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How do you secure your shoes?

  • I tie them with laces. I'm old school. (28%, 2 votes)
  • Velcro man. I love the 80s! (0%, 0 votes)
  • I have slip-ons. I'd wear slippers all the time if I could. (57%, 4 votes)
  • What? Who wears shoes? (14%, 1 vote)
7 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

in reply to Just Martin

Mostly laces, but I have some boots that zip, which are convenient.


Ahhh, finally a relaxing weekend of *checks ceiling* opening the walls to find the source of a leak and patching it before we get comfy with another insanely rainy week


Folks, there really is something sliding backwards in #Accessibility but I can't quite pinpoint it, but it's showing itself every time I invoice a client but I spent that whole time convincing the small business that, well, actually, accessible design is good. Toolbars won't fix accessibility. Your computer can make text bigger. Your monitor can brighten and lower brightness. your computer has a Magnifier in it.

I'm not joking. Back in 2006, you had to use those advanced accessibility talks, but not anymore! Now I get paid to tell people that there are themes in Wordpress that make stuff more accessible without toolbars and yes you can increase your mouse size.

Seriously, what's going on? I mean, I'll have income for a hell of a long time without really doing anything super taxing these days but wow! #WebDev

in reply to Robert Kingett

I think it’s cyclical. This makes our jobs somewhat harder because instead of making the future technology accessible, we have to explain the stuff that was explained years ago. But then, it was a different generation, remember? So yeah, one way to advance the future is to forget the past! :)


This may sound naive. But why would a multi-billionaire Jeff B and others be afraid of Trump? Then, what can a single president really do to a newspaper which is considered to be a private enterprise? I mean, seriously…
in reply to victor tsaran

It’s not what Trump could do to a news paper, it’s what Trump would do for other companies of those billion heirs. Or positions in his cabinet to those billion heirs.
in reply to victor tsaran

I suspect it has more to do with Amazon, such as government contracts and regulations.


When 20,000 Americans Held a Pro-Nazi Rally in Madison Square Garden in 1939

openculture.com/2024/10/when-2…




Cijfers, jongens, cijfers met uitkomst ipv vage woorden...

in reply to Tomáš Vít

@Tomáš Vít Je to dost hororový obrázek. A co je hororovější než Bible a Ježíš Crispus?


#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 3 added apps:

* Swift Notes: lightweight and secure notes app 🛡️
* NotallyX: Minimalistic note taking app 🛡️
* splitcat: split and merge files

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



Does anyone have a huge amount of experience in running a daily driver laptop using windows on Arm? I know that jaws has an Arm variant. Of course Mac has Arm going on like a house on fire, but does the hive mind think it’d be better for my sanity to run things like email,, web, word and other basic stuff. Heavy load things like audio production/creative stuff will happen on “mini-roarbox”
in reply to Noel Romey

In the latest version of windos for arm 24h2 things have gotten better. At this point unless you need the aws workspaces driver for arm you should be ok. Arm isn't 100 percent ready yet, but it is getting close. I don't know if linux sub system for windows works on arm yet Last I checked it did not yet though.
in reply to Noel Romey

From what I have read on here though iClud doesn't work on arm as of yet so this may be an issue for you as well possibly.


Tuhle Kovyho tvorbu mám nejraději
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If you wondered how all these business in the 40s could have done it for Nazi Germany, look no further. We have demonstration before it even started.

The rich won't save the people.

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I would like to see us get *well* past “accessibility is good, actually”-level talks about accessibility.

With the title of this talk, I was hoping for a case study on an open source project that put effort into having accessible tools & processes and how that made it possible for disabled devs to participate…because I think often it’s assumed that sure, disabled people can be users, but they wouldn’t be devs.

#AllThingsOpen2024 #accessibility



The moral meltdown at the LA Times and Washington Post is a reminder that independent journalism is needed more than ever. It's also a reminder that being an independent journalist is HARD work, with challenges the "professionals" rarely see or grasp.

I urge you to read this from Molly White (hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff), one of the best we've seen:

citationneeded.news/i-am-my-ow…

and then please consider joining me as a paid subscriber.



Please people who put on events I'm begging you, have a mailing list or a physical website where I can look up dates in advance. Just saw a post on Instagram about a craft workshop I would have liked to go to but didn't see before hand, asked the artist if she had a mailing list and was told "no but I post all my upcoming workshops on Instagram and Facebook". I don't think a lot of people realise these don't show most of your posts to your followers, and what they do show isn't chronological?
in reply to Jules

Lots of people can't use FB cos of the real name policy or it making you visible to stalkers/harassers or similar.

I have an FB but I hardly ever use it, if an event only organises via FB I won't be going. It's a social justice issue to put event info somewhere properly publicly accessible that doesn't track users.



Did Pierre Poilievre get his security clearance yet? No?

How about now? No?

Now? No?

TICK, TOCK, eh.

#cdnpoli #polcan

in reply to somecanuckchick

he is scared to shit what they would discover. Maybe it's time for real investigative journalism. Except: who is left?


It's #CyberSecurityMonth! Time to #deGoogle 💪💪💪

What are your favorite privacy-first apps?

Check out our list:
tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…

in reply to Tuta

I encourage others to check out Informaniak to replace many organizational Microsoft and Google apps.



Psalo by se o dnešku v dávných kronikách... "Toho pozdního podzimu... rozkvetly fialky a lidé bez kabátů chodili."


