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Este é o tipo de coisa em que eu penso quando se fala em distopia.
A IA é cada vez mais uma ferramenta de usurpação, contrafação, fraude, mentira e manipulação.
E poluição ambiental também. Quase me esquecia.

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David Attenborough says he is ‘profoundly disturbed’ his voice is being cloned with AI

‘My identity is being stolen by others,’ said 98-year-old naturalist
Ellie Harrison (The Independent)

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I swear that's how it works!!!

How did you get into programming? ✨

#CyanTechMeme

A chibi drawing showing Lina being interviewed. She looks disoriented. The reporter asks: “How did you become a programmer?” Lina answers: “I just keep Googling stuff and it keeps working”
#cyantechmeme
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From Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: TUG Meeting Announcement -- BARD on Alexa: Saturday, December 14, 10:00 AM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

From Maryland Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: TUG Meeting Announcement -- BARD on Alexa: Saturday, December 14, 10:00 AM Eastern Time

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Celebrating 10 Years of Hartgen Consultancy with Holiday Offers! groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

Celebrating 10 Years of Hartgen Consultancy with Holiday Offers!

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With our #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc efforts we put all intelligence on the end devices, and architecutally separate it from a transport layer that routes safely and fast but knows nothing.

There are a dozen or more #chatmail servers across many jurisdictions, all safely interopable with each other and classic servers.

Turned out we can dumb down email servers by relying on cryptography instead of IP reputation and ai/spam filtering. And have 200ms delivery times. We are not done :)

#deltachat #Webxdc #chatmail

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Muy defensores de lo público cuando el funcionario eres tú, pero asisa que no te la toquen eeeeeeeeh

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This is a really good ad.
A billboard advertisement features a Timex watch on a white background. The text reads: "Know the time without seeing you have 1,249 unanswered emails."

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#pekný_večer
#pekny_vecer

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From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Intro to Google Docs and Drive: Tuesday, November 19, 6:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

From the Andrew Heiskell Braille and Talking Book Library: Intro to Google Docs and Drive: Tuesday, November 19, 6:00 PM Eastern Time

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El mundo es un lugar interesante. Hoy charlando en el IRC sobre los censos, surge la cuestión de por qué en Europa no se recogen datos étnicos. Yo sabía que el artículo 9 del RGPD prohíbe el tratamiento de datos sobre categorías especiales como el origen étnico sin consentimiento explícito. Lo que no sabía y lo acabo de ver, es que el artículo 9 de nuestra LO 3/2018 va más allá y prohíbe el tratamiento de estos datos incluso con la base legitimadora del consentimiento. Sólo se pueden tratar por obligaciones de legislación de empleo y seguridad social, protección de intereses vitales cuando el inteeresado no pueda consentir, fundaciones, partidos políticos o asociaciones con fines filosóficos, políticos, religiosos o sindicales, datos personales notoriamente publicados por el interesado, acciones legales, interés público superior, medicina preventiva u ocupacional, aptitud laboral o diagnóstico, interés público por salud pública, archivos de interés público, investigación científica o histórica o estadística conforme a la normativa de la Unión o los estados miembros y respetando la protección de datos y la salvaguarda del interesado.

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Whoops! school accidentally leaked names of kids who opted out of sex education

Names had been redacted from a PDF, but included in HTML version. 🤦‍♂️ This kind of screw-up happens far too often.

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N.J. school accidentally released names of kids who opted out of sex education

Parents say the move violated students' privacy. The school says it was an accident.
Tina Kelley | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com (nj)

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We've also made the move to the Fediverse (as an experiment, for now)! We are the Faculty of #Philosophy at the University of #Groningen - widely regarded as one of the best places to study philosophy in Europe! We are looking forward to making new connections! #introduction
#introduction #philosophy #groningen
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In case you missed it, Apple has been using age limits to unfairly discriminate against third party browsers:

open-web-advocacy.org/blog/ios…


iOS age restriction blocks all browsers except Safari, breaks choice screen - Open Web Advocacy

Open Web Advocacy

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A collaborator found out that the US State Dept is seeking public input on whether "satellite signature reduction" should be subject to ITAR regs.

Translation: should satellite operators who make their satellites fainter (in order to not destroy the night sky quite as much) be allowed to talk about how they did it?

