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“Given the press and popular support of using a specialized font as a remedy for dyslexia, it is critical to highlight that results from this study failed to identify any positive effect for using it. Currently, there is no documentation to support a specialized font is an evidence-based practice.”

Unfortunately, it looks like dyslexia-friendly fonts (Open Dyslexic, Dyslexie) don’t actually work.

pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/…

The effect of a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, on reading rate and accuracy - PMC

A single-subject alternating treatment design was used to investigate the extent to which a specialized dyslexia font, OpenDyslexic, impacted reading rate or accuracy compared to two commonly used fonts when used with elementary students identified .
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discuss.python.org/t/suspensio…

Oops, my finger slipped.

Really, just taking advantage of the fact that I am no longer formally affiliated with _any_ Python Code of Conduct enforcement to talk about the actual reality of being a Code of Conduct enforcer.

More importantly: The formal reprimand stuff? That sucks so much. No one likes doing it. It's worse because the number of cases that come back after needing a suspension are so few.


Suspension of Franz Király

I’m going to just step in as someone who has run multiple communities (including multiple Python user groups), and use modified CC for every community I’m in charge of.
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A great researcher I work with @carlysagan is looking for research funding or a remote position! It is really depressing how little funding is available to research the effects of satellite reentries... we REALLY need to get more scientists on this, because 1-5 Starlinks per day are reentering now and we don't actually know what that's going to do to the atmosphere... ugh.

mastodon.social/@carlysagan/11…

#GetFediHired

Carly Sagan (@carlysagan@mastodon.social)

Are people really being hired through Mastodon posts? I feel embarrassed to put my CV on here but I see a lot of people doing it and my workplaces and funds are illegally removing the only women and would appreciate any help finding remote work in ST…
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#getfedihired @Carly Sagan

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Today is apparently #InternationalPodcastDay, so how about our podcast #StroongeCast?
We're a husband and wife team consisting of Andre and Kirsten Louis who live in London. On this podcast, we explore anything that makes us question the world—from relationships and parenting to school memories and beyond. Join our family chats for lively discussions, fun stories, and plenty of curious moments.
Andre is blind whilst Kirsten is sighted, so listen as they discuss their life as a couple, what it's like to parent when you're avoiding all the toys on the floor and so much more.
Check us out wherever you get your podcasts.

onj.me/stroongecast

Onj.Me

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#stroongecast #internationalpodcastday
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#USA #israel #palestine #Hamas #Gaza #donaldtrump

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#Politique

Bravo à #AnnePernelleRichardot, l'élue #Socialiste de #Strasbourg qui dénonce sur #X :

"Le prosélytisme de la municipalité Barseghian".

Oui c'est une atteinte à la #laïcité.

Et Oui c'est du clientélisme.

#BoualemSansal résume parfaitement bien les choses :

"La gauche a abandonné ses ouvriers, n'ayant rien à leur offrir. Elle est allée chercher un peuple de remplacement."

#Strasbourg #Municipale

👇

#x #politique #strasbourg #annepernellerichardot #socialiste #laicite #BoualemSansal #municipale
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Whoah. TIL that yt-dlp (the command line video download tool) includes a crude JS "interpreter" (~1k lines of Python).

github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issue…

via @cfallin

Why can't yt-dlp's native JavaScript interpreter be improved to handle the new YouTube player JS? Currently, yt-dlp relies on a complicated set of regex patterns to identify the necessary functions in the YouTube player JS, and relies on even more regex to try and interpret that JavaScript code natively within Python. This code was already hugely costly to maintain. Any time YouTube changed something about their player JS, it would cause multiple maintainers to drop everything and spend all of their free time for the next 2-3 days trying to fix things. With the latest changes, the necessary functions are spread out all over the player and are much more difficult to identify. Continuing to use the regex-based approach would be far too brittle and far too costly (i.e. maintainers would be spending all of their free time for the next 2-3 weeks after a breakage trying to fix things). So the regex-based approach has been abandoned in favor of an AST-based approach (https://github.com/yt-dlp/ejs), which should allow us to respond much more quickly to changes in the player JS, even as its obfuscation increases.
Python code from yt-dlp's YouTube extractor showing a function that extracts and processes JavaScript function names, with regex pattern matching and debugging output

[Announcement] Upcoming new requirements for YouTube downloads

Beginning very soon, you'll need to have Deno (or another supported JavaScript runtime) installed to keep YouTube downloads working as normal. Why? Up until now, yt-dlp has been able to use its bui...
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Open source and federated systems are all about collaboration. But collaboration is not chaos. Come listen to @dinum 's @matmaul at the Matrix Conference, explain how it's opening its private federation to a select few, securely!

🗓️ October 15 to 18
🗺️ Kaleidoscoop, Strasbourg, France
🎟️ Get your tickets, but be quick!

conference.matrix.org/register…

A card with the profile picture of a speaker, Mathieu Velten next to the name of his talk: Matrix French gov deplotment: opening a private federation securely.

Register for The Matrix Conference

Join us for the Matrix Conference this October. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
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@MatMaul @DINUM
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My blog has a very basic comment system that uses Mastodon/ActivityPub. It's a bit cumbersome, but I never liked the alternatives like Disqus, because I always feared they would add enshittification at some point. Seems my gut feeling a few years ago was right. ryansouthgate.com/goodbye-disq…

Goodbye Disqus - Your injected ads are horrible

Disqus turned my clean blog into an ad-riddled mess. Here’s why I pulled the plug—for your privacy and reading sanity
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Přišlo mi ochranné sklo od dbrandu. Originální fólie, co instalují přímo v Samsungu, už byla dost jetá a navíc jsem ji poškrábal mikroutěrkou při čištění a už se to nesrovnalo. To jsem myslel, že ani není možné, ale asi tomu trochu pomohla IPA. Co se týče samotné ochrany tak si na ní stěžovat nemůžu. Displej mi vždy přežil.

Nicméně .. "idiot proof installation" skla od dbrandu dostálo svého jména a zatím dobrý. Žádný prach, žádné bublinky, sklo přesně vycentrované.

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❤️ Pošlete to dál. instagram.com/reel/DPNqxBOjNh2…

Politické komentáře on Instagram: "Vzkaz od pana Zdeňka Svěráka (prvo)voličům. Originál: youtu.be/HH5aOSwncg0?si=FhtQbHTAP5bJhCA_ #zdeneksverak #volby2025 #demokracie #jduvolit #ano #spolu #spd #starostove #stan #pirati #motoristesobe"

11K likes, 172 comments - politickekomentare on September 29, 2025: "Vzkaz od pana Zdeňka Svěráka (prvo)voličům. Originál: https://youtu.
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More and more governments and organisations are freeing themselves from vendor lock-in! The Austrian military has moved 16,000 PCs to #LibreOffice – getting vital digital sovereignty in the process: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Logo of Bundesheer

Austria's military switches from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

Like we’re seeing in Schleswig-Holstein, Denmark and many other government bodies and organisations, the Austrian military (Bundesheer) has migrated 16,000 PCs from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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This week's In-Process is out and it's a bumper edition! We've got:

1. NVDA 2025.3
2. Obtaining NVDA
3. Add-on of the week: AudioScreen
4. Chrome bug fix
5. Planned infrastructure outage notification
6. Bobby Singh – Finding Light Through NVDA
7. New issue template

Yes SEVEN articles! There's something for everyone :)

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-3…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Newsletter

NV Access | In-Process 30th September 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

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Great recap by @Tutanota on Chat Control and what needs to happen to protect encryption! Watch if you haven't: youtube.com/watch?v=ttuWR6ZtF-…

🚨 Chat Control: The EU Wants to Break Encryption & Germany Is The Deciding Factor

The EU member states are about to vote on the most dangerous law for online privacy in decades: Chat Control. This proposal would force scanning of private m...
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@Tuta

