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Vispero and Aira are partnering to make life accessible! This partnership aims to promote equal access to information and coincides with White Cane Day and the m-Enabling conference. Check out the official press release or visit the TPGi staff at the m-Enabling conference to learn more: support.freedomscientific.com/…

Vispero and Aira Announce Strategic Partnership to Increase Awareness and Promote Equal Access for Online Communities

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Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…

Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users

AntiX is a systemd-free Linux live CD distribution based on Debian Stable for Intel-AMD x86 compatible systems that runs blazing fast and offers a familiar desktop.
Jack Wallen (ZDNET)

no context, I don't know

I can hear that picture sing... And I love those two comments 😂
#legendary
#legendary

I'm noticing a pattern here... :trashfire:

#privacy #chrome

Chrome notification stating that several extensions may soon no longer be supported and should be replaced or removed from the browser. Four out of the five extensions listed in this notification are privacy-related extensions.
#privacy #chrome
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today? Sure! 10 updated and 1 added apps for you:

* Install with Options: more advanced app installs without needing to use ADB (using Shizuku) 🛡️

Number of apps with #reproducibleBuilds is up to 289 (or 23.8% out of 1.213 apps altogether) now.

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 2 #Magisk #modules were updated and 1 added:

* Enable Blurs: enable more extensive blur effects

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repos :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #magisk #izzyondroid #modules

Free idea for anyone who wants it:

True crime podcast but instead of murders etc. it's just a long string of white collar crime that no one has bothered prosecuting.

  • Wage theft
  • Cooking books by doing layoffs
  • Cooking books by canning projects that could earn back their cost
  • Paying no tax by claiming your business is based in some random location with low-to-no effective tax rate

You could keep a podcast filled for years with illegal union busting.

Alright, got my #GoToSocial updated to version 0.17.0, first beta release. This one has a lot of new stuff! If you upgrade and have a big DB, the migrations will take a long time. Took maybe 20 mins for me. So be patient. So far, working fine.
#GoToSocial
in reply to modulux

modulux
modulux
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Incidentally, GTS now has support for the conversations/direct messages timeline.

Way to fix global warming is extremely simple actually
- Increase investments in "AI"
- This takes so much power the tech corps have to bring a lot of nuclear power plants online
- Develop an AI capable of general reasoning
- Tell the general reasoning AI to solve global warming
- The general reasoning AI will immediately conclude the best way to fix global warming is to stop doing AI, and delete itself
- With no more AI the nuke plants will now displace fossil fuel burn
- No more global warming

SNCF, you’ve lost it. Really. There wasn’t just 1 but 3 guys warning about lost luggage

WHY?

SNCF is screaming it’s short of cash. Last time I needed to go to the ticket office here at Nord the wait was AN HOUR

And you’re using money on this shit?

3 guys with don’t forget luggage signs
in reply to Jon Worth

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
• •
Their slogan decades ago used to be "A nous de vous faire préférer le train". I think they never did.

This is just pathetic.
A tweet from someone saying they can’t contribute to Wordpress because they are a WPEngine customer, to which the official Wordpress account replies “sorry who are you?”

I don't think I've seen this new Liz Climo comic posted here yet, which surprises me.
Two-panel comic strip by Liz Climo (thelittleworldofliz.com) A pig dressed in a pink dress, red wig and pointy ears, and a snake in a black and white striped bodysuit are at a Halloween party. Pig: Fun party. So many good costumes Snake: My favourite is the little ghost driving the Cybertruck. (Both turn to look) Pig: Bro that's just a box of tissues. (Said box of tissues is grey with sharp corners, and has a tissue sticking out of the top)

The U.S. Library of Congress has an open fully-remote position for a DevOps engineer:

usajobs.gov/job/813930400

#GetFediHired cc: @jobs

See this for federal resume advice: bsky.app/profile/harrisj.bsky.…


IT Specialist (DevOps System Administrator)

This position is located in the DevOps Section, Software Engineering Division, IT Design and Development Directorate, Office of the Chief Information Officer. 
USAJOBS
#getfedihired
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If you're a Reaper and SWS user and don't yet know about ReaConsole, You should change that. s *verb to select all tracks ending with verb, then v4 to bump them up 4 DB. Or s1,2,6,-12 to select tracks 1, 2, and 6 through 12. It may just be because I tend to like terminals, I spend half my life in Edbrowse and Linux, but I've just discovered my new favorite way to use Reaper.

It's amazing to see the groupthink among dipshits.

Look at this donkey's chorus of billionaire-worshippers filling my mentions with the word "cope" over and over again, evidently in the belief that it will pierce and wound me beyond recovery.

