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In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase "As Canadian as ____" (as in "as American as apple pie")

The winner was:
"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances"

Towards the end of 2023, I submitted an issue to the SCRCPY (ScreenCopy) Android mirroring tool regarding TalkBack keyboard commands not being grabbed properly.
github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/i…
I'm happy to say that as of a few weeks ago, a fix to the issue of alt+arrows being intercepted by the SCRCPY application itself has been corrected. Now, as long as the -K switch is applied (set the keyboard to uhid) and --shortcut-mod is set to anything other than any of the alt keys...
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Jack-Frostodon
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Updated binary. tmp.rom1v.com/scrcpy/5322/1/sc…
Run .\scrcpy.exe -d -K --shortcut-mod=rctrl
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Reading the manual of my new #Shearwater dive computer before class, as one does, and I noticed a note "Color Blind Users:"

The warning or critical warning states can
be determined without the use of color

Color blind users
Warnings display
on a solid inverted
background

Critical Warnings flash
between inverted and
normal text

The note is illustrated with gray scale pictures.

I'm not color blind (that I know about), but I appreciate the attention to #accessibility.

#SCUBA

#Accessibility #scuba #shearwater

Strange programming dream

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#weirddream #dream #dreams

Not sure why it's the TBI and not the FBI coming down on these guys, but if they're not lying about FinCen access then that's a pretty big deal.

"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A well-known Arizona election denier says his group — working through a conspiracy-minded assistant police chief in tiny Millersville, Tennessee — gained access to a highly confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions and other financial data.

Mark Finchem, who pushed lies about the 2020 presidential election and waged an unsuccessful campaign for Arizona’s secretary of state in 2022, made the stunning admissions during a series of recent interviews with far-right podcasters and in a “press conference” staged in Las Vegas to support Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor.

Taylor's department and residence were raided last month by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation following questions raised by an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation.

"There's a system called FinCen where we're actually able to track money laundering," Finchem said two weeks ago in that “press conference” to which only other far-right podcasters and conspiracy theorists were invited.'

newschannel5.com/news/newschan…

Some of us are aware that -40° Celsius is also -40° Fahrenheit. It's the only point where the two scales agree.

But did you know there are palindrome temperatures and they're very useful also!

16° Celsius = 61° Fahrenheit
28° Celsius = 82° Fahrenheit

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Adobe acrobat pro has got to be the most nonsensical piece of software in existence. It’s infuriating!

Want to tag elements? Surely the tags panel would make sense but nope, use the reading order panel instead.

Want to fix reading order? You’re out of luck with the reading order panel. Check the contents panel instead.

I spend most of my time just googling where to find things 😤

I am thinking about getting me a pair of #SmartGlasses. This will be a first for me so I am looking for your input. I hear a lot about the #Meta smart glasses, but I am wondering what else people are using?
#meta #smartglasses
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Kevin R Jones
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So what is your favorite chest holster? How do you keep the phone from moving around when walking? I might go that way too.

alright an informal very unscientific poll. How many people use cheque deposit on a mobile banking app. If you do, does your bank provide any kind of guidance on how to center the cheque in the frame when trying to deposit it? If so, can you tell me which bank it is? If you are feeling really generous, an audio recording would be fantastic. I am working with one of our groups to implement this feature and I would love to see good examples I know what I want but working examples would be fantastic.
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Jason Fayre
Jason Fayre
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If someone offers me a check, the first thing I do is laugh at them. Honestly haven’t needed to deposit a check in probably five years or more.
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Brian Moore
Brian Moore
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@jfayre no, it is a pretty rare thing for me but lots of people still ike them.
@Jason Fayre
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victor tsaran
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@Tamasg I can say for certain that the Wells Fargo mobile app provides this feature. However, I must also add that I am not super-impressed by their detection algorithm. It is very sensitive to the background. True, VOiceOver does speak announcements, but unfortunately most of the time I still had to rely on a sighted person to complete the deposit. I call this an inaccessible accessibility experience!
@Tamas G

Latest iOS 18.1 Beta Adds Sleep Apnea Alerts and Breathing Disturbance Readings macrumors.com/2024/10/07/ios-1…

Good news: iOS 18.1 Developer Beta 6 resolves the VoiceOver notification bug seen in Public Beta 2 and DB 5 that would prevent you from interacting with a banner when it appears on-screen.

