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X reinstated in Brazil after Musk pays fines, agrees to follow local laws

X blocked accounts and paid $5 million in fines to get back online in Brazil.

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Una Luna como Saturno detrás del volcán Pacaya

📷 Francisco Sojuel

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CW: A bit of a vent and probably suffering from a low mood

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Great statement at #blinkon by @cdub

"Chrome is the 4th browser I've worked on. They've all had majority market share. 2 of them don't even exist anymore. The web platform remains. It outlives browsers, engines, companies even."

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Chromium seems like such an unstoppable juggernaut right now, though. To the point that I'm sympathetic to the argument that Apple's ban on browser competition on iOS might be a good thing in that it's preventing Chromium from becoming even more of an unstoppable juggernaut, leaving everyone else far behind and making it practically impossible to ever develop a new independent engine.
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@matt
Fucking infuriated to recent see a tech writer call Safari a Chrome based browser

Next he’ll be telling me Queen and David Bowie ripped off Vanilla Ice…



Medzi ženami na Majstrovstvách Slovenska jednotlivcov v rapid #šach-u 2024 dominovala Lucia Ševčíková. Zároveň získala právo štartu na Majstrovstvách Európy žien v rapid šachu 2024 na náklady SŠZ. Tešíme sa s ňou!
#sach


The article linked in my last boost (baldurbjarnason.com/2024/lisko… by @baldur) has buried in it the following unequivocal statement:

":And none of us should be using React."

I think those of us who agree with this message (I think I do) could do a better job of communicating it to those who aren't following the web development discourse. As far as my non-developer business partner knows, for example, React is still an uncontroversial industry standard.

in reply to Matt Campbell

If this doesn't exist yet, maybe we need a web page, with a catchy domain name like WhyNotReact.dev, that succinctly lays out the arguments against React.


@AKernelPanic and I recently went on the #AskNoahShow to talk about the upcoming Ubuntu Summit and the excellent speakers coming this year. We have folks coming from @matrix and @frameworkcomputer, but that's not all! You can hear all about this Summit this year and what we have planned by tuning into Noah's podcast 🎙️

podcast.asknoahshow.com/410

The Ubuntu Summit is free to attend, with both in-person and remote attendance options. Use the link below to register 👇

ubuntu.com/summit



In the spring, we conducted a survey asking the community a wide range of questions to help shape a fellowship for open source maintainers. This new 12-month program supports the people who work on critical digital infrastructure. Here are some of the insights we uncovered.

sovereigntechfund.de/news/what…

in reply to Sovereign Tech Agency

Apply for the fellowship through Sunday, October 20, 2024.

We're directly investing in the people behind the code. In the first year, we are allocating five available fellowship slots as follows: one employee and up to four freelance contractors.

Learn more and apply here: sovereigntechfund.de/de/progra…



Tak po dovolenkove pauze uz zase jedeme kampane. Prave jsme spustili prvni fazi pro Asher Rotha.

unreleased.art/new-dessert

Ma upravene UI (mene naseho brandu, vice umelce) a je rozdelena na 4 casti. Postupne bude pribyvat hudba, vinyl, challenge i merch.

Tuto nebude nikde na streamu. Jako fakt Unreleased. To me tesi dvojnasob.

#music #art #artist

in reply to Martin Wenisch

Pri tuneni noveho stylu pro kampane jsme si hodne hrali s fonty. Bitvu fontoveho parovani zatim drtive prohravame.

Kombinace, co se nam libila byl napriklad ten SUSE (ted ho tam mame jako Body i Display) a NeueBit, ktery tomu dodal krasnou umeleckou pixelovatost. Bohuzel je pekelne drahy a alternativy jsme nenasli.

@jiri_toman nedokazal by si pomoctct nejakou profesionalni radou?




Najlepšie si dať práska a z prázdneho rajónu máš zrazu stoly. No jo už je po sezóne... :kekw: #precositorobim
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Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

baldurbjarnason.com/2024/lisko…

This is a bit of an experiment. Probably the longest essay I've published directly on my website. 🙂







Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels

A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.

And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.