(it's re: this: twitter.com/doctorow/status/18…)

A donkey's chorus of billionaire-stans filling my mentions with the word "cope" over and over again
in reply to Cory Doctorow

Ľuboš Moščovič
Ľuboš Moščovič
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As a non native speaker I'm not ashamed to ask - I mean I don't get the "cope" thing. Is that some special language connotation or flavour I'm not familiar with?

Ein @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz #Deck kann man immer noch nicht mit externen (nicht Nextcloud) usern read only teilen?
#deck @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

nič nové

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What is the most inappropriate connector with enough pins to support USB-C?

I suggest:

An ATX power supply connector

Space, the final frontier. Our solar system is in space, right? This BBC series gets into the nitty gritty of Earth, asteroids, moons and the other planets near us. Maybe it doesn't sound like edge of your seat stuff but Brian Cox does his best to keep your attention. Cox simplifies complicated concepts while he tries to figure out how life began here while postulating about where else life could be found. BBC 2 on iPlayer.

#tv #space #science #astronomy

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023884


BBC Two - Solar System, Series 1, Volcano Worlds

Professor Brian Cox explores planets and moons erupting with fire and ice.
BBC
#science #astronomy #space #tv
in reply to Sean Randall

The Life of Brian
The Life of Brian
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@cachondo Yeah, that would kill it for me too. Turn off the sound and turn subs on, maybe. It's a fascinating series.
@Sean Randall
in reply to The Life of Brian

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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yup, I have really gotten into reading videos lately. All started with the boring training videos at work, it must be said.

Could #Email clients just stop hiding the #address? We all know that the only remotely reliable information is the string with the @! Everything else has to be treated as fake until proven otherwise. Give me the option to see the truth right away, @thunderbird @microsoft (Pretty sure those are not the official accounts but hey, you use the name, you take the blame)
#email #address @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox @Microsoft
in reply to Peter Guhl

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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We're pretty sure that Microsoft account is a bit sus, but we're the real deal. We have an add-on for this that displays the full address that works in the latest releases: addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…

Full Address Column

Adds a full sender and recipient e-mail column to message list panel.
addons.thunderbird.net

„Wir appellieren an die Ampel, mit einem positiven und solidarischen Gesellschaftsentwurf gegen Hass und rechte Narrative anzutreten, anstatt diese auch noch in Gesetzesform zu gießen. Lediglich als Echokammer für Faschisten zu dienen, darf nicht der Anspruch einer als Fortschrittskoalition angetretenen Regierung sein.“

In einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme erklärt das Bündnis #GesichtserkennungStoppen das sogenannte Sicherheitspaket zum Totalausfall.

Den gesamten Text findest Du hier

Die größte Enttäuschung seit Beginn der Ampel-Regierung. Zivilgesellschaft kritisiert das Sicherheitspaket. – Datenpunks

datenpunks.de
#gesichtserkennungstoppen

> ${COMPANY} has seized the ${COMMUNITY} Slack. Join us on the new ${COMMUNITY} Slack.

I wonder what could go wrong next!

in reply to Ross A. Baker

Rui Batista
Rui Batista
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i know that story with scala meetups but the company variable is actually a constant.

Just finished listening to one of my favorite Flintstones episodes.
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@mcourcel @kgs49 So, Bruce, are you one of those people who can tune into a random part of a Flintstones episode and instantly know which episode it is? I do that with Doctor Who but I imagine you do the same thing with the Flintstones.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley
in reply to David Goldfield

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 Though there's one line from the Flintstones I've been trying to place for two years now, and still have no luck.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley @David Goldfield
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@mcourcel @kgs49 I'm a bit rusty with the original Trek series and, believe it or not, there are still a few episodes I haven't seen. Turnabout Intruder is one of them. I can often do that with TNG, as I used to record those episodes on audio tape when they aired in the 80s and early 90s and I listened to them constantly. Are you a fan of the Trek novels?
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley
in reply to David Goldfield

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 I really am, yes. I'm glad we're getting a few of them per year unabridged now. I'm one of the few people who thinks Turnabout Intruder was a good episode. Ever watch a series called Corner Gas?
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley @David Goldfield
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@mcourcel @kgs49 Never watched Corner Gas but I had a friend who loved that show who told me about it.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@mcourcel @kgs49 In the States, NLS did produced a ton of Trek novels for a while: classic Trek, TNG and a few DS9 books but, for the most part, they stopped sometime in the mid-90s and that's too bad as that's when the novels really got interesting with crossovers and multi-book arcs. Bookshare seems to have pretty much every Trek novel ever produced, from what I can tell. Does Canada have full access to Bookshare?
Trek novels are still coming out and, as you say, they're getting better at releasing commercially available unabridged versions in audio format as opposed to those abridged versions that took up two standard cassettes.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@mcourcel @kgs49 One issue with many of Bookshare's Trek novels that started happening recently is that some of the titles are incorrect. I see that when I read a description that I know doesn't match the title. I just need to report them as I find them. I've read a smattering of Trek novels from different series. So far, I haven't found a classic Trek novel that really wowed me but I haven't read all of them, although I did enjoy Ashes of Eden and the Return, the latter being about how Kirk was revivebrought back from the dead after the Generations movie. With TNG, I loved Q-squared, which is the only Trek novel I ever read twice. I also read a handful of Voyager novels, including the first four that took place after they got back from the Delta Quadrant, and they were good reads. Never read any books from the other series; no DS9, although I liked the series, even though parts of it may have been, shall we say, borrowed from Babylon 5.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley
in reply to David Goldfield

