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Should you need inconspicuous ringtones or notification sounds, there's a new project aiming to do exactly this at sober-ringtones.wize.io/ for free. Previews are available as well (press/click the image next to the download link if you use a screen reader). #ringtones #notificationSounds #free

Sober Ringtones - Uncringe your ringtones

Humble ringtones for your phone calls and notifications
sober-ringtones.wize.io
#free #ringtones #notificationsounds

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Any interest in learning to #code from the #Blind community on an old-school platform?

a MOO is a text-based virtual world. if you ever played an old interactive fiction or text adventure game you'll be familiar with the idea. you type in commands like "go north" to move, "put coin in box", "kill dragon with sword" and so forth, and you get written responses unfolding the story.

This type of interface was taken online with a MOO in the 1990's, and rather than a playable story, you can join in and work with other people in an interactive, virtual world.

More than that, as well as just playing, MOO has a rich and beginner-friendly programming language, so you can create objects and code them to do things to your own specifications.

through a series of structured lessons with code samples and plenty of explanation you'll learn some of the basics of any programming language, all whilst having fun and playing about. The world is always open and you can build as many rooms and items as you like. You can practice your written English, socialising and programming all at once, in a 100% text-based environment perfect for screen readers and Braille displays.

This will be my twenty-seventh empty MOO. Each one has gone off in a different direction with between 1 and 15 participants, mostly young visually-impaired school-children and teens needing an introduction to programming in a fun way when the UK introduced coding as part of our national curriculum.
I taught high school computing and college for a decade, and I'm wanting to open this opportunity up to more blind and visually-impaired people because coding is fun, and a MOO is a fun thing to play with.
it's Only worthwhile if we have the numbers though, so if you're not interested please pass on if you can.

forms.gle/LkKhqsbYXh6ondQz8


MOO coding, expression of interest

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#blind #code

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Unser Webshop hat eröffnet! oskars.org/b/ Hier bekommst du Schilder mit deinem eigenen Text. Der Schildgenerator erzeugt dir eine Voransicht deines Schilds. Unsere Schilder mit Blindenschrift Braille und Profilschrift sind von Menschen mit Seheinschränkung oder Blindheit entwickelt worden. Begreifbare Zeichen laden zur Teilhabe ein und sorgen für Orientierung. #make #blind #inklusion
„Lässig“ und „Eröffnung“ steht in Braille und in Großbuchstaben einer taktilen Profilschrift auf zwei Schildern. Die Schilder aus Kunststoff befinden sich seitlich der Sitzfläche und Lehne einer Bank aus Eisen und Holz. Die Schrift ist weiß und der Schilduntergrund ist schwarz. Ein Betonsockel trägt die Bank. Im Hintergrund sind Geschäfte unscharf erkennbar.

oskars.org/webshop/profilschild/

oskars.org
#blind #inklusion #make
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Oskar

Lose Zusammenhängende Fragen einer sehenden Person

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@Mer-fOKxTOwl

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Yesterday's toot sparked an amazing discussion:

How can we fight off Google's fingerpriting❓

Share your insights so we can update the blog post. Let's make the web a better place for everyone. 💪 🔒 ❤️

mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1140…

🚨 BREAKING 🚨 #Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting. ❌ No consent ❌ No escape Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇 https://tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerprinting-worse-than-cookies

Tuta

2025-02-18 14:23:15

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🚨 BREAKING 🚨

#Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting.

❌ No consent
❌ No escape

Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇

tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerpr…

Man holding up a stop sign in front of screen with Google analytics.

Digital Fingerprinting: Google launched a new era of tracking worse than cookie banners | Tuta

As Google gives you the choice to opt out of cookie tracking, it silently starts collecting your online habits with fingerprinting.
Tuta

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Holy fuck, people seriously need to stop this bullshit that Flathub inclusion rules and reviews are lax... I am going to send you the bill for my broken monitor next time you make such claims.

*Every* *Single* *Statement* about Flathub here is False.

And this has nothing to do with why Flathub is popular either.

