Alright, it's official. The dangerous & misguided Kids Online Safety Act (#KOSA) will go to a "mark up" vote in the House Energy & Commerce Committee this morning, Thursday, May 23. THIS IS JUST A SUBCOMMITTEE VOTE. WE CAN STILL STOP OR FIX THIS BILL! stopkosa.com
KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a free and open internet, tell your lawmakers to reject #KOSA!
Übrigens hat ein guter Freund von mir schon vergangene Woche Montag an die im Impressum angegebene E-Mail-Adresse und die #Behindertenbeauftragte der @stadt_chemnitz geschrieben, bis jetzt aber noch keine Antwort erhalten.
I plan on mentoring a summer project with a small team of undergrad students to add early data support to cURL over about 8 weeks starting in June. (#13528) I'd made a basic 8-week ish plan to help...
Wer Technik liebt, sollte etwas gegen #Digitalzwang haben. Denn nur wenn wir die Option haben, schrottige Technik abzulehnen, gibt es einen Anlass, Technik gut zu gestalten. Technik, die einem aufgenötigt wird, braucht nicht gut sein. Wir müssen sie ja so oder so nutzen. Wir wollen gute digitale Lösungen und fordern deshalb (und aus vielen anderen Gründen) Wahlfreiheit. Unterstützt uns dabei! civi.digitalcourage.de/recht-a…
I’m gonna try to start sharing more podcast episodes I listen to. Here’s a podcast that’s been around apparently for a long time, but I just started listening to it about three weeks ago.
Twenty Thousand Hertz: TikTok’s Boom-Bling (23m) castro.fm/episode/ivbvp3 really awesome to hear how a sound for branding came together. #TodaysEpisode
TikTok’s sonic logo is one of the fastest growing sonic logos in history. Today, that little sound is being heard millions of times a day on apps like Instagram, Reddit and Youtube… but creating it wasn’t easy.
Čeští hokejisté nastoupí proti Spojeným státům americkým s velkou pravděpodobností bez nemocného útočníka Jakuba Fleka, potvrdil po rozbruslení asistent trenéra Jiří Kalous. Patrně se pozmění i složení prvních dvou útoků.
Only the European COmmission can generate alt text saying: "People using a computer in a trusted way." I actually laughed. :) digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/…
The eIDAS regulation facilitates secure cross-border transactions by establishing a framework for digital identity and authentication. It aims to create confidence in electronic interactions and promote seamless digital services in the EU.
Such contextualized descriptions remind me of an article I read, I believe, on the German edition of The Local where a Britishman compared his own home to Germany. One of the points discussed how seemingly German pillows are harder than the British ones. The alt description read: "A typical German pillow".
Recht auf Leben ohne Digitalzwang ins Grundgesetz Das Recht auf Leben ohne Digitalzwang muss ins Grundgesetz aufgenommen werden – das ist die Kernforderung der Unterschriftenaktion, die Digitalcourage zum 75. Jubiläum des Grundgesetzes am 23. Mai 2024 (Donnerstag) startet und die sich an den Bundestag richtet.
Ohne App keine BahnCard, ohne E-Mailadresse kein Sparpreisticket, ohne Online-Account kein Arzttermin? Gerade werden mit hohem Tempo bestehende Dienste abgebaut und durch Leistungen ersetzt, die an ein Smartphone, eine bestimmte App oder ein Online-Kundenkonto gebunden sind. Ein Beispiel sind die beliebten BahnCards, die die Bahn seit einigen Monaten nicht mehr in physischer Form anbietet und für die nun ein Online-Account obligatorisch ist.
Recht auf Grundversorgung Die Forderung der Unterschriftenaktion: Die Wahrnehmung der Grundrechte und der Daseinsvorsorge, die Teilnahme am gesellschaftlichen Leben und die Nutzung der öffentlichen Infrastruktur (z.B. Post, Bahn, medizinische Versorgung) darf nicht davon abhängig gemacht werden, dass Menschen das Internet, ein Smartphone oder bestimmte Software benutzen.
