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One of the authors I follow, @clacksee, has made two of her #books free for today.
For some light-hearted #SciFi with plenty of hope, there's The Left Hand of Dog: whitehartfiction.co.uk/product…
If you'd rather read about old ladies getting justice by any means necessary, there's A Bit of Murder Between Friends: whitehartfiction.co.uk/product…
I can highly recommend both.
EU readers should use her Payhip shop: payhip.whitehartfiction.co.uk
White Hart Fiction
Author of sci-fi without the pew-pewSi (she/her) is a Canadian misanthrope who lives in London. She shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays.White Hart Fiction
Don’t forget to localize your icons
Culture impacts how icons are interpreted, understood, and used.ericwbailey.website
One of my favorite Singapore food writers / recipe developers lives in the Netherlands now.
“Having grown up in perpetual summer, living in the Netherlands with the cold as a constant companion often makes me hanker for foods that I’d never craved for in Singapore.”
That’s what I feel too: the perpetual summer.
The newsletter name is a joke because there are no Singapore noodles in Singapore:
sgpnoodles.substack.com/p/bak-…
Bak zhang
making braised pork and glutinous rice dumplings out of seasonPamelia Chia (Singapore Noodles)
I found I could absorb more with headphones anyway, and besides that, I have never lived alone, so it's always been the obvious for me to keep it in my head.
It's also available on whenever the screen reader is running if you activate it with a double-tap of the hotkey or from the preferences dialog box.
Finally, the idea of the invisible interface in apps such as Tweesecake were used in older twitter clients.
The first of these was Jawter. JAWS scripting language didn't support any sort of system for making onscreen windows other than the virtual viewer I bound global hotkeys to navigate your timeline without needing a UI.
I have used similar windowless interfaces for other things in my career, such as global access to an internal telephone directory at work,
and things like global history retrieval for both speech and clipboard in the past.
When I had to use flashcards at college, they piped straight to my speech synthesizer or Braille display without a visible interface, too.
If I were designing a UIless tool today I'd probably have a layer system in place, simply because of that.
I assumed this was a site for those in the U.S.
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Keep in mind that in many countries a felony conviction (or equivalent) would lead to immediate ineligibility in public office.
That a country that broadly remove the right to vote from convicted felon and go as far as re-jail them if they mistakenly try to exercise their right to vote (simply rejecting should be enough) allow one to run for (the highest) office with a conviction is mindboggling.
Yeah, I know.
I meant to imply that even if being treasonous didn't disqualify him (even though it should've), that if there would be some law that said a felon couldn't be president, that hypothetical law wouldn't matter for Trump either.
Inherited Dad's old M1 Mac mini over the weekend, so have just set it up with @AsahiLinux
It's genuinely astonishing how easy it is to do, and well it runs straight away. Also, @mixxx appears to run in it, which makes it all the more likely that I'll be doing this with my M2 Macbook as well.
The only thing I haven't yet worked out is how to see the company's networked storage.
(desktop) CTRL+CAPS LOCK+F12
(laptop) Announces the time in hours, minutes, and seconds.
Pressing that twice quickly tells you what week number that you are in.
SO I can change Windows to show me the day of the week and when I press NVDA+f12 twice it respects that.
If I add seconds to my clock, it doesn't.
just replying to your writing question from a few weeks ago.
I've given up worrying about it.
I use paragraph navigation with NVDA in Ms Office. if the paragraph sounds about right, I go with that.
If I were to publish I'd get an editor to clean things up, but writing nowadays isn't like typesetting, everything is changeable.
EPD Engineering from Greece uses Tuta Mail for their business. Here's why! 👇
"First of all, for principal reasons, we just don’t want anyone to have access to our data. This is crucial for us as a technical company working with sensitive information. 𝐖𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐞 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐦𝐚𝐲 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐛𝐞 𝐚 𝐰𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐆𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐭 𝐄𝐏𝐃 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐦𝐩𝐥𝐞, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐮𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐫 𝐥𝐢𝐤𝐞 𝐓𝐮𝐭𝐚 𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐥 𝐢𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭."
👉 tuta.com/blog/tuta-customer-ep…
How EPD Engineering Services boosts security and efficiency with Tuta Mail | Tuta
Why business customer EPD chose Tuta.Tuta
Of course, if you're using it internally you can connect directly to a machine within your local network or VPN. If you need to host your own server you can do so very cheaply, I pay less than $2 USD a month for a small VPS.
The NVRA.IO servers are:
## US
• Los Angeles: ca.nvra.io
• Denver: co.nvra.io
• Miami: fl.nvra.io
• Atlanta: ga.nvra.io
• Chicago: il.nvra.io
• New York City: ny.nvra.io (or just nvra.io)
• Dallas: tx.nvra.io
• Seattle: wa.nvra.io
• Toronto: can.nvra.io
## Rest of the world
• Sydney, Australia: au.nvra.io
• Frankfurt, Germany: de.nvra.io
• Bangalore, India: in.nvra.io
• Tokyo, Japan: jp.nvra.io
• Singapore: sg.nvra.io
• Johannesburg, South Africa: za.nvra.io
• London, United Kingdom: uk.nvra.io
In seriousness:
I'm not sure what the advocacy to "download a menstrual tracking app and put nonsense data in it" is supposed to accomplish, exactly. What's the mental model of how this works?