My current ear worm, "1952 Vincint Black Lightning" by Richard Thomson, fantastic guitar work, great writing, so catchy and enthralling, the rhythm/story voice are on repeat in my head and I don't mind! youtube.com/watch?v=5yw2yKNLEP…


to kooperovanie v aliancii mi robí strašnú nostalgiu na Prahu


A fireball streaked by while Yasutaka Saika was taking a photograph of Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS, producing this beautiful, accidental celestial alignment.

Captured on Oct 24 from Tereske, Hungary.

facebook.com/yasutaka.saika/ #space #science #astronomy #photography



Instead of saying "AI hallucinates conversations which never occurred," say that "it is not fit for the purpose of transcription."


Toto je jedno z nejvíc nejkrásnějších videí vůbec a pravidelně se k němu vracím. youtu.be/-UYgORr5Qhg
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in reply to Tomáš Znamenáček

Aaaa, pekne! Ja par poslednich tydnu zkoumam vody japonskeho metalu, tak toto je super objev. I kdyz to bude asi hluboka nora.


So if my wife ever needed a miracle now would be the time. The pain from the leukemia is growing worse and worse. And it looks like she is headed for hospice very soon. Her blood counts are not rising as quickly as everyone would’ve liked. Which is what they used to determined after each cycle if the chemo is still working or not. The chemo is keeping her alive. They call it maintenance chemo. She has acute my leukemia with a TP 53 mutation. Basically it makes the type of leukemia extremely difficult to treat and almost impossible to eradicate. A bone marrow transplant is out of the question, Since the doctors are 99% sure it would kill her. Also, her heart cannot handle more toxic forms of chemotherapy. I am asking everybody to pray for my wife. So for those of you who believe in the power of prayer, please share this. I am not a very religious person, I don’t go to church every Sunday, but I am a very spiritual person.#Health #Healing #Medicine #Prayer #Hope #God #Jesus #Christian.#Fediverse #Leukemia #Cancer
in reply to Firefly85

So I would like to thank everybody for their prayers during this whole ordeal. We went to see her oncologist on Monday and our fears were confirmed. The chemo has stopped working, and the cancer has multiplied. She will be signing up for hospice soon. At least she will be able to eat comfortable in her own home. Due to people having to come in and out, like nurses, etc., we have decided to rehome our Chihuahua Noah. The only silver lining to this cloud, is I will be able to visit him on a regular basis when I move back up to New Hampshire, and I will eventually be able to get him back permanently if I want Once I get my own place. I will be living with my best friend for about a year or two. I don’t know how I’m going to move on. Part of me doesn’t want to. Part of me just wants to stay in the apartment where I’m at, and live in her memory.
in reply to Firefly85

Don't plan too far ahead. Take one day at a time and suck the most out of each one you've got with your partner. Worry about what comes next closer to when that time comes.


I wonder, what would’ve happened if WaPo just ran the endorsement - was Bezos gonna run down to the printer and shut off the press? Turn off the web site.

I know that it’s easy to say this, but… if I was EIC or whatever, I’d have tried to run the endorsement anyway. social.coop/@chrisjrn/11338000…

in reply to Joe Brockmeier

my understanding is that the sign off would have been Lewis and this guy is ultimately the one who made the call.
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I can't find a speech synthesizer that says eye balls and eye tubes the same way other than Eloquence.


Air Canada has this cool system now where there are no human employees at the check in counter at all, and instead you register your baggage with a little touch screen and place it on a conveyor belt, and then the touch screen displays an error, and there's nothing you can do because there are no fucking human employees present to deal with it

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in reply to mcc

air canada: we are not happy until you are not happy.


New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Hermit Browser accessible accessibleandroid.com/app/herm… #Android #App



Fable Raises $25m in Series B Funding to Protect Digital globenewswire.com/news-release…



Now that I have a new and improved screenshot workflow, I’m pondering whether to add more to the book. The low-vision chapter is already the most visual chapter of the whole damn thing. Maybe I just like playing with screenshot frames and image shortcuts.



Vždy keď vám pristane takáto chobotina v inboxe, môžete si ťukať na čelo, že veď predsa na takúto hlúposť nemôže nikto naletieť... Ibaže, ak by to tak bolo, nespamovali by nás tým už celé roky. Takže pozor - dajte vedieť napr. aj svojim rodičom, či starým rodičom, že toto je chobotina nonplusultra, možnože to potrebujú počuť.


celkom sa mi dnes podarilo upratať a aj vypratať izbu od krabíc spolu so starou tv z rohu izby, začal som okupovať komoru.. aj to lepšie vyzerá
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Anybody remember the Toronto free ISP that would serve up ads in exchange of the free internet? This is back in 2000-ish. Nothing like dialing up on a 56k modem, only to be slowed down by ads.


I need to write about something that’s painful to put out there for me, but I need to because I know there are other people also in my position. Also apologies for the thread. I’ve seen a huge amount of calls in the past day for people to cancel their #AmazonPrime in response to the #WaPo chickening out and not endorsing Kamala Harris. In principle, I do not disagree. At all. But for me, there’s one huge, and ultimately insurmountable, problem. #Amazon has become a necessity for me. (1/3)
in reply to Kevin LaRose He/Him

Not only do I agree with you but I think this whole issue is just stupid. We live in a free society: if the owner of a newspaper doesn't want his paper to endorse a certain candidate, that's his right. Personally, I rely on news services for news and not for them to tell me who I should vote for or who they endorse. In spite of the fact that we live in a country that supposedly values freedom, you'll find yourself criticized and persecuted if you don't publicly hold to certain opinions or support certain candidates. I say to hell with all of that. Kevin, keep buying from Amazon if that's what you need to do. I know that I will.
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