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Stadt @koeln und der KölnMarathon bereiten in diesen Tagen den am Sonntag stattfindenden Marathon vor. Dabei werden schon jetzt entlang der 42 km langen grünen Markierung Absperrmaterialien auf der Radverkehrsinfrastruktur eingelagert. Hauptsache der Autoverkehr ist nicht betroffen.


Die von Behörden registrierte Gewalt gegen Obdachlose ist in den vergangenen Jahren deutlich gestiegen.


Today we celebrate German Unity Day!
👉 tuta.com/blog/germany-unity-da…

On October 3rd in 1990, Germany became one, and became a truly democratic country. 🗳️

We are reminded that we can't take the freedoms we currently enjoy for granted, including privacy & the freedom of speech.

#germany #freedom #privacy #surveillance

in reply to Tuta

The real so called "Unification Day" (ger. Der Einigungs Tag) was 11.11.1990, but new government chooses different "official" date for it due to the historical very bad events that took place on that particular day in the past, which collides with this national, supposed to be happy, holiday. So officially is now the 3rd of October instead of the 11 November.
As for this "true democracy", well.. opinions are very different even now, as they were back then, few years after the event. 🤷‍♀️
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in reply to Tuta

Wovon träumt ihr?
Wir sind nicht ein Land geworden. Und mit der AFD kämpft eine Partei darum, die Demokratie abzuschaffen und die Macht zu ergreifen!

What do you dream of?
We have not become one country. And with the AfD, a party is fighting to abolish democracy and seize power!



Včera si pýtam v lekárni čaj na večer pred spaním a lekárnička sa ma pýta či mám nejaké psychické problémy... neviem čo si mám o tom myslieť.



Queridos mastodones linuxeros con discapacidad visual ¿qué sintetizador de voz usáis en linux?

Como profe de español, he creado varias mini-apps web que confían en el sintetizador de voz. Estoy acostumbrado a los de Windows y Android-Samsung (es decir, voces de microsoft, Google y Samsung) y en Linux las voces son horribles.

Aunque mi linux (Max Linux 11, basado en Ubuntu 24) incluye Orca, las voces son mucho peores que las de Orca en Windows.



Sindicatos de clase preocupados por las exigencias de aseguradoras privadas. Reconozco que esto no lo vi venir.

La asistencia sanitaria de los funcionarios, en el aire: las aseguradoras amenazan con abandonar Muface

noticiasdenavarra.com/economia…

in reply to modulux

@modulux parece mentira que el funcionariado no esté en el sistema público. No tiene razón alguna el tema. Por cierto que la Casita Encantada también estuvo en una asewguradora y acabaron por negociar una integración a la seguridad social. Y menos mal porque me da a mi que si no íbamos a estar muchos en una situación bastante de mierda.
in reply to Juan CBS

Es un tema curioso de historia juriídico-administrativa, pero básicamente en España se empezaron a crear mutuas de accidentes, hubo unas leyes en 1900 y 1908 que fomentan estos sistemas, pero eran de adhesión voluntaria. En los años 40 se crea un seguro obrero forzoso, pero que no se aplica a los funcionarios. Los funcionarios tenían cierta protección social mediante los estatutos y leyes de función pública y los derechos pasivos, pero eran una mierda, y por eso crearon o continuaron estableciendo mutuas voluntarias propias, que además no suponían gasto al Estado. En los 60 la seguridad social incluye por primera vez un régimen especial de funcionarios, y en los 70, buscando una homogeneización del sistema, se engloba todo el tema de mutuas, para los funcionarios civiles del Estado, en una sola. Y desde entonces nadie ha querido tocar mucho, aunque hoy se considere un sistema a extinguir.


So, accessibility people who are also iPhone people, what’s under your Action button? I’ll tell you mine later?
in reply to Shelly Brisbin

I ended up with a shortcut that triggers a menu with other shortcuts. I think this is the approach I am going to keep. Since the menu of shortcuts is pulled from a separate folder, all I have to do is to add my faves to that folder. They will magically appear in that menu when I press the Action Button.
in reply to Shelly Brisbin

My Action Button forms part of my universal podcast player strategy.
I don’t own, and have no desire to own, a specialist player like the Stream. So my Action Button plays podcasts in Castro. Double-tapping the back of the phone skips forward 30 seconds. Triple-tapping the back of the phone skips back 30 seconds. A two-finger-quadruple-tap marks the episode as played and starts playing the next one.


Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Sigo algo tocado de la garganta, aunque la cosa mejora. Niebla. Por lo menos no hace frío. Ah, y han entrado las prisas con la orden de delegación.



#climateDiary
Let 6 minutes of James Meadway’s Macrodose (from 1:30 minutes to 7:30) eloquently walk you through:

“Our wildly complex industrial capitalist economy, developed over the last 200 years, and refined – as in the semiconductor supply chain – into systems of exceptional complexity, was built for times of environmental stability and abundant resources. Those times are now coming to an end.“

overcast.fm/+8dw9eN_jY

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I've been using #Friendica in preference to Masto for some time now, but one aspect i still intensely dislike is the inability to filter out all posts & their subsequent threads with words on my #NSFW addon list. It's just not good enough to merely collapse said posts into a spoiler but still have to endure those in my timeline [with all their response / child posts not collapsed if they don't also include the filtered word/s]... i wish it were like Masto where i have the option to have them entirely removed from my timeline. The current arrangement seems like a strange design decision afaict. Otoh i'm aware that given Friendica came long before Masto, maybe the problem is caused by Masto's protocol? Even if so, though, the result is a PITA for my Friendica UX. @Friendica Support
in reply to Matthias

@Matthias Oh, brilliant, thx heaps. That does look promising, so i look forward to some spare time to try this myself. 🤗


"Bier’s first hit app, TBH, was marketed to teenagers and...it 'requested address book access before actually being able to use the app'. [...] Bier’s reputation for success is built on this growth hacking technique, so I understand why he is upset."
[...]
"Apple’s solution is imperfect. But if it stops the Biers of the world from building apps which ingest wholesale the contact lists of teenagers, I find it difficult to object."

pxlnv.com/blog/growth-hack/

#Apple #Privacy #SocialMedia #Tech

in reply to Reilly Spitzfaden (they/them)

IMO Apple's policy would have been exactly the right one, but only if it had been policy from the start.

As it stands, Apple basically took away contacts access for new apps while leaving existing apps unaffected. This is good in the short term and bad in the long term. Existing apps can make any changes they like (including changes to their privacy policies!) and it's going to be a lot harder to switch.



Do you have any experience in Python and GTK4? Do you want to help maintain an app with literally tens of users? Do you hate every web browser to the point you want to avoid it altogether?

Web Apps is the app for you (to help maintain)! I have marked a few issues as 'contribution welcome' here: codeberg.org/eyekay/webapps/is…

University is starting to keep me busier than usual, but I don't want to let it create yet another abandonware strewn in the GNOME ecosystem.

#gnome



#LAS2024 is just two days away! There's still time to register, let us know if you plan to attend in person in Monterrey, Mexico or online: linuxappsummit.org/

#LinuxAppSummit #KDE #GNOME #opensource



Had a good time tonight at A11yOops — #a11yTO pre-conference event. conf.a11yto.com/a11yoops #a11y


Bandita!
Se acerca el meetup de #xalapacode !
Si están cerca de #Xalapa (Veracruz) caiganle a la platica en la Facultad de Estadística e Informática de la #UV
facebook.com/events/1275767023…


New Low Price: Score the Latest Amazon Fire HD 10 Tablet for Only $75 Before Prime Day cnet.com/deals/new-low-price-s…


beta5 of NVDA 2024.4 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released,

In Beta 5 we have fixed an issue where the custom multiple key press timeout was not honoured when repeatedly pressing the NVDA key. There are also updates to translations.

Read more and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-4b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Beta #FOSS #PreRelease #NewVersion



For Users of Reaper: The Reaper Accessibility Hoard: Containing Various Reaper Resources groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/78…





Microsoft Office 2024 gets you new versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and more, no subscription required windowscentral.com/software-ap…


I love that when you generate a deep dive conversation with Notebook LM, the presenters use words like Umm and, you know in there conversation about the topic. Much more natural sounding speech! I just wish LM was a bit more A11Y friendly,Hey Google, how bout some labels for all those unlabeled buttons!