🌟 #Sharkvember excitement is in full swing with Freedom Scientific's **Next Big Thing** contest! Last year, the winning idea was all about AI-generated image descriptions—a game-changer for accessibility! 🎉🤖 This year, the competition's fierce, and it's anyone's guess what brilliant idea will take the crown. Will it be another AI marvel, or perhaps something totally unexpected? 🤔✨

Submissions are in soon, and on November 19th, finalists will showcase their visionary ideas for JAWS and ZoomText. I can't wait to see the creativity and innovation at play this year! 😍💡 The thrill of seeing our accessibility tools evolve is so inspiring. We might just see new features that transform how blind and low-vision users interact with the world! 🌐👀

Catch the live event and let’s cheer for these pioneers pushing the boundaries of tech! #NextBigThing #Accessibility #JAWS #ZoomText #Sharkvember2024 🦈💙

in reply to The Blind AI

ah yes, the game-changer copied from other screen readers and apps. I wish innovation didn't come with quite so much hype. Perhaps I'm getting old and grumpy!
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo That’s why I’m excited last year there was only one possible answer.


Anyone know of good reading to get up to speed on what's going on with Wordpress?

EDIT: This is good reading: joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire…

Thanks to @\j12i@weirder.earth and @\kamyk@firescry.com for linking it :)

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Comparing DC's Absolute Universe with Marvel's Ultimate Universe

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mastodon drama

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I’m looking to get back into amateur radio a little bit. I have a license but been very inactive. I have a BTech UV5X3 radio here. Quite a while ago, someone sent me an accessible manual for it. Can’t find it. Does anyone have that?
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Amazon.com Keyboard Shortcuts... I just noticed that Amazon.com now has a few built in keyboard shortcuts. I am using Jaws and the Google Chrome browser. Please note, with Jaws, you do not have to turn off the virtual cursor or any changes have to be made. The keyboard shortcuts just work! Here are the shortcuts. ALT+/, Go to search. Shift+alt+C, go to cart. Shift+alt+H, go to home. Shift+alt+O, go to list of orders. That's it. Some is better than nothing. I know I will be using them! Happy shopping. #Amazon #Windows #Jaws #Keyboard #Shortcuts #Blind #Accessible

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meanwhile, typing into the Amazon search box at least here in the UK gives annoying feedback with every keystroke now. :)


Ok this is interesting.

Cards Against Humanity is PAYING people who didn't vote in 2020 to apologize, make a voting plan, and post #DonaldTrumpIsAHumanToilet up to $100 for blue-leaning people in swing states.

www.Apologize.lol





I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same.

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When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.

While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.



Good evening all, home after the technology show, saw the new Canute, and spoke to some old friends.
in reply to Derry Lawlor

is it any quieter than the old one?
I can't take more than 10 minutes with the original without hearing protection
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo this was pretty quite, but I hadn't seen one in years, not sure in a quite room it might be a bit loud.


Got a (I think legit) tracking email for my ebay delivery from Royal Mail today. Subject has an obvious typo "...is due to bedelivered today" and the tracking button uses a sketchy looking domain `ryml.me` that's not used elsewhere in the email. No wonder folks fall for phishing attacks 🤦 .


Absolute Batman #1 was amazing; The previews had me a little worried about this version of Batman - he's a very brutal one. But he's still himself, just with a very different twist.
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Also, this Batman is jacked. He's practically built like the Hulk.


Every sheep breed sounds like the name of a notorious 18th century highwayman


Beste politici, we gaan de #klimaatcrisis echt niet oplossen door wat bomen te planten op het Dorpsplein, door wat tegels te wippen in de straten of door voortuintjes te ontharden. That ship has saled long ago.
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Dat zijn uitstekende maatregelen om de leefbaarheid van de stad te verhogen. Verhogen het welbevinden, de gezelligheid,...

Helpt een klein beetje tegen het stedelijk hitte-eiland-effect en voor insijpeling grondwater

maar naar natuurwaarde en klimaatwaarde? Hooguit 'rommelen in de marge'

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Sobotu si vyhrazujem pre domáce úlohy (a práce tiež)!


@admin Do you have any leads on blocking this latest wave of Mastodon spam? While I've successfully filtered it out server-side, TweeseCake doesn't respect filters of this type (although I realise that's not your problem).
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@modulux well, on my 'How not to design an API' list for the future....


"How bad were the billionaires?"
"Just one of them managed to ruin the sky for everyone. The sky."


Neviete niekto o šikovnej čašníčke/čašníkovi? Do centra v Bratislave. Je celkom problém nájsť normálnych a šikovných ľudí.


Buenas tardes, tres cosas:

La primera, que he escrito una novela.
La segunda, que me la publican.
La tercera, que no tengo ni la más remota idea de cómo he conseguido ni la primera ni la segunda cosa.

«illo» es un drama familiar que se desarrolla por las calles de Triana y Sevilla y en el que hay tensión, acción, pasados complicados, lluvia y hasta un partido del Betis. Lo publica Editorial Dieciséis y estará disponible en su web y en vuestra librería de barrio a partir del 17 de octubre.