For fuck sake..

youtu.be/oKP1hgdFJKo?t=542


Fedora Project Leader On OBS & Fedora Flatpak Drama

Check out other podcasts here: @TechOverTea Today we're talking with Matthew Miller the Fedora Project Leader at least until the next release about the recen...
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Emmanuele Bassi

I honestly can't watch a single Brodie video without cringing hard; but this looks like yet another case of "distro person says that software distribution is a solved problem as long as everyone uses the same distribution and tooling to package software" that led me to write that blog post about "dev vs ops" in 2017. In the end, Richard changed his mind, but remember: it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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Emmanuele Bassi

the fun part is that Flatpak and Flathub took the "we need to get better" conclusion and made it happen, whereas distro folks just shut off when I pointed out that they are becoming complacent and risk becoming so irrelevant to the Linux landscape that nobody is going to replace packagers retiring. Oh, well…

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Tak jsem zase přidal nějaké to video, díky @archos za zvýšení limitu nahrání. Snad vám nebude vadit ten delší formát, za ten skoro měsíc jsem měl víc jak 20 min záběrů jen na mobilu.

vhsky.cz/videos/watch/cf32420b…

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2025-02-19 09:44:49

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Z Valencie do Portugalska


Dlouho jsem sem nic nedal až jsem měl 20 minut záběrů. Tak snad to nevadí že je to větší.

Je to za cca 1000km


@Archos

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Heute morgen gegen 04:48 war über Brandenburg das Verglühen von Teilen der Raketenstufe einer Falcon 9 zu beobachten. Das Schauspiel konnte man aber auch mit den Ohren wahrnehmen, auch wenn es sich nur wie fernes Donnergrollen angehört hat. Meine Mikrofone haben es aufgezeichnet. Mehr Infos hier ➡️ rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2025…


Raketenstufe verglüht spektakulär am Nachthimmel

Leuchtende Punkte, die mit langem Schweif über den Nachthimmel ziehen: Am frühen Mittwochmorgen war über Berlin und Brandenburg zu beobachten, wie ein Objekt in der Atmosphäre verglühte.
www.rbb24.de

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Kvůli práci jsem si pořídil druhou SIM od Vodafone.de, takže teď mám Pixel 8 s GrapheneOS čistě na soukromé věci a Fairphone 5 na práci. GrapheneOS jede jen na FOSS aplikacích a nemám tam žádné Google služby… ale ne, nemám paranoiu! Jen zdravou nedůvěru k velkým korporacím. 😆

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Four years ago I got my first threat of violence for my Open Source work that I ended up reporting to the police. Thick skin and all that, but there are limits...

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2021/02/19…


“I will slaughter you”

You might know that I've posted funny emails I've received on my blog several times in the past. The kind of emails people send me when they experience problems with some device they own (like a car) and they contact me because my email address happe…
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Sebastian Lauwers

the follow up/apology is painful to read. I’ve had to deal with a few people like that, and the similarities are chilling.

I can’t tell if they’re both the same person. It almost feels to me like the second one is more of a writing exercise than the genuine article (repeating every single talking point that was previously brought up overemphasising “I know about all these topics and can add to them”), but that sadly could be as much of a confirmation as a refutation.

My commiserations.

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exciting! will it actually happen? or will it just be another glossy report? tune in tomorrow!

thestar.com/politics/federal/t…


Trudeau government to announce high-speed rail plans from Toronto to Quebec City: sources

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Transport Minister Anita Anand were slated to make an announcement Wednesday which two sources confirmed to the Star will be to build high-speed rail from
The Toronto Star

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#BernieSanders

Thank goodness for #Bernie

Bernie Sanders starting tour to end oligarchy

newsweek.com/bernie-sanders-el…

Add your name. I added mine

berniesanders.com/


Bernie Sanders Launches Tour 'to Fight Oligarchy': Here's Where He's Going

Sanders said in a video message that his tour is against billionaires like Elon Musk, who are using power to gain more money.
Monica Sager (Newsweek)
#berniesanders #bernie
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Now I get to find out if anyone is interested in #Boston to learn about how to use #inkscape to design their homes/physical spaces.