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 There's one of the newer Original Series novels, the name escapes me, that even has alien old-time radio in it.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley @David Goldfield
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@mcourcel @kgs49 Oh, wow, alien OTR? That sounds very cool. If you find the title, please let me know.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley
in reply to David Goldfield

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
• •
@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 I will. In the meantime, if you're looking for anexcelent DS9/TNG crossover book that basically sets the stage for the DS9 series, try a book called Plyable Truth.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley @David Goldfield
in reply to Bruce Toews

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
• •
@mcourcel @kgs49 Oh, yes, I heard about that one and it was one I thought of reading. Thanks for reminding me about that one.
@Scary Martin @K. Stanley

Being Penguin

#unix_surrealism #comic #technomage #linux #openbsd #foss

Girl and Puffy return home after finishing a quest. They start unloading their loot and clothing. Puffy: "We're back, Penguin!" Girl: "What a great adventure, master!" The two examine the loot. It's a bunch of cards, diskettes, a detached MATA_Bot head, various cables and other machines. Girl calls to Penguin. Girl: "Come check out the loot!" There's no reply. Girl: "Penguin?" Girl makes her way to the kitchen. Girl: "Are you okay?" Penguin is sitting quietly at a table. staring into the void. There's a burnt out cigarette in its mouth and a bunch of butts on a plate in its front. A cold cup of coffee stands on the table. Behind Penguin is a covered image of a FOSS character.
#linux #foss #comic #OpenBSD #unix_surrealism #technomage

Why is Peter Pan always flying? Because he Neverlands.

Hey folks, finally got my resume into shape and figured I'd try to #getfedihired.

Looking for a tech job doing backend work--I can do full-stack but being #blind means I'm going to struggle more with UI. I'm proficient in #Rust, #Elixir, #Golang, #TypeScript, and a handful of other languages. I have Android experience as well, and have done fun accessibility-related projects like writing an Android screen reader from scratch or adding screen-reader-like functionality to multiple game engines.

I don't mind big tech too much but am looking to switch away to something more co-op/non-profit if possible. It'd be nice to use my tech skills for good, not just for some investor's benefit. Good work/life balance is also a must--I don't live to work, I work to live.

Here's my resume if any of this sounds intriguing. Thanks for reading and/or boosting!

#blind #typescript #rust #elixir #getfedihired #golang

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in reply to Nolan Darilek

Nolan Darilek
Nolan Darilek
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I don't appear to be able to edit this, so in case the Markdown-formatted link in my original didn't work for you, here's a direct link? thewordnerd.info/resume.pdf
in reply to Nolan Darilek

ocdtrekkie
ocdtrekkie
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For anyone reading this, I'd tag on and say I've worked with some of Nolan's open source contributions in the past and would definitely recommend him. \o/

@NVAccess Hi there. Just wondering if there's a way to have NVDA stay in focus mode as a default for a particular app? Thanks
@NV Access
in reply to Scary Martin

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
• •
I use profiles. I disable browse mode on page load and enable focus on focus changes and caret movement

I don't get these time based free tiers from cloud providers. AWS EC2 is 750 hours a month on the free tier. Does that mean I have to shut my server down for a day every month to avoid being charged?

Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78. “Friends and associates remember Christensen as humble and unassuming, a quiet innovator who never sought the spotlight for his groundbreaking work.” arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/1…

Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

Christensen kick-started online culture by inspiring thousands of hobbyist communities.
Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)

The wait is over*—The #Mastodon stuffed toy is now available for purchase in the EU! Other regions to come later. Share your pictures with the #Plushtodon hashtag!

shop.joinmastodon.org/products…

Mastodon stuffed toy having a sip of guava juice at a cafe.

Mastodon stuffed toy

We created a stuffed toy of the highest caliber. Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy measures a height of 35cm.
Mastodon Merch
#Mastodon #plushtodon

Sixteen years ago, I learned the problematic case of strcasecmp in Turkish: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2008/10/15…

strcasecmp in Turkish | daniel.haxx.se

daniel.haxx.se
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Lenny
Lenny
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What the actual fuck... I didn't know that. Your learnings of sixteen years ago are my learnings today. Thanks for reposting! 😅
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Aiono
Aiono
• •
This reminds me how much I was surprised about i and I being the same letter when I learned English as a native Turkish speaker.

