I often remind people that the progress we have made, be it rights we have won or technology that is accessible, has come about because brave advocacy pioneers knew that blind people are worthy, that we do not choose to be second-class citizens. That being able to maximise our potential is a human right.
Sometimes, people don’t believe we can change anything, so figure we may as well suck it up and accept the status quo.
Well, a few weeks ago, a group of blind leaders took on Vision Australia, after they said they weren’t going to advertise externally for their CEO. This significantly constrained the pool of blind talent from which the Vision Australia Board could pick. And make no mistake, we need more blind people leading the organisations that serve us. Lived experience matters when you’re a minority. And it certainly isn’t right that capable blind people are too often passed over for leadership roles in our own organisations. It is with great pleasure that I pass on the following message from Emma Bennison.

🎉 Victory for Blind Leadership! 🎉
United Blind Leaders is excited to announce a major step forward in our campaign! Thanks to the incredible support of 1,408 signatories, Vision Australia has revised its CEO recruitment process. The Board has confirmed that lived experience of blindness or low vision will now be a desirable attribute for the new CEO, and the search will be conducted externally with a focus on removing barriers for blind and low vision applicants.
This is a huge win, but our work is far from over. United Blind Leaders will keep pushing for blind and vision-impaired representation in leadership roles at all levels in Australia and globally.
📣 Join our movement! Stay connected by joining our mailing list and be part of our future campaigns: UnitedBlindLeaders.org
Together, we’re making a real difference! 🙌 #UnitedBlindLeaders #BlindLeadership #Inclusion #DisabilityAdvocacy.

That is Emma’s message. Congratulations to all involved. And to all reading this, never doubt, you can make change when you stand up for what is right. Know your power, and use it for good.

I'm not a Mozilla insider or anything but I took a look at their bylaws and afaict they have a self-perpetuating board, which means they're not formally accountable to anyone.

I prefer a member elected board (like the PSF has). It's hard for leadership to stray too far from member values when they're elected by members.

I know too many self-perpetuating boards who destroyed what they were supposed to be safeguarding, or even enabled abuse.

Governance matters.

rust2rpm turn:

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so what? where is it?

Tune in for our latest episode of the Nations Blind Podcast where we cover your questions and concerns about voting as a blind person. We’re featuring experts who provide resources and information about accessible ballots, the Help America Vote Act (HAVA), voting advocacy efforts and more.

Listen to this episode on our website: nfb.org/resources/publications…

📱 Vanaf vandaag, 16 september, wordt het nog eenvoudiger om in te loggen met de DigiD app. Gebruik nu gezichtsherkenning of je vingerafdruk op zowel iOS als Android toestellen.

Uiteraard staat veiligheid voorop. DigiD introduceert deze biometrische inlogmethoden nu, omdat ze inmiddels voldoen aan de strenge veiligheidsnormen van DigiD.

Wil je meer weten? Lees hier verder. ➡️ logius.nl/actueel/inloggen-met…

#DigiD #Biometrie #Innovatie #Veiligheid

Mozilla is leaving the Fediverse to spend more time with its AI. They ask that during this transition you please respect their 404..

techcrunch.com/2024/09/17/mozi…

Here's an example of a feature request that the fediverse could give me but corporate social media probably never will.

I want the ability to put a follower in "lurker" mode. I don't want to block them just because they're a little obnoxious. That's too strong. But I would filter them so I don't have see their messages. And they can assume I'm just ignoring them. That may seem harsh as well. But honestly most people tell me they would prefer that to me telling them they're being obnoxious 😅.

For some reason, I rarely advertised the fact that my music is also available on #Apple #Music (as well as on other streaming outlets).
The following tune was recorded with a few outstanding musicians, including @FreakyFwoof, Jason Castingway and others.
Plz follow and spread the word, if you like. Thank you!

music.lnk.to/0HIpjF

Я отношусь к религии примерно как к наркотикам. Не то, чтоб мне претит сама идея или право людей этим заниматься, но наблюдаемый практический эффект на адептов мне не нравится.

Вот давеча увидел видео от некоей негодующей женщины, которая запечатлела двух танцующих девушек на фоне церкви на Белорусской, снимаемых на телефон третьей. Танец был весьма современный, но внезапно не тверк и девушки были даже одеты. Под видео куча не менее негодующих комментов - мол, оскверняют, попирают и трясут жёппами рядом с обителью Боженьки.

Опустим даже тот момент, что в Москве понастроено столько церквей, что можно сделать что угодно примерно в любом месте и с высокой вероятностью это будет "на фоне", вот в том месте их снимали на фоне вовсе не церкви, а фасада бизнес-центра рядом. Но, сцуко, почему вы вообще увидели в этом именно оскорбление? Почему это не Господь вселил в них радость и ликование в наши непростые времена, чтобы они несли его дальше (уж как могут)? Почему даже неверующий я вижу в этом символизм, но не вы?

Впрочем, с патриотизмом примерно то же самое. Идея как бы и ничего так, позитивная по природе своей, но 99% проявлений - нет. Чтоб просто радоваться - это редко. Чаще это про поиск тех, кто радоваться мешает, либо кому ещё грустнее.
#ТакиеДела

Der DB Navigator entspricht auch in der neuen Version 24.26.0 nicht den Anforderungen der #DSGVO und des #TDDDG. Klage läuft - leider dauert alles (viel) zu lange. 😔

kuketz-blog.de/deutsche-bahn-w…

#bahn #deutschebahn #db #datenschutz

Hm, does someone know a #sip client that works from the #cli on #arm64 with 1und1.de #voip?

I tried

• linphonec, but didn't get it to register on my arm64 debian installation
• I like baresip, but I couldn't configure it to register to register with 1und1.de
• sipsimpleclient.org - worked somehow on my desktop, but didn't get it installed on arm64

It doesn't need to be fancy, I'm just looking for a simple tool to let a phone ring. No need to connect nor for audio transmission.

If you have some familiarity with Web PKI and would like to review a blog post about post-OCSP revocation (it’s going away), LMK and I’ll send you a rough draft.

A subset of topics I describe and compare are OCSP stapling (must-staple, expect-staple), CRLs, sharded CRLs, client-side summarized CRLs like CRLite, many approaches to short-lived certs like delegated credentials, and some of my own proposals.

Nah, they aren’t doing ReturnToOffice because the pandemic ended; they declared the pandemic ,,ended,, so they could do RTO.

Don’t get it backwards.

Poodchadzaju nam stromy¹, potom poodchadza este nieco a potom sa poberieme aj my. (A nieco urcite ostane, ale "peak of the human civilization" to urcite nebude.)

via @SuspiciousDuck

mastodon.arch-linux.cz/@Suspic…

¹ zjednoduseny criepok: zle prostredie v meste (ci zly menezment v lese) nahloda, dlhe sucho riadne oslabi a burka nakokiec dorazi

NYPD just committed a mass shooting to stop a $2.90 fare evasion. NYC has an $11B police budget while it shutters libraries.

Chicago’s city council to vote on spending $15M in CPD settlements, having already spent $40M this year. Chicago is running a $1B deficit.

Who honestly looks at these complete failures in budgets and says "Yeah, this makes sense." smh