Spotting _chaos_ in data is relatively easy and filtering out that kind of thing is like an extra few minutes of friction. It's not nothing, but unless you actually know what you are doing I don't see how it is supposed to accomplish much.
It's also worth reflecting what _exactly_ you are trying to protect against.
Because protecting against mass surveillance is different from protecting against individual targeting. Protecting against the federal government is different than protecting against a state government. Dealing with this when you live in Colorado is different than when you live in Alabama.
I know it is hard and people are scared, and also that means some clarity in goals is really, really important.
Like, let's break down a threat model here a few steps.
1. If the government is going after you personally, others doing this won't matter in the slightest even if the data looks legitimate.
2. If the government is going after a broad sweeping scan then they are going to be looking for patterns and are thus likely to have an analyst. That analyst is going to see your "men inserting chaos" and be able to identify those records in 2.3 seconds. Especially if there's something geolocated attached
nice service by @jaller94: find missing #stolpersteine on #osm in your berlin kiez. simply load the gpx file into your favourite osm app (e.g. osmand) and add missing stolpersteine to #openstreetmap.
gpx-files: osm-check.chrpaul.de/report/st…
sourcecode: gitlab.com/jaller94/osm-check-…
@pietervdvn The GPX format was chosen because OsmAnd and Locus Map can import them. With the mobile apps we can map while walking around outside.
The data source is stolpersteine-berlin.de/. Because of it having no explicit licence, some typos and inaccurate positions we cannot import it or use it for online editing. MapRoulette and MapComplete don't have IRL mapping editors, right?
Want to have a play with the new Matrix 2.0 APIs? 🎉
Check out element-docker-demo, a new super-simple way to stand up Element with Synapse, MAS and LiveKit using docker-compose.
element.io/blog/experimenting-…
Experimenting with Matrix 2.0 using element-docker-demo
element-docker-demo gives you a basic Matrix 2.0 implementation. Watch Matthew Hodgson, Element CEO and co-founder of Matrix.org, step through the set up.Matthew Hodgson (Element Blog)
Keynote gold software sinthesizer is successfully cracked! (Page 1) — Off-topic room — AudioGames.net Forum
Keynote gold software sinthesizer is successfully cracked! (Page 1) — Off-topic room — AudioGames.net Forum — Discuss audio games!forum.audiogames.net
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I've seen demo apps for softvoice that won't run because they're 16 bit and some that will, for instance. SO by that logic the speech synthesizer itself works across 16 and 32 bit platforms, just not its interface, if you see what I mean
I cannot believe the resources we are spending on this bullshit instead of doing literally anything else.
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DW Innovation (@dw_innovation@mastodon.social)
Generative AI not only consumes a lot of energy, it's also likely to produce a lot of electronic trash. According to researchers, the total amount of global e-waste could grow by the alarming factor of 1.000 in only 5 years.Mastodon
We need some help: we are using hosted Weblate for the translations under a Libre plan; but they only support up to 160K strings for free. With some new languages added, we are now exceeding this limit.
What are some alternatives to do this?
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It's interesting how the use of audio has changed over the years
Anyone have suggestions on where to try to promote the Games for Blind gamers gam jam? We got 110 sign ups last year, and hoping to get more sign ups this year!
itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga…
#GameJam #gamedev #indiedev #accessibility
Games for Blind Gamers 4
A game jam from 2025-02-01 to 2025-03-10 hosted by NightBlade. Welcome, Blind and Sighted Game Developers! Welcome to the fourth annual Games for Blind Gamers jam! The goal of this jam is to build awareness of bli...itch.io
I remember David Graeber's insight into #voting being a big 'Aha' moment for me:
"Majoritarian democracy was, in its origins, essentially a military institution. . . .
"It is of obvious relevance that Ancient Greece was one of the most competitive societies known to history. It was a society that tended to make everything into a public contest . . . So it might not seem entirely surprising that they made political decision-making into a public contest as well. Even more crucial though was the fact that decisions were made by a populace in arms. . . . [I]f a man is armed, then one pretty much has to take his opinions into account. . . . [E]ven if the vote was 60/40, everyone could see the balance of forces and what would happen if things actually came to blows. Every vote was, in a real sense, a conquest." #history #politics #democracy
- Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology theanarchistlibrary.org/librar…
Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology
David Graeber Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology 2004The Anarchist Library
Welcome to the RB family, Beans 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/net.h…
Beans is a scratchmap of the world that lets you keep track of your discovery of the world on a colorful visual map.
Joint efforts with its developer succeeded in making this app reproducible 
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