Ich musste feststellen, dass es auch Musiker gibt, die bei der Erwähnung eines veganen Produktes ausrasten, aber nicht vor Freude. Und das nur, weil das Musikhaus Thomann, lt. Wikipedia „der umsatzstärkste Musikalienhändler weltweit“, eine vegane Konzertgitarre ins Sortiment aufgenommen und dies bei Facebook beworben hat. Und ich habe wie so oft den Fehler begangen, die Kommentare zu lesen.
Es zeigt sich schnell, dass Musiker in der Tat kreativer sind als Kommentierende, die unter einen Beitrag über Veganismus Sachen posten wie „Darauf erstmal ein Steak!“. Musiker schreiben „Als nächstes will ich ein Drumset das nur aus Knochen, Fell, Fleisch und Blut hergestellt wird!!“.
Generell ist die Ahnungslosigkeit allerdings genauso hoch wie bei anderen kontroversen Themen. Was denn an einer Gitarre nicht vegan sein könne, fragen einige. Nun, dass die Instrumente nicht aus Hack gemacht sind, dürfte klar sein. Dafür kommen z. B. Perlmutt-Einlagen, Knochen, Schellack und Leim mit tierischen Bestandteilen zum Einsatz. Die von einigen Kommentierenden erwähnten Saiten aus Katzendarm werden dagegen bei Konzertgitarren schon lange durch Nylon-Saiten ersetzt. Es fehlt also auch hier das Wissen, wo überall tierische Bestandteile verarbeitet werden. Es sei denn, es geht darum, einer vegan lebenden Person Heuchelei zu unterstellen, dann ist klar, dass ein Smartphone nicht vegan ist.
Ansonsten gibt es zur veganen Gitarre Kommentare wie „WTF? Are you serious?“, „Jetzt fangt bloß ned a no mit dem Scheiß da o!!!“, „Noch bescheuerter geht’s nicht mehr…“ und „Auch ein Baum ist ein Lebewesen…!! Aber okay, wer es braucht….“. Die Pflanzenversteher dürfen ja nicht fehlen, die zwar kein Problem damit haben, dass für ihr Essen leidensfähige Lebewesen getötet werden, aber Empathie für gefällte Bäume entwickeln.
Kommen wir zur Gitarre selbst. Bereits 2020 hatte der Berliner Gitarrenbauer Armin Hanika eine vegane Konzertgitarre für den American Guitar Shop, auch in Berlin ansässig, gebaut. Das Hanika Vegan Modell 50MF ist dort noch immer erhältlich. Und auch Thomann ist nicht erst gestern auf den Zug aufgesprungen, sondern bereits im September 2023 mit dem Modell Hanika H-Thomann KEF Vegan. Wenn ich mir die Arbeiten von Armin Hanika anschaue, habe ich keine Zweifel, dass die vegane Gitarre mit den herkömmlich gebauten Modellen mithalten kann. Leider gibt es bei beiden Shops keine Kundenbewertungen.
Ich finde es sehr gut, dass in vielen Bereichen mittlerweile tierische Inhaltsstoffe ersetzt werden, das Unverständnis einiger – online wie offline – ist jedoch immer groß. Was denn bitte an Weichspüler nicht vegan sein könne oder an Rotwein? Warum gibt es vegane Holzkohle? Müssen Veganer immer Fleischprodukte nachbauen? Das darf dann aber nicht „veganer Leberkäse“ heißen! Es ist noch ein sehr langer Weg bis zu der Erkenntnis, dass Veganismus kein Trend ist, keine Sekte oder Religion, sondern die Zukunft.
However, having taken a day to think about it, I’m concerned about leaving this view unchallenged because I genuinely believe that it is potentially harmful to the education, and therefore the economic prospects, of young blind people.
The first point I want to make is that there is absolutely nothing wrong with enjoying a great audiobook. A good narrator can make a book come to life. I don’t believe an audiobook is inferior. Although I don’t listen to many audiobooks anymore just as a matter of choice, I do opt for an audiobook when someone is reading their own autobiography. That’s because rather than read the book, I would rather listen to someone reading their own book to me.
But when I choose to listen to an audiobook, I am no more reading the book than my grandchild is reading it when I read a book to her. She is being entertained, in some cases she is gaining valuable knowledge, but she is not reading it, she is being read to. There is benefit in this. It could be enhancing her aural language skills.
