We mock it, but it's a serious thing that the leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition has not obtained a national security clearance.

10 perfectly innocent explanations for why Pierre Poilievre won’t get national security clearance:

thebeaverton.com/2024/06/10-pe…

#cdnpoli #polcan

10 perfectly innocent explanations for why Pierre Poilievre won't get national security clearance - The Beaverton

Pierre Poilievre’s refusal to get a national security clearance so he can read the report on foreign interference in Canada’s elections is raising eyebrows, with many suggesting that maybe he can’t get a security clearance because he poses a security…

^{Luke Gordon Field (The Beaverton)}

Thunderbird for Android 8.0b3 is out! There are two things we'd really love help testing. One is the funding feature! (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). The other is the QR code sync between desktop and mobile (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). Thanks to everyone who has helped beta test and given feedback!

Release notes on our GitHub: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

#ThunderbirdForAndroid #Thunderbird #OpenSource

Releases · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-android

^GitHub

dobre hovorí

youtube.com/watch?v=jOOMoziHT5…

Hamran v Aréne: Zavolali ma vypovedať k atentátu na Fica. Sedel som tam krútiac hlavou

„Som výsluhový dôchodca a venujem sa mame.“ Bývalý policajný prezident Štefan Hamran je takmer rok v civile a už absolvoval niekoľko policajných výsluchov. J...

^YouTube

I really feel sorry for the public sector employees working on meeting this #a11y deadline for PDFs.

"PDFs are where services go to die."

No doubt the people working on this will be super under-resourced, and actually meeting this deadline won't be seen as much of a win by anyone, but not meeting it has legal and dire consequences.

To be clear more #a11y is good! Under-resourcing teams is not!

deptcivicthings.substack.com/p…

#Government #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech

The elephant in the new accessibility law: PDFs

If your government agency is typical, you have a lot of PDFs. Probably thousands. They are probably not accessible.

^{Rebecca Woodbury (Department of Civic Things newsletter)}

Here in the United States, "I'm voting Green" is just a shorthand way of saying "I'm voting for the cheaper Putin lickspittle to help the more expensive Putin lickspittle get back into the White House."

To the Green supporters/Russian bots about to fume in the comments about how their vote is in fact something else than the above, here is my pre-emptive reply:

Wow. I didn't expect the amount of resonance my writeup is getting. Thank you very much.

I did a lot of changes, split the document. Hopefully providing alternative, practical strategies for synthesizing sounds in a size-coding context:

ronnypries.de/notes/music-prod…

May also be generally relevant for folks struggling/are bored with their bassdrums.

#demoscene #sizecoding #sounddesign #mixing #patchdesign #musicproduction

Synthesis for coders - rktic's working notes

Hopefully actionable patch-programming insights for size-coders, who also make their own music.

^{ronnypries.de}

"Idle thoughts for October"

baldurbjarnason.com/2024/idle-…

This week's post is short but manages to be a bit contemplative nonetheless.

Idle thoughts for October

I decided to take a bit of a writing break after last week’s mammoth essay. Not because writing these things takes so much of my time.

^{www.baldurbjarnason.com}

Hey Tuta Fans! Want to know how Tuta's new visual universe is improving our growing range of products? 🎨

Read Tuta's rebranding story told by our talented in-house designer Daniel 👉tuta.com/blog/tuta-new-creativ…

#TurnonPrivacy #Rebrand #Tuta
#MadeinGermany #Design

👁️ @w3c AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) Teleconference
15 Oct 2024 - draft minutes

"RESOLUTION: We will explore having a set of required provisions that is somewhat comparable to WCAG 2.2 A & AA and a set of provisions and assertions that can be used to build upon that through points, percentages, or predefined sets of provisions (modules)."

#WCAG3 #WCAG #accessibility #WebStandards

w3.org/2024/10/15-ag-minutes.h…

This weekend I managed to get #wmbus receiver working. 🎉

Our housing cooperative installed new hot water and heater meters with radio readings. I found out it uses 868Mhz wmbus protocol and that there is an #ESPHome extension adding support for this.
I only needed encryption keys, which I was provided with by the cooperative.

