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A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually EXISTED. ign.com/articles/a-prominent-a…

A Prominent Accessibility Advocate Worked With Studios and Inspired Change. But She Never Actually Existed. - IGN

In the years since the alleged death of beloved accessibility advocate Susan Banks, mounting evidence and accounts from those close to her work suggest that she was not the person she claimed to be.
Grant Stoner (IGN)
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Today I learnt that the Mandarin for "comrade" under Communism (同志 tóngzhì) has been repurposed to mean "gay". Awesome work, comrades!

Here's my source, a YouTube interview with bilingual subtitles. youtube.com/watch?v=zHDwOegIVw…

#Mandarin


What’s It Like Being a Gay Man in China - Chinese Interview

This is an interview video featuring a conversation with a native speaker. Learn authentic Chinese expressions, modal particles, and common filler words. Plu...
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#mandarin
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The @libreoffice Expert 2024/25 Edition is available now for pre-order! You’ll get tutorials on core tools and tips and tricks to make you more productive. Special thanks to our partners @tdforg @allotropia @CollaboraOffice and @tuxedocomputers Reserve your copy today! shop.linuxnewmedia.com/shop/ca…
#LibreOffice #OpenSource #FOSS #Office #utilities #tutorial #tools
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice #office #tutorial #tools #utilities @LibreOffice @Collabora Office @TUXEDO @allotropia software @The Document Foundation

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Each time this sign goes by in my feed, I mentally add "and Stacy's Mom"

And now I shall spend the day listening to Adam Schlesinger's considerable oeuvre. In addition to his career with Fountains of Wayne, he wrote for the Click Five and the Monkees, for Stephen Colbert and Sesame Street, for the Tony Awards and Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, to say nothing of penning the title track for _That Thing You Do!_

Adam's death in April 2020 will always be the public figure Covid death that hits me hardest

a lawn sign, blue with white text, all caps I'm Voting For Gus' Dad Vote Harris Walz 2024
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Kim Scheinberg

@matt
I ran out of characters! I could have done another five paragraphs on his awesomeness. I hate thinking about how many songs we were cheated out of when he died. He was also reputed to be the nicest guy in the industry

His "I was just fucking around and it needs a ton of work" demo tape for _What'll It Be_ ended up being recorded and sung nearly note for note in CE-G. He was so so good.

@Matt Campbell

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“That’s when Neil looked at the coin counter meter. it read “000001”:

And, sitting in the coin bucket was a single coin; a quarter dated 1983.”

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Centuri Aztarac: Finding THE Holy Arcade Grail…

Let me start by saying that this is the most amazingly poignant tale I’ve come across in arcade collecting circles. I’ve written before about incredible rare arcade “finds” …
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Version 4 of @cinnyapp was released a month ago, and it sports a very cool notification center to keep tabs on the most important things! Lozenge covers Cinny's minimalistic approach in Matrix Live, to our greatest delight.

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Matrix Live S09E38 — The Best Notification Center Yet

Version 4 of Cinny was released a month ago, and it sports a very cool notification center to keep tabs on the most important things! Lozenge covers Cinny's ...
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Warum ist Barrierefreiheit in der Frontend-Entwicklung entscheidend? Oleksii (Aljoscha) Sukhodolskyi gibt Einblicke und teilt seine Expertise im neuen Blogbeitrag.

Jetzt lesen 👉 opentalk.eu/de/news/5-fragen-z…

#Barrierefreiheit #FrontendEntwicklung #DigitaleInklusion #Accessibility #OpenSource

"Barrierefreiheit ist nicht nur ein Gewinn für die Nutzer, sondern auch für die Qualität der Softwareentwicklung insgesamt." Oleksii (Aljoscha) Sukhodolskyi Frontend-Entwickler, OpenTalk

5 Fragen zu Barrierefreiheit in der Frontend-Entwicklung

In unserer Serie „5 Fragen zu“ geben unsere Expert:innen Antworten zu wichtigen Themen rund um OpenTalk, Open Source-Software, digitale Souveränität und aktuelle Branchentrends.
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#Accessibility #opensource #barrierefreiheit #frontendentwicklung #digitaleinklusion

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Data breaches have become an almost daily occurrence. Most of their contents are self-explanatory like #email addresses or #phone numbers.

Others might sound a bit odd, like hashed #passwords.

Let's dive into the details with today's cryptography lesson!
👉 tuta.com/blog/what-is-a-passwo…

A graphic of a person pressing a biometric authentication button.

What is a password hash: Cryptography Basics | Tuta

An introduction to hashing functions and how they protect your passwords.
Tuta
#email #passwords #phone

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#ipv6
#podcast
#ipv6mostly

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IPB158: “IPv6 Mostly”: A Strategy to Balance Legacy and Modern Networking Needs


IPB158: "IPv6 Mostly": A Strategy to Balance Legacy and Modern Networking Needs | Packet Pushers

"IPv6 Mostly" is an alternative to the dual-stack approach of transitioning to IPv6. On today's podcast we discuss the practical challenges and security considerations of strategy for moving to an IPv6-centric network while retaining IPv4 for legacy …
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#podcast #ipv6 #ipv6mostly
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Welcome Aki Sakurai as #curl commit author 1300: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1448…

GHA/macos: enable HTTPS tests with stunnel by AkiSakurai · Pull Request #14486 · curl/curl

Install Stunnel. Regenerate Certificates (as SecureTransport requires a validity period less than 398 days). Restart Server if It Is Unresponsive. Do Not Hardcode the SHA-256 Base64 Public Pi...
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#curl

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Aux #US on s'intéresse aussi au nouveau #EAA (European #Accessibility Act) car certaines entreprises américaines seront concernées en 2025. En anglais par @dequesystems.
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Le pictogramme de l'homme de Vitruve est positionné sur le drapeau européen lui-même posé sur son continent. Illustration de Deque Systems.

