The next episode of #AccessAbleton comes out at 12:30 EST today. In this one, we explored Live's browser, and take a look at adding your own folders to it in order to find your samples and other content more easily. Sorry for the delay with this one, I had some issues with Live's tagging system and wanted to make sure I knew what I was doing so as not to give out the wrong info. Link to the RSS feed: pinecast.com/feed/access-ablet…
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Not sure if you covered this yet, haven't had a chance to listen to the backlog, but I'd love to see you cover more granular editing techniques like the use of automation, the use of the Utility device/other devices in that class that let you do things Ableton normally doesn't super comprehensively offer. Thing changing the volume of only part of a track, or the panning of just one line of a vocal take for example. I know you can jump into an external editor and do it there but that's been my main hobble with Ableton so far; things that feel very simple but turn out not to be :)

Tramvaji jezdim v Liberci zridka. Vsude to mame kousek a navstev oblasti za nadrazim, kde by se tramvaj hodila, je za rok presne nula. I tak letos potkavam dost casto tuhle modrou smrt na novych karetne-listkovych terminalech.

Udelat to modre je za me dobry napad. Vina se prenese na windows a lide se vubec na chudactvo tramvajove ridicstvo nezlobi. Ovsem vcera jsem se dozvedel plot-twist. Tady se nic nesynchronizuje, ani zadna komunikace neprobiha. Je to aktivni stav toho zarizeni, ktery si muze revizor zapnout a vypnout magickou kartickou ... kdyz to vidam tak casto, tak si rikam, kdo jim tu magickou karticku vyfouk a jen tak ze srandy vypina terminaly v tramvajich.

Taky by se mi takova karticka hodila.

#lbc #liberec #tramvaj

Sen Paula Simons @Paulatics on the Senate passing Bill C-5 today w/o amendments bc they were "painted into a corner": #cdnpoli

"If we had made amendments, it would either require all the MPs to come back from their summer vacation and make the PM very unhappy, or we would have to wait until September ... and the PM had made a commitment the bill would be passed by July 1."

Then what good is the Senate?

cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.681…

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Senators have ONE job: be the sober second thought. You should have opposed it. I personally can't because the excuse of MP I have in my riding already called me extremist in the past when I disagreed with Bill the Senate let past.

Lot of people want to abolish the Senate. You just gave us the reason. And I'm am now agreeing with them.

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I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration.

It's of course just a big fat lie. Munich is since 20+ years growing their Open Source footprint. They are sharing and they are growing their use of open source.

opensource.muenchen.de

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Just so you know, #OsmAnd is celebrating its 15th anniversary with 50% off its plans, which you can now pay for directly without paying the 'app tax' to Google or Apple.

I highly recommend OsmAnd — it's a Swiss army knife for maps! Open source. Based on #OpenStreetMap.

osmand.net/blog/15-years

#OSM #map #maps

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Good news for Palm OS users! Python now now encodes 0x9b correctly as › instead of a control character!

github.com/python/cpython/pull…
#Python #PalmOS

Microsoft’s commitment to the European Accessibility Act aka.ms/EuropeanAcessibilityAct

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From Word Fluff to Real Impact: Achieving Specific, Measurable, and Accountable Accessibility theideaplace.net/from-word-flu…

Democracy & climate advocates, listen up! 🌍 On "You Are Not So Smart," Erica Chenoweth discusses the 3.5% Rule: nonviolent change with just 3.5% participation. Powerful insights for planet & people. #Democracy #ClimateAction #DigitalGov

youarenotsosmart.com/2025/05/1…

Don't miss Marcy Jacobs, Maryland's Chief Digital Experience Officer, on The #CXTippingPoint podcast!

She shares insights on building user-centered digital government, from her work at USDS/VA to Maryland's new Digital Service team. It's all about designing services around people.

Listen now: dorrisconsulting.com/thecxtipp…

#GovTech #CX #CustomerExperience #DigitalGov

Canadians, pay attention: Bill C-2 is a quiet threat to your privacy and civil liberties.

With so much happening around the world, it’s easy to miss what’s going on in our own backyard. But Bill C-2, now in the House of Commons, deserves your attention.

It lowers the threshold for law enforcement to access your private data—without a warrant. All it takes is "reasonable suspicion."

What kind of data?

* Internet and cellphone metadata

* Your location and activity logs

* Information shared across borders with foreign agencies

All accessed more easily under vague “exigent circumstances”

As a person who’s been accosted based on “reasonable suspicion” due to…. existing, I’m concerned that this bill expands surveillance powers and erodes due process protections that Canadians have long relied on.

I keep seeing arguments like, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”

Let me be clear: that’s not how rights work.

Free societies are built on the principle that the law protects the innocent—not that we must prove we have nothing to hide.

If you're concerned (and you should be), reach out to your Member of Parliament. Let them know you oppose C-2 and support real protections for Canadian privacy and civil rights.