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I wonder if the fediverse is worse for the planet than Twitter was? Surely a few massive data centers use less water and power than thousands of servers spread out all over the place, right? Not to mention the extra internet traffic, content and infrastructure duplication etc. If we really care about the environment, shouldn’t we be championing massive centralization?
in reply to Samuel Proulx

modulux
modulux
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Very hard to measure, and the fedi does not do a lot of things centralised alternatives do such as surveillance and advertising, which does take up considerable resources and storage. But probably per user it is less efficient, I would think.
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Samuel Proulx
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Also, how many of us massively overprovision our servers? I know I’m guilty of that. Estimating exactly how much ram or CPU a federated service requires is a skill, and I don’t have it. I’m not a business, so I have no economic pressure to squeeze out every last drop of performance either.
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modulux
modulux
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On the other hand, I run a lot of stuff on the same server I run fedi stuff on. Email, websites, IRC bots... And it runs on bare metal, no container or virtual machines or cloud indirection. So not sure how much of a factor that may be.
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Samuel Proulx
Samuel Proulx
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Same, but I had to containerize everything for security and ease of maintenance. I don’t think docker is too bad. However, it does mean my resource needs are wildly unpredictable to me.
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modulux
modulux
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I don't understand containers and all that stuff... I'm just too old school and haven't put in the time and effort to learn, so I just run everything on dedicated servers and use normal package management or manual builds for things.
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modulux
modulux
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Anyway, one thing I agree on is the replication is excessive, and it's also a cost that could be significantly reduced. Imagine images and so on stored on a DHT where everyone puts in some storage and can retrieve from it. Only one copy of a file would need to be stored. (Realistically, say 5 copies for redundancy.) I know there are people interested in making something like this happen.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

modulux
modulux
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Yes, something like it. Not sure IPFS is exaclty the right way to do it, but certainly the same sort of concept.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Tamas G
Tamas G
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here's another twist to that: What if multiple mastodon instances are hosted on a shared server through KVMs, and they're all pulling the same data and building multiple copies of that cache from the data but on the same infrastructure for duplication. Some of this sadly becomes a bit unavoidable during the streaming age - if we consider bandwidth and computing impact I would think the amount of throwaway data getting streamed would be a bit higher overall.

Oooh those reports, so colorful. But seeing a colours in reports has at least one benefit - there is a slightly lower chance someone is deliberately lying to you and even red should not be a disaster but a starting point of a discussion how to make the things better.

#babyciso #lifehappens

#babyciso #lifehappens
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"My media mentions and summaries seem to be missing a story about Angus Reid this morning. Anyone able to point me to one?"

-- Greg MacEachern @CBC Power & Politics

#polling #cdnpoli #poilievre #canada #pmjt

#canada #cdnpoli #poilievre #polling #pmjt
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GG
GG
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wow!
Angus Reid, one of Canada's top pollsters has deleted his X social media account after he was outed for posting misinformation along with a doctored video clip that misquoted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

#cdnpoli #canada #poilievre #PMJT

Angus Reid This account doesn't exist.
#canada #cdnpoli #poilievre #pmjt

User Group idea: cURL girls. a group for women dedicated to hacking the internet via the command line.

the name popped in my head, and thought it should exist. Someone should run with it.

#linux #curl #CLI #NameIdea

#linux #CLI #curl #nameidea

PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code

Ahoj všichni,
chtěl bych se omluvit za to, že jsem nereagoval na registrace na Pixelfed. Bohužel mi nechodily notifikační e-maily, takže jsem si nevšiml, že se registrovalo tolik uživatelů. O víkendu se pokusím tento problém opravit. Zatím jsou registrace otevřené a probíhají bez schválení administrátorem. Všechny registrace jsem zatím schválil ručně.
Děkuji za pochopení,
#pixelfed #pixelfedcz #opensource
#opensource #pixelfed #pixelfedcz

