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We just released Mastodon 4.3.1!

It contains some bug fixes and a few small features, like (optional) grouping of follow notifications and improvements the fediverse:creator setup instructions.

Upgrading requires re-compiling frontend assets (if not using Docker), instructions are in the release notes : github.com/mastodon/mastodon/r…

#mastodev #mastoadmin


Release v4.3.1 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Added Add more explicit explanations about author attribution and fediverse:creator (#32383 by @ClearlyClaire) Add ability to group follow notifications in WebUI, can be disabled in the ...
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Our latest productivity blog is out - and it was inspired by one of @RL_Dane's many Thunderbird tips, tricks, and hacks! If you're fighting against an overflowing inbox, and don't know where to start, the 'Grouped by Sort' view can help.

#Thunderbird #Productivity #Community

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/m…


Maximize Your Day: Focus Your Inbox with 'Grouped by Sort' - The Thunderbird Blog

If your inbox is overflowing with unread and unprocessed messages, Thunderbird's 'Grouped by Sort' feature can help you tame it.
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#thunderbird #community #productivity @R. L. Dane
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Qazm
Qazm
• •
On that note, I couldn't find a way to do "group by sender, sort by count" in Thunderbird. It's one of the main reasons I use a fork now.
in reply to Qazm

R. L. Dane
R. L. Dane
• •
@Qazm
Ooo, that would be a neat feature request! I can see how that would be helpful in sorting out a really out-of-control inbox, like my 20-year-old gmail account. XD
@Qazm
in reply to R. L. Dane

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
• •
@Qazm That would be a great request! We'd be really grateful if you felt like posting it to Mozilla Connect! connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/i…

Ideas

Submit and vote for ideas
connect.mozilla.org
@Qazm

Konference OpenAlt 2024 má program! Pět tracků přednášek a workshopů 2. a 3. listopadu na FIT VUT Brno.

openalt.cz/

Konference OpenAlt - 2024

Otevřeným přístupem k otevřené společnosti
OpenAlt z.s.
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

Petr Ferschmann
Petr Ferschmann
• •
@stepan já HE používám, ale evidentně to bylo používané spamerama a botama a tak google a cloudflare omezují služby nebo musí klikat Captchu. Nevím zda na to existuje řešení
@Štěpán Škorpil
in reply to Petr Ferschmann

Štěpán Škorpil
Štěpán Škorpil
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@fersman jo, captchu klikám taky, hlavně u recaptcha od google, ale myslel jsem, že je to tím, že nejsem přihlášen ke googlu.

Víc mě trápí netflix. Má mou IP zařazenou jako německou a tak střídavě hází obsah pro CZ a DE podle toho přes kterou IP přistoupí. A často najdu obsah, přehrávám a když se k tomu vrátím později, není pro můj region dostupný. Prostě furt lítám mezi DE a CZ.
Nepomohlo vyházet na dns resolveru ipv6 záznamy pro netflix servery. Asi jsem nepochytal všechny domény.

@Petr Ferschmann

Not enough people are talking about the incredible work that @firefox is doing with PDFs. I can now edit text, highlight, add images, and interact with pretty much every PDF I get without issues.
I still remember just a few years back when the sentence "without Adobe Acrobat there's nothing you can do" was the norm.
@Firefox
in reply to Aleca

Fello Mello
Fello Mello
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Is it also possible to edit PDF pages like adding, removing or sorting slides?

This is the PDF feature I miss the most, since I moved alway from MacOS.

in reply to Fello Mello

Aleca
Aleca
• •
@fello I don't think so, at least not yet.
I'm sure if you open a feature request they might consider it
@Fello Mello

Die #ubuntu 24 Neu #Installation scheint vor Veröffentlichung nicht einmal ohne Verwendung der Maus getestet worden zu sein...

#a11y #Accessibility #Linux

#a11y #Accessibility #linux #ubuntu #installation
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Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom
Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom
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ok, da hatte ich bislang eher positiv bemerkt, dass recht früh das Menü "Barierrefreiheit" kam.
in reply to Jakob Thoböll - R.I.P. Natenom

FediVerseExplorer
FediVerseExplorer
• •
Das betrifft meines wissens auch nur den dann installierten Desktop, nicht die Installation selbst .

Ressource utile: une carte collaborative qui référence les points d'eau potable (normalement désormais obligatoires dans les lieux publics)
watermap.fr/

Encore un petit effort à faire sur l'accessibilité de ces fontaines, celles en gare SNCF sont souvent dans des recoins et avec un design moderne, trop moderne peut-être, où on pourrait les confondre avec la moindre borne ou poteau signalétique.

