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One very strange side-effect of the US's _all the elections all at once_ approach to democracy is that donating to specific underresourced local campaigns can improve turnout in consequential state and federal races.

Here's a way to donate to 18 important and underfunded State-level races that could help deliver important Federal results: superswingdistricts.org/

mastodon.social/@glyph/1133473… #USPol

Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

Okay, time to properly launch this: SUPER SWING DISTRICTS! https://superswingdistricts.org This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated to give the maximum impact to your direct-donation dollars.
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So I wrote a while ago about how content warnings are good and pacing yourself about political news is important and you may be noticing that I've been just a *bit* of a hypocrite about that in the last few days. As I said at the time, "the marathon that is the next 106 days"

mastodon.social/@glyph/1128280…

We're not in the marathon part any more.

Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

Content warning: uspol
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Glyph

In general I still agree with that idea but:

1. my current Poasting is much more goal-directed here, superswingdistricts.org is a specific project and not generalized anxiety.

2. I hope to return to a more moderated posting style with more of these guard-rails in the future. Win or lose, there will be less to do come November.

3. I know I'm burning credibility and the patience of my followers, but that is a conscious decision. Some things are more important than my personal reputation.

Super Swing Districts

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Glyph

If you need to mute me or unfollow for the next few weeks (or heck, permanently), believe me, I get it. No hard feelings.

But as long as I've got your attention right now, if you can't donate, you can volunteer. SSD isn't set up for that, but VSA is: votesaveamerica.com/vsa-2024/


Vote Save America | Organize or Else 2024

Vote Save America is back, and this year, we’re going East v. West. We all know the stakes of the 2024 election: it's time to organize or…else. LFG team.
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Have you heard about SUPER SWING DISTRICTS yet? I posted about it already, but I am so bad at using discoverability features of this platform. So let's give it a try and just go nuts with the hashtags on this repost, to see how much those help. Super Swing Districts is a slate of *state legislature* candidates that can maximize the value of your election donation dollar in crucial swing districts: mastodon.social/@glyph/1133473…

#USPol #election #democracy #fundraising #harris #election2024

Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

Okay, time to properly launch this: SUPER SWING DISTRICTS! https://superswingdistricts.org This is a slate of Democratic candidates calculated to give the maximum impact to your direct-donation dollars.
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#democracy #uspol #fundraising #election #Election2024 #harris

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Just found this article stating that using the #language #attribute for individual words within a text is not a good idea when you want #ScreenReader users to have a good #UX. It's just overengineered #a11y.

I'm a bit surprised as you always read otherwise (as the article also mentions).

Are some screen reader users here that can share their experiences? I'm really curious now 🤔

netz-barrierefrei.de/en/lang-a…

How the Language Attribute is demaging Accessibility - Accessibility Consulting - Training & Support

The language attribute seems to make sense for accessibility, but only for sighted people.
www.netz-barrierefrei.de
#a11y #screenreader #UX #language #attribute
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Marco Zehe

Yes, I agree with Domingos. Kerstin Probiesch has also written an article about this, although this also heavily emphasizes the case in PDF documents. The problem is that, for the screen reader to switch the language, one voice has to stop mid sentence, switch the voice to one that speaks the other language, speak the word or phrase, then switch back, which can take half a second each. It ruins the whole sentence melody, sounds as if you were to take a breath in mid sentence, disconnecting the words in a very unnatural manner for no apparent reason. I find it quite annoying if it happens too often. I tend to switch off language switching for that reason. Full sentences or paragraphs are no issue, single words in a sentence quickly become a huge annoyance.

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Get ready for our Practical Python course starting this Thursday at 7 Central! If you are not enrolled yet, you can do so at buff.ly/4eSAfMb
We're ready to get started and excited to see you there!
#python#learnToCode#programmingForEveryone

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Apple Releases First Betas of iOS 18.2 and More With Genmoji, Image Playground and ChatGPT Integration macrumors.com/2024/10/23/apple…

Apple Releases First Betas of iOS 18.2 and More With Genmoji, Image Playground and ChatGPT Integration

Apple today seeded the first betas of upcoming iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, and macOS Sequoia 15.2 updates to developers for testing purposes. The betas...
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As it has been a while and I could have done this better last time here’s my #introduction. I’m a #blind #parent, #braille user, and #musician. I have been blind for 5 years, learned braille over the last 3 years, and spend most of my time juggling being a stay at home dad, and staff for #OurBlind, mainly on our Discord and the r/blind subreddit. I also read a lot, mainly fantasy, mostly on my #kindle with the #voiceview #screenreader, though also read on a #Brailledisplay.

