Recommending this podcast on how games get Arabic wrong:

aftermath.site/you-are-error-p…
The guest is Rami Ismail (ramiismail.com/), and it's 1 hr 26 mins long.

Expect discussions of everything related, it will have discussions of Palestine, racism, xenophobia, dehumanization of Arabs.

Introducing: You Are Error, Our Podcast About Gaming’s Greatest Misconceptions - Aftermath

Learning from video games' mistakes

^{aftermath.site}

Just a note to my fellow Canadians, that this is most of the cause of the Canada Post strike that you're all complaining about during Christmas. Harper gutted public funding for Canada Post and told them to run like a business. They are an essential public service, and should not be run for profit!

#cdnpoli #abpoli

Ein Datenschatz für KI Innovationen, mit Google, Meta und OpenAI - was kann da bei der Patientenakte schon schiefgehen?

Lauterbach zu Gesundheitsdaten: Google, Meta, und OpenAI melden Interesse an
heise.de/news/Lauterbach-zu-Ge…

Lauterbach zu Gesundheitsdaten: Google, Meta, und OpenAI melden Interesse an

Lauterbach sieht in der Patientenakte einen Datenschatz für KI-Innovationen. Tech-Giganten zeigen Interesse, um die Gesundheitsversorgung zu verbessern.

^{Marie-Claire Koch (heise online)}

Can any of my friends in #Canada explain how it's legal for there to be private doctor services now? Here's one example:

cliniqueomicron.ca/en/rates/

There are many different doctors listed here: portal3.clicsante.ca/services/…

I guess our healthcare system is getting privatized without us even knowing?

Consult our service rates.

For pricing information, please contact one of our medical secretaries at 514-606-3350. At Clinique Omicron, we value pricing transparency and are committed to providing total clarity to our customers. Contact us to find out how we can help you.

^{Omicron Clinic}

Rust 1.83 just got released!

This time, nice const improvements.

Check out the release post: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/…

#rust #rustlang

Announcing Rust 1.83.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

^{blog.rust-lang.org}

Ah, I see that BlueSky has joined LinkedIn in supplanting Twitter as the primary source of accessibility misinformation.

(I didn’t make this clear, but this post came across my timeline here and on linkedin and it just shows how this kind of stuff spreads on algorithmic timelines and then bleeds over to other social networks. That’s how you poison a well.)

#a11y #accesibility

Sensitive content Reveal/hide

🦃=🦖

#Joplin soll für blinde Menschen besser nutzbar werden.

Wer helfen möchte, hier entlang:
discourse.joplinapp.org/t/call…
@joplinapp@mastodon.social
#a11y #blind #Barrierefrei #Test #Software #OpenSource

Calling visually impaired users: help us improve accessibility!

Over the past months, we’ve been improving the accessibility of both our desktop and mobile apps, in particular to better support visually impaired users.

^{Joplin Forum}

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024): The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two
months:

* Joachim Bauch (fancycode)

* Alexander Kjäll (capitol)

* Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis)

* Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux)

The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two
months:

* Alberto Bertogli

* Alexis Murzeau

* David Heilderberg

* Xiyue Deng

* Kathara Sasikumar

*… bits.debian.org/2024/11/new-de…

New Debian Developers and Maintainers (September and October 2024)

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: Joachim Bauch (fancycode) Alexander Kjäll (capitol) Jan Mojžíš (janmojzis) Xiao Sheng Wen (atzlinux) The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in…

^{Debian Project}

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today only brings you 9 updated apps, but I still wanted to toot that because our RB stats made it to above 29%: 356 apps (29.2%) 🥳 Next milestone: 30% comes into reach!

And while I'm here: at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 5 modules have received updates (122 modules available altogether).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

#AI spurs revolution for some visually impaired people:
bbc.com/news/articles/cg4lvw6v…

#BBC #accessibility

AI spurs 'revolution' for some visually impaired people

AI services that can describe pictures and scenes are helping the visually impaired.

^{Suzanne Bearne (BBC News)}

🚨 Important Update: The GitLab migration is scheduled for December 4th.

The Infrastructure team is aware of the current issues and is actively working to resolve them.

For more details, please check the link below:
discourse.gnome.org/t/schedule…

[Scheduled maintenance] GitLab / GitLab pages - 04th of December 2024 at 2 PM UTC

Hello, On Wednesday 04th of December we’ll be performing GitLab / GitLab pages migration to our new platform, hosted in AWS.

^{GNOME Discourse}

A new version of MapComplete is out. It contains many small UX-improvements and bugfixes, such as:

- When clicking the map, the closest nearby way (<20px away) is selected to easier select (e.g. on the maxspeed theme)
- fixes to panoramax uploads. Some users were having problems during uploads, this should be improved
- Fix to the move-functionalities

And many other small tools.
The full changelog can be found here: github.com/pietervdvn/MapCompl…

Or test it live at mapcomplete.org

MapComplete/CHANGELOG.md at develop · pietervdvn/MapComplete

An easy-to-use webapp to edit OpenStreetMap. Contribute to pietervdvn/MapComplete development by creating an account on GitHub.

