This was decided earlier this year, a few months ago: Court Rules That Cars Can Be For Kids ("...chief operating officer of Kars4Kids, applauded the ruling. “While we respect Cars for Kids in Texas for its charitable work, we are thrilled the court recognized that we can continue to use all the goodwill and brand recognition we have built up in our name in Texas just as we do in every other state,” she said." thenonprofittimes.com/npt_arti…
I am so fucking sick of this "organization." All I hear are stupid advertisements. Do they do any real honest work, or spend all their money on stupid kids singing?
@remixman lol Some of it might go to kids, but "Most of Kars 4 Kids profits go to Oorah, a nonprofit serving Orthodox Jewish kids in New Jersey and upstate New York, with the same CEO, Rabbi Eliyohu Mintz, as Kars4Kids. " Which is certainly a bit odd along with the other practices like the Minnesota AG saying that "less than 1 percent of the money Kars4Kids raised actually went to kids in Minnesota." All of that is just not convincing to me, but they won the case in the end.
Holy cow, #Transitous-based #publictransit routing has just landed in the nightly version of #GNOMEMaps, and therefore the number of cities you can get transit directions in… has gone waaaay up! It can even route through a mess like Los Angeles' multiple transit authorities, or calculate long-distance trains!
On my second one, "Bile", I tried to add emphasis to "you was mean to me" using the "em" tag. It doesn't seem to do anything for the screen reader I was using, though. theawkwardyeti.com/comic/bile/
@blindbat84 That is so cool, thank you for doing this! And don’t worry about the comma pauses. I’m not sure which extension you’re using specifically, but generally extensions designed to read a page will do so pretty slowly kind of like an audiobook narrator. Screen readers do still pause for punctuation, but that pause is generally short and will get even shorter if the user increases the speech rate. This is how that comic was read out by my screen reader as an example and I actually slowed it down for this demonstration, I usually read faster than this.
@pitermach @blindbat84 Thank you! I have heard friends' screen readers before, but wasn't sure if the cadence would still be off at speed. I appreciate hearing the recording! I'm also going to download a proper screen reader too, per someone else's suggestion - the extension is obviously not a good imitation.
Did you know when using JAWS 2024, when focused within the list of running applications (JAWS Key+F10), you can find an app and press Delete. This will close down the application. Very useful if an app is running and you are having difficulty closing it.
You can also use the delete key whilst holding alt down when pressing alt+tab to close a window, rather than releasing alt to activate it. Not in JAWS of course because of it already using Alt+del as a hotkey.
Nothing appears to be working on a new pair of 'Ear Open' earbuds. What an absolutely fantastic headline! If you didn't know the company was called 'Nothing', you might think someone is complaining that absolutely no part of their new earbuds works as expected! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! Source: 9to5google.com/2024/08/27/noth…
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“Exciting news is on the horizon for AppleVis! We’re in the process of transitioning to a new home on Mastodon. Be sure to unfollow our older AppleVis account and welcome the new AppleVis on Mastodon . Stay tuned for updates—we’ll have some news to share in the coming days!
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).
McDonald's Instagram account, as well as the Twitter account of a McDonald's marketing director, began promoting a memecoin called $GRIMACE (named for the restaurant chain's blobby purple mascot). The posts to McDonald's 5.
I finally got around to linking @lloydi’s post “Context is king: long live the king!” from my own (which he references). Anyway, his post: tpgi.com/context-is-king-long-…
He also covers a couple variations where you can stack techniques for… an effect.
And he has a mini-tool (buried in a disclosure widget at the end) in there to generate the HTML/CSS for each scenario if you provide it the words.
Want to provide extra context in accessible names for buttons, links and other controls while retaining design integrity? Ian Lloyd shares some techniques.
Thinking of @glyph's proposal that we focus on boundary tokens rather than innovation tokens (blog.glyph.im/2024/07/against-…), as I yet again have to work around the boundary that Electron places between the main and renderer processes. This isn't even a case of multiple programming languages; it's JS on both sides. Still, I wish this UI component I'm working on could just access everything the main process can access.
📣 Announcing the 2024 Design System Report Survey by @zeroheight!
For the last three years, we've been asking the same question: “What's the current state of #DesignSystems?” And just like a regrettable backflip at Krispy Kreme, we're back at it again.
What's different this time is that we want to hear from more #Developers and learn more about how you build for and with design systems. Start here:
Since Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses are a topic of great interest, we mention this event tonight. Tuesday Night Huddle - Meta Ray Ban Smart Glasses Come and learn about the newest tech gadget that is taking the blind community by storm, the Ray band Meta smart glasses. Whether you are just getting started or have had your glasses for a while come learn and ask questions. Sponsored by Kentucky Council of the Blind Next Generation. More about this event can be found on the ACB Community call daily schedule.
Republican Party leaders seek to purge 225,000 NC voters ahead of 2024 elections, citing worries dismissed by state officials wral.com/story/republican-part…
The RNC and other GOP officials say North Carolina allowed a quarter of a million people to register to vote improperly. State officials say that's false, adding that the proposed GOP solution would violate federal law.
Reading through the French prosecutor's press release re: Pavel Durov and Telegram, it's still not clear what is going on, but the last three items are a big red flag.
@Blort Oh, thank you for the suggestion! We had considered putting them on Peertube but hadn't gotten as far as evaluating specific instances we might publish to. Conf.tube looks very promising!
The "load more" thing in @Tusky has reached a new level of annoying. Lately, it not only drops you in a random spot on the timeline, it corrupts the displayed posts. Notice in the before/after screenshots how it appears to have loaded one additional post. Look closer though, and you will see that the timestamps on the ones below have changed. Tapping one takes you to a completely different post (with the displayed timestamp). Those posts are actually a few pages down now. Pretty please fix this.
