #MAGA loyalists — remain.
#News #Government #election2024 #Election #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Politics #Voting #GOP #PaulDans
propublica.org/article/project…
Paul Dans, the Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain.ProPublica
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Blogs are still a thing, and blogs have always been a thing. They didn't go anywhere. My technical blog is thriving.
People come back to old posts constantly.
Something I posted 10 months ago is still my top performing post. Social media posts are ephemeral & if something happens to your content - it's gone.
Host your own blog, control your content. My social media posts may max out at 500-1000 views but my page views have a consistent baseline of 30k/a month. And I haven't posted in a bit.
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Are you an engineer who is passionate about #accessibility and developer tooling? You should apply to join the Accessibility Insights team! jobs.careers.microsoft.com/glo…
Make the web better at scale!
How to log into a website in 2024:
1. Enter master password to password manager
2. Password gets automatically pasted into password field
3. Fix the rest of the login form (username was deleted and mother's maiden name was pasted into email)
4. Solve an unhinged AI-generated hCaptcha that is way easier for a robot to comprehend than a human
5. Cloudflare is verifying your IP address...
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* Dhaaga (Lite): An Opinionated Fediverse Microblogging App (Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Firefish, Sharkey, Akkoma)
One more app has been confirmed RB aka #reproducibleBuilds – and some more are in preparation.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Cool class on applied accessibility for designers: maven.com/soren/applied-access…
Application for scholarship for it here (apply by 11:59pm PT August 1 2024): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
#a11y #design #learning #lessons #accessibility #scholarship
Applied Accessibility Scholarship Application
Thank you for your interest in being considered for a scholarship for Applied Accessibility. For this scholarship, we are prioritizing people with the greatest financial needs and/or systemic marginalization Please only submit information that is tr…Google Docs
Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.
The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.
There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."
LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?
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