My workshop at the Boston Resource Center just dropped. I'm nervous how a non-physical skill will be received by the community. Will anyone attend? I'll have to find out...

eventbrite.com/e/use-inkscape-…


Use Inkscape to Design Your Space

Create drawings of your spaces from your sketches as you plan for renovations using the open-source tool Inkscape.
Eventbrite
#inkscape #boston

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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

Feb 19:

Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but is Black culture just more violent?

A: Racism. Rap, trap, and drill, are only the most popular genres of Black music listened to *by white people.*

Read the whole linked thread.

hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109…

mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth ! I will get to Black history. For now, I'm still on white US history. Q: Why is so much Black music about violence and misogyny? I'm not racist, but I think Black culture is just more violent.
Hachyderm.io
#blackhistorymonth

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US Politics

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#Accessibility #civilrights

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If like me, you can't see at all, there's no reason to have your 14 Pro or later pro-model iPhone's always on display turned on, and you might even be able to gain some battery life by turning it off. Just go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Always on display, and toggle the "Always on display" switch off. #TipTuesday applevis.com/podcasts/how-disa…

How to Disable Always on Display on Your Pro-model iPhone | AppleVis

With Always On Display, your iPhone 14 Pro or later pro-model iPhone will dim the Lock Screen while still showing information, such as the time, widgets and wallpaper, all while using new technologies that make the display power efficient.
www.applevis.com
#tiptuesday

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Fellow comrades in #academia - there’s a very cool project launching called Science Homecoming, that allows you to find local papers from your hometown and encourages you to pitch them an opinion piece about the current attacks on #science and #highered.

I pitched a piece to my hometown paper and they got back to me in about 10 minutes saying they definitely wanted to see it. So think this is a simple thing to do with high impact potential

More info here 👇
sciencehomecoming.com/

Science Homecoming

sciencehomecoming.com
#science #academia #highered

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Typically Linux distros have a live system to run an installer that installs a second system. What if instead, we booted from the ISO into the installed system and saved it to disk in the background while already using the system. I call it prêt-à-booter image, and I have made a demo for GNOME OS.
youtube.com/watch?v=3gG96DwtUg…

GNOME OS prêt-à-booter image

This demo shows what could be the future of GNOME installer. Instead of having a live image that can install another instance of the system, what boots into ...
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Deb 🥱 ☕

Yo!

I have been building a universal fedi client called #DhaagaApp

It supports all 3 biggest decentralized protocols (#mastoapi, #bluesky and #misskey)

It has pretty timelines, unique client-side features and a modern, aesthetic design.

It's available on Play Store and #IzzyonDroid

Do have a look, and share with your friends if you like it. ^^

I also post frequent devlogs and am always excited to receive feedback.

suvam.io/dhaaga
github.com/suvam0451/dhaaga


GitHub - suvam0451/dhaaga: Dhaaga - An indie SNS app that blends sleek design 💅, useful features ✨ and fun ways to discover and connect 🎉

Dhaaga - An indie SNS app that blends sleek design 💅, useful features ✨ and fun ways to discover and connect 🎉 - suvam0451/dhaaga
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#misskey #bluesky #izzyondroid #dhaagaapp #mastoapi

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Hey #GIS #GISChat people, @gvwilson from Toronto wants to commission some GIS data manipulation work, any takers?

mastodon.social/@gvwilson/1140…

Greg Wilson (@gvwilson@mastodon.social)

Looking for someone (very) familiar with the TopoJSON data format to do some (paid) extraction and reformatting work. Feels like one of those "straightforward if you know what you're doing, hellride if you don't" kinds of jobs.
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#gis #gischat @Greg Wilson

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Hello all. As many of you know, I've been writing BLOOD IN THE MACHINE: The Newsletter for months, but I've been on the fence about going all-in. Recent events have made the call easier.

Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley oligarchs and their AI are taking over. I want to do all I can to push back. I hope you'll join me, and I'm asking for your support.

bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-te…


The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.

Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.
Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
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