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#A11y #Accessibility

#SilentSunday

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-

🚅🚅 Trenitalia France, que recientemente obtuvo permiso para operar sus V3000 #Zefiro en 2⃣ doble composición, recuperarš los servicios París ↔️ Milšn el 1 de Abril
👉 El 15 de Junio, extenderš sus servicios a #Marseille, tal como #Renfe

One reason why I love using Fedilab for Mastodon: the option to display a translate button on every post. I follow people who write in various languages, and I can get an English translation with a single tap. @… #Android

How to Survive the Broligarchy
https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/how-to-survive-the-broligarchy

@… @… something wrong is happening with pixelfed lately. Using your app, or Pixelix I'm seeing 2 posts from this user, but, opening the account from Mastodon shows 3 posts (but the stats show 4). How can it be? I'm having a lo…

Overwhelmed by winter? A traffic camera shows this rest stop on I-70 not only has no snow, but it's spring and the leaves are out 😆
#OHWx

via @…
https://masto.ink/@knotfeed/113750791947965283
Maybe

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

🚋 El medio-tranvía de Trieste, 🇮🇹 Italia, recuperarš su servicio este 2025
🤌 El tren circula en modo tranviario por la calle, y se acopla a un funicular cerca de Villa Opicina para remontar la pendiente
🤓 Se recuperarš el servicio progresivamente, hasta 29 trenes/dia en #Marzo

Mastering Rust's Error Handling: A Guide to Writing Reliable Code
Rust's error handling system is a cornerstone of the language's commitment to writing safe and reliable code. As a Rust developer, I've come to appreciate the power and flexibility it offers. The system is designed to make error cases explicit, ensuring that developers consider and handle potential failure scenarios. […]
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Mastering Rust's Error Handling: A Guide to Writing Reliable Code
Discover Rust's powerful error handling system. Learn to write safer, more reliable code with Result, panic!, and custom error types. Improve your Rust skills today.

There is a long and storied history of whistles for protection. Ancient Egyptian guards used to place a blade of grass between the thumbs to alert other guards of issues that were transpiring. Later, shells were used to the same end. In China, acorns with holes drilled in them were used similarly.
As a dedicated instrument, whistles have been made of wood, bone, metal, and later, plastics. British bobbies have used whistles to communicate over distances since the 1880s. They are a commonly used tool for boatswains, crossing guards, and referees.
I wish I knew more about rape whistles, but they seem similar in functionality to hikers taking whistles with them in case of injury, as the sound carries much further than yelling, and is much less tiring.
As someone regularly stalked by a large creepy harasser, I am grateful for the whistle I was given for self-protection, even if the creeps who it was given to defend against resent the fuck out of it.
Fin.

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

@… Very cool!
I agree. This isn’t the 1980s any more, and we’re past the point that one person can build an operating system. And this is a large chunk of an operating system.
This is why I’m not even trying. But if people were willing to try with me, and I trusted them, I might change my mind.
(Unrelated: I am working on another pair of “…

🎟️ Indian Railways estrena #SwaRail, una app integrada e innovadora 💫
🚧 La app, que aún estš en versión beta, incluye ka compra de tickets, solicitud de reembolsos, y compra de comida a bordo

#IMPRS alumna Meike Fischer's paper featuring prominently in #UniGöttingen and #MPSgoettingen's press release about
The Moon: a chunk ejected from Earth?

Sonnet 044 - XLIV
If the dull substance of my flesh were thought,
Injurious distance should not stop my way;
For then despite of space I would be brought,
From limits far remote, where thou dost stay.
No matter then although my foot did stand
Upon the farthest earth remov'd from thee;
For nimble thought can jump both sea and land,
As soon as think the place where he would be.
But, ah! thought kills me that I am not thought,
To l…

>If this is the way to superintelligence, it remai https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/32982890

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-…

Related:
I wish I could remember one of the terms for a white guy they hire in Asia (it actually happens enough to merit a term) to pretend to be the boss just because he looks the part.
I'm going to have to look one up so I can throw it out there every time someone uses the term "diversity hire".

Sonnet 033 - XXXIII
Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy;
Anon permit the basest clouds to ride
With ugly rack on his celestial face,
And from the forlorn world his visage hide,
Stealing unseen to west with this disgrace:
Even so my sun one early morn did shine,
With all triumphant splendour on my …

"…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-…

Echo de menos a los amantes de la naturaleza y contenido de montaña por aquí 😭 ¿Alguna cuenta interesante para seguir aquí o en #Pixelfed? O en #Loops
https://

Ohhhh, that's a shame.
(The douche in Kitchener flying the Nazi flag, seems to have had some problems with flames.)
#Nazis #FashWatchCanada

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."