You can read the full bill here:

parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1…

Let’s not sleepwalk into surveillance. We deserve better.

PS The Citizen Lab has an excellent write up citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-prelim…

PPS If you're a Canadian resident, find your Member of Parliament here: ourcommons.ca/members/en

#PrivacyMatters #BillC2 #Canada

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Wow. Solid majorities in the Liberals (60%), NDP (69%) & the Bloc (78%) all oppose Mark Carney using #BillC5 to override environmental regulations for fast-tracked projects.

angusreid.org/bill-c5-carney-i…

#CDNPoli #Canada

I. P. Pavlova je speciální místo ve vesmíru, kde se lidé rozhodli vyzkoušet, jaké to je, když zkusí dát dálniční křižovatku do blokové městské zástavby, mezi chodce, obchody a tramvaje. Bohužel jsem nenašel nikde informaci, kdy má tenhle experiment oficiálně končit, určitě je to jen něco jako Zažít město jinak, že se to udělá na chvíli a pak to zmizí, žejo?

#praha

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@bycx my se k veřejnému prostoru pořád chováme jako k parkovišti. Před panelákem v Luhačovicích, kde jsem bydlel, byla pěkná tráva. Jenže pak si někteří řekli, že je to super místo na parkování, aspoň to budou mít ke vchodu pár kroků. Rozjezdili tu trávu do bahna. Řešení? Ne, že by se tam daly zábrany nebo se ti lidi pokutovali. Vysypalo se to štěrkem, aby nemuseli vystupovat z auta do bahna. V zájmu pohodlného parkování jsou lidi ochotní obětovat cokoliv.
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@sesivany My jsme dřív bydleli v bytovce a měli jsme jedno vyhrazené parkovací místo. V okolí postupně narůstal počet aut až jsme se dostali do stavu, že auta parkovala kde se jen dalo. Pak tam postavili malou bytovku s obchody v přízemí a několika parkovacími místy, na které dal ale majitel zákaz a tak vzniklo parkoviště z odbočovacího pruhu. Od té doby stála auta jejich zákazníků pravidelně i na našem vyhrazeném místě, které bylo zase za naším zákazem.
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@bycx Trochu jsme to @honzajavorek unesli, ale taky musím poslat screenshot té naší nadmíru výtečné situace. :)
Dřív, když se ještě hrálo na nějaký civilizovaný veřejný prostor, byla u těch popelnic značka "zákaz vjezdu". Ta hromada aut vzadu, z nichž polovina je schovaná za křovím, stojí na dnes již bývalém trávníku, kde jsme si jako děcka hráli. Dívám se, že vpravo před vchodem jako mnoho let před tím i nadále parkuje pán ve svém vylítaném Audi 80, takže ti, kteří si jen chtějí vyložit těžké věci, a pak jet zaparkovat někde legálně, nemůžou. A takhle my si tu žijeme. Od Prahy až po malé lázeňské město.

In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.

creativecommons.org/2021/03/04…

The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)

#Copyright #CreativeCommons

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Oh, and the EFF leans the same way on "screw your creativity, big tech is right on GenAI".

eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-…

Which probably shouldn't be surprising given some of their previous "screw the humans, let's be absolutist" stances on other legal arguments.

#Copyright #EFF

What's not to love about third-party software injecting itself into Firefox and causing crashes in the Rust standard library?

github.com/rust-lang/rust/issu…

DeepSeek droht Rauswurf aus deutschen App-Stores

Der chinesische KI-Chatbot DeepSeek hat die Tech-Welt aufgemischt. Doch die Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte sagt jetzt, die App sei rechtswidrig. DeepSeek soll aus den Stores von Apple und Google fliegen.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/deepseek-…

#DeepSeek #Datenschutz #China

"Flaws in any (#curl) script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities."

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1776…

#curl

Purism is leading the charge with Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Security-ready devices built on:

Finalized NIST PQC standards

Liberty Phones with Made in
USA electronics

Full control over your encryption keys

Verifiable open-source software

A secure, trusted supply chain

Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-…

Europe’s at a digital crossroads.

Big Tech’s “Sovereign Clouds” are a Trojan Horse - servers in the EU, but still under US law (CLOUD Act, FISA): tuta.com/blog/sovereign-washin…

True digital sovereignty means European tech.

Together with @ecosia #Wire #MeisterTask and @Mastodon we want to empower businesses, governments and administrations to choose technology that protects Europe’s future.

#DigitalSovereignty is just #oneclickaway 👇

fireborn wrote an excellent series of posts about how badly accessibility is broken under #Linux. They include workarounds used, patches applied, patches submitted, and depressingly with things that worked a decade ago.

Naturally somebody volunteered to not read the series and reply with "first of all, it's GNU/Linux" as their opener.

*This* post is a line-by-line response to that comment.

fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

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You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…

… via lobste.rs/s/nwvary/you_don_t_o…

> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]

>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.

> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?

#linux #accessibility #gatekeeping

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