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This is an important effort to help explore what can be done to make the #Web less energy-hungry…. and thereby help reduce the impact of the overall #Internet on #ClimateChange. (Since web traffic is such a huge amount of Internet traffic.) Good to see this happening!

From: @w3c
w3c.social/@w3c/11344250260640…

World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)

The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations in…
w3c.social
#climatechange #web #Internet @World Wide Web Consortium

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A few months ago I wrote about how I approach alternative text for images and tried to offer context for each of my considerations.

“My Approach to Alt Text”

adrianroselli.com/2024/05/my-a…

I also link other resources that are not mine.

#a11y #accessibility


My Approach to Alt Text

I ran across a survey from Tilburg University on the experiences and perspectives of image describers. It asked what process I follow to write image alternative text, and it occurred to me that I don’t use a checklist or guideline anymore.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

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So much for being the 'ethical, safe one'

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anth…

#ai


Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch

Anthropic has teamed up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI family of models called Claude to defense customers.
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#AI
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If you're worried about storing your data with US tech companies in light of the election results, this link has a list of European alternatives. These include:

- Email hosting
- Cloud storage
- Domain name registration
- Navigation apps
- Many other services

Stay safe.

european-alternatives.eu/

Edit: Follow the creator at: @european_alternatives


Homepage | European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
European Alternatives
@European Alternatives
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Sad to see that @mozilla needs to layoff 30%😢

Is Google’s ban on paying Mozilla for including G Search in Firefox the reason?

All #privacy companies must unite against Big Tech now! 💪
👉 tuta.com/blog/will-ban-on-goog…

Tweet to the original post

Will the ban on Google payments kill Mozillas Firefox? | Tuta

How Google’s antitrust judgement could harm Mozilla and what we all must do to help!
Tuta
#privacy @Mozilla
This entry was edited (10 months ago)

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Me and my best friend listened to this banger a lot in college. Fickle Friends - Pretty Great.
youtube.com/watch?v=iEee4W9rEv…

Fickle Friends - Pretty Great (Official Video)

'Are We Gonna Be Alright?' is out now. Stream and buy the album now, available on CD, Cassette (& Vinyl LP's released in March) https://FFriends.lnk.to/AWGBA...
YouTube

reshared this

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When nobody want the feature, include it in the base and increase the price to at least offset the cost:

Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions

theverge.com/2024/11/7/2429026…


Microsoft is bundling its AI-powered Office features into Microsoft 365 subscriptions

Microsoft is bundling its Copilot Pro features into Microsoft 365 in some markets. Prices are going up in exchange for AI-powered Office features, though.
Tom Warren (The Verge)

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Intel Brings Back Workers' Free Coffee To Boost Morale developers.slashdot.org/story/…

Intel Brings Back Workers' Free Coffee To Boost Morale - Slashdot

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Oregon Live: Intel told employees this week that it will bring back free coffee and tea at its work sites, one of many benefits the chipmaker eliminated last summer as it sought to slash $10 billion from its a…
developers.slashdot.org

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Steam founder Gabe Newell has $1bn worth of yachts all around the world.

Steam doesn’t get nearly enough shit from gamers btw. It is DRM lock in, they make $10bn with about 200 employees and shut everyone out of the PC market.

luxurylaunches.com/transport/g…


Not a Saudi prince or an oligarch, but it is American video game billionaire Gabe Newell that has an armada of luxury yachts worth around $1 billion. Take a look at his 6 vessels that range from an research vessel, a 365 feet long luxury yacht and even a

Neha Tandon Sharma (Luxurylaunches)

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New blog post! 📝

"My anti-overlay client letter" — I'm often asked about accessibility overlays, and this is the email I send to clients when that discussion gets serious.

It may be helpful to others making the case against overlays and laying down the facts.

alistairshepherd.uk/writing/ac…

#webdev #accessibility


My anti-overlay client letter - Alistair Shepherd

I really dislike accessibility overlays and am often asked about my thoughts or to implement one. This is my email response when that discussion gets serious.
Alistair Shepherd
#Accessibility #webdev

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"The thing that nobody tells you is that you can buy a real human skull online (shoutout to skullsunlimited.com). We did that, and then CT scanned it."