Now my #HomeAssistant tracks out heating and hot water #consuption. Yay...

github.com/SzczepanLeon/esphom…

*This* is the type of game I was talking about. This game uses #OpenStreetMap so that you can play "in" your local town.

store.steampowered.com/app/136…

#VideoGames #Games

City Bus Manager on Steam

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data.

^{store.steampowered.com}

In case you missed it over the weekend, I needed to get this out of my system because Canadian cities are stuck in a toxic cycle.

🛤️ Managed Decline - Montreal's Transit Crisis: heliomass.com/posts/2424-montr…

#Montreal #Canada #transit #devolution

#OTD in 1843.

William Rowan Hamilton invents quaternions, a 3D system of complex numbers.

Important precursors to this work included Euler's four-square identity (1748) & Olinde Rodrigues' parameterization of general rotations by 4 parameters (1840), but neither of these writers treated the four-parameter rotations as an algebra. Carl Friedrich Gauss had discovered quaternions in 1819, but this work was not published until 1900.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaterni…

gutenberg.org/ebooks/9942

#mathematics

Not so short note on aria-label usage – Big Table Edition

“aria-label is one of a number of secondary methods to label native HTML UI elements. It works particularly well on interactive elements, it also works well on most block level elements old skoolterm that have explicitly or implicitly defined structural roles. It works less well or not at all on text level semantics.”

#aria #HTML #accessibility #WebDev

html5accessibility.com/stuff/2…

The Stallman report

stallman-report.org/

„Naposledy za námi přijela někdy na podzim. Jen na pár dní. Ustlala si tehdy mezi mnou a klukem, na zemi, přímo pod stolem. Prý že tak je zvyklá, že takhle se cítí v bezpečí. Celé noci tam pak naříkala. Vyla jako zvíře a křičela ze spaní. Nikdo si prý neumíme představit, co se tam na východě odehrává.“

reportermagazin.cz/80585/jak-p…

Jak padla nesmrtelná Káťa. Třicetiletá snajperka a máma malého Denyse zemřela u Avdijivky

„Mysleli jsme, že je nesmrtelná,“ vzpomíná na ukrajinskou snajperku Katerynu Šynkarenko fotoreportér Stanislav Krupař. Poznali se na frontě, padla letos v bojích u Avdijivky.

^{Stanislav Krupař (Reportér Magazín)}

Ever find that sitting in front of your unnecessarily complex music rig is hard sometimes? Creative block hits and there's nothing you can do about it?
I certainly find that lately, more often than not.
One device has come into my life and changed a lot of that however. Ableton Move.

In this world-first video, I take you through making a beat without sight, just using the undocumented screen-reader function within the web-based Move Manager.

It's incredibly freeing to be able to just load a fresh set, be presented with four random sounds and perhaps one of them will inspire you so you just begin doing a thing that you had absolutely no plan to do before you started.
#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview) youtu.be/p8IbinbOhY4
#Accessibility #Ableton #ScreenReader #Blind #Music #Composition

#InspiredBySound - Let's Move! (Ableton Move Accessibility Overview)

Check out the official Ableton Move website: https://www.ableton.com/en/move/Ableton Move is the first piece of hardware I've personally been excited by in y...

^YouTube

Do not downplay this. The Wall Street Journal editorial endorses murdering UN peacekeeping troops. This is all this means. They have adopted Netanyahu's line. It's a choice.

What follows is Israel bombing the UN.

They already did that: look up the 1996 Qana Massacre.

wsj.com/opinion/unifil-israel-…

🇫🇷 La decadencia del macronismo, bajo sus diferentes formas y etiquetas:

2017: 450.000 simpatizantes
2023: 35.000 militantes
2024: 8.500 militantes

lefigaro.fr/politique/le-nombr…

#politicafrancesa

Le nombre de militants Renaissance s’effondre et atteint son plus bas historique avant le congrès

INFO LE FIGARO - Alors que le parti présidentiel doit se désigner un nouveau chef cet automne, le nombre d’adhérents à jour de cotisation est plus faible que jamais.

^{Arthur Berdah (Le Figaro)}