aral, (edited ) to technology
@aral@mastