My favourite talk from this year’s #id24 is How to consider non-native English speakers in UX. They talk about some really good things that also apply for cognitive accessibility and these things are so easy to overlook if you don’t carefully consider the impact language can have on understanding
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It's actually hilarious how many plants we cultivate specifically for their defense mechanisms
Alliums: We have nasty sulfur compounds that turn into literal tear gas when our cell walls are broken! No animals are getting at our sugar stores!
Humans: Mmm tasty sulfur compounds, I'm gonna eat you with everything
Tea and coffee: Haha, bugs die when they try to eat us because we grow our own pesticide!
Humans: Ugh don't talk to me until I've had my pesticide
All manner of herbs and spices: Nice try, critters! But we are filled with volatile oils that are dangerous and offputting!
Humans: Ooo this one is good with my pesticides, this one tastes great with the sulfur compounds, this one makes amazing desserts, oh my god yes.
Spicy peppers: Fucking mammals grinding up our seeds in their gross molars! No more! Only birds can tolerate our heat!
Humans: I'm gonna dry you up, grind you into a powder, and use you as a staple seasoning for entire continents' worth of cuisine
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A massive success for the first conference, the governing board meeting in person, and an MSC written in real time. What a week in Matrix!!
Thank you all for making the first annual #MatrixConf such a wonderful experience! We're already looking forward to the next one, slated for France in late 2025.
Our small-but-mighty team is properly exhausted and looks forward to sharing more – including recordings, photos, and takeaways – after resting up.
#Matrix #OpenSource #FOSS
I am brimming with pride, gratitude, and joy after the 1st annual Matrix Conference. So much to say!
Grateful to punctuate a great week sharing a lovely time at
Café Botanico, a delightful garden-to-table restaurant hidden in the heart of Neukölln, with some of my colleagues at the Matrix.org Foundation. Thanks for being amazing, team 💖
@thibaultamartin@mamot.fr, @travisr@mstdn.ca, @matthew@mastodon.matrix.org, @amandine@mastodon.matrix.org
Left-wing coalition wins French elections so King Macron forms right-wing government.
Such democracy.
(In case you needed yet another reminder that fucking neoliberals will always choose fascism over social justice when they feel their wallets are threatened.)
Dear distro maintainers and "i build my own stuff" people:
In case you want to check out 0.42.0 upfront: we've tagged the first releases candidates of #phosh and related components today. Release is planned 2024-09-30 (gitlab.gnome.org/World/Phosh/p…)
We have some more fixes pending but the bulk of things should be in.
Mě tak moc mrzí, že už ho nepoužívám, ale teď půjde na lepší, kde si ho na rozdíl ode mě budou víc vážit 😁
denikn.cz/1530876/bartos-by-me…
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ja už ani neviem ktorá bola moja prvá ale bola jednodávková.
edit: Pfizer
edit1: v Prahe v O2 Aréne
2. den vyklízení mamčiny ordinace po povodních za námi. Uff… 😓
Ale máme hotovo. Zbyly věci na odvezení stěhováky do spalovny, jinak mlsáme vyklizeno.
A teď hurá udělat ordinaci novou. Teda - dneska už ne.
Contra the “humans are a virus” discourse that’s popular among eco-fascists and, unfortunately, a sizable segment of the left that likes to imagine other people (but never them) are The Problem, humans have a long history of sustainably and often *beneficially* interacting with their environments.
“Even 12,000 y ago, nearly three quarters of Earth’s land was inhabited and therefore shaped by human societies, including more than 95% of temperate and 90% of tropical woodlands. Lands now characterized as ‘natural,’ ‘intact,’ and ‘wild’ generally exhibit long histories of use, as do protected areas and Indigenous lands, and current global patterns of vertebrate species richness and key biodiversity areas are more strongly associated with past patterns of land use than with present ones in regional landscapes now characterized as natural.”
In other words, much of the wilderness we imagine as pristine reservoirs of biodiversity is in reality the product of human effort.
The Amazon River basin is covered with rain forest that many people mistake for a primordial sort of natural reserve, lightly peopled and untouched until recent deforestation.
On the contrary, we now know that the Amazon was once densely peopled as archeologists continue to discover the remains of city after sprawling city. The Amazon forest we see today is the remains of what was once a vast garden, cultivated to supply food to those cities.
Indigenous land use was once so pervasive and intensive that the forest’s soils, normally fairly poor, are pockmarked with patches of terra preta de Índio—“black earth of the Indians”—which are particularly fertile and self-sustaining soils produced by human activity.
Boosting this again to add that if you don't know about Deniz Camp already, you should get acquainted with his work. I'm gonna be tracking everything he writes him forward after being blown away by this and his work on Ultimates.
Es reicht, Anstand zu haben.
Cum Ex - eine der größten Banken- und Finanz-Betrugsreihen der letzten Jahrzehnte.
Aber was soll‘s?
„Nächste Woche soll ein Gesetz im Bundestag verabschiedet werden, das es Banken ermöglicht, quasi legal Beweise zu vernichten, die ihre Beteiligung an CumCum-Geschäften belegen könnten.“
Anne Brorhilker von @Finanzwende ruft zum Widerstand auf.
Unterzeichnen könnt ihr hier: weact.campact.de/petitions/cum…
Being human includes making mistakes.
Demanding perfection - the absolute absence of mistakes under any circumstances - is, therefore, dehumanizing.
To selectively dehumanize a group of people, while demanding perfection on behalf of another group of people, is called oppression.
When this is done on the basis of race, it is racism.
When some queer uses a hashtag created by a queer to smear and harass another queer for some imperfection, this is dehumanizing and bad enough... but when the first queer is white, and the other two are Black, this is fucking racist.
And supporting this behavior, while deciding not to be critical, or spend any time learning the details, is also racist.
Here's the disappointingly inaccessible AirPods 4 reset procedure from #Apple:
1. Open the lid of your charging case.
2. Double-tap the front of the case while the status light is on.
3. Double-tap again when the status light flashes white.
4. Double-tap a third time when the status light flashes faster. When the status light flashes amber then flashes white, you can reconnect your AirPods.
Hubert Figuière
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