Este sábado se cumplieron 30 años del cocido en el que se plantó la idea del movimiento cultural gallego conocido como bravú.
Así que para mi #MusicMonday de este lunes haré un especial dedicado a la música con la que los gallegos crecimos en nuestra infancia y adolesciencia durante los 90.
Empezando, cómo no podía ser de otra forma, con la Oda ó futbolín de Os diplomáticos de Monte-Alto: youtu.be/G_2s-RFtEv4
I asked where people who encounter problems voting (e.g. right wing intimidation) can get help. Commenters responded with great suggestions:
mastodon.social/deck/@dangillm…
Many thanks to you all!
Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor@mastodon.social)
Can anyone point me to resources on how to report trouble -- e.g. right-wing intimidation -- at polling places?Mastodon
zastanawiałam się, czy wrzucać dodatkowo u siebie, jako osobnego toota, skoro już krąży po sieci, temat kontrowersyjny, a ja cierpię na chroniczny niedobór doby ;)
ale w sumie mogę zapuścić linka i dodatkowo otagować:
Czy polska szkoła musi być uzależniona od Big Techów?
techspresso.cafe/2024/10/28/cz…
#edukacja #szkoła #wychowanie #dzieci #nauczyciele #rodzicielstwo #eSzkola #cyfryzacja #edziennik #microsoft #komercjalizacja #bigtech
Czy polska szkoła musi być uzależniona od Big Techów? - TECHSPRESSO.CAFE
Czy polska szkoła musi być uzależniona od Big Techów? Państwo promuje zagraniczne korporacje w polskich szkołach. Osoby szanujące prywatność sprowadza do "roszczeniowych dziwaków". My wszyscy natomiast to finansujemy z naszych podatków.Joanna Cisowska (TECHSPRESSO.CAFE)
So proud to announce this 😁😁😁 - today, journalists from three media organizations – Follow the Money, EUobserver and Investigate Europe – are launching a new newsletter to expose the lack of transparency within the European Union.
We call it the Secrecy Tracker. Why we are doing this now?
The European Commission tends to treat transparency like a decoration – nice to look at, but not for actual use.
Under President von der Leyen, things have gotten worse.
"Okta has revealed that its system had a vulnerability that allowed people to log into an account without having to provide the correct password. Okta bypassed password authentication if the account had a username that had 52 or more characters. Further, its system had to detect a "stored cache key" of a previous successful authentication, which means the account's owner had to have previous history of logging in using that browser"
engadget.com/apps/okta-vulnera…
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"...We've had daylight saving time for longer than eight months at a time before, and it wasn't a big hit.
From February 1942 until September 1945, the U.S. took on what became known as "War Time," when Congress voted to make daylight saving time year-round during the war in an effort to conserve fuel. " "...Sunrises that could be as late as 9:30 a.m. "
usatoday.com/story/news/nation…
Could daylight saving time ever be permanent? Where it stands in the states
Americans really don't like changing their clocks twice a year. But should daylight saving time become permanent? Many states say yes., USA TODAY (USA TODAY)
"...Microsoft has exposed a complex network of compromised devices that Chinese hackers are using to launch highly evasive password spray attacks against Microsoft Azure customers. "
techspot.com/news/105414-tp-li…
Hacked TP-Link routers at center of massive botnet used to attack Azure customers
Microsoft has exposed a complex network of compromised devices that Chinese hackers are using to launch highly evasive password spray attacks against Microsoft Azure customers. This network,...Skye Jacobs (TechSpot)
"...The winner of the showdown was actually RC Cola, or Royal Crown Cola.
RC Cola is one of the oldest soda brands still on the market, and was first started back in 1905. " thedailymeal.com/1697791/best-…
Believe It Or Not, The Best Cola Brand We've Tasted Isn't Coke Or Pepsi
During a Daily Meal product test we rated RC Cola in the number one spot due to its impressive carbonation and not overly sweet flavor profile.Jessica Fleming-Montoya (The Daily Meal)
It’s Teens’ New Favorite Word. It’s Everywhere. Maybe You Should Start Using It Too.
Teens are taking slang from the screen to the schoolyard. It’s reshaping the way that they connect with each other and the world.Steffi Cao (Slate)
United States government mulling a potential merger between Intel and AMD
The United States Commerce Department is figuring out ways to keep Intel afloat after it posted $16.3 billion in losses this quarter. One of the options includes a merger with market rivals such as AMD and Marvell.Anil Ganti (Notebookcheck)
I had no idea that North Carolina allows spouses to share a voting booth. Both must consent to that, but of course an abused (or otherwise scared or intimidated) spouse isn't going to complain.
ncnewsline.com/2024/10/25/alam…
h/t @MissGayle @Burnt_Veggies @cafechatnoir
#uspol #voting #NorthCarolina
Alamance County voters raise concerns about spouses sharing polling booths • NC Newsline
Some Alamance County voters at the polls were shocked to see spouses sharing voting booths — though the practice is legal in North Carolina.Brandon Kingdollar (NC Newsline)
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.
