Putting the issue of what should and should not be taught in schools aside, I challenge the statement that Christianity is not being taught in church. This is nothing more than a hateful statement from atheists or from other non-Christians with no basis in reality and I'm not letting that go unchallenged or unnoticed. Which church? Which pastor? What doctrine has consistently and specifically been taught that contradicts Christian teaching? As a practicing Christian who has attended many different churches for decades, I can say that anyone who makes such a stupid statement doesn't know what he or she is talking about.
Calling all #Blind #Windows users! 🖥️👥 I briefly tried #Beeper after seeing another blind person recommend it, but it didn't seem the most accessible with the #JAWS #ScreenReader. Do you use any all-in-one social media apps like Shift, Franz, Ferdium, or Beeper on Windows? I'd love to hear about your experiences with #accessibility and usability. Please share your thoughts! #AssistiveTech #tech @mastoblind @main
To everyone when they see horrible privacy news about Microsoft replying with:
"I don't care, I use Linux"
Sure, you do. But does your medical clinic do? Does your therapist do? Does your family member typing a personal email to you in Word before sending it do too?
This is a systemic problem.
You cannot protect your own data only by using Linux yourself. You must also demand stronger regulations and enforcement to obligate organizations around to protect your data as well.
Evidence of oldest known alphabetic unearthed in Syrian dig. The writing, which is dated to around 2400 BCE, precedes other known alphabetic scripts by roughly 500 years, upending what archaeologists know about where alphabets came from, how they are shared across societies, and what that could mean for early urban civilizations… #Writing #Language #Script #Archeology #Anthropology #CulturalGeography hub.jhu.edu/2024/11/21/ancient…
* LibChecker: view and analyze the third-party libraries used by apps * Clock: Alarm, clock, timer, stopwatch and bedtime mode * Harmonic: Material design client for HackerNews 🛡️ * Exodus: show trackers and permissions in installed apps 🛡️
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
In this episode of Environment Variables, host Chris Adams dives into the evolving landscape of sustainable web development with Alexander Dawson and Tzviya Siegman from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
President-elect Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Rep. Jim Jordan, and other MAGA Republicans are engaged in an ongoing campaign to target researchers studying disinformation and hate speech. Duke University professor Philip Napoli is documenting their strategy and tactics. techpolicy.press/documenting-t…
Philip Napoli is a professor of public policy and director of the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy at the Sanford School at Duke University.
I made a to-scale picture of American and European cloud players, but you may have to squint a bit. (don't take this too seriously, btw, haven't done the actual math).
Používáš osmičky? Pro mě je hlavní no-go mikrofon, a tak nějak ve skrytu duše doufám, že časem přijdou s modelem co bude trochu víc zaměřený i na Paragliding. Mít tak deník letů by byla paráda. A tak stále čekám s FR945 👍
@tasmandevil Ne, já mám Fenix 6 pro, mám už je tři roky. Zatím nemám ani potřebu je měnit. Na kolo má Garmin Edge 1040 a hodinky vlastně je turistika a běh.
The recent Let's Go Shopping event was the best ever, and if you missed some - or all - of the two day holiday gift extravaganza, then you'll want to tune in to the audio below.
In this episode of All Things Lady A, Lucy takes us through the "My Talking Books" skill, a tool in beta testing that provides access to audiobooks from the National Library Service for the Blind and Print Disabled (NLS).
Episode Overview Learn how to adjust JAWS verbosity settings to control the level of detail during navigation. Optimize your experience with these quick customization tips.
Most people likely know me as a musician first and foremost. Recently however, I started a podcast with my wife about various topics, none of which are music-related. A different side to me, and a side to my wife I didn't know existed until a few weeks ago.
I found out she's an incredible speaker despite being mic-shy.
Playlist for the StroongeCast podcasts with husband and wife team, Andre and Kirsten Louis. RSS feed: https://onj.me/media/stroongecast/index.php?xml_feed=y
"What else do we forget about the pandemic? We forget how mesmerised we were as nature rebounded, how clean the air was in the absence of industrial scale human activity. We forget that carbon emissions fell at the sort of pace required to avoid cataclysmic climate change. We forget that no-strings cash payments saw child poverty in America plunge to record lows, that the UK slashed homelessness with schemes that found homes for people sleeping on the street.