Es geht um Teilhabe, Wahlfreiheit, gesellschaftliche Resilienz – und um Überwachung Denn Digitalzwang schließt viele Menschen aus: alte oder kranke Menschen, Menschen mit Behinderung und Menschen mit geringem Einkommen. Der Zwang, für bisher allgemein verfügbare Dienste nun ein Smartphone oder bestimmte Apps zu nutzen, führt außerdem zu immer neuen detaillierten Datensammlungen, die eine umfassende (kommerzielle) Überwachung aller Lebensbereiche ermöglichen. Digitalcourage fordert deshalb gemeinsam mit den Unterzeichnenden: Wir wollen frei entscheiden, wann wir mit einem Smartphone unterwegs sein wollen – und ob wir überhaupt eines besitzen. Wir wollen auch frei entscheiden können, welche Software und welches Betriebssystem wir auf unseren Geräten installieren. Dabei geht es auch darum, gesellschaftliche Resilienz zu sichern. Gesellschaftliche Abhängigkeit von digitalen Lösungen ist ein Risiko. Deshalb ist es wichtig, dass immer noch ein nicht-digitaler Weg zur Verfügung steht.
Das gute digitale Leben setzt voraus, dass wir Digitalisierung nicht mit Überwachung gleichsetzen und immer auch Wahlfreiheit haben, analog zu bleiben.
- Create a junk fee to make most developers unable to choose the "new term" - "Notarize" every app much longer than App Store review just to discourage developers - Allow apps which were forbidden for a decade in App Store to compete with 3rd party app markets - Create complete location detection system to prevent users outside EU to use any of these features
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Certain search engines have reached out to me since I made my list of search engine indexes asking to be moved from the Bing-based engines section to the semi-independent engines section because they have their own indexes.
All returned zero organic link results for some time during the Bing outage.
Qwant has contacted others (not me) regarding claims of Bing-dependence whenever it became a hot topic, insisting that it mixes results from its own index with Bing (something usually against the Bing ToS unless you somehow manage to negotiate an exception, which rarely happens and has finer details covered by NDAs). Has anybody seen evidence of Qwant using its own index? It’s one of the engines whose organic results went completely dormant during the Bing outage.
Oh yeah, that was the “DuckDuckGo outage” you heard of today. DDG’s organic results in most (all?) locales are just unpersonalized results from a Bing API with a custom commercial agreement.
at least some single word searches in some (but not all) regions were working. But there's also the possibly that they are caching common search terms.
I can't help you with your question but a note re. that blog post of yours: moose.at shut down in January of this year, so you probably want to remove it or move it to a 'formerly existing' section.
honestly #mozilla should focus on technology and #Firefox & #Thunderbird instead of #marketing and find a way to become sustainable without the money from #google
Stop the annoying crap like selling "color ways" as a revolutionary feature when you already have a far superior theming system.
And give your management less money until they perform in terms of innovation and sustainability.
Peníze Čechům, ne Ukrajině, hlásá SPD Tomia Okamury na svých billboardech. „Premiér Fiala na naši zemi kašle,“ prohlásil zase šéf hnutí ANO Andrej Babiš.
Bitcoin, Ether in Stasis as SEC ETF Decision Looms, Nvidia Hits Record High - There is a 90% probability the SEC will approve a spot ether ETF, one observer said, draw... - coindesk.com/markets/2024/05/2… #markets #bitcoin #ether #news #nvda
There is a 90% probability the SEC will approve a spot ether ETF, one observer said, drawing attention to the narrowed discount in the Grayscale Ethereum Trust.
Is there any chance we can encourage you to trend #NVIDIA when that's the company you mean, please? I know what their NASDAQ handle is, but #NVDA is much more widely known as the name of the screen reader we make and the #NVDA hashtag is very widely used for the screen reader. It will save both our communities polluting each other's feeds. If you'd like to find out more about the screen reader, our website is nvaccess.org/ - Thank you!
