This time it’s not mere partisan hyperbole. Fascism really has come to America, to an extent we’ve never seen before. (If you still have any doubt, look at the role of Steve Bannon.) An…
I'm an unpaid volunteer who runs five websites and six accounts helping people use Mastodon and the wider Fediverse. I pay all their bills every month.
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Canadians are anxious, yes. But we are also angry - angry that the U.S. sees us as disposable, despite the deep economic ties that we have upheld in good faith.
We should NOT take this lying down. We stand together. We buy Canadian. We diversify our trade. And we refuse to support a country that threatens us for no reason other than a madman's political theatre. #Canada stands strong. #ChooseCanada
On Thursday, multiple school systems around the United States released advisories stating that Trump's EO mandating discrimination in schools will not be followed.
Try RIM (Remote Incident Manager) for remote access—lightweight, accessible, and cross-platform! Great for troubleshooting and training. Learn more: getrim.app #RemoteAccess #TechHelp
Brian Driscoll, the acting FBI director and head of the bureau's Newark field office, pushed back so aggressively that some feared he would be dismissed.
"A kakistocracy is a government run by the worst, least qualified, or most unscrupulous citizens. The word was coined as early as the seventeenth century."
"In recent months the Harvard Law School [@harvard_law] Library Innovation Lab [@harvardlil] has created a data vault to download, sign as authentic, and make available copies of public government data that is most valuable to researchers, scholars, civil society and the public at large across every field. To begin, we have collected major portions of the datasets tracked by data.gov, federal #Github repositories, and #PubMed...."
Právě dorazilo. V reprobedně s chybějící mřížkou něco těžkého chrastí, bohužel dovnitř se teď nedostanu, šrouby jsou zapuštěny příliš hluboko. Nicméně - hrají. Volant je skoro 20 let starý, ale s trochou přemlouvání by snad i pod Win10 mohl fungovat :)
Web accessibility-related jobs are always going to flourish. Why? Because each browser, each screen reader, each operating system, each device, each input control, each custom control needs separate treatment.
Don't believe me? Try to implement a Vue3 combobox where you can filter items on Windows (Jaws, NVDA), Mac, iOS, iPad OS, Linux via a keyboard, touch, respecting screen sizes. Then, when all that is done, wait a few months until browsers receive some minor webkit update and things slowly start breaking.
If you’ve got lawyers and a copyright, the law gives you tremendous power to silence speech you don’t like. Copyright’s statutory damages can be as high as $150,000 per work infringed, even if no actual harm is done.
Plus de 1.000 pages web ont été supprimées des sites officiels du Ministère de la Santé états-unien. Des pages sur la vaccination, sur l'avortement, sur les personnes trans...
Les quatre prochaines années vont être absolument dévastatrices aux États-Unis. L'information disparaît, l'éducation s'étiole, la haine va croissant.
Nous n'avons pas une seconde à perdre en Europe pour inverser la vapeur chez nous. Nous organiser, créer des espaces numériques qui soient des refuges. Contribuer à Wikipédia. Marginaliser à nouveau la haine, refermer la fenêtre d'Overton.
Qu'on arrête de nous comporter comme si nous n'étions pas les prochains, parce qu'on l'est.
After realizing that my servers were offline since the 25th of January 2025, I've been in contact with Oracle support in a multitude of ways trying to figure out why this happened and how we can recover both the account and data.
I wasn't told that my account was disabled. I didn't receive an E-Mail or anything. When logging in, I was simply told that my username or password was incorrect. After (successfully) resetting my password twice, I realized it wasn't about the password. Oracle had just deleted my account without any notice.
Both through calls and text, always with the same service request (SR) number, I contacted support. Initially, support told me that my account was flagged “Inactive” and hence disabled. They also verified that they saw me login almost daily and that I never missed a payment or anything. Even if an account was inactive, that's never a reason to disable it, especially without any warning E-Mail or an E-Mail letting me know that my account was disabled in the first place.