#ressourceUtile #lienUtile #cartes #point_d_eau #fontaine #eau

carte de Paris référençant les points d'eau potable

Zero Bouteille Plastique -- Carte

Carte de points d'eau
watermap.fr
#eau #ressourceutile #lienutile #cartes #point_d_eau #fontaine
in reply to Agou

Pietervdvn
Pietervdvn
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mapcomplete.org/drinking_water has a worldwide map and allow to directly add new items to #OpenStreetMap

Drinking Water

On this map, publicly accessible drinking water spots are shown and can be easily added
mapcomplete.org
#openstreetmap

@bagder do you have this one from factorio?
@daniel:// stenberg://

hey remember when teachers would tell you not to use Wikipedia because it wasn't a reliable source of online information? daaaaaaamn lol 😅

Is there a good portable asynchronous filesystem access crate for Rust yet? (I'm aware of a number of crates that use blocking filesystem operations from threads, and that's not at all what I mean. I want to issue large numbers of requests from few threads so the I/O scheduler can sort them out.)

(Thanks, POSIX, for assuming that disks are infinitely fast. 🙄)

#rustlang

#RustLang

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 21. Oktober, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

🚶‍♂️🗺️ Doe mee aan de LiLi-app mapathon in Brugge!

Op 29 november van 18:00-22:00 in het Hof van Watervliet helpen we OpenStreetMap België met het toegankelijker maken van de stad voor blinden en slechtzienden. Samen vullen we ontbrekende infrastructuur aan die de Lili-app gebruikt om de veiligste routes te bepalen.
Meer info: amai.vlaanderen/projecten/proj…

📍 Locatie: Hof van Watervliet, Brugge
⏰ Tijd: 18:00 - 22:00
💻 Meenemen: Laptop (muis handig)
osmcal.org/event/3228/

#OpenStreetMap


LiLi-app mapathon

OpenStreetMap België organiseert een mapathon in Brugge in het kader van onze deelname aan het “[Lili-app project](https://amai.vlaanderen/projecten/project3-lili)”.
OpenStreetMap Calendar
#openstreetmap

Got a question about LibreOffice? First check our FAQ page: libreoffice.org/get-help/frequ… – And if you still need help, see ask.libreoffice.org/

Ask LibreOffice

Questions and answers for LibreOffice
Ask LibreOffice

LifeHacker has a comprehensive article about Covid testing options in 2024 with a comparison of four at-home PCR test kits.

lifehacker.com/where-to-find-a…

The Four Rapid COVID PCR Tests You Can Take at Home (and Why You Should)

PCR tests are far superior to rapid antigen tests—and now you can get them for home use.
Amanda Blum (Lifehacker)

Do you rely on alt text on social media?

#AltText #accessibility #SocialMedia #poll

  • Yes, because of a disability (6%, 13 votes)
  • Yes, it helps add context (60%, 116 votes)
  • Yes (other reasons) (16%, 31 votes)
  • No (33%, 64 votes)
192 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

#Accessibility #socialmedia #poll #AltText

Sometimes you just need a really good scratch all over.

(source unknown)

#Mondog #Dogs #DogsOfMastodon #Funny

#Funny #dogs #dogsofmastodon #mondog

Recommendation time -- it's worth it to pay for an email subscription with the right company.

I've been using @Tutanota for a few years now and have been very happy with how they've grown. #Encryption for the common person in a simple no-nonsense platform is cool to see. Would love to see them continue to innovate with #privacy in mind like they have so far.

#privacy #encryption @Tuta
in reply to Luc

Tuta
Tuta
• •
Thanks for sharing the love ❤️ We're glad to hear this!

Why is Linux OOM-panic a thing? This strikes me as the thing that it's most important for a system NOT to do.
in reply to Ben Cox

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
• •

Linux OOM management lately has been... sorry I lack nice words to describe it truth-fully.

I think "Windows like" is kinda close, while still vague.

PSA Remember that filing taxes in both US and Canada is complicated thanks to the Intuit lobby.
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in reply to Jérôme Carretero

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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@cJ the Government should send it pre-filled forms with whatever the fuck they got from the various reports (employer, financial instituation)

I should NOT have to copy my T4 and R1 into a form when they already have that info.

And then log into their system and adjust it.

Like many European countries do.

@Jérôme Carretero
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Jérôme Carretero
Jérôme Carretero
• •
Oh I'm with you, just trying to get some traction on the best solution I could come up with for that horrible problem.

Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode theverge.com/2024/10/21/242738…

Intuit asked us to delete part of this Decoder episode

Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi on TurboTax, acquisitions, and what AI can really do.
Nilay Patel (The Verge)

I pretty much don't have any interest in the Steam Deck (besides of size) for the fact that the APU in there is starting to really show it’s age. Now there are more competition in the handheld with more powerful APUs at the expense of using a little bit more power.

The Radeon 890m really makes the Deck look more out of date as it has performance close to a Radeon 470/570 or a GTX 1060. Not to mention, we are seeing more games that are unplayable on the Deck or won't play well, and the lack of USB 4 support to use an eGPU doesn't help. After all, this is a computer
in a console form factor, and PC games are rarely optimized well.

That said, I would like to see an SoC using ARM with Radeon graphics, it would improve battery life, but x86-64 emulation on ARM64 is another story, but it’s possible given what Asahi Linux can do playing games from Steam using Proton.

tomshardware.com/video-games/h…


Valve confirms the Steam Deck won't have annual releases — Steam Deck 2 on hold until a generational leap in compute performance takes place

The Steam Deck 2 might be significantly faster than its predecessor.
Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)

Want to build a thriving tech company? Easy! Just ignore user complaints, double down on those privacy-violating features everyone hates, and exploit user data to the max. That's the winning formula, right? 🤡
in reply to nixCraft 🐧

nixCraft 🐧
nixCraft 🐧
• •
Forget innovation, user experience, and ethical considerations. In today's tech world, the fastest route to the top is questionable practices. Who needs happy users when you have soaring stock prices? It's a proven business model!

Congratulations to the people of Moldova and to you, Maia Sandu.

You’ve done it again!

In the face of Russia’s hybrid tactics, Moldova shows that it is independent, it is strong and it wants a European future!

A screenshot of President's von der Leyen tweet. The background shows the EU and the Moldova's flags. The text reads: "Congratulations to the people of Moldova and to you, @sandumaiamd You’ve done it again! In the face of Russia’s hybrid tactics, Moldova shows that it is independent, it is strong and it wants a European future!"

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[Forum Topic] VoiceOver users wanted to test hack of Infocom's Journey applevis.com/forum/app-develop…

VoiceOver users wanted to test hack of Infocom's Journey | AppleVis

I’ve tried to make Infocom's Journey accessible in my interactive fiction interpreter Spatterlight (previous post here), and I think it is ready for testing. Here is a link to a Spatterlight beta build. A custom blorb file is included.
www.applevis.com

Got the videos from my aerobatic flight. Unfortunately, they had issues with the intercom audio so you can’t hear me and the pilot. Still getting the video audio described though. I will post it once I have that. The company has offered me a very cheap flight in their other aircraft to make up for it though.

The dominant narrative is that electric vehicles are heavily subsidised. In fact, it's fossil fuel cars that are still heavily subsidised in key European markets. Removing fossil fuel subsidies also means less spending on electric vehicles to compensate for this unjustified advantage.

transportenvironment.org/artic…
#EV

Map illustrating fossil fuel subsidies for petrol and diesel company cars in several EU countries, totaling €42 billion annually. Key data include total subsidies in billions (€) and fossil fuel subsidies per car (€) for countries like Germany (€13.7bn, €6,950 per car), France (€6.4bn, €5,903 per car), Poland (€6,1bn, €8,410 per car), Italy (€16bn, €14,943 per car), Spain (€0.1bn, €96 per car) and UK (€0bn, €0 per car).

Fossil fuel subsidies for company cars cost EU taxpayers €42 billion…

The new European Commission has committed to phase out fossil fuel subsidies and ensure a just green transition, now it has to deliver on this promise,…
Transport & Environment
#ev
in reply to Jaap Burger

Ľuboš Moščovič
Ľuboš Moščovič
• •
Excuse me, I don't get it.
I mean benefit-in-kind, depreciation write-offs, and VAT deductions are applicable to both the company EVs and combustion engine company cars. Naming this subsidy is factually incorrect. Using factually incorrect arguments is usually sign there are not enough of valid arguments. I believe this should not be the case, so why?

When the City they they don't have money to fix collapsing metro station or bus service, remember:

Notre-Dame Basilica undergoes $50 million restoration

montreal.ctvnews.ca/notre-dame…

Funded with public money.


