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Beyond excited for Erin Kissane’s new venture. Not only is this work of such deep, fundamental importance, but Erin is exactly the person we want tackling it. And the fact that she’s doing this work in community—with us, not for us—is evidence of that: wrecka.ge/into-the-wreck/

As of Oct 8th, we ship Framework Laptops to 🇵🇹🇭🇷🇸🇮🇸🇰, with local language keyboards too! That rounds out all countries that use the Euro, and we're working through the infrastructure to launch in the rest of the EU as well.

Envision Glasses 2.8 Unveils 'Smart Detection' for Reading Figures, Tables, Graphs & More letsenvision.com/blog/smart-de…

Less than an hour until I go into vacation mode!
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Sean Randall
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does that mean you autoreply and tell people to goa way? T-'hee

I'm curious if anyone knows what could be going on here. I wrote a 13-page document for work, and somehow the spaces and lines were changed, according to JAWS, to "space markers" and "paragraph marks". Ctrl+shift+8 fixed this, but does anyone know what this is for? What are space and paragraph marks? EVERY SINGLE space and line was changed.
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Sean Randall
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You can start a list with an asterisk, shift+8. So perhaps ctrl+shift+8 got pressed accidentally?
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Andy
Andy
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@cachondo Ah yeah, I've done like 30 lists in this document like that. I didn't think of that, but you're right! That's probably how it happened. Eh, at least it was reversible.
@Sean Randall

Urteil: Rechtsextremist hat kein Recht auf Referendariat

Ein Neonazi wurde zu Recht nicht als Referendar an einem Oberlandesgericht zugelassen. Das urteilte das Bundesverwaltungsgericht. Der Staat müsse niemanden ausbilden, der die Verfassung aktiv bekämpfe. Von A. Lagmöller.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/gesellsch…

#Bundesverwaltungsgericht #Rechtsextremismus

#rechtsextremismus #bundesverwaltungsgericht

From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Intro to Google Calendar: Thursday, October 10, 7:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Byl vyhlášen víkend pro @archos, mě a další vyvolené! 😁
@Archos

Classical and folk music are very common in ringtones, almost to the point of being cliche. It's understandable, though, considering that those genres are easily recognizable and in the public domain, so it probably saves money to just commission someone to make a remix of a traditional song rather than deal with paying royalties to record labels and collecting societies. However, possibly because it's so common, phone manufacturers often try to have fun with classical and traditional music, remixing it in various ways. In this thread, I'll be showcasing some of the most interesting remixes of Classical and Traditional songs I've found while browsing ringtones. Some will confuse. Some will horrify. Maybe you might even like one.
First up, Beethoven's fur elise. This SMAF remix takes the piece in a Latin direction, replacing the lead piano with a trumpet, and adding its own background improvisation on other instruments. From Samsung PC Studio version 2.0. Arranger unknown.
MMF: onj3.andrelouis.com/phonetones….
Original piece: youtube.com/watch?v=s71I_EWJk7…

okay so, Firefox has become a piece of shit as of late, like, super slow, lots of UI bugs that piss me the hell off and just keep getting worse and worse, etc.

I really don’t want to switch to a browser that’s Fucking Chrome out of ideology, but it seems like the only alternative is Safari/WebKit and there aren’t any other compelling WebKit browsers on macOS+Windows. Could some Internet reply guy prove me wrong on this?

Also ideally it’d have Bitwarden and uBlock Origin or similar.

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Here’s the browsers that Bitwarden has supported extensions for: Safari, Chrome, Chrome, Firefox, Chrome, Cryptobro Chrome, Chrome, Paranoid Firefox, Chrome

EDIT: Tor is based on Firefox, not Chrome, my bad!

Safari, Chrome, Edge, Firefox, Opera, Brave, Vivaldi, Tor, DuckDuckGo
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fluffy 💜
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ok so basically, I like FIrefox in general, but I wish I could turn off the endless ads for their shitty VPNs and their "review checker" bullshit and all the other crap that gets in the way of the web and makes everything slow

and I wish they'd fuckin, like, fix UI bugs like where the location bar just suddenly stops working

I'm currently in my favorite phase of #a11y advocacy: annoying as many people as possible so I can fully use the companion app for my new headphones. Sennheiser Momentum 4 Wireless, if anyone's curious.
#a11y

So glad to learn that Han Kang got this year's Nobel Prize in #literature. I read “The vegetarian” a few years ago and it left quite an impression in my mind. Very creative, and sometimes perversiveideas... Challenging the culture that is not easily challenged! . audible.com/pd/B01AKPENR0?sour…

The Vegetarian

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • “[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of re…
Audible
#literature
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Stop Hackers From Getting Into Your Security Cams With 6 Easy Tips cnet.com/home/security/stop-ha…

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Let's keep the contributor appreciation from earlier going! Our most recent Contributor Highlight is out, and we're shining the light on Toad Hall, one of our Mozilla Support (SUMO) forum superheroes! The SUMO forums are the pillar of our support, and contributors like Toad keep it strong.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/c…

#opensource #thunderbird #community
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Aleca
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@73CC We don't track you and we don't have trackers! We have telemetry, which is a completely different thing that is fully anonymous and only collects technical pings . You can see the things we collect here: stats.thunderbird.net/

But also, you can already completely disable telemetry from the settings page.