This chat was the result of all of that, where the highest team I've yet been elevated to told me that there's nothing they can do about it, there's no reason they can tell me for why this happened, and there's no one else I could ask.
I also love how I ask “Is there anything I can do to avoid this happening in the future?” and they respond with “Oh, don't worry. You don't have a future at Oracle. This will not happen to you again, as we don't allow for you to make another account.”
Interestingly, two days before Oracle deleted my account and all servers associated with it, I publicly criticized Oracle's CEO in a viral post for promising dystopian AI surveillance technology to his investors.
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.
If you remember back to Lizzie Bennet Diaries diaries on youtube then you will remember it's star Ashley Clements.
Sadly her house has burned down in LA. If she ever brought you some joy but never figured out a way to pay her back (that youtube production didn't pay much) now is the perfect time to give.
When I received an alert about a “fast moving fire in your ar… Ashley Clements needs your support for Help Ashley Clements and Brendan Bradley Rebuild After Fire
I’m researching the life of my 5 x great grandfather Samuel Cottrell. This will be an interesting challenge because Samuel, a non-conformist, managed to avoid all the censuses taken in the 1800s
Samuel was born on 11 July 1796 to John Cottrell and Mary Teek. He was baptised on 2 October 1796 at Saint Luke’s Old Street, Finsbury, London.
During this research, I hope to learn more about London as well.
Joint Statement from 12 State Attorneys General: President Trump is Misleading the American People on Purpose of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Acc... oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases…
OAKLAND – California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, with the attorneys general of Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, t…
Starting off #Movuary with a thing I posted several months ago now, because it's the first thing I did with all 8 scenes in a single project. No external samples were used, and it was made entirely on Move, with no midi keyboard tracked in from elsewhere.
This was started on the day that my portion of London hit 31°C, which is nothing for my US followers with your fancy AC units, but for me without any of that...
Remembering Elisabeth Sladen (1st February 1946-19th April 2011), who played Sarah Jane Smith. She was my favourite #DoctorWho companion, it was lovely when she returned in School Reunion (2006), and went on to have her own series The Sarah Jane Adventures.
In this episode of Unmute Presents, Demasi explains what a password manager is, how it can help you create and store strong passwords for all your online accounts, and what are some of the pros and cons of using one.
The launch of a new flagship smartphone is always met with excitement and high expectations. For tech enthusiasts, it represents the pinnacle of innovation,
★ If Anyone Needed Further Proof, Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Los Angeles Times Is Now a Propaganda Rag (and They’re Bad at HTML) daringfireball.net/2025/02/soo…
You can’t see the link or click on it as rendered in a browser, because there’s no content between the opening `` and closing `` tags, but whoever at the LA Times edited Reinhart’s column to pervert its meaning, did so sloppily, leaving behi…
Applied African Science Fiction (SF) is a project funded by Imperial College London that, together in collaboration with the University of Nairobi, the African Speculative Fiction Society, Vector a…
If you too feel uneasy about the state of the world, and you too worry about losing access to one of the greatest knowledge treasure of the internet,
Know that you can download an offline copy of Wikipedia!
Here's how 📚👇
1. Download the free and open source software Kiwix (this will be your reader): kiwix.org/en/applications/
2. If you want smaller versions of Wikipedia, you can download them within Kiwix.
Within the app, go to "Categories" in the menu on the left, then browse to a topic/version you want. Scroll to the bottom for Wikipedia mini, for example. Click on it then click "Download" on the right
3. Once you have downloaded a database, click on "Opened" on the left > database you want to search > "Open Main Page" on the right.
4. You can use the Search field on the upper-right to find topics like on online Wikipedia! 🔍
5. If you want the full English version of Wikipedia (110GB), you might want to download it from the torrent file instead. Install a torrent client of your choice (I use Transmission).
Then, go to this page, click on "Download - 109.89 GB" blue button on the first result (size may vary overtime), then select "Torrent file": library.kiwix.org/#lang=eng&ca…
6. Once you have the torrent file, open it with your torrent client to start the download. This is BIG! Be patient! 📦
7. Once the download is completed, open your Wikipedia `.zim` file with Kiwix!
8. Magic! 📖✨
Extra Tip: You can download many other awesome knowledge files from the Kiwix Library! Personally, I also got the iFixit knowledge base! ⚒️
Discover Kiwix applications that enable offline access to knowledge on different platforms. Explore the convenience of accessing information without an internet connection
Null pointers look simple on the surface, and that’s why they’re so dangerous. As compiler optimizations, intuitive but incorrect simplifications, and platform-specific quirks have piled on, the odds of making a wrong assumption have increased, leadi…
If you didn't find us at #fosdem today, there's still tomorrow! Building K, Floor 1 - play with Thunderbird for Android, meet the team, find out how to get involved, and get stickers!
The greatest Game Jam Ever (In my very biased opinion!) Has begun! It's a month long, so plenty of time to join and challenge yourself to make the best blind accessible game you can! #blind #GameJam #Gamedev #accessibility itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…
Being able to do most of your things in a 15 minutes transit distance from your home is a great quality of life and environment indicator for a city. He talks about how to measure this metric and identify which cities and neighborhoods are 15-minutes compatible.
De beloofde fiscale hervorming heeft wel potentieel om de klimaattransitie te versnellen, bv. via de BTW-verlaging voor renovaties. Tegelijk lijken ambitieuze publieke investeringen vooral voorbehouden voor de industrie, veel minder om gezinnen bij te staan in die transitie. /2
Er zal enerzijds enorm worden bespaard op menselijkheid en sociaal welzijn, maar anderzijds vergeet men (nog steeds) concreet werk te maken van een versnelde afbouw van fossiele subsidies. Begrijpe wie begrijpen kan. /3
De nieuwe regering heeft geen visie of plan om ons land weg te leiden van onze afhankelijkheid van fossiel gas, en al op korte termijn iets te doen aan de belangrijke rol die ons land heeft in de doorvoer van o.a Russisch fossiel gas aan de rest van Europa. /4
Arizona rekent voor haar klimaatinspanningen ook hard op oude, dure en onbetrouwbare kerncentrales en riskeert veel tijd en middelen te verspillen aan plannen voor (onhaalbare en onbetaalbare) nieuwe kerncentrales. /5
Nochtans ligt hernieuwbare energie voor het rapen en maken zon en wind ons écht onafhankelijk van vervuilende energie of grondstoffen uit twijfelachtige regimes. /6
Het akkoord vermeldt ook geen duidelijk engagement voor een verbod op diepzeemijnbouw (de paragraaf over kritieke grondstoffen lijkt zelfs de deur open te zetten) en échte ambitie voor de bescherming van onze oceanen. /7
Het recht op protest tenslotte komt met dit akkoord ook opnieuw onder druk, met een versterking van GAS-wetgeving (vaak misbruikt om lokaal protest in te perken) en het voorstel om toch - ondanks protest van het middenveld de afgelopen jaren - een gerechtelijk betogingsverbod in te voeren. /8
Fox News reject Megyn Kelly got burned over her Little House on the Prairie reboot on Netflix tweet, Megyn Kelly, “If you wokeify Little House on the Prairie, I will make it my singular mission to absolutely ruin your project.”
Melissa Gilbert, who played Laura Ingalls in the original series, "Apparently Megyn tweeted (I'm not on that platform) asking that Netflix not “woke-Ify" their Little House remake. Ummm...watch the original again. TV doesn't get too much more “woke" than we did. We tackled: racism, addiction, nativism, antisemitism, misogyny, rape, spousal abuse and every other "woke " topic you can think of. Thank you very much. " #USPol
It's funny. The books and even the show is about how the women keep saving family from the father, who in real life, regardless of the hard working, pull em up by the bootstraps farmer they made him appear, was by all accounts a deadbeat failure with wanderlust, who was lazy.
🔗 Melissa Gilbert responds to Megyn Kelly threat against Little House on the Prairie reboot Gilbert starred as young Laura Ingalls Wilder in the original Western adaptation
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