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Yep so cool. No more double-tap-and-hold on the edit field to access them! caneandable.social/@JonathanMo…



Breaking: the Judge in the Epic v Google case has just issued his final ruling, which states that Google must open up its Play Store catalog to 3P app stores and distribute those 3P app stores within Google Play.

The judge also ruled that Google can't require Google Play app billing, stop developers from telling users about other ways to pay, stop developers from linking to alternative distribution methods, and more.



ja som to nepochopil

"Více možností stahovat aplikace a platit za transakce v nich uskutečněné mají získat uživatelé systému Android."

seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/ekonomi…

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in reply to Ralfeek

to dáva zmysel 🤔 a potom Samsung? Tam tiež môžeš sťahovať a platiť (nie som si istý či aj u Xiaomi a u Huawei).
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myslím, že tu išlo hlavne, v tomto spore, o hernú scénu, keďže to viedol Epic.


Matrix v1.12 is here! This spec release brings account locking, marking rooms as unread, and a few other quality of life improvements.

Check out the blog post for more details, and what's coming in v1.13: matrix.org/blog/2024/10/07/mat…

#Matrix #Releases



Microsoft warns that a new bug may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/micr…

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I have failed to promote this very much.

In a couple weeks I’ll be presenting at A11y Camp in Melbourne, Australia.

On Tuesday, 22 October I am running a workshop:
a11ycamp.com.au/workshops/#wsh…

I'm keynoting the talks on Wednesday, 23 October:
a11ycamp.com.au/program/

So if hashtags #accessibility and/or #inclusion are your deal, then you should attend. You can get 10% of tickets with the code A11Y FRIEND10.



Hoy he visto por aquí varios retoots sobre el tema del impacto ecosocial de los #CentrosDeDatos, sobre todo en relación a la inteligencia artificial.

Menos conocida es su relación con el libro electrónico, ya que la generación de un lector electrónico + centros de datos para almacenar esos libros dejan más huella de carbono que la publicación en papel.

in reply to modulux

@modulux sí, creo mayoritariamente se centran en los dispositivos, pero también en el coste de las búsquedas, por ejemplo. lab.cccb.org/es/el-impacto-amb…

Para mí hay cosas un poco cogidas por los pelos, porque no toda la edición es ecológica, pero por eso precisamente creo necesaria la conversación

in reply to Laura S(ierpe) Maquilón 🐍

Pues visto el artículo me mantengo bastante escéptico, las comparaciones que se hacen me parecen poco razonables--el total de emisiones de Google por segundo con la edición de un libro, por ejemplo. Además los datos sobre emisiones del ciclo de vida de un aparato varían tanto que son de dudosa solvencia (p. ej, 322 libros por lector electrónico para que salga a cuenta, y un párrafo después 22 libros por lector en EEUU o 33 en Suecia). Que por cierto, 20, 30, 50 o 100 libros por lector no me parece en absoluto una cifra inalcanzable.

Además el tema del ciclo de vida está sujeto a toda una serie de dificultades, porque depende de lo que se incluya en el análisis: transporte de libros, almacenamiento, exposición en tiendas, destrucción de ejemplares no vendidos...

Me parece un tema interesante a traer a colación, así que gracias por haberlo hecho!



Nezkoušel náhodou někdo Android auto na GrapheneOs??


The moron who didn’t understand how HIS OWN COMPANY’S “private browsing mode” worked thinks we should listen to him to solve the climate crisis.

STFU, Eric. You’re well-past your best-before date. mastodon.social/@jplebreton/11…



It looks like I, and every other Mastodon instance admin who has federated with #LivingBlindfully will be cleaning up their retries queue for some time to come, hopefully not in perpetuity. Does #Masto.Host not execute self-destruct on instances that go away? Seems like a basic thing to do. Or maybe I'm wrong? Ugh.
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Dezolátom začnú kvôli tomuto hromadne praskať cievky v hlave. Že ich ssmer aj okráda a využil si zatiaľ žiaľ nestihli všimnúť.


In 1972, the CBC had a contest to complete the phrase "As Canadian as ____" (as in "as American as apple pie")

The winner was:
"As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances"



Towards the end of 2023, I submitted an issue to the SCRCPY (ScreenCopy) Android mirroring tool regarding TalkBack keyboard commands not being grabbed properly.
github.com/Genymobile/scrcpy/i…
I'm happy to say that as of a few weeks ago, a fix to the issue of alt+arrows being intercepted by the SCRCPY application itself has been corrected. Now, as long as the -K switch is applied (set the keyboard to uhid) and --shortcut-mod is set to anything other than any of the alt keys...
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Updated binary. tmp.rom1v.com/scrcpy/5322/1/sc…
Run .\scrcpy.exe -d -K --shortcut-mod=rctrl
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Reading the manual of my new #Shearwater dive computer before class, as one does, and I noticed a note "Color Blind Users:"

The warning or critical warning states can
be determined without the use of color

Color blind users
Warnings display
on a solid inverted
background

Critical Warnings flash
between inverted and
normal text

The note is illustrated with gray scale pictures.

