I don't know if y'all can access this story, but @404mediaco has a piece that I helped with. It is:

"AI Comes for a Centuries-Old Craft" and the proliferation of #AIslop beginner books. Preying on beginners who don't know what's real or not is loathsome, and underway.

#BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting #lacemaking

404media.co/email/623759d6-610…

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Separately, I was planning to launch this project in January, after the holidays. But BECAUSE REASONS it makes sense to launch now.

I'm recruiting #Wikipedia editors for lace pages, and got a grant for it from @wikipedia .

#lace #BobbinLace #NeedleLace #tatting #lacemaking

youtu.be/5boV146lm_k

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#CatsOfMastodon owners:

For the cover of my next book, I would like to illustrate software compartmentalisation with a montage of cats in boxes. I probably need at least 16 pictures of cats in boxes, ideally views from directly above. If you have such pictures that you took or otherwise own the rights to and you would be happy for me to use them, please can you post them in this thread along with how you’d like to be attributed? No ā€˜AI’ pictures please.

Thank you in advance!

Edit: I've added a very rough cut of what I actually want.

Edit 2: Slightly better version. I'm mostly happy with this one. Not as good a professionally designed one, but the correct number of cats.

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Super random poll for everyone today, would there be any interest in an accessible, cross-platform software suite containing things like a calculator, editor, file manager, book reader, reminder app, to-do list, etc? I know that for me a huge draw of note takers and similar is the specialized and incredibly efficient and optimized software that comes with them, and hardly ever the hardware, I don't need Braille sells. I think that if I had had software like this on a Windows computer instead of HumanWare note takers in school I would've been better off, and honestly I can see myself using something like this today. The only thing I knew that was sort of like this was KeySoft for DOS, and all full copies of that are lost to time sadly.

  • Absolutely (75%, 3 votes)
  • Nah, not really (25%, 1 vote)
  • What does any of this mean? (0%, 0 votes)
  • I just want to see the results (0%, 0 votes)
4 voters. Poll end: 11 months ago

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@Mikołaj Hołysz @Sean Randall @Mew✨🄰 @Quin Then during second or third or whatever stage expand it to privacy respecting blindness specific online services. Similar what some nation specific agencies for the blind are doing e.g. in czech republic there are email lists, web servers, access to ordinari news papers and magazines, TV programme and other goodies operated like this.
I'd prefer federation over google or any other brand specific support. Google, Microsoft, apple, soho, whatever other popular service lets you import from caldav / carddav, colaborating is a different story though.

if you're interested in actually overthrowing Big Android (rather than living off Googles scraps) be sure to come by the #LinuxMobile assembly this congress. There's a revolution brewing :3

linmob.net/38c3/

#38c3 #MobileLinux #ccc #postmarketOS

Did you know, there are many completely free sample libraries out there these days, some could help you end up in writing for your next film or TV show, genuinely?

I wrote this piece of music for my podcast using purely *free* libraries and nothing else.

#InspiredBySound - Musical Breakdown - #StroongeCast Podcast Music: youtu.be/Ra7prQ6d9Pw

@RaccoonForFriendica do you want to try the new "Card" layout for posts? All you have to do is downloading version 0.4.0-beta02 and try it out! Using Compose Multiplatform, customizing UI is as easy as eating a piece of cake.

This version also contains a fix for the search text field which was not scrollable horizontally when its content exceeded the available width, plus some localization updates.

We're reaching towards the 0.4.0 milestone, just another feature (audio playback) and then it'll be ready to go!

#livefasteatrash #procyonproject #raccoonforfriendica #fediverseapp #friendica #friendicadev #mobileapp #mobiledev #kotlin #kmp #compose #opensource #foss #sideproject

When I spent a year with the DotPad and now 6 months and going with the Monarch, besides the fact that the Monarch is the only Multi Line Tactile display still available in Australia, here are some of my advantage points for the Monarch over the DotPad.

