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For #DoctorWho fans with a qualifying print disability, Bookshare recently added the following title to its collection.

The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who
by Simon Guerrier Marek Kukula
The Scientific Secrets of Doctor Who is a mind-bending blend of story and science that will help you see Doctor Who in a whole new light, weaving together a series of all-new adventures, featuring every incarnation of the Doctor.With commentary that explores the possibilities of time travel, life on other planets, artificial intelligence, parallel universes and more, Simon Guerrier and Dr. Marek Kukula show how Doctor Who uses science to inform its unique style of storytelling—and just how close it has often come to predicting future scientific discoveries.This book is your chance to be the Doctor's companion and explore what's out there. It will make you laugh, and think, and see the world around you differently.

Copyright: 2015 ISBN: 9780062386953

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#doctorwho

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I'm old enough to remember when Russia bought a nine-year-old LiveJournal to identify and stifle local dissenters who were using the platform to mobilize. The whole Twitter thing happened before and it'll happen again, over and over again until we fucking learn.

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Announcing customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws

Announcing customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs - AWS

Discover more about what's new at AWS with Announcing customized delete protection for Amazon EBS Snapshots and EBS-backed AMIs
Amazon Web Services, Inc.
#aws

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Nothing teaches you what hand/eye coordination really means until you get a fucking digitizer tablet.

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The biggest winner in this #election has been #oligarchy. #Oligarchs came out openly against #democracy and used every trick in the book to divide the American people against one another so they can rule us more directly than they have ever done in the modern era. They control #CorporateMedia and they will now strengthen their control in DC.

We have been on the road to oligarchy for a long time, and 11/5/24 will be as big a milestone on it as 1/21/10 when the Citizens United ruling was issued.

#democracy #oligarchs #election #oligarchy #corporatemedia
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It really doesn't reflect well on us as a technical society that we have allowed printers to continue to be so aggressively noncompliant for over 71 years

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Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
• Having money
• Making close friends as an adult
• Travelling the world without crippling debt
• Being able to change the world
• Getting better at something with practice
• Getting 8 hours of sleep each night

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Mastodon: Bluesky is Bad, actually
Bluesky: Mastodon is Bad, actually

It’s like a shit version of West Side Story. how long before a Mastodon user and a Bluesky user fall in love while communicating exclusively over the fedi bridge

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Modern car inherit design from the school of software UX. No feedback and keep going until you realise it exists.
Looking at you Nissan Rogue lumbar adjustment (if so equipped)

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Hey, cis folks? And especially men? If you want some low effort trans ally actions you can take, put your pronouns everywhere.

Like, everywhere.

On here, in your profile. On your other social media. On your own website. On your GitHub profile. On your resume. In your email ‘From:' header. Your email signature. Your business cards, if you have those.

Basically everywhere you introduce yourself, in other words. Make it pervasive, normal, set an example.

Then take your privilege, wield it like both sword and shield, arguing for gender neutral language everywhere you can. Legal documents, the works.

Let us see you fight for it ✊🏻

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Earlier this year, we noticed our inventory was a bit short—like 2,000 Playdates short 🤔

Take a ride with us in Magnum P.I.’s cool car! LISTEN NOW to find out what happened (kinda!!) AND learn the true name of Circle K’s signature icy beverage: podcast.play.date/episodes/s01…

Episode 31: True Crime Edition - Playdate Podcast

A Circle K, a family crime ring, and $400,000 worth of missing Playdates.
podcast.play.date

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this is the life i want but like with tacos

#rabbit #bunny

#rabbit #bunny

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If you want to read where I politically stand

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Nvidia ( $NVDA ) is set to present earnings after markets close on Wednesday, with all of Wall Street eager to see if the AI bull market continues. Founder Jensen Huang is expected to set the tone for the industry, as Nvidia supplies roughly nine out of ten AI training chips to data centers.

Will Nvidia's results reaffirm investor confidence in the AI boom?

#Nvidia #NVDA #EarningsReport #AI #TechStocks #StockMarket #Investing #DataCenters #WallStreet #MarketTrends

#AI #nvidia #nvda #stockmarket #investing #wallstreet #earningsreport #techstocks #datacenters #markettrends
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Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!

NV Access

Empowering lives through non-visual access to technology
NV Access
#nvidia #nvda

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The hell?