For a post-canon story it's pretty good, @FreakyFwoof

Meet Gawain Robards, Auror - This is the story of a man who had lost hope in the world, in humanity, in himself. And of his unexpected means of finding it again with some subtle help from the Boy Who Lived. But who is helping whom? A new POV of the Ministry reformation after the Battle of Hogwarts, tracking Harry's rather unusual assimilation into the Auror ranks. *Post-war canon.
[Knowing Where to Look by la baguette](fanfiction.net/s/5026437/1/Kno…)

@Andre Louis
in reply to Andre Louis

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
• •
not quite with the impact of last weeks, but a roundly satisfying sort of thing. Slow start, but the action picks up. Written over 14 years, so there's hope for all those slow updaters

LinkedIn just sent out updates for the Privacy Policy to use your data for AI training. 🤯

Unless you're in Europe, opt out now! We're explaining how 👇

tuta.com/blog/linkedin-ai-user…

#LinkedIn #LinkedInAI #AI #AItraining

At this time, we are not enabling training for generative AI on member data from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. For those outside these regions, we’ve proactively made available an opt-out setting for any members who choose not to make this information available for this purpose.

LinkedIn is using your data to train its generative AI. Opt out now! | Tuta

By default your data is used to train LinkedIn’s artificial intelligence. And no, you didn’t opt in! Read here how you can stop this.
Tuta
#AI #linkedin #linkedinai #AITraining
in reply to Tuta

Sanjeet
Sanjeet
• •
thanks for the heads up, had no clue about this.
in reply to Tuta

BananaCocoYuck
BananaCocoYuck
• •
that’s why I dumped them years ago. Not very privacy minded and has been hacked at least twice!

Für #Publii gibts schon ne Weile ein größeres update.
Hatte gezögert, weil ich keine Energie für eventuelle breaking changes hatte, aber es scheint probelmlos geklappt zu haben.

Falls Ihr mal auf einen Publii #Blog schauen wollt:

pilgerweg-21.de/

Pilgerweg-21

Pilgerweg-21
#blog #publii

Just updated my personal @gotosocial instance to 0.17. Super painless, except for the minor bit of having to change the entrypoint/command to sleep inf to stop the instance so I could SSH in and back up the database, which ultimately wasn't needed but is still a good idea anyway. Still though, it was much simpler than Mastodon upgrades which, I'm told, can get rather dicey.

Might look into contributing. GTS does everything I want except for push notifications, which might be fun to add.

@GoToSocial

#dobrárobota

aktuality.sk/clanok/ckq7Sho/na…


NA ROVINU so Zuzanou Kusou: Každý šiesty Slovák si nemôže dovoliť výživné jedlo, chudobnejú aj Bratislavčania

Uťahujeme si už utiahnuté opasky a najrýchlejšie chudobnejú ľudia v Bratislavskom kraji, ktorí pociťujú hrôzy enormnej záťaže hypotékami, hovorí
Peter Hanák (Aktuality.sk)
#dobrarobota

I know a lot of y’all are probably reeling from that Stallman report and I’ve even seen people remarking on how no one was listening until now.

What you need to understand is that the things in that report have been known, widely, for many years. They are not “open secrets”. They are things people have actively tried to address, at significant scale, many many times. Some of those times even resulted in (brief) consequences.

The man Is like a cockroach in more ways than I care to describe and what we should all be noticing here is the how incredibly impossible it is to remove an influential white man from power and have him face real consequences. He’s not even remotely rich.

The people defending him aren’t turning a blind eye. They are actively, knowingly enabling him. And that’s not because they care about the movement…

…it’s because they know they are like him, and if he suffers consequences, they’ll be next. And that just won’t do. They don’t give a shit about a “movement” that’s basically petered out by now.

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cítim sa unavený, chorý alebo tak, na pomedzí

The Brazilian team closed the POPCON500 translation debianbrasil.org.br/blog/the-b…

The Brazilian team closed the POPCON500 translation! — Debian Brasil

by Thiago Pezzo For more than 2 years the Debian pt_BR localization team has been using the DDTSS platform as a gateway for beginners. This ongoning initiative resulted in a significant increase in the translation of package description...
debianbrasil.org.br
in reply to Debian

Daltux
Daltux
• •

:debian: 🇧🇷 A versão brasileira da notícia: debianbrasil.org.br/blog/fecha…

#Debian #GNU

Fechamos o POPCON500! — Debian Brasil

por Thiago Pezzo Há mais de 2 anos a equipe de tradução do Debian para o português do Brasil (pt_BR) tem utilizado o trabalho de tradução das descrições de pacotes, via sistema DDTP/DDTSS, como porta de entrada para iniciantes. Com isso...
debianbrasil.org.br
#debian #gnu
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