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HCraptcha strikes again. I am unable to get into a forum where I am registered because their stupid accessibility cookie refuses to work. Bring out the pitchfforks and torches! 😡

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Did you know that MATA built one of the Metacities on top of the ruins of fairly important ruins of an ancient city?

full comic: analognowhere.com/techno-mage/…

#unix_surrealism #comic #fosschild

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We're not stopping anytime soon, but I'm getting really tired of being the only people masked everywhere. I'm really thankful for my husband; I'm very peer pressure prone and it helps to have him with me.

I'm trying to keep the spite going too. Bleh



Growing up in the 80s and 90s due mostly to ominous news stories I remember as a kid being very sad that all of my friends with divorced parents would have to live lives of crime and be criminals, or otherwise bad people.

This, of course, didn't happen. And the "divorce epidemic" ended, now people get married later, get married less often, but are more likely to stay together.

The horde of "latch key kids" failed to ruin society and no one ever talks about it.

in reply to myrmepropagandist

Latch key kid playin D&D, listening to metal and hip-hop and there's society just chuggin along as usual. (sighs)
in reply to morachbeag

@morachbeag The current trajectory of society chugging along as usual is not that great and seems awful skewed to the right. Is that because latch key kids have not lived up to their criminal potential? Did the failure of DnD players to summon Satan result in the right wing Christians hating women and migrants instead? Did the metal failing to bring about the anarcho revolution result in the excess authoritarians we see today?


Greta Thunberg joined our United for Climate Justice coalition today and our blockade of a busy Brussels' street.
This disruption of traffic and of business as usual is nothing in comparison to what the climate catastrophe will wreak.
We need urgent action now, but we're still rushing headlong into a terrifying future, all for the sake of greed and growth.

politico.eu/article/brussels-g…

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #XR #ExtinctionRebellion #Brussels #Belgium #Activism #CivilDisobedience



So, tell me, Mastodon. What are some fun, accessible games for iOS these days? Tell me your favorites.
in reply to Tristan

@simon I mean, the Blind Drive still rocks! But yeah, wish some of those older games like Papa Sangre or Defensedidn't die. Also, Dimensions, while not exactly a game, was a really cool experiment!
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@vick21 Blind Drive is such a fun time. I like that they also offer a Steam-free PC version.



Amazon WorkSpaces now supports file transfer between WorkSpaces sessions and local devices
aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats… #aws
#aws


Getting an appointment for a new Texas state ID involves logging onto a website at 7:55 AM and crossing your fingers that it will load while every other person that needs an appointment hammers it at the same time. Same-day appointments are usually gone within 60 to 80 seconds of that time. We even have tools that people have made to deal with this like: github.com/phamleduy04/texas-d…
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Things like this are why I'm personally in favor of scalpers.

If you're disabled, bbeing able to exchange time for money is incredibly important.




I don't think Joker 2 is actually that bad of a movie....



I'm looking for a student for an M.Sc. in Computer Science at the University of Calgary. *This is a fully funded position.*

The project: building tools to help understand how "retro" video games were made under amazingly constrained circumstances. While it's a CS position, this is interdisciplinary work done in collaboration with archaeologists and others.

Needs: strong coding skills, good writing abilities. Ideally: low-level, reverse engineering, or compiler experience.



One reason I prefer things in Rust to go: I have a chance to fix the bugs. Go for me is write-only code at best. (This is not go's fault but mine, I'm too unfamiliar with it.)


Wow, so last year they quietly dropped a new Furby for its 25th edition? Shocked. Tempted to get one, but also they took out Bluetooth and a lot of those things that made hacking the 2016s so much more fun, like when I sent it Bluetooth commands from the Raspberry pi.
in reply to Tamas G

so the new ones don't use an app on the phone? that's cool! just like the older ferbies then.


Hm, pred 8 rokmi mi aj "iba" jeden terabit stál za napísané blogu:

herrman.sk/home/bum-prask-jede…

A tuto hajzlíci potvrdzujú (prenesený) Moorov zákon a už nás to ani neprekvapuje. Tak aspoň tootnem.

