NO ONE EVER ASKED FOR THIS #CAQASTROPHE.
Québec's language law may force music gear off store shelves...
And, how long before Québec cannot reach anglophone websites to purchase anything...
montreal.ctvnews.ca/quebec-s-l… #polQC #QCpoli #assnat #languagewars #cdnpoli #polcan
In which we read out three user-submitted stories about meeting their partners.
#StroongeCast E04: How You Met Your Other: youtu.be/kqgFs_TpyXU
@MoonCat
@andijah this with us, too. Audio annoys me 9 times out of 10 but you guys are rocking it.
first thing my wife's mother said to her about me was 'you're not going to get together with that idiot, are you?'.
Wow. To vypadá na hodně zajímavou změnu ve školství.
> „Půjdeš do první třídy a teď ti to začne.“
> A hned v září dítě dostane jedničku nebo třeba trojku. To je prostě vražda na dětské duši, tak jsem to bral i jako ředitel.
Proč jenom, když tohle čtu, tak už vidím, že to bude zase zase černá díra na prachy...
𝐀𝐝𝐚 & 𝐙𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐧 𝐦𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐞𝐫𝐞!
We are celebrating with our supporters #AdaLovelace Day on 8 October with the world premiere of the animated movie 'Ada & Zangemann: A Tale of Software, Skateboards, and Raspberry Ice Cream! 💥
If you are planning to support the 
, do it today and do not miss this event!
#Ada #SoftwareFreedom #FreeSoftware
Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.
When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.
I learned to do a pie chart with gnuplot so let me introduce "#curl CVE severity distribution" .
curl.se/dashboard1.html#cve-pi…
Seattle / PNW: Keep an eye out and call the contact numbers if you have any info
The whole of my book on Building a Debugger is now available on Early Access!
It teaches you how to write a native code debugger from scratch.
There's lots of cats.
Ugly laws will be enforced in Louisville. Medical masks will be allowed at “police discretion”.
Police chief says: “We do have to look at behavior of person, what they're doing at time, those kinds of things."
I have a disability that makes me LOOK nervous. I “appear” like I could be doing something wrong. As a result these bans terrify me.
Disabled people have been begging others to mask for years because we were afraid of this exact outcome.
Failure to normalize masking means those of us who NEED to wear them are seen as outliers. Deviants. Possibly criminals. There’s a target on our back.
Medical exemptions are not the answer - they leave too many people behind.
Everyone should have the right to protect themselves from a deadly & disabling virus. Whether already disabled or not.
Banning masks and then saying that the police will determine who is “legit” in wearing one based on their overall behaviour? Its terrifying.
This is exactly HOW profiling occurs. These bans will disproportionately impact marginalized individuals and people of colour.
They could also impact someone with a condition like mine. I’m immune compromised and high risk for Covid complications - so I ALWAYS wear a fitted respirator when I’m outside my home.
I also have dysautonomia - a literal malfunctioning of my autonomic nervous system.
If I’m upright - I “look” nervous. I’m sweaty, shaky, twitchy and sometimes wobbling. I’ve been accused of being drunk in public on MANY occasions.
It’s not my fault - Dysautonomia means I can’t regulate my blood pressure, heart rate, sweating & even pupil dilation.
The things that cops are trained to look for and consider “suspicious” are all symptoms of my disease.
In the past - the worst thing I had to worry about was being accused of public drunkenness. Even THAT was scary for me.
Mask bans mean I could be arrested and charged with a crime. Just for trying to keep myself & others safe.
I tell this story to encourage others to speak up against mask bans. To mask up in solidarity and help us normalize them so they will be harder to ban.
To encourage people to stop assuming if you have a “legitimate medical reason” you won’t have to worry. We DO worry.
We need less judgement, assumptions and gaslighting and more allies. These laws are dangerous. They will lead to more death, disability AND division.
Many of us have difficulty convincing HCWs of our illnesses - what hope do we have with police?
Please - if you CAN mask - now is the time. You don’t have to wait for a mandate or permission. You can choose to say “enough is enough” & be part of the solution. Break chains of transmission. Protect the vulnerable. Don’t allow government to decide who is & isn’t expendable.
We all have power and agency and can choose to do the right thing. We don’t have to sit idly by and accept repeated covid infections & exclusion of disabled people from public life.
Let’s work together and stop these bans before it’s too late.
wdrb.com/news/louisville-polic…
#CovidIsAirborne #CovidCautious #CovidIsNotOver #CleanAir #WearaMask #Disability #LongCovid #Ableism #Denial #CleanAir #Pandemic #PublicHealth #InfectionControl #Eugenics #SafeHealthcare #N95 #Respirators #MasksWork #MaskUp #Spoonie #Discrimination #Dysautonomia #mecfs #pots #mcas #communitycare #wearamask #chronicillness #keepmasksinhealthcare #MaskBans #NoMaskBans #UglyLaws
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."
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…
Microsoft warns that a new bug may cause Word for Windows to delete some documents instead of saving them.
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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.
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…
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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.'
🇩🇪🚨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
🇬🇧🚨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
I can fit this into my day a lot better than the long ones. @
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