Fellow comrades in #academia - there’s a very cool project launching called Science Homecoming, that allows you to find local papers from your hometown and encourages you to pitch them an opinion piece about the current attacks on #science and #highered.

I pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they got back to me in about 10 minutes saying they definitely wanted to see it. So think this is a simple thing to do with high impact potential

More info here 👇
sciencehomecoming.com/

Hey #GIS #GISChat people, @gvwilson from Toronto wants to commission some GIS data manipulation work, any takers?

mastodon.social/@gvwilson/1140…

Microsoft once again reminded IT administrators that driver synchronization in Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) will be deprecated on April 18, just 60 days from now.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr…

Hello all. As many of you know, I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: The Newsletter for months, but I've been on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier.

Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.

bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-te…

The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.

Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.

^{Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)}

now what

#unix_surrealism #openbsd #technomage #comic #fish #nosmoking

“DEI bad. Affirmative action bad. We should only care about technical merit”

Well this kind of thing is what happens when you have products that aren’t made by diverse teams. In this specific case, diverse just means from parts of the world with different weather. Now magnify that by a language or cultural difference or a disability and your product probably accidentally excludes a whole lot of people
mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy…

BasicAppleGuy

2025-02-18 15:39:52

"-2..."
UI like this makes me certain that no one on the iOS development team has ever lived through a real winter. ❄️

♻️ Are you an experienced engineer with C++ and .net experience? Located in, or interested in relocating to, the Copenhagen or Berlin areas (with work visa sponsorship)?

(I'm especially looking at folks for whom your home country has suddenly become unsafe)

Get #fedihired at a nonprofit doing research and modeling for water conservation and to combat the climate catastrophe

dhi.career.emply.com/ad/senior…

dhi.career.emply.com/ad/softwa…

(disclaimer: I do not work here, I just know someone who does)

If anyone uses Android with TalkBack and the onscreen Braille keyboard, please try to reproduce and report this issue:

In Talkback, if onscreen keyboard echo is set to words, and a word with punctuation after it is typed, TalkBack does not read the word when Space is typed. Similarly, if an emoticon is typed, like ":)" nothing is spoken when Space is typed.

Steps to reproduce:

• Turn on TalkBack, and open TalkBack settings by tapping once with three fingers. Set up the TalkBack Braille keyboard under the Braille section.
• Go to Verbosity settings, then the keyboard echo option for onscreen keyboards, and set it to "words."
Now, open a text box, turn on the TalkBack Braille Keyboard, and type something like "this is a test." Note the period after test. Then, swipe right with one finger to enter a space.

Expected results:

TalkBack should read "this" "is" "a" "test period."

Actual results:

TalkBack reads "this" "is" "a" and is silent after test is written.

I also put it up on Google's issue tracker if anyone wants to start it.

issuetracker.google.com/issues…

#accessibility #android #blind #TalkBack #Braille

#toulouse #handicap #loisirsadaptés #montagne #umen #handisport #Éducateursportif

Hey Mastodon !
Sur Toulouse, existe une magnifique association qui facilite l'accès pour les personnes handicapées à la montagne et aux loisirs de pleine nature: UMEN ( Univers Montagne, Esprit Nature). Pour remplacer Tiphaine, une offre d'emploi est lancée. La voici ci-dessous.
Boosts bienvenus.

Wir alle hinterlassen online Fingerabdrücke doch Google ist extrem was es sammelt – lest den Artikel:

»Digitaler Fingerabdruck – Google hat eine neue Ära des Trackings eingeleitet, die schlimmer ist als Cookie-Banner:
Da Google Ihnen die Möglichkeit gibt, das Cookie-Tracking abzulehnen, beginnt es stillschweigend, Ihre Online-Gewohnheiten mit Fingerabdrücken zu erfassen.«
– von @Tutanota

🕵️ tuta.com/de/blog/digital-finge…

#google #fingerprinting #privatsphare #datenschutz #daten #spionage #tracking

Digitaler Fingerabdruck: Google hat eine neue Ära des Trackings eingeleitet, die schlimmer ist als Cookie-Banner | Tuta

^Tuta

.bathroom {
width: fit-content;
}

#memes #css

🚨 BREAKING 🚨

#Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting.

❌ No consent
❌ No escape

Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇

tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerpr…

Changing every line three times

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/18…

Is there some magic making three times, or even pi, the number of times you need to write code for it to be good?

#curl

Changing every line three times

Is there some magic making three times, or even pi, the number of times you need to write code for it to be good? So what am I talking about? Let's rewind and start with talking about writing code.

^{daniel.haxx.se}