🇨🇿❤️🇺🇦 The Czech Republic has become the first country in the world whose citizens have pledged to buy a military helicopter for Ukraine.

"We have raised more and will use this money to transport a Black Hawk UH-60 to Ukraine."

German violinist Christian Tetzlaff has cancelled an eight-city tour of the United States with his quartet this spring in protest over the Trump administration and its policies, according to the New York Times.
[…]
Tetzlaff said he likely would cancel appearances for the rest of the year in the U.S. but was open to performing benefits in the U.S. for Ukraine or women's rights.

violinist.com/blog/laurie/2025…

Christian Tetzlaff Quartet Cancels U.S. Tour in Protest Over Trump Policies

German violinist Christian Tetzlaff has cancelled an eight-city tour of the United States with his quartet this spring in protest over the Trump administration and its policies, according to the

^{Violinist.com}

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We thank the World Health Organization for doing its job when the United States government is failing to.

QT WHO @WHO
205 February 28

New recommendations for the viral composition of #influenza vaccines for the 2025-2026 northern hemisphere flu season who.int/news/item/28-02-2025-r…

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The World Health Organization (WHO) today announced the recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the 2025–2026 influenza season in the northern hemisphere.

^www.who.int

After the spectacular Washington meltdown tonight, dozens of support posts from world leaders tell Zelenskyy that the allied countries will have his back.

Trump may feel good today thinking he showed Zelenskyy who is the boss. But in reality, Trump's attack on Zelenskyy may be the final straw, that isolates the US from the alliance of 50+ democratic countries, who can now move forward without wasting their time with Donald Trump's increasingly hostile demands.

The Trump administration has just accused a reporter from the US news service VOA of being "treasonous" for reporting facts like this: journa.host/@w7voa/11408662995… The reporter has apparently been put on leave, they are being investigated and their existing reports are being "watered down".

The reporter in question is a long-time Fediverse member. If you'd like to show some solidarity you can follow them at:

➡️ @w7voa

(This is via @_L1vY_ who has a thread about it at mstdn.social/@_L1vY_/114085425…)

I said what I said about the universal appeal of anti-Black racism in the US🤷🏿‍♂️

This is why you lose.

This is why you have no defense against foreign interference.

This is why all of the other stuff on the other side of the chart, is so easy for them to accomplish.

"At least he hurt Black folk!🤡"

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Norway fuel giant 'refuses to fill US submarines' after Trump-Zelensky clash

express.co.uk/news/world/20213…

CAVEAT: should say "ships:. The US submarine fleet is 100% nuclear.

Norway fuel giant 'refuses to fill US submarines' after Trump-Zelensky clash

Norwegian petroleum giant Haltbakk Bunkers has declared it will no longer help the US Navy.

^{Alex Evans (Express.co.uk)}

A chilling observation that's been kinda overlooked in the mayhem generated by the cowardly ambush at the White House yesterday. From a reader on LinkedIn:

How bad are things in the White House right now?

The Associated Press and Reuters weren’t allowed in the Oval Office to cover the spectacle yesterday.

You know who was?

The *Russian state-owned news agency, TASS, which was live streaming the ambush directly to Putin*.

linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:l…

Parry Headrick on LinkedIn: This is difficult to write. A Russian asset has infiltrated the White… | 297 comments

This is difficult to write. A Russian asset has infiltrated the White House. It’s no longer speculative or debatable: The President of the United States… | 297 comments on LinkedIn

^{Parry Headrick (www.linkedin.com)}

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Senator Bernie Sanders says many important things in this interview with the Kiyev Independent channel. youtu.be/IYY0poy7iXc?si=iAnvpG…

Bernie Sanders on Trump’s alignment with Russia

U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders sat down with the Kyiv Independent on Feb. 27 to share his concerns about Trump’s growing alignment with Russia and other authori...

^YouTube

People often have difficulty reading content when there isn’t sufficient contrast, so it's important to have high color contrast. TPGi’s free color contrast checker tool allows you to determine the contrast ratio of two colors by using an eye-drop tool.

developer.paciellogroup.com/co…

Colour Contrast Analyser (CCA) - TPGi

TPGi's ADA Color Contrast Checker helps determine the accessibility of the contrast ratio of two colors for WCAG AA and AAA.

^TPGi

Are you a GitHub user, or wanting to be a GitHub user, but have issues because of IPv6? Upvote and join the discussion.

Feature Request: Provide a centralized resource and GitHub Public Roadmap tracking of IPv6-support for GitHub Services

github.com/orgs/community/disc…

#GitHub #IPv6 #IPv6Only

Feature Request: Provide a centralized resource and GitHub Public Roadmap tracking of IPv6-support for GitHub Services · community · Discussion #151477

Select Topic Area Product Feedback Body Summary Our OSS project is running into difficulties with users and community members that are accessing GitHub via IPv6-only networks/services. People are l...

^GitHub

If you dislike the state of Firefox, please recognize that part of the way it got there was by becoming dependent on the gravy train from Google.

It will still be years before it’s usable, but one thing you could consider is to help fund servo.org — it’s a fully independent rendering engine with some really great next-generation tech that is going to make the web a more secure, and a very large % of its contributor base comes from a worker cooperative’s members who happen to be some of the finest minds in browser technology.

The project is flourishing, and you can help it continue to chug along and even accelerate. There’s no telling if it’ll definitely become a full alternative to the current triad of chrome/safari/firefox, but we won’t find out if we don’t try. The future is what we make it.

From: @are0h
h-i.social/@are0h/114084845340…

Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications.

Servo is a web rendering engine written in Rust, with WebGL and WebGPU support, and adaptable to desktop, mobile, and embedded applications.

^Servo

Für die Leseratten haben sich gerade wieder 35 weitere #eBooks auf den Weg in meine mittlerweile über 14 Tausend eBooks umfassende Bibliothek gemacht: ebooks.qumran.org/

Viel Spaß wieder beim tracking- und keksfreien Stöbern und Schmökern!

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Strong piece by Bill King:

The Coward & The Hero - A Day of National Disgrace:
billkingpiano.substack.com/p/t…

The Coward & The Hero

^{Bill King (The Sound & Reason)}

Learning Blind Tech Episode 22 A Few AI Tools

In this episode, I demonstrate a few highlights of some AI tools I use on my iPhone. Demonstrations will be of: Seeing AI Meta live AI Aira Access AI Invision's Ally This is by no means a comprehensive look at these tools and there are many features not covered that could be in future episodes

desireerenae.com/learning-blin…

Learning Blind Tech Episode 22 A Few AI Tools

In this episode, I demonstrate a few highlights of some AI tools I use on my iPhone. Demonstrations will be of: Seeing AI Meta live AI Aira Access AI Invision’s Ally This is by no means a com…

^{Desiree Renae's Website}

Máte pár minut volného času, který byste chtěli věnovat na věc sloužící všem? Upravujte #OpenStreetMap ve svém okolí, je to snadnější než tušíte.

Velké firmy jako #SeznamCZ vzali kdysi z OSM vše dostupné (#mapy_cz) a do OSM přestali přispívat.

Je spousta příležitostí, co v OSM aktualizovat: přidat nový obchod, upravit otevírací dobu, přidat odkaz na homepage úřadu, atd. To vše jsou velmi jednoduché kroky v pohodlném online editoru.
#mapy #opensource
Průvodce: wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Cs…

My cookie spec problem

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/03/01…

My cookie spec problem

Before RFC 6265 was published in 2011, the world of cookies was a combination of anarchy and guesswork because the only "spec" there was was not actually a spec but just a brief text lacking a lot of details.

^{daniel.haxx.se}