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I for some reason accepted this as a fact, but I really have to ask… Why does Mac OS save the backups from other devices on the network as compressed files, while the local backups are saved as series of folders? Is there a way to change this behavior?

Around the year 2000 I saw a news item about Napster. They had a bunch of university students show and explain it.

Now I already knew how it worked, because I had it installed at home too. But my poor connection struggled to get beyond 8 KB/s and on TV I saw those students downloading with whopping 100+ KB/s speeds no problem.

And that's what motivated me to go to uni lol

I found a great, brief resource on creating accessible web pages and documents. It only highlights most common accessibility issues, so it's much less overwhelming than the WCAG. I think it's a great resource for people who don't know where to start! Also it has before and after examples, so it's great to demo with a screen reader as well! #accessibility washington.edu/accesscomputing…
#Accessibility

Popular angry dark humor here, over the last week, when someone tells you about everything they lost, who has died, and how long it has taken for any government response, is for them to ask you if you know if Ukraine, Israel, or Lebanon got their check okay this week, or to ask if the illegal immigrants still have power in their free hotels, have service on their free phones, and can use their cash cards okay. -uncoverdc.com/2024/10/04/ameri… uncoverdc.com/2024/10/04/ameri…
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Cristobal
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@vick21 Stuff like this is such nonsense. The government can of course afford to fund all of these programs. It’s a question of choice rather than ability. If the country was in a position where it could only afford to fund program X or program Y but not both, we’d have much bigger problems. This just helps feed into the false narrative and confirmation biases people already want to believe and fall for over and over again.
@victor tsaran

What do techies call their cats and why is it always Pixel?
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Dave 🧱
Dave 🧱
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several people think I named our first born after a server language / niche HTML element 😂
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Martyn Hoyer
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@DavidDarnes a couple in my NCT group had two cats; Gatsby and Ember. I was convinced I’d have to talk JavaScript with one of them at some point, but it turns out one of them is a patent attorney, the other is a buyer. You can imagine my relief. No particular reason for the cats’ names.
@Dave 🧱

We made a comic about cats.
1 Waitress at a diner, serving a cat: Here is your Coke! 2 Cat, moving the glass to the edge of the table: Thank you so much. 3 Cat knocks the glass of the table 4 Cat: I believe the menu mentioned free refills.

HCraptcha strikes again. I am unable to get into a forum where I am registered because their stupid accessibility cookie refuses to work. Bring out the pitchfforks and torches! 😡

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Did you know that MATA built one of the Metacities on top of the ruins of fairly important ruins of an ancient city?

full comic: analognowhere.com/techno-mage/…

#unix_surrealism #comic #fosschild

Fosschild descends into the sewers of Metacity. Fosschild: "Not many know that MATA bult Metacity atop of ruins of an ancient city. A place where much of what's been lost once began." Fosschild treks through the sewers, until it comes across an opening and climbs through, laying its eyes onto the ruins of Old Berkeley. Fosschild: "This never gets old..."
#comic #unix_surrealism #fosschild
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We're not stopping anytime soon, but I'm getting really tired of being the only people masked everywhere. I'm really thankful for my husband; I'm very peer pressure prone and it helps to have him with me.

I'm trying to keep the spite going too. Bleh

Growing up in the 80s and 90s due mostly to ominous news stories I remember as a kid being very sad that all of my friends with divorced parents would have to live lives of crime and be criminals, or otherwise bad people.

This, of course, didn't happen. And the "divorce epidemic" ended, now people get married later, get married less often, but are more likely to stay together.

The horde of "latch key kids" failed to ruin society and no one ever talks about it.