Hurricane Helene drowned a key supplier of advanced microchip minerals | Vox

vox.com/climate/375404/helene-…



Who Will Care for Americans Left Behind by #Climate Migration?

#HurricaneHelene was the latest in a generation of storms that are intensifying faster and dumping more rain as the climate warms. It's precisely the kind of event expected to drive more Americans to relocate as climate change gets worse — leaving behind those who are older, poorer and more vulnerable.

propub.li/3ZROw7h

#News #ClimateChange #Hurricane #ExtremeWeather #Migration #Science #Flood




This is powerful, and will touch your heart! Grieving Mother Explains How 7-Year-Old Son 'Became My Hero' Just Before He Was Swept Away by Helene Floodwaters. westernjournal.com/grieving-mo…



I simply love #CPanel. I know it's a controversial statement for some, but I mean… it's so easy to do daily chores with it! I've been using it for… oh well… fifteen years or so, I had different #accessibility experience with it, but generally it just works.
in reply to André Polykanine

Are you actually deploying it on the servers themselves or just using it as an end-user? I can see why customers love it but find the backend really bad to deal with. This is why I switched to Cloudron for my setup, though apreciate you can't easily migrate from CPannel especially if you have lots of instances.
in reply to Andrew Hodgson

@andrew As customer so far, but I heard many complaints about deploying it, so definitely will need to try. but for a customer it's a breeze: want a subdomain? Click, boom, it's done. Want an email account? Again, click, boom, it's done. It really makes life easier.


Here's another recent example of the phenomenon I observed on various mailing lists. Someone presumably had pressed the Caps Lock key, so the entire message was in uppercase. The author apparently didn't notice...
in reply to Jason J.G. White

It used to happen a lot here in Brazil too. Nowadays, mailing lists are kinda out of fashion here...

in reply to Corey Quinn

Would You Please add a description (alt text) to this image? Thanks. #ALTforMe
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt
It's a version of the IQ Meme. It shows a graph with a gaussian function representing IQ score on the X axis and percentage of people on the Y. The meme features a dumb looking drawing of a guy on the left, a crying nerd on top of the bell (middle of the graph), and a person looking like some sort of monk on the right. The title says "email address validation". On the person on the left (least IQ) reads "check if it has '@'". The crying nerd (average IQ) reads "3 full pages of one regular expression". The monk at the end of the graph (max IQ) reads "check if it has '@'".

#ALT4you



Glad to see that some community members have stepped up and are taking huge role in maintaining and improving Bookworm.
I'm open for community contributions to some NVDA add-ons I've developed but no longer interested to maintain. all of them are very popular:

* Chessmart:
* Audio Themes NVDA add-on
* Spellcheck

Please get in touch if you're interested

in reply to Musharraf

I love Bookworm! It's all I use when reading books with NVDA. And then I found out about the web view thing, so I can use JAWS with its speech and sound schemes to read headings, bold text, italics, all that in different tones, still in bookworm!
in reply to Musharraf

I thought you told me you had a latest version of spellcheck that you were going to release.


So according to this thread, in addition to the AI resume screeners, I also have to contend with the fake job postings made as a fraudulent signal of growth to investors? Who cares if a thousand applicants waste their times applying?

No, sorry. The world is burning. I have more valuable things to do with my time than throwing resumes past AI screeners for fake jobs.

In related news, actively considering changing careers. Spent a few hours in court recently supporting families being mass-evicted by an Austin co-op. Even if the situation itself was bad, being present and wearing a support sticker felt like a better use of my time than continuing to build managed Postgres.

in reply to Nolan Darilek

The number of places in tech where you can really make a *positive* difference in the world and also get paid seem to be shrinking. Or at least we're increasingly more aware how many tech companies are happy to boil the oceans for a dollar.
in reply to ocdtrekkie

Yeah, kind of where my mind's headed with this. Maybe keep tech as a hobby, do something more meaningful as a career. Sad I couldn't make it work for both.