You may be thinking that this is all pointless semantics. But the reason I’m raising it is that the “audiobooks are reading” argument has been used to deprive blind kids of true literacy. To me, true literacy is the ability to write something down and read it back. Braille is the only viable means of true literacy a blind person has. For all the good that technology has done, when talking computers came on the scene and audiobooks became more abundant, some teachers and more than a few public policy practitioner decided that these developments meant that we didn’t need to teach blind kids to read anymore. It was a means of short-changing blind kids, of not allocating the necessary funding and resources to give them a good start in life. It was disgraceful. No parent of a sighted child would tolerate being told that their kid didn’t need to read because they could just listen to audio instead.
The result was that many people who had so much to offer the world were deprived of the right to read. It is often these professionals and policy makers who want blind people to believe that listening is the same as reading.
These kids who missed out on the opportunity to read became adults with fewer employment prospects. We know that the unemployment rate of Braille readers is far closer to the unemployment rate of the population as a whole, compared with those blind people who haven’t had the opportunity to read Braille. And in a sad irony, these kids, some of whom grew up to be parents, were not given the tools to read bedtime stories to their kids when they eventually became parents. Putting on an audiobook for a child is nothing like the personal bonding that comes from a parent reading a story to a child.
Some of those kids who missed out on literacy took the brave step of learning Braille as an adult, but they know they will find it difficult to achieve the same speed they would have if they had learned Braille as a child. It is a tragedy.
While there has been a recovery, this sort of story is not yet completely in the past. It is still happening to some kids today.
Enjoy those audiobooks. I certainly do. But let’s also ensure that every blind child has the right to read by not playing into the narrative that listening to a book read by someone else is the same as reading one yourself.
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Thank you for sharing your perspective. As the author of the post I assume is being referenced, I'd like to provide some context:
Recently, I've encountered several elitist viewpoints on this subject, using phrases like quote "the proper way" unquote to consume literature. I strongly disagree with any implication that there are right and wrong ways to educate and entertain oneself through books.
However, I acknowledge that my post could have made its scope clearer, and you're not the only one to mention how this view is weaponized in educational settings. Regardless of the reasons, making counterproductive and lazy decisions on behalf of disabled students is unacceptable.
I hold certain educators and educational systems responsible for the fact that blind and low-vision students too often leave school with subpar literacy levels. While they may justify their approaches with certain rhetoric, it's their actions and agendas that are at fault—whether rooted in ignorance, misguided attempts to compensate for lack of funding, or other reasons. However, the rhetoric itself shouldn't be automatically blamed for how people choose to interpret and misuse it.
As for the differences in brain activity between different consumption methods, some studies suggest that in adults, listening and reading by sight or touch aren't as different as commonly thought. I notice you've received responses stating the opposite, but I don't have the expertise to state one position over another.
Semantics aside, I think we can agree that consuming material that educates and uplifts is more important than ever, regardless of how people choose to do so.
A couple weeks ago I gave a talk at @djangocon about the finances of the Django Software Foundation. I wanted to give folks a high-level understanding of our current financial situation, and then imagine a world where we had a substantially-larger budget.
Here's a written version of this talk, with annotated slides, and expanded notes:
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jerf.org/iri/post/2024/not_abo… Alternative title: "Engineers are not fans of technologies."
I stopped being a fan of Python many years ago. Of course, these days I risk being a fan of Rust.
Anyway, on this instance I have 1000 characters. On my new instance I have 12000. Feel free to follow over there if you wish, I don't know what I'll talk about yet or if I'm simply wasting time, but it's a thing.
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Did you miss the #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid a little? Well, get your capes out, I'm back from my vacation. So today, 19 updated and 7 added apps:
* QuickMDCapture: quickly create notes in Markdown format 🛡️
* Mock my GPS UnifiedNlp Backend: mock the GPS and Network location providers
* Mock Silently: mock the GPS and Network location providers
* IrisChat: IRC client 🛡️
* Grit: ToDo List and Habit Tracker 🛡️
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Právě jsme aktualizoval novou verzi Phanpy! 📢 Verze 2024.10.08
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If you are using one of the *oma instances (Akkoma, Pleroma, etc): you can easily handle this spam wave without playing defederation whack-a-mole by doing the following:
- Enable
RejectNewlyCreatedAccountNotesPolicyand set the limit to at least one hour. Note that this is not without tradeoffs: users who migrate to new accounts will not be able to reach your instance until their account is old enough, and will often wonder what’s going on. - Enable
HellthreadPolicyto limit the maximum number of mentions in a post before it stops notifying mentioned users, or before it’s rejected outright. Temporarily decrease the limit during a spam wave if you need to. - Enable
KeywordPolicyand add strings commonly found in spam posts, such as domain names (followed by a slash, to reduce false positives from real users simply mentioning the domain without linking it), hashtags, and uncommon words. Look up the “Scunthorpe Problem” if you’re unfamiliar.
