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Some of my favorite `curl` tricks:

vpetersson.com/2018/10/03/trou…

Super handy for debugging HTTPS. Thanks @bagder.

@daniel:// stenberg://

What I most miss about Twitter when it wasn't evil is that I could publicly shame companies when they were stealing money from me.

#Ebay and one of their sellers have stolen £80 off me and it doesn't matter if I post it on here because nowhere now has the power and reach of old #Twitter

There is currently no way to damage the PR of a company unless you happen to go viral on TikTok or YT.

As a side note - NEVER buy from Ebay, there is no guarantee that your money is safe. None.

#twitter #eBay

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Mikołaj Hołysz
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This seems like something that could be easily fixed with a chargeback.
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Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈
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@miki I was screwed with an Internet purchase, I think it might have been via Ebay, and I just went to my bank for a chargeback and let them all deal with that.
@Mikołaj Hołysz

Nonbinary DJ called

Mx Tape

This, is a banger. This whole soundtrack and just this composer in general is really good. This is Elly (sometimes romanized as Erii, originally エリｲ) from the soundtrack of YU-NO: A Girl Who Chants Love at the Bound of this World (この世の果てで恋を歌う少女 YU-NO) for the NEC PC98. I'd like to see a bassist play the bass part in this, especially when it starts doing the changes! That sounds hard AF, but I'm not a bassist so I can't be certain. youtube.com/watch?v=0joudlesP6…
#chiptune #vgm @cordova5029 @FreakyFwoof @arfy @musicalman
#chiptune #vgm @Xantastic @Andre Louis @arfy @Ray Dog
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It is sad to note that the Zoom Conferencing client is becoming less and less easy to use.
It is becoming so bloated with features not necessarily associated with hosting meetings.
Even something as simple as scheduling a meeting does not work as easily as used to be the case.

A major JAWS script update is being worked on so as to hopefully make at least the process of scheduling meetings, and reviewing scheduled events, easier than is currently the case.
An accurate time as to when the update will be available cannot be given at present, but it is hoped it will be within the next two weeks.

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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Do you have contacts there? I guess earlier they used to reply to accessibility-related inquiries.

Unpopular Opinion: I think C# is the best out of the high-level, statically typed, garbage-collected languages. It has a fairly large ecosystem of third-party libraries, great documentation, two high-quality GUI libraries (Avalonia and Uno Platform) and a high-performance sealing. I think Go is better for backends and microservices, but for a all around general purpose language, it's hard to beat C#
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André Polykanine
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Yesss! I started my dive in it roughly a year ago and I can't get tired of its beauty and elegance! However, I don't know about those newish stuff's accessibility, so I'm still on Windows Forms. If you have any insights, I'm all ears.
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mohaneds
mohaneds
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@menelion Na, Windows Forms is still the best for us. Avalonia is fairly accessible, but it's laggy with screen readers. So far, i'm converging on C# and Rust being my favorite languages, with Go for web backends running on Linux.
@André Polykanine
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mohaneds
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@menelion Also: Have you noticed that Visual Studio is more accessible than any of the Java IDEs?
@André Polykanine
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Of course! I mean, I really didn't see any truly accessible Windows app written in Java. but as for Rust... its syntax is so weird, unlike C#.
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mohaneds
mohaneds
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@menelion Yeah, it's unfortunate because Java jobs pay so much better, at least where I live. I'd love it if INtellij Idea worked well with screen readers. Also yeah, Rust syntax is a little dense and weird. The hardest thing was adjusting to variable types being declared on the right hand side of a variable assignment, but Go helped with that one.
@André Polykanine
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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that yes, but I also hate snake_case, and in Rust it's prevalent, as in Python btw.
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Oh, also you told Avalonia lags with screen readers, what about Uno? And Maui?
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mohaneds
mohaneds
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@menelion NO experience with those. Uno should be fine, as it does the WX thing of using native OS controls. I'll mess with it soon though. Also: uno lets you create the GUI with C# if you're not into XAML, which is cool. I wish Avalonia did that.
@André Polykanine
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André Polykanine
André Polykanine
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Tag me please when you have any experience, if you don't forget. Thanks!
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modulux
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I don't think it's an unreasonable view, but if I were to choose one of those langauges I think I'd go for F# myself, and the library access is still there.