Can be used as a stand alone device,
20 hours battery life,
On/off, USBC, USBA, HDMI, 3.5MM ear phone jack, and volume up/down buttons,
Users used to the Braille Note, Brailliant, and Mantis will pick up same concepts used on the Monarch (its KeySoft),
Plug in a QWERTY keyboard and/or portable HDMI display,
Braille input keyboard,
10 line by 32 cell tactile display,

Removable metal template to replace membrane over the pins,

Speech output,
Navigation and Zoom keys, Point and click to move cursor or Zoom tactile graphics,
Button to refresh tactile array at any time,
Tactile horizontal and vertical scroll bars to let user know where they can scroll,
Easily jump around tactile graphic with keyboard short cuts,

increase line spacing when reading Braille,
Easy to identify cursor in menus, and place focussed line that contains cursor to the top of the display,
Access various file formats,
Various applications including web Browser (beta), email (beta), Tactile Library (APH), Maths graphing calculator, Word Processer, Braille Editor, Book Reader (victor Reader),
2025 WingIT app for iOS drawing, and Terminal screen reader support.

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Ukrainians Do Not Want to Defend Incumbent Gov’t, Calling Country ā€˜Prison’ - Reports sputnikglobe.com/20241226/ukra… Ukrainian men are fleeing the country because they don't want to defend the corrupt government, German broadcaster n-tv reported, citing Ukrainian migrants. #news #press

Una curiosidad que he aprendido estas fiestas, por contradicción:

No existe obligación legal de que las bebidas espirituosas vengan con tapón irrelenable. AsĆ­ se deduce, contrario sensu, del artĆ­culo 10 del RD 164/2014, de 14 de marzo: boe.es/buscar/act.php?id=BOE-A…

ā€žDemokracia nie je divĆ”cky Å”port, že sa naň mÓžeme pozeraÅ„ a nezapĆ”jaÅ„ sa. To, že sa občania angažujĆŗ, vyjadrujĆŗ, je prejavom slobody, občianskej uvedomelosti.ā€œ

~ #ZuzanaČaputovÔ

šŸ”’dennikn.sk/4375221/zuzana-capu…

Gajim’s port to GTK4 is almost finished. 🄁 Currently we’re testing thoroughly to make the switch as smooth as possible.

We went ahead and made lots of small improvements, e.g. writing messages while offline, better styling for image previews, improved chat filters and more.

Gajim also improved its spam fighting toolkit: The next release will allow you to moderate all messages of a spammer at once. šŸ¤–

If you like to support Gajim, please consider making a donation: liberapay.com/Gajim

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āš ļø 🚨 It’s time to stop using Blabber.im šŸšØāš ļø

The abandoned fork of #Conversations_im has a critical security issue: attackers can bypass STARTTLS negotiation, resulting in an unencrypted connection to a fake server. This vulnerability is similar to the STARTLS attack discovered in various email clients¹

āœ… Fixed in Conversations 2.13.1 (Feb 2024)

šŸ“¢ Please migrate to Conversations immediately! It's free on Google Play until the end of the year and always free on #fdroid

¹: archive.fosdem.org/2024/schedu…

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Historia del panetone: el pasado industrial y el motivo por el que en Italia suele ser mejor | El Comidista | GastronomĆ­a | EL PAƍS elpais.com/gastronomia/el-comi…

The holidays are often a really tough time for queer, and especially #trans, folks. We fight for family and somehow it always seems to turn into us getting hurt more and more.

This holiday on #StainedGlassWoman, we're holding the Black Sheep close, and talking about the reasons families are dysfunctional.

And no, it's not your fault. It was never your fault.

#FtM #Nonbinary #MtF #psy

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šŸ†• blog! ā€œMobile Phones of Doctor Who - Joy To The Worldā€

Welcome to this very silly series of blog posts where I attempt to identify all the mobile phones used in Doctor Who.

The 2024 Xmas special is fairly light on phones. Right at the end, we see Ruby Sunday calling her mum.

And a shot of the base of the phone.

It looks like it's the same phone as…

šŸ‘€ Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/12/mobil…
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#DoctorWho #DoctorWhoPhones

Merry Christmas from @bermudianbrit and me. This is what we do with our Christmas afternoon, record a cover, of course!

Hope you like it, and feel free to give thoughts or suggestions.

youtu.be/wZwjibvCZL

#music #cover #Singer #Christmas

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