For the past few weeks I've been working on a post (now a series) that investigates what JavaScript-based frontend development has done to these, the least of our brothers.
Today, Part 1: The Landscape
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Reckoning: Part 1 — The Landscape
It would be tragic if public sector services adopted the JavaScript-heavy stacks that frontend influencers have popularised. Right?Alex Russell
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Caltrain EMD F40PH-2 Locomotive (Used) — Caltrain Store
Own a piece of Caltrain history! These gently used, lovingly maintained 1985 F40 diesel locomotives could be yours. The historic locomotives come with 40 years of service, and more than 1,000,000 miles travelled.San Mateo County Transit District
This is gross, and further confirms Apple’s transition from innovation to rent-seeking, but there is a good solution: Stop having an app. Patreon would work just fine as a web site, no?
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Attached: 1 image Apple has informed Patreon that it will be kicked out of the App Store unless it pays the 30% tax for all donations.mas.to
For Linux developers, here's a page describing some of how to make your package accessible to the Orca screen reader.
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#accessibility #Linux #foss #Orca #blind
README-APPLICATION-DEVELOPERS.md · main · GNOME / orca · GitLab
Screen reader for graphical applications that use the atspi protocol, via speech or Braille.GitLab
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How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent millions trying to get a Nevada ballot proposal to restrict legal fees that bankroll cases against companies (Jessica Silver-Greenberg/New York Times)
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How Uber, facing sexual assault litigation, spent millions trying to get a Nevada ballot proposal that would restrict the legal fees that bankroll many lawsuits
By Jessica Silver-Greenberg / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Trump falsely claims Harris crowd was faked — BBC News
The Republican presidential candidate wrongly said AI was used on a photo showing thousands at a Harris rally in Detroit, BBC Verify reports.apple.news
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/repo today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:
* TgMonet Theme: Simple Monet themes generator for Tg.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Now in #Firefox DevTools 129: massive performance improvements, @starting-style support and accessibility fixes:
Jobcenter kürzt Leistungsempfängerin und Kind 100% der Bezüge. Betroffene klagt dagegen. Gewinnt. Das Gericht geizt nicht mit Worten:
"Der mit diesem Ergebnis rückblickend fatalen behördlichen Ermessensausübung haftet der Nachgeschmack eines von Klassismus triefenden, autoritär-gönnerhaften Selbstverständnisses ebenso an wie deren gerichtlicher Prüfung im erfolglosen Eilrechtsschutzverfahren."
Ja, das ist direkt aus dem Urteil S 12 AS 2046/22 zitiert: sozialgerichtsbarkeit.de/node/… via @why_not
Kodak photo businesses sold to private equity: Digital Photography Review
Well, fuck. Private Equity mean death. These are the corporate pirates. Raiding everything.
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Kodak photo businesses sold to private equity
Kodak Alaris, the company that sells photographic film and printing kiosks has been sold to LA-based Kingswood Capital Management.Richard Butler (DPReview)
More ISO standards on PDF accessibility are now available for free!
Today the @PDFassociation announced they are making three additional ISO standards - ISO 14289-1 (PDF/UA-1), ISO 14289-2 (PDF/UA-2) and ISO TS 32005 - available for download at no cost.
Big kudos to the PDF Association and to the following companies for making this possible: Allyant, Axes4, CDP Communications, and TargetStream Technologies.
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Best Glucose Meter for Diabetes & Blood Sugar Monitoring
These glucose meters will help you keep track of your glucose levels from the comfort of your home.Mercey Livingston (CNET)
A few days ago someone opened a GTK PR for Android support. That is awesome!
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Draft: Introducing new android backend (!7555) · Merge requests · GNOME / gtk · GitLab
I'm working on an Android backend implementation for GDK/GTK, with the goal of eventually merging it upstream. The aim of this PR is to establish a functional initial...GitLab
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spnego_gssapi: implement TLS channel bindings for openssl by Foorack · Pull Request #13098 · curl/curl
Channel Bindings are used to tie the session context to a specific TLS channel. This is to provide additional proof of valid identity, mitigating authentication relay attacks. Major web servers hav...GitHub
GNOME 46.4 Improves Connecting to WPA2 Enterprise Networks
GNOME 46.4 is here a month after GNOME 46.3, with improvements for connecting to WPA2 enterprise networks and more.LinuxToday
Daniel Stenberg on #curl's Journey: From C64 Demos to Internet Transfers. (I was on Nerding out with Viktor the other day.)