From: @patrickcmiller
infosec.exchange/@patrickcmill…



Together with other organisations we are currently blocking the Rogier metro station in Brussels as part of the ongoing #StopFossilSubsidies action.

€400 billion in subsidies was given to the fossil industry in the EU last year, which is about €1000 per EU citizen. (1/3)

#ClimateJustice #UnitedForClimateJustice

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Last year, I switched back to #Firefox as the main browser on my #Android mobile phone. With the latest questionable decisions by #Mozilla about working on ad-tech and enabling product telemetry in Thunderbird for Android without asking its users, I'm wondering what browser to look into next?
Vivaldi seems to be mentioned a lot, so that's going to be the first browser I look into. What else are people here using (and happy with😉)?
in reply to Julien W.

@julienw @yoasif I have no interest in one day waking up and realizing that my supposedly privacy friendly browser has opted me into an ad tech experiment (which is what you get when you combine the two recent questionable Mozilla decisions I referenced).


There was a story that went around this week about movie studios' woes with "superfans."

A "superfan" is somebody who has attached their whole personality to hating an intellectual property they loved in their youth.

Full Essay: the-reframe.com/killing-our-wa…



Normalize asking for consent
before taking photos of others 📷

Normalize asking for consent
before posting photos of others online :blobcatphoto:

Normalize asking for consent
before sharing the personal information of others 📞📧 🏠ℹ️

Normalize asking for consent 💚

#Privacy #Consent

in reply to Em

Well, as street photo lover I simply don't agree to a certain level. I mean, I don't want to ask in advance as that would ruin the photo I would love to catch. But at the moment I know I would like to keep the picture, I run and ask. 99% of shots are deleted anyway.
BTW, I have never heard no. People mostly even give me the email (not asking for it) as they want that picture as well.


2 Monate Fahrverbot und 150 Tagessätze für den Todesfahrer von Andreas Mandalka. Das erscheint manchen wenig, die Geldstrafe ist aber fast ein halbes Jahreseinkommen. Nichts kann ein Menschenleben aufwiegen.

Artikel in den BNN ohne Zahlschranke, der auch den Autofahrer erwähnt, der in die Gedenkfaht gefahren ist: bnn.de/pforzheim/enzkreis/neuh…

#ripnatenom #fahrrad



The only feature that anyone wants in a new iPhone is a longer lasting battery.


Listening to true crime cases from the 80s that "D&D Satanism scare" was some wild shit.

Was everywhere, propagated by sheriffs, detectives, unquestioning media, & the in-person equivalent of your out there Facebook relative.

Normies been fucked up about a lot of things for a long time.

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“masks won’t work because people won’t wear them correctly, we can’t tell people to wear masks” was a time
in reply to 64 mastodonz logistics co-op

Endlessly kvetching about masks is one way to do it, another way to do it is to make the NAIAD explain why so many youngsters are displaying brain changes consistent with the onset of Alzheimer's Disease.

To be clear, I'm talking about stuff like this:

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/…

Intersecting with this:

journals.lww.com/co-psychiatry….

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If you are like me, you often need to type or copy and paste things over and over again. For example, I have a couple Zoom meetings I host. Even though I email the Zoom info to people, there is always somebody who calls me or emails me and asks for the Zoom info again. This used to be annoying, until I found out about the text substitution feature of Microsoft Word and Outlook. Note, I do not know if this feature works in the new version of Outlook. I have only tried this in Outlook Classic. The way this works is that whatever text you need to put in a Outlook email or Word document often, you create what Word or Outlook calls a building block with the text. As an example, I created a building block with my personal zoom room and called it pz. To do this, I did the following:

  1. I started a new email in Outlook.
  2. I copied the Zoom info from Zoom into the email.
  3. I selected all of the text containing the Zoom info.
  4. I pressed Alt F3.
  5. A box came up asking me for the name of the building block. I typed pz. You can type whatever word or phrase you want.
  6. I pressed Enter.