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OurBlind

Welcome to OurBlind Join Us Reddit Discord Lemmy Who We Are OurBlind is a community of blind and visually impaired people, their family and friends, and allies, from around the world.
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#blind #screenreader #introduction #braille #musician #kindle #parent #brailledisplay #ourblind #voiceview
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From Be My Eyes: Join our beta program for Be My Eyes Call-a-Volunteer on Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses! We're recruiting 50 Android and 50 iOS users. To participate, you'll need to sign an NDA, own Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and reside in Australia, Canada, Ireland, the UK, or the USA. Interested? Fill out the form linked below:
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Be My Eyes + Ray-Ban Meta Beta Testing Enrollmentc

A form to request enrollment into the Be My Eyes + Ray-Ban Meta Beta Testing Group.
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Sex and gender are constellations:

"Many people, including Dawkins, believe sex and gender are a straightforward binary. You’re either male or female, a man or a woman, end of story.

But if that were the case, it should be easy to come up with a rule that tells you which sex a person is. However, that turns out to be not nearly so simple. The more you look, the more you find that any such rule is fraught with complications, exceptions and judgment calls."

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Sex and gender are constellations

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One cannot have too many MiniDebConfs, watch out for the Brazilian Online MiniDebConf happening this week at mdcobr2024.mini.debconf.org (talks will be in Portuguese) #debconf #miniDebConfOnlineBrasil #debian

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MiniDebConf Brasil Online 2024 é um encontro da comunidade Debian brasileira que acontece online entre 21 e 25 de outubro de 2024
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#debian #debconf #minidebconfonlinebrasil

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Amazon-owned Eero unveils the $350 Eero Outdoor 7, a dual-band 2.4 and 5Ghz Wi-Fi 7 access point that covers up to 15,000 square feet with speeds up to 2.1Gbps (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)

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Eero’s newest device lets you take your Wi-Fi outdoors

The new $350 Eero Outdoor 7 is an IP66-rated access point that can extend your Wi-Fi network beyond your home.
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Pitermach

Re last boosted link, this allows you to play with the audio generation code of the Defender arcade game which, if you read the help page was way ahead of the time. Might as well also throw in this page, which is a similar concept but for the generation of Pokemon cries in gen 1 which also worked in a really interesting way. There's a video to go with this one that goes into more detail linked on the page ardean.github.io/pokemon-gen1-…

Pokemon Generation 1 Cry Synthesizer

ardean.github.io

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Want to show your support for the Internet Archive? Join us TONIGHT (Wed, Oct 23) ⬇️

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Escaping the Memory Hole (IN-PERSON)

Celebrate IN-PERSON with the Internet Archive as we highlight the vital role of libraries in preserving our shared digital culture.
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I thought I understood the extent to which the broad availability of mobile location data has exacerbated countless privacy and security challenges. That is, until I was invited along with four other publications to be a virtual observer in a 2-week test run of Babel Street, a service that lets users draw a digital polygon around nearly any location on a map of the world, and view a time-lapse history of the mobile devices seen coming in and out of the area.

The issue isn't that there's some dodgy company offering this as a poorly-vetted service: It's that *anyone* willing to spend a little money can now build this capability themselves.

I'll be updating this story with links to reporting from other publications also invited, including 404 Media, Haaretz, NOTUS, and The New York Times. All of these stories will make clear that mobile location data is set to massively complicate several hot-button issues, from the tracking of suspected illegal immigrants or women seeking abortions, to harassing public servants who are already in the crosshairs over baseless conspiracy theories and increasingly hostile political rhetoric against government employees.

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Each red dot in this Babel Street map represents a unique mobile device that has been seen since April 2022 at a Jewish synagogue in Los Angeles, Calif. The nearly square building has only a few spots inside that aren't completely covered in red dots.

The Global Surveillance Free-for-All in Mobile Ad Data

Not long ago, the ability to remotely track someone’s daily movements just by knowing their home address, employer, or place of worship was considered a powerful surveillance tool that should only be in the purview of nation states. But a…
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Some apps at #IzzyOnDroid would need verification if they still work. Aholic Gino started a list for that, most of them were already covered – but we'd need help covering the remains (just install, see if they work and are useful, report back either in the issue or as reply to this toot).

