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How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent millions trying to get a Nevada ballot proposal to restrict legal fees that bankroll cases against companies (Jessica Silver-Greenberg/New York Times)

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Trump falsely claims Harris crowd was faked - BBC News apple.news/AUEtX06w4RO-cc-T1K3…


hey does anybody in #seattle wanna trade my wacom intuos 3 drawing tablet for a pinephone keyboard case thingy? i don't have the stylus anymore but i have confirmed it is possible to get replacement ones online

boosts highly appreciated!!! :boostRequest:

#pine #pinephone #pine64



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in reply to Debian

happy birthday Debian, thank you for existing in the linux distro environment :)


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* TgMonet Theme: Simple Monet themes generator for Tg.

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid :awesome:




Jobcenter kürzt Leistungsempfängerin und Kind 100% der Bezüge. Betroffene klagt dagegen. Gewinnt. Das Gericht geizt nicht mit Worten:

"Der mit diesem Ergebnis rückblickend fatalen behördlichen Ermessensausübung haftet der Nachgeschmack eines von Klassismus triefenden, autoritär-gönnerhaften Selbstverständnisses ebenso an wie deren gerichtlicher Prüfung im erfolglosen Eilrechtsschutzverfahren."

Ja, das ist direkt aus dem Urteil S 12 AS 2046/22 zitiert: sozialgerichtsbarkeit.de/node/… via @why_not




Kodak photo businesses sold to private equity: Digital Photography Review

Well, fuck. Private Equity mean death. These are the corporate pirates. Raiding everything.

dpreview.com/news/4062330467/k…

in reply to tf

@tf @hbons @analog_cafe you mean the one that removed the "CO-OP" from Mountain Equipment CO-OP ? That's really not good news.
in reply to Hubert Figuière

@tf @hbons Youp, that’s the one. Not sure how others feel about that store but as a casual consumer it still feels the same four years in.


VoiceOver on Mac, what would you like to see next? Better OCR? AI Features? Better Boot Strapping Materials, for beginners? Maybe Something else? Listen as Steven Scott, Herbie Allen, Darcy Burnard, and my self as we discuss our wish list for the future! pinecast.com/listen/08c8c6cf-d… @stevenscott @hallen @DHSDarcy #a11y #VoiceOver


More ISO standards on PDF accessibility are now available for free!

Today the @PDFassociation announced they are making three additional ISO standards - ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1), ISO 14289-2 (PDF/UA-2) and ISO TS 32005 - available for download at no cost.

Big kudos to the PDF Association and to the following companies for making this possible: Allyant, Axes4, CDP Communications, and TargetStream Technologies.

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#PDF #TaggedPDF #Standards #Accessibility #A11y

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A whole bunch of narration improvements in the most recent Forza update, including reading the lap number when you finish a lap, better reading of credits earned breakdown after finishing a race and a lot more. support.forzamotorsport.net/hc…
in reply to Pitermach

I am glad that they're still making improvements to narration and accessibility. I won't lie that I was worried about their doing this since the unfortunate circumstances that happened 2 months ago.


Best Glucose Meter for Diabetes & Blood Sugar Monitoring cnet.com/health/medical/best-g…

in reply to David Goldfield

Of course they come out with this after I'm done with school. Sounds cool though!



A few days ago someone opened a GTK PR for Android support. That is awesome!

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…

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Welcome Max Faxälv as #curl commits author 1295: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1309…
#curl



GNOME 46.4 Desktop Improves Connecting to WPA2 Enterprise Networks linuxtoday.com/news/gnome-46-4…


Daniel Stenberg on #curl's Journey: From C64 Demos to Internet Transfers. (I was on Nerding out with Viktor the other day.)

youtu.be/bTb_Rf_qkq8?si=63AvIc…

#curl


Aah, more #AppleTax. Thanks so much...

'Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.'

Source: news.patreon.com/articles/unde…

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@miki @simon Wait a minute, didn't I hear recently about them being forced, probably by the EU, to allow letting you purchase on websites? Could ahve sworn there was some kind of recent change to the billing model to allow third-party purchases via websites, though not in-app.
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@x0 @simon In most places, you still have to pay the fee (sans payment processing costs), even if you do that. It was something like 27% if I remember correctly.

It's not collected automatically, and Apple has the right to audit your records if you apply for that entitlement.



About sex segregation in sports...

[Note: here "women" and "men" can be read as "cis women" and "cis men," but usually when I talk about women and men I mean all of them, cis, trans, nonbinary, and more.]

Despite what some people say, sex segregation in sports is NOT for the protection of women's health. Women are not that fragile.

Sex segregation in sports is for the protection of men's egos, which are that fragile.

We don't know women's true capabilities at the current moment. We are barely beginning to emerge from a long period of enforced ignorance about women's capacity for strength and athletic achievement. Example number one million or so:

For decades, the idea that “lighter is faster,” was the reigning mythology passed on by most track coaches when it came to conditioning, especially to endurance athletes. Coaches would encourage young female runners, who often have higher body fat percentages than their male counterparts, to lose weight to improve performance.