Notre-Dame Basilica undergoes $50 million restoration

Stone by stone, Montreal's Notre-Dame Basilica is getting a major makeover. “We’ve now started the dismantling of the east tower,” explains Project Manager Hugo Latremouille. “It’s around 2,000 stones per tower.”
Montreal
in reply to Hubert Figuière

M. Grégoire
M. Grégoire
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$1 million from taxpayers, the other $49 million from the non-profit that manages the building, according to the article.

we must combat the global scourge of underage baking
Sign in store window reads “we do not sell eggs or flour to anyone who is under the age of 18.”

I didn’t really follow all the news around iOS 18. Can someone tell me about any serious bugs it has if it does, and whether it's worth upgrading now or if I should wait a bit?
in reply to Malia Suhr

Mariia Sydoruk
Mariia Sydoruk
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@MS26 Oh that doesn't sound good. I guess I'll wait then because my battery is bad enough already lol.
@Malia Suhr
in reply to Mariia Sydoruk

aaron
aaron
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@MS26 I didn’t find this to be the case, but a lot of people do. I wonder if phone model matters.
@Malia Suhr
in reply to aaron

Malia Suhr
Malia Suhr
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@fireborn I have a 13 pro.
@aaron
in reply to Malia Suhr

aaron
aaron
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@MS26 Hmm. Interesting that that’s happening. I tried 18 on a 12 pro max and a second generation SE and it didn’t seem that bad. Did you try all the usual stuff, restarts, redownloading VoiceOver voices, restoring from backup.u
@Malia Suhr
in reply to aaron

Mikołaj Hołysz
Mikołaj Hołysz
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@fireborn @MS26 for whatever its worth, if you use voice dream a lot, try killing it from app switcher instead of pausing. It does something weird and doesn't close audio sessions properly. This definitely impacts battery life of your bluetooth headphones, but I wouldn't be surprised if it also affects the phone itself.
@aaron @Malia Suhr
in reply to Mikołaj Hołysz

Malia Suhr
Malia Suhr
• •
@miki @fireborn No it's not VoiceDream, I use it sometimes but not enough for it to be the problem.
@Mikołaj Hołysz @aaron
in reply to Mariia Sydoruk

aaron
aaron
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@MS26 I had a 15 pro max, but I did also try 18 on a 12 pro max and second gen SE
@Malia Suhr
in reply to aaron

Malia Suhr
Malia Suhr
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@fireborn I didn't try all of that, no. The speed issue is better now, it just randomly has moments where it totally freezes up and spazzes out. Mainly in the trivia crack and lyft apps where it never used to do that before.
@aaron

"Montenegro diz que revisão das aulas de Cidadania interessa à população portuguesa"
isto deve ter sido um inquerito que ele fez a saida da ultima convenção do chega
in reply to Catarina

Rui Batista
Rui Batista
• •
mais um dia.. Tudo normal.. Foi só o PSD a assumir o programa do Chega.

Ad hoc eine These zum Liveblogging mit Hashtags auf Konferenzen: diese Praxis ist (bis auf ganz randständige Nischen-Öffentlichkeiten) eingeschlafen.

Ich sitze hier gerade bei einer seit Monaten ausgebuchten Tagung mit +100 Teilnehmenden, vorwiegend professionell in der Medienbildung (!) unterwegs, aus ganz Deutschland.

Und jetzt kommt's: dieses Event hat keinen Hashtag. Es findet live quasi nicht statt auf Twitter, Bluesky, Insta, Facebook, aber natürlich auch nicht hier im Fediverse.

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in reply to Lambert Heller

FediVerseExplorer
FediVerseExplorer
• •
Die Vielgestaltigkeit des #FediVerse finde ich dafür noch besser geeignet, als es Twitter je war. Frage mich auch, warum man diese Chance nicht nutzt.
#fediverse

If you are blind/vi, would you opt-in getting sight if the opportunity presented itself?

  • Heck yeah, let me fill out the NDA papers! (15%, 3 votes)
  • Not on your life. I'm happy the way I am. (45%, 9 votes)
  • I'll let others test out this stuff and jump in when I see improvements. (30%, 6 votes)
  • The answer to life, the universe, everything, is... 42! (10%, 2 votes)
20 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

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in reply to Scary Martin

Patrick Perdue
Patrick Perdue
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I can't say I'm happy the way I am. This would be a false statement. However, I am pretty sure that suddenly having sight, having never had it before, would drive me crazy.
in reply to Patrick Perdue

André Polykanine
André Polykanine
• •
@BorrisInABox We talked about that with my wife and daughter, and yes, it would be a tough first time, probably a tough year even when you'll blindfold yourself for most of the time, you'd probably have headaches. My wife told me she would support my endeavor, might it happen one day. But the colorful world that would be available to me afterwards is worth paying this price.
@Patrick Perdue

Hiya, we've just done bugfix release 0.17.1 for #GoToSocial.

github.com/superseriousbusines…

Fixes a bug in the streaming API that may have been causing problems for some clients, and adds alt-text for default avatar + header images.