When the dust settles, depending on available spoons, I might go through the instances that haven’t cleaned up spam after multiple days. Those are likely abandoned and extra-vulnerable to future attacks and block evaders. On *oma, these defederations will not sever connections and are reversible.
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obligatory “Fedi needs a middleware like a WAF for filtering remote messages”.
cattle-grid looks like a good start, though it does tend to trigger false positives when scanning for auth-fetch block evaders.
Malé upozornění: Možná budete muset zkontrolovat nastavení oznámení emailem v sekci předvolby, protože jsem měl po aktualizaci všechna oznámení automaticky zapnutá. 🔔
Doporučuji to zkontrolovat, pokud nechcete být zahlceni notifikacemi. 📬
byla aktualizována na verzi 4.3Jsou i novinky webového rozhraní 👍🏻
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Could Toronto-Montreal route be Canada's first high-speed rail?
dailyhive.com/montreal/toronto…
It lacks of ambition. I guess that the values.
Max 200kph? FFS this is not the 1960s.
When TGV opened in 1981, the cruise speed on the Paris Lyon was 260kph. Paris Lille was 300kph when I commuted on it 20 years ago.
I guess lots of gloss on the report.
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@samloonie "some". Most of the population is now born after it ended service.
A proper high speed train wouldn't have level crossing.
@samloonie th railroad were not interested in it. That's why VIA was created and remained a band-aid by still using the same badly maintained trackage on why the heavy freight has priority.
This is the root cause of the poor service. That and the lack of courage and ambition from politicians to do anything about it.
American Water shuts down online services after #cyberattack
American Water is the largest water and wastewater treatment utility in the US…
OT systems not affected - so appears this only affects their IT systems. Suspected nation state activity (Russia).
(I encourage everyone sharing this with their friends because cyber attacks absolutely can have direct “real world” consequences.)
For very good reasons, the .io TLD is going away.
Once this treaty is signed, the British Indian Ocean Territory will cease to exist. Various international bodies will update their records. In particular, the International Standard for Organization (ISO) will remove country code “IO” from its specification. The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA), which creates and delegates top-level domains, uses this specification to determine which top-level country domains should exist. Once IO is removed, the IANA will refuse to allow any new registrations with a .io domain. It will also automatically begin the process of retiring existing ones. (There is no official count of the number of extant .io domains.)
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(H/t @mwl )
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I don't think this is actually going to happen.
There's so much stuff relying on .io at this point that I won't be surprised if major DNS providers just sidestep ICAN and take matters into their own hands.
ICAN isn't omniscient and omnipotent, if the majority of the world decides that they shouldn't be in charge of DNS any more and that we'd rather use a different set of root servers, their power basically goes away.
#Mastodon 4.3 is out! 🎉 We've made notifications easier to manage and improved the look and feel of the whole app across the board. And that's just the tip of the iceberg! See what you can expect once your server upgrades:
You might have noticed already: since a few weeks, #MapComplete has a totally new search experience.
If you search something, the matching locations are shown on the map. If it matches the name of a layer or a filter, you can also opt to show only this layer or to enable this filter. For examplr, on mapcomplete.org/food, one could search for 'sushi' to only see sushi restaurants and then for 'open now'. Or search with an emoji, such as 🍕🍟🥙 or 🍙
- AI-generated images are used to convey whatever partisan message suits the moment regardless of truth
- for all the fear of deepfake-driven disinformation, proves fakes don't even need to be realistic
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First, instead of each rights-holder blocking one sport at a time, this year all the major broadcasters teamed up and won a "multisports" order that requires listed ISPs to block sites that carry unlicensed streams of NHL, NBA, and soccer games. They've already gotten 3 updates, adding MLB and UFC into 2026.
#TekSavvy is included in this order. Our info page with the latest order is here: teksavvy.com/policies/internet…
Read the original decision here: canlii.ca/t/k5spw
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Second, now that site blocking orders are so well established to protect copyright, Indigo Books relied on them as a precedent to protect trademarks. They got an order requiring named ISPs to block access to the websites of the "Indigo Kills Kids" campaign. Since this order aims to block a website, it uses DNS blocking (like GoldTV), rather than the "dynamic" blocking orders used for streams.
#TekSavvy is not currently included in this order. Read the decision here: canlii.ca/t/k73h2
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Today's challenge -- working out why GObject Introspection bitfield objects return zero when the value is bigger than MAX_UINT32. The value is correct in the .gir file, just not in the fwupd python bindings.
@ebassi @pwithnall (or anyone else) does this ring any bells please? I've opened gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gobject… with some more data.
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