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Just found about a French MP with a slash in her last name : Emeline K/Bidi. I’ve never seen that before! https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emeline_K/Bidi
One more concrete example for the "Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names" article
Imagine relying to this with some flavor of "this person's last name is an accessibility issue". Unbelievable. You really fucking suck as a person if you do that
This isn't some X Æ A-12 situation, it's a surname that her family has bore for centuries and predates any and all information technology systems
When people have these kind of names, they’re not "causing problems to IT systems". It’s the other way around. It’s not any of these people’s fault that software has been designed with narrow western and anglo-centric cultural assumptions.
I have one (1) diacritic in my own name. It’s a normal French name. And it’s still causing me problems, or people not bothering with it which causes people to butcher its pronunciation.
I need anglophones to realize that English having no diacritics at all is an exception, not the rule
There are many beautiful things to see on the drive into Big Bear Lake, CA but one of the more interesting and unknown is the Planetarium Projector Museum. I...YouTube
thread in which I talk about why the "wrap your games console in a towel" or "reflow the bga" thing works to fix some consoles, and it's nothing to do with solder balls.
https://chaos.social/@gsuberland/113084336056277361
@greg@icosahedron.website right. there are three main types of capacitors used in consumer electronics: aluminium electrolytics (and their fancy polymer cousins), solid polymer (tantalum), and ceramic (more specifically multi-layer ceramic, or MLCC).chaos.social
Just remember, kids: It's perfectly legal for people to take your writing, code, videos, music and other works into a 'dataset' that can be used to train an LLM model to forge your art or writing style -- for money.
But if a nonprofit decides to purchase hardcopy books, scan them in, and create a digital lending program providing works to anyone who asks -- for free, that's checks notes illegal. :D
without total control of media publishing, broadcasting, distribution & trading, there are no #techbro American billionaires; and without American #tech #billionaires, there is no American Fascism as we know it today.
if billionaires have no right to exist; neither their #media companies as we know them — the #FAANG & corporate media.
to kill American fascism you need to kill American corporate media as it is off and online.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal to lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with the four publishers, which accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.Emma Roth (The Verge)
Internet Archive was doing their best to play by the rules.
Fuck it.
This wouldn’t be the worst time in the world to make a contribution towards the wonderful folks who keep Anna’s Archive online: https://annas-archive.org/donate
The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.annas-archive.org
I know everyone has probably seen this but, Beary Poppins is my whole vibe.
The small nudge is bearfection.
Record measles outbreak in Oregon blamed on vaccine exemptions
Vaccine exemptions at nearly 9% in the state, enabling sustained transmission.
Buying ideas is not nice, never has been nice. It's as nasty as can be. You're a bad person for giving anyone a single dime over it, especially if you felt like it made you safer, not in danger.
If only there was a way to share files where random goons couldn't pin down your IP address...
Others have said this, but the Internet Archive's appeals-court loss to Big Publishing is a disaster for everyone but the cartel of companies and a tiny number of A list authors.
The publishers will tolerate libraries only as long as they can control everything about how books can be loaned. If public libraries were being invented today, the cartel would make their core functions illegal.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/4/24235958/internet-archive-loses-appeal-ebook-lending
The Internet Archive has lost its appeal to lend out digitized books. A federal appeals court sided with the four publishers, which accused the nonprofit of copyright infringement.Emma Roth (The Verge)
The obvious choice for ActivityPub’s birthday would be the 23rd of January 2018 - the day it was annointed as a W3C recommendation. That doesn’t seem quite right though - its not as if the spec came into existence in any sense upon that date. In fact, Mastodon implemented it before thne.
There are several possible dates you might pick, but for me it will always be September 5th 2014 - when I committed the first sketch of a specification I called ActivityPump and pushed it to Github
It wouldn’t be until November that I actually submitted (a revised and enhanced version of) that draft to the working group, but even then I had the very nucleus of the specification written down.
Happy 10th birthday, ActivityPub. 🍰
Contribute to w3c/activitypub development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
First bread made at the new house! The oven here doesn't have a bread rising setting, but the airing cupboard seemed to work quite well.
Strawberry jam, or lemon curd? Or maybe both?
Annoyed at the quiet, I ended up putting on a wildlife documentary in the background a couple nights ago. It's always fun to watch foxes, right?
And on the screen there were these creatures enduring in the most brutal elements in an unforgiving and competitive world. All teeth and claws, yells and screams, covered in dirt and blood -- and absolutely *thriving* to the point of having time to play despite *everything* going against them in their world.
Hey furries -- whether you chose your species or it chose you, let it be a reflective reminder that for all the cute softness inherent in them that they -- *you* -- can fight, survive, and thrive in even in the most difficult of times.
Hey, if you write role-playing games, even if it's just for you and your friends, I just wanted to let you know that I'm pretty damn proud of you.
Look at the billions of dollars and all the other finite resources they're shoveling into the AI furnace just to forge the most banal poop in all of human history.
And here you are, making art that actually, genuinely gets human to make art.
“The astronomical number of firearms owned by U.S. civilians, with the Second Amendment considered a sacred mandate, is also intricately related to militaristic culture and white nationalism. The militias referred to in the Second Amendment were intended as a means for white people to eliminate Indigenous communities in order to take their land, and for slave patrols to control Black people.”
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, "Loaded: A Disarming History of the Second Amendment."
Interesting. According to Brent Spiner (the actor who plays the android Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation)
1) it was Patrick Stewart's UK pronunciation of his character's name (day-tah instead of the US's dah-tah) that made this pronunciation canon, and
2) the character of Data and the popularity of Star Trek has led to "day-tah" now being the common pronunciation in the US, too.
https://youtu.be/xeqTMTOxid8 (π min)
#StarTrek #StarTrekTNG #TNG #data #pronunciation #English #EnglishLanguage
Brent Spiner tells a funny story about the Data name from "Star Trek: The Next Generation", and how Patrick Stewart is responsible for the way the word is no...YouTube
FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer
#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
We’re in an exciting time for users who want to take back control from major platforms like Twitter and Facebook.Electronic Frontier Foundation
Apparently this is an abbreviation of the Breton prefix "Ker".
"K/" was a normal breton "letter" like "c’h" until it got forbidden in civil registries 1895, but bretons who settled in Réunion island (colonized it with the French, let’s be real) at that time were able to keep it.
It tends to disappear today as it gets denied to be entered in civil registries. She mentions she had to register her son as "K’Bidi" instead.
https://www.amicalebretagnereunion.re/articles/105835-les-origines-bretonnes-de-la-deputee-reunionnaise-emeline-k-bidi
Lettre bretonne K/ et Ile de La Réunion
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