All about alt text for beginners: what it is, why to use it, and how to write it. Web Accessibility principles.Callie Faucher (WebABLE, LLC)
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Katie Koteen (WordPress.com News)
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Nick Schäferhoff (WordPress.com News)
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Nick Schäferhoff (WordPress.com News)
The latest news on WordPress.com and the WordPress community.Jacopo "Copons" Tomasone (WordPress.com News)
Flock se po 11 letech vrací do Prahy!
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Flock to Fedora is coming to Prague, CZ, June 5-8, 2025! Join us for the premier Fedora conference. Submit a proposal or register to attend.Justin W. Flory (Fedora Project)
President Trump’s blizzard of executive orders during the first few days of his presidency has sent Republican lawmakers scrambling to make sense of what impact they’ll have on the country, and some GOP senators are already raising questions and conc…apple.news
More than 98% of Costco shareholders voted down an anti-DEI proposal at their annual meeting. The proposal had been filed by the National Center for Public Policy Research, a conservative think tank. In its Notice of Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Costco's board of directors had urged shareholders to reject the motion, saying: "Our efforts at diversity, equity and inclusion remind and reinforce with everyone at our Company the importance of creating opportunities for all." Here's more from @AxiosNews.
In 2022, someone who seems to have given up on the Fediverse posted a cool thing. It's a sequence inside a 3.14 kb executable, which, when run, takes a little bit of time to render, but produces this stupidly effective earworm.
I still have the executable file, which is clean, but I feel weird linking directly to it in a post.
Anyway, if you want to hear what can be squished into a tiny executable, here's the rendered audio from it.
The name of the executable is RedHeat_-_Meow x 3.14.exe
EDIT:
I found the original creator of this, and sadly, he passed away last year.
Red R. R. Tuby, amateur radio call PE1RRR.
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I really enjoyed this #podcast. It is a critique of how the internet has affected democracy. Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein provide some interesting insights. They talk too about podcasts and how the format itself hasn't (yet) been captured by the attention economy. I was reminded about Aaron Swartz’s work to create the open standard build on RSS which is still the way people download podcasts. #democracy #EzraKlein
nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion…
Also available as a podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/na/podcast/…
The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.Ezra Klein (The New York Times)
I really enjoyed this #podcast. It is a critique of how the internet has affected democracy. Chris Hayes and Ezra Klein provide some interesting insights. They talk too about podcasts and how the format itself hasn't (yet) been captured by the attention economy. I was reminded about Aaron Swartz’s work to create the open standard build on RSS which is still the way people download podcasts. #democracy #EzraKlein
nytimes.com/2025/01/17/opinion…
Also available as a podcast:
podcasts.apple.com/na/podcast/…
The MSNBC anchor Chris Hayes on why attention has become more valuable than money in politics.Ezra Klein (The New York Times)
IMHO it's more a "war" on shifting attention *away from* important stuff and over to whatever narratives du jour suit the powers that be, including the New York TImes I might add, who spend a lot of time crafting them.
As long as podcasts are "available wherever you get your podcasts" and not only in walled gardens like Spotify and Audible, they will hopefully be ok.
You could not pay me to sign up to Spotify to get a podcast from them--it will never, ever happen.
Γεια σε όλους! Είχαμε ένα αίτημα από έναν χρήστη που ρωτούσε αν γνωρίζουμε κάποια κοινότητα NVDA ή ομάδα email στην ελληνική γλώσσα, κ.λπ. Γνωρίζει κανείς κάτι που μπορούμε να τον παρακαλέσουμε;
Hi everyone! We had a request from a user asking if we know of a Greek-language NVDA community or email group, etc. Is anyone aware of anything we can direct them to please?
Earlier today, Google rejected a feature request asking for the option to use DNS-over-HTTPS servers other than Google’s and Cloudflare’s in Android: issuetracker.google.com/issues…
According to Google’s own testing, DoH is more private, secure, and performant than DoT on Android. There is no reason whatsoever to limit it to a handful of Google-approved servers.
Just like with Manifest V3 in Chrome, this arbitrary restriction on what DNS servers can use the most modern technologies in Android is a clear example of Google abusing their position to campaign against blocking invasive trackers. One of the clearest uses for custom DNS servers is the ability to block privacy-invasive services like Google’s at the DNS level.