Got the latest #NVDA last night against my better judgement but wanted to build my addon around current software, and now when I do NVDA+Shift+s, I gt the synth selector menu but no speech output.

How the hell do I redirect audio from NVDA now?

#nvda
in reply to NV Access

Fox in the Shell 💜🐾🦊
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Fox in the Shell 💜🐾🦊
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@NVAccess It's not so much you guys. It's that everytime I update most things, things break in ways that detract from my overall productivity and workflow. Addons don't work and I have to wait for devs to fix that, features and functionalities get moved around. Sometimes things change so much that it's like having to learn an application all over again.

So when I mean against my better judgement, it's me commenting on the fact that no software upgrade comes without its pitfalls, so it's not an exclusively you all thing.

@NV Access
in reply to Fox in the Shell 💜🐾🦊

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Thanks! And that's all fair enough. We try not to move settings around too often, but you ran into this one. With add-ons, while we do get developers to check them each year, it is also possible to override them being marked incompatible quite simply in the add-on store - though do that with caution. And for us, we do try to publish what is changing both here on social media, and in our blog on the site - nvaccess.org/category/in-proce… - but yes, I do appreciate your hesitation

In-Process – NV Access

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Just updated my NVDA and Eloquence driver. Anyone know how to stop it from reading things with periods before commas as "hello dot," rather than just "Hello.,"? Upgraded from NVDA 2023 to the latest.

#NVDA #IBMTTS #Eloquence

#nvda #ibmtts #eloquence
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Press NVDA+p - this cycles between the symbol levels. Symbol level none will read "Hello.," as just "hello", Symbol level Some or Most will it as "Hello dot", and symbol level all will read it as "Hello dot comma". At least, that is how it works with Windows OneCore or eSpeak.

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Thanks to our supporters, speakers, guest hosts, and team members from our last event inclusivedesign24.org/2024/ we've been able to once again make a little donation to @NVAccess on behalf of Inclusive Design 24 #id24 #a11y #accessibility

Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

A free 24-hour online community event on accessibility and inclusion
Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)
#a11y #Accessibility #id24 @NV Access
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Thank you so much to @inclusivedesign24 - The work you do spreading awareness of inclusive design techniques and tips AND the support you give us, is greatly appreciated and both will benefit many around the world! 💓
@Inclusive Design 24 (#id24)

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flesh wound

#unix_surrealism #technomage #phone #app

Mage and Fosschild stand in front of a giant mobile phone. The mobile phone has a bullet hole in its torso. Mage is holding a vintage MilTek 1911 handgun. Phone: "BY THE GLORY OF THE ETERNAL FREE MARKET! DID YOU JUST SHOOT ME?!" Mage: "Say 'You need to download our app to continue' again. I dare you." Fosschild is bored.
#app #phone #unix_surrealism #technomage

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“Sad announcement” email leads to tech support scam malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…

“Sad announcement” email leads to tech support scam | Malwarebytes

People are receiving disturbing emails that appear to imply something has happened to their friend or family member.
Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)

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AI Granny Daisy takes up scammers’ time so they can’t bother you malwarebytes.com/blog/news/202…

AI Granny Daisy takes up scammers’ time so they can’t bother you | Malwarebytes

An Artificial Intelligence model called Daisy has been deployed to waste phone scammers' time so they can't defraud real people.
Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)

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Helen Keller Services Accessibility Symposium & Awards and United Airlines’ Recognition Featured in Forbes helenkeller.org/helen-keller-s…

Helen Keller Services Fall 2024 Newsletter

Discover how Helen Keller Services' 2024 Accessibility Symposium & Awards honored United Airlines with the AccessAbility Award for their innovative strides in accessible travel.
Helen Keller Services

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The advantages of 3D tactile maps evengrounds.com/the-advantages…

The advantages of 3D tactile maps - Even Grounds

Tactile maps are, by design, three-dimensional, as they use raised surfaces to make a two-dimensional map touchable.
manager (Even Grounds)

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Android Accessibility Progress Report: What’s Changed (and What Hasn’t) Since Spring 2024 accessibleandroid.com/android-…

Android Accessibility Progress Report: What’s Changed (and What Hasn’t) Since Spring 2024 - Accessible Android

Back in March 2024, I penned an ambitious “Blueprint for Google” to revolutionize Android accessibility in ten areas that, let’s be honest, were desperately
Amir Soleimani (Accessible Android)

