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collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Every one of these is an easy fix. Let's make the web more accessible than it's ever been in 2024.

The Top Accessibility Errors Found in 2023 - TPGi
https://www.tpgi.com/the-top-accessibility-errors-found-in-2023/

nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

New pet project:

Enclave: Command-line secure encrypted deniable cloud-synchronized notebooks.

Written mostly at #37c3. Publishing the source code on GitHub, which is mostly just an MVP but which nevertheless works okay.

https://github.com/symbolicsoft/enclave

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“Predictions are hard, especially about the future.”

(attributed variously to Niels Bohr & Yogi Berra)

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NewAmauta@mas.to ("New Amauta") wrote:

For major good news before 2024, Indigenous peoples regained 3 million acres of their Iand bасk!

The land was returned throughout a decade at US gov't expense at $1.67 billion. It was an Indigenous victory after a class action lawsuit. Laguna Pueblo and US Secretary Deb Haaland said on this matter "We are in a new era for Indigenous peoples".

Happy New Years!

#indigenous #news #politics

Attachments:

• Image of a desert landscape, Native News Online (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

yurnidiot@mstdn.social ("Mandu 🥟") wrote:

this is the relationship level i will be aspiring to in 2024

#costco

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• a man and woman couple having a dinner/meal at a table in costco. the table has a tablecloth, unlit candles on it, dinnerware and teacups on it. (remote)

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whitedove@pixelfed.social ("White Dove") wrote:

Palestinian Lives Matter

2023-12-23
At a demonstration in Tel Aviv calling for a ceasefire, hostage deal, impeachment of the government and equal rights from the river to the sea.

The sign in the picture is by “Looking the Occupation in the Eye” (https://www.mistaclim.org). Their goal is raise awareness in the Israeli public about the harsh realities of the Occupied Territories and the crimes Israel is committing against Palestinians.

@israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe #israel #palestine #gaza #hamas #IsraelHamasWar #protest #demonstration #ceasefire #CeasefireNow #HostageDeal #BringThemHome #BringThemHomeNow

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• A person holding a protest sign that says: “Palestinians lives matter”. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

HeavenlyPossum@kolektiva.social wrote:

Made a trip back to the US for the first time in a couple of years. A few things that stand out:

- there are so many fucking ads everywhere

- infrastructure is crumbling everywhere I look

- cops cops cops cops cops. I saw more cops within a few hours of getting back to the states than I’ve seen in a few years of living abroad. Americans generally have no idea how hyper-policed they are.

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mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io ("mekka okereke :verified:") wrote:

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

You know the drill by now. I don't like talking about Black history. Americans know Black history. I want to talk about white American history. In other words, racism, and the erasure of both positive achievements of, and injustices suffered by, non-white people. That's what people don't know.

Try this: Ask your white US friends what the statue of liberty celebrates.

Now ask your Black friends. Or French folk of any color.

#BlackMastodon

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• Full height photograph of the statute of liberty. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

carlmalamud@official.resource.org ("Carl Malamud") wrote:

2024. 106 sousa marches are in the public domain. https://archive.org/details/PublicJukebox?and%5B%5D=subject%3A%22Sousa%22 We're running the scores through optical music recognition (omr) to create musicxml, midi, wav files.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

You mean nothing was fixed by turning over a page in the calendar?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/01/ok-so-now-what/

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• da5340bbf2afbec6.png (remote)

Reblogged by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):

federico3@oldbytes.space wrote:

Nice blog post from Datadog on pinning threads to cores, async, and #io_uring (and a Rust library to leverage it) https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/introducing-glommio/

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

As a line engineer it can be challenging to decode replies to emails you spend weeks drafting to sr mgmt; here's a quick decoder ring:

- "sorry for the slow reply": "I care about this which is why you're getting any reply at all"
- "have you seen X?": "explain why this isn't the solution to the problem"
- "can you chat to Y about this?": "I sense you're onto something, but I need a trusted lieutenant to vet it"
- "keep me in the loop": "keep my reports in the loop. Or don't. I don't care"

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

You love to see it!

https://www.ft.com/content/191d8388-c5c0-419c-95d6-918df6f09fc5

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owa ("Open Web Advocacy") wrote:

Let's review OWA's 2023. A special thank you to all of our volunteers and donors! Happy New Year!
https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-2023-review/

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• Let’s ring in the new year with a review of everything OWA achieved in 2023. The whole team would like to thank our kind volunteers and donors. We couldn’t do it without you! Happy New Year!