Open source is not consent for experiments

duckalignment.academy/open-sou…

I've been using the #Tusky app but I'm running into an annoying issue where if I switch out of the app while writing a post and switch back on, I lose my post and everything I typed up until that point.

I do use the native web app interface also so I'll probably just back to using that full time.

#Tusky
in reply to Zalasur Spoops ooOOoooOoo 🐵

Tusky
Tusky
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It is a known bug and we are correcting it in the next update. In fact, it is already corrected in the nightly version. Sorry for the annoyances!!!

X reinstated in Brazil after Musk pays fines, agrees to follow local laws

X blocked accounts and paid $5 million in fines to get back online in Brazil.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Una Luna como Saturno detrás del volcán Pacaya

📷 Francisco Sojuel

astro.org.sv/imagendeldia/marz…

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CW: A bit of a vent and probably suffering from a low mood

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#education #teaching
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Sean Randall
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CW: A bit of a vent and probably suffering from a low mood

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Great statement at #blinkon by @cdub

"Chrome is the 4th browser I've worked on. They've all had majority market share. 2 of them don't even exist anymore. The web platform remains. It outlives browsers, engines, companies even."

Chris wilson presenting
#blinkon @Chris Wilson
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Matt Campbell
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Chromium seems like such an unstoppable juggernaut right now, though. To the point that I'm sympathetic to the argument that Apple's ban on browser competition on iOS might be a good thing in that it's preventing Chromium from becoming even more of an unstoppable juggernaut, leaving everyone else far behind and making it practically impossible to ever develop a new independent engine.
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Brian Grinter
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@matt
Fucking infuriated to recent see a tech writer call Safari a Chrome based browser

Next he’ll be telling me Queen and David Bowie ripped off Vanilla Ice…

@Matt Campbell

Medzi ženami na Majstrovstvách Slovenska jednotlivcov v rapid #šach-u 2024 dominovala Lucia Ševčíková. Zároveň získala právo štartu na Majstrovstvách Európy žien v rapid šachu 2024 na náklady SŠZ. Tešíme sa s ňou!
#sach

The article linked in my last boost (baldurbjarnason.com/2024/lisko… by @baldur) has buried in it the following unequivocal statement:

":And none of us should be using React."

I think those of us who agree with this message (I think I do) could do a better job of communicating it to those who aren't following the web development discourse. As far as my non-developer business partner knows, for example, React is still an uncontroversial industry standard.

@Baldur Bjarnason
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Matt Campbell
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If this doesn't exist yet, maybe we need a web page, with a catchy domain name like WhyNotReact.dev, that succinctly lays out the arguments against React.

@AKernelPanic and I recently went on the #AskNoahShow to talk about the upcoming Ubuntu Summit and the excellent speakers coming this year. We have folks coming from @matrix and @frameworkcomputer, but that's not all! You can hear all about this Summit this year and what we have planned by tuning into Noah's podcast 🎙️

podcast.asknoahshow.com/410

The Ubuntu Summit is free to attend, with both in-person and remote attendance options. Use the link below to register 👇

ubuntu.com/summit

#asknoahshow @The Matrix.org Foundation @Framework @Aaron Prisk

In the spring, we conducted a survey asking the community a wide range of questions to help shape a fellowship for open source maintainers. This new 12-month program supports the people who work on critical digital infrastructure. Here are some of the insights we uncovered.

sovereigntechfund.de/news/what…

Wordcloud in shape of a gear and a wrench, with words visible like: open, people, source, work, help, needs, think, and many.
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Sovereign Tech Fund
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Apply for the fellowship through Sunday, October 20, 2024.