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The Description-Rich Story Hour at Lee Lifeson Art Park was a big success! Thank you to artists Shak Gobert, Trina Moyan, olivia shortt and to Lindsay Walker and Shak for their work on the tactile map enjoyed by Blind and low vision community.
Huge thanks to sighted guides Kim, Christina, Linda, Thanzeem and James; technician Gerald Grisonand; ASL interpreter Marcia Adolphe; Associate Producer Janis Mayers, Writing Consultant JJ Hunt, Arts in the Parks rep Holly Hebert and Anaïs Rozencwajg for capturing the event in photos!
The stories were recorded and will be shared in an upcoming podcast episode.
Subscribe to the Described Toronto Podcast so you don’t miss it! buzzsprout.com/2368549
#describedtoronto #blind #lowvision #storytelling #asl

Described Toronto Podcast

A podcast with rich descriptions of Toronto, its flora and fauna, inhabitants and culture.
Buzzsprout
#blind #asl #lowvision #storytelling #describedtoronto

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Mi maestra de piano tiene un podcast donde entrevista a gente del mundo de la #música. Tiene episodios con Gasú Siqueiros (Los Amantes de Lola), Gabriela Conti (especialista en ansiedad en el performance musical), y mucha gente interesante.

youtube.com/@Historiasenclave


Historias en clave

Hay quienes dicen que la música lo dice todo… pero yo no me resigno a quedarme solo con las notas. Soy Karla y esto es Historias en clave, un espacio en donde los músicos no solo tocan: también hablan, recuerdan, se ríen, se emocionan… Aquí, cada c…
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Vercel, Israel, Genocide

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This is a concern for anyone using F-Droid, including users of Privacy Browaer Android.

F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository – f-droid.org/en/2025/09/29/goog…


F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

For the past 15 years, F-Droidhas provided a safe and secure haven for Android users around the world tofind and install free and open source apps. When cont...
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Milk🥛

Здраствуйте,мне кажется они всегда хотели больше контроля,и хорошо что есть #opensource приложение,я не могу пожертвовать по личным причинам, но я занимаюсь продвижением #deltachat и возможно ещё буду #mastodon
трекеров всё больше и больше,в одной простой игре может быть 30+ трекера...😔
#opensource #Mastodon #deltachat

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From the "not everything is bad" department: We are down to 1965 levels of carbon dioxide emissions in the EU, after the high in 1979. We can and must do better, but this is going in the right direction. Source (possibly paywalled): statista.com/statistics/450017…

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Carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union 1965-2024 Carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union from 1965 to 2024 (in million metric tons) 1965 2.629,20 1966 2.675,20 1967 2.753,90 1968 2.934,70 1969 3.158,80 1970 3.342,50 1971 3.416,90 1972 3.559,10 1973 3.737 1974 3.665,80 1975 3.598,90 1976 3.849,10 1977 3.837,60 1978 3.871 1979 3.993,50 1980 3.946,80 1981 3.761,40 1982 3.671,80 1983 3.622,90 1984 3.659,50 1985 3.793,30 1986 3.802,90 1987 3.848,90 1988 3.818,50 1989 3.840,80 1990 3.833,50 1991 3.745,40 1992 3.627,70 1993 3.570,20 1994 3.524,80 1995 3.596,60 1996 3.696,70 1997 3.639,60 1998 3.637,10 1999 3.584 2000 3.544,90 2001 3.594,40 2002 3.603,70 2003 3.693,10 2004 3.701,60 2005 3.686 2006 3.715 2007 3.661,10 2008 3.587,10 2009 3.308,10 2010 3.389,30 2011 3.303,70 2012 3.223,90 2013 3.153,10 2014 2.991 2015 3.046,40 2016 3.073,40 2017 3.133,30 2018 3.078,90 2019 2.942,30 2020 2.582,40 2021 2.772,60 2022 2.754 2023 2.525,80 2024 2.483,50 Supplementary notes Excludes Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania prior to 1985 and Croatia and Slovenia prior to 1990. Data also excludes the UK. Energy Institute. (June 26, 2025). Carbon dioxide emissions in the European Union from 1965 to 2024 (in million metric tons) [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved September 29, 2025, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/450017/co2-emissions-europe-eurasia/

EU CO2 emissions 1965-2024| Statista

Annual CO₂ emissions in the European Union have reduced by more than 30 percent since 2005 to less than three GtCO₂ per year.
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I just pushed a new edit.video release. 🔥

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