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Escher and Penrose were pen pals!
Letter from Escher to Penrose with doodles of teselations and birds

My sister Nandini Harihareswara will be speaking at the Interledger Summit this weekend in Cape Town, South Africa interledger.org/summit/2024/sp… so say hi if you meet her! She is an expert on digital financial inclusion and has interesting stories about how systems work, including what does and doesn't work to make them more meaningfully inclusive.

#ILPSummit24

Nandini Harihareswara

Interledger Foundation
#ilpsummit24

Note slapped onto a French sidewalk advertisement:
"We want trees, not this sh*t"
Mon mate, everyone, everywhere agrees.

This Sumerian house plan, dating back around 5,000 years, offers a glimpse into the architectural sophistication of the Ur III period.

The clay tablet, from the city of Umma, depicts a residential structure centered around a courtyard. Dimensions are given in cubits, likely corresponding to room sizes. Parallel lines represent walls, while doorways are indicated, providing a detailed representation of the house's layout.

Vorderasiatisches Museum, Berlin

#archaeohistories

#archaeohistories

Remember the first time you created that index.html, opened in the browser, and it felt like magic?
@bw wrote a free online ebook and I love the promise:
“I feel strongly that anyone should be able to make a website with HTML if they want. This 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.”

htmlforpeople.com/

Screenshot of the ebook introduction with a pastel nicely illustrated banner with the title HTML for people, and a cute smiling robot

HTML for People

HTML isn't only for people working in the tech field. It's for everyone. Learn how to make a website from scratch in this beginner friendly web book.
htmlforpeople.com
@Blake Watson

I never saw a rainbow in a dandelion before
Looking up at a dandelion gone to seed. The white fluffy seed ball is catching the early morning sun and creating a prismatic effect, with colors of the rainbow tracing the individual seeds.

@Tutanota Watch it we have a pishing/spam email circulating by Tuta Team <kimlucastro3@gmail.com> Important: Database Upgrade and User Verification Required

This account is asking to verify your email. DO NOT CLICK it redirects you to "helpful-playful-authorization.glitch.me/" if you inspect the hyperling which will the ask you to log in again

#tutanota #privacy #news #email #warning

#email #privacy #News #tutanota #warning @Tuta
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in reply to digitalart_jason

Tuta
Tuta
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Hi there. Thanks for sharing this. Please will you also send these details to our abuse team at abuse@tutao.de

WOW. Fedex just dropped a 2000$ laptop at my door without even waiting / signature. At least they rang the bell...

@frameworkcomputer

@Framework
in reply to Tim Lavoie

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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@tim_lavoie I live in a very urban area, there is no gate / fence to my door.

Also Canada Post doesn't work for this as it ship from far away.

At least I knew it was coming today and I was right there.

@Tim Lavoie
in reply to Hubert Figuière

Tim Lavoie
Tim Lavoie
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How far do you have to send from to not be able to receive it as postal mail? I would think of it as the default, not the exception.

Billede fundet andet sted på det store net. Hvordan man undgår en del seksuelle overgreb

Never commit yourself! Let someone else commit you.

chrum

edit: 10x Sammy

vrana je vlašský orech
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So, a few clips from an old recording and I have a credible Michael Jayston to read me bits of the new John le Carré thriller, penned by his son Nick, thanks to the Eleven Labs reader.
Uncanny.

Jayston died only a few months ago, according to a quick google. The real Audiobook is read by Simon Russell Beale , who did a credible George Smiley on the radio of course.
My george will always be Bernard Hepton, thanks to a little box of cassettes in the 1990's.

The book cover of Karla's Choice, a John le Carré novel by Nick Harkaway
in reply to Sean Randall

Lulu Hartgen
Lulu Hartgen
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I would indeed if you ever find it. I really enjoyed that one.

I rarely use ride-sharing apps because they're destructive to public infrastructure I care about, but recently I had to use Lyft and YOU CAN'T USE IT ON THE WEB. Their website literally tells you to go get the app, so you can't use a desktop browser at all to access their platform. That is an absolutely *wild* choice, and even more absurd that it goes unnoticed in the current media/tech ecosystem.

