André Polykanine

could be a fairly long shot, but why not? Fedi please boost this for reach <3

anyone in (or in touch with someone who is) in Aotearoa New Zealand, and has any old braille notetaker devices they don't want or can't use?

we're particularly interested in anything from what we consider the golden age (1990s to early 2010s), especially the early Humanware Braille/VoiceNote series. but we'll happily take anything, even if it's broken. we live on very little income so we might not be able to pay you much for it, but will absolutely pay shipping and would love to talk barter of some kind. or we can work out a payment plan, up to you.

we're based in the Waitaha/Canterbury region and can pick up anywhere in the Ōtautahi/Christchurch Metro, or can collect from the BLVNZ office on Bristol Street.

I was just reminded of this.

https://unseen-japan.com/mayim-mayim-hebrew-folk-song-japan/

#Japan #Israel #Jewish #folkmusic

It's so cool bridges from #Twitter exist. I followed Andrej Karpathy and Satya Nadella this way, and some other people also. It's sad it doesn't work for everyone for some reason. #Mastodon

I once dated a girl who had a twin, and people always asked how I could tell them apart.

Easy - Alison painted her nails red... and Bob had a beard.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@tefida/116985682799477660

Nothing unusual, just a man performing "The lion sleeps tonight" in front of… a literal living lion!

Just read #Microsoft will tie #Windows activation to the mother board somehow. Don't know how it will work, but what if someone upgrades the RAM, or changes the CPU, or whatever else? Usually hardware-bound activations are a pain in the back, but let's see.

It seems, it's the first time when I see this on #YouTube: The uploader has not made this video available in your country. Weird.

Is it only me or recent #WhatsApp for #Windows builds, namely everything related to voice and video calls, can be handled only with touch cursor in #JAWS? #Accessibility #Blind

@Klimahandling
hey there! I understand wanting to support European alternatives, but let's be realistic too. The goal here is also to reach people. YouTube has billions of users, European alternatives currently do not. We have to strike a balance with communication objectives and digital sovereignty. And the EU does give grants and funding to European alternatives, so there is balance.
One day it may be possible to switch to Peertube, but currently, it simply isn't worth the investment. sorry

"The new left's war on people", by Nikos Sotirakopoulos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvn6D1rIEAM
that's exactly why I'm highly opposed and super angry with this ideology. "Have less because we said so" — no, F you.
"Capitalism is bad no matter what" — propose something else that would allow me and people around me live our *normal* civilized lives.
#FarLeft #Politics

La bêtise du #wokisme :

La #chanteuse #néerlandaise #SophieStraat souhaitait créer un « #safespace » lors de son concert : demander aux « #hommes #blancs » de reculer pour laisser les premiers rangs aux « #filles, #queers et personnes de couleur»

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Trier les gens pour ce qu’ils sont, c’est de la #discrimination; demander à une personne de « reculer » pour sa couleur de peau : c’est du #racisme.

Des #antiracistes #racistes.

Source : #LeParisien

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https://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/musique/tous-les-hommes-blancs-a-larriere-la-chanteuse-neerlandaise-sophie-straat-cree-la-polemique-lors-dun-festival-en-belgique-23-07-2026-FKEITQ6ZMFCLZIODO4FDCVNXAA.php

As all available slots have been filled, I am not accepting new problems at this time

This might be a very unpopular opinion, or maybe it's just my depressed thoughts creeping in, but I really don't understand what the problem is if someone forgets your birthday. To be more specific, why do people remove their birthdays from social media just to see who remembers them?
For example, I'm the kind of person who has ADHD and a terrible memory. I sometimes forget my cousins' birthdays, not because they aren't important to me, but because my brain is always so distracted that I just can't help it. I love it when there are reminders because I do care about people, and I do want to wish them happy birthday. I just can't add every single person to my Google Calendar, which is why I find Facebook birthday notifications and similar notifications from other social media so useful. And if it's someone I don't really know, I'll just laugh at the notification because Facebook thinks it's someone I'm close to, but the last time I talked to that person was 10 years ago, and then move on. When it comes to my own birthday, I really don't mind if people are reminded of it in any way. Even if they see a notification or someone mentions it to them, it's still their choice whether to click that button, send me a message, or do anything at all. That means they thought about me for at least a second, and I really appreciate that. There will be people who wish me happy birthday in a private message or in person, and I appreciate that even more, and that's enough for me, even if it's only a few people. Maybe I'm just a terrible person, but I don't like blaming people for something that I sometimes do myself. I also don't think I'm the only person who forgets birthdays through no fault of their own. Plus, we all know that this world is a hypocritical and unfair place. There will always be people who choose others over us or forget about us, but why should that matter so much? As sad as it may be, we will also do it to people and might not even realise. Staying stubbern about it won't change anything.

@menelion It's *funny* how disabled people are almost always excluded from these diverse communities. Visible but ignored. @miki @pvagner

@miki

Platforms which consider themselves moral stewards tend to keep making moral decisions, and it's almost inevitable that they'll eventually make one that you heavily disagree with.

There are two problems with that:

• Moral decision doesn't have to be inaccessible or exclusive in other ways
• Unfortunately so called "moral" decisions are often just political and not based on real science or solid proofs.

First is simple: resources are limited and for developers of Forgejo it could not only be out of scope, but even out of their awareness.
Example of the second option is LLM usage rules some project introduce. There are a lot of controversy in this matter and despite some people claiming that it's "rather obvious that %insert_their_opinion_here%", every argument they'll give you (if they bother to) most likely will have opposing arguments. And they won't be interested in a productive discussion. They'll most likely just want to shove the thing they don't like under the rug and feel good about it.

And if this thread would be a bit more popular, I'd be ready to bet on "there's no moral AI usage" comment appearing under my comment which would've been a good proof of what I'm talking about.

P.S. A better example of trying to think about the issue is SFC recommendations:
https://sfconservancy.org/llm-gen-ai/llm-backed-generative-ai-recommendations.html
Although I think that they leaned a bit more into the "anti-AI" movement, they shown consideration for both sides and tried to achieve something productive and inclusive. This deserves respect.

@menelion @pvagner

Oh wow. I just witnessed an engineer fix an issue with a custom select by just replacing with a native select. 🤯

Maybe this is a sign... I should play the lotto?

@menelion @pvagner This is the problem with choosing platforms on moral grounds instead of practical grounds. Platforms which consider themselves moral stewards tend to keep making moral decisions, and it's almost inevitable that they'll eventually make one that you heavily disagree with.