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Jason Snell
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Here's a thing I noticed today. macOS Sequoia changes how non-notarized apps are handled on first launch. I couldn't override by doing the control-click > Open > yes really Open dance. Instead, I had to go to the Settings app, to the Security screen, and click there to allow it to open. At which point it asked me AGAIN if I wanted to open it, and then had to put in my password!
I get the impulse about making it harder to socially engineer bad apps from opening, but... this is ridiculous.
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Foone🏳️‍⚧️
foone@digipres.clubRemember, if you're diabetic, you should check your blood sugar before accepting any cookies
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benjojo
benjojo@benjojo.co.ukDo/Have you used a CD/DVD/Bluray in a while?
What about burning a disk?
I'm surveying modern day awareness/usage of optical media, mostly to confirm some demographic theories, so if you know what a CD/DVD is, please help me (and maybe others) out by answering some ~10 questions here:
https://optical-media-survey.benjojo.co.uk/
And then please boost for better visibility! Thank you!
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worldbuilding a dystopian future where Earth is divided into six numbered regions, and seeing how long it takes people to realize they’re DVD regions
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miifox
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AndroidArts
androidarts@mastodon.gamedev.placeI can Imagine a heated Wayland-Yutani merger meeting where they debated whether the W or Y should be at the front of the logo.
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Steve Schwinghamer
sps@historians.social#Accessibility question, please.
I've been briefed that many screen readers that read alt text only read the first 124/125 characters.
I'm curious how pervasive this limitation might be in users' experiences.
If I may: please boost to help reach alt text users!
So, for those who use a reader to grab alt text, is 125 characters... (and feel free to clarify by reply)
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Mx Amber Alex (she/it)
amberage@eldritch.cafeHow heat works:
16–25°C: nice
26–30°C: too warm
30+°C: danger zone
How the radio thinks heat works:
16–20°C: chilly
21–25°C: good weather
26–30°C: better weather
30+°C while crops wither and people collapse in the streets: "summer is here and the weather is lovely, sunshine all around, not a cloud or raindrop in sight to ruin your day"
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Dan Hon
danhon@dan.mastohon.comScience fiction is all about a Great Forgetting age where records are lost etc and sometimes it's natural disaster and sometimes it's revolutionary action but in our world it's apparently for tax write-offs
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Alexis
LexYeen@plush.citydear UI/UX designers,
specifically those of you working on touchscreen interfaces,
please look up the condition "dyspraxia" and take 15-30 minutes to consider how living with a motor control disability that affects precision of movement would impact a user of the UI/UX you find yourself working on.
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miifox
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miifoxa thermostat at my old home (w…
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media archaeology lab
mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.orgif anyone has access to closed-captioning software (of the type that can be used with a hardware encoder) we'd love to see documentation of it working
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Dan Gillmor
dangillmor@mastodon.socialThe EU has told Apple to stop a few of its most egregiously anti-competitive practices in its control-freak iOS ecosystem.
In a classic example of what I've called "compliance with a raised middle finger," Apple's response is to simply disable applications and features, rather than allow competitors into the walled garden.
It's reminiscent of Microsoft's up-yours "compliance" in the 1990s.
Naturally, Apple's legion of media fanbois is taking the company's side.
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Elia Ayoub (he/him)
ayoub@spore.socialDutch trade minister uses Nazi-era term for White Replacement. Fascist conspiracy theories are mainstream in much of Europe now.
https://x.com/bencoates1/status/1804184520427466947?s=46
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Charlotte 🦝 
charlotte
me when i outsource manufacturing abroad and with it the co2 production (how dare the country i just outsourced my manufacturing from from emitting more coâ‚‚ now)
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"The fact that the EU interior ministers want to exempt police officers, soldiers, intelligence officers and even themselves from chat control scanning proves that they know exactly just how unreliable and dangerous the snooping algorithms are that they want to unleash on us citizens."
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Martin from Toronto
mcourcel@mstdn.caSo BBC released an online version of the Hitch Hickers guide to the Galaxy text adventure game. enhanced 30th anniversary edition. And guess what folks, it's fully screen reader friendly, Enjoy! https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/1g84m0sXpnNCv84GpN2PLZG/the-game-30th-anniversary-edition
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