I walked to my appointment this morning, and had to pass a small construction site. A worker helped me, which was nice. But as I left, he said, "You're doing great." Based on the tone and the conversation, he seemed to be one of those people who is impressed that I can walk around on my own. I get that sighted people can be impressed like this, if they have no experience with blind people, but it's still irritating. That kind of reaction is belittling, even if people don't mean it that way.
in reply to Rachel Ramos

Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
Мира🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Yep.the thing is that, there's no wrong when someone tells you you're doing great in a potentially dangerous area. That could only inspire you,if yoo are really positive. There's also the fact that this worker lost time, and money trying to help, because here, for example, road workers and builders work under civil contracts, or no contracts at all, so the fact they lost time, and money, because they felt that doing good will bring something better in their life, would be enough for me to pay someone if they helped because these people do not receive government cheques, they get what they worked for, and every brick and bag of concrete moved counts, not to mention the countless ways in which these people could get hurt. Yet, a lot of humanity underrates construction workers, and pays them too little for what they do in many places.

Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian.

bits.debian.org/2024/10/ada-lo…


Ada Lovelace Day 2024 - Interview with some Women in Debian

Ada Lovelace Day was celebrated on October 8 in 2024, and on this occasion, to celebrate and raise awareness of the contributions of women to the STEM fields we interviewed some of the women in Debian. Here we share their thoughts, comments, and...
Debian Project
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Rsnapshot: A Powerful Backup Tool Based on Rsync linuxtoday.com/blog/rsnapshot-…

Rsnapshot: A Powerful Backup Tool Based on Rsync | Linux Today

In this article, we’ll walk you through the process of installing, setting up, and using Rsnapshot.
LinuxToday

Work meetings time so can't focus on this BS. I might try with a different agent during my lunch break around this Sling stuff. Still raddled by the comment and way she treated that entire situation, but until a ticket actually gets created and reviewed by multiple tears of support, I'll keep calling. Wishing everyone on Masto a joyful day, in the end money is money and can be earned back, I'll be OK, as long as nobody else in a situation like mine falls in the Sling trap without a trial first.
in reply to Tamas G

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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As much as I'm not a fan of X or Facebook, you could find Sling on those platforms and complain about your treatment publicly. Comments like "I hope you get better soon" regarding blindness can't be allowed to go unanswered or unchallenged. They owe you an apology.

I really do not like the feeling of asking a question about a body of work only to uncover more questions, or finding out it requires an entirely different, non-trivial body of work.

5km v deravých ponožkách a nových teniskách, do piči au #precositorobim
#precositorobim
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Alt text isn't just for the vision impaired. Sometimes some of us are viewing an image and don't understand the context or some of the imagery. Alt text helps there too.

#accessibility

#Accessibility
in reply to Libre

🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃
🎃 Spooky Shoshana 🎃
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There's even a term for this. The curb cut effect is when disability-friendly features are used by a larger group than they were originally designed for.

I remember when video captions were thought of as just for the hearing impaired. Now so many people watch with captions on.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curb_cut…


phenomenon of disability-friendly features also being appreciated by people in general

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

I have to be careful with my work headset. I have to lower the mik arm before starting a meeting, otherwise if I do it during the meeting it sounds like a fart. Thanks Jabra!
in reply to Scary Martin

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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hahaha that's great. Our headsets auto-mute if you lift the arm high enough, which is cool, but there's no noise on the lower thanfkully.

not that their quality is very great, but then headset mics rarely are

in reply to Sean Randall

Andrew Hodgson
Andrew Hodgson
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@cachondo Yeah I have a Microsoft one that does that which is a lot better. These Jabra ones though all sound like pharts if you don't mute when raising or lowering the mic.
@Sean Randall

The longest function in #curl production code and the length of the 99th percentile function. Over time.

Something to work on.

