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Valérie Plante "doesn’t want Muslim women to feel erased", but a sign depicting a woman in a hijab at city hall will be removed nonetheless b/c it caused discomfort among the xenophobic pieces of garbage in Montréal. montreal.ctvnews.ca/woman-in-h… #purelaine #BS #xenophobia #racism #MTLpoli #polMTL #cdnpoli #polcan


Despicable. Alberta wants to police pronouns, sex education, and youth healthcare. cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/al… #cdnpoli #polcan
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Elon #Musk Could Have US Citizenship Revoked If He Lied on Immigration Forms - wired.com/story/elon-musk-citi… probably another reason he is desperate for #trump to win - to pardon him....


If you pay close attention, there are some fun additions to the @thunderbird website (thunderbird.net/) to welcome their new mobile app. This is one of our favorites gems (made possible because @Blender is awesome and #OpenSource)


Aww a twinge of sadness as I turned off find my and signed out of my Apple ID. Now Jimmy Mac is back in his original manufacturer's packaging just like the day he arrived here as we now wait for his trade in kit to come tomorrow. Goodbye Jimmy Mac it was nice knowin' ya.
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield I did for a spell. We just never connected as others seemed to do so it was time to let it go for now so away it'll soon fly.


Ever find it hard to keep track of links, buttons, and form fields on a cluttered webpage? NVDA’s Screen Layout feature helps! When enabled, items like links and buttons stay in their visual flow, appearing on the same line. When disabled, NVDA separates each link and control onto its own line, making navigation smoother for some users. Toggle Screen Layout on and off with NVDA+V to customize your browsing experience! #NVDA #Accessibility #ScreenReader #TechTips


Code Factory und Acapela, alternative Sprachausgaben für NVDA
Wer sich den kostenlosen Screenreader NVDA (Non Visual Desktop Access) installiert, wird mit der freien Sprachausgabe eSpeak oder den Windows-stimmen leben müssen. Diese sind brauchbar, für längeres Arbeiten allerdings eher weniger geeignet. Sie sind zwar tief in Windows integriert...
merkst.de/code-factory-acapela…
#Android #Apple #Computer #Google #JAWS #Lautsprecher #Microsoft #NVDA #Screenreader #Test #VoiceOver #Windows
in reply to Stephan Merk

Sehr informativ! Wir haben hier auch eine Seite mit zusätzlichen Stimmen: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…

Beachten Sie, dass die Seite auf Englisch ist, aber hier ist eine Übersetzung ins Deutsche mit dem Übersetzungsdienst von Google: github-com.translate.goog/nvac…

in reply to NV Access

Das stimmt, aber die Seite ist für deutsche Nutzer völlig uninteressant, weil es nicht viel mehr Auswahl gibt. Zudem sind einfache Anwender zumeist mitGithub meist total überfordert, weshalb ich diese Seite nicht verlinkt habe.


what the hell is up with Mastodon? I'm getting posts in my feed from over an hour ago like they were new.
in reply to Austin Nix

They're experiencing a glitch with space-time. Please, don't respond to those posts as you could create a temporal paradox and cause irreparable damage to the timeline.


🕛Z #NowPlaying at the top of the hour, 2 hours of relaxing #NewAge, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show, #live with Kelly Sapergia. More information is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or go directly to theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #audio #radio 📺🗣️📻🎶🎙️🌌🌈🫣🫰🩵🪬🫶


The Government Accountability Office (GAO) is conducting research on the accessibility of health care for people with disabilities. They are looking for adults with disabilities or caregivers of adults with disabilities to take a short survey. The GAO will use the survey input in a report to Congress. Click here to access the survey:

gaosurvey.gao.gov/jfe/form/SV_…



Had someone from the Deaf-Blind Centre visit me this afternoon. Now my Coke Zero stockpile is once again a stockpile, as opposed to half a bottle, which is what it sas before her arrival. And our associate pastor came to visit for a couple of hours, and we had a great time.
in reply to K. Stanley

@kgs49 I like cold Coke but I agree about not wanting it with ice; I definitely get that. Now I'm remembering part of a Foreigner song parody I started writing when I was a kid. It was a parody of "Cold as Ice' called "Coke With Ice ..."
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield @kgs49 Oops. youtube.com/watch?v=XNesn2_AjW…
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield @kgs49 Here's another improvement. youtube.com/watch?v=IXPnz6cFAV…


If Apple completely rewrites voice over from the ground up, or if there is a viable third-party screen reader developed, I will consider getting another Mac, but sadly, I don’t see either of those things happening for the foreseeable future.