I'm not color blind (that I know about), but I appreciate the attention to #accessibility.

#SCUBA



Strange programming dream

Sensitive content



Not sure why it's the TBI and not the FBI coming down on these guys, but if they're not lying about FinCen access then that's a pretty big deal.

"NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — A well-known Arizona election denier says his group — working through a conspiracy-minded assistant police chief in tiny Millersville, Tennessee — gained access to a highly confidential federal database that tracks Americans’ banking transactions and other financial data.

Mark Finchem, who pushed lies about the 2020 presidential election and waged an unsuccessful campaign for Arizona’s secretary of state in 2022, made the stunning admissions during a series of recent interviews with far-right podcasters and in a “press conference” staged in Las Vegas to support Millersville Assistant Police Chief Shawn Taylor.

Taylor's department and residence were raided last month by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation following questions raised by an exclusive NewsChannel 5 investigation.

"There's a system called FinCen where we're actually able to track money laundering," Finchem said two weeks ago in that “press conference” to which only other far-right podcasters and conspiracy theorists were invited.'

newschannel5.com/news/newschan…



Some of us are aware that -40° Celsius is also -40° Fahrenheit. It's the only point where the two scales agree.

But did you know there are palindrome temperatures and they're very useful also!

16° Celsius = 61° Fahrenheit
28° Celsius = 82° Fahrenheit

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Adobe acrobat pro has got to be the most nonsensical piece of software in existence. It’s infuriating!

Want to tag elements? Surely the tags panel would make sense but nope, use the reading order panel instead.

Want to fix reading order? You’re out of luck with the reading order panel. Check the contents panel instead.

I spend most of my time just googling where to find things 😤



I am thinking about getting me a pair of #SmartGlasses. This will be a first for me so I am looking for your input. I hear a lot about the #Meta smart glasses, but I am wondering what else people are using?
in reply to Jonathan Mosen

So what is your favorite chest holster? How do you keep the phone from moving around when walking? I might go that way too.


alright an informal very unscientific poll. How many people use cheque deposit on a mobile banking app. If you do, does your bank provide any kind of guidance on how to center the cheque in the frame when trying to deposit it? If so, can you tell me which bank it is? If you are feeling really generous, an audio recording would be fantastic. I am working with one of our groups to implement this feature and I would love to see good examples I know what I want but working examples would be fantastic.
in reply to Brian Moore

If someone offers me a check, the first thing I do is laugh at them. Honestly haven’t needed to deposit a check in probably five years or more.
in reply to Jason Fayre

@jfayre no, it is a pretty rare thing for me but lots of people still ike them.
in reply to Brian Moore

@Tamasg I can say for certain that the Wells Fargo mobile app provides this feature. However, I must also add that I am not super-impressed by their detection algorithm. It is very sensitive to the background. True, VOiceOver does speak announcements, but unfortunately most of the time I still had to rely on a sighted person to complete the deposit. I call this an inaccessible accessibility experience!


Latest iOS 18.1 Beta Adds Sleep Apnea Alerts and Breathing Disturbance Readings macrumors.com/2024/10/07/ios-1…


Good news: iOS 18.1 Developer Beta 6 resolves the VoiceOver notification bug seen in Public Beta 2 and DB 5 that would prevent you from interacting with a banner when it appears on-screen.

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I wonder if the fediverse is worse for the planet than Twitter was? Surely a few massive data centers use less water and power than thousands of servers spread out all over the place, right? Not to mention the extra internet traffic, content and infrastructure duplication etc. If we really care about the environment, shouldn’t we be championing massive centralization?
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Very hard to measure, and the fedi does not do a lot of things centralised alternatives do such as surveillance and advertising, which does take up considerable resources and storage. But probably per user it is less efficient, I would think.
in reply to modulux

Also, how many of us massively overprovision our servers? I know I’m guilty of that. Estimating exactly how much ram or CPU a federated service requires is a skill, and I don’t have it. I’m not a business, so I have no economic pressure to squeeze out every last drop of performance either.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

On the other hand, I run a lot of stuff on the same server I run fedi stuff on. Email, websites, IRC bots... And it runs on bare metal, no container or virtual machines or cloud indirection. So not sure how much of a factor that may be.
in reply to modulux

Same, but I had to containerize everything for security and ease of maintenance. I don’t think docker is too bad. However, it does mean my resource needs are wildly unpredictable to me.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

I don't understand containers and all that stuff... I'm just too old school and haven't put in the time and effort to learn, so I just run everything on dedicated servers and use normal package management or manual builds for things.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Anyway, one thing I agree on is the replication is excessive, and it's also a cost that could be significantly reduced. Imagine images and so on stored on a DHT where everyone puts in some storage and can retrieve from it. Only one copy of a file would need to be stored. (Realistically, say 5 copies for redundancy.) I know there are people interested in making something like this happen.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

Yes, something like it. Not sure IPFS is exaclty the right way to do it, but certainly the same sort of concept.
in reply to Samuel Proulx

here's another twist to that: What if multiple mastodon instances are hosted on a shared server through KVMs, and they're all pulling the same data and building multiple copies of that cache from the data but on the same infrastructure for duplication. Some of this sadly becomes a bit unavoidable during the streaming age - if we consider bandwidth and computing impact I would think the amount of throwaway data getting streamed would be a bit higher overall.


