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It took a while but the developer has finally added the required accessibility enhancements so I can finally share a fun little game called Language Guessr. You're given a short audio recording and it is your task to guess what language it is in. Should you give the wrong answer, you have the option to hear a sample recording in the language you indicated so that you can learn the difference. A great little toy for language geeks. There's an edit combobox at the top to search for the country so that you don't have to navigate the map view which doesn't work with screen readers. Happy playing! languageguessr.io/ #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Languages

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@modulux @KaraLG84 Hmm, there used to be a bug where you couldn't trigger the audio to play but that has been fixed specifically over the weekend. Might it be that the old version is loading for you somehow? Maybe ctrl + F5? Different browser?
in reply to Dr Emma Kate Ward

Doesn't work on Windows, Firefox 131.0.3, which is a pity because it does sound fun.
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@emma_cogdev @KaraLG84 @modulux Here it works on Windows and Firefox. The only issue I've got is the keyboard not coming up when I try to activate the country search in Safari on iOS. Will report that.
in reply to Paweł Masarczyk

Let me just make sure it's not an add-on issue. Going to open firefox without add-ons and try again.
in reply to modulux

Ok, it works with no add-ons... Now to find out which one is guilty. Probably adblocker or some other privacy thingy.
in reply to Kara Goldfinch

@KaraLG84 Find the "Game controls" region navigating by landmarks and the "Play/Pause Audio"`button is the first control there.


Vždy je to malá výhra keď stihnem električku.


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Absolutely wild how many companies are adopting AI notetaking apps for meetings.

Y'all'er just chill sending your planning, product direction and revenue details to some random third party in exchange for them doing the low value task of halfassing note taking for you?



Wir haben unsere Website renoviert. 🚧 🆕 oskars.org


There’s a lot of complexity around what open means and how that intersects with AI, but from a reputational and consistency perspective I really can’t get over this 👇🏽 for the current draft of the OSI AI definition.
mastodon.social/@odoruhako/113…


Great. I'm looking forward to the next generation of open source hardware drivers and the "detailed descriptions of all contained binary blobs". 🤡



Just read the OSI "Open Source AI Definition" (opensource.org/deepdive/drafts…)
It's basically pointless but the best part is:
Data information needs to include: "a detailed description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data"

My man. If the data to train the model is unshareable meaning I cannot get it to reproduce your binary/model, your system _is not open source_.

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Great. I'm looking forward to the next generation of open source hardware drivers and the "detailed descriptions of all contained binary blobs". 🤡

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Hoy promoviendo la importancia del uso del bastón blanco para las personas ciegas en el curso con mis estudiantes del curso de asistencia tecnológica en la universidad. Hoy 15 de octubre se celebra a nivel internacional el Día del Bastón Blanco, que ha significado en lograr que las personas ciegas seamos más independientes y podamos lograr la vida que nos propongamos.


Hey fedi, let's play a new(?) game! It's called "Stories That Could Have Happened". :boost_requested:

The game: Someone picks a phenomenon, a saying, an event, or something else, where we don't actually know for sure how it happened or came to exist, and then we collectively write a Story That Could Have Happened about its origins! It doesn't need to be true or based on history!

There are only a few base rules, to keep it fun and non-confrontational for everybody:
1. You can either post a top-level reply to start a new story about the topic, or reply to someone else to continue on their story chain so far.
2. If you reply to someone else, you must either add to it or refine it with more nuance - you cannot outright contradict their post!
3. Posting with public visibility is encouraged, but make sure to add the #StoriesThatCouldHaveHappened hashtag, so that people can mute it if they want.
4. Keep your post short, and leave enough room for the next person to build on it.

So, anyone up for playing? 🙂 Let's start with this topic:

"Turning lead into gold"

Where did the idea come from?



Extraños tiempos estos.

Es normal una cohabitación entre ambas cámaras, con sus choques, pero hay que cumplir unas normas.

O bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Senado han prevaricado al permitir que se "vetase" una norma a destiempo, o bien el servicio jurídico y el presidente del Congreso han prevaricado al enviar una norma "vetada" al BOE.

No creo que ninguno rinda cuentas.
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(Ayer, por cosas de la vida, estuve hojeando el código penal, y eran muy numerosas las circunstancias en que un funcionario público podía ser encarcelado por dejación de funciones o por no velar por el cumplimiento de la ley. Pero sospecho que ese tipo de penas sólo se acaban invocando contra nosotros, los don nadies, y ocasionalmente contra algún individuo poderoso cuya corrupción sea ya imposible de disimular).
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Por cierto, sobre este tema vi hace poco una sentencia penal delirante, que condenaba a una secretaria municipal por hacer su trabajo (dar fe del acuerdo de la junta local sobre un asunto que después resultó ser ilegal).