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morachbeag
morachbeag
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Latch key kid playin D&D, listening to metal and hip-hop and there's society just chuggin along as usual. (sighs)
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Rebecca Cotton-Weinhold
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@morachbeag The current trajectory of society chugging along as usual is not that great and seems awful skewed to the right. Is that because latch key kids have not lived up to their criminal potential? Did the failure of DnD players to summon Satan result in the right wing Christians hating women and migrants instead? Did the metal failing to bring about the anarcho revolution result in the excess authoritarians we see today?
@morachbeag

Greta Thunberg joined our United for Climate Justice coalition today and our blockade of a busy Brussels' street.
This disruption of traffic and of business as usual is nothing in comparison to what the climate catastrophe will wreak.
We need urgent action now, but we're still rushing headlong into a terrifying future, all for the sake of greed and growth.

politico.eu/article/brussels-g…

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #Brussels #Belgium #Activism #CivilDisobedience

#Climatecrisis #climatechange #activism #extinctionrebellion #belgium #brussels #xr #civildisobedience

So, tell me, Mastodon. What are some fun, accessible games for iOS these days? Tell me your favorites.
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victor tsaran
victor tsaran
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@simon I mean, the Blind Drive still rocks! But yeah, wish some of those older games like Papa Sangre or Defensedidn't die. Also, Dimensions, while not exactly a game, was a really cool experiment!
@simon.old
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simon.old
simon.old
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@vick21 Blind Drive is such a fun time. I like that they also offer a Steam-free PC version.
@victor tsaran

spooky special 0

#unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild #comic @solene

Mage and Fosschild are sitting about. Mage is thinking. Fosschild looks at her. Fosschild: "I know that look. You're contemplating telling me a spooky story!" AnalogNowhere presents: SPOOKY SPECIAL pt.0 ... Girl and Puffy stand before a cornfield. There is a sign that says 'keep out'. Girl is anxious. Puffy: "Just walk through the cornfield until you reach the dataswamp. I'll pick you up in three days. Auntie Solene will look after you till then."
#comic #unix_surrealism #technomage #fosschild @Solène

Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#aws

Getting an appointment for a new Texas state ID involves logging onto a website at 7:55 AM and crossing your fingers that it will load while every other person that needs an appointment hammers it at the same time. Same-day appointments are usually gone within 60 to 80 seconds of that time. We even have tools that people have made to deal with this like: github.com/phamleduy04/texas-d…
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Mikołaj Hołysz
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Things like this are why I'm personally in favor of scalpers.

If you're disabled, bbeing able to exchange time for money is incredibly important.

I blogged about last week's hackfest!

blogs.gnome.org/tbernard/2024/…

#boilingTheOcean #gnome #postmarketOS #berlin #localfirst

About 10 hackers sitting at a long conference table with their laptops. At the end of the table there's a large TV with a GNOME wallpwaper and the text "Boiling The Ocean". Behind the TV there are some plants.
#gnome #postmarketos #Berlin #localfirst #boilingtheocean

I don't think Joker 2 is actually that bad of a movie....
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Chris 🌱
Chris 🌱
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It's a tragedy, and I think people were expecting a blockbuster.

@Friendica Support @Michael Vogel Lässt sich der Text in der #Titelzeile formatieren?
#Titelzeile @Friendica Support @Michael Vogel

I'm looking for a student for an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. *This is a fully funded position.*

The project: building tools to help understand how "retro" video games were made under amazingly constrained circumstances. While it's a CS position, this is interdisciplinary work done in collaboration with archaeologists and others.

Needs: strong coding skills, good writing abilities. Ideally: low-level, reverse engineering, or compiler experience.

One reason I prefer things in Rust to go: I have a chance to fix the bugs. Go for me is write-only code at best. (This is not go's fault but mine, I'm too unfamiliar with it.)

Wow, so last year they quietly dropped a new Furby for its 25th edition? Shocked. Tempted to get one, but also they took out Bluetooth and a lot of those things that made hacking the 2016s so much more fun, like when I sent it Bluetooth commands from the Raspberry pi.
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JamminJerry
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so the new ones don't use an app on the phone? that's cool! just like the older ferbies then.

Hm, pred 8 rokmi mi aj "iba" jeden terabit stál za napísané blogu:

herrman.sk/home/bum-prask-jede…

A tuto hajzlíci potvrdzujú (prenesený) Moorov zákon a už nás to ani neprekvapuje. Tak aspoň tootnem.