We're directly investing in the people behind the code. In the first year, we are allocating five available fellowship slots as follows: one employee and up to four freelance contractors.

Learn more and apply here: sovereigntechfund.de/de/progra…

Tak po dovolenkove pauze uz zase jedeme kampane. Prave jsme spustili prvni fazi pro Asher Rotha.

unreleased.art/new-dessert

Ma upravene UI (mene naseho brandu, vice umelce) a je rozdelena na 4 casti. Postupne bude pribyvat hudba, vinyl, challenge i merch.

Tuto nebude nikde na streamu. Jako fakt Unreleased. To me tesi dvojnasob.

#music #art #artist

#music #art #artist
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Martin Wenisch
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Pri tuneni noveho stylu pro kampane jsme si hodne hrali s fonty. Bitvu fontoveho parovani zatim drtive prohravame.

Kombinace, co se nam libila byl napriklad ten SUSE (ted ho tam mame jako Body i Display) a NeueBit, ktery tomu dodal krasnou umeleckou pixelovatost. Bohuzel je pekelne drahy a alternativy jsme nenasli.

@jiri_toman nedokazal by si pomoctct nejakou profesionalni radou?

@Jiří Toman

Sunset 🌇

#sunset #sun #wiring #electricpole #clouds #field #nature #walk #evening #highlands #vysocina #czechia #nofilter

#czechia #nature #sunset #clouds #highlands #NoFilter #evening #sun #field #walk #wiring #vysocina #electricpole

Najlepšie si dať práska a z prázdneho rajónu máš zrazu stoly. No jo už je po sezóne... :kekw: #precositorobim
#precositorobim
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Liskov’s Gun: The parallel evolution of React and Web Components

baldurbjarnason.com/2024/lisko…

This is a bit of an experiment. Probably the longest essay I've published directly on my website. 🙂

Tak túto mikinu by som aj nosil 🤪

From: @EdBruce
infosec.exchange/@EdBruce/1132…

@EdBruce

rage against the machine learning

Ole ole!

@thunderbird mastodon.online/@thunderbird/1…

@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

51 Useful Lesser Known Commands for Linux Users linuxtoday.com/blog/51-useful-…

Time for another lesson from my days fighting in the Mod Wars in one of Twitch's more famous and busy channels

A few years ago, the channel began showing the pronouns of presenters and guests on stream. And toxic gamer types complained incessantly, often in very overtly transphobic ways, regardless of whether anyone on-stream was trans. We banned every single last person who complained. I personally banned hundreds, it must have been a few thousand all together. Anyone who DM'd the mods to apologize/explain it was a misunderstanding got unbanned, but that was a tiny fraction of them; there were more than a few bonus-transphobia parting shot DMs, often aimed at me because I was the first mod alphabetically.

And after a few weeks of this slaughter... the chat became a civil paradise. It was a much healthier environment than before we began showing the pronouns and causing all the most toxic people to volunteer their identity at once. People who are really gross on one axis tend to be unpleasant on all of them.

🌟 #Sharkvember excitement is in full swing with Freedom Scientific's **Next Big Thing** contest! Last year, the winning idea was all about AI-generated image descriptions—a game-changer for accessibility! 🎉🤖 This year, the competition's fierce, and it's anyone's guess what brilliant idea will take the crown. Will it be another AI marvel, or perhaps something totally unexpected? 🤔✨

Submissions are in soon, and on November 19th, finalists will showcase their visionary ideas for JAWS and ZoomText. I can't wait to see the creativity and innovation at play this year! 😍💡 The thrill of seeing our accessibility tools evolve is so inspiring. We might just see new features that transform how blind and low-vision users interact with the world! 🌐👀

Catch the live event and let’s cheer for these pioneers pushing the boundaries of tech! #NextBigThing #Accessibility #JAWS #ZoomText #Sharkvember2024 🦈💙

#Accessibility #jaws #ZoomText #sharkvember #nextbigthing #sharkvember2024
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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ah yes, the game-changer copied from other screen readers and apps. I wish innovation didn't come with quite so much hype. Perhaps I'm getting old and grumpy!
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The Blind AI
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@cachondo That’s why I’m excited last year there was only one possible answer.
@Sean Randall

Anyone know of good reading to get up to speed on what's going on with Wordpress?

