Kind: Reposts

I’m very happy that Freedom Scientific is considering establishing a presence on Mastodon. From the February FSOpenLine released on FSCast episode 227:

RYAN: And just to go back to your first comment about Mastodon, it’s actually something we’ve been in conversations on, looking at how we would get set up and how we would leverage that platform. So don’t have exact timeframe, but it’s definitely something we’re working on.

https://blog.freedomscientific.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/FSOpenLineTranscript-February2023.html

—@DavidGoldfield

The Blind Vintage Tech Community (BVTC) forum site is now live!
Are you blind/visually impaired? Are you a sucker for retro hardware and/or software? Do you hate to see icons of the past slip into the land of the forgotten? This is the site for you! This site aims to unite sightless nostalgia freaks and retrophiles the world over. Classic operating systems, old school screen readers, long lost and forgotten speech synthesizers… It’s all here!
Though this site is mainly targeted at the blind/visually impaired, sighted folks are allowed to join as well! It’s important that sighted people gain an insight (no pun intended) into how us V.I folk live our lives. Nothing about us without us, right? With all that said, remember to follow the rules and have a good time! 🙂
Check out the site and sign up for free at https://bvtc.epizy.com

—@seedy

Welcome to Tuesday everybody. World Blind Herald Vol. 1 Issue 11 is out, with a featured perspective from our own Itto Outini, plus Blindness Briefs 63 and Science Briefs 25. https://www.worldblindherald.com/

—@worldblindherald

yes, daylight has been saved again, but at what cost?
at what point are we going to decide daylight needs to learn to fend for itself and give up on costly interventions?

—@AlienSkyler

As a former expert on infectious diseases and large language models, and a newly-minted expert on bond risk management, let me explain what happened at SVB and why it aligns with my politics

—@lcamtuf

we did it you guys we saved daylight

—@fro_vo

Within the next 18 months we’re going to see an explosion of invasive #tracking and #datascraping as major advertisers and #dataanalytics companies realize just how fucked Twitter is and start looking for new hunting grounds(profit sources, us and our “content”).

We, as #MastoAdmin and #mastoMods MUST have tools to easily lock out, allow list, and control who can have access to our users that are expecting us to protect their peace and privacy. We’re going to see #spam ads from pop up domains in larger numbers, we’re going to see garbage coming into our DMs like it used to on Twitter.

The reason these things weren’t a larger issue on Twitter (until recently) was because of the infrastructure that went into managing and subduing that sort of behavior. The fediverse has none of that infrastructure, or really even tools.

If you do #MastoDev, please, we need tools. Perfect is the enemy of done. We mastoadmin need ways to share reports about problematic users and servers quickly and with notes and standardized categories. We need ways to identify and share with our peers and friends the things we are seeing and actions we are taking, and we need room for nuance and flexibility and options in our response to unknown unknowns.

It’s a big ask, but there’s decades of these kinds of tools being built for email and other distributed systems, we don’t have to start from nothing!

#fediblockhole #rapidblock #FedeRater #fedirelay #relay

—@Crazypedia

Excellent, detailed article about a new much more inclusive Skin Tone scale developed by Dr. Ellis Monk working with Google to provide “a fuller range of darker skin tones than the cruder tools currently used” to train AI data sets in medical situations, and, more urgently, to fix pulse oximeters that don’t work as well on people of color. Very sharp read:
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/05/unbiased-pulse-oximeters-researchers-need-better-way-to-measure-skin-tone/
#BlackMastodon #BlackFriday #medicine #Black #health #race #diversity #inclusion #PulseOximeter #oxygen

—@tmorman

Took my car in early this morning for a one hour service and ended up with an eight hour service.
So lucky my daughter rescued me and gave me a ride home.
Got back in time to take Summer on her rounds. It felt wonderful to see some sunshine.
Summer loves her acre. After a routine patrol, she rolled around in the dry grass and partied a little bit.
Happy puppy. Happy Friday.
#DogsOfMastodon

—@norcalgrandma

I made this pin back in disability pride month in 20122. I’d love if you all could boost this and potentially buy some of my art. I’m a black, disabled non-binary lesbian who is homeless and my life is in DANGER. Any boost here will greatly help me.

Buy the pin here: https://www.redbubble.com/i/pin/So-What-I-Have-A-Disability-by-prideworldwide/115896155.NP9QY?asc=u

—@blackenbylesbo

The sudden collapse of Silicon Valley Bank is sending absolute shockwaves through the tech industry. Nobody is really buying into the narrative that “The risk of contagion is low” – the bottom line is, we don’t know. The last 8 years in tech have been really strange, driven by wild monetary policy driving reckless investment decisions even from VC’s whom I considered to be fairly conservative. We are due for a wider reckoning. https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/10/investing/svb-bank/index.html

—@chadloder

So. Wondering what my ‘thing’ was?

https://make.wordpress.org/plugins/2023/03/10/advance-notice-of-retirement/

This is me letting y’all know that by 1-July-2023, I will not be the plugin rep no more.

This is 100% my choice, no one asked/forced/told me to do it.

Gotta take care of ME first.

—@ipstenu

By announcing a Fediverse social network, Meta has put itself in a near-impossible situation:

Having to maintain cash cow centralized social networks, while “planning” to build a decentralized social network that could put the company itself out of business.

And you wonder why I’m skeptical?

—@atomicpoet

What Meta has actually done is advertise the Fediverse to millions of people who have never heard of it before.

It doesn’t matter if they build anything. They just acknowledged that decentralized social media is the future.

And guess what? Meta’s current centralized products are not the future.

—@atomicpoet

Silicon Valley Bank collapsing and the US FDIC stepping in is just another data point in a long line of tech bros being allowed to privatize their profits and socialize their losses.

—@grmpyprogrammer

“Let me be blunt: encryption is either broken for everyone, or it works for everyone. There is no way to create a safe backdoor.”

Signal calls the #OnlineSafetyBill what it is, a menace to privacy and a way to impose mass surveillance via our messaging apps. #surveillace #e2ee

A must read 👇

https://signal.org/blog/uk-online-safety-bill/

—@openrightsgroup

“Any email user interface is called the Mail User Agent (MUA). This might be Thunderbird, a web page, or a corporate manifestation of the Dark Side only used because Lord Vader declared it the standard.” #ryoms #nonotryagain

—@mwl