New: Two men stole more than $1 million from DoorDash workers by impersonating them with customer service, getting access to their accounts, then draining them. In some cases customer service workers were complicit, indictment says:

404media.co/men-stole-over-1-m…



Nirgends begegne ich dem #Videokonferenzsystem #Zoom so oft wie in #digitaleKirche.

Mit meinem Bild von #Kirche, dass sich in der #DDR geprägt hat, passt das irgendwie gar nicht so recht zusammen. Da sehe ich wenig von der #Unabhängigkeit, #Selbstbestimmung und progressiven Herangehensweise von damals.

Vielleicht findet man diese Verknüpfung merkwürdig. Aber ich ahne langsam woher das Unbehagen kommt, was mich an manchen digitalen Entwicklungen bei Kirchens so beschleicht. Man kann es ebenso auf den Bereich #Office oder #SocialMedia übertragen.

Dieser Tage ist jemand auf meinen Vorschlag eingegangen statt Zoom #Jitsi zu nehmen und wir haben problemlos die Instanz des @luki@kirche.social genutzt, sie wird von engagierten Christen betrieben.

Sie erinnern mich an die 90iger. Es gab das #WWW noch nicht so wie wir es heute kennen, aber einen #Computerclub des #CVJM in #Chemnitz, der eine Instanz in dem weltweiten #Mailbox Netzwerk betrieb. Sie waren Wegbereiter einer nichtkommerziellen, selbstverwalteten internationalen #Vernetzung.

Einige wenige gibt es immer noch und es kommen auch neue hinzu, wie z.B. @librechurch@kirche.social oder @libori.social@libori.social. Ob dieser freiheitliche Geist in digitaler Kirche wieder stärker wehen wird?

#FediKirche

in reply to FediVerseExplorer

Aus meiner Erfahrung sind es oft verschiedene Gründe warum z.B. Zoom verwendet wird. Gerade leider auch im kirchlichen Bildungsbereich. Kennt man, hat während der Pandemie gut funktioniert, hat man damals von IT/Datenschutz freigegeben lassen, bietet professionellen Support...sind alles so Argumente. Digitale Nachhaltigkeit und digitale Souveränität sind oft noch kein Thema (TBI). Wie kann man ein Umdenken erreichen?
@luki @librechurch @libori.social
in reply to Digitale Bildung in der Kirche

Danke für die gute Frage!
Sie ist sicher nicht nur auf einer Ebene beantwortbar. Und es gibt keine einfachen Antworten.

Vielleicht wäre schon viel geholfen, wenn man sich auf einen gemeinsamen Weg machen würde.

Ein Aspekt: Digitale Tools sind anders als analoge. Der Hammer besteht aus Holz und Eisen. Es liegt in unserer Verantwortung was wir damit machen. Ein digitales Tool kann aus viel mehr Funktionen bestehen, als vordergründig erkennbar, besonders wenn es proprietäre Software ist. Welche (hintergründigen) Auswirkungen hat Software, die wir zur Kommunikation benutzen auf den Nächsten?

Wie @letterus@kirche.social in diesem Thread schon sagt "Den digitalen Raum als Gestaltungsraum wahrzunehmen, ist für die meisten ein sehr weiter Weg." Als Kirche könnten wir uns auf diesen Weg machen, und entsprechende Bildung anbieten 😉



At the smart suggestion of @deborahh the Wise, I added a one-time donation link to my profile. I'm a busker and arts creator, and income precarity is now my middle name, so if you've ever enjoyed my music or podcast posts, here's an opportunity to virtually drop money in my guitar case and receive my heart-felt gratitude. busk.co/29436/qr


A nice homage to the PC/GEOS operating system. Also lots of video clips that show how quick and zippy it was (remember, this thing is running on DOS-era hardware).

youtube.com/watch?v=j76USDqEfN…

in reply to Vertigo #$FF

I made so many homework assignments using its word processor, and even a little newspaper. I even sent them a letter, asking for an SDK in Pascal rather than C!

(I think that was part of why I decided to learn C back in the day)