EDIT: This is good reading: joshcollinsworth.com/blog/fire…

Thanks to @\j12i@weirder.earth and @\kamyk@firescry.com for linking it :)

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Garrett
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Are you referring to recent changes or the controversy that's going on between `.org` and WP Engine?

Comparing DC's Absolute Universe with Marvel's Ultimate Universe

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mastodon drama

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Today in programming language design issues…
[brownplt/code.pyret.org] name clash between color tan and math tan (Issue #553)

Máte radi úžasné fotografie s príbehom? Zvážte podporu: donio.sk/kniha-kruhy

#fotky #photo #photos #photography #kampaň #campaign

#photo #photography #photos #fotky #campaign #kampaň
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I’m looking to get back into amateur radio a little bit. I have a license but been very inactive. I have a BTech UV5X3 radio here. Quite a while ago, someone sent me an accessible manual for it. Can’t find it. Does anyone have that?
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Amazon.com Keyboard Shortcuts... I just noticed that Amazon.com now has a few built in keyboard shortcuts. I am using Jaws and the Google Chrome browser. Please note, with Jaws, you do not have to turn off the virtual cursor or any changes have to be made. The keyboard shortcuts just work! Here are the shortcuts. ALT+/, Go to search. Shift+alt+C, go to cart. Shift+alt+H, go to home. Shift+alt+O, go to list of orders. That's it. Some is better than nothing. I know I will be using them! Happy shopping. #Amazon #Windows #Jaws #Keyboard #Shortcuts #Blind #Accessible
#accessible #blind #Windows #jaws #keyboard #amazon #shortcuts

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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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meanwhile, typing into the Amazon search box at least here in the UK gives annoying feedback with every keystroke now. :)

Ok this is interesting.

Cards Against Humanity is PAYING people who didn't vote in 2020 to apologize, make a voting plan, and post #DonaldTrumpIsAHumanToilet up to $100 for blue-leaning people in swing states.

www.Apologize.lol

#donaldtrumpisahumantoilet

Neviem, študenti asi.

Takto si tu žijeme.

aktuality.sk/clanok/oyP7JWn/ke…

I made a histogram of wealth distribution in the United States, using the Forbes 400 list that just came out. Almost the entire US population is in the red line at the left, one pixel wide. To fit Elon Musk on the graph, each pixel is $500 million wide. In other words, from the perspective of the very rich, $0 and $500 million look the same.
A graph of wealth distribution in the United States on a linear scale. It consists of a thin red bar at the left with almost the entire US population. The rest of the graph is flat, continuing to the right with various billionaires and Elon Musk at $244 billion.

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When logging into Wordpress.org (login.wordpress.org) you have to confirm that you are not affiliated with WPEngine.

While this looks petty and childish it's another sign the Wordpress is in the hands of people who can't find less destructive ways to handle their fucking midlife crisis.

Screenshot of the Wordpress.org login window that demands you to declare that you are not affiliated with WPEngine

Good evening all, home after the technology show, saw the new Canute, and spoke to some old friends.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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is it any quieter than the old one?
I can't take more than 10 minutes with the original without hearing protection
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Derry Lawlor
Derry Lawlor
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@cachondo this was pretty quite, but I hadn't seen one in years, not sure in a quite room it might be a bit loud.
@Sean Randall

Got a (I think legit) tracking email for my ebay delivery from Royal Mail today. Subject has an obvious typo "...is due to bedelivered today" and the tracking button uses a sketchy looking domain `ryml.me` that's not used elsewhere in the email. No wonder folks fall for phishing attacks 🤦 .
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