Thanks to everyone who has boosted my open letter calling on entities that engage with the #blind community to come to Mastodon.
At the time of writing this post, we have around 330 signatures. That’s far fewer than those who have kindly boosted the petition here and just a tiny fraction of the blind community who has made the move to Mastodon.
If you’re concerned about missing out on engagement with organisations of the blind, some assistive tech companies, companies with #accessibility accounts and more, please add your name to the letter. It is going to have more impact the more signatures it gets.
Want to do more? Contact an organisation you want to see here, respectfully asking why they’ve not made it here yet and pointing out the benefits.
Also on the #LivingBlindfully podcast, we’ll have a section mentioning those entities that have responded to the call and made the move here.
Thank you.
bit.ly/BlindMastodon

The BC Court of Appeal has dismissed the appeal of my anti-SLAPP application. Proctorio’s lawsuit, which has already taken a massive toll on me and my family, will continue to do so for the time being. It isn’t over, as I had hoped.

My statement: linkletter.opened.ca/stand-aga…

Kerim Safa - Factory of Nothing #pixelart #gif

"Factory of Nothing" is a manually-crafted digital animation that depicts an imaginary automated manufacturing system that does not produce anything.

[Source: kerimsafa.com/pixels/factory-o…]

The BC Court of Appeals ruled against @Linkletter.

Covered by @pluralistic here pluralistic.net/2023/04/20/lin…

“For starters, it finds that publishing a link can be a "performance" of a copyrighted work, which meant that when Linkletter linked to the world-viewable Youtube files that Proctorio had posted, he infringed on copyright.”

This is incredibly bad and continues Canada’s record of not really understanding the Internet.

Help Sustain AzuraCast!

tl;dr: Times are tough. Please help support AzuraCast's continued development if you can, and please boost: donate.azuracast.com/

Hi everyone! I'm Buster Neece, creator and lead maintainer of AzuraCast. It's hard to believe I've been working on this labor of love for over seven years now. In that time, I've seen this project go from a small hobby endeavor to a sincere contender in the web radio space up alongside its commercial counterparts. It's been amazing to see!

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In those seven years, though, the basic cost of living where I am has skyrocketed. I can't keep up now, and I'm worried about the future.

When you support AzuraCast, you're not just supporting new features, you're funding the time I spend on bug fixes, security patches, accessibility, and constantly adapting AzuraCast to a changing and updating software ecosystem around it. It's a LOT more work than it looks like. Just see for yourself: github.com/AzuraCast/AzuraCast…

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I work very hard on AzuraCast because I believe in it. I keep it open-source because those principles matter to me, and I build software that is meant to be used by everyone, regardless of income or disability.

Unlike other services that charge a monthly fee, though, we don't have a predictable revenue stream. That makes even things like rent and groceries difficult. It's been even harder now, and that's why I need the community's help now more than ever.

Thank you. 💖

64 bits of coremem. This is probably the pitch I'll use if I make a big plane. It's surprisingly quick to lace the write lines once you learn a few tricks, so much so that I'm less inclined to design a jig to do it. (The sense line however is likely going to suck so I have this board set up for four sense lines if necessary.) 32ga wire as I've determined that the required current is less than 300mA.

Coming up live at 01:00 UTC (9:00 PM Eastern, 6:00 Pacific in the Americas): an hour of Smooth Jazz, Chillout, and Easy Listening music on Smooth and Easy with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/smooth. Tune in at theglobalvoice.info and click on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Elon Musk removes Twitter’s ‘government-funded media’ labels after outlets flee the platform

theverge.com/2023/4/21/2369244…

Was the SpaceX Starship’s launch a failure or a success?

Ars Technica says "For those who know a bit more about the launch industry and the iterative design methodology, getting the Super Heavy rocket and Starship upper stage off the launch pad was a huge success." The company's development process is messier, but it's also much faster, says author Eric Berger.

arstechnica.com/science/2023/0…

#Space #SpaceX #NASA

I really enjoyed this - youtube.com/watch?v=DhUFLepewg… - an explanation of Yunchan Lim’s gold-medal performance of Rachmaninoff's 3rd Concerto, here in full: youtube.com/watch?v=DPJL488cfR…

I love this class of "let's dig into and understand the reasons experts are falling all over themselves about how great this [whatever] is" video, presentations that get deep into the details of what really experienced people are seeing, when they're seeing greatness. It makes a class of appreciation very accessible.

Falsche Behauptungen: So unseriös machen einige Kinderrechtsorganisationen für die #Chatkontrolle mobil
netzpolitik.org/2023/falsche-b…
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@Gerhard Hallstein du kannst auch direkt auf squeet.me/register gehen (sofern du als @Gerhard Hallstein eingeloggt bist), dass Passwort dort ist das von @Gerhard Hallstein, bei dem neuen Account folgst du dann wieder dem RSS feed und teilst die Beiträge als deine eigenen.
Die Accounts von dir sind dann auf squeet.me/settings/delegation, dort kannst du zwischen diesen umschalten.
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Best thing from this video to me is Secondary audio being able to be encoded in Doby atmos. Maybe companies will bother to give us more than mono for described audio tracks. EWWW youtube.com/watch?v=BOE1iH9aIg…

I don’T know if it’s that this video is very much google-centric, or if this guy is just a very bad actor, but when he sees Bard for the first time, his reaction is so over the top: youtu.be/880TBXMuzmk

This morning I asked myself “Should/can I use details/summary in our pattern library”? For this specific project the answer is probably “No”. You can find details in this blog post.

matuzo.at/blog/2023/details-su…

Tento víkend volíme nové členy do Republikového výboru #pirati - "Pirátského parlamentu". Jak taková volba vypadá?

1. Oficiální jednání: forum.pirati.cz/viewtopic.php?…

2. Různé diskuze (online na jitsi nebo fyzicky/online na oblastních schůzích) s kandidáty.

3. Hlasování: helios.pirati.cz/helios/e/cf-4…

The AI ChatGPT has not been built for privacy - will the EU now stop this popular tool? 🧐

The ban of ChatGPT in Italy has sparked a Europe-wide debate between those who are enthusiastic & those who warn against it.

Read more! 👇
tutanota.com/blog/posts/chatgp…

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ChatGPT wurde nicht für den Datenschutz entwickelt - wird die EU dieses beliebte Tool jetzt stoppen? 🧐

Das Verbot von ChatGPT in Italien hat eine europaweite Debatte zwischen Befürwortern und Gegnern ausgelöst.

Lies mehr! 👇

Elon Musk is Paying to Have High-Profile Twitter Users Keep Their Checkmark thurrott.com/cloud/282140/elon…

The Akan #Wikipedia has been closed because...it's not an actual language, it's a language *family*. Instead, efforts have moved to Wikipedias in the #Twi and #Fante languages, the latter of which was just created today!

aharoni.wordpress.com/2023/04/…

diff.wikimedia.org/2023/04/20/…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akan_lan… (:languages: in other languages: w.wiki/6cJy)

Editors are now moving the content from Akan Wikipedia into the Twi and Fante versions accordingly.