AWS launches Data Transfer Terminal to let customers upload data to AWS Cloud by plugging in storage devices from a set of physical locations (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
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Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing business, has opened physical locations where customers can upload their data.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
In world 1st, Belgian sex workers now have access to contracts, benefits and pensions
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/belgium-sex-work-law-1.7399002?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This International Day of People with Disabilities, we want to highlight our amazing community and how you live the theme of this year's #IDPwD "Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future"
We have just put out a blog post; every piece talks about how you, our community are empowered to take on leadership in your lives, your work, and your #ScreenReader, #NVDA - check it out here:
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Happy International Day of People with Disability 2024! The theme for this year is “Amplifying the leadership of persons with disabilities for an inclusive and sustainable future”. I …NV Access
ghod the future is amazing
looking to read up on OpenTelemetry (OTel)...and... 😂
One of the most pressing issues facing open source today is maintainer burnout. The issue is systemic, and seemingly without obvious solutions. In this talk,...YouTube
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linux kernel maintainers are against *RAII*? lol. lmao.
I wonder if the music post I made works properly from mastodon, as it's a flac file. If anyone can tell me if this post works from mastodon it'd be interesting to know: node.isonomia.net/@modulux/sta…
Today I woke up at a silly time and started playing around with my old midi files, remembering that Foobar 2000 has a plug-in that can play them through sound fonts. It's fun to listen to my music from back then, rendered by instruments that I did not intend. Some of it still sounds decent. Here's a sample.
I re-watched my own #Monktoberfest talk (youtube.com/watch?v=bf_6EVTlZO…) this morning, and it's not a bad talk. Watch it, you may enjoy it, plenty of others did.
On the other hand, in this talk, I get to see the full effect of my poor emotional regulation due to presenting immediately after a talk that was confronting in a multitude of ways, and being dehydrated due to recovering from a cold, and from presenting emotionally difficult material.
There is a worldview that decided certain things were essential to the success of open source software on the internet, namely a "gift culture" and the abili...YouTube
A Japanese group called Electronicos Fantasticos! figured out that by connecting a supermarket barcode scanner to a powered spkottke.org
New blog post out (finally) ✨ I tested the dataviz accessibility of the 2024 presidential election dashboards, and (as expected) found a lot of issues to write about:
fossheim.io/writing/posts/2024…
I tested how well different election dashboards implemented common dataviz accessibility princples, and explained where things went wrong (including lots of demos).fossheim.io
use libssh 0.11.0 new aio api to support async sftp upload for the curl built with libssh.GitHub
An Apple employee is suing the company over monitoring employee personal devices
techcrunch.com/2024/12/02/an-a…
Remember: if your employer want to you to install a specific software, then ask them to provide you with the hardware instead.
Parallel: don't use your personal phone for work.
An Apple employee sued the tech company as part of an effort to limit the visibility employers have on personal devices used for work.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
Also a longer read
Employee lawsuit accuses Apple of spying on its workers
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The suit alleges Apple forces employees to give up their personal privacy rights and surveils them through iCloud accounts and non-work devices.Reed Albergotti (www.semafor.com)
Praha, Česká republika, 2. prosince 2024 – FESTKA, český výrobce špičkových karbonových rámů na kola se sídlem v Praze, představuje model Spectre Gravel, výkonný gravel bike navržený tak, aby redefinoval rychlost a pohodlí na všech typech terénu.FeedIT.cz
When Google launched the Gemini app with its Gemini Live feature for all users, I couldn’t help but get excited about the promise of real-time, web-enabledAmir Soleimani (Accessible Android)
You may recall that in October I spoke at A11y Camp in Melbourne. I shared my slides, but being text-free they weren’t terribly useful.
Well, the video of my talk is available!
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There is also a link to the entire playlist for the event.
Download a 3.6MB tagged PDF of my slides or try the embedded view if your browser displays PDF inline. The text in the slides is set in Atkinson Hyperlegible. The PDF is exported from PowerPoint, after confirming reading order and alternative text.Adrian Roselli
Gmail and Outlook are popular but not necessarily the best - especially when it comes to #privacy and #security.
In this in-depth guide we review #Gmail vs #Outlook and fill you in on the best email provider that's ad-free, private, and secure. 😉
👉 Read more: tuta.com/blog/outlook-vs-gmail
When looking to create a free email address with Outlook or Gmail, we've got a few tips to help you choose the best provider for top privacy and security.Tuta
LibreOffice Conference 2024 (Luxembourg) group photo Once a year, the LibreOffice community gathers for a global community event: the LibreOffice Conference.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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LaTeX.css – Make your website look like a LaTeX document. Write semantic HTML, add to the of your project and you are good to go. https://latex.vercel.app #CSS #LatexPHP Community on Mastodon
Happy to share that my implementation of xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol for Mutter has landed and should start shipping in Gnome 48 🎉 That's part of an ongoing effort @ @igalia to officially ship Chromium Ozone/Wayland backend.
youtu.be/GAPjtLUBa_E
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For the ones curious about the technical bits and challenges for a first-time contributor for Gnome/Mutter, I'll be covering it in a blog post series in the coming weeks. Stay tuned!