Thunderbird settings page to disable telemetry
@TECC 🌱
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TECC 🌱
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With the release of Thunderbird Mobile, the tracker was removed.

»incoming.telemetry.mozilla.org« was included in the beta version.

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I wonder what kind of programming is required to learn how to make JAWS and NVDA scrypts? because that's something I'm thinking I might want to get into if its not overly complicated. #Blind
#blind
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Sean Randall
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@luv4music1231 @mcourcel wouldn't fry the computer, though. JAWS has an emergency exit key so you could eventually stop it even with JAWS active.
yes, you could write a script that crashed the system, but you can always boot without JAWS.
A dangerous script could potentially corrupt your Windows installation, but it'd have to be pretty impressive to ruin the hardware.
@Just Martin @Mendi

Costco Is the Latest Grocery Chain to Announce Major Price Cuts cnet.com/news/costco-is-the-la…

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@Friendica Support Was bewirkt in den #Kontakteinstellungen unter "Spiegle Beiträge dieses Kontakts" die Einstellung "Spiegeln als meine eigenen Beiträge"?
#Kontakteinstellungen @Friendica Support

Jäger

keby to bolo naopak bolo by to lepšie #lentak
#lentak

In spite of my 3D printer difficulties, the good news is I got my MK4 going again, so work on my Scan-Stand continues. I'm finishing the rework of the 3 part design in to a 5 part design. The advantage is this one will be compact enough to carry in a bag. The challenge is making that work without it becoming too wobbly. So glad to be back to 3D printing projects! So eager to work more on the folding cane and my wind instrument experiments, but I will finish this first.
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Jason Fayre
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What happened to your printer? Mine is still going strong. I have wondered though how repairs of this thing would work.

One of the downsides of working in govt for many years is I can no longer watch tv shows or movies about spies or conspiracies

‘I wonder how they procured that piece of tech and what forms they had to fill out’

‘I wonder what time code they used to track their after-hours sleuthing time’

‘How did they expense that’

The wait is over. HTML for People is OUT NOW!

I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This web book will teach you how to do just that. It doesn’t require any previous experience making websites or coding. I will cover everything you need to know to get started in an approachable and friendly way.

And it’s free for all. 🚀

htmlforpeople.com

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New from 404 Media: people are using AI to auto apply for jobs. Bot scrolls LinkedIn, opens job applications, writes cover letter. Users say they've got interviews

We tested it. "By the time I finished breakfast, I had applied to 12 different jobs" 404media.co/i-applied-to-2-843…

Uber will let riders disclose whether they're hard of hearing or have low vision soon. The company will also start pilot testing another self-identification option for riders with service animals in the US and Canada over the next few weeks. engadget.com/transportation/ub…

Some people don’t believe in Santa Claus. I think I don’t believe in resumes… They all look great these days!

Please note: We are currently experiencing outages due to Hurricane Milton, and you may experience delays when trying to connect with our customer service and technical support teams. We appreciate your patience and understanding.

so if have a photo on fb or somehere how can I run it through my envision app?
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victor tsaran
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To be frank, I primarily use Seeing AI or Be My Eyes, so I just went by memory…

To by šlo ..... 🎶
open.spotify.com/album/07L21t2…

If TFG wins, expect a run on fly-by-night crypto/fintech companies. VCs are holding back on deals to see what they can get away with in the next administration.

The risk profile between an admin run by a former prosecutor and one run by a dude currently running many of the same scams turns out to be a little different.

Anyway, if you care even a little bit about grifters trying to sell Grandma unregulated crypto derivatives, that’s one of 1000 things that hinge on this presidential election.

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Matt May
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@vick21 I think his constituency consists of a large set of people who don't understand it, and a much smaller set of people who do, and intend to take advantage of it.
@victor tsaran

Beware of parking penalty text scams. 1 says if you don’t pay an overdue ‘parking penalty charge’ you may have to pay more, be banned, or go to court. But it’s fake. There are only 2 types of parking fines you can get, a Penalty Charge Notice (PCN) or a parking charge notice, not a ‘parking penalty charge.’ You or your car can’t be banned from driving after getting a parking fine, even if you don’t pay. There are grammar errors and gov.uk is the correct domain ending.
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aaron
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Just fyi. They are getting suffisticated with these and using AI to write the texts.