'Lot of demoralized people': Ghost jobs wreaking havoc on tech workers sfgate.com/tech/article/ghost-…


Damn. I imagined that now that the M4 Mini is out, the M1 Mini would be super cheap on the used market.

Nope! They're still like $400 for a base model! For a four-year-old computer! A new M4 model is $600!

I mean, for Pete's sake, an M1 Mini with 16G RAM is like... $600... on ebay

why would anyone order that



During Canadian Federal Elections, poll workers have been known to direct husbands and wives to booths at opposing ends of the room, so as ensure spouses are not ‘monitored’ by each other. I have worked one once and was told by the husband “I just want to make sure she doesn’t make a mistake.” I told him that she was probably old enough to manage in her own to make an ‘X.’ She looked down as she smiled. He wandered off grumbling. I didn’t care how he reacted.
mstdn.social/@DemocracyMatters…


Potential dark side of vote-by-mail. mstdn.social/@DemocracyMatters…


Here is the newest level of accessibility at Dreamhost - we can not revert your account to use the legacy control panel. However, until this issue is resolved you can contact support and ask us to do anything for you on your behalf. I would strongly urge everyone to file tickets by emailing support at dreamhost dot com and see how much we can get this issue prioritized.

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in reply to Jeff Bishop

I think that they have lost at least me as a customer over this.
in reply to Michael Doise

@mikedoise I had such a dreadful experience with one service. You need a subdomain? Write an email. You need a DNS record? Write an email. You need to point a subdomain to another IP? You guessed it. Just humiliating and disgusting.


Back in the old days, we used alt text because folks didn't always want to wait for them to download.

I'm sitting at the end of my driveway, ready to hand out candy, connected to the house wifi.

I'm not getting photos 🤣

I am currently very thankful for those who have added alt text to their images and videos!

#Halloween #a11y = #accessibility



So, the entire Dreamhost pannel is completely inaccessible to screenreader users at the moment. This is very upsetting. I and I'm sure many others will be moving to other platforms.


PSA A reminder that your Spotify subscription pays to promote fascism in America. It doesn't go to your favourite musical artists.


Amazon reports Q3 AWS revenue up 19% YoY to $27.5B and AWS operating income of $10.4B, up from $7B in Q3 2023, and subscription sales up 11% to $11.3B (Annie Palmer/CNBC)

cnbc.com/2024/10/31/amazon-amz…
techmeme.com/241031/p46#a24103…



So the media player on the sense player is still freezing at least once a week. Mostly happens when you perform anything while listening, moving tracks, playing a new folder, adjusting main volume ETC. I wonder if any programs like chrome or who the hell knows what else have to be running in the background for it to function? I know that sounds crazy but I can't think of anything else. I wish I could down grade the firmware but I never downloaded the last version, if anyone has it, please please let me know.
in reply to aaron

@fireborn Well literally everything else works fine, both first party and third party apps. This started as soon as I updated to newest firmware, even a factory reset didn't fix. Along with the not being able to switch voices in the document reader, obviously they screwed soomething up big time, although not sure if others are having the same issue.


"Yes, but Jason, if the super-rich left the UK, what would we do without their money?"

Precisely what we *have* been doing without their money, I imagine.



You can keep waiting, or start encrypting! 🔐🎃👻💀

Happy #Halloween everyone!

in reply to Tuta

The scary punchline is that this isn't a compelling horror story - it's real life, yet it's not cinematic/film-able.


Put my wallet in my right jeans pocket instead of the usual left jeans pocket for the day. A rollercoaster of emotions. The highs of finding it after that horrible sinking feeling of when you think it's lost. Exhausted now. What a day


So you don't like my jokes about ghosts having sex with owls? Well, boo-fucking-hoo


Me: What should I be for Halloween?

Hereafter follows a series of siri's answers:

1. I see London, I see France, I see you dressing up as the English channel.

2. Wear yellow and white, put on some little red horns and you can be a deviled egg.

3. Put a radio on your head and dress up as a creep.

4. Put on a duckbill, carry a basketball and a slide rule, and be a technical fowl.

5. If you stayed home, and just chilled with your iPod, I suppose, you'd be a HomePod.

6. You could put on surgeon scrubs, hold some instruments, and tell people you're an operating system.

7. Put a little red microphone icon on your shirt. Then, pretend to talk without making any sound. You're that person on every video call who's stuck on mute.