(source)

I must say, going into the business of selling real human skulls, and then deciding on skullsunlimited.com as a domain is a particular kind of person.

I want to meet this person (under the promise they wont do anything to my currently-in-use skull)

Functional ultrasound through the skull

We show new results for making functional ultrasound work through the skull.
brainhack.vercel.app

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If not already done, create your account on the European Parliament's portal and don't miss this one : Petition No 0729/2024 by N. W. (Austrian) on the implementation of an EU-Linux operating system in public administrations across all EU countries
Home | PETI | Committees | European Parliament

europarl.europa.eu/petitions/e…

Home | PETI | Committees | European Parliament

Main page of the Petitions Portal. General information, most recently uploaded petitions and further links to procedural pages. Further links to the European Parliament website.
www.europarl.europa.eu

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Lenovo Exec Ada Lopez Talks Product Diversity Office, Accessibility, Bettering Society In Interview forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…

Lenovo Exec Ada Lopez Talks Product Diversity Office, Accessibility, Bettering Society In Interview

In what was only my third in-person interview since the pandemic, I sat down with Lenovo’s chief diversity officer in Ada Lopez one of the days whilst in the Pacific Northwest to discuss the company’s commitment to accessibility and how AI plays a ro…
Steven Aquino (Forbes)

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Get this new handbook and maximise your #LibreOffice Writer efficiency! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice Writer 24.8 cover

Writer Guide 24.8 Released - The Document Foundation Blog

Jean H. Weber (photo) and the Documentation Team are happy to announce the immediate availability of the Writer Guide 24.8, the latest update based on the recently released LibreOffice 24.8. Writer is the word-processing application.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

LibreOffice reshared this.

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I will be watching @fielding face carefully when the HTTP workshop will talk about resumable uploads next week.
🙃

httpwg.org/http-extensions/dra…

Resumable Uploads for HTTP

HTTP clients often encounter interrupted data transfers as a result of canceled requests or dropped connections. Prior to interruption, part of a representation may have been exchanged.
httpwg.org
@Roy T. Fielding

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Was mir an #Thüringen gefällt?

Der #Reparaturbonus!

Thüringen ist hier bundesweit Vorreiter. Auch wenn für dieses Jahr die Mittel ausgeschöpft sind, ist es gut, dass praktische #Nachhaltigkeit gefördert wird.

reparaturbonus-thueringen.de/
#Umwelt #Mitwelt #VerbrauchReduzieren #Ökologie #RepairCafe


Startseite | Reparaturbonus Thüringen

Reparieren statt Wegwerfen – So geht‘s
Reparaturbonus Thüringen
#nachhaltigkeit #Umwelt #repaircafe #thuringen #reparaturbonus #mitwelt #verbrauchreduzieren #ökologie

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Byznys pro Hospodářskou komoru? Čtyři poslanci propašovali do návrhu zákona správu exkluzivního seznamu čísel lidí
novinky.cz/clanek/ekonomika-by…

Byznys pro Hospodářskou komoru? Čtyři poslanci propašovali do návrhu zákona správu exkluzivního seznamu čísel lidí

Loni prosazovala zavedení povinného členství všech podnikatelů v jejích řadách za úplatu. Poté, co tento návrh spadl pod stůl, přišla nyní Hospodářská komora s novou iniciativou.
Jakub Svoboda (Novinky)

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Wow, it is already *nine* years since I attempted to write an RFC titled "TCP Tuning for HTTP" (it was later abandoned)

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/11/08…

The last published draft is still around here: datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/…


TCP tuning for HTTP

I'm the author of a brand new internet-draft that I submitted just the other day. The title is TCP Tuning for HTTP,  and the intent is to gather a set of current best practices for HTTP implementers; to share and distribute knowledge we've gathered o…
daniel.haxx.se
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