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github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i… it could use a good long think through the user safety implications, but i support this feature request for the ability to submit alt text suggestions. it's a more constructive and i suspect more socially effective solution to getting alt text on more images than scolding people.

[Feat] - Suggest image descriptions (alt text) in case they are missing · Issue #26464 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch For posts that feature media without a11y relevant descriptions add a button to "suggest alt text". One can add a suitable description for the author to approve. Motivation People that are no...
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This should be illegal. Microsoft Is Forcing Its AI Assistant on People—And Making Them Pay msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-… The Copilot is based on OpenAI. I believe it is time to take Microsoft to court for unauthorized use of others' work as well. They abuse their dominance on desktops and in office spaces. Just like Google, they need to be split into 100 parts and punished deeply for beaching everyone else privacy by stealing customers' data to train their shity AI.
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Happy holidays to all who celebrate them!

I just released a minor Catima bugfix release: 2.34.2. This version fixes the archived/starred status being hard to see or even invisible when displayed on top of certain card images.

Coming soon to an app store near you :)

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #GitHub #IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GooglePlay


Release 2.34.2 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Improve archive/starred icon display
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#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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NOT AN ALLY.

US Pissant keeps threatening Canada, Greenland [Denmark], and Panama... rollingstone.com/politics/poli… #USA #cdnpoli #polcan #stateoftheworld


Trump Threatens to Take Over Canada, Panama Canal, Greenland

Donald Trump repeated his desires for US territorial expansion, taking aim at the Panama Canal, Greenland, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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#USA #cdnpoli #polcan #stateoftheworld
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Pavol Salgari

@SuspiciousDuck Principu fungovania hlavice chapem a vedel som o tom. Ale pochybujem, ze hlavica namontovana na radiatore - zdroji salaveho tepla v jej okoli - ma ponatia aku teplotu mam na druhom konci velkej izby. Cize presnost takej regulacie je otazna. Keby bolo nejake bezdrotove cidlo aj na druhej strane izby, tak by som tomu veril viac.
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@js @SuspiciousDuck Keby vás to tak veľmi zaujímalo, tak mám jedine MacBook, keďže Windows je shit a Linux mi žiaľ na moje potreby nedostačuje. Ale je veľmi dobre vedieť, že hodnotíte ľudí na základe profilovej fotky a technológií ktoré používajú. Neviem čo ste potom vy, keď tu vypisujete v anonymite, ale hrdina rozhodne nie ste.
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California’s raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers and contrary to some bad press & much industry outcry, it’s been a success. “California’s fast-food sector gained jobs in all but one month since September 2023.” theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

California’s Minimum-Wage Hike Has Actually Been Great

The state raised the minimum wage for fast-food workers—and employment kept rising. So why has the law been proclaimed a failure?
Rogé Karma (The Atlantic)

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Hardcore math post:

After my spectacularly popular post on Alfvén waves, there's nothing to do but write a much less popular post on the math behind them. People say magnetic field lines in a plasma can act like stretched rubber bands: if they're bent, they try to straighten out. There's a Wikipedia article on this idea, which is called 'magnetic tension':

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic…

and I'd like to understand it.

They start with the equations of 'ideal magnetohydrodynamics' where you have a plasma with velocity vector field 𝐯, pressure p, density ρ and electric current vector field 𝐉 in a magnetic field 𝐁. It's called 'ideal' because we're assuming the plasma conducts electricity so well that the electric field is zero.

One of these equations, called the 'Cauchy momentum equation', says the plasma accelerates due to two forces:

the gradient of pressure, or more precisely −∇p, and

the force caused by the magnetic field, which is 𝐉 × 𝐁 as usual - this is called the Lorentz force.

They then do some fun vector calculus manipulations. Assuming |𝐁| is constant everywhere, they find a term in the force whose magnitude is the curvature κ of the magnetic field line, which points to the center of curvature of the magnetic field - where you approximate the magnetic field locally as going around a circle of radius 1/κ. See the picture to understand what the hell I just said.