Further details & discussion on our forum: discuss.privacyguides.net/t/go…
#android #google #privacy #dns
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/331250145?pli=1#comment7 Some background, since 2022 Android has used DNS-over-HTTP/3 instead of DNS-over-TLS for its Private DNS setting, but only for two predefined servers (Google and Cloudflare).Privacy Guides Community
At least it costs the same as its predecessor.Hassam Nasir (Tom's Hardware)
A solitary sunfish at an aquarium in Japan lost its appetite, began banging into the side of the fish tank and appeared unwell days after the facility closed last month for renovations.MARI YAMAGUCHI (AP News)
New music video from Orla Gartland for current single You're Not Special, Babe taken from the forthcoming album Women on the Internet due August 20th.YouTube
Trump has unleashed a wave of fear among immigrant families by stripping away critical protections that kept ICE out of schools, hospitals, and places of worship.
The Safe Schools for Every Student campaign gives you the tools to demand that your local school board takes a stand and adopts policies that keep schools safe for all students, no matter their immigration status. indivisi.org/safe-schools
INTRODUCTION Donald Trump’s reckless rescission of the “sensitive locations” guidance has unleashed a wave of fear among immigrant families, stripping away critical protections that kept ICE out of schools, hospitals, and places of worship.Google Docs
The Global Voice brings together an international team of broadcasters, producers and radio journalists to present for you a wide range of entertaining and informative programs.The Global Voice
"our commitment to an enterprise rooted in respect and inclusion is appropriate and necessary."
Diverse employees and suppliers have fostered
"creativity and innovation in the merchandise and services that we offer,"
- Costco Board.
98% of Costco shareholders agreed with the board.👍🏿
Segregationists denied.
axios.com/2025/01/23/costco-de…
Segregationists are going to test each and every one of you, to see where your heart is at.
If they haven't tested you already, they will test you soon.
Do you know what you are going to say?
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Elon Musk è arrabbiato con Wikipedia per aver riportato il suo presunto "saluto nazista". Ma i suoi attacchi fanno parte di una lunga e inquietante storia di tentativi di sopprimere informazioni che ritiene scomode
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Elon Musk is angry at Wikipedia for reporting on his alleged ‘Nazi salute’. But his attacks are part of a long and troubling history of trying to suppress information he finds inconvenient, writes Io DoddsIo Dodds (The Independent)
For those of you on mastodon social, please be aware that your instance is becoming a real headache for other instances and their admins. mastodon social has attracted/not blocked too many trolls and disinformation bots.
It's up to you whether you stay there, but people are blocking the whole instance to avoid these bad actors.
If you are worried about how to migrate to a new instance, fedi tips is a great help, with instructions on how to do the switch.
If you need help finding an instance that is a good fit for you, there is help for that, too.
fedi.tips/transferring-your-ma…
fedi.tips/which-server-should-…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
Welcome to the Monarch classroom! This video provides step-by-step guides to help you achieve your goals, focusing on all aspects of the Monarch file managem...YouTube
Day three of Trump's term and the largest push for surveillance capitalism yet has been made: Project Stargate will be a $500.000.000.000 (500 billion USD) data center used for running a multitude of AIs with the purpose of spying on you.
Larry Ellison, the world's second richest man and CEO of Oracle, one of the main partners of Stargate, said:
“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we're constantly recording and reporting everything that's going on [...]. We're using A.I. to monitor the video.”
— Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle on how the company's A.I. systems will be used for in the future [Source: Business Insider]
This is who is in power now. This is the vision they have.
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Twilio says its adjusted operating margin will reach 21%- 22% in 2027, exceeding est. and up from 16.1% in the most recent quarter; TWLO jumps 11%+ after hours (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
cnbc.com/2025/01/23/twilio-ann…
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Twilio wants to grow in conversational artificial intelligence while also becoming more profitable.Jordan Novet (CNBC)
Talks from Arch contributors at FOSDEM 2025
The company worked with the Consumer Product Safety Commission to recall 1.7 million Ionic watches in 2022 after reports that they had overheated and burned customers.Gaby Del Valle (The Verge)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 19 updated and 1 added apps:
* Remind Me! – Set alarms for a specific date in the future 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
And thanks for all your kind words and congratulations to our grant 😍
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Reading about Anglish yesterday, I realised that one of the most useful methods for proponents of this form of English is creating calques. What’s a calque, I hear you ask?English-Language Thoughts
🐦 "Sans les étourneaux le chant des saisons s'éteint" : Faute d'étourneaux, #ExtinctionRebellion La Rochelle les placarde en tags dans leur ville.
