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Last night, my dreams conjured up an absolutely cursed keyboard setup: a smartphone-shaped device that was 1/3rd screen, 2/3rd keyboard below it, but the keyboard was in portrait mode, it only contained something like the 70% most common letters, and some keys were actual keyboard keys while some others were capacitive 'touch' things, with no discernible pattern to the division between the two

You can call your proposal 'free cake for everyone' but if it threatens powerful groups you'll get painted as a sinister plot anyway.

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The fact that 'fifteen-minute cities' is now a dirty word really puts into perspective all the time people spent agonising over whether 'defund the police' and similar slogans were too radical.

Zeer interessante documentaire over wat er precies fout is gegaan bij de grote brand bij een transportbedrijf in Hapert in 2020: youtube.com/watch?v=3FDj5EKf4D

"Detected a large number of updates inside startTransition. If this is due to a subscription please re-write it to use React provided hooks. Otherwise concurrent mode guarantees are off the table."

That sure is an error message phrasing

a quick calculation shows it's totally feasible for a train to be pedal powered by the occupants. mss kan je beter fwietsen OwO

A related thing I've learned: even if I personally choose to put a lot of effort into adapting to things like neurotypical communication, that doesn't make it acceptable for people to *demand* of me that I do so. It should be by my own choice.

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[3] This is a pivotal moment where the Dutch government must practice what it preaches. By enforcing this update, they are pushing users away from privacy-respecting solutions and further into the arms of invasive big tech companies. It's a step in the wrong direction.

Source: github.com/microg/GmsCore/issu

#digid #opensource #openaccess #overheid

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[1] DigiD used to work for users that want to evade invasive Internet oligopolies by using privacy-focused alternatives like /e/OS or LineageOS-MicroG. However, as of January this year, DigiD has taken a concerning turn. An update has introduced a hard-coded, unnecessary feature availability check for Google Mobile Services. An honest mistake at best, or masquerading as an anti-tampering measure at worst.

#digid #opensource #openaccess #overheid

Is this a good thing? No, but it's a reflection of how a lot of social dynamics currently work. And it shouldn't constantly be marginalized folks paying the price of trying to change that.

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Something I've learned over the past few years: when dealing with marginalization aimed at you, it's often so much more effective to simply specify expectations and demand things, rather than trying to request things or appeal to understanding.

Requires much less energy, and is much more likely to be successful. Despite the complaints and claims to the contrary.

i have created this complete and correct taxonomy of every STM32 microcontroller that exists, for your information

i hope you find this useful

I found out yesterday that one of my favorite Mastodon instances (Simcha.lgbt - a Jewish LGBTQ focused instance) is closing at the end of the year.

I appreciate the reasons the admins are doing this (burnout from dealing with abuse, particularly antisemitic abuse) but I'm still bummed out about it and what it means for the sustainability of smaller instances.

#Mazeldon

If you’re a publicly owned public transport operator and your driving force is NOT “how can we transport as many people as possible?” then why should you even exist?

And then if #DeutschlandTicket is imposed on you, your answer needs to be “ok, how do we find a way to transport these new customers?” not whine and complain about the existence of these extra passengers

Not sure if this is a bad idea, but I'd like an #NVDA setting to turn off the reading of URLs. Specifically, if something is identified as a URL on the text, it could just say URL, or if we want a bit more specificity, web URL, FTP URL, or whatever. Thoughts? I suppose this might be possible to do with a user ditionary.

Like, this is at the root of *so many* problems. People not believing victims (in the broadest sense of the term)? People not taking disability accommodations seriously? People not adjusting to other people's cognitive needs?

It seems like all of these can almost always be boiled down to "the listener is unable to accept what they are being told as true, because they do not understand it from their own experience".

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Probably one of the most ingrained toxic beliefs is that you must fully understand something to (even provisionally) accept it as true, and this is soooo difficult for people to unlearn

@schratze Due to licensing changes, it's now German Godot Day

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