What I'd really like would be if the new scroll position could be below the newly fetched posts when "load more" is tapped near the top of the screen and above them if tapped near the bottom. That way, browsing would continue naturally regardless of which direction the user was reading from.
Participants in the AI Like That training course will receive information concerning how to get started by the end of Friday. They will also receive JAWS scripts for CoPilot and Replika. In the case of CoPilot, the scripts make working with the site far more manageable. In relation to Replika, a keystroke will take you to the most recent message but this is also read automatically. This makes it far easier for you to talk to your Replika. hartgen.org/ai
@DavidGoldfield yeah I heard about them from @marty thinking they have been around for a little while now. You can listen to "Evan Unmuted" and "Jonathan Price Unmuted" on Unmute Podcast feed to learn more about them
This video from Belgium looks quite similar to the videos from Czech railway crossing accidents with long vehicles. Except that here it does not look like a too steep longitudinal ramp but more like a not properly secured trailer.
Our Taiwanese community reports back from a recent event: The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2024 was held in Taipei from 2 – 8 August. This conference was suspended for several years due to the pandemic and was relaunched in Indonesia last year.
1. German crime reporter asks MS Copilot what it knows about him. 2. Copilot falsely accuses him of child abuse, fraud, theft. 3. Copilot asserts “it is unfortunate that someone with such a criminal past has a family” and provides his (correct!) address and phone number. 4. Reporter files a libel complaint, but prosecutors refuse to take on the case: it’s not a criminal offense because no person committed it.
Der Tübinger Journalist Martin Bernklau traut seinen Augen nicht. Im KI-Chat Copilot von MIcrosoft ist er verurteilter Kinderschänder, Ausbrecher aus der Psychiatrie und Betrüger. Die KI spinnt rum - und das kann jedem passieren, sagen Experten.
I love all my #fujifilm cameras. The X-Pro series, the X-T's and the X-H's, but again and again I reach for the humble X-E4. Love the size, transforms with/without grip, great image quality, handles a 16 or 35mm lens beautifully.
Is this my favourite Beaverton headline ever? I think maybe yes. “As covid rates skyrocket, health officials warn Canadians to wear plenty of sunscreen” omg 😂 thebeaverton.com/2024/08/as-co…
“COVID is over, you all need to accept that, and also maybe that it never even happened. But we can’t pretend the sun doesn’t exist, so don’t forget your SPF.”
The arrest of #Telegram's founder Pavel #Durov sets a dangerous precedent for what kind of action can be taken against supporters of #privacy & #cryptography.
There are lots of messaging apps similar to WhatsApp. Here's a review of the best secure alternatives: Signal, Threema, Telegram, Element, Wire, SimpleX, Session, and more.
To be clear, Telegram is an active vector of russia’s genocidal war against 🇺🇦, and its disinformation operations against the West.
Durov is a Kremlin asset whose platform, the West cannot afford to give free rein to when matters of national security for France, Ukraine and NATO allies are at stake.
As Goebbels famously said, “It will always remain one of the best jokes of democracy that it provided its mortal enemies with the means through which it was annihilated.”
Hi! Your comment re @signalapp is no longer true. No need to use a telephone number. Pseudo is enough. Please update your article :
— However, to use Signal one must provide a valid mobile phone number to the messaging service, which prevents anyone from using Signal with complete anonymity. Cons Others can see that your are using Signal (if phone number is known)
Telegram is not really supporter of privacy..E2EE is optional in DM's, no E2EE in group chats, colleting metadata, almost the same as whatsapp...if you treat them as private I'm concerned about using Tuta.🫠
It's okay, but you spread some false informations, not just confusing informations. Another things: signal is not anonymous, thats even the reason why session exists, telegram is not open source (most people use it on mobile, not on desktop). This is cool you try to popularize privacy messengers, but I think you should do more research for this article.
@Kierkegaanks I wouldn't recommend Telegram as secure/private, as least not by default. You have to enable it per chat and are E2EE group chats even possible? @Tutanota
folks, take a bit longer the next time you want to pitch in or comment about these issues, your take and attached blog post are flawed. Don't make me reconsider my revolutionary subscription with other takes like this one.
@alexaralvarado We are not defending the founder of Telegram because we do not know the full extent of the charges. The illegal content distributed through those channels is abhorrent and should be prosecuted.
What we are saying is that the inclusion of charges directly related to cryptography are concerning for companies building such tools.
We apologize if this message was less than clear in the post.
Keep up! Durov's arrest was NOT POLITICALLY MOTIVATED, nor (as everybody else pointed out) does Telegram *claim* to do to e2ee by default unlike Signal and Threema.
If you're gonna fight fascism and general snoopiness, fight ALL OF IT, or people (including me!) will vote with our feet and our wallets. Durov had it coming, as do his ruble-paying bosses.
@stonebear We are not defending the founder of Telegram, it is far too early to make an statements in that regard because we do not know the full extent of the charges.
Telegram is not considered a secure messaging app because it does not guarantee end-to-end encryption by default.
We apologize if this message was less than clear in the post.
SimpleX is currently the most anonymous and secure chat, above Session, as Session keeps some metadata from what I read on the internet. SimpleX relies on a network of relays (SMP servers): these ones can be joined directly or you can connect to their onion equivalent through Tor. This will give you an overlay to hide your IP. It uses Orbot on android for that. And you can install your own SMP server(s) if you want if you don't trust the native ones, connected of course to Tor.
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