👉 La population d'étourneaux décline depuis les années 70, les individus restant se concentrant dans les villes faute de haies bocagères / refuges et sur-usage de pesticides dans les champs nos campagnes 🌱
When the topic of Rails performance comes up, it is commonplace to hear that the database is the bottleneck, so Rails applications are IO-bound anyway, hence Ruby performance doesn’t matter that much, and all you need is a healthy dose of concurrency…byroot’s blog
Mark Your Calendars and Join the Party!
We’re less than a week away from our 10th Anniversary Celebration on January 29th from 2:00-4:00pm PST! 🎉
Be part of this milestone event as we unveil our new mascot (a community-chosen favorite!) and celebrate a decade of innovation together. We'll be hearing from team members, both past and present, connecting with our incredible community, and reflecting on how far we’ve come.
We can’t wait to celebrate with you! 🎊
✨ Join the celebration in-app or on Zoom
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Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems.Zoom Video
Some fascinating research out on hacking a Subaru via STARLINK connected vehicle service.
"On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK connected vehicle service that gave us unrestricted targeted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.
Using the access provided by the vulnerability, an attacker who only knew the victim’s last name and ZIP code, email address, phone number, or license plate could have done the following:
Remotely start, stop, lock, unlock, and retrieve the current location of any vehicle.
Retrieve any vehicle’s complete location history from the past year, accurate to within 5 meters and updated each time the engine starts.
Query and retrieve the personally identifiable information (PII) of any customer, including emergency contacts, authorized users, physical address, billing information (e.g., last 4 digits of credit card, excluding full card number), and vehicle PIN.
Access miscellaneous user data including support call history, previous owners, odometer reading, sales history, and more.
After reporting the vulnerability, the affected system was patched within 24 hours and never exploited maliciously."
samcurry.net/hacking-subaru#in…
#cars #security #subaru @starlink
On November 20, 2024, Shubham Shah and I discovered a security vulnerability in Subaru’s STARLINK admin panel that gave us unrestricted access to all vehicles and customer accounts in the United States, Canada, and Japan.samcurry.net
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in reply to Jan Antoš • • •Vitex
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •@sesivany no já to nedavno řešil: Nejdřív jsem koukal na poštu, pak na první certifikační a paxem se na to vykvajznul s tím, že nemám zájem zvyšovat beztak již vysokou úroveň entropie okolního vesmíru.
Čtečku na eObčanku mám. Jednou se mi s ní povedlo přihlásit do portálu občana.
Podruhé jsem nějak pomotal hesla a tak byla eObčanka zablokována.
Tím pro mě celá záležitost skončila, jelikož je to stejně efektivní jako dát kartičku do mikrovlnky, jen to není trestné 😈
(do datovky se přihlašuji přes bankovní identu. Inu trh rozhodnul ...)
Radomír Žemlička
in reply to Jan Antoš • • •Ale jako jinak je to holt byznys Český pošty a tvoje rozhořčení plně sdílím: cztwitter.cz/@Razemix/11259858…
Podepisujte elektronicky zdarma a bez registrace | BankiD.cz
Bank iDJiří Eischmann
in reply to Radomír Žemlička • • •Nejvíc mě rozesmála ta jejich argumentace, že podpisy sice nejdou ověřit, ale to ještě neznamená, že nejsou pravé. 😂
Tohle má smysl, pokud člověk podepisuje dokument u nějakého subjektu, který má nějaký smluvní vztah s BankID, třeba pojišťovna, v rámci toho je nějaká důvěra zajištěná, ale jako prostředek pro podepisování dvěma nezávislými subjekty je to omyl.
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in reply to Jan Antoš • • •Identifikační prostředek Mobilní klíč eGovernmentu | Informační web elektronické identity
info.identita.gov.czJiří Eischmann
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in reply to Jan Antoš • • •Když jsem dostal před 5 lety novou občanku, chtěl jsem to vyzkoušet, ale pak přišla Identita občana, která umožňuje přihlašování přes různé providery včetně MojeID, a elektronický podpis mám už roky jako certifikát na disku, takže jsem to neměl dál potřebu řešit a už to nikdy znovu nezkoušel.
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Mojefedora.czJan Antoš
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Marián Kyral
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •Největší problém je komplikovanost. Když jsem to studoval, nepochopil jsem, k čemu tolik různých PINů. Zřejmě aby odradili občany od toho to používat.