So some of my collaborators and I put together a quick and easy template for you to email the US State Dept and tell them this shouldn't be secret info:

kesslerrebellion.com/take-acti…

Technology to make satellites fainter should not be secret information — Kessler Rebellion

Kessler Rebellion
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New review feat. THE Sapna Cheryan (essentially if you want to understand STEM gender equity gaps this is the scientist to read) free to access until Dec 2

"Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence"

nature.com/articles/s44159-024…


Global patterns of gender disparities in STEM and explanations for their persistence - Nature Reviews Psychology

Women remain underrepresented in some STEM fields throughout much of the world. In this Review, Cheryan and colleagues discuss four factors that might explain this underrepresentation — access to education and employment, masculine cultures, insuffic…
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Why people are not replicating the screen reader experience of native elements in their uselessly custom JS widgets is beyond me. ANyway, just spotted this lovely chatty fake <select> box in the wild. "option <Option_name> focused, 1 of 12. 12 results available. Use Up and Down to choose options, press Enter to select the currently focused option, press Escape to exit the menu, press Tab to select the option and exit the menu." Obviously all of this gets announced for every press in the list of options.
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I’ve seen this a few times, pretty sure it must be some very popular widget a lot of sites use. Gets even better when it’s implemented incorrectly and the accessibility just says “object object is selected” so you have no idea what you’re doing.
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Jakob Rosin
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@pitermach Yep, looks like it came from some library to me as well. Its an estonian site, and all the announcement stuff is obviously not translated.
@Pitermach
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Oh, and all of this is going through a live region so if you’re using braille or try to have NVDA/VO/Whatever speak where the focus is it won’t work either.
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Tuukka Ojala
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@pitermach Oh, good old React-select. That component has caused trouble for literally hundreds if not thousands of users over the years and should be banned from any and all new projects.
@Pitermach

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New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: MyTherapy Pill Reminder accessible with minor issues accessibleandroid.com/app/myth… #Android #App

MyTherapy Pill Reminder - Accessible Android

This pill reminder app reliably reminds you to take your tablets, pills, and other medication, vitamins, or supplements at the scheduled time. With the
Accessible Android
#android #app

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From facebook. Of course you can lose real friendships. Of course you can. Of course you can lose people who really love you. Of course you can lose people who are committed to you. It’s flippant to think you can’t. You treat them like they don’t matter? You can lose them. You consistently put unnecessary strain and strife on the relationship? You can lose them. You don’t show up for them over and over and over again? You can lose them. You prove that you can’t be trusted? You can lose them? Don’t reciprocate over a long period of time? You can lose them. I’m quite frankly over this cultural concept that everything is everyone else’s fault and this refusal to ever look in the mirror and think about how our actions may have lead to their reactions because I want us to grow. I want us to learn and become better humans in general and we will never do that as long as we are blaming everything on everyone else.
So yes, I hope people are loyal to you. I hope they stick around. I hope they forgive and understand when you’ve made a mistake or acted out of character and I hope they talk through it with you.
But I also hope we all realize that of course you can lose real friendships if you aren’t careful with their hearts.
They’re people with needs and wants too. They’re people with very real feelings and their time and energy is precious too.

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Following up on my last post: While "Dining in the Dark" uses blindfolds to simulate blindness—a deeply problematic practice—Netflix’s *Love Is Blind* raises a different but related issue: the casual use of "blindness" as a metaphor.

The title refers to the idea that love can transcend physical appearance, but it uses blindness to symbolize ignorance or a lack of perception. This isn’t new—our language is full of metaphors like "turning a blind eye" or "blind ambition" that associate blindness with negative traits like ignorance or inability.

As a blind person, I see how language shapes perceptions. These metaphors may seem harmless, but they perpetuate outdated, ableist notions of blindness as a deficiency. They turn our lived experiences into rhetorical devices, erasing the richness of blind culture and reducing us to symbols of "lack."

No, *Love Is Blind* isn’t offensive in the same way as "Dining in the Dark," which makes a spectacle of our lives. But the metaphorical use of blindness shows how ingrained ableism is in language and culture. Casual metaphors matter—they reinforce unconscious biases that we must challenge.

Blindness isn’t a symbol. It’s a lived reality, full of challenges, skills, and a vibrant community. Let’s think more critically about how we use disability in language and storytelling.

💬 What do you think?

#Disability #Ableism #Blind #LanguageMatters #Inclusion

#blind #Disability #inclusion #ableism #languagematters
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This comes up a lot.
My concern about inclusive language is that one day, we'll go so far that we can't understand each other.

For me, far too many people treat me like blindness is more of a problem than it is. The person I have been dining with has been asked for my meal choices on far too many occasions to count. Nonetheless, if we stop using the word blind in a metaphorical context, this doesn't change their actions. In fact I could make an excellent case to argue that it distances them even more from the idea of blindness, a widening I already struggle with when in some parts of the world, someone can both be legally blind and drive a vehicle. I already feel that the term blind is appropriated by those who have corrective vision. To want the word even less in use seems ridiculous.