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Happy NY, y'all.

Reblogged by lloydmeta ("Lloyd"):

kurisu@famichiki.jp ("Kurisu") wrote:

Tsunami Warning – 1/1, 4:12pm
A Tsunami Warning has been issued. Waves of up to 3m are expected. Those near coastal areas, rivers, or lakes should evacuate to higher ground immediately.

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• 548fc47967cef8a3.png (remote)

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simon@simonwillison.net ("Simon Willison") wrote:

"The most surprising thing we’ve learned about LLMs this year is that they’re actually quite easy to build." https://simonwillison.net/2023/Dec/31/ai-in-2023/#easy-to-build

"I like to compare the difficulty of training an LLM to that of building a suspension bridge—not trivial, but hundreds of countries around the world have figured out how to do it."

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

28 years ago today on December 31, 1995, legendary cartoonist Bill Watterson published his final 'Calvin and Hobbes' comic strip.

How beautiful and appropriate it was. A timeless reminder of what we can make the next year.

May we bring about justice for all humanity in 2024.❤️

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• Calvin and Hobbes see the whole world covered in snow and marvel at the possibilities of what they’ll discover. They jump on a sled and go exploring.

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

NYE OH: "oh no! I forgot to believe in myself!"

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seldo@alpaca.gold ("Laurie Voss") wrote:

Happy 2024! Mickey Mouse is in the public domain: https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/publicdomainday/2024/

lloydmeta ("Lloyd") wrote:

Been enjoying this Thai indie synth pop band, HYBS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFo4Il_jn_k

#music

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

NYE OH: "...ok, but in my fictional defense...."

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wikipedia@wikis.world ("Wikipedia") wrote:

Some people start the new year with a kiss. Others refresh English Wikipedia at midnight ET to see Mickey Mouse. Happy Public Domain Day!

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• Wikipedia homepage. Under the "featured pictures" there is large text that says "no image". The caption is about Steamboat Willie (remote)

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theangrynoodle ("Bryanna/The Angry Noodle") wrote:

Readers, do you like the smell, sound, and feel of books? Are you like me, flipping through pages just to get a whiff of that delicious page smell?

I wrote a post ranking book formats based on their feel, smell, and sound. Whatcha think? 🤔

https://theangrynoodle.com/ranking-types-of-book-formats/

#blogpost #book #bookstodon #Bookwyrm

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

2023 was a an *intense* year on the browser competition front, and @owa is out with a rundown:

https://open-web-advocacy.org/blog/owa-2023-review/

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rmondello@hachyderm.io ("Ricky Mondello") wrote:

no matter what else I can say about 2023, Kissinger is still fucking dead

fromjason ("Jason") wrote:

The wild thing about the threads.net and App.net comparison is that it actually sounds pretty dope if it weren't Meta doing it.

Moral reasons, sure. But also because of what it could mean for indie devs in the long term.

When a sector becomes dependent on Meta, it tends to flex its power in unsavory ways. Like remember I can haz cheeseburger and text from last night? Sites like those don't exist as much anymore. FB got them addicted to its traffic and then 😵

That train is never late.

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ashporter93 ("Ashley Porter") wrote:

#MutualAidRequest for food. Nothing too major, just something to get me by for tonight and tomorrow, if possible. Thank you 💛

$40
CA $AshleyPorter93
@mutualaid

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xandra@tilde.zone ("alexandra") wrote:

kicking off my first #blog entry with a post about why i think everyone *should* blog (and why it includes you): https://library.xandra.cc/everyone-should-blog/

#indieweb #personalweb #webdev #enshittification

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Yeesh, that was silly. Overstuffed plot, hammy acting, pointless kaiju punching, abrupt ending. A good way to spend an evening.