A thread, with links:
Chirag Shah and I wrote about this in two academic papers:
2022: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3498366…
2024: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468
We also have an op-ed from Dec 2022:
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All-knowing machines are a fantasy | Emily M. Bender and Chriag Shah
The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge.IAI TV - Changing how the world thinks
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Christmas Music Starts Early Across The Country
The holiday season has begun en masse across the country with a larger number of stations than in the pastLance Venta (Radioinsight.com)
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Hi all, it's me, An Old. Quick election reminders:
- If you are in line before the polls officially close, STAY IN LINE. You are entitled to cast your vote.
- DO NOT TRUST calls/texts/posts/TikToks from now until Weds. Deepfakes will be rampant.
Classic scams:
"your voting location has moved"
"your group votes on Weds" <- old Jim Crow shit
"have your payment ready" <- poll taxes are illegal
Vote! No later than Tuesday, even by mail! Demand a provisional ballot if anything goes wrong!
#USPol
Polish Radio Station Uses A.I. to Interview Dead Nobel Laureate nytimes.com/2024/11/03/world/e…
*sigh* submitted an issue asking for some accessibility work to be done to a software package and the response was "there's no audience for this, someone who actually uses a screen reader should submit this request". I am definitely not the person to reply to this and have no idea how to do so in a reasonable manner.
Welcome to the RB family, Innertune 🥳
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InnerTune is a fork of InnerTune – a Material 3 YouTube Music client for Android.
Thanks to Malopieds (the author of this fork) for making this possible 
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
„InnerTune“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
A fork of InnerTune, a Material 3 YouTube Music client for AndroidIzzyOnDroid App Repo
Gizmodo :press: (@Gizmodo@press.coop)
X Says It Has Begun Rolling Out Controversial Change to Block Function Now when you block someone they won't be able to interact with you, but they can still view your posts. #press https://gizmodo.press.coop
@twynn Thanks Andre, I can replicate on Gmail's login page - what site are you looking at? I originally tried with the autocomplete suggestions on google.com and that DOES seem to work. I created an issue at: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
Please do comment on the issue with any extra info there.
Autocomplete suggestions not read in Chrome · Issue #17360 · nvaccess/nvda
Steps to reproduce: Go to the GMail sign in page Start typing an address you have used before so it offers a drop down list of suggestions down arrow through the suggestions Actual behavior: At Ste...GitHub
@NVAccess @twynn Yeah with respect, that is bullsh**. Reporting an issue on GitHub requires a bunch of extra steps, including:
- Navigating to the right repository;
- Finding the new isue button;
- Picking the correct issue type;
- Figuring out the issue creation interface;
- Filling out the issue template which involves figuring out what bits can be removed and what bits can't be;
- providing logs/other reproduction evidence.
While it is absolutely true that all of this is possible and for a lot of folks not all that hard, it is also true that for a significant amount of users this is way, way more than they want to bother with. I don't have a solution to this, perhaps a UI for users to report issues from within NVDA might lower the entry threshold, but let's not be dismissive about the complexities of filing/interacting with GitHub issues here
@zersiax In fairness, 90% of that is NOT true IN THIS CASE given my suggestion to Andre to look on GitHubt was AFTER I had created an issue with the details he provided, and I included a direct link to the issue.
I'm not arguing that GitHub is the easiest site for everyone to use - but in this case, I did do most of the work.
The reason for encouraging people to use GitHub is that is where the developers are - the ones who fix issues. If they have a question, they won't find you here to ask.
GitHub's great for developers and open-source enthusiasts. You're not dealing with developers. You're dealing with end users who in no way agreed, nor want, to help you develop a tool they need to get work done. You're dealing with people who are happy they got a free alternative to a 1000-dollar+ product that nevertheless needs to work exactly like they want it to, and that's not a fair hand, but it's the one you're dealt. So yes, you did most of the work, but the remaining work is going to make users not bother because you're asking plumbers to sign up for MIT
If we were talking about a paid product here, I might agree that it's reasonable for users to be met where they are: email, social media, whatever. If that's important to paying customers, you could have a dedicated person paid to do just that: maintain various support channels and make sure things get to the right place. But we're not talking about a paid product. Part of the expectation when you aren't paying for something should be that you don't get some of these niceties. We still want a way for users to report problems, sure, but they might have to go to just a little more effort to do that if it really matters to them.
@NVAccess @zersiax @jcsteh @KaraLG84 wow, what a huge thread this has turned into.
The cool new trend in open source software is private Discord servers. GitHub is public and searchable - you can even add a thumbs up to an issue.
As a developer, I prefer to get bugs handled by a customer service team and feature requests handled by the sales and product teams. I would very much like to not ask my users any questions.
That just goes to show 1. GitHub isn’t ideal for anybody and 2. other systems have their own problems, not the least of which are accessibility and the impact of layers between users and developers.
For what it’s worth, I know I could call NV Access for support at a pretty reasonable rate. If somebody has a problem and talks about it on here, another user may take the initiative and replicate and report it. There are also mailing lists.
We can, at the same time, recognize that there are constraints that make GitHub the least bad option for NV Access, from a customer support side, and that it’s neither an insurmountable obstacle nor the only option to get support.
- year-round standard time (67%, 867 votes)
- year-round daylight saving time (22%, 294 votes)
- keep switching back and forth (9%, 128 votes)
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