I think I follow the calculation, but this is a force on the plasma, right? Not the magnetic field line per se! So why do they interpret it as the field line wanting to straighten out? If we knew 𝐯 is proportional to 𝐁 that would make sense, but they don't say anything about that.

restoring force on bent magnetic field lines

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Nulla di nuovo, ma carino che anche canali mainstream parlino di alternative a #Google #Foto

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#alternatives #alternative #immich #photo #degoogled #selfhosting


Ho ABBANDONATO Google FOTO per... MEMORIA "senza LIMITI" e TOTALE PRIVACY (ecco come)

ISCRIVITI se ti piace la TECNOLOGIA ➡️ http://www.youtube.com/c/TuttoTechNet?sub_confirmation=1Google Foto è uno dei migliori servizi online di sempre, perme...
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It's almost past the holiday season and I hope you've had one that you were dreaming of all year. I realized, I haven't ever repeated my advent calendar event which many of you seemed to have liked. That does not mean I have stopped researching good practice examples of accessibility implementations around the world. As a way of making up for it, I wanted to share a story that I digged up by following a thread of references from a podcast I was listening to, through somebody's personal website like it was done 30 years ago, through an anonymous FTP to the main site of the Braillnet project. I found the story really inspiring. It's 1993 in then Czechoslovakia. and the Internet is slowly becoming a thing alongside some, often locally produced, ways of making DOS and Windows 95 PC’s talk, at least with the most common software. It is apparent to the employees of the local blindness organization that the net will be a game-changer in access to information for blind and partially sighted users, some of whom own notetakers like the Eureka or even PCs. By cooperating with the IT centre of a university they set up a BBS under a phone number in Prague and offer, for the first time, access to digitalized books and magazines, an e-mail account, a Telnet and FTP client. Public transport schedules might have been a thing too but I'm not 100% sure about that. The network develops but the limitations are apparent: access mostly to internal information and only through a number in one city. Four years later, an idea is born to give all persons with disabilities access to regular, dial-up internet with prominence of locally sourced material but not excluding the entire world wide web. They manage to secure state funds and support of local ISP's and set up numbers for all major numerical zones in already then Czech Republic, giving unlimited access to the Internet to any person with a disability for the fixed price of around 4 USD per month. #Accessibility #RetroTech #Blind
#Accessibility #blind #retrotech

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We revisit Shopping, To Do, and Other Lists you can create on your Alexa Devices. There's some advanced features here, that I've never covered before, including two different ways to share your list with others! Have a listen to this episode of the Echo Tips Podcast. creators.spotify.com/pod/show/… #Alexa #NewYearResolutions #Resolutions

Episode331 Lists [Revisited] by Echo Tips

In this episode we revisit the Lists Feature. We discuss adding, deleting, creating, archiving, and sharing lists.
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#alexa #newyearresolutions #resolutions

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We have released an updated version of our App for #38c3. You can find it...

On GitHub: github.com/c3nav/c3nav-android…

In our F-Droid Repo: f-droid.c3nav.de/fdroid/repo/

... and hopefully also soon on Google Play.

The official F-Droid repository is still not recommended as it is unlikely to update in time.

We hope to make Wi-Fi positioning available during the upcoming day. Stay tuned.


GitHub - c3nav/c3nav-android: An Android wrapper for c3nav

An Android wrapper for c3nav. Contribute to c3nav/c3nav-android development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#38C3

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Join the Braille Institute on Thursday, January 9 at 4 pm Eastern for their free webinar: Intro to JAWS Workshop brailleinstitute.org/find-serv…

#JAWS #TrainingWebinar #BrailleInstitute


Intro to JAWS Workshop | Braille Institute

Learn to do basic tasks like reading documents and getting information from pictures on your PC using Jaws for Windows and a keyboard.
Kelly Hill (Braille Institute)
#jaws #trainingwebinar #brailleinstitute

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I heard this in a podcast and wanted to see the study: apparently, speaking a tonal language has a relationship with having an ear for perfect pitch

I grew up speaking several tonal languages alongside English and it was always easy for me to pick up music, and all tonal languages. I can perfectly mimic Vietnamese even if I don’t speak it, to the extent that Vietnamese aunties scold me for being a foreign born Vietnamese person with a poor vocabulary

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#Languages


Tone Language Translates To Perfect Pitch: Mandarin Speakers More Likely To Acquire Rare Musical Ability

Could it be that cellist Yo-Yo Ma owes his perfect musical pitch to his Chinese parents? While we may never know the definitive answer, new research from the University of California, San Diego has found a strong link between speaking a tone language…
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New Post: Blind and Low Vision Smart Glasses Explained timdixon.net/blog/2024/12/blin… #blindandlowvision #blog #livingwithsightloss #sightlosstips #smartglasses #tips
Meta Ray Ban Wayfarer sunglasses on a man's face. The camera is on the right edge of the frame with an indicator light on the right keeping the frames balanced.