Today, many women runners are flipping the script. They’re discovering how dangerous undernourishment can be – including the risks of disordered eating – and are seeking out coaching that supports proper fueling. The old model of coaching for thinness is gradually giving way to an emphasis on strength and stamina.


Undernourishment by athletes competing at high levels can have a number of bad health effects; one of them is bone micro-fractures. I have seen TERFs citing the prevalence of micro-fractures among women athletes as proof that women need protection from competing with men--but in reality it's evidence that women in sports are being systematically discouraged from adequately nourishing themselves.

Until sexism is eradicated, nobody can make any blanket statements about women's capacity for athletic achievement.

#Sexism #Transphobia #Misogyny #Sports #Olympics #Running #WomenAthletes

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I continue to think that AI+law scholars should write less about regulating hypothetical future AI killer robots and more about regulating (or failing to regulate) the killer pattern-recognition death machines we already have.

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@vivllainous' scathing response to Walter Isaacson's lionization of her sociopathic father, the fascist Elon Musk. 🔥🔥🔥 threads.net/@vivllainous/post/…


Authenticated media rollout continues (v important for homeserver and client devs!), an MSC to demo extending user profiles, an explainer on message security in Matrix, The Matrix Conference announcements, and more happened last week in Matrix!

matrix.org/blog/2024/08/09/thi…

#Matrix #TWIM



This sucks. Patreon is bending to Apple on its entire business model.


Join the revolution. Choose the Librem 5 - because your data belongs to you, not Big Tech. puri.sm/products/librem-5/
#Librem5 #PureOS


Step up from being a #LibreOffice user to a contributor! There are many ways you can get involved, build up your skills and learn new things, like Khushi Gautam did: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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scheduling a "quick call":

👈 what you put on the calendar.

how it affects my workday. 👉



After 2½ years of war, Google is finally joining the sanctions against Russia and closing the AdSense systems, thereby preventing Russians from making money off ads, including ads on YouTube.

Russia was about to close down YouTube completely, so this is not an act of heroism, but proof that Google wanted to earn every last dollar before claiming to "do the right thing".

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Gerade wieder auf dem Weg #mdRzA an all den #Autos im #Stau vorbeigefahren. Die Gesichter darin gesehen: Verkniffen, gelangweilt, ärgerlich, genervt, angespannt. Nicht ein Lächeln. Autos für 30, 40, 60.000 Euro, und die sie fahren, können es nicht genießen. Sie versuchen ein wenig von der Schönheit #draußen zu sehen, aber es ist schwer. Musste grinsen.
Dann fährst du mit dem #Fahrrad einfach weiter und du spürst sie, die #Freiheit. Warum, liebe #Auto -Fahrende, lasst ihr euch das entgehen?



Hivetune releases Relica free retro synthesizer (VST3/AU) rekkerd.org/hivetune-releases-…

#AU #chiptune #Freeware #retro #Synthesizer #VST



(maybe i do have the right bubble to try this)

Hi 👋 Do you or a somebody you know own an NMBS/SNCB ARI Disc? Diskette, CD, whatever? From whenever, I do not care.

It would be amazing if I could borrow one, I am trying to preserve copies of these however they seem to be lost in piles of trash. If you know somebody who has one happy to put a copy of it for the world to enjoy planning trains 90s style!
(If I have enough i might reverse engineer it to ship up to date schedules for it)



As dating goes digital, concerns for online privacy are more relevant than ever. ❤️

Is it possible to meet someone and still keep your privacy intact? 🤔

💘 Let’s find out 👉 tuta.com/blog/private-dating-a…

#privacy #dating #safety #security

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@moonwalker We definitely agree. When it comes to not oversharing data just avoiding the apps is probably best.


Semantic Code in HTML: What is it and does it still matter? (of course it does; read why) boagworld.com/dev/semantic-cod… #webdev #webdevelopment #html

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@Ralfeek Ako sa synchronizujú s telefónom? Ja som mal predtým kombo hodinky Samsung - telefón Honor a bolo to dosť peklo, furt sa odpájali, polovica funkcií nefungovala. Teraz mám S-S a všetko ide hladko. Ale je pravda, že to bolo už pred cca 3 rokmi
in reply to SunWu

@SunWuKchung @Ralfeek noo cez Huawei Health aplikáciu a neodpojili sa ani raz zatiaľ, apka sa synchronizuje a zatiaľ žiadny problém nie je.


> Клонировать Ютуб примерно за 1 рабочий день может любой, кто обладает начальными знаниями в веб-программировании и настройке серверов.

Боже мой. Какой уровень экспертизы. Что у Каца, что у тех, кто ему тексты пишет 🫠

Но хуже всего не это, а то, что находятся дураки, которые его ещё смотрят.

#Кац #Youtube

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