8. Get a rhinestone jumpsuit, sideburns, tinted glasses and some pointy ears. Tell everyone you're elvish.

9. jump up and down over and over and shake your fist. You can tell everyone you're anti gravity.

10. Just smile and nod. Then you can be your own bobblehead doll.

11. You could be a pirate. I'll be your co-pirate.

12. Just carry around a martini glass filled with some guacamole, go around clinking glasses with everyone, and yell: Ävocado toast!".

13. You could carry around a squirt bottle and say you're a streaming service.

14. Be a ghost. All you need is an old spreadsheet.

15. You could go as an eclipse. Just dress in black and stand in front of things.

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in reply to Estelle

Hahaha! I guess I am a home phone. Also we don't celebrate here, maybe that's why I am a phone. Nooo! What a tragedy! One more, be the scariest but cute world map ever. :)



A handmade set for Bee lovers with yellow Agate and blue Sapphire gemstones. Only one available, let me know if you are a bee lover or if someone in your life does, and I'd be happy to send it your way ❤️🐝

#bee #bees #handmade #art #arts #artists #artist #shophandmade #gifts #giftideas #fedigiftshop



Do you think if Jurassic Park was real they'd give the dinosaurs pumpkins to play with and smash on Halloween, the way zoos and wildlife parks do? Imagine the photo opportunities! 🎃 🦖🦕





I had 4 girls dressed as vampires at the door trick or treating just now.

In unison they said "sick or shit?", or at least that's what it sounded like through their ill fitting plastic teeth.

I gave them plenty of candy, best to not take the risk. If anything, sick or shit is now their parents problem.

[ footnote: the candy was not poisoned, but if you eat that many jelly bats too quickly who knows the outcome ]




dnes som pozeral byty v Prahe a je ich kupodivu viac a nájdu sa aj za celkom prívetivé peniaze.. dnes by si vyberiem hneď
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Happy birthday to ARPANET, the forerunner of the modern internet! 53 years ago, the first message was sent over this pioneering network, paving the way for a world of interconnection and innovation.

As a tech enthusiast, I am constantly amazed by the ways the internet has transformed our lives, allowing us to communicate, learn and share ideas across boundaries and borders. From social media to e-commerce, from telemedicine to remote work, the internet has become an essential part of our daily routines, enabling us to connect with others and access a wealth of information at our fingertips.

#ARPANET #InternetAnniversary #Transhumanism #TechInnovation
#InternetHistory #Networking #DigitalRevolution #Innovation #Communication #Cyberculture #OnlineCommunity #TechHerstory #NetNeutrality #OpenSource #Decentralization #DataPrivacy #Cybersecurity #DigitalRights #Accessibility #Inclusion #SocialImpact #DigitalTransformation #FutureTech #TechOptimism #InternetOfThings #AI

🔗 ethw.org/Milestones:Birthplace…



the web dev class was rough today, but for reasons mostly out of my control.

Several Chromebooks had build issues with the downloadable Debian VS Code package, so I had to help them add the MS apt repo and install from there.

We had to do some command line work to set git usernames and emails for commits, so that caused friction.

The VS Code git buttons are TINY. I'm sticking with that for now because their editor skills are growing, but it wasn't very clear how to stage files.

in reply to Brian

I also did something STUPID by committing and pushing a change to main (which they all forked) before giving them a chance to open a PR for the first time. Their branches were out of sync, so that added a layer of complexity today.
in reply to Brian

I'm going to work on a muscle-memory protocol for them to develop. Fire up the local copy, fetch any updates, and then get to work.

Commit when a chunk of work is done. Don't push til you're ready to be done for the day. Don't open a PR until you're _totally_ done with the task.

All good things, but it's going to take time.



I just got a message from xfinity suppport. Apparently I'm experiencing a service interruption and they're really really sorry. They're working on it, they say. Sorry to tell them, my service interruption's gonna be a forever thing.

in reply to Hubert Figuière

+22C here yesterday along with the wickedest thunderstorm of the year. it's almost November :face_melting: