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Question For all the corporate messages in support of the EAA, why does it take yet another accessibility legislative effort to get you to do what you say you are committed to doing? Yes, I'm glad we have the legislation but ask yourself why it was needed in the first place? Then too, why do those support messages not extend to your entire corporate portfolio? theideaplace.net/from-word-flu…

From Word Fluff to Real Impact: Achieving Specific, Measurable, and Accountable Accessibility

A few years ago I wrote blog posts on what I called Accessibility Island and Ethical Accessibility. In a nutshell these posts outlined the human consequences of accessibility gaps and the need for …
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victor tsaran

I agree, but a lot of this comes down not to the policies but to the people who make them. Laws can only do so much. Just to be clear, I am in favor of pushing the envelope by whatever means necessary. I also hold relatively moderate expectations as far as success goes. I feel we need to leave some space for humans to play a role, and not rely on policies only.
I sincerely hope EAA will help us move slightly bit more forward!

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Apparently the first "Beastie" (never named as such by Kirk) was drawn by the artist for girlgeniusonline.com Phil Foglio

I learned this at the BSDCan 2025 talk Kirk gave!

#Bsd #FreeBSD #NetBSD #DragoinFlyBSD #OpenBSD #BSDCan #BSDCan2025 #Comics

Girl Genius Online Comics

www.girlgeniusonline.com
#bsd #comics #OpenBSD #freebsd #netbsd #DragoinFlyBSD #bsdcan #bsdcan2025
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16 TB for under $100: We tested one of the budget SSDs flooding Amazon
"I ordered a “16 TB” SSD for under $100—only to discover my data was moving at USB 2.0 speeds. Here’s how to spot and avoid these too-good-to-be-true storage scams."
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16 TB for under $100: We tested one of the budget SSDs flooding Amazon - Jason Deegan

I ordered a “16 TB” SSD for under $100—only to discover my data was moving at USB 2.0 speeds. Here’s how to spot and avoid these ... Continue Reading →
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Google’s carbon emissions have soared by 51% since 2019

The company reported a 27% increase in year-on-year electricity consumption

Google is racing to buy clean energy to power its systems

theguardian.com/technology/202…

Google is an environmental terrorist, an ecocider of monumental proportions. Driven by relentless greed and that tech bro arrogance. There is no 'clean' energy or things you can buy, Google, to wash away your non-stop destruction of our environment.


Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green

Increase influenced by datacentre growth, with estimated power required by 2026 equalling that of Japan’s
Helena Horton (The Guardian)

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Today I added the following paragraph to #curl's hackerone page informing about our bug-bounty program:

Reports are made public

All security reports that are submitted to the curl project are subject for disclosure once they have been dealt with and they are deemed "insensitive". We are an Open Source project for which transparency is important, which then includes showing the world all our security reports as well.

(See hackerone.com/curl )


curl - Bug Bounty Program | HackerOne

The curl Bug Bounty Program enlists the help of the hacker community at HackerOne to make curl more secure.
HackerOne
#curl
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Patrik Stach

A když jsme u toho, ještě jsem si v době, kdy schnulo lepidlo, schnula barva, schnul balzám a schnul lak, udělal zase o něco menší peněženku. Je v ní sedm karet a bankovky. Mám rád minimalismus. Viděl jsem ji kdesi na Youtube, střih je jednoduchý, vlastně je to celé z jednoho kusu usně.
#leatherworking #handmade
#handmade #leatherworking
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Hungarians made history today as over 180 000 marched through Budapest to celebrate pride, in open defiance of #fidesz's illegal ban. This day will mark the beginning of the end for Victor #Orban and his cronies. Soon #Hungary will be free!

#Hungary #Pride #EUpol

#pride #hungary #Orbán #eupol #Fidesz
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Just started using #MailPit for dev environments. It's an SMTP testing tool that basically simulates receiving emails sent by your app via SMTP so your app has no idea it's not production. It has some little accessibility quirks like unlabeled buttons here and there, but in general it's quite a thing. Again, I've only started, maybe my opinion will change.
#mailpit

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Yeah, Mastodon's Unlisted is such a misnomer. My biggest gripe with it is that it mainly means "unsearchable".

And you can't really change that on a server, since that would mean that people who did mean "unsearchable" when they chose "unlisted", suddenly find their posts showing up in searches without their consent...

Friendica meanwhile shows threads as threads, but without the collapsing which would be very useful.

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feld

Mastodon has a history of using its popularity to unilaterally control the direction of the Fediverse. If a new spec is proposed that Mastodon doesn't care for, it gets killed. If Mastodon wants to change the rules about how something works, now everyone is forced to accept it or things break.

e.g., There is no such thing as a "Content Warning"; that is the subject field in ActivityPub but Mastodon abused it for another purpose and now we all have to treat it that way. It is probably the perfect field for something like Lemmy to be using as the subject for a thread, but nope -- it's a content warning so they had to invent the title of a post being some <p><a> HTML on the first line of the message body.

Gargon pretends to be a supporter of an permissive, interoperable, federated ecosystem shaped by open democratic processes but in reality all he cares about is what is good for "Mastodon the project".

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Tutao, the company behind Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar, relies on TUXEDO hardware and Linux to power its secure communication platform. In our new success story, CEO Matthias Pfau shares why open source & TUXEDO make the perfect match.

tuxedocomputers.com/en/Tutao-a…

@Tutanota

#tuxedo #success

Tutao and TUXEDO: Security at the Push of a Button - TUXEDO Computers

Tutao and TUXEDO: Security at the Push of a Button: The company behind Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar relies on powerful hardware from TUXEDO Computers and a variety of Linux-based operating systems.
www.tuxedocomputers.com
#tuxedo #success @Tuta

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On June 28, 1969, police raided the #StonewallInn, a New York City bar that welcomed the most marginalized members of the fledgling queer "community": young, poor, and #BIPOC #LGBTQ+ people.

Fed up with being on the receiving end of state violence, drag performers, trans and gender nonconforming people, homeless youth, and queer people of color fought back.

The scuffle became a weeklong riot and marked a pivotal turning point in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States.

Black & white photo of the Stonewall Inn in NYC back in the day with the following text overlaid: ANNIVERSARY OF THE STONEWALL REBELLION On June 28, 1969, police raided the Stonewall Inn, a New York City bar that welcomed the most marginalized members of the fledgling queer "community": young, poor, and BIPOC LGBTQ+ people. Fed up with being on the receiving end of state violence, drag performers, trans and gender nonconforming people, homeless youth, and queer people of color fought back. The scuffle became a weeklong riot and marked a pivotal turning point in the movement for LGBTQ+ rights in the United States. New Jersey's own Marsha P. Johnson, who arrived at the bar after the riots had started, was instrumental in channeling the post-rebellion fervor for queer liberation among the city's poor, homeless, trans and gender nonconforming youth of color. One year later, the first Pride marches were held to honor the bravery of the veterans of the rebellion and continue the fight for equality they galvanized that night. From Garden State Equality
#LGBTQ #bipoc #StonewallInn

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In my Portable Puzzle Collection, it was recently (a few weeks ago) the 20th birthday of the game "Mines": a reimplementation of Minesweeper which ensures every grid can be solved by reasoning rather than guesswork. The first click in a completely blank grid is guaranteed to be safe, and to open an area of more than one clue, and after that, you can always identify a safe square to open next by thinking about the currently visible clues.

This makes it possible to generate grids with a much higher density of mines than standard randomised Minesweeper, such as the example shown here with 99 mines in only a 16×16 grid. I actually didn't predict that this would be possible when I wrote the grid generator originally: I only expected to be able to play on settings like the standard Windows ones, without those nasty last-minute frustrations. The ability to turn up the density by more than a factor of 2 was a very pleasant surprise – my algorithm was far more effective than I had anticipated!

The odd thing about Mines is: in the past 20 years, this one game has received far more bug reports about insoluble game instances than any other puzzle in my collection. Very likely more than all the other games *put together*.

But not one of those reports has turned out to be a real bug in the grid generation. In cases where they sent a save file or a game ID, I generally played through the game myself to make sure; if they only sent a screenshot, I've always at least pointed out something I could see in the picture. *Everybody* who sent this kind of report turned out to have missed something.

Happy 20th birthday, Mines!

A partly completed game of "Mines" from my puzzle collection, i.e. an implementation of Minesweeper. The density of mines is significantly higher than in the typical Windows implementation, leading to a lot of clues with high numbers (4,5,6,7). In spite of that, the game has been solved up to this point without any mistakes, or needing to guess at any square. This specific game can be recovered by pasting the following game id into Mines: 16x16:3,1,m2e563fafaadcac746fb6844b1d2dc16261d2c5f67909421f189d7fa832901d92

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Review of "Machtübernahme": Sorry to tell you but you kinda need to read this

Read this a whine ago. It's kinda depressing that I feel like I needed to read that. Everyone who lives in a country in which rght wing forces are gaining more and more momentum (so basically: everyone).

It describes strategies to slow down, hinder, make lifes harder of such forces when they are grasping for power. It describes how such forces gain power.

So pretty essential. And good to know that there are strategies to fight back.

Arne Semsrott: Machtübernahme (Hardcover, Deutsch language, 2024, Droemer)

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youtube.com/live/mPUd2EPb3z8 ab einer Stunde und etwa 9 Minuten sehen wir uns am Stand der #IBFD auf der #HamRadio2025 bei der Vorstellung der Transceiversteuerung #Midi2Hamlib mit Sprachausgabe und optionaler Komponenten. #Ham #Amateurfunk #Blind #Accessibility

Live from HAM RADIO Friedrichshafen - 48th International Amateur Radio Exhibition - Stream 1

73 and thanks for watching
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#Accessibility #blind #ham #amateurfunk #ibfd #hamradio2025 #midi2hamlib
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Matija Nalis

CBB22 is a capacitor as others noted, e.g. here is its specs: datasheetcafe.com/cbb22-datash…

instructions for motor diagram are mentioned under "connecting"text. ~ on the right side indicates AC line input (phase & neutral) (220V/50Hz as noted above). And if you connect that AC across contacts tagged "0" and "1" it will go turn in one direction, and if you connect it between "2" and "2" it will turn other direction. (provided it is still working, of course).


CBB22 Datasheet PDF - Polypropylene Film Radial Capacitor

CBB22 Datasheet PDF - Polypropylene Film Radial Capacitor, CBB22 capacitor, pinout, CBB22 data, equivalent, circuit, output, schematic.
pinout (DatasheetCafe)

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Hi, I will be one week in #Prague to learn #CzechLanguage in a language school. Does anybody like to meet and speak with me in Czech, so I can practise? In #Praha or later, when I travel for another week through #CzechRepublic.

I can offer Tandem in German or Farsi.

Please share, if you know peoble in Czech. #FediHelp

#čeština #czech_language #tandem #czech

#czech #Prague #fedihelp #Čeština #czechrepublic #praha #czechlanguage #czech_language #tandem
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Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wanted to have at least 5 Saudi universities among the top 200 in the world by 2030.

So he paid lots of scientists to falsely claim they worked in Saudi Arabia! Some got up to €70,000 a year just for pretending to work there.

Unfortunately they got caught. The newspaper El Pais exposed the scam.

In 2022, Saudi Arabia had 109 professors on the List of Highly Cited Researchers, compiled by Clarivate. After a bunch got caught, the number dropped to 26. 🤣

Someone should carefully check those 26 researchers.

In fact this "List of Highly Cited Researchers" is a fraud magnet. As of 2024, one in three apparently highly cited researchers has been caught engaging in bad practices.

This is a great example of Goodhart's Law: ""When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Thanks to @mansr for pointing this out.

english.elpais.com/science-tec…


Dozens of the world’s most cited scientists stop falsely claiming to work in Saudi Arabia

This newspaper unveiled that Saudi universities were paying up to €70,000 a year to prestigious researchers to artificially pump up Arab institutions in international academic rankings
Manuel Ansede (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)
@Mans R
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#Panoramax cas d'usage N° 15429

Nous avions développé Panolinker comme PoC durant le hackathon de la fabrique des géocommuns de @ignfrance il y a quelques semaines.

Le principe a été repris par la startup d'État "AccèsLibre" qui répertorie l'accessibilité des Etablissements Recevant du Public (ERP) qui a ouvert un challenge sur son site:

acceslibre.beta.gouv.fr/panora…

copie d'écran montrant l'interface pour valider une photo montrant ici l'entrée d'un restaurant

Connexion

Inventaire de l'accessibilité des Établissements Recevant du Public (ERP) en France
acceslibre.beta.gouv.fr
#PANORAMAX @IGN France

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Daar staan we weer.
1 halfuurtje voor de vakantie, tegen de luchthaven van Deurne. Want wij willen geen (privé)jets meer en een park in de plaats‼️

🌳Meer groen daar is het ons om te doen❗️OPEN een park, sluit de luchthaven ❌️✈️ stand up against climate crisis en sluit je aan elke zaterdag van 11u tot 11u30 🕐

#DoeDeurneDicht #SluitDeLuchthaven #MeerTreinenMinderVliegen #MoreTrainsLessPlains #ExtinctionRebellionAntwerp #PeoplePower #ActNow #ClimateCrisis #PowerToThePeople #BetterPlanetOnline

#Climatecrisis #PowerToThePeople #doedeurnedicht #sluitdeluchthaven #meertreinenmindervliegen #moretrainslessplains #extinctionrebellionantwerp #peoplepower #actnow #betterplanetonline
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DonBahno 👨🏻‍💻🥦🍀🇪🇺🏴‍☠️

@mwenisch Klidně by ten výběr mohl být širší. Já si osobně nemyslím, že bychom byli konzervativní země, ale bohužel máme přetlak konzervativců a zastánců statusu quo v obou komorách parlamentu. Bohužel, v některých věcech bychom se mohli inspirovat i u toho konzervativního Polska. Stejně jako v Německu je tam dostupné konopí na předpis pro každého (nemusí mít ani diagnózu).
@Martin Wenisch
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Jiří Eischmann

@mwenisch Nemyslím si, že bychom byli méně konzervativní, jen to má jinou podobu. Češi jsou spíš pasivně konzervativní. Odmítají změny, volí ty, kteří jim je slíbí blokovat, ale nejsou militantně konzervativní, že by kvůli tomu zvedli zadky a něco udělali (což je v tomto případě moc dobře).
Zároveň u nás není ten náboženský konzervatismus, ale o to silnější ekonomický. Co se týče třeba podpory obnovitelných zdrojů nebo rozvoje elektromobility, jsme opravdu jedni z nejhorších v Evropě. Polsko je na tom podstatně lépe. Nevím, jestli to je vlastnost naší společnosti, nebo jen spíš byla vychýlená naším polistopadovým vedením. Klaus a spol. tady dost nastavili atmosféru, že jakákoliv změna je eurohujerismus a ekošílenství.
@Martin Wenisch
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