From: @patrickcmiller
infosec.exchange/@patrickcmill…

@Patrick C Miller

Together with other organisations we are currently blocking the Rogier metro station in Brussels as part of the ongoing #StopFossilSubsidies action.

€400 billion in subsidies was given to the fossil industry in the EU last year, which is about €1000 per EU citizen. (1/3)

#ClimateJustice #UnitedForClimateJustice

A group of protesters blocks a street in Brussels. A couple of them, wearing white lab coats, are holding a banner saying 'Scientist Rebellion. The privilege to know, the duty to act'. The entrance to metro station 'Rogier' is visible in the background.
#ClimateJustice #stopfossilsubsidies #unitedforclimatejustice
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Last year, I switched back to #Firefox as the main browser on my #Android mobile phone. With the latest questionable decisions by #Mozilla about working on ad-tech and enabling product telemetry in Thunderbird for Android without asking its users, I'm wondering what browser to look into next?
Vivaldi seems to be mentioned a lot, so that's going to be the first browser I look into. What else are people here using (and happy with😉)?
#android #firefox #mozilla
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Christoph Derndorfer-Medosch
Christoph Derndorfer-Medosch
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@julienw @yoasif I have no interest in one day waking up and realizing that my supposedly privacy friendly browser has opted me into an ad tech experiment (which is what you get when you combine the two recent questionable Mozilla decisions I referenced).
@yoasif @Julien W.

There was a story that went around this week about movie studios' woes with "superfans."

A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth.

Full Essay: the-reframe.com/killing-our-wa…

Normalize asking for consent
before taking photos of others 📷

Normalize asking for consent
before posting photos of others online :blobcatphoto:

Normalize asking for consent
before sharing the personal information of others 📞📧 🏠ℹ️

Normalize asking for consent 💚

#Privacy #Consent

#privacy #consent
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Ľuboš Moščovič
Ľuboš Moščovič
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Well, as street photo lover I simply don't agree to a certain level. I mean, I don't want to ask in advance as that would ruin the photo I would love to catch. But at the moment I know I would like to keep the picture, I run and ask. 99% of shots are deleted anyway.
BTW, I have never heard no. People mostly even give me the email (not asking for it) as they want that picture as well.

2 Monate Fahrverbot und 150 Tagessätze für den Todesfahrer von Andreas Mandalka. Das erscheint manchen wenig, die Geldstrafe ist aber fast ein halbes Jahreseinkommen. Nichts kann ein Menschenleben aufwiegen.

Artikel in den BNN ohne Zahlschranke, der auch den Autofahrer erwähnt, der in die Gedenkfaht gefahren ist: bnn.de/pforzheim/enzkreis/neuh…

#ripnatenom #fahrrad

#ripnatenom #fahrrad

The only feature that anyone wants in a new iPhone is a longer lasting battery.

Listening to true crime cases from the 80s that "D&D Satanism scare" was some wild shit.

Was everywhere, propagated by sheriffs, detectives, unquestioning media, & the in-person equivalent of your out there Facebook relative.

Normies been fucked up about a lot of things for a long time.

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64 mastodonz logistics co-op
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“masks won’t work because people won’t wear them correctly, we can’t tell people to wear masks” was a time
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J.H.Noyes
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Endlessly kvetching about masks is one way to do it, another way to do it is to make the NAIAD explain why so many youngsters are displaying brain changes consistent with the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

To be clear, I'm talking about stuff like this:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

Intersecting with this:

journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry….