#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Daniel Marks
Daniel Marks
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Curl doesn't yet have its own custom scripting language, an optimized TCPIP stack, and an optimized FPGA logic implementation? It doesn't require virtual processor extensions or a GPU for its.machine learning enhanced caching and rendering? It doesn't require custom compiler extensions for its inline assembly optimizations?

We are looking for a speaker for our event on 20 November, get in touch. Please share. #LWSNov2024
#lwsnov2024

Trying to get this $168 refunded from Sling... Not sure how successful I'll be. Right now they're giving me their standard "we don't offer partial refunds" tactics, and I mentioned to them that since I was a prospective customer, I didn't have the option for a trial and thus couldn't find out that it wasn't accessible to me. That's not my fault. Been up all night just to call them right when their customer service line opens, because this is just infuriating me
in reply to Tamas G

Darrell Bowles
Darrell Bowles
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As you should be getting a refund. That is just not right.
in reply to Tamas G

Tamas G
Tamas G
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well, nope. Not my lucky day today, I guess. Based on viewership and the fact that my subscription itself is ended, they will not offer any refunds. What really got me was how the agent ended her conversation to me with "I hope you get better soon." As though my blindness is a temporary disease I will surely recover from some day. Ha. If I'm really going to have this subscription until January 19th, I'm going to make a lot of recordings humiliating how inaccessible every piece of their app is
in reply to Tamas G

Darrell Bowles
Darrell Bowles
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Keep calling, keep calling, keep calling, that is what I have to do until I get what I want accomplished.
in reply to Tamas G

Tamas G
Tamas G
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it's easy enough for me to use the screen recording tools in iOS or in my browser to make videos, send them along, and hopefully let others who use keyboards, are blind, or use voice access to not sign up for this shit of a service (Sling).
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in reply to Tamas G

David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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I also hope that you complain about the agen'ts unacceptable, ableist comment.
in reply to Tamas G

Tj
Tj
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keep reaching out. they might refund you simply so you'll go away! Sorry to hear about this experience.
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🎉 PSA: F-Droid users! 🎉 The Tuta Calendar app is now available on F-Droid 🥳

❤️ You can get the Tuta Calendar app here: f-droid.org/en/packages/de.tut…

#Fdroid #Tutacalendar #Tuta #Download #Encryption

Get it on F-Droid

Tuta Calendar | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Quantum-safe encrypted planner to schedule & manage your events & sync calendars
f-droid.org
#fdroid #encryption #download #tuta #tutacalendar
in reply to Tuta

Scotty Trees
Scotty Trees
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interesting. You say you have an Android calendar app, but you show an iOS screenshot. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
in reply to Tuta

Professor Code
Professor Code
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I always appreciate how your team treats F-Droid and Linux as first-class citizens. It's one of the reasons I prefer your service.

Keep it up please! 🥺

in reply to Professor Code

Keagan
Keagan
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@ProfessorCode Agreed. If I hadn’t gotten myself into the Proton ecosystem when I did, I’d probably have chosen Tuta as my primary email provider. Although, I might switch my business over to them.
@Professor Code
in reply to Keagan

Tuta
Tuta
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@governorkeagan @ProfessorCode And we'd be happy to welcome you. 😍 Any questions, we're here to help - we use Linux and F-Droid ourselves so our approach in this regard will never change!
@Professor Code @Keagan
in reply to Tuta

Keagan
Keagan
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Is there any reason (besides available features) that I couldn’t use a free personal plan for my business until it starts bringing in money? Once I’ve got a more consistent income stream from the business I could then upgrade to a business plan.

I’m the sole employee in the business. I think the only major feature I’d be missing by taking this approach would be a custom domain — which I have setup already via my family plan on Proton.