🇩🇪🚨Orban macht Ernst: Annahme der #Chatkontrolle steht für Mittwoch (Botschafter) und Donnerstag (EU-Innenminister) auf der Tagesordnung parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII… +++ Finnland bestimmt Mittwoch seine Position eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Siv… +++ Während die EU sichere Verschlüsselung zerstören will, hat China die USA mithilfe ihrer zur TK-Überwachung eingerichteten Hintertüren bereits in großem Stil ausspioniert golem.de/news/security-china-h… +++

Infos und wie du helfen kannst: chatkontrolle.de

#Chatkontrolle
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Patrick Breyer
Patrick Breyer
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🇬🇧🚨Orban moving fast: Endorsement of #ChatControl on the agenda for Wednesday (ambassadors) and Thursday (EU interior ministers) parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII… +++ Politicians, before you destroy secure #encryption understand that China spied on the US on a large scale using backdoors set up for lawful interception wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s… +++ Finland to take a stance on Wednesday eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Siv… +++

Information and how you can lobby your government: chatcontrol.eu

#encryption #chatcontrol

ménage à un 😭

Accessing Higher Ground — Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference. A Hybrid Event. November 11 - 15, Denver CO. accessinghigherground.org/virt… #a11y #events #ahg
#a11y #events #ahg

A guy running for premiership in BC, who has a credible shot at winning, just endorsed Nuremberg 2.0 for the implementation of SARS2 public health measures and vaccines, just in case you were wondering where all of this is going.
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"Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history."

Read the full story: wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B

Chmpf...
in reply to 𝕆𝕥𝕥𝕠 𝕧𝕠𝕟 𝕎𝕖𝕟𝕜𝕠𝕗𝕗 🐾🐐🐇🐔

SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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neotváral som to, popravde mám predstavu že Robin urobil nejaké "hacky" a po zadaní tých písmen do prehliadaču má prístup k... no nič radšej.
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Byla jsem na vstupní prohlídce do zaměstnání: tlak ještě dobrej, moč čistá, zrak malinko horší, srdce mi bije a plíce fungují; jsem způsobilá k řízení motorových vozidel ✅
Nic tedy nebrání tomu, abych 10/10 nastoupila, těším se na to 🤗🤗🤗

One #map to rule them all.
❤️ :osm:
#OpenStreetMap
Basic map showing roads and paths around a shopping mall
Indoor map of the second floor of the same shopping mall
Indoor map of the first floor of the same shopping mall
3D view of the same shopping mall
#openstreetmap #map
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You can make a stranger feel less alone today.
You can share exactly what's on your mind.
You can be yourself and not worry about likes.

Kind Words 2 is now available!

A game about writing nice messages to real people.

store.steampowered.com/app/211…

Am SA 05. Okt. hatte ich zum ersten Mal Todesangst beim Radfahren. Wir waren zw. Sandebeck & Himmighausen (Kreis Höxter, Teutoburger Wald, NRW) auf offiziell ausgeschilderten Radrouten auf geteerten Feldwegen unterwegs. Ohne Hinweisschilder, Absperrungen od Streckenposten fand hier ein Autorennen (Zeitfahren?) statt. 2x sprangen wir in den Graben, sonst wären wir von einem Auto erfasst worden. Weiß jemand etwas von solch einer Veranstaltung? Konnte im Netz nix finden #fedibikes #fahrradbubble
Roter Porsche fährt auf geteertem Feldweg neben einem Hochsitz.
Weißes Auto biegt auf einem Feldweg an einer Kreuzung mit eingeschaltetem Blinker rechts ab.
Bildschirmfoto einer Karte, die einen Abschnittes einer mit GPS aufgezeichneten Radtour zeigt
#fahrradbubble #fedibikes

Few impressions from the last few days from #spiel24 in Essen.

In the two days we were there we managed to make our way through (parts of) three out of six halls.

It was a lot of fun!

Photo of the Messe Essen entrace with a banner advertising the SPIEL board game exhibition.
A giant miniature of a mimic ship.
Storage solution box for lots of lovecraft board games (i.e. Mansions of Madness).
A closeup picture of a game of the upcoming Valheim board game.
#spiel24
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Am 5.9. beschließt die FDP-Fraktion ein Papier zu Migration. Von 'Brot' oder 'Seife' steht nichts drin. fdpbt.de/beschluss/positionspa…

Am 24.9. beantragt d. AfD wörtlich "Brot, Bett und Seife" im Bundestag. Debatte am 25.9.
dip.bundestag.de/vorgang/brot-…

Am 5.10. erklärt FDP-Fraktionschef Dürr der Bild: „Künftig sollten die Leistungen für alle ausreisepflichtigen Asylbewerber aufs Bett-Seife-Brot-Minimum gekürzt werden.“ m.bild.de/politik/inland/plan-…

Die FDP kopiert 1:1 die AfD. Das ist der eigentliche Skandal.