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If you are like me, you often need to type or copy and paste things over and over again. For example, I have a couple Zoom meetings I host. Even though I email the Zoom info to people, there is always somebody who calls me or emails me and asks for the Zoom info again. This used to be annoying, until I found out about the text substitution feature of Microsoft Word and Outlook. Note, I do not know if this feature works in the new version of Outlook. I have only tried this in Outlook Classic. The way this works is that whatever text you need to put in a Outlook email or Word document often, you create what Word or Outlook calls a building block with the text. As an example, I created a building block with my personal zoom room and called it pz. To do this, I did the following:

  1. I started a new email in Outlook.
  2. I copied the Zoom info from Zoom into the email.
  3. I selected all of the text containing the Zoom info.
  4. I pressed Alt F3.
  5. A box came up asking me for the name of the building block. I typed pz. You can type whatever word or phrase you want.
  6. I pressed Enter.

Now, whenever I need to put this info into an email, I type pz followed by F3. Just like that, my Zoom info is in the body of the email.

technologyisawesome.com/tired-…

#microsoft #office

#microsoft #office
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Future of salt in our repositories

lists.archlinux.org/archives/l…

#salt #saltstack #ArchLinux #Linux

#linux #archlinux #salt #saltstack
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Harrison Totty
Harrison Totty
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Makes sense. This is not yall's problem to solve. Salt devs are clearly shooting themselves in the foot with these decisions. I suspect similar decisions will be made by other distros.

Mein Harem schrumpft langsam 😱
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WestphalDenn
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Anyone running JAWS Beta running into JAWS randomly speaking in German?
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Try turning off this new language detection, it doesn't work reliably anyway.

When I see the word "ducking" written I believe it was autocorrected. And usually that works.

📢 *AI-generated podcasts aren't here to replace human creativity* 🎙️—they're enhancing accessibility, especially for people like me who learn best by listening. As a blind student, tools like NotebookLM turning PDFs into podcasts help me absorb material more effectively. 🎧 It’s about *learning in a way that works for you*, not replacing the personal touch of traditional podcasts. 🧠💡

#Accessibility #AI #AIforAccessibility #Podcasts #Blind #AIAccessibility #LearningTools #NotebookLM

#Accessibility #blind #AI #Podcasts #notebooklm #aiforaccessibility #aiaccessibility #learningtools
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Sean Randall
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I'm not against AI tools in the least, but when I ran content through NotebookLM the podcasts sounded great, were really interesting ... and had lots of inaccurate but plausible-sounding material, delivered with all of the confidence of the correct content.
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Charlotte Joanne
Charlotte Joanne
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@cachondo That’s genuinely interesting because it doesn’t seem to be the experience of the vast majority of people. When I’ve viewed it, it is remained very grounded and true to the source material.
@Sean Randall
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Charlotte Joanne
Charlotte Joanne
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@cachondo Anyway, you found another reason why they won’t replace all podcasts!😎
@Sean Randall

Prediction: The JIT in .NET 10 will be so fast that my C# programs will terminate before I even run them, allowing me to send messages to my past self.
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modulux
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So that's how you make a turing oracle. Acausal computation and sending a message to yourself telling you if the program halts or not.

We’ve been warning about this for literally three decades, ever since CALEA mandated wiretap-ready telecom infrastructure. And this is merely the latest example of how these dangerous interfaces can be turned against us by our adversaries.
mastodon.social/@fj/1132537261…
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Matt Blaze
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Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that all the reasons that "lawful access" features in telecom infrastructure are risky apply at least equally to the periodically revived proposals for "key escrow" backdoors in cryptographic systems. Fortunately, we've mostly held back the tide on those, but they come up every few years. It would be a security disaster if they're ever mandated.
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Matt Blaze
Matt Blaze
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Mandated wiretap interfaces and cryptographic backdoors are *expensive*, both in terms of money and, more importantly, exposure to risk. Worse, those burdens are borne inequitably.

Overall, almost no one is the subject of a lawful wiretap, even in places where wiretapping is an important investigative tool. Most people aren't suspects. But these mandates degrade security (and impose other costs) for *everyone*, the vast majority of whom will never be wiretapped.

Anyone knows any visually impaired astronomers (or amateurs) who will be interested to test our #astronomy apps for #Accessibility ?
#Accessibility #astronomy
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