Blind and Low Vision Smart Glasses Explained - TIM DIXON

In this article I explore Blind and Low Vision Smart Glasses and explain the different types, and how they can be used.
Tim Dixon (TIM DIXON)
#blog #tips #smartglasses #livingwithsightloss #blindandlowvision #sightlosstips

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Catholic Answers is offering discounts on their digital products,, including mp3 files and their eBooks. MP3 files are unprotected, so they'll play in or on anything that supports that format. The last time I purchased their eBooks, they were available in epub and mobi formats.
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Catholic Books, DVDs, and Audio Products │ Catholic Answers

Shop now for all the best Catholic books from Catholic Answers. Search our catalog of apologetics books and media. We have everything you need to defend and explain the Faith.
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#catholic

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This year was all about preservation for the Internet Archive. This year, libraries have faced unprecedented attacks both from large corporations and malicious actors.

Despite these challenges, the Internet Archive is more committed than ever to fighting for access to public information for all those who seek it.

If you’re a fan, help provide Universal Access to All Knowledge:
archive.org/donate/?origin=mst…

Photo of the Internet Archive at dusk, showing illuminated white columns.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Texts, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

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Doctor Who fans in Bristol knit a giant scarf longer than a bridge in honor of the iconic scarf worn by the fourth Doctor. At 267 meters (875 ft) long it was longer than Bristol's Clifton Suspension Bridge. What a fun way to use up all your scrap yarn!
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#DoctorWho #knitting
Collage of pictures featuring very long knit scarf. First pic of women stretching a long scarf across a wide outside area, the Grand Pier. Scarf is knit in a lot of different colors. Second pic is scarf stretched out among many women knitters. Third pic is scarf rolled up with lots of different colors.

Doctor Who fans knit scarf longer than Clifton Suspension Bridge

People posted knitted scarves from across the country to add to the project celebrating the Doctor.
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#knitting #doctorwho

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14 Computer Facts That Are Not True askbobrankin.com/14_computer_f…

14 Computer Facts That Are Not True

Hey... did you know? At midnight on March 31st, the Internet will be temporarily shut down for the annual Spring Cyber Cleaning? Read on to get the scoop on this, Abraham Lincoln's opinion on fake news, and other dubious “facts” about computers and …
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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…


AI Comes for a Centuries-Old Craft

AI infiltrates the lace-making community.
Samantha Cole (404 Media)
#tatting #lacemaking #aislop #bobbinlace #needlelace @404 Media

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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

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Lace In Wikipedia Project Overview

With help from a grant from the Wikimedia Foundation, a project to Enhance Lace Content in Wikipedia is underway. This video is an overview of that project, ...
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#wikipedia #tatting #lacemaking #bobbinlace #needlelace #lace @Wikipedia

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Did a loved one receive a new computer under the tree? Our #RemoteIncidentManager can allow you to connect to their computer from wherever you are. Configure it to their liking, install software, and fix any problems that arise, all as if you were right in front of the machine! RIM's new AI Tools capability is ready to assist you with any questions you may have along the way.
Free, unlimited access will run through January 2nd, 2025!
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#accessibility #inclusivity

RIM – Pneuma Solutions

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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 ‘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.

CHERIoT Programmers' Guide very-rough draft cover. Shows a chip, which we will pretend isn't an EPROM, and zooming in shows that it is full of cats in boxes, with the caption 'safe and secure compartmentalisation'.
#catsofmastodon
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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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Peter Vágner

@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.
@miki @Quin @Sean Randall

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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


Hey 38c3, have you heard of the Linux Mobile Revolution?

LINMOB.net is a blog about LINux on MOBile devices. With the PinePhone (Pro) and Librem 5 shipping it is back to report on GNU+Linux on mobile devices.
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#postmarketos #MobileLinux #linuxmobile #CCC #38C3
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