European Houses of Big Loot. Contains vaguely lewdish reference.
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The Louvre is a really weird museum. Like, most of the European houses of Displaying That Shit They Stole tend to be kinda organised into Loot From This Place, Loot From That Place, etc, but the Louvre is like "Eh, we got a Neo-Assyrian stone tablet here next to this Roman statue of a dude that's totally a dying Gaul and not some wankfodder for a Saturday night and I dunno, a Michelangelo statue I guess? Also some earrings from Egypt or something, but you probly won't see that cause you're too busy crowding round that DaVinci painting of the lady suffering social anxiety and I think there's a Botticelli round here somewhere, and also something that's probly postmodern or some crap like that. Oh! And some shiny rocks"
Yesterday’s #AWS outage has led me to wonder, not for the first time, if we all have maybe become too dependent on online services. For instance, I read the story about how the outage wreaked havoc with smart beds. I’m also thinking about people who control their kitchen appliances and thermostats with apps. From an #A11Y standpoint all these things are wonderful, no question. But, as was shown yesterday, glitches would have the potential of throwing everything into chaos. There’s also the issue of too much power being in too few hands, but that’s another subject for another time. Right now Sarah and I have Braille overlays for our appliances, and our thermostat from the now defunct talkingthermostats.com still works fine. I’m just not sure I ever want to put control of my appliances and heating/cooling into the hands of an app. #JMO
A few years ago, my a/c stopped working. It turned out that my thermostat was gone, and the tech put in what he had / wanted to put in. So now I have a thermostat that isn't ideal from an accessibility perspective, and sometimes I wish I'd put in something else, like a Nest, but you make a good point, that it could have its downsides, and it might not be the best after all. In general, everything seems to become more complicated over time, and the complexity often brings subtle, unwanted side effects. Same goes for AI, but that's another subject. i miss my old thermostat; at least it had a switch so that I could clearly tell whether it was heating or cooling or off.
That Vario really might be on its last leg. I need to tap it super hard to get power to work reliably, once I power it off, sometimes it won't power back on without a good slap across its backside. Wow. Poor thing. I at least got all my data off it and reset it, so I'm happy if it does die nothing important will be on it. So, back to the drawing board with HID Braille on Linux. Perhaps my Bluez stack is out of date.
The No Mouse Challenge is a global effort to raise awareness about accessible web design. Try using your website without a mouse. Use the keyboard instead. Is it possible to access all features and operate all buttons, sliders, and other controls?
Suite à la mort subite de mon fairphone 3+, j'ai craqué pour un fairphone 6. Et bah la marque a fait d'énormes progrès ! L'appareil est super bien fini. Les performances sont au top. Je n'ai pas encore vraiment eu l'occasion de tester, mais les capteurs photos ont aussi l'air d'avoir grandement pris en qualité. Et surtout, l'appli démarre en un instant.
L'écran est nickel!
Et puis on peut se le faire livrer avec e/OS/ (Murena) préinstallé, et ça c'est vraiment cool (bien que facturé 50€)
Bah je ne sais pas quelle pièce l'étais... Probablement la carte mère, ou le stockage. Je n'ai pas le tempq pour tester une à une les parties, j'ai besoin d'un smartphone fonctionnel.
Mais je peux refiler les pièces fonctionnelles si qqun a besoin. Écran, appareil photo, etc...
Managed to introduce "synergistic frictivation" into the company lexicon after using it in a strategy document to test if anyone reads them. Now, senior management uses it in presentations as if it's gospel. Last week, someone suggested we "frictivate our verticals".
I've been experimenting with turning LibriVox's excellent dramatic reading of Wuthering Heights into an immersive 3D audio experience. Just finished Chapter 1 as a test run. Please check it out and give feedback! audiopub.site/listen/ea8b9f7d-… Full credit to LibriVox: librivox.org/wuthering-heights…
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Negative headlines, fake news, and Grok AI summaries continue to fill X users’ feeds, so it’s no surprise people are ditching Musk’s platform. Luckily there are alternatives.
i think we should be leaving behind bluesky as well. its developers have repeatedly shown they do not care for the safety of marginalized groups on their platform, nor are they willing to fight fascists and nazis off.
Mastodon is open source and more privacy friendly than Bluesky IMO. The differences between either platforms privacy policies are staggering. I read Bluesky's and I was like "NOPE".
bluesky is now hosting accounts for White House, Homeland Security / ICE, Department of War, JD Vance etc which are posting fascist propaganda [1] this combined with numerous other failures like banning pro palestine accounts [2] banning trans activists for criticising jk rowling [3] and complying with turkish state censorship requests [4] leads me to finally recommend de-federation from all bluesky bridges
2025 aura décidément été l'année du suisse-allemand pour moi, je commence presque à aimer ça (et surtout à le comprendre à l'oreille). #VisMaVieDeTraductrice
Small improvements can make a big difference. Our next major update to #LibreOffice (due early next year) will show page ranges under headings in the Navigator. Find out what else the developer and QA communities are working on: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.6 was announced on September 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help for Select Function in Calc’s formula bar, expanded help for the selection of chart data sources, added AutoFilter and Pivot Table/Chart to the …
Wish I could insert a Table inside a Rectangular shape by clicking on add text and do whatever I want to do with the shape and the table just like MS WORD - I would be able to do most of my works on LIbre Office.
Wait, is this an actual thing that happens to you? I fully sympathize with this post, but I really didn't think that Linux accessibility, a topic so niche its only very recently started getting picked up by sighted people, would result in a bunch of presumably sighted people coming up and talking to you in public. Blind ones don't know you're sitting on a bench over there, and even if they heard you talk that voice could belong to anyone.
@TheQuinbox It's not just accessibility related. I've done a few podcasts and interviews and the like through the years on various things, one of which is the online safety act which was picked up by a lot of people.
You don't know how angry it made me when they did that to me. Being at a meal and the usual guy showing up to ask me questions about JAWS, Braille'n Speak, Openbook, or similar things.
@quetzatl Oddly, this hasn't happened to me. I only say oddly because of the length of time I've been in the music industry. Perhaps it's more niche though. Not fun you had to deal with that.
I've just read: "Orca screen reader now announces CapsLock state changes". So... hm... emmmm.... it didn't before? till 2025? I mean... #Accessibility #Linux
Пускай хотят и сами переходят, это их проблемы. Не знаю что ещё не объявляет. Просто вспомнил впечатления одного знакомого, который на старый ноут поставил Debian, было интересно на Линукс посмотреть, так как никогда не сталкивался. Говорил что Orca по сравнению с NVDA так себе по удобству. Я-то десктопный Линукс уже и не помню когда видел, к счастью нет необходимости.
Ну а так всё стандартно, если говорить про работу в браузере например. Где-то что-то не озвучивается и/или не срабатывает, с чем обычно под Виндой не возникает проблем. И прочие Линуксовые приколы. Видимо за 10 лет особо ничего не изменилось в лучшую сторону. И даже наоборот, судя по статьям чувака которые ты тут репостил.
At the AIxCC competition at DEF CON 33 earlier this year, teams competed against each other to find vulnerabilities in provided Open Source projects by using (their own) AI powered tools.
@peturdainn I think the general idea from the organizers was that they should revert some old CVEs to inject likely flaws that way, but for some reason they did not seem to have done that for curl...
@Friendica Support Can I delete other people's comments on my posts? I seem to remember this being possible, but now I can't seem to do it. Only 'delete locally', which temporarily hides them from my view, and they're still there even for me if I look at the post another time.
@Friendica Support It seems like the I can usually delete comments from Diaspora or Mastodon accounts. The one I'm having trouble with is a zotum.net account. Any ideas?
It's hard to explain just how much work is involved in training a guide dog puppy. This is an unexpected training moment with a set of Halloween pumpkins. We work to socialise our puppies to *everything* they might encounter as a qualified guide dog.
Zoiks! Just switched my email server to @Tutanota . I had been using Zoho Mail for some time, and it worked pretty well (not encrypted) but a technical error just gave me the push I needed to switch over.
@TheQuinbox They somehow got a Chokehold on Visa / Mastercard, and can make them unbank anybody they don't like. They forced Pornhub to shift policy via payment processor pressure. They removed games from Steam via similar tactics. Not to mention FOSTA / CESTA, which make sex work related content the only section230 exclusion in the US.
They found a weak point (payment processors), and executed ruthlessly to exploit that point as much as possible. We don't hear them whine. We don't hear them complain. We see them get results, quietly and effectively.
I don't like their politics one bit, but God do I admire the tactics.
We're just not going to agree on this I don't think, I'm in the middle of homework and need to finish that up and sleep, but this sounds like an interesting research rabbithole to go down, but I personally am in favor of legal sex work and I suspect we differ there.
@TheQuinbox This is why I said I disagree with their politics. I don't think what they're doing is right, I think what they're doing works, and it would be worth it to examine their tactics in more detail so that lessons can be learned and used for other causes.
I just don't see any real reason to be against sex work? Like, you're simply exchanging goods and services for money. What's the problem? Maybe that's my "radical libertarianism" speaking but that sounds like part of a free society to me. How much of the incel problem for example could be solved by these incredibly lonely horny guys having a way to, above board, just go get laid as one example?
@TheQuinbox I agree with you. As I said, I disagree with *why* they use their tactics, I think their tactics are successful at accomplishing their aims.
@TheQuinbox I disagree wwith the politics of anti-sex work activists, whose tactics I find interesting. They seem to be one of a few groups who actually accomplish a lot of their goals in the 21st century, with relatively minimal societal support, mostly using non-traditional tactics instead of petitions and large in-person protests. That piques my interests. I have no interest in contributing to that particular cause, but the techniques? The techniques can probably be learned from.
nerozumiem tomu nepríde mi to ako jej štýl a nezoval som sa 3 týždne lebo ja mám toho tiež veľa.. chcel som vedieť len ako sa má, a ešte sme aj dohodnutý, máme plán 😣
You're reminding me of the craziest keyboard youtuber guy I can think of, Thomas Ran. If anyone's keyboard-crazy it's him. youtube.com/watch?v=BJITkKaO0q…
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Včera jsem byl na první dávce očkování proti žloutence A a B. Odpoledne pak vyšel na iDnes článek o současném šíření žloutenky a v diskusi jsem našel tenhle poklad.
Na žloutenku se moc neumírá, ale rozhodně nemá smysl ji tímhle způsobem zlehčovat, protože je schopná člověka vyřadit z pracovního procesu na měsíce. Navíc to je něco, co se v rámci domácnosti snadno rozšíří.
taky Twinrix? Jakou ti říkali, že to má délku ochrany? Já na tom byl v letech 2012-2013 a mám mám pocit, že říkali, že by to mělo chránit alespoň 20 let. Tak snad jsem ještě v poho.🤷
Could someone kindly humor me and get me the iOS 26 supported devices list? I’m trying to pull it from memory, but I’m having a blank out, and I don’t really need the iPad list.
@FreakyFwoof good to know. My poor little 13 is coming down with a case of glass detachment disorder. Facebook marketplace is amazing for finding deals on things. I am not spending 1000+ dollars on a brand new iPhone. I am not allowing anyone else to spend 1000+ dollars on a brand new iPhone. The iPhone is not my primary. I’m using it for like four apps, but those four apps are important to me.
@FreakyFwoof i’m going to keep an eye out. Originally I was going to get a battery replacement kit and just replace the failing battery. My maximum capacity was at 50% when I checked it last night. This thing is old and out of warranty, so getting Apple to replace the battery would cost a small fortune. With this glass attachment issue they would probably flip their lids. It’s not bad right now. It’s like a little pocket on the right side of the screen. I only noticed it because I noticed my phone wasn’t fitting right in my case. I thought maybe I hadn’t snapped that edge in all the way, so naturally I pressed down with just enough force to snap it into the case. Click the glass. When I release it, click back up, goes the glass.
@FreakyFwoof it was purchased brand new from spectrum. I’m also a clumsy person and have dropped it a few times. I won’t deny that. I do keep it in a pretty thick case though. I’m one of those people who does the Wallet case thing. Also, until just a few months ago, it had to pull book player duty, MP3 player, duty, TV duty, and right now it’s pulling 🕷️ BitLife duty, Suno, duty, DRM, protected, audiobook, duty, and occasionally mastodon duty because android for some reason delays my Mastodon notifications. My primary phone is a Google pixel. That’s why I couldn’t give 2/10 of a shit what model I end up with as long as it supports iOS 26.
@FreakyFwoof that would be fine with me. I have no need for Apple Intelligence or any of that stupid crap. I don’t know how badly the glass itself is damaged by being lifted up. Replacing the battery would at least fix the battery health problem. If the glasses is damaged, that’s a totally different story. From what I hear, they charge out the nose to replace your screen.
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