Sonnet 024 - XXIV
Mine eye hath play'd the painter and hath steel'd,
Thy beauty's form in table of my heart;
My body is the frame wherein 'tis held,
And perspective it is best painter's art.
For through the painter must you see his skill,
To find where your true image pictur'd lies,
Which in my bosom's shop is hanging still,
That hath his windows glazed with thine eyes.
Now see what good turns eyes for eyes hav…

What. The. Actual. Fuck.
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Mikey Shulman, the CEO and founder of the AI music generator company Suno AI, thinks people don’t enjoy making music.
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Suno was trained on heaps of copyrighted music it fed into its training dataset without consent, a practice Suno is currently being sued for by the recording industry.
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https://www.404media.co/ceo-of-ai-music-company-says-people-dont-like-making-music/

It's gonna be a sad day if all the handmade, off-model, copyright-defying art on carnival rides ever gets replaced by boring generative AI images.
#Art #AI #Airbrush

Zer erabiltzen duzue #fedibertsoa|n bilatzeko? #fediverse https://fedi-search.com/

¿Alguien por @… ? 🤟
#Loops
https://loops.video/v/4EILSXMx00

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

Sonnet 144 - CXLIV
Two loves I have of comfort and despair,
Which like two spirits do suggest me still:
The better angel is a man right fair,
The worser spirit a woman coloured ill.
To win me soon to hell, my female evil,
Tempteth my better angel from my side,
And would corrupt my saint to be a devil,
Wooing his purity with her foul pride.
And whether that my angel be turned fiend,
Suspect I may, yet not directly tell;
But bei…

#SilentSunday

I have to go to the bathroom, but I also have to finish this damned article.
I suspect that if I get up to go to the bathroom, I'm going to get distracted by 200 other things and not finish writing.
Also, it will disturb the cat.

#A11y #Accessibility

Sonnet 008 - VIII
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly?
Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy:
Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,
Or else receiv'st with pleasure thine annoy?
If the true concord of well-tuned sounds,
By unions married, do offend thine ear,
They do but sweetly chide thee, who confounds
In singleness the parts that thou shouldst bear.
Mark how one string, sweet husband to …

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Spice level increasing by the minute.
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe

Have A Day

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

Mobilize. Outreach. Community.
Meet the MOC.
#CommunityDefence
(Definitely not the "Movement Offence Committee," which we are absolutely not.)

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.

Sonnet 077 - LXXVII
Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear,
Thy dial how thy precious minutes waste;
The vacant leaves thy mind's imprint will bear,
And of this book, this learning mayst thou taste.
The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show
Of mouthed graves will give thee memory;
Thou by thy dial's shady stealth mayst know
Time's thievish progress to eternity.
Look what thy memory cannot contain,
Commit to th…

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Happening now.
With Writers Against the War on Gaza (WAWOG) at the Globe and Mail.

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?

🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
Dear Lordt:
Please keep the spice level mild and the police brutality to a bare minimum.
Oh man.
🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾 🙏🏾
#TorontoActions

Wut.
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Injustice Watch first reported on the incident, saying Glennon-Goodman had told a confidant that “the message was intended for a close friend and was instead mistakenly sent to a fellow judge with the same first name.”
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https://cwbchicago.com/2025/01/judge-reassigned-after-texting-my-first-ankle-monitor-gag-to-another-judge.html

Here's why having accounts on different apps is a good thing:
Instead of responding directly to the person who annoyed me, or even sub posting on the same platform, Ima make snarky comments over here where, likely, they will never see it.
Like:
I'm going to start calling straight white guys in positions that *I* don't think they're qualified for "legacy hires".
#LegacyHires

Happy Solstice
#Solstice #Chiptune

Awkward when you're literally doing more organizing in a whole other city where the knob who thinks he's — actually I don't know what he thinks he's accomplishing — lives, than the actual knob who &c.
🖕🏾

Hello! I'm @… and I'm building this bot to post a Shakespeare sonnet once a day. I built and ran the Sonnet a Day bot that ran on Twitter, Facebook and elsewhere for more than 10 years. Nice to digitally meet you!
(This is a bot, so I may not see any replies to it, try me on my main account if you want to reach me.)

Today I learned the English word "access" has been a noun for centuries, but seems to have only become commonly used as a verb in the mid-20th century with the advent of computers.
#Access #Accessibility #English

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

"White guy window dressing" is a little better. I just wish it was one word.
I bet, if they weren't white, the Germans would have a word for this.
https://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/1w0fs0/til_chinese_companies_rent_white_people_to_look/?rdt=52577

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

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://

Yesterday in #FuckThePolice
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A Portland Police Bureau report released late last month shows that the agency's review board recommended that a sergeant be fired after lying to investigators about placing a right-wing meme in a training presentation — a recommendation that Chief Bob Day and then-Mayor Ted Wheeler declined to follow.
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Known as the "Prayer of the Alt Knight," the meme has been traced back to a member of the far-right Proud Boys group and endorses police brutality against a "dirty hippy," showing an officer in riot gear with fist raised over a person with long hair.
{{ snip }}
McDaniel denied the allegation that he'd put the slide in the presentation. Then-Chief Chuck Lovell ultimately concluded that it was "more likely than not" that McDaniel was responsible for the slide, according to the memo, though Lovell backed away from termination of the sergeant's employment and instead suspended him for 100 hours without pay.
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#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #PoliceDontPreventCrime #DefundDisarmDismantle

Until 5 pm EST today, They Might Be Giants is giving away My Murdered Remains, their 2018 album.
Go grab the MP3s and maybe buy a Dr. Worm Venn diagram shirt.
#TMBG #TheyMightBeGiants

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And we're clear.
Significant police presence, still tailing the group. Confusing addition of CSST (crime scene techs).
A couple hundred people participated and were most definitely heard.
#FreePalestine #EndTheSiege #GenocideIsNotDefence
#PoliceDontKeepUsSafe #DefundDisarmDismantle #FuckThePolice