Sometimes it's the small things. We've added or changed our password field autocomplete HTML attributes so your favorite password manager will now offer to prefill your password, instead of suggesting a new one for example, and vice versa. God is in the details.
Deployed to 40k sites now, you know, small things.
You should add `autocomplete=current-password` or `autocomplete=new-password` to your `input type=password` fields depending whether you want the user, or their password manager, to enter their current password (like in the login form), or enter their new password (e.g. set your new password forms).
The common "repeat your new password" field should also have `autocomplete=new-password` attribute.
Arguments about taste are more common than ever before. The long tail makes it easy to find what you like, and to talk about what you don't. There's no accounting for taste, and that's a good thing. Because taste is useful. Flopping the toilet paper under or over the roll, Beatles vs. Stones, Chevy vs. Ford... the interactions and tribal identity that result from these discussions satisfies our need to be seen, to have agency and to be part of something.
Arguments about taste are more common than ever before. The long tail makes it easy to find what you like, and to talk about what you don’t. There’s no accounting for taste, and that…
@gabriel hehe, that photo is actually a little old. I eventually caved in and I have a slightly more organized cable situation now... but only slightly
@gbraad the left one of the drawings - of me (!) in a curl shirt -is from my daughter from maybe 10 years ago, the second (the curl laptop) is a newer one from @kushal's daughter. They're just great.
Would it make sense to use the timestamp of the git tag as the default value for SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH? Or have an option for the build script that does that? I think (some?) Debian packages use the timestamp of the latest debian/changelog entry like that.
Mona 6.3 is now available on the App Store, with a new Explore tab that let you explore trending posts, news, people suggestions, and local/remote/federated timelines on your own server and other Mastodon servers. Also, you can now add multiple following people or followers to your lists at once, unfollow multiple people at once, and remove people from your follower list. Update now on the App Store: geo.itunes.apple.com/app/id165…
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„Ihre Grundrechte können Sie ausüben, wenn Sie diese App herunterladen, sich einen Account anlegen und diesen mit Ihrem Fingerabdruck freischalten …” Digitalzwang begegnet uns an immer mehr Stellen. Wir finden: unsere Grundversorgnung muss für alle zugänglich sein – auch für Menschen ohne Smartphone, ohne Google-Play-Store und für alle, die nicht wahllos Apps auf ihrem Gerät installieren wollen. Wir forden den Bundestag auf, das Recht auf Leben ohne Digitalzwang ins Grundgesetz aufzunehmen. Jetzt unterstützen: digitalcourage.de/recht-auf-le… #RechtAufLebenOhneDigitalzwang #Grundgesetz #75JahreGrundgesetz
Good. Biden's appointment of Altman to the AI safety and security board is up there with his Garland and Fauci appointments. Bad decisions.
The man has been accused by those who know him in his own inner circle of being "not consistently candid" and if there's anyone who should not be deciding AI risk issues it's someone not candid.
"Scarlett Johansson scandal puts OpenAI's Sam Altman back in the hot seat"
The Kansas Wheat company, in the midst of the Great Depression, realized that the poorest families were reusing their sacks (containing flour and grain) to sew dresses for women and girls, so to make them more captivating they decided to print them with floral and colorful motifs. The initiative was a huge success: they made sure that the ink used for the logos would fade after a simple wash, and some bags even had the patterns already drawn on the fabric, ready to be cut and sewn.
Three tips for reporting inaccessibility to companies. 1. Be as specific as you can and provide solutions if possible. 2. Provide resources for developers to learn more about accessibility. In most cases, companies are just unaware of the needs of disabled users. 3. Include how to replicate the accessibility issue and what you think should be happening if the issue is not present. Learn more in our self-advocacy toolkit. nfb.org/programs-services/cent… #Accessibility #a11y
The purpose of good #caregiving isn't merely to perform tasks, it is to support quality of life, offer #kindness, and help the other person accept love.
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