#BandcampFriday has begun and I’d like to start by inviting everyone to grab a free copy of John Mastodon. Shoutout to @Onj who performed the amazing drums on this track.
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https://dgar.bandcamp.com/track/john-mastodon-ft-andre-louis
Yours truly along with Steo and Zero T, track 17. This is just the Apple Music link but it's on all other platforms too. https://music.apple.com/gb/album/hospital30/6822015201
Anyone remember DC++?
"A Black woman, an Indigenous woman, and a Latina walk into a bar ... The bartender says, "What can I get you, Governors"
If you use Clipman for iOS I'd appreciate a rating. Not a review, not a donation, just a quick press of the star thing if you're so inclined. It does help to show it to more people, then fewer people would email themselves one-line messages they need to shuttle from one place to another, you know?
I think Apple's AI-powered notification summaries might have a few minor issues. 😂
Apparently, BSD Cafe has evolved from a community dedicated to BSD operating systems into a typical Italian restaurant serving traditional Italian cuisine.
The menu actually sounds pretty good, but I still haven't figured out how to book a jail for two. (Translation in the Alt Text).
I borrowed an iPhone Duo and reviewed it. It's a pretty middling foldable. It feels like a prototype, and I've never said that about an Apple product before. Black bars on almost every app, typing sucks, using it closed kind of sucks, and it runs iPhone apps when it should run iPad apps. A first-generation foldable, eight years late.
https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/iphone-duo-review-a-first-generation-foldable-eight-years-late
#iPhoneDuo #Apple #iOS #Foldables #VoiceOver #Accessibility #blind
Constant DNB live-stream from Hospital records. The track I did with Zero T will be live-streamed tomorrow starting at 7 PM UK. Didn't know this was a constant stream though. Hearing some nice new DNB I've not heard before. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwq3AFyV044
The switch to FastSMRW is complete. Let's see how this goes.
I e-mailed the company who makes the Bluetooth transmitter just to say "Thanks for an accessible Windows app; this is why latency is important for screen reader users." I got a reply less than half a day later and thought it was worth sharing:
Hi Simon,
Thank you for reaching out and sharing your experience. We're very glad to hear that the FMA121 works so well for your setup and that you've had a positive experience with FlooCast's accessibility.
Yes, the accessibility support is intentional, and there's actually a bit of history behind it.
When we first developed FlooCast, we used Tkinter, Python's standard GUI library, to build the interface. In September 2024, a user contacted us about accessibility issues. We then discovered that Tkinter's UI components didn't provide proper screen reader support. This came as a surprise, as we had assumed a standard UI library would support accessibility. It was clearly something we had overlooked.
Following that feedback, we rewrote the UI using wxPython, which provides much better accessibility support, and released the updated interface in version 1.1.1. Accessibility has been a supported feature of FlooCast ever since.
We're very pleased to hear that this effort has made a real difference to your experience.
And of course, any further suggestions you have would be greatly appreciated!
Best Regards,
Ranson Sha
Flairmesh Technologies
www.flairmesh.com
My wife and I met on Craigslist over 18 years ago. Back then it was scandalous to meet someone online, let alone Craigslist personal ads. We have always told our family that we met in a bar while we were out with friends. Years later we still keep the lie going.
Hello. This is a message just to say that it's getting colder, yes it is.
Know how I know that? I used the tap to warm my hands up.
Throughout the year I always wash in the coldest setting to save the water bill. It's fine until it starts to become winter, then it isn't. Today is, I think, only the second time this year I've done so.
It is starting.
When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism
FIRST PARAGRAPH ON THE FRONT PAGE OF TODAY'S ATLANTA JOURNAL CONSTITUTION: In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville. His value was placed at $1,400. On another surviving document, Sheppard signed his name with an X. More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, is Georgia’s governor-elect. https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/11/keisha-lance-bottoms-crawfordville-governors-mansion/
US Election Day feels like it was a really big deal for the fediverse. I didn’t hear anything about Linux for about 20 hours.
Aah, what a great day when I can start a brand new book by John Scalzi early in the morning.
Always like getting the email from Apple saying 'Congratulations' when an app update goes live. For just a second I can pretend I'm a real developer.
Rosanna - Toto (Kent Nishimura)
https://youtu.be/reabaRml2rA?is=dzD1CG80POIqZTA5
@FreakyFwoof oh I had a company video shared with everyone on teams like this once it was terrible, blotted out my speech etc. could not stop it. I just messaged 200 people on the call and said wow as a blind person loving this amazing descriptive video. I can only assume by the dance music we're looking at some sort of 90s disco right? everyone was very embarrassed.
Investigation: How Tech & AI Companies Corrupt Elections
https://youtu.be/lvGOv539YIE?is=O7qXPwQDmiPISugD