for the fans of #Adebar I just added a new release: v2.3.1 has some minor improvements on standard apps listing, pulling gps.conf and running tools/getapk
Not many people heard of In Extremo, a German folk-metal band. Actually I wouldn't either if not for the #Gothic game. Then I started listening to them and I fell in love with their music! They did an amazing job, with for example Herr Mannelig taht is a Swedish ballad from the 19th century. Even the lyrics are comprehensible :). youtube.com/watch?v=bkX1iNUq6J…
Hi everyone! I'm checking out Mastodon. I'm a writer with 29 published romance novels. My book just out is The SEAL's Christmas Dilemma #writing #Promo, #AuthorPromo
The domain zwezo.o-k-i.net automatically creates mirroring #Mastodon #bot accounts upon any #Twitter handles put into their search field, without authorization by the original Twitter profile owners.
I doubt, this is #legal, under EU law at least & find it highly #disturbing, that anybody can create bot accounts referring to others, who are neither aware of this nor authorized this in person.
Today we introduced our #cat Ofi to a new member of the family. When doggie fell asleep, Ofi came out from her hiding spot and secretly marked his towel with her scent. 🥷🐈 🤝🐕
Feeling kind of blah and missing my keyboards, I pulled this thing out again. It's a silly thing I wrote in 2015 when my venerable Ensoniq TS-12 turned 21 years old according to the bill-of-sales sticker on the back, using only Ensoniq sounds, including SAMPLE AND PROGRAM disks. Everything was sequenced using it's on-board sequencer. Reaper did all the mixing. Don't take it too serously, I was just having a bit of fun. I wanted to represent a wide variation of sounds it's capable of producing.
The #Accessibility for the #Blind advent calendar: day 7 - Australia and New Zealand - expand the content warning to open the window and discover the interesting fact for the day
A lot of countries employ voting templates to allow blind votees to cast a ballot in local or state elections. It's the same in Poland and in my experience it has been pretty much prone to mistakes such as the ballot paper slipping a fraction underneath the template. This is why I was happy to learn that Australia and New Zealand employed the "voting by phone" system. Blind citizens of these countries are one of the groups elligible to vote by phone. In order to do that, one calls the central voting committee to register, is assigned unique credentials that allow the person taking the vote to identify the elligibility in an anonymous way. On the day of voting, the elligible person calls another number where only the previously agreed credentials are taken from them, the ballot paper is read and the vote is cast by telling the committee representative. Sounds simple and flawless but perhaps there are some security flaws I am not aware of that made it not a more globally adopted solution. Thoughts? ecq.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/p… #Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Australia #NewZealand #Voting #Phone
The #Accessibility for the #Blind advent calendar: day 7 - Australia and New Zealand - expand the content warning to open the window and discover the interesting fact for the day
Our municipality in Ontario did this for our local elections, actually. It was quite nice.
@dsearls and @katherined talk to @kyle about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more. Full episode here: reality2cast.com/133
Doc Searls and Katherine Druckman talk to Kyle Rankin about hardware supply chains, building the only USA-made mobile phone, trust, open standards, and much more.
With PureBoot Restricted Boot, you can lock down your boot firmware so you control the keys. Let’s see how you tighten down your boot security with Restricted PureBoot ⬇️
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Im November 2022 gab es eine Anpassung der Datenschutzinformationen bei giropay. Bisher war das Online-Bezahlverfahren in der Empfehlungsecke zu finden: Giropay: Wenn ein Online-Shop keine…
Und klar, das "Totschlag-Argument" gleich im ersten Absatz der Antwort:
"… Mittelpunkt des bequemen Bezahlens …"
Merke: Sicherheit + Datenschutz hat nicht "Bequemlichkeit" im Mittelpunkt. Wenn es Bequemlichkeit obendrauf gibt ist das super – aber auf Kosten der anderen beiden ist ein No-Go. Als Ausrede für's Datensammeln sowieso.
#Megalodon is a pink app for people who like the color pink, but Lucas' pull request convinced me to include color themes. Huge thanks to him – also for adding a mastodon-style logo text!
Some other new features include:
• Add push notification category for posts • Improved emoji search while composing • Poll answers not cut off, show own vote, always display vote button
Out now on GitHub – should be available on Izzy's repo and the Play Store soon enough!
Custom color themes by @LucasGGamerM
New "megalodon" text logo submitted by @LucasGGamerM
Better emoji search while composing
Tweaked voting (display own vote, always display vote button, don't cut...
Apple has finally killed its ill-conceived plan to scan photos for CSAM. This is a direct result of work by experts and activists. Speaking up is important and sometimes we win.
I'm old enough to remember people screaming about government surveillance, the same that now have a tracking device to use apps that track what they do and read (the smartphone).
So, yeah.
They let telco, and facebook do what they were uspet about the Govt doing.
For those using Braille Screen Input on the iPhone, did you know that there are navigation gestures now? You can move around the text by character, word, or line. Here is how it is done. 1, In Braille Screen Input, hold one finger down on any dot. You must keep that finger down during the whole process. 2, It will make a couple of beeps, then say, Exploring mode. This is the mode it has to be in, in order to move the cursor around. If you left your finger off the dot, it will leave exploring mode, so again, keep it held down. 3, Here is the 3 gestures needed. They all use 2 fingers. 2 finger flick up and down moves between navigation types; character, word, or line. 2 finger swipe to the left, moves cursor forward or right by character, word, or line. 2 finger swipe to the right, moves cursor backwards or left by character, word, or line. This is been demonstrated on several podcast, here is a link to one of those demonstrations. #iPhone #BrailleScreenInput #navigatingText #PodcastLinkovercast.fm/+mZq2BorXc/42:30
In August 2011, Los Alamos techs posed 8 plutonium rods on a work table to take a few photos.
