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Jeff Bezos is cracking down on the Washington Post opinion pages: They will be all right-wing, all the time. Nonconforming opinion "will be left to be published by others."

So much for "Democracy Dies in Darkness."

theguardian.com/media/2025/feb…


Washington Post opinion editor departs as Bezos pushes to promote ‘personal liberties and free markets’

Opinion editor leaves as Amazon executive and newspaper owner says ‘viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others’
Richard Luscombe (The Guardian)

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Such a warm, happy glow from the modern #BBC:

"... the BBC will be making BBC Sounds available exclusively to UK audiences and ending access to the service for international users beginning Spring 2025."

To give credit where it's due, the marketing spin on this is next level:

"Through this new user experience, listeners can explore deeper context and analysis on select topics, gaining a richer understanding of the issues that matter most—all without leaving the [new BBC Audio] platform."

radiotoday.co.uk/2025/02/most-…


Most BBC radio stations to become unavailable for international users

A new BBC audio website and app will replace BBC Sounds for users outside the UK later this year
Roy Martin (RadioToday)
#bbc

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“When you're infected with #measles, your immune system abruptly forgets every pathogen it's ever encountered before – every cold, every bout of flu, every exposure to bacteria or viruses in the environment, every vaccination. The loss is near-total and permanent. Once the measles infection is over, current evidence suggests that your body has to re-learn what's good and what's bad almost from scratch. “

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Measles: The race to understand 'immune amnesia'

Scientists have known for years that measles can alter the immune system – but the latest evidence suggests it's less of a mild tweaking, and more of a total reset.
Zaria Gorvett (BBC)
#measles

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Our In-Process blog is out! Featuring:
- Update on NVDA 2025.1
- Planning for CSUN
- What's on the web
- Reading paragraphs in Braille

And bonus history of the Pilcrow! (Ok I was interested)

nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #Newsletter #Typography #CSUNATC


In-Process 27th February 2025

Welcome to another In-Process, whether you are reading on the web, or via email. This time around we cover: NVDA 2025.1 Planning for CSUN What’s on the web Reading paragraphs in Braille NVDA 2025.1…
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#blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda #typography #CSUNATC

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@mozillaofficial speeding up towards enshittification : mastodon.social/@sarahjamielew…

Sarah Jamie Lewis

2025-02-26 21:24:23

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General rule of thumb: Every time an organization updates their terms of service and/or privacy policy, it is never because they have your best interests at heart.

Specific thoughts on this latest Mozilla action (blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…)

Setting aside the "worldwide license" bullshit, the privacy policy appears to have broadened both the classes of data Mozilla aims to collect, and the situations in which they collect them.

These are not the actions of an org that cares about your privacy.



Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice. 
Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)

@Mozilla

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Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon.

You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.


mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/…

Update: See below in the thread for their clarification.


Firefox: About Your Rights

Mozilla
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General rule of thumb: Every time an organization updates their terms of service and/or privacy policy, it is never because they have your best interests at heart.

Specific thoughts on this latest Mozilla action (blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…)

Setting aside the "worldwide license" bullshit, the privacy policy appears to have broadened both the classes of data Mozilla aims to collect, and the situations in which they collect them.

These are not the actions of an org that cares about your privacy.


Introducing a terms of use and updated privacy notice for Firefox

We’re introducing a Terms of Use for Firefox for the first time, along with an updated Privacy Notice. 
Kristina Bravo (The Mozilla Blog)

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Gack, I hate it when you follow a link to a YouTube video, and you recognise it and are sure you have watched it already, but you can't remember what the answer to the question in the title turned out to be. Anybody care to summarise for me?

Why don't Americans use electric kettles?

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Why don't Americans use electric kettles?

It's not really a mystery.links 'n stuffMy video on 240V power in the US;https://youtu.be/jMmUoZh3Hq4This channel is supported through viewer contributions o...
YouTube
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BBC Sounds will soon be unavailable for listeners residing outside the UK, as from "Spring 2025". Those going abroad temporarily will still be able to listen to BBC Sounds. Only BBC World Service and BBC Radio 4 will remain available over bbc.com. Please see bbc.com/mediacentre/bbcstudios… for more information.