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in reply to Keagan

Tuta
Tuta
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@governorkeagan Hi there! Thanks for reaching out :) Please note that free plans are exclusively for personal use, not business. We would suggest choosing the Business Essential plan which is well suited to small businesses and freelancers.
@Keagan

Google update disease #humor
#humor

somebody with an editor inserting tabs with a size of 2 has edited some files in this project that otherwise used an indent of 4 spaces

but no problem, they fixed this by doing two tabs everywhere so their code looked the same as the rest of the project

in reply to petur 🔵😶

daniel:// stenberg://
daniel:// stenberg://
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that's why I like having a CI job that goes red if someone inserts TABs in the code...

too selective 😂
in reply to Fred Brooker

SuspiciousDuck
SuspiciousDuck
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nikdy som migrénu nemal a podľa mňa umriem na infarkt :kekw:

edit: tým som si istý

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"s krevietkami" 😄
krevety na mangu s brusketou
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I felt this

reshared this

You can now buy Microsoft's shockingly expensive Copilot keyboard | Windows Central windowscentral.com/accessories…

You can now buy Microsoft's shockingly expensive Copilot keyboard

The new Surface Keyboard is $129, and not much different than the previous version.
Zac Bowden (Windows Central)

Uzavření smíru se slovenským ministerstvem vnitra ohledně evidence u StB navrhl podle Eštoka sám Babiš. irozhlas.cz/zpravy-svet/smir-o…

Digital accessibility: Where companies are going wrong and how to fix it techradar.com/pro/digital-acce…

Digital accessibility: Where companies are going wrong and how to fix it

How to get digital accessibility right
Bob Farrell (TechRadar pro)

What are some of the biggest accessibility fails you found on a website where the people building the site wanted to do something good but actually made the situation worse, e.g. by using verbose alt texts, overusing ARIA, etc.?
in reply to Manuel MatuzoWitch 🧙‍♀️

modulux
modulux
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@svenja Forms that speak the number of characters that have been written, and the number of characters that remained, with every keypress.
@Svenja

Curioso que la Xunta se haya planteado implantar discriminación positiva en favor de los hombres y lo haya llevado a una mesa de negociación.
in reply to modulux

Juan CBS
Juan CBS
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discriminación positiva en favor de los hombres? Donde se necesita tal?
in reply to Juan CBS

modulux
modulux
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Pues según la Xunta en los procesos selectivos de funcionarios. Los sindicatos dijeron que ni de coña y se retiró la brillante idea.

LibreOffice advocates around the world help to raise awareness of our free and privacy-oriented office suite! Phil Shapiro is one example, and has developed a maths game using LibreOffice Calc: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Photo of Phil Shapiro

Interview with Phil Shapiro, an outstanding LibreOffice advocate - The Document Foundation Blog

According to the Library Journal, who has recently awarded him with the Movers & Shakers 2024 Award (the people shaping the future of libraries), in the Educators category, Phil Shapiro Is an enthusiastic champion of digital inclusion and outside-of-…
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)

LibreOffice reshared this.

“We were excited about the internet because we saw it as a place where you could connect with other nerds about your niche hobby. What we did not predict was that other peoples’ niche hobby would be white supremacy.” — panama joe, metafilter.com/195580/The-Form…

The ‘Form’ Element Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?

No one ever knows what they’re unleashing. They don’t even know there’s a leash. I’ve been given a time machine. Would I send a Terminator back to the web standards meetings circa 1994 to...
www.metafilter.com

Braille Institute Unveils Highly Accessible Website for Visually Impaired and Sighted Visitors bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?re…

Yahoo is part of the Yahoo family of brands

www.bing.com

Guidelines for chemistry in braille get modernized bing.com/news/apiclick.aspx?re…

Guidelines for chemistry in braille get modernized

The last update to the Chemical Notation Using The Nemeth Braille Code was issued over 25 years ago
Sara Cottle (American Chemical Society)

Braille Institute of America Announces Scott Blanks as Vice President, Accessibility and Employment brailleinstitute.org/about-us/…

Scott Blanks VP Accessibility & Employment | Braille Institute

Braille Institute is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Blanks as its Vice President of Accessibility and Employment.
Tammy Gentry (Braille Institute)
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