I am happy that my love is blind. I love my life partner without considering her visual appearance overmuch, and love being blind encapsulates that perfectly.
I love things being blindingly-obvious. people have blind spots in their vision, and I see no harm in transfering that concept to an emotional one (there are people with whom i cannot discuss certain topics because they have a blind spot about it in an emotive context).
mobile phone companies are being advised to avoid the term blackspot for an area of poor signal coverage because it is offensive. Man hours are no longer applicable to people because they disinclude women. Processes at work have to be unalived because terminated sounds harsh.

Language is an ever-evolving system of expression. I worry that being militant about a word like blind will, if we are not careful, see us using so many tortuous tautologies that we are divorced from richness in language full-stop.

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@cachondo Put blind spots means a spot where you can’t see it doesn’t mean being blind means or less of anything than if you were not blind does it?
@Sean Randall
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@cachondo It is perfectly acceptable to turn a blind eye to something Nelson did it! Or maybe he didn’t but everybody thinks he did.🤷‍♀️
@Sean Randall
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@Lottie@caneandable.social there you go, another good example. A blind eye is a fantastic teaching tool.
Tell a child that you'll turn a blind eye to their unflattering drawing of their dad one day, they'll understand that an adult with real blind eyes can't see. Boom. Life lesson.
@The Blind AI

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Nutzt StreetComplete. Die App ist gut. Warum, hab ich hier beschrieben: openstreetmap.org/user/Inklusi…

StreetComplete - App ohne Account nutzen

Mit der App StreetComplete auf dem Smartphone kann jeder Mensch (unabhängig von persönlichen Vorlieben oder Registrierungen in Gruppen und Vereinen) zur Barrierefreiehit beitragen.
OpenStreetMap
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Inklusives Ruhrbistum
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@fexplorer @cantences Ja, das stimmt gewissermaßen. Wenn ich etwas mit der APP bewirken will, muss ich einen Account haben. Aber ich kann sie öffnen und die Aufgaben eingeben, ohne dass sie hochgeladen werden. Für mich war diese Möglichkeit eine Phase des Lernens. Bei OSM an sich muss ich angemeldet sein, wenn ich die Funktionen ausprobieren will.
Ist das richtig?
@Thomas @FediVerseExplorer

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The song “Breathe Out” from my self produced album “Echoes of Tomorrow” will be released on all streaming platforms on November 20th. distrokid.com/hyperfollow/ales…

#music #rock #90sMusic

#rock #music #90smusic

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Слазил в сорсы #mastodon .
Удивился.
Товарищи, кто в #js #javascript и #ruby рубит, возможно, вы меня просветите.
Отсутствие комментариев в коде и жопное именование переменных/флагов - это нормально для этих языков?
#Mastodon #javascript #js #ruby
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André Polykanine
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Соглашусь, но в защиту могу сказать, что его, как я понимаю, пилил один чувак долго, причём, если не ошибаюсь, откуда-то из наших краёв. А культура называть переменные, как по мне, приходит только с опытом командной работы.
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Aliaksandr, the last Dzik
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@menelion , похоже на то. Причём, после интенсивного применения черенка от лопаты сокомандниками.
Мне попадались пару раз проекты по геймерской части от, без преувеличения, гениев JS'а.
Но они были одиночками.
И код у них - даже не смотря на потуги выставить проекты на опенсорс - был просто буэээээээээээээээ...
Это при том, что JS сам по себе особо не располагает к адекватному дебагу на ходу, особенно в гоняемых через Electron проектах. И, казалось бы, уж комментами то можно было присыпать...
@André Polykanine

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Some folks who are interested in being more prepared for disaster or emergency situations are interested in using HAM/amateur radio as a communication tool you can use when cell & internet networks are down.

I did some research on getting licensed (in the US) & learning to operate HAM radios this summer and finally got the notes I sent as an email to some local friends typed up for easier reference on my blog.

cassey.dev/ham-radio/

#YearOfTheBlog #preparedness #hamradio

HAM Radio for Community Preparedness

One person is typing.
www.cassey.dev
#hamradio #yearoftheblog #preparedness

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Cosas que no se deben extinguir: los murciélagos, los pangolines, los capibaras...

Cosas que se deben extinguir: MUFACE.

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Man it's sad to see how many things on Steam are clickables and how there are like no headings. I figured it out in several minutes as an AT Instructor and advanced screen reader user. I know I'm preaching to the choir when I post this kind of thing, but literally it'd be so fuckin' easy. The least they can do is aria role = button or something. I guess they're another vendor I refuse to buy from knowing that none of my money goes toward giving a shit about accessibility.