^GitHub

So.. @juliette is going through some of her grandmothers old (1980s / 1990s) xmas themed sewing & embroidery magazines and, frankly, what the fuck:

Here's a start. Some patterns that are surely candles.. right? Unrelated: a magazine named "Christmas Quickies"

#wtf #christmas #embroidery

#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.

Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

The CfP for the FOSDEM Devroom of the Matrix Foundation & Community is open until Sunday.

Don't miss your chance to share your project, prototype, idea, or even deployment story with the broader open source community!

matrix.org/blog/2024/11/fosdem…

Call for Participation to the FOSDEM 2025 Matrix Devroom

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Thib (matrix.org)}

Objevil se poskytovatel DeutschlandTicket, který dovoluje zahájit předplatné kterýkoli den v měsíci a za první měsíc účtuje pouze poměrnou část.

Na krátké výlety po Německu ideální!
xn--ondej-kcb.v.nizozemsku.nl/…

Jak cestovat německými vlaky

Když jsem bydlel v Česku, čas od času jsem vyrazil prozkoumat německé pohraničí s jednodenní síťovou jízdenkou. Teď dělám občas totéž, jen objevuji Německo z druhé strany.

^{Ondřej Caletka (Ondřej v Nizozemsku)}

What a wild viewpoint, undocumented immigrants explaining why they are happy Trump won expressing jealousy of the support asylum seeking immigrants are getting. They encouraged their kids to support Trump and even fly MAGA flags and bumper stickers 🫠

But don't they understand undocumented means they are the illegals meanwhile asylum seekers get support because they are using a LEGAL path to immigration? Trump wants both types gone.

propublica.org/article/immigra…

#immigration #trump

Immigrants’ Resentment Over New Arrivals Helped Boost Trump’s Popularity With Latino Voters

Across the U.S., Latino immigrants who’ve been in the country a long time felt that asylum-seekers got preferential treatment. “Those of us who have been here for years get nothing,” said one woman from Mexico who has lived in Wisconsin for decades.

^ProPublica

Ernest Hemingway once said: In our darkest moments, we don’t need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. These small gestures are the anchors that hold us steady when life feels like too much.

Please don’t try to fix me. Don’t take on my pain or push away my shadows. Just sit beside me as I work through my own inner storms. Be the steady hand I can reach for as I find my way.

My pain is mine to carry, my battles mine to face. But your presence reminds me I’m not alone in this vast, sometimes frightening world. It’s a quiet reminder that I am worthy of love, even when I feel broken.

So, in those dark hours when I lose my way, will you just be here? Not as a rescuer, but as a companion. Hold my hand until the dawn arrives, helping me remember my strength.

Your silent support is the most precious gift you can give. It’s a love that helps me remember who I am, even when I forget.

🙏 Thank you, Tuta community! Your feedback has been incredible. Thanks for helping us build stronger, more secure Tuta products. 💌

📊 Check out the highlights of our User Survey 2024:
👉 tuta.com/blog/tuta-survey-2024

#Grateful #PrivacyFirst #UserFeedback

I see Rust 1.83 was released today. [1] The major focus seems to be on enabling more things in const context. It'll be interesting to see how this might allow more logic [2] to be shifted from program startup time to compile time.

[1]: blog.rust-lang.org/2024/11/28/…

[2]: This post by @chadaustin has influenced my thinking on performance, and especially program startup time, for years: chadaustin.me/2009/02/logic-vs…

Announcing Rust 1.83.0 | Rust Blog

Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.

^{blog.rust-lang.org}

As people may have noticed, we've had some issues with GitLab (repository, issues, merge requests, and documentation are all affected), and the admins have decided to move up the migration day to December 4, 2024:

discourse.gnome.org/t/schedule…

Ideally, this should bring us back to a stable environment. Stay tuned for more information next week.

[Scheduled maintenance] GitLab / GitLab pages - 04th of December 2024 at 2 PM UTC

Hello, On Wednesday 04th of December we’ll be performing GitLab / GitLab pages migration to our new platform, hosted in AWS.

^{GNOME Discourse}

bruzz.be/actua/milieu/omstrede…

De Donderderberg - een klein stukje #natuur in #Brussel wordt ook erkend als natuur en park! De plannen om er een school te bouwen zijn geschrapt, ook met dank aan de bezetters!

Omstreden Donderberg wordt park

Het project voor een school en woningen op de Donderbergsite sneuvelt. De nieuwe meerderheid in de Stad beslist om er een park van te maken.

^www.bruzz.be

I'm hitting many bugs in @Tutanota these days. Typically, just this morning when I opened the Mail Android app, I got "Error message: You forgot to migrate your databases! sys.version should be >= 114 but in db it is 112", and a "404 Not Found" on a calendar event. For this last one, it's probably because I deleted the event from the Tuta Calendar app, but it didn't stop it from displaying a reminder for the deleted event... And the unread email counter is constantly wrong 😫

#InfoSec #Privacy