We forget that there really was a sense of global solidarity, that the reflection demanded by a pandemic opened up spaces for us to consider truly radical and permanent change. Remember build back better? There really was a sense that the coronavirus, as we all knew it then, could be the catalyst for a better word.
It couldn't last because of capitalism. This isn't some glib statement, it is literally why such promises could never be fulfilled. Because such promises required redistribution and structural shifts to economies that billionaires don't want shifting."
As we approach the five year mark of the first known case of covid-19, as we contemplate a half decade of watching a novel virus rip through our communities, our countries, our world, I wanted to do a retrospective on the pandemic.
There is a certain irony that I have to create a Medium account to read this post on how to disable LLM / genAI scraping in Microsoft Word. tldr.nettime.org/@remixtures/1…
"Microsoft Office, like many companies in recent months, has slyly turned on an “opt-out” feature that scrapes your Word and Excel documents to train its internal AI systems.
I've setup the Kover plugin to calculate the test coverage, generate a report at each build and upload it to Codecov to monitor how I'm progressing with unit testing (the value is still low but I'm going to work to improve it);
I received a contribution yesterday night on accessibility, which I had been working on in a recent PR, and this is definitely an area where the app will be improved in the near future.
Mathew Duggan has a brilliant post called "Self-Hosting Isn't a Solution; It's A Patch". In it, he (correctly and convincingly) argues that compelling people to run their own computer services is a complex and distracting crutch for the current problems we face.
It's expensive to self-host, there are moderation problems, and the difficulty level is too high for most people.
The ability to "Self Host" doesn't just mean "run this on a Raspberry Pi in your cupboard and be responsible for constant maintenance". Yes, you can do that if you're a masochist, but it isn't restricted to that.
To me, "Self-Hosting" means "I am in control of where I host something". I currently pay a company to host this blog. It has previously been hosted on Blogger, WordPress, my own VPS, and a variety of other services. Tomorrow I could decide to host it with a big company, or I could run it from my phone. I get to choose. That's what "Self-Hosting" is - a choice in where to host.
Similarly, Mastodon allows me self-host my account. I can have my content on one of the big servers and let them do moderation, storage, and maintenance for me - or I can move my account anywhere I choose. To a server in my cupboard and back again.
Email is similar. I know people who've gone from CompuServe, to HoTMaiL, to Gmail, to their own domain, then to OutLook. Their address-book moves with them. Forwarding rules ensure incoming email is routed correctly. They can choose to actively moderate spam, or outsource it. They can pay a company to host, keep backups in their basement, or watch adverts in return for services.
I agree with nearly everything Mathew says in his post. It is absurdly privileged to think that running your own services is something normal people want to do and are capable of doing. Strong regulation helps everyone, people want simplicity, and ecosystems can be fragile.
But witness all the people moving over from Twitter to new networks. Do they care where their data is hosted and how it is maintained? No! But they want to move their social graph with them. And when BlueSky and Mastodon collapse, people will want to move again.
In the UK, I have the ability to move my phone number between hundreds of providers. If I'm particularly techy, I can even run my own infrastructure and route the number there. People love the fact that they can leave crappy service providers and move somewhere cheaper or with with better customer service or whatever it is they value. I think that's a form of self-hosting; I get to choose who provides my services.
Similarly, I believe people have a desire for "self-hosting" which is difficult for them to articulate. They want to move their data around - be it old photos, a social graph, or a username. Most of them don't really care about the underlying technology (and why should they?) but they do care about continuity of service and being able to escape crappy service providers.
So, that's my reckons. Self-Hosting means you can choose where to host, and I think most people can find value in that.
Howard Henderson and Ben Yisrael argue that far from being a radical movement, 'defund the police" is a well-researched, evidence-based policy proven to save lives and reduce a reliance on law-and-order policing.
I think that's a perceptive view (if you can self-host you can also other-host) so in a sense self-hosting is the existence proof that something is really open and possible to deploy autonomously.
However I'm more of an optimist about these things. I don't see why people can't self-host. I'm nobody special and I self-host. I don't want to say if I can do it anyone can do it but... It's not like there's some impenetrable magic involved here. It's all simple mechanism.
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