Summary: This implements the xdg-toplevel-drag-v1 protocol. The tests have been performed manually using Chromium 132,...GitLab
We are excited to announce that we will be giving away a free BT Speak Pro from @BlazieTech or a free Victor Reader Stream 3 from HumanWare!
The BT Speak Pro is a pocket computer, offering an eight-dot Braille keyboard and speech output to stay connected. The Victor Reader Stream 3 is a handheld digital audio player to enjoy your media content and features a fully tactile interface.
Give between 12/1 to 12/8, and you could win one of our giveaways: buff.ly/498swYq
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Some SSD stats for you. This is a 10 year old Mac Mini (Late 2014) with the SSD replaced. (using AmorphousDiskMark 4.0.1)
Device Model: SanDisk SDSSDA480G (Manufacturer states: High sequential read speeds of up to 545MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 350MB/s at shop.sandisk.com/products/ssd/…)
Volume Name: Macintosh HD
Device Node: /dev/disk1s5s1 (Physical Store: disk0s2)
File System: Apple File System (APFS)
Capacity: 479.89 GB
Available: 53.59 GB
Used: 426.30 GB
Block Size: 4 KiB
Interconnect: SATA
Location: Internal
Medium Type: Solid State
Queue Depth: 32
Native Command Queuing: Yes
Sequential 1 MiB block (QD=8):
Sequential 1 MiB block:
Random sequence 4KiB block (QD=64):
Random sequence 4KiB block:
SanDisk is a pioneer in SSD technology and the brand that pros trust. The SSD Plus offers quiet, reliable, and efficient storage solutions. Shop now for FREE shipping.SanDisk - US
Proposing to add 0RTT QUIC support for curl builds with ngtcp2 and GnuTLS.
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When a QUIC TLS session announced early data support and 'CURLSSLOPT_EARLYDATA' is set for the transfer, send initial request and body (up to the 128k we buffer) as 0RTT when curl is built ...GitHub
Once in a while, there is a disaster. Phone lines go out, the Internet breaks down, and mobiles don't work0. Then the Ham Radio Operators save the day.
Amateur radio is one of those things I'm only vaguely aware of. It chugs along in the background unnoticed. It doesn't follow the fashion of today's industry, nor does it chase growth at all costs. It is an open standard, run by a decentralised group of people rather than a corporation, and it favours relentless practicality rather than KPIs.
I love technologies like this.
The recent stratospheric rise in popularity of the QR Code is a example of where these long-term technologies work well.
I've been banging on about QR codes for over a decade - while marketers sneered and tech companies tried to usurp, QR codes kept chugging away in the background. When the pandemic hit, and people needed a way to scan in to venues or present a vaccine certificate, QR codes were ready. They were an open standard, completely decentralised, relentlessly practical, and battle tested. They were rolled out in a variety of situations.
Every contender who has come at them with a proprietary barcode has failed. And because people have had a chance to get used to QR codes, they're not seen as weird any more.
They are boring magic. Decentralised and free.
The Fediverse is similar. It powers Mastodon and other social networks. At the moment, proprietary networks like Twitter are dying and new networks like BlueSky are in their ascendency. But BSky will eventually get bought out by cryptoloons, or will shit the bed in some other spectacular fashion.
The Fediverse will have been rumbling on the the background. Slowly gathering momentum. Waiting for an implosion or emergency.
There are various other technologies like this. Built in to the fabric of online society, quietly ploughing their own furrow, increasing resilience, despite being unfashionable.
What technologies do you think are waiting to be rediscovered in times of change?
Three years ago, I wrote about the deficiencies in Microsoft's Tag system. It was painfully obvious even then that MS had no desire to back the "standard" they'd tried to create.Terence Eden’s Blog
Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in the north of Germany, in the city of Hamburg. Probably not so far away from where theMike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Mária Telkes died #OTD in 1980. She was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, & inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.
During World War II, she developed a solar water distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day.
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#science #technology #WomenInSTEM
the mix of regular Latin alphabet (the part of UTF-8 that is ~ASCII) with fullwidth punctuation is curious.
For context, the fullwidth exclamation mark is U+FF01, and the comma is U+FF0C.
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