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This year I started reporting rainfall measurements in the #CoCoRaHS volunteer weather observation system.
And every single time, I can't help but sing: 𝅘𝅥𝅮 Co co rahs, rahs done by you 𝅘𝅥𝅮
#Weather #EltonJohn

When listening to an ebook with TalkBack, if I get a regular notification, the ebook resumes after the notification.
But if I get a charging notification, the reading does not resume. Sometimes when my phone is on the charger, it will announce the charging level at random times, and TalkBack just stops.
Does anyone have any experience with disabling charging notifications or getting the screen reader to resume automatically?

Welches (FOSS-)Tool nimmt man denn, wenn man ein 3D Modell für ein Holzmöbelprojekt anfertigen will?
#WasMitHolz

Ich denke, es ist für vernünftige Menschen (erneut) die Gelegenheit ernsthaft zu überdenken, ob man Produkte des #Meta-Konzerns nutzen und ihn damit unterstützen will. Der #Instagram- #Facebook-

Nice, @…'s blog post about #Bundler's new checksums is worth a read:

Bundler 2.6: Enhanced Security with Built-in Checksum Verification
Protect your Ruby projects from supply chain attacks with Bundler 2.6's new checksum verification. Learn how to implement this crucial security feature today.

Have you remediated a PDF file with Acrobat? Have you ever accidentally clicked "Autotag document" and wiped out your manual tagging?
If so, please consider voting to remove this action from the context menu.
#Acrobat #PDF

#SilentSunday

I think that I might have a neat idea for something at a #Ruby / #Rails #conference that people might talk about.
To do that I'd need someone to

@… updated his browser extension "Social Visual Alt Text" to add Bluesky support.
I install this addon whenever I can to quickly see what alt text people have written on Mastodon.
Go get it for Firefox or Chrome:

Dipshiticus the Dumb
bot by @…
This is a joke, not a threat: let's leave the extrajudicial killing out of it.
#satire #potus45

From Death Stranding to Riding with Norman Reedus

Warum genau wird jetzt die wirklich nette Konzert-Aktion zum #mauerfall35 im #rbb versteckt und im Ersten läuft ein Krimi? Der #Mauerfall war nicht nur in

I switched from Windows to Linux for personal home use a few years ago. Here's a hot tip. After running OpenSUSE Tumbleweed for a while, I moved to OpenSUSE Leap and love it. Everything works just the same, but updates are significantly faster.
#OpenSUSE #Linux

Article on media treatment of people with disabilities after the ADA was enacted in 1990.
A quote from the article:
"In the mind of the public and the media, there are 'legitimate' and 'worthy' disabilities, usually those visible to the naked eye, such as mobility impairments and blindness. At the other end of the spectrum, there are the 'undeserving disabled,' people who are thought to be to blame for their conditions."

I am launching this bot today. It posts a nickname for the 45th President once an hour.
Enjoy!
(and please don't send me to a reeducation camp for making this)
- @…
#satire

Note pour plus tard.
Sur #zwift, avec des rouleaux, ne pas trop regarder l'écran quand ca tourne vite.

Können wir uns Demokraten bitte auf eine würdige Diskussionskultur einigen? Das ist doch absoluter Kindergarten auf eine legitime Bewerbung auf ein politisches Amt in derart unsachlicher Art und Weise zu reagieren. Lasst das doch die Wählenden entscheiden und stellt bessere Kandidaten, die für konsensfähige Inhalte werben und überlasst dieses Niveau den Populisten! #Habeck

Thank you, @… . It's been decades since I thought about DOS Shell.
Our first PC came with MS-DOS 5 and also Windows 3.1. So even then DOS Shell seemed quaint and antiquated. But in a fun way.
https://

[ July 9, 2025 - July 11, 2025] Conference or similar: Workshop on Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism” https://philevents.org/event/show/127314

Workshop on Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism”
The aim of this workshop is to schematize what we might call Walter Benjamin’s “theory of fascism.” The name “Walter Benjamin” may not necessarily call to mind an explicit theorization of fascism. While Benjamin is well-loved for his aesthetic theory, his critique of historical and technical “progress,” and his theorization of juridical violence, none of these necessarily indicate a unifying or even detailed theory of fascism such as we find in the work of his contemporaries, such…

In this episode of Double Tap, Mike Shebanek tells his story of the creation of VoiceOver and how it led to today when all major consumer operating systems have built-in screen readers.
Someone should make this into a movie.
https://doubletaponair.com/double-tap-

Okay, das ist schon wieder lustig: Weil 3 Bahnübergänge defekt sind, muss der hochmoderne ICE jeden Bahnübergang, wie vor 100 Jahren händisch mit Personal des Zuges gesichert, in Schrittgeschwindigkeit queren. So wird aus "pünktlich" ganz easy " 30" 😁 #Bahn #Digitalisierung

#A11y #Accessibility

I recently upgraded my CPU and ordered a new CPU cooler without need, since I thought I had just the stock AMD Wraith cooler, which could have some trouble handling a 5700X3D under load.
I think I'll be going forward with that new cooler after all, just because of how neatly arranged its included mounting accessories are.
From Freeze 34 to Thermaltake's Peerless Assassin 120 SE.

Carol of the Belmonts by Doctor Octoroc reimagines the Ukranian / American Carol of the Bells as a Castlevania stage.
https://doctoroctoroc.bandcamp.com/track/carol-of-the-belmonts

Bei sonnigem Wetter mit dem #TeamDatenschutz in #Hamburg bei der #DFNKonferenz. Freue mich auf einen DeepDive "KI und Datenschutz"

Robby Duguay's Silent City, a remake of the Christmas carol Silent Night in the style of the SNES game SimCity.
Duguay's 3-volume collection, 12GB of Christmas, includes many excellent 8-bit and 16-bit pastiches like this.
https://robbyduguay.bandcamp.com/track/silent-…

"…Carter often struggled to implement key parts of his agenda, and disability rights was no exception. So disabled people had to step in to do the work that the non-disabled simply couldn't get done on their own."
https://www.salon.com/2022/05/01/jimmy-…

positional voip.... why isn't it still a thing? i remember when xfire also let you stream your comrades' video streams in a picture in picture
https://www.mumble.info/documentation/user/positional-audio/supported-games/

Der LfD Niedersachsen hält die Diskussion um den Personenbezug in LLMs für sinnvoll, vertritt aber die Auffassung, dass ein mit pbD trainiertes System Daten mit Personenbezug enthält und ausgibt. Damit schließt er sich der Argumentation seiner Kollegin in SH an. Seine Konsequenz: Es braucht ein ermöglichendes KI-Datenschutz-Gesetz abweichend zur #DSGVO. My 2 Cent: Das greift in den Konsequenzen zu …

The "going out of business" signs have gone up at our local Big Lots discount shop.
#BigLots #Retail #Ohio

On attente du croisement Š Creux de Genthod.
@…

Thank you to the Flickr Foundation. As they pursue preserving digital photos of historical interest, they also put the effort into descriptive alt text for social media posts. @… @flickrfdn.bsky.social #AltText #Flickr

Keep the chip in Christmas! After scouring Spotify for 8-bit and 16-bit holiday tunes, here's a playlist with covers of hymns and carols, midcentury standards, and more recent pop songs. Enjoy chip artists like Tee Lopes, Dj Cutman, Rush Coil, 8-bit Weapon, Computeher, Jim Kulakowski, Doctor Octoroc, Bulby, Mr. Joyrider in a Scrambler, CoolAm7, and Robby Duguay.

Le soleil vient nous saluer entre Luzern et Sursee.
@…

Happy Solstice
#Solstice #Chiptune

AI chatbots are like that one uncle you see at Thanksgiving. Over his life he became a true expert in something, say, ice sculptures, and can speak with authority on it. But he's convinced he should speak with authority on any subject at all — medicine, law, business, how rainy it will be next spring — stating with 100% certainty things he heard or made up.
Many things he says are right, many are wrong, and you can't judge which is which from his words alone.

Have A Day

Retour d'Annemasse, comme voyageurs, je profite du calme de la cabine arrière.

#A11y #Accessibility

VoilŠ Domodossola.

Plus de monde que je ne le pensait.
Et de belles images.

Aujourd'hui, il ne devrait pas y avoir beaucoup de monde dans ce train entre Genève et Domodossola.