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Daniel Stenberg on curl's Journey: From C64 Demos to Internet Transfers
Welcome to another exciting episode of "Nerding Out with Viktor!" Today, we have a very special guest, Daniel Stenberg, the founder of Curl. For those unfami...YouTube
Aah, more #AppleTax. Thanks so much...
'Apple is requiring that Patreon use their in-app purchasing system and remove all other billing systems from the Patreon iOS app by November 2024. This means that starting in November, new memberships purchased in the iOS app will be subject to Apple's 30% App Store fee.'
Source: news.patreon.com/articles/unde…
Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon
Apple requires that Patreon switch to their iOS in-app purchase system, or risk being removed from the App Store. Here’s what’s creators need to know.Apple’s requirements to hit creators and fans on Patreon
About sex segregation in sports...
[Note: here "women" and "men" can be read as "cis women" and "cis men," but usually when I talk about women and men I mean all of them, cis, trans, nonbinary, and more.]
Despite what some people say, sex segregation in sports is NOT for the protection of women's health. Women are not that fragile.
Sex segregation in sports is for the protection of men's egos, which are that fragile.
We don't know women's true capabilities at the current moment. We are barely beginning to emerge from a long period of enforced ignorance about women's capacity for strength and athletic achievement. Example number one million or so:
For decades, the idea that “lighter is faster,” was the reigning mythology passed on by most track coaches when it came to conditioning, especially to endurance athletes. Coaches would encourage young female runners, who often have higher body fat percentages than their male counterparts, to lose weight to improve performance.Today, many women runners are flipping the script. They’re discovering how dangerous undernourishment can be – including the risks of disordered eating – and are seeking out coaching that supports proper fueling. The old model of coaching for thinness is gradually giving way to an emphasis on strength and stamina.
Undernourishment by athletes competing at high levels can have a number of bad health effects; one of them is bone micro-fractures. I have seen TERFs citing the prevalence of micro-fractures among women athletes as proof that women need protection from competing with men--but in reality it's evidence that women in sports are being systematically discouraged from adequately nourishing themselves.
Until sexism is eradicated, nobody can make any blanket statements about women's capacity for athletic achievement.
#Sexism #Transphobia #Misogyny #Sports #Olympics #Running #WomenAthletes
I continue to think that AI+law scholars should write less about regulating hypothetical future AI killer robots and more about regulating (or failing to regulate) the killer pattern-recognition death machines we already have.
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Tesla in Seattle-area crash that killed motorcyclist was using self-driving system, authorities say
Authorities in Washington have determined that a Tesla that hit and killed a motorcyclist near Seattle in April was operating on the company’s “Full Self Driving” system. Capt.TOM KRISHER (AP News)
Vivian Jenna Wilson (@vivllainous) on Threads
Let’s talk about the Walter Isaacson book. For those of you unaware, he wrote a biography about Elon in which I am featured. This is what I have to say on the matter. It’s a bit heavy, so bear with me.Threads
Authenticated media rollout continues (v important for homeserver and client devs!), an MSC to demo extending user profiles, an explainer on message security in Matrix, The Matrix Conference announcements, and more happened last week in Matrix!
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This Week in Matrix 2024-08-09
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMTRNord (matrix.org)
#Librem5 #PureOS
Community Member Monday: Khushi Gautam - The Document Foundation Blog
Tell us a bit about yourself! Hi, I am so glad to be a part of this community. I live in Delhi, India. Currently, I am a software developer serving at Amazon MiniTV.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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After 2½ years of war, Google is finally joining the sanctions against Russia and closing the AdSense systems, thereby preventing Russians from making money off ads, including ads on YouTube.
Russia was about to close down YouTube completely, so this is not an act of heroism, but proof that Google wanted to earn every last dollar before claiming to "do the right thing".
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in reply to Alex Russell • • •Part 2: Object Lesson
What hath we wrought? A case study of US public services and the JavaScript that broke them.
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Reckoning: Part 2 — Object Lesson
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SPAs and the frameworks built to support them are kryptonite to organisations that are not 110% across the complexity of the infrastructure they own and operate. This is a predictable recipe for disaster in low-maturity teams, both public and private sector.
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Reckoning: Part 3 — Caprock
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Unacceptable performance is the consequence of a chain of failures to put the user first. Breaking the chain usually requires just one insistent advocate. Disasters like BenefitsCal are not inevitable. Responsibility is always an option, and it's generally easier and cheaper in the medium to long run.
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Reckoning: Part 4 — The Way Out
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