Android 15 is here and will roll out to Google Pixel devices starting today.
pcmag.com/news/google-ships-an…



Interesting live alert on Tech Crunch's site: "Some areas of this page may shift around if you resize the browser window. Be sure to check heading and document order."
- that's a new one, nonetheless a good tip for anyone checking websites or needing magnification along with their screen reader, but also, it's on your responsibility as a web developer to ensure you minimize impacts from reflow as much as possible.


As a reminder, we have a discussion group on Groups.io where you can talk about all things BT Speak. Whether you currently own a BT Speak or are just curious about it, feel free to subscribe by sending an email to
btspeak+subscribe@groups.io.


Vispero and Aira are partnering to make life accessible! This partnership aims to promote equal access to information and coincides with White Cane Day and the m-Enabling conference. Check out the official press release or visit the TPGi staff at the m-Enabling conference to learn more: support.freedomscientific.com/…


Why this lightweight Linux distro won't win any popularity contests but is perfect for power users lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_l…




I'm noticing a pattern here... :trashfire:

#privacy #chrome

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today? Sure! 10 updated and 1 added apps for you:

* Install with Options: more advanced app installs without needing to use ADB (using Shizuku) 🛡️

Number of apps with #reproducibleBuilds is up to 289 (or 23.8% out of 1.213 apps altogether) now.

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 2 #Magisk #modules were updated and 1 added:

* Enable Blurs: enable more extensive blur effects

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repos :awesome:



Free idea for anyone who wants it:

True crime podcast but instead of murders etc. it's just a long string of white collar crime that no one has bothered prosecuting.

  • Wage theft
  • Cooking books by doing layoffs
  • Cooking books by canning projects that could earn back their cost
  • Paying no tax by claiming your business is based in some random location with low-to-no effective tax rate

You could keep a podcast filled for years with illegal union busting.



Alright, got my #GoToSocial updated to version 0.17.0, first beta release. This one has a lot of new stuff! If you upgrade and have a big DB, the migrations will take a long time. Took maybe 20 mins for me. So be patient. So far, working fine.
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Incidentally, GTS now has support for the conversations/direct messages timeline.


Way to fix global warming is extremely simple actually
- Increase investments in "AI"
- This takes so much power the tech corps have to bring a lot of nuclear power plants online
- Develop an AI capable of general reasoning
- Tell the general reasoning AI to solve global warming
- The general reasoning AI will immediately conclude the best way to fix global warming is to stop doing AI, and delete itself
- With no more AI the nuke plants will now displace fossil fuel burn
- No more global warming


SNCF, you’ve lost it. Really. There wasn’t just 1 but 3 guys warning about lost luggage

WHY?

SNCF is screaming it’s short of cash. Last time I needed to go to the ticket office here at Nord the wait was AN HOUR

And you’re using money on this shit?

in reply to Jon Worth

Their slogan decades ago used to be "A nous de vous faire préférer le train". I think they never did.



I don't think I've seen this new Liz Climo comic posted here yet, which surprises me.


The U.S. Library of Congress has an open fully-remote position for a DevOps engineer:

usajobs.gov/job/813930400

#GetFediHired cc: @jobs

See this for federal resume advice: bsky.app/profile/harrisj.bsky.…

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If you're a Reaper and SWS user and don't yet know about ReaConsole, You should change that. s *verb to select all tracks ending with verb, then v4 to bump them up 4 DB. Or s1,2,6,-12 to select tracks 1, 2, and 6 through 12. It may just be because I tend to like terminals, I spend half my life in Edbrowse and Linux, but I've just discovered my new favorite way to use Reaper.


It's amazing to see the groupthink among dipshits.

Look at this donkey's chorus of billionaire-worshippers filling my mentions with the word "cope" over and over again, evidently in the belief that it will pierce and wound me beyond recovery.

(it's re: this: twitter.com/doctorow/status/18…)

in reply to Cory Doctorow

As a non native speaker I'm not ashamed to ask - I mean I don't get the "cope" thing. Is that some special language connotation or flavour I'm not familiar with?


Ein @nextcloud@mastodon.xyz #Deck kann man immer noch nicht mit externen (nicht Nextcloud) usern read only teilen?


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What is the most inappropriate connector with enough pins to support USB-C?

I suggest:



Space, the final frontier. Our solar system is in space, right? This BBC series gets into the nitty gritty of Earth, asteroids, moons and the other planets near us. Maybe it doesn't sound like edge of your seat stuff but Brian Cox does his best to keep your attention. Cox simplifies complicated concepts while he tries to figure out how life began here while postulating about where else life could be found. BBC 2 on iPlayer.

#tv #space #science #astronomy

bbc.co.uk/programmes/m0023884

in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Yeah, that would kill it for me too. Turn off the sound and turn subs on, maybe. It's a fascinating series.
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yup, I have really gotten into reading videos lately. All started with the boring training videos at work, it must be said.