Any volunteers here on the Fedi? :awesome:

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Abandoned/Nonworking Apps (#617) · Issues · IzzyOnDroid / repo · GitLab

I was able to easily and quickly find all of the apps with archived and deleted repos not marked with NoSourceSince or a note thanks to
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#izzyondroid

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Here’s the server that’s been running my two #fediverse instances and #Hugo blog for the past two years.

It’s a low-power Intel NUC with a Celeron processor, 16 GB of RAM, and a 500 GB SSD. The entire setup lives under my printer and cost less than $300.

Bandwidth demands are modest—just a few gigs weekly. No fancy tunneling involved either. It’s just a straightforward router setup forwarding a couple of ports, a script that updates the server’s IP with my registrar as needed, and a robust Fail2ban rule set to keep things a bit secure.

No more corporate social networks and VPSes!

A small dusty server in a wire drawer with some cables in the background.
#fediverse #hugo

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Wholeheartedly agree with @pluralistic 's plea to use #RSS, my favourite RSS application is in fact @AntennaPod for podcasts.

Slightly embarrassed to admit I don't really understand how it works, which suggests that vast majority of people don't know it even exists ...

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Pluralistic: You should be using an RSS reader (16 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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#RSS @AntennaPod @Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow

The program you use to download podcasts, whether that is Apple Podcasts, Antennapod, or something else, is an RSS reader.

Podcasts are structured as attachments inside of an RSS feed. The way you listen to a podcast is by downloading and playing an MP3 (streaming is just a form of downloading).

It is downloaded to your device by your podcast app.

The way the podcast app finds those MP3 files is by loading and parsing an RSS feed.

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Right, I'm going to do something I dislike, but I literally don't know how else to get support to follow up with me.
I have indeed submitted two support requests in the intervening time, i'm not just being lazy I promise.
On 17 Aug I made a video about #FloatPlane accessibility and how not good it is.
I wasn't a troll, I was constructive and thoughtful, and yet I cannot get a hold of anyone at either Floatplane Media or LTT.
If *anyone* happens to know someone at one of these companies and could get my video to them, I'd be extremely grateful.
The other thing I really dislike doing is asking if people could boost for reach, but I'll make an exception.
Fedi is big now, and far more reaching than modern-day xitter, so all help gratefully received.
I thank you in advance.

Accessibility Issues With Floatplane (from a VoiceOver Perspective) youtu.be/2sZTsrek08M
#LTT #LinusTechTips #Accessibility #VoiceOver #iOS


Accessibility Issues With Floatplane (from a VoiceOver Perspective)

I've never made a video I wanted to age as badly as this one, but needs must.There are some glaringly obvious issues with LTT's Floatplane app for iOS if you...
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"This is a recording of the panel "Realizing Visions of Postcapitalism: A Conversation about Information Systems for Democratic Economic Planning" with Alejandro Ruiz, Jessamyn West, David Zachariah, and Tomas Härdin, on 22nd October 2024.

Event description:

In this panel, we will explore some of the technical considerations of democratic economic planning (DEP). Alejandro Ruiz, Jessamyn West, David Zachariah, and Tomas Härdin will explore their work and converse about how existing organizations might be able to integrate that work to build DEP systems and postcapitalist outcomes in the real world. This panel will explore some of the infrastructure, interface, and institutional dimensions of postcapitalism, including the burning question of, “What is to be done to realize a better world?”

The beginning part of the event will be directed towards a general audience interested in DEP. The last part of the event will be directed more towards an audience of specialists who may want to engage in more technical dialogue. All questions and contributions are welcome, no matter how general or technical. We’ll do our best to make space for and translate between these two domains of conversation.

INDEP - The International Network for Democratic Economic Planning - indep.network

We are an international network of workers, students, researchers, and activists, who share the common goal of advancing a post-capitalist economic system based on democratic economic planning.

You can join INDEP as a member (as individual or as organization), subscribe to our newsletter, share news and events from the world of democratic economic planning. If you are interested in organizing an event with INDEP yourself or want to get involved otherwise feel free to reach out to us (email address is on our website indep.network)."

#Cybernetics

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INDEP Panel Conversation on Information Systems for Democratic Economic Planning

This is a recording of the panel "Realizing Visions of Postcapitalism: A Conversation about Information Systems for Democratic Economic Planning" with Alejan...
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