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Twitter bans users from linking to other social media platforms like Instagram and Mastodon 9to5mac.com/2022/12/18/twitter…

Twitter bans users from linking to other social media platforms like Instagram and Mastodon - 9to5Mac

On Sunday, during the World Cup, Twitter officially banned its users from linking to their profiles on other social media sites like Mastodon, Facebook and Instagram. Mentions of other platform handles are also now banned.
Benjamin Mayo (9to5mac)

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Show image Description in Fancybox?

Hi grischa@friends.brockha.us CC @Friendica Support

Does fancybox add-on currently support displaying the image description (more formally, the content of the "alt" attribute of the img tag), and if yes, how / where? If no, do we want to add it?

@Friendica Support @Grischa
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Marek Bachmann

That is really great. Thank you very much! ❤

I would assume, that blind people don't use fancybox


I think it is not on us to decide it, and I am convinced by the slogan "a good inclusion measure is beneficial to anybody".

To be honest I got very quickly used to read the descriptions by myself since I often find it interesting how people describe their content and in some rare cases it helped me to understand what I "see" on the image in the first place. :-D

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This year's FIFA world cup has audio description that can be listened to from anywhere in the world. To access it, grab the FIFA interpreting app on Android or iOS, and enter Lusail's code ADCLUS as the event code. English and Arabic commentary can be chosen. #accessibility
#Accessibility

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Mohammad Nasiri.

In Iran, 21 year old Mohammad Nasiri has been sentenced to death for waging war with God by giving out chocolates and free hugs at recent protests.

Mohammad Nasiri.

He hasn't been executed yet. The Iranian authorities are feeling immense pressure to change course both from within Iran and internationally.

Mohammad Nasiri.

Say his name. It might help keep him alive.

#MohammadNasiri
#Iran
#HugsChocolates
#WomanLifeFreedom

iranwire.com/en/politics/11131…

Iranian Student Faces Death Penalty After Distributing Chocolates And Hugs

By Akbar Sultani, citizen journalist in QazvinIn the early days of Iran’s protest movement calling for more freedoms and gender equalit ...
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#iran #mohammadnasiri #HugsChocolates #WomanLifeFreedom

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Photograph of #Mastodon founder #JoanMastodon from the early 1960's. Mastodon is seen manually transcribing telegraphed toots into the first ever instance (in background). Mastodon gained late fame when she was banned from Twitter while being mistaken with a guy called #JohnMastodon who actually never existed.
#Mastodon #johnmastodon #joanmastodon
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‘By saying that numerous, completely benign Mastodon servers are harmful, they make it more difficult to tell when there's an actual threat. It's a betrayal of the very simple idea that you should only tell people something is dangerous when it's actually dangerous.’ —@maxeddy for PC Magazine

Something to think about.

pcmag.com/opinions/elons-masto…

Elon's Mastodon Vendetta Makes Us All Less Safe

By flagging benign links to Mastodon servers as "potentially harmful," Twitter is making it harder to tell when a threat is real.
Max Eddy (PCMag)
@Max "Buzzworthy" Eddy

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Nach Datenskandal durch YouTuber: Gericht befasst sich mit Akten in alter Klinik
heise.de/news/Nach-Datenskanda…

Betreiber fühlt sich nicht zuständig, tja...

#datenschutz

Nach Datenskandal durch YouTuber: Gericht befasst sich mit Akten in alter Klinik

Ein YouTuber filmt in einer stillgelegten Klinik, deckt einen Datenskandal auf. Nun läuft ein Prozess, weil dort bis heute sensible Akten lagern.
Gregor Bauernfeind, dpa (heise online)
#datenschutz

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Thanks again to killer_machine_0. Using her photos as references is a great pleasure and helps me to learn, Check out her instagram account 🥰❤️❤️
#manga #mangaart #mangadrawing
#mangadrawing #manga #mangaart

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As Twitter kicked me out of the so-called digital town square, I'm trying to embrace the open source Mastodon with high hopes.
Please say hello and help me to navigate through this new app.
#newbie #hello #India #twitter
#India #twitter #newbie #hello

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Twitter right now is on fire.

This jackass is the best thing to happen to the fediverse, imagine spending 44 billion dollars on an ad campaign for your competitors 😂

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Let us be very clear: Musk is suggesting that journalists should be arrested for reporting on him and his company.

This is fascism, folks.

Just plain, unadulterated fascism.

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Gwen Snyder is uncivil

Elon is out of the same tech futurist VC circles as Peter Thiel, who openly believes that journalism as an institution should be destroyed.

Literally.

Thiel was behind the Gawker suit.

Same idea: destroy journalists and their platforms as punishment for reporting on the rich.

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God, please, could Manjaro GNOME stop shipping my Firefox theme by default to their users?

My theme got broken for a few days after the Firefox 108 release, and some Manjaro users got a broken UI without knowing why.

This is the reason why I put an advice in my repo half a year ago.

(reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/…)

r/firefox - Firefox updates it self and now my tab bar looks like this......

16 votes and 10 comments so far on Reddit
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Smutná zpráva ze Zlína. Včera zemřel po dlouhé těžké nemoci ve věku 80 let zlínský spisovatel Antonín Bajaja. Za román Zvlčení obdržel v roce 2004 ocenění Magnesia Litera, v roce 2010 za knihu Na krásné modré Dřevnici pak Státní cenu za literaturu.

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Quick shout-out to everyone who’s made me feel welcome here by commenting, following, interacting, and offering up Mastodon tips. #BlackMastodon fam, you inspire me. Moderators and veteran Mastodonians who’ve been here for a while and get it, you rock. And new arrivals, it gets better. Just give it time. Have a great day, Beloveds!
Show of hands: Who’s up for some cake and beer?
#blackmastodon

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FYI we are considering adopting @matrix based tools for future hpc.social feature additions, starting with perhaps an element.io/ service. If you have opinions on any of these or related topics, please let me know or post an idea on the discussions page at github.com/hpc-social/hpc-soci…

Welcome to HPC.social!

A welcome to our high performance computing community!
Alan Sill
@The Matrix.org Foundation

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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 17 - Poland
Today's highlight is not strictly accessibility-related but it is in itself accessible and definitely makes electronic payments in Poland quick and painless for everyone.
Blik is a Polish payment system that is based on six-digit codes entered as a confirmation of payment on the website where you want to make a transaction. The way this is used is the following:
1. You open the app of your bank on your phone and press the Blik button. Sometimes banks will place this feature under the app's shortcuts so starting straight from the homescreen or through a shortcut you yourself created is definitely possible.
2. A six-digit code is generated and it is read out to you. You can remember or copy it and from that moment you've got 120 seconds to finish the transaction.
3. You enter the code on the website or in the app where you're trying to complete a transaction.
4. You return to your banking app to confirm the amount to be paid through the biometric authorization method of your choice or a PIN code. In my banking app the time limit is counted down with each second being marked with a chaptic feedback of my iPhone.
Note: meanwhile regular payment terminals already support Blik and more and more shop assistants know how to activate it so the phrase "Poproszę Blikiem" ("By Blik, please") is more commonly heard.
Another component of the system are the P2P micropayments to a mobile phone where it is enough to enter the other party's phone number to make or request a payment straight from the banking app.
I believe similar systems function in other countries but are mostly QR-code based and require a separate app. I find this way much handier. Also, it is universal across all major Polish banks.
blik.com/en/how-to-use-blik
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Shopping #Banking #Mobile #Poland

How to use BLIK

BLIK in a blink of an eye! Pay for your purchases, wherever you are, in a few moments, with BLIK`s fast and secure payments!
blik.com
#Accessibility #mobile #blind #Poland #adventcalendar #shopping #banking

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Was taking a look at the Bayes rules book. Unfortunately the variable names (probably Greek letters?) are not read accessibly. It's a pity because there's a lot of work on the alt text for the diagrams and such, for instance.

Bayes Rules! An Introduction to Applied Bayesian Modeling

An introduction to applied Bayesian modeling.
www.bayesrulesbook.com
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modulux

Ah, thanks a lot, installing MathPlayer makes it possible (though not pleasant) to read the maths. For some reason the shortcut nvda-alt-m still doesn't work (tells me not math), but the variables and formulae are read. Though the intonation and high pitch are pretty annoying. I didn't know MathPlayer was still necessary.
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miki

@modulux You can go to the formula and press enter to interact with it. If you can get MathJax to work, that’s better, if not, the MathPlayer applet in control panel has some settings that are worth adjusting. The default settings assume that you know nothing about math and make MathPlayer think for you instead of reading the raw visual notation.
@modulux

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Why have I never heard of the translate attribute in HTML? 25 years in and HTML still delights me.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…

translate - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The translate global attribute is an enumerated attribute that is used to specify whether an element's translatable attribute values and its Text node children should be translated when the page is localized, or whether to leave them unchanged.
developer.mozilla.org
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 1 new apps:

* Ankiconnect Android: utilize the standard Anki mining workflow on phones, eReaders & more

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid & the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo
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Izzy

@User_Mastodon as the first paragraph of the info page (apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/i…) states: the resp. developers:

"official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories"

Information on IzzyOnDroid's F-Droid compatible repo

how to use this site and its repo, how to get your app listed here, and more.
IzzyOnDroid App Repo

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Du bist #neuhier und liest gerne #ebooks ? Der gute @IzzyOnDroid hat eine eBook Library mit tausenden freien ebooks.

Mit #opds Katalog.

ebooks.qumran.org/

Izzy's freie Bibliothek

Katalog mit freien eBooks (Public Domain, Creative Commons): kostenlos und ohne Anmeldung stöbern und herunterladen!
ebooks.qumran.org
#neuhier #eBooks #opds @Izzy
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Izzy

Gerade wieder ein wenig aufgestockt (10 neue #eBooks gingen gerade hoch). Zum Beispiel dies hier:

"Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch: Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente unter Verwendung einfachster, meist selbst herzustellender Hilfsmittel" mit Dingen wie "ich bau mir ein Telefon" :awesome:

ebooks.qumran.org/opds/index.p…

Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch: Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente unter Verwendung einfachster, meist selbst herzustellender Hilfsmittel

Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch Untertitel: Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente unter Verwendung einfachster, meist selbst herzustellender Hilfsmittel Autor: Eberhard Schnetzler Herausgeber: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesells…
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#eBooks

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TIL: Contrary to commonly-used hacker catchphrases, yaks are not shaved, they are combed. Yak hair is of very good quality and highly in demand.

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"African American cemeteries that are deemed abandoned or untended have routinely been treated as little more than a nuisance in the path to development. Historic preservation laws and regulations rarely protect them"

Developers found graves in the Virginia woods. Authorities then helped erase the historic Black cemetery. - ProPublica apple.news/AYhJaGmR_THahvC6YWI…

Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery. — ProPublica

The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
apple.news

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In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.

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New drawing: Santa's Christmas Bike

See more diagrams from my Odd Bikes series here: davewalker.com/oddbikes/

#oddbikes #christmascartoon #santa #christmas #christmasart #santacartoon #cycling #ActiveTravel #BikeTooter

Odd bikes - Dave Walker

Odd bikes, a cartoon series by Dave Walker. Various unusual cycles.
Dave Walker
#cycling #christmas #oddbikes #christmascartoon #santa #christmasart #santacartoon #activetravel #biketooter
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