European Accessibility Act (EAA): Top 20 Key Questions Answered | Deque

Our experts answer the Top 20 Questions from our recent webinar on EAA compliance, covering timelines, penalties, exemptions, and more!
Matthew Luken (Deque Systems, Inc.)
#Accessibility #us #eaa
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André Polykanine

bonjour ! Je cherchais quelqu'un de la communité francophone des spécialistes en accessibilité. Pour le contexte, je suis ressortissant ukrainien, j'habite maintenant à Strasbourg et je suis développeur et spécialiste en accessibilité, non-voyant aussi. Je voudrais vous demander s'il y a des articles détaillés en français pour des gens non-techniques sur l'accessibilité, l'EAA et toutes ces choses. J'éprouve beaucoup de difficultés avec certains services, je leur écris en mentionnant juin 2025 et l'EAA, mais il serait beaucoup mieux si j'avais des preuves, des sources à leur montrer. Merci !

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If you need Perkins Brailler #SoundEffects for anything, if you fancy a bit of nostalgia or if you wonder what the thundering thing sounds like recorded through a pair of contact microphones that only pick up the sound on the surface of the device, I made this 67 sound strong sound pack. zapsplat.com/sound-effect-pack…

Download this pack of FREE Perkins Brailler sound effects

67 sound effects of a Perkins Brailler (braille typewriter), ideal as is or as a source for sound design clunks, clicks and metal mechanisms
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I have build a new and improve #search functionality for @MapComplete. Still a work in progress, but a first testable version is onli e here: pietervdvn.github.io/mc/featur…

It supports switching themes, showing search results on the map and suggestions.

Still to do: highlighting the result on hover and making sure that a search result and layer info don't both show.

Please, test it, break it and let me know what went wrong, what was confusing and what you'd still love to see.

Cyclofix - a map for cyclists

The goal of this map is to present cyclists with an easy-to-use solution to find the appropriate infrastructure for their needs
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#search @MapComplete
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I really love this description of a retracted study: not only does it explain what was retracted (turns out men don't generally divorce their sick wives), but also it covers what the error was (a coding problem treated people who left the study as divorced) how it all went down (someone tried to replicate, asked for data and didn't get the same analysis. Contacted the authors and they were horrified and immediately worked to retract).

It's a really nice story of why replication matters and how to be good at science. This is how I was taught science should work, but I rarely come across such good retrospectives.

retractionwatch.com/2015/07/21…

#science #PeerReview


“To our horror”: Widely reported study suggesting divorce is more likely when wives fall ill gets axed

A widely reported finding that the risk of divorce increases when wives fall ill — but not when men do — is invalid, thanks to a short string of mistaken coding that negates the origina…
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#science #peerreview

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Breaking 🥳: Apple has adopted 6 of our 11 recommendations for choice screens and default settings for browsers + fixed two deceptive patterns we discovered.

Huge thanks to the DMA team and EC!

Read about the changes + what still needs to be fixed:
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Apple adopts 6 of OWA's Choice Architecture Recommendations - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy

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Wem die Energiewende jetzt zu schnell geht, muss sich bei denen beschweren, die sie jahrzehntelang verzögert und verschleppt haben. Jeder musste wissen, dass CO2 sich in der Atmosphäre kumuliert und wir nur noch eine begrenzte Gesamtmenge ausstoßen können.
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Klimaforscher fordern schnelleren Kohleausstieg

Um die Erderhitzung zu bremsen, drängen Forscher auf einen schnelleren Kohleausstieg. Minister Habeck sagt, in der Kohleregion Lausitz passiere schon viel. Eine viel schnellere Energiewende sei nicht möglich. Von O. Lambrecht und I. Schneider.
Oda Lambrecht (tagesschau.de)

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This story was inevitable.

The Pixel 9's AI features have made creating realistic and believable fake photos trivial, and Google's safeguards are astonishingly anemic.

theverge.com/2024/8/22/2422597…


No one’s ready for this

With AI photo editing getting easy and convincing, the world isn’t prepared for an era where photographs aren’t to be trusted.
Sarah Jeong (The Verge)

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Could an 11th-century contract prove the existence of same-sex marriage in medieval Spain?

"good friends, full of faithfulness and truth, throughout all days and nights, forever."

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Could an 11th-century contract prove the existence of same-sex marriage in medieval Spain?

In 1061, two men, Pedro Díaz and Munio Vandilaz, signed a legal agreement in which they undertook to share the management of the house and church of Santa María de Ordes—most likely the current parish of the same name in the Ourense municipality of R…
José Miguel Andrade (Phys.org)
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