PSA: Instagram like Twitter now require accounts to view the content. So by posting there you just reinforce the silo nature of the platforms.

10/7

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Any idea for interesting services to self host?

No need to mention the usual suspects like nextcloud, a web server for a static website or vaultwarden :flan_smile:

edit: I'll not be able to reply to everyone, but be assured replies will be appreciated, and it will be useful to many!

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Seirdy
Seirdy
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The IndieWeb wiki is a good start: indieweb.org/Webmention

You might wanna start with Microformats2: microformats.org/

Cuando jugaba al parchís de pequeño usábamos una regla: un jugador que tuviera al menos una ficha ya en la meta al tirar un seis podía elegir entre volver a tirar siguiendo la regla del seis (tres seis y a tu casa) o directamente mover 10 casillas y no volver a tirar.

Fuera de mi entorno familiar nunca he encontrado a nadie que usara esa regla. ¿Estamos ante un caso de "en mi familia jugamos así"?

¿Alguien más conocía esa regla?
(porfaplis, busteadme la encuesta para tener más opiniones)

  • Conocía y he usado esa regla. (4%, 3 votes)
  • Conocía la regla pero no la he usado. (0%, 0 votes)
  • No la conocía. (95%, 66 votes)
69 voters. Poll end: 1 month ago

I Tried Replacing Windows with Linux Mint, Here's How It Went lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

I’m looking to get an extendable iPhone stand to take shots with. I’ll mainly use it to Take pictures of my TV with a GPT shortcut. Does anyone have any recommendations? Please repost if you can thank you.

Kind of weird how we never ask HOW Scooby-Doo is.

Also, happy 25th birthday to us! 🎊🎉🎊🎉

#linux #multimedia #gstreamer #gstconf2024

#linux #gstreamer #multimedia #gstconf2024

People want to know a lot of stuff - but not too much or else it's overwhelming!

People want to know unique details - but not too many or else they'll seem like a nerd!

People want to know what everyone else already knows - but still know things that others don't!

People want to know secrets - but not ones so important that they can't brag about knowing them.

People want to know all the gossip - but not so much that they appear shallow.

People want to be smart - but not have to learn.

Sometimes I wish for an aria-shortlabel attribute but then I know people would misuse it badly.

(The idea is to have a long label – rotate the image anti-clockwise – on first focus and a shorter label – anti-clockwise rotation – in subsequent instances. Sometimes it’s just hard to front-load information.)

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Seirdy
Seirdy
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We already have aria-details for longer descriptions with markup (support is still very flakey but I imagine some level of support should exist by 2026 or 2027), aria-description for longer labels, and aria-label for regular concise labels. Adding a fourth option will probably make things too confusing; you’re right that people would misuse it.

Important: Acapela TTS is blocking users who have the MultiTTS app installed on their devices from using their Acapela voices. If you have MultiTTS installed, it is recommended to clear the MultiTTS data and uninstall it before updating the Acapela app. Note that Accessible Android doesn't encourage the use of MultiTTS, and this post is only meant to alert users since many are already using the app.
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JamminJerry
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I totally forgot to clear the app data, I just uninstalled it. do you think that is ok? shouldn't that get rid of the app data too?
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Accessible Android
Accessible Android
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@JamminJerry That should. Please try it and let us know.
@JamminJerry
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JamminJerry
JamminJerry
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well I am getting the update now, so will let you know if this works, or it breaks.
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JamminJerry
JamminJerry
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ok, here is what I found out after I got the acapella update. I ran the acapella app its self, and I didn't get any warnings or anything like that. I then went into tts settings, and changed from vocalizer to acapella and sharon came up right away talking. so it looks like if you just uninstall the multi tts without clearing the app data, you are fine.
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