Now, whenever I need to put this info into an email, I type pz followed by F3. Just like that, my Zoom info is in the body of the email.

technologyisawesome.com/tired-…

#microsoft #office

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in reply to Arch Linux

Makes sense. This is not yall's problem to solve. Salt devs are clearly shooting themselves in the foot with these decisions. I suspect similar decisions will be made by other distros.

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Anyone running JAWS Beta running into JAWS randomly speaking in German?


When I see the word "ducking" written I believe it was autocorrected. And usually that works.


📢 *AI-generated podcasts aren't here to replace human creativity* 🎙️—they're enhancing accessibility, especially for people like me who learn best by listening. As a blind student, tools like NotebookLM turning PDFs into podcasts help me absorb material more effectively. 🎧 It’s about *learning in a way that works for you*, not replacing the personal touch of traditional podcasts. 🧠💡

#Accessibility #AI #AIforAccessibility #Podcasts #Blind #AIAccessibility #LearningTools #NotebookLM

in reply to Charlotte Joanne

I'm not against AI tools in the least, but when I ran content through NotebookLM the podcasts sounded great, were really interesting ... and had lots of inaccurate but plausible-sounding material, delivered with all of the confidence of the correct content.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo That’s genuinely interesting because it doesn’t seem to be the experience of the vast majority of people. When I’ve viewed it, it is remained very grounded and true to the source material.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Anyway, you found another reason why they won’t replace all podcasts!😎


Prediction: The JIT in .NET 10 will be so fast that my C# programs will terminate before I even run them, allowing me to send messages to my past self.
in reply to mohaneds

So that's how you make a turing oracle. Acausal computation and sending a message to yourself telling you if the program halts or not.


We’ve been warning about this for literally three decades, ever since CALEA mandated wiretap-ready telecom infrastructure. And this is merely the latest example of how these dangerous interfaces can be turned against us by our adversaries.
mastodon.social/@fj/1132537261…
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Also, I'd be remiss if I didn't note that all the reasons that "lawful access" features in telecom infrastructure are risky apply at least equally to the periodically revived proposals for "key escrow" backdoors in cryptographic systems. Fortunately, we've mostly held back the tide on those, but they come up every few years. It would be a security disaster if they're ever mandated.
in reply to Matt Blaze

Mandated wiretap interfaces and cryptographic backdoors are *expensive*, both in terms of money and, more importantly, exposure to risk. Worse, those burdens are borne inequitably.

Overall, almost no one is the subject of a lawful wiretap, even in places where wiretapping is an important investigative tool. Most people aren't suspects. But these mandates degrade security (and impose other costs) for *everyone*, the vast majority of whom will never be wiretapped.



Anyone knows any visually impaired astronomers (or amateurs) who will be interested to test our #astronomy apps for #Accessibility ?


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My beautiful daughter is 12 today. How time flies.
in reply to Andre Louis

hope she has a great day. School time birthdays are wonderful at weekends!


Why don't we format Unix timestamps like we do with IPv4 addresses? They are both just 32 bit integers.

"Hey, what time is it?" - "Oh, it's 103.1.0.185."

It even works for time ranges!
"The conference will be held in 103.1.0.0/19"

#unix #time #ipv4

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in reply to Sólo Yolanda, 🏳️‍🌈👩‍❤️‍💋‍👩

Pues la he vuelto a escuchar, y como siempre me ha hecho llorar.
Qué terible brutalidad, y qué sentimiento pone esta chica... bueno, ya abuela supongo. Hasta se le quiebra la voz cuando lo cuenta.


Niekedy večer keď ma berie "únava" trepem dobré... ehhh :kekw:


Mozilla's CEO doubles down on them being an advertising company now.

tl;dr: "LOL get fucked"

They've decided who their customers are, and it's not you, it's people who build and invest in surveillance advertising networks. But in a "respectful" way....
jwz.org/b/ykaO

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