Indeed the only fitting reaction to that statement. Not questioning it, but "falling from the couch to ROFLMAO", making clear one cannot take that serious. Well done!
I'd almost said "calling that man truthful is like calling a gun a peacemaker" – but ouch, wasn't there something… 🙈
This is a seriously great improvement for Youtube.com: When you press "Reject all cookies" it now just shows a blank home page and a search bar. No more random "popular videos", suggested videos, etc.
On Threads they have been using algorithms to moderate user content, but The Verge now reports how a large number of popular accounts have been banned, simply because Zuckerberg's software mistook their good content for bad content.
That is the difference:
On Mastodon, we have humans taking part in the moderation of humans. But on commercial social media, humans are pushed around like sheep.
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/
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.
@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.
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.
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
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…
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 #accessibilityvirtualdub.org/altirra.html
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
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.
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.
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.“
The amazing thing about open source services is, you can create interfaces for it the way you imagine them best. Currently testing #Pipilo, an iOS Fediverse client by @luckkerr which presents each timeline as a horizontal bar you swipe through to get to the next post. From a VoiceOver perspective, a slider control is presented and you explore the posts by swiping up and down, then explore the screen to discover things like links, replies in the corresponding thread, attached multimedia. Łukasz also makes sure that everything works correctly with VO and more goodies are already there in the current Testflight build. Glad to see this level of attentiveness to accessibility and a fellow Polish person coding fedithings. Give it a try. apps.apple.com/pl/app/pipilo/i… #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #iOSDev
On a related note, it's worth it posting your thoughts under a couple of hashtags on the fedi. Łukasz happened to interact with my rant on inaccessible photopickers last week and that's how I discovered his app. That's how you can expand your audience on here.
Ok so just went and got this because I'm terminally curious to see how this works. I'm really intrigued, but also still very much in love figuratively with Mona, so it'll take something pretty special to move me over, but as a scroll-through companion, I could see this being pretty cool!
Hi hello from Pipilo! ... This is really a cool concept. I still like Mona best, but will keep this one and send its alerts to the watch. ... This really is a cool idea. ... Did I mention how cool a concept this is? lol!
@pianomarian I think @luckkerr will be glad to hear that. Just wait for the next update where the posts will be read straight away as soon as you move the slider.
What I'd really like to do is reverse the timeline, because right now it's backwards to my way of reading. I haven't seen a way to change that, unless I missed it somewhere.
we have a handful of online supermarkets in the UK, and only the one uses this approach so that you can literally swipe up on any search result to add it to your cart. It's the only provider with a single flick per item, too. No idea how it renders visually but it works well for VO.
@cachondo Ohh, there's one doing that here in Austria. Last time I checked, though, it read some random variable when you did that instead of reading out the current number of items in the card. Will have o check whether they've fixed it. It's such a handy mechanism.
The GOV.UK “exit this page" button (for pages that might be visited by e.g. domestic abuse victims seeking support) doesn't take you to the Google homepage but instead BBC Weather, and the reason why is interesting and well-thought-out: beeps.website/blog/2024-10-09-…
Currently at the #LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024: updates on right-to-left language support, and presenting new LibreOffice features created by Google Summer of Code students. conference.libreoffice.org/202…
Great insight into how domain names are impacted by geopolitical changes. I agree, .io is likely to remain popular for quite some time, especially given its strong presence in the tech world.
We heard back from the Obtanium dev, and his advice is to delete the app from Obtainium and re-add it, but specify a release title filter this time. Or you could add it in one click via the crowdsourced app configs website: apps.obtainium.imranr.dev/?cat…
(Basically, there was a hiccup caused by the fact that repo now hosts two apps instead of one, but this should be a one-time occurrence.)
“For me to post a hurricane forecast and for people to accuse me of creating the hurricane by working for some secret Illuminati entity is disappointing and distressing, and it’s resulting in a decrease in public trust,” says Cappucci. He says he hasn’t slept in multiple days and is exhausted. This last week he received hundreds of messages from people accusing him of modifying the weather and creating hurricanes from space lasers. "
@hub right?? still amazing for me in 1992...it felt more like a low-flying airplane than a train
between that and the seamless integration with JR's conventional rail network...my ideas of what transit & mobility should look like changed dramatically 😅
I used to commute daily 230km between Lille and Paris. It was faster than for some of the suburbanites... cost 600 EUR though which was still less than rent in Paris
@hub I met a guy on the Joetsu Shinkansen who lived in Takasaki and commuted to Tokyo (~120 km). the difference in rent helped with the price of the pass, but he said the biggest advantage was that he was far enough away from his family that they wouldn't visit unannounced 😅
If you have any need to interrogate / explore USB devices, this CLI tool is *amazing*. Using it on both macOS and Linux here. Super impressive compared to lsusb etc (and compatible with the same output format if needed) github.com/tuna-f1sh/cyme
IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to George Takei 🏳️🌈🖖🏽 • • •🧙 "Ridiculous!" 🧙
Indeed the only fitting reaction to that statement. Not questioning it, but "falling from the couch to ROFLMAO", making clear one cannot take that serious. Well done!
I'd almost said "calling that man truthful is like calling a gun a peacemaker" – but ouch, wasn't there something… 🙈