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Monday, 6. November 12023
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So you’ve been publicly accessibility-shamed.

Recently, a popular company released a new product that uses AI to rapidly generate “production grade” front-end UI code. There were – as any human familiar with the basics of accessibility could have predicted – glaring and obvious accessibility errors in the code produced by the AI.

Photoshop’s journey to the web (via medium.com).

The idea of running software as complex as Photoshop directly in the browser would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago. However, by using various new web technologies, Adobe has now brought a public beta of Photoshop to the web.

Harfenbiennale Innsbruck vom 9. bis 12. November 2023.

Das Fest der historischen Harfe kommt zurück! Unter dem Motto „Keltische Saitenspiele“ präsentiert sich die 2. Harfenbiennale Innsbruck.

J’adore the logo! 😻

So Raku is Perl in sheep’s clothes, and actually surprisingly good for CLIs.

Source: docs.raku.org

How can I disable the logging of iptables to the console?

$ echo "4 1 1 7" > /proc/sys/kernel/printk

Wo Konservative recht ham, hamse recht.

Kein Mensch kann „sich entschuldigen“.

Man mordet ein bisschen, man pöbelt drauflos, man lässt hilflose Flüchtlinge ertrinken, man bewilligt (ohne die erforderliche Zustimmung der zuständigen Finanzbehörden) einen Millionen-Steuer-„Rabatt“ für einen dubiosen Arzt, man schlägt einen S-Bahn-Passagier tot, hetzt einen flüchtenden U-Bahn-Fahrer unter vorbeirasende Autos. Und dann blökt man dieses empörende, selbstgefällige „Ich entschuldige mich“.

Sunday, 29. October 12023
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Kyoto Statement on End-To-End Encryption.

Some governments may require so-called “backdoors” that intentionally create a weakness in E2EE and allow a third party to break it via exceptional access mandates. But if the police or intelligence agencies can break it, it can also be broken by criminals or hostile nation-states. There is no such thing as a “secure” back door.

«Le mensonge prend l’ascenseur quand la vérité prend l’escalier.»

Mili Vanilli – The Rise and Fall of the Eighties’ Most Scandalous Pop Duo.

When Milli Vanilli got demonized, Fab and Rob were the scapegoats who took the fall for everyone. All the public outrage was aimed at them—not their producer, managers, or record label.

Bye Bye Planet A.

“On Adolf Hitler, nothing comes to my mind”. These prophetic words by the Austrian satirist Karl Kraus, written in 1933 but published only posthumously in 1952, often come to my mind when I see how our current elites react to the accelerating climate crisis.

Monday, 16. October 12023
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Hania Rani was performing at the Konzerthaus yesterday and it was magic: Tuning in spooky radio frequencies, singing beautifully in direction backstage, giving the upright piano back its dignity, wobbling with synthetic waves, bathed in the twilight of the stage illumination and the lively colors of the abstract visuals.