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Yo me haría un blue sky, pero vivo en miña terra galega, onde o ceo é sempre gris.

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Based in the EU?

Looking for a role as Engineering Manager, Admin Team-Lead or Cloud Engineering Lead, ping me if you want to work in a really awesome company.

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#AltTxt
#alttext

Hi visually impaired people 👋 Does your screen reader read out text in bitmaps for you?

I.e. if I post a jpg of text, does your speech thing decode and read it out to you?

Please boost for reach...

  • yes it reads out text in images (0%, 0 votes)
  • No, give me alt text if you can (8%, 7 votes)
  • it does, but its wonky so alt-text still helps (2%, 2 votes)
  • not visually impaired but want to know (89%, 76 votes)
85 voters. Poll end: 4 days ago

#AltText #AltTxt
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Two questions about the Servo project, as it exists today:

1) Can I use it as a web browser on windows right now?
2) Does it have accessibility support?

Anyone knows, and, preferably has tried this?

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If anyone has managed to get an accessibility cookie from h-captcha (hell-captcha), how?

I am trying desperately to get one, and I cannot seem to get past the ability to enter my email. It keeps giving me an error every time I go to submit. Please, please help.

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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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You have to do everything on one browser, must enable cross cookie some thingy I don't know. They have text challenges for some regions.

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I kinda wanna continue learning languages but I stopped using Duolingo
Is there a good alternative?
Mostly wanna continue with Japanese, maybe french and Dutch as well :3
:ReplyOK: :BoostOK:

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Greatest #astronomy #space headline ever

futurism.com/the-byte/hard-to-…


Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains

Scientists found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus messed with our understanding of the planet.
Victor Tangermann (Futurism)
#astronomy #space

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Last week we said goodbye to #electronicaFair 2024. Big thanks to the organizers and to everyone who came by our booth to talk to us! We'll be around in the next edition in 2026. See you there! 👋
Andrés Gómez, Christian Gmeiner and Samuel Iglesias in the Igalia booth at Electronica Fair 2024
Christian Gmeiner presenting a talk about Mesa3D during Electronica Fair 2024
#electronicafair

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Found this awesome tool to edit #PlainText files in any browser. browserpad.org/
#plaintext
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Robert Kingett
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Mobile devices require a text editor app. At least, I can't edit text files on my iPhone without an app, unless I am missing something! But as for desktops? Yes, all desktops have text editors, at least! @cachondo
@Sean Randall

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I learned of a JAWS shortcut today that I didn't know before.
1. Launch a web page.
2. Press JAWS Key+6 to move into Settings Centre.
3. Now to the shortcut. Press Control+Shift+W. This allows you to customise settings for a specific domain.
Of course I've got a lot of customisations for various domains for my own use, but I've been getting at this feature another way. I didn't know about that Control+Shift+W shortcut to take you there directly. #SharkVember @freedomscientific
#sharkvember @Freedom Scientific

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Check Out This Impressive Doctor Who Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana thedoctorwhocompanion.com/2024…

Check Out This Impressive Doctor Who Museum in Fort Wayne, Indiana

This gorgeous museum is packed with some 5,000 Doctor Who items!
The Doctor Who Companion

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New Add-on for NVDA Users: The newly designed objWatcher-1.0.0 is released groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

New Add-on for NVDA Users: The newly designed objWatcher-1.0.0 is released

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If you harbored any doubts regarding #Bluesky and their claims of decentralization, you HAVE TO read this brilliant, insightful toot by @jonny about the impossibility of multiple relays and what would happen if one tried to split off from #Bsky the corporation: neuromatch.social/@jonny/11336…

I actually recommend you read the whole thread - and follow Jonny! (Thank you for the recommendation @oblomov!)

#socialmedia #ATProto

jonny (good kind) (@jonny@neuromatch.social)

Content warning: long, bsky, atproto, on the impossibility of multiple relays
Neuromatch Social
#socialmedia #bluesky #atproto #BSKY @Oblomov @jonny (good kind)

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From Seeing Hands: BRL2BRF Braille file conversion tool new release groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

From Seeing Hands: BRL2BRF Braille file conversion tool new release

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Chris Cooke
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Hi. Thanks for this. I'm wondering if this would be a good thing for me to have because I have a lot of files created by my QBraille who's default is BRL files. Then it causes an issue when I try to read those same files on my Brailliant BI40X. There are a lot of weird symbols and things that are not interpreted properly. I'll have to give this a try.
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