Had these rods rolled into each other there would have been an instant criticality event. (Think "Demon Core")
Worst still, a supervisor who saw the display ordered the techs to safe the rods, ignoring the protocol to evacuate EVERYBODY (b/c even a hand could moderate the neutrons & cause criticality).
Images containing text should also have it as part of the alt attribute. In Microsoft Edge, using "Visual Search" in the context menu gives you the text in the image to copy and paste with one click. You can even crop the image to only get the text from that part. #accessibility
On the other hand, I wish it would show all the text from the feed, on the same page as the reader, rather than make me click a link to read it on its own page.
But I don't have to use the reader, and I don't see how adding a fake title to the item would help it.
Maybe I should try subscribing to a mixed feed such as scripting.com/rss.xml to see how it deals with that.
One of my favorite Twitter accounts was always Matthew Christopher's Abandoned America. Matthew closed up shop on Twitter and moved to Mastodon as @AbandonedAmerica. You should follow and support his work not only because we need more mid-size original content accounts here, but because his photos are FANTASTIC.
I think Stego is done with all the router fun we had. My website staging server is talking to our DynDNS acct again. Maybe Ill try and build something over the holiday weekend.
We say goodbye to our cable service and hello to....
(well just look at this bandwidth. The mountain has never seen connections this fast!))
Accessibility Acceptance Criteria - "Automatically generate test cases for Web, iOS and Android components…" magentaa11y.com/ by T-Mobile's Accessibility Resource Center #a11y
Christopher Byrd interviews the post-cyberpunk writer Cory Doctorow, about the monopolists of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the lessons of science fiction.
@woozle Excellent bit at the end of Doctorow's New Yorker profile on content moderation:
I worry that, because of the attacker’s advantage, the people who want to break the rules are always going to be able to find ways around them, and that we’re never going to be able to make a set of rules that is comprehensive enough to forestall bad conduct. We see this all the time, right? Facebook comes up with a rule that says you can’t use racial slurs, and then racists figure out euphemisms for racial slurs. They figure out how to walk right up to the line of what’s a racial slur without being a racial slur, according to the rule book. And they can probe the defenses. They can try a bunch of different euphemisms in their alt accounts; they can see which ones get banned or blocked, and then they can pick one that they think is moderator-proof.
Meanwhile, if you’re just some normie who’s having racist invective thrown at you, you’re not doing these systematic probes—you’re just trying to live your life. And they’re sitting there trying to goad you into going over the line. And as soon as you go over the line they know chapter and verse. They know exactly what rule you’ve broken, and they complain to the mods and get you kicked off. And so you end up with committed professional trolls having the run of social media and their targets being the ones who get the brunt of bad moderation calls. Because dealing with moderation, like dealing with any system of civil justice, is a skilled, context-heavy profession. Basically, you have to be a lawyer. And, if you’re just a dude who’s trying to talk to your friends on social media, you always lose.
I think Doctorow's touching on a universal truth: that any rules-based system ultimately ends up being a sort of barristered hell. It's why content moderation is so damned context-sensitive. And also why and how extremists on both sides of a divide can drive out moderates and give rise to a highly-partisan shriekfest. Closely related to SSC's "Toxoplasma of Rage":
Christopher Byrd interviews the post-cyberpunk writer Cory Doctorow, about the monopolists of Big Tech, the weirdness of crypto, and the lessons of science fiction.
One of the great things about coming over to Mastodon has been raising my awareness of alt text for images.
Including this by default when uploading files is a great move. Not only is it better for accessibility on this platform, but it upskills people on how to do this creating content elsewhere online.
One of the best resources I have found and can highly recommend is this webpage from Harvard: accessibility.huit.harvard.edu…
Alternative (Alt) Text is meant to convey the “why” of the image as it relates to the content of a document or webpage. It is read aloud to users by screen reader software, and it is indexed by search engines.
⏹️ My contract with Nomensa will end. I'm looking forward to support new people with topics like accessibility, inclusive design and improve all things organisational
Folks, I want to boost your lovely posts, I really do but I won’t if you don’t write image descriptions (alt text) so people who use screen readers can also experience them.
It doesn’t take long to write one.
And if you’re posting an image of text and you have an iPhone, you can select the text from the image with a long press and copy/paste it.
Sara, do you or anyone else know of a way test VoiceOver on Mac if we don't have access to a Mac? One of the perennial frustrations in the web industry is the assumption we're all on Macs. For many, Macs are well out of our budget ranges, but we still want to do the best we can with the tools at hand. Any advice?
New study: "Using a random sample of 300 English language open access journals, we assessed author guidelines to understand image requirements for submissions…We found that most open access journals do not include disability accessibility elements in their guidelines…While over half the journals had required parameters for image submission, none of them required alt text." osf.io/preprints/metaarxiv/zsj…
I’m not impressed by the Republicans who only now seek distance from Trump. I remember how long they followed him - and the depths of hell along the path.
Did they follow him for convenience or conviction? And which is more disgusting?
A leak from the European Data Protection Board reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:
The EDPB has decided that three Meta Apps (Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp) did not have a legal basis to process user data since May 2018. Meta's legal trick has been rejected.
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