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For users of the Brave Web browser: Procedural filtering for better adblocking brave.com/privacy-updates/31-p…

Procedural filtering for better adblocking

Starting with version 1.73, Brave is significantly improving its adblocking capabilities by adding support for procedural cosmetic filtering of page elements.
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I think media just found a new "Silicon Valley Dream" to promote. Didn't NVidia just got t lucky? What am I missing? How Jensen Huang Built Nvidia Into the $3 Trillion King of AI barrons.com/articles/ai-nvidia…

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Amazon Prime Members: Get Two Anker USB-C Chargers and Cables for Just $13 Ahead of Black Friday cnet.com/deals/prime-members-g…

Amazon Prime Members: Get Two Anker USB-C Chargers and Cables for Just $13 Ahead of Black Friday

A Prime member-exclusive deal just dropped, days before the official Black Friday kickoff at Amazon.
Oliver Haslam (CNET)

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Hi, everyone. My name is Jean. Looking to connect with people here! I will follow you back! :D

Recently finished a PhD in cybersecurity, but quit academia right away. I just can't work there lol. I work in data by day, but Im a fulltime human rights activist and have spoken at various fora against digital dictatorship and BigTech's regulatory capture. I am a socialist and I have been for awhile now. I am working closely with various grassroot movement particularly within the digital rights/labour space.

I am into FLOSS, #privacy and #humanrights. I have foul mouth and I own it. Outside of my activism, I enjoy walking my dog, Heidi, #vegan food, gaming, programming #python, #dadjokes and makeup.

#pleaseboost #boostswelcome #followfriday #followerpower #digitalrights #introduction #introductionfr #followme #ifollowback #womeninstem #retoot #Toots

Thank uuu

#privacy #boostswelcome #followerpower #python #introduction #HumanRights #followfriday #Vegan #WomenInSTEM #digitalrights #pleaseboost #retoot #dadjokes #introductionfr #followme #ifollowback #toots
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Apple must really be getting desperate, as iOS is practically begging me to upgrade from 17.7.2 to 18.1.1. I've already received a notification that 18.1.1 is available, and saw a screen in Settings saying I can either upgrade now or tonight, but there's no option stating that I'll upgrade when I'm ready! Any thoughts on whether to upgrade or not?
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@GamingWithEars I've heard lots of good things about the updated BSI. That's something I'm looking forward to trying as it's what I use nearly all the time when writing on my phone. I'm not worried about the AI stuff as I have a 13 model, but it really doesn't interest me anyway.
@James Dean
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I've used it myself and just the fact you can get into and out of it with a gesture rather than having it in the Roter so it would constantly jump to it when twisting for other things, is a game-changer on its own for me. Now I think I just need a bigger phone. The SE3 is a little too small to do BSI properly, I think. I was telling someone I do fine once I get going, but first starting to type something in it is a little iffy for me, like I'll type E when I mean to type C, that sort of thing, and he said a larger screen might really help with that.

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GNOME 48 will include a new feature that allows users to limit battery charging. This will help preserve battery capacity on laptops and smartphones!

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#GNOME


power: Add support for battery charge limiting (!2176) · Merge requests · GNOME / Settings · GitLab

UPower supports setting the charge limit of a battery to reduce the battery wear by constantly trickle charging. The charge start/end thresholds are configured by hwdb, a user...
GitLab
#gnome

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#WildlifeWednesday

While waiting for the ferry, I spotted this gull eating a starfish, looked like chocking at first. Dropped it, started over.. Got a long series…

#Wildlife #Birds #BirdsOfMastodon #Nature #Photography #Washington #PNW #Seattle

Closeup capture of a Gull while eating a yellow starfish. The pink tongue of the gull is hanging out and saliva dripping. Portrait shot.
#photography #wildlife #nature #birds #seattle #pnw #birdsofmastodon #washington #wildlifewednesday
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We're hiring an assistant professor at the intersection btw cognitive modeling of language / social interaction, computational ling / lang technologies. Exciting environment / great work-life balance / amazing students.
international.au.dk/about/prof… Get in touch if interested!

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i feel like this "Post-growth entreunership" is solar punk af..
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its like.. grabbing money from profit and invest into non-profit for profit of mutual aid! ❤️

#postGrowth #solarpunk #directAction #utopia #coop


Post-Growth Entrepreneurship

For more information on Melanie Rieback, please visit our website www.tedxberlin.de.
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#coop #solarpunk #utopia #directaction #postgrowth

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@gajim

Hi Gajim,

Does Gajim support SRV entries with _xmpp-client._tcp names?