Oooh those reports, so colorful. But seeing a colours in reports has at least one benefit - there is a slightly lower chance someone is deliberately lying to you and even red should not be a disaster but a starting point of a discussion how to make the things better.

#babyciso #lifehappens

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"My media mentions and summaries seem to be missing a story about Angus Reid this morning. Anyone able to point me to one?"

-- Greg MacEachern @CBC Power & Politics

#polling #cdnpoli #poilievre #canada #pmjt

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wow!
Angus Reid, one of Canada's top pollsters has deleted his X social media account after he was outed for posting misinformation along with a doctored video clip that misquoted Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.

#cdnpoli #canada #poilievre #PMJT



User Group idea: cURL girls. a group for women dedicated to hacking the internet via the command line.

the name popped in my head, and thought it should exist. Someone should run with it.

#linux #curl #CLI #NameIdea



PROGRAMMING TIP
avoid repeating the same 4 lines of code twice by writing 270 lines of beautiful, abstract, generic code


Ahoj všichni,
chtěl bych se omluvit za to, že jsem nereagoval na registrace na Pixelfed. Bohužel mi nechodily notifikační e-maily, takže jsem si nevšiml, že se registrovalo tolik uživatelů. O víkendu se pokusím tento problém opravit. Zatím jsou registrace otevřené a probíhají bez schválení administrátorem. Všechny registrace jsem zatím schválil ručně.
Děkuji za pochopení,
#pixelfed #pixelfedcz #opensource


🇩🇪🚨Orban macht Ernst: Annahme der #Chatkontrolle steht für Mittwoch (Botschafter) und Donnerstag (EU-Innenminister) auf der Tagesordnung parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII… +++ Finnland bestimmt Mittwoch seine Position eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Siv… +++ Während die EU sichere Verschlüsselung zerstören will, hat China die USA mithilfe ihrer zur TK-Überwachung eingerichteten Hintertüren bereits in großem Stil ausspioniert golem.de/news/security-china-h… +++

Infos und wie du helfen kannst: chatkontrolle.de

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🇬🇧🚨Orban moving fast: Endorsement of #ChatControl on the agenda for Wednesday (ambassadors) and Thursday (EU interior ministers) parlament.gv.at/dokument/XXVII… +++ Politicians, before you destroy secure #encryption understand that China spied on the US on a large scale using backdoors set up for lawful interception wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s… +++ Finland to take a stance on Wednesday eduskunta.fi/FI/tiedotteet/Siv… +++

Information and how you can lobby your government: chatcontrol.eu




Accessing Higher Ground — Accessible Media, Web and Technology Conference. A Hybrid Event. November 11 - 15, Denver CO. accessinghigherground.org/virt… #a11y #events #ahg


A guy running for premiership in BC, who has a credible shot at winning, just endorsed Nuremberg 2.0 for the implementation of SARS2 public health measures and vaccines, just in case you were wondering where all of this is going.
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"Digital archiving as we know it would not exist without the Internet Archive—without it, the world would lose its best public resource on internet history."

Read the full story: wired.trib.al/AM9FF6B




Byla jsem na vstupní prohlídce do zaměstnání: tlak ještě dobrej, moč čistá, zrak malinko horší, srdce mi bije a plíce fungují; jsem způsobilá k řízení motorových vozidel ✅
Nic tedy nebrání tomu, abych 10/10 nastoupila, těším se na to 🤗🤗🤗



You can make a stranger feel less alone today.
You can share exactly what's on your mind.
You can be yourself and not worry about likes.

Kind Words 2 is now available!

A game about writing nice messages to real people.

store.steampowered.com/app/211…



Am SA 05. Okt. hatte ich zum ersten Mal Todesangst beim Radfahren. Wir waren zw. Sandebeck & Himmighausen (Kreis Höxter, Teutoburger Wald, NRW) auf offiziell ausgeschilderten Radrouten auf geteerten Feldwegen unterwegs. Ohne Hinweisschilder, Absperrungen od Streckenposten fand hier ein Autorennen (Zeitfahren?) statt. 2x sprangen wir in den Graben, sonst wären wir von einem Auto erfasst worden. Weiß jemand etwas von solch einer Veranstaltung? Konnte im Netz nix finden #fedibikes #fahrradbubble


Few impressions from the last few days from #spiel24 in Essen.

In the two days we were there we managed to make our way through (parts of) three out of six halls.

It was a lot of fun!

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