This session will share stories and strategies from 3 decades of accessibility convincing with public and private organizations. Have you ever tried to convince someone of the value and importance of …
Merz’ Vorschlag, Privatsphäre kostenpflichtig zu machen, ist ein Angriff auf die Grundrechte. Wer seine Daten schützen will, soll zahlen – ein undemokratisches Konzept, das den Datenschutz zu einer elitäreren Ware macht und das Vertrauen in das Gesundheitssystem bzw. die elektronische Patientenakte (weiter) zerstört. Unfassbar. 🤦♂️
Die "E-Patientenakte für alle" sorgt für Begehrlichkeiten. Ginge es nach Merz (CDU), kostet Privatsphäre bald extra. Wer Angst um seine Daten hat, muss zahlen.
Des nouvelles de la confidentialité de vos clouds Google Drive vis-à-vis de Google eux-mêmes :
Un avocat parisien a utilisé Google Drive comme service cloud pour son activité pro. Il intervenait dans un dossier de pédopornographie, avec des pièces à conviction en conséquence, comme on pourrait l'imaginer.
Google, scannant les fichiers du Drive de l'avocat (censément couvert par un secret professionnel très strict), a détecté les images, et désactivé le Drive et l'adresse Gmail de l'avocat, lui faisant ainsi perdre accès à toutes ses données professionnelles. Et il encourt des poursuites aux USA.
The Linux App Summit (LAS) is designed to accelerate the growth of the Linux application ecosystem by bringing together everyone involved in creating a great Linux application user experience.
also the USB portal is oversold: it's missing key bits that haven't been merged yet, and it will be hard to deploy due to the lack of fallback mechanism (my proposal for that was shot down)
great! How about dropping all and anything AI and start implementing some very basic programming practices, such as removing all constant error messages? Offering declarative configuration? Exporting configuration. Expose internals and offer a programmable, hackable UI?
„Například vy pravděpodobně čtete tento článek na počítači a k internetu přistupujete z IP adresy 213.xxx.xxx.xxx, která je registrovaná v obci Ostrava, Česko.“
Společnost Gravy Analytics přeprodává informace o tom, kde se pohybují jednotliví lidé. Informace posbírané hlavně z mobilních telefonů se nyní podařilo odcizit hackerům, kteří je nabízí k prodeji.
o stupínek lepší je "Například vy pravděpodobně čtete tento článek na mobilním telefonu a k internetu přistupujete z IP adresy 2001:470:..., která je registrovaná v obci Hlavní město Praha, Česko" 😁 #IPv6
The government of the state of Tamil Nadu in India is offering an enormous cash prize to anyone who can crack the code of an ancient script used in the Indus Valley civilization.
I'm just posting this because I figure if there's some big brain who can decipher the script, and that person needs money right now, there's a decent chance they are posting cat pictures on #Mastodon.
The enigmatic Indus Valley civilization left behind a script that today's historians haven't yet deciphered. While amateur theories abound, scholars are increasingly relying on computer science to crack the code
Another enjoyable #Fanfic over the weekend for me. I've seen The Chamber of Secrets power Harry up aplenty, but this was a bit different.
A disillusioned Harry Potter begins to unravel his potential as the wizarding world follows the Triwizard Tournament. Harry delves into a world that is much greater, and more complicated, than he was aware of. The story contains detailed magic, politics, social situations and complicated motivations. It is a story of growth and maturation. Words: 560,933 -
@jscholes Not particularly: I stuck with it because it didn't put me off too much and it was OK but there's no change of course or dramatic upswing in quality.
Aufzeichnung der Veranstaltung zur Veröffentlichung des Buches "Frei, Fair und Lebendig - Die Macht der Commons" - mit Silke Helfrich makertube.net/w/p/4bykGSrHXZtK…
📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 3. Februar, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
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Co se přihodilo na inauguraci Donalda Trumpa? Elon Musk hajloval. Elon Musk nehajloval. Hajloval. Fotka jeho gesta je vytržená z kontextu, pusťte si video, a uvidíte, že nehajloval. Elon Musk hajloval. Nehajloval.
s eslint jsem to pri migraci na v9 vzdal a misto toho migroval na biomejs.dev/. Chapu, ze eslint potreboval fixnout tunu technickyho dluhu, ale neudelali to sikovne.
@mwenisch Nakonec jsem to nějak zvládl, ale prostě k tomu máme hromadu dependencies jako nx, angular, typescript, prettier, ... A neměl jsem tušení jak to poskládat dohromady. Dokumentace k tomu mi přišla dost chaotická... Zvlášť, když jsem potřeboval dokumentaci eslint ke každé knihovně a jak to v rámci eslint správně nakonfigurovat. 🙃 Nevím jestli by ale jiný tool měl takovou podoporu všech těchto technologií.
Monday. Extraordinary episode of Desert Ireland Discs yesterday with [Nemone Lethbridge, ](bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0027l20)
We had a delicious chicken dinner, at teatime last night, which means the sprog gets her weird dinner of leftover chicken, gravy and pasta tonight. Weird? Maybe. Delicious? So she claims.
Another day of uncertainty at work, because for the next fortnight we're all really in limbo as to who's staying and who's going. There's still the job to do, but the uncertainty nipping at our heals and I imagine that it's not just me who's finding it hard to focus on the actual work rather than start surfing the job boards.
Really enjoyed the new Doug Richards novel at the weekend; I read it in a single sitting. Then weirdly felt like my own grandfather as I went up to bed at 1AM, telling my daughter not to be up late gaming on the way. Just what used to happen to me for my latter years at secondary school and college.
The sense memory was extraordinary. As I turned the lights off and walked up the stairs, I could honestly hear the clatter of my granddad putting the TV remote onto his silver drinks coaster, the creak of the chair as he got up, the firm *thunk* of him switching off the TV at the wall and the gentle roar of the kettle as he took himself a cup of tea up to bed.
Sounds I haven't heard since I left for college nearly 20 years ago came back with a sharp, fluid pang I haven't felt for a long time.
No idea what's wrong with me lately. I was waiting for my daughter to show up yesterday and told my NAS to give me a random episode of The Next Generation before putting something joint on the TV. I didn't recognise the plot at all. None of the names of the species, none of the lines, nothing. it was a pretty forgetable one from the first season with the only real notable thing to my mind being Tasha's wave goodbye at the end, but still. Growing up I could practically quote the episodes. I used to mute the TV and lipsync, I was that... engaged.
Concerningly I am getting old. I don't think I've watched more than a handful of episodes since I met my now wife, over 6,700 days ago.
To add to the sense of doom my life seems to be in at the moment, we sent our daughter out for the first time in an Uber unaccompanied yesterday. Uber Teen has come to town, and she's quite comfortable using it by herself. This frees me up from making round trips to collect or drop her places. But it felt surreal and not very pleasant, watching her get into the car from an upstairs window then following along on the map. Just another one of those milestones, I suppose. Anything could happen! Of course it could. But then it always could. "It does not do not to do because of what others could do but usually won't do" as a wise old friend said to me once. We have to live.
Hallo @Friendica Support, ich habe einen User auf meiner Instanz in einem Beitrag der nur an meine Kontakte ging (also privat) mit einem @ erwähnt. Dieser Beitrag wurde auch veröffentlicht und den Kontakten angezeigt. Es gibt allerdings eine Ausnahme: Der User, der in dem Beitrag mit @ erwähnt wurde, wurde nicht über eine Benachrichtigung benachrichtigt und der Beitrag selber wird ihm auch nicht in seiner Timeline angezeigt.
@Mac King @Mac King ⁂ Nachtrag: Wenn ich einen Beitrag komplett öffentlich erstelle oder einen der nur an den User selber geht, also auch nicht an meine Kontakte, dann bekommt der User eine Benachrichtigung und der Beitrag wird ihm in der Timeline angezeigt.
Taken from The Miracle, 1989Remastered in HD. 35mm film 4K scanning by Simon Marbrook at Final Frame. Conform editing by Chris Frankland. Restoration by Luke...
@Lucinek noo švihadlo je najlepšie/najúčinnejšie, trochu nuda ale pomer výkon/čas top. Švihadlo som si zaobstaral medzi prvými vecami po príchode do našej republiky ale neskáčem. S jógou nemám žiadne skúsenosti...
A new Pebble Watch is in development. The first details regarding its hardware have now been unveiled, hinting at a device that might be antithetical to current wearables.
@valiant8086 I'm thinking since it only has buttons, it wouldn't be hard, but sadly it'll probably lack a speaker for sound. Especially if they'r aiming for an entire weeks of battery out of it, but that also means memorizing or learning what button press to do what might be a lot simpler too.
I had the original pebble for a while. I liked it, but yeah, no speaker on it. A little screen reader thing for these and a bit of an onboard speaker could be so amazing.
Nvidia's RTX 5080 is Actually an RTX 5070 "...or at least it should be based on its hardware configuration. This is the reason the RTX 5080 is so underwhelming: it should be sitting in the 70 class at a lower price point, delivering much more impressive gains generation over generation. Instead, Nvidia has become greedy, ..." techspot.com/article/2950-nvid…
Take a hard look at the specs, and you'll soon realize the RTX 5080 is just an RTX 5070 in disguise. Nvidia's greed may be at play, and we'll prove it by analyzing historical GPU configurations.
#uspol Ezra Klein nails it: “That is the tension at the heart of Trump’s whole strategy: Trump is acting like a king because he is too weak to govern like a president. He is trying to substitute perception for reality. He is hoping that perception then becomes reality. That can only happen if we believe him.” [gift link] nytimes.com/2025/02/02/opinion…
Have you seen Callsheet? It’s an iOS app for movie and tv information. It’s a better version of IMDB. I finally took the time to review it. It’s awesome! Why did I wait so long? Nicely done @caseyliss !!
Impressive response from PM Trudeau, which spans 80 yrs of history.
It's sickening to see the violent stupidity of MAGA directed outward. I can't imagine we'll be forgiven or fully trusted again in my lifetime.
My wife and I spent our honeymoon in the Maritimes. We take our children to MTL and TOR whenever we can. Vacationed in VAN and Banff. We've been treated with more respect by Canadian immigration officers than by our own.
We’ve got robotic dogs, naked-eye 3D displays, Qi2 Batteries, nifty charging devices, cameras for bugs, and Security Bits with @bart this week on the NosillaCast. Enjoy!
Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, February 2, 2025, and this is show number 1030.
I have been incredibly impressed with Alt National Park Service since Trump's first term. People like this are preserving vital records, refusing to comply, continuing to speak out.
Everyone should 1 - be informed (but limit the firehose) 2 - do not comply 3 - support each other and everyone resisting (build systems of care outside capitalism)
#Movuary day 3 brings you a classic example of why I should not be allowed to make music like this, whatever this is supposed to be. I don't know how to classify it, and I wrote it. Creapy broken jazzy dub and bass? I dunno...
#Movuary day 4 is far less complex or refined than anything I've done so far. I had a bad night's sleep, and a roaring headache, so I woke up and made this thing. Pretty much just slapped it down and said "to hell with it."
For #Movuary day 5, I decided to do something a little different. Thus, Cheap Plastic Oxygene was born. This is a cover of Oxygene, Pt. 4 (1976), using slightly tweeked stock sounds from the Move, except for the drums, which I found from a sample pack of vintage drum machines.
I ran into a whole bunch of limitations making this one. There was more I wanted to do, but I ran out of space in the clips, and didn't have any spare pads left for resampling without further compromising stuff. There are a couple of glitches, which I left in there, because imperfections FTW, or something.
With apologies to Jean-Michel Jarre for butchering his fantastic work.
#movuary day 7 isn't a track. Not exactly. It's an attempt to simulate shortwave radio conditions using a groovebox, which is, let's just say, not ideal, and certainly outside of the intended scope for such a thing. This was done by automating the parameters of a compressor, a phaser with it's frequency turned down all the way, and a couple of different high pass filters over time. The radio noise was sampled by plugging my Tecsun PL-990X shortwave radio into Move's line input, and tuning to a frequency somewhere around the 40m band with nothing going on.
I did this soon after I got my Move, but touched it up a bit since then.
#Movuary day 9: When Flipper the Dolphin (now known as Deejay Flippa) isn't saving people in the waters of the Florida Keys in the 1960s or whatever, he's in the studio making mad beats about the injustices of the world, with his man Calquale.wav from the 1995 Compton's Interactive Encyclopedia.
Yes, I was, in fact, rather bored a while back. Interestingly, by original Ableton Move broke while I was making this, so I didn't get to finish it until I got the replacement unit.
I have posted this before, but this is a slightly different mix with a couple of bugs fixed and new ones added.
Several years ago, I had a dream. In that dream, someone (not me) was standing, watching as everything they knew and loved was burned in a fire. There was a sequence playing in the background. This is my attempt to somewhat re-create what I heard, at least in part, in this dream.
#movuary day 11: Ya Got Me. This is based on samples from my Franklin Language Master 6000 SE talking dictionary. I sampled the really dirty pulse wave it produces in test mode, as well as some common phrases. This was all made with just three tracks, because I couldn't think of what to do with a fourth one. It's pretty busy as-is.
@cachondo I still have the Language Master manual in text format, because of course I do, and test mode isn't mentioned there. I had no idea about it either until a previous thread on here about the Language Master
@cachondo Oh no re throwing out everything re the Language Master. My own story with them was bizarre, too: I had a government-owned one (bought by our Vision Impairment Service) from age eight to thirteen, until it broke. When I was aged 11, a local charity raised money to buy me one of my own, but the volume control on it broke within three months and it became unusable. That charity also helped me buy a Braille Scrabble set, which I got much more use out of
@graham it felt like an incredible bit of microelectronics to me at the time. All my sighted friends had these ridiculous printed dictionaries where people had torn out pages and scribbled over things and I had this fantastic gadget.
@cachondo @graham My brother got one in 1994 before he went to college. I kept trying to hide it so he would hopefully not find it before he left for school. Didn't work. I was sad.
@cachondo Yeah it was amazing ... and did so much more than a printed dictionary ever could. I went from a 6-volume Braille children's dictionary that didn't even have the word cat, to the language master ... saying it was "like night and day" doesn't even cut it
@graham also I've never found a software version that is as good. I mean in terms of having the homophones, thesaurus, parts of speech and everything. It's mad that the best dictionary i have ever used across a bunch of metrics is a similar age to me.
@graham @cachondo I only found it by accident. Don't know what lead me to it. I think @FreakyFwoof either told me about it, or we both just started typing in random double and triple hyphen things to see what they did.
@KaraLG84 @FreakyFwoof @graham I'd not heard the demo before. Pretty cool that it actually says a number of phrases in there rather than doing every single thing word-by-word as it normally does. so far I've seen that --- does the tones and --demo does the demo. ---n makes weird noises. I've not seen anything else.
@KaraLG84 @FreakyFwoof @graham sorry, I did mean to write that ---p does the octave tones. Why p? who knows. I'd love to be able to emulate this thing for ever.
#movuary day 12: This is not a keygen. It is, however, a sequence I made from memory after hearing one in the early 2000s, not having heard it for years before that. I have since heard the original. I got some notes wrong, but oh well. I'm keeping it like that. This also happens to be a variation on the Alf theme, composed by Alf Clausen. An Alf for an Alf. How convenient!
In 1998 (May 19, 1998, specifically), I downloaded some weird, not at all accessible MIDI sequencer thing. I don't remember the name of it. Seems like maybe it had the word art in it somewhere. Anyhow, I opened it, and clicked on a bunch of unlabeled graphics with my screen reader, which produced this odd thing in E flat pentatonic major. So, because I'm feeling very uninspired at the moment, I hooked a MIDI interface up to move, and another one to my computer, recorded this MIDI file into Move, added a drum track, and now I'm posting it here. The Melody is unedited from it's original, except for one note that I didn't like.
This is a much extended version of one of my earliest Move projects, using a bunch of samples I recorded of my Perkins Brailler from 1962 as the drum track.
Several years ago, @FreakyFwoof showed me an advert for gillette energizing moisturiser, featuring the phrase "Winter hates your face." Makes me laugh every time I hear it, especially the way this guy said it.
So, back in December, during a particularly cold, snowy day, I demucsed stems from it, so much as I could, and imported elements into Move to have some fun with it. This is the result.
Drums, bass, the vocal, and the mod-like power chord electric guitar all come from the original advert.
In December, I had a goal to cover Harold Faltermire's Axel F for the 40th anniversary of the movie Beverly Hills Cop, which was December 5, 2024, using Ableton Move, so I did that. Being a product of 1984 myself, it just seemed like a good idea. At the time I did it, this was the most complicated sequence I had ever done on this little four track groovebox. Don't think that's the case anymore. It's also a demonstration that you can really do a lot with only four tracks and a little creativity. There are lots of "but it only has four tracks" Move haters out there.
There is absolutely no way I will ever get the sounds exactly right using a tool like this. In this case, I'm aiming for close enough to be recognizable, both in terms of the sound and the sequence.
All sounds were stock, except for the kick and snare drums, which really could have been stock, but I found slightly better versions of those sounds in a sample pack and used them instead of the stock versions.
This is an idea that I sequenced originally in May of 2006 on my Yamaha Motif, now redone in Move. It's still about as finished as it was in 2006, I.E. not at all, really, but I'm posting it anyway.
I woke up this morning with the chord progression from Black Street's 'My Paradise" stuck in my head, so I moved it... kind of. It's also a good excuse to have some solo fun with a synth lead sound.
For this one, I hooked up a MIDI keyboard, though I played most of the e-piano part on the pads. I made about 90% of this sequence without using the Move's screen reader.
Well, yeah, but that's also the name of the track.
I woke up this morning feeling crappy, stuffy and headache-y, so I sampled a bunch of angry metal noises from a library called Black Metal, as well as a couple of Korg iKaossilator loops I made in 2016, synced using Ableton Link and sampled from my iPhone using a direct USB C connection (no external DAC), told my non-existent Sharp EL-640 to keep reminding me that it's Thursday, and made a track out of all that.
Appropriately enough, I was dealing with quite an annoying little bug in the current Move beta firmware while making this, so I was rather angry and annoyed. Totally fits.
Seems appropriate to post this today, though it's a thing I made back in October, then finished in November after getting my replacement Move.
I've been away from home for a little over six months, and I'm going back in a few hours, with trepidation for various reasons. Yep, time is up, indeed.
This is based around the dingdong sound from my Radio Shack Vox Clock II talking clock, and the spoken words "time is up." Also features a cheap Russian-made watch going ticktock in the background throughout much of the piece.
So, Onj sent me an unfinished set to play with, thus, I played with it. This originally had drums, keys, and a pluck/almost e-piano sounding thing. I added a sign wave lead and an organ, hastily recorded with my Hamond-suzuki XK-2 a few minutes before leaving for the airport, so I didn't have time to do anything truly exciting with the organ. It was a one-shot recording. Did weird broken stuff with the track, because jazz is broken.
This is what happens when I don't at all take anything seriously, and do something odd with the four random sounds it throws at me when creating a new set.
US Senate Democrats on Monday afternoon “to sound the alarm” that Elon Musk and his DoGE team were reportedly granted access to the federal government’s central payments system, which handles nearly $6 trillion and the vast majority of all federal disbursements.
Wow, it took them so long? Also, "alarmed" does not sound like a clear or concrete action to me. Many of us were "alarmed" two days ago... The time for alarm has passed?
Earlier this week, we reported that Meta had introduced a URL which forces the Facebook Mobile site on desktop browsers. This was working for some people, but it was not working for a significant number of others. Meta tells us they have resolved this issue now, and our tests suggest that this is correct. If the URL did not work for you before, you might try it again. It is: facebook.com/?force_mobile=1.
We emphasize that we do not consider this a satisfactory permanent fix, but it has given some accessibility back to desktop users who struggle with the main Facebook site. Our work with Meta is ongoing.
Same Apple Find My tech as an AirTag, but slimmer and rechargeable "...MagTag, the ultra-slim tracker that works seamlessly with Apple’s Find My app to ensure you never leave your essentials behind... " macworld.com/article/2592400/s…
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