My XMPP server domain is chat.between-us.online. I have an SRV record that looks like this from dig:

_xmpp-client._tcp.between-us.online. 300 IN SRV 0 5 5222 chat.between-us.online.

If I try to register an account in Gajim (Linux) using chat.between-us.com, it finds the server. But if I just use between-us.com, it doesn't find the server.

I think I'm doing everything the way the prosody documentation explains it for setting up an SRV record.

Is it me? Or does Gajim not look for the SRV record this way?

Thanks for the help!

@Gajim
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Gajim supports XEP-0368 for SRV records, so there might be some other issue. You could ask in xmpp:operators@muc.xmpp.org?jo…

xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0368.h…

SRV records for XMPP over TLS

This specification defines a procedure to look up xmpps-client/xmpps-server SRV records (for direct TLS connections) in addition to xmpp-client/xmpp-server and mix weights/priorities.
Travis Burtrum

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"We constrain our imaginations when we subordinate our creations to names owned by fascist tycoons. Imagine the author of a book telling people to "read my Amazon". A great director trying to promote their film by saying "click on my Max". That's how much they've pickled your brain when you refer to your own work and your own voice within the context of their walled garden. There is no such thing as "my Substack", there is only your writing, and a forever fight against the world of pure enshittification."

(Original title: Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash)

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Don't call it a Substack. - Anil Dash

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.
www.anildash.com

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iOS 18.2 public beta 3 now available, here’s what’s new 9to5mac.com/2024/11/20/ios-182…

iOS 18.2 public beta 3 now available, here’s what’s new - 9to5Mac

Apple has released iOS 18.2 public beta 3, bringing a few small new updates to iPhone users ahead of the full launch in the coming weeks.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

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macOS 15.2 and iPadOS 18.2 public beta 3 released, here’s what to expect 9to5mac.com/2024/11/20/macos-1…

macOS 15.2 and iPadOS 18.2 public beta 3 released, here’s what to expect - 9to5Mac

Apple has released public beta 3 for macOS Sequoia 15.2 and iPadOS 18.2, bringing the latest enhancements ahead of the full launch soon.
Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)

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Leo que la Universitat de Barcelona abandona Twitter y se pasa a Bluesky. Me hace recordar una idea salvaje que lleva rondando mi cabeza mucho tiempo: ¿y si cada universidad española tuviera su propia instancia? ¿Y que cualquier persona con correo de la uni pudiera tener cuenta en ella y participar en el fediverso?

Que eso tendría pros & cons, está claro, pero para quienes potenciamos nuestra rama divulgativa... buah 😍

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Sería muy interesante, igual que estaría bien tener a instituciones públicas.

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I'd love to know if your political stance has changed at all over the past 5 years. 🗳️

This isn't about whether you're on the left or right on the spectrum, but more about how your position has shifted.

The poll is multiple choice, so I included a checkbox for people to tick if they live in Europe 🇪🇺

#poll #politics #EUpol #Europe

  • ⬅️ I moved left. (52%, 116 votes)
  • ➡️ I moved right. (2%, 5 votes)
  • ⏸ The same as before. (31%, 70 votes)
  • 🇪🇺 I live in Europe. (51%, 114 votes)
223 voters. Poll end: 16 hours ago

#politics #poll #europe #eupol

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Did you know you can use ActivityPub with static site generators? Well anyway, we made space to help ensure it's possible during the standards process! This is one reason there are two fields in ActivityStreams, both `id` and `url`, and ActivityPub supports both

So you can have a static site and have an AP account which aggregates said posts, allowing users to use simple static sites but offload the pubsub work

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Esto compartió la Embajada del estado de Palestina en México. Su lucha es nuestra lucha y es la lucha del sur global.
Texto de un tuit de embajada Palestina en México: "¡Viva la Revolución Mexicana! عاشت الثورة المكسيكية Celebramos con nuestras hermanas y hermanos mexicanos la conmemoración de la Revolución y abrazamos como propias las palabras del héroe Emiliano Zapata: ¡TIERRA Y LIBERTAD!"
Grabado con la imagen de dos revolucionarios, uno árabe y uno mexicano, ambos con sus bigotes, su fusil y sus cananas. Al pie de la imagen un texto en árabe.
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