Could #Email clients just stop hiding the #address? We all know that the only remotely reliable information is the string with the @! Everything else has to be treated as fake until proven otherwise. Give me the option to see the truth right away, @thunderbird @microsoft (Pretty sure those are not the official accounts but hey, you use the name, you take the blame)
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We're pretty sure that Microsoft account is a bit sus, but we're the real deal. We have an add-on for this that displays the full address that works in the latest releases: addons.thunderbird.net/en-US/t…


„Wir appellieren an die Ampel, mit einem positiven und solidarischen Gesellschaftsentwurf gegen Hass und rechte Narrative anzutreten, anstatt diese auch noch in Gesetzesform zu gießen. Lediglich als Echokammer für Faschisten zu dienen, darf nicht der Anspruch einer als Fortschrittskoalition angetretenen Regierung sein.“

In einer gemeinsamen Stellungnahme erklärt das Bündnis #GesichtserkennungStoppen das sogenannte Sicherheitspaket zum Totalausfall.

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> ${COMPANY} has seized the ${COMMUNITY} Slack. Join us on the new ${COMMUNITY} Slack.

I wonder what could go wrong next!

in reply to Ross A. Baker

i know that story with scala meetups but the company variable is actually a constant.


Just finished listening to one of my favorite Flintstones episodes.
in reply to Bruce Toews

@mcourcel @kgs49 So, Bruce, are you one of those people who can tune into a random part of a Flintstones episode and instantly know which episode it is? I do that with Doctor Who but I imagine you do the same thing with the Flintstones.
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 Though there's one line from the Flintstones I've been trying to place for two years now, and still have no luck.
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@mcourcel @kgs49 I'm a bit rusty with the original Trek series and, believe it or not, there are still a few episodes I haven't seen. Turnabout Intruder is one of them. I can often do that with TNG, as I used to record those episodes on audio tape when they aired in the 80s and early 90s and I listened to them constantly. Are you a fan of the Trek novels?
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 I really am, yes. I'm glad we're getting a few of them per year unabridged now. I'm one of the few people who thinks Turnabout Intruder was a good episode. Ever watch a series called Corner Gas?
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@mcourcel @kgs49 Never watched Corner Gas but I had a friend who loved that show who told me about it.
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@mcourcel @kgs49 In the States, NLS did produced a ton of Trek novels for a while: classic Trek, TNG and a few DS9 books but, for the most part, they stopped sometime in the mid-90s and that's too bad as that's when the novels really got interesting with crossovers and multi-book arcs. Bookshare seems to have pretty much every Trek novel ever produced, from what I can tell. Does Canada have full access to Bookshare?
Trek novels are still coming out and, as you say, they're getting better at releasing commercially available unabridged versions in audio format as opposed to those abridged versions that took up two standard cassettes.
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@mcourcel @kgs49 One issue with many of Bookshare's Trek novels that started happening recently is that some of the titles are incorrect. I see that when I read a description that I know doesn't match the title. I just need to report them as I find them. I've read a smattering of Trek novels from different series. So far, I haven't found a classic Trek novel that really wowed me but I haven't read all of them, although I did enjoy Ashes of Eden and the Return, the latter being about how Kirk was revivebrought back from the dead after the Generations movie. With TNG, I loved Q-squared, which is the only Trek novel I ever read twice. I also read a handful of Voyager novels, including the first four that took place after they got back from the Delta Quadrant, and they were good reads. Never read any books from the other series; no DS9, although I liked the series, even though parts of it may have been, shall we say, borrowed from Babylon 5.
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 There's one of the newer Original Series novels, the name escapes me, that even has alien old-time radio in it.
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@mcourcel @kgs49 Oh, wow, alien OTR? That sounds very cool. If you find the title, please let me know.
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@DavidGoldfield @mcourcel @kgs49 I will. In the meantime, if you're looking for anexcelent DS9/TNG crossover book that basically sets the stage for the DS9 series, try a book called Plyable Truth.
in reply to Bruce Toews

@mcourcel @kgs49 Oh, yes, I heard about that one and it was one I thought of reading. Thanks for reminding me about that one.



Why is Peter Pan always flying? Because he Neverlands.


Hey folks, finally got my resume into shape and figured I'd try to #getfedihired.

Looking for a tech job doing backend work--I can do full-stack but being #blind means I'm going to struggle more with UI. I'm proficient in #Rust, #Elixir, #Golang, #TypeScript, and a handful of other languages. I have Android experience as well, and have done fun accessibility-related projects like writing an Android screen reader from scratch or adding screen-reader-like functionality to multiple game engines.

I don't mind big tech too much but am looking to switch away to something more co-op/non-profit if possible. It'd be nice to use my tech skills for good, not just for some investor's benefit. Good work/life balance is also a must--I don't live to work, I work to live.

Here's my resume if any of this sounds intriguing. Thanks for reading and/or boosting!

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I don't appear to be able to edit this, so in case the Markdown-formatted link in my original didn't work for you, here's a direct link? thewordnerd.info/resume.pdf
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For anyone reading this, I'd tag on and say I've worked with some of Nolan's open source contributions in the past and would definitely recommend him. \o/