BBC Studios to make podcasts available to international audiences via BBC.com and the BBC App

Newly launched audio section will make the BBC’s vast portfolio of current and archived podcasts easier to find
www.bbc.com

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@datajake1999 @rommix0 @Tamasg Uh, whoa brobrobrobro this thing is like, very very responsive now! A new and improved version of the bestspeech addon is released, with the hook enablement logic moved to dll initialization instead of on speak which suddenly makes this thing super, super snappy! Sorry it means more work for you Jake, you'll want to rebuild the wrapper this time when updating your version. github.com/samtupy/b32tts_wrap…
@Jake Gross @Tamas G

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Jake Gross

@TomGrant91 @pixelate @TwoThousandStu I didn't have the best interaction with him either. I told him I was interested in creating a SAPI5 wrapper for the engine, and he asked why that was necessary. After telling him this was for my own personal use, he never got back to me. He also doesn't plan on open sourcing the engine. Honestly, fuck SoftVoice as a company.
@Tom Grant the tincel @Devin Prater :blind: @DJ Seedy (migrated)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated (10 RB) and 2 added apps:

* LaundryNotes: Store washing information and symbols for all your fabrics 🛡️
* DDNS Updater: Simple Dynamic DNS Updater

Removed apps:

* IrssiNotifier: inactive since 2018, proprietary/tracking libs
* Ficsave: Defunct (Server gone)

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


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Gossip Girl fame Michelle Trachtenberg passes away at the age of 39
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tv/news/english/gossip-girl-fame-michelle-trachtenberg-passes-away-at-the-age-of-39/articleshow/118586232.cms?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Gossip Girl fame Michelle Trachtenberg passes away at the age of 39

Michelle Trachtenberg, known for roles in Gossip Girl and Buffy the Vampire Slayer, passed away at 39 after concerns about her health. Found by her mo
etimes.in (Times Of India)
@times-of-india-TimesofIndia_

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Updated the older BestSpeak.nvda-addon to version 0.30, at eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo…. Made it so installing this names itself something else in the synthesizers list and will not conflict with the add-on by Sam Tupi. Adapted Sam's hack for the indentation beeps and doing the text translation earlier. Squealing issues and memory leaks remain, so this was just a final push to align some of the functionality and see should things change, which they did not, alas. Still, for those of you who wanted both the Squealing and regular drivers side by side, now you have your wish, I guess, and you can also compare performance between the two

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@HeikoKunert@norden.social hat mich in diesem Gespräch beeindruckt und es hat mir Spaß gemacht, vielen Dank!

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#Inklusion #blind #Hamburg #Selbsthilfe

KOM-IN-Netzwerk (@komin@bildung.social)

Inklusion - Das kann ja nie gelingen! Davon möchte ich mich eigentlich gar nicht entmutigen lassen, sagt Heiko Kunert https://www.kom-in.de/190/inklusion-das-kann-ja-nie-gelingen #Info #Barrierefrei #blind #sehbehindert
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#blind #inklusion #hamburg #selbsthilfe @Heiko Kunert

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Steve Kelley wrote a review of the latest Micro-Speak recorder in the latest AccessWorld.
afb.org/aw/spring2025/micro-sp…

Get it now at
atguys.com/products/micro-spea…


Micro-Speak Plus Talking Digital Voice Recorder, 3rd Edition

We are very pleased to announce the return of Micro-Speak, after a few years of being unavailable. Back by popular demand, Micro-Speak now includes some exciting new improvements.
A. T. Guys

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Oh, reading the story makes me sad. At least we will still be able to get BBC Radio four but I would miss Christmas Eve service on BBC radio Scotland and BBC Ulster. If they offered a paid subscription for those of us outside of the UK, I would actually consider it. Here’s hoping my favorite Christian stations from the UK will not follow suit as I would miss them terribly. radiotoday.co.uk/2025/02/most-…

Most BBC radio stations to become unavailable for international users

A new BBC audio website and app will replace BBC Sounds for users outside the UK later this year
Roy Martin (RadioToday)

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Probably a hot take in these scorching times

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#linux #foss

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Ich bin begeistert von #WebXDC und #DeltaChat. Es hat mich einen längeren Abend gekostet, aus webxdc.js und jspreadsheet.js eine funktionierende App zum Teilen einer Tabelle in @delta zu bauen.
Mein Anteil: 50 Zeilen HTML mit etwas JavaScript
codeberg.org/phormanns/shareta…

sharetable

WebXDC prototype for a shared table in a chat group
Codeberg.org
#deltachat #Webxdc @Delta Chat (39c3)

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When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from "Absalom, Absalom!"

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When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!

Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Wikimedia Commons “How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling writer has asked themselves while struggling through a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 talk …
OC (Openculture.com)
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