Updating from 0.17.0 is very simple and quick, but if you're updating from 0.16.0 or below then please read the migration notes carefully and be aware of the big database migrations from 0.17.0.

Enjoy!

A young two-toed sloth gazing at the camera. From Wikimedia commons. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Two_toed_sloth.JPG

Release v0.17.1 Very Selective Sloth · superseriousbusiness/gotosocial

Here's bugfix version 0.17.1 of GoToSocial! If updating to this version from 0.16.0 or below, please follow the instructions for v0.17.0, replacing 0.17.0 with 0.17.1 throughout. ⚠️ Be aware that u...
GitHub
#GoToSocial

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I personally don't need the FSF (Free Software Foundation) or RMS (Richard Stallman) to be a Free Software person that promotes the merits of Software Freedom. Back in the days I was part of the first court case in Germany that established the GPL (v2 at the time) as a valid and enforceable license under German law. We won that case without needing any help from the FSF(E). I have always focused on ideas, never on "heroes" and personification, because people fail. Ideas are bigger than people.
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I would like to buy me a good mechanical keyboard, preferably 75percent, because I like those. Anyone know anything good in Europe? Must be pretty good for typing, of course, but also for games. II am tired of my 10Eur cheap USB keyboards, so I'd like to change those to a mechanical one. Also please, something not super expensive. :D Thanks. #keyboards
#keyboards

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🎉 noyb WIN! RTL Belgium was ordered to add a "refuse all" button to the first layer of its cookie banner and stop using deceptive colors.

In case of non-compliance, the company will have to pay €40.000 per day.

👉 DPA decision (FR): dataprotectionauthority.be/pub…

👉 Our original complaints: noyb.eu/en/belgian-dpa-let-new…


Belgian DPA let news outlets buy themselves free from GDPR compliance

Today, noyb files complaints against 15 Belgian news sites using unlawful cookie banners. Among them are news outlets like RTL Belgium, Het Laatste Nieuws and L'Avenir
noyb.eu

In case you missed it, I recently made a video named “What Is React.js”

briefs.video/videos/what-is-re…

If you haven’t watched it, please do. It is very short. If you have and you liked it, please share it with your friends.

And if you are able, please support me on opencollective.com/webbed-brie…. I want to do more of these, but they take a lot of time. Thank you!


What Is React.js?

A video from Webbed Briefs
briefs.video

But Why?? A look at common patterns found on the web, how they are harmful for accessibility, and what to do instead. noti.st/melsumner/7dgask/slide… Slides by @melaniersumner from EmberFest in September 2024. #webdev #webdesign #a11y #uiDesign #uxDesign

But Why?? by Melanie Sumner

noti.st
#a11y #webdev #webdesign #uidesign #uxdesign @Melanie Sumner

Came across the term DINK for the first time last week and it is about as bad as it sounds.
in reply to Sean Randall

Clare Page
Clare Page
• •
I've never come across that term, so what does it mean? Just curious!
in reply to Clare Page

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
• •
@frog67 it's a term for dual income, no kids.
marketing people use it for a customer base with lots of cash and few ties.
@Clare Page

When TV Stations Had Technical Difficulties retroist.com/p/when-tv-station…

When TV Stations Had Technical Difficulties

Sometimes I Miss TV's Technical Glitches and Broadcast Blunders
Retroist (The Retroist)
in reply to David Goldfield

Bruce Toews
Bruce Toews
• •
Oh man I loved the technical difficulties, especially if they were in the middle of something my family was watching but I found boring. Back in, I think it would have been 78 or 79, one of our TV stations had a huge, huge on-air meltdown. It went off the air for almost a week. But no one seems to remember it but me, and I can't get any verification.

Uber Launches Improvements To Boost Accessibility groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/79…

Uber Launches Improvements To Boost Accessibility

groups.io
in reply to David Goldfield

Kevin LaRose He/Him
Kevin LaRose He/Him
• •
Pardon my cynicism but I’m pretty sure I’ve seen this movie before.
in reply to Kevin LaRose He/Him

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
• •
@Thumper1964 I just report the weather. If the forecast calls for sunny weather and suddenly there's a major downpour I'm not responsible. 😀
@Kevin LaRose He/Him
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