Today I heard about Altirra, a free Windows emulator of 8-bit Atari computers. In the latest version it includes an accessibility mode, turned on from the configuration dialog under the system menu. After you do the emulated screen can be reviewed just like a modern command prompt (IE with NVBDA's review commands.) It aalso supports emulating a lot of peripherals and you can have authentic floppy drive sounds and I'm a total sucker for those. It's really cool to see another vintage #retro computer platform become accessible like this. #a11y #accessibility virtualdub.org/altirra.html
#a11y #Accessibility #retro

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Jason Fayre
Jason Fayre
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Very cool! I have no experience with these machines at all. Will definitely take a look.

Please boost!

Do you need Code of Conduct Enforcement training in 2025?

Fill out my workshop time survey:

forms.gle/bXp5M8S7F7nbbJkd9

Help me figure out what time to run my monthly Code of Conduct Enforcement workshops.

otter.technology/code-of-condu…

With people needing training in Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and North America, it's impossible to find one single workshop time that works for everyone. So each month I pick a different time zone to best accommodate.

If you are a conference organizer, please let me know which month and time you need training!

You can either fill out the form, or send an email to sharp@otter.technology

#CodeOfConduct #CoC

#coc #codeofconduct

Nejdřív mě v kaufu nasrali. Lednice s minipivovary zmizela od piv. No tak jsem tam vzal basu ve slevě.

A pak mě znova nasrali. Oni tu lednici jen přestěhovali k pokladnám 🙃

How can I filter post that link to the fascist bird?

Důkaz, že nikam nemůžu!
Já v křesle s Můřicí na klíně. Trošku chrápe.

Kurzer Bericht im DLF über Behinderten-Ausbeutungsbetriebe ("Werkstätten").

Es gilt immer noch als Argument, dass behinderte Menschen mit einem feuchten Händedruck entlohnt werden können, weil sie dankbar sein sollten, überhaupt arbeiten zu dürfen. Es ist einfach nur empörend, wie unsere Gesellschaft mit Menschen umgeht.

Knapp 6 Minuten, es gibt eine Zusammenfassung als Text.

deutschlandfunknova.de/beitrag…

Ich kenne übrigens einige der Argumente aus meiner Erwerbslosenzeit, wenn mir irgendwelche Mistjobs oder Quatschmaßnahmen schmackhaft gemacht werden sollten: Geregelter Tagesablauf (als wäre das ein Wert an sich), "Anerkennung" (als stünde ein entwürdigender Lohn dem Anerkennungsgefühl nicht offensichtlich entgegen), "Sinnstiftung und Identität" (weil ein Mensch ohne Arbeit ein wertloser Niemand ist), blabla. Das alles sei viel wichtiger und toller als eine angemessene oder überhaupt eine Bezahlung.

Unsere verkorkste Arbeitsmythologie macht wenige Menschen reich und viele Menschen arm und krank.

#Behinderung
#Werkstätten
#Arbeit

#behinderung #werkstatten #arbeit

+4915753024990

Das ist eine Nummer, die du in einer Situation weitergeben kannst, in der du dich belästigt oder unwohl fühlst. Wählt die Person dann diese Nummer, erhält sie kurze Zeit später folgende Nachricht:

„Hey, hier ist Noa. Eine Person hat sich nicht wohlgefühlt und dir deswegen diese Nummer gegeben. Besuche noanruf.de/nummer-bekommen/ und schau, wie du diese Situation beim nächsten Mal vermeiden kannst. Grüße, NoA.“

Today windows did another of its interesting gropey behaviours, changing my default browser to edge. I'm not going to fucking use edge, not now, not later. Stop trying.

And for some reason the programs that were opened while this change took place wouldn't use the right browser until I restarted them. Ugh.

Computer touchers! When you're attempting to figure out why some (open source) software does something which do you reach for first?

  • Documentation (81%, 64 votes)
  • Discord/IRC/Matrix/... (2%, 2 votes)
  • The code and grep (16%, 13 votes)
79 voters. Poll end: 3 weeks ago

OK Internet Brain.
We need a printer for the home office.
Small footprint is probably the top thing, because space is tight. Think something a bit bigger than a sheet of A4 for the ideal.
But we print rarely, so don't want the ink to dry up. It needs to be pulled out after 6-9 months of inactivity and work.
I am so lost with inktanks versus inkjet and have never seen a small laser printre.
#Advice on buying a new #printer in the #UK welcome.
#uk #advice #printer

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Andrew Hodgson
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You have to go laser if you don't want ink to dry out. I ended up spending more money and got the HP Pro Colour Laserjet as I wanted something minimal on space. The Brother machines were cheaper but are a lot bigger. Yeah I know the system has DRM on the cartridges but I've had this for over 3 years now and all cartridges still over 50%. I've got the model with a scanner as well so may be slightly larger than just a printer version.
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Yingtai
Yingtai
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If you want a printer that just works, Brother deserves its reputation. The Verge actually wrote a review about this that went mildly viral. It contains a lot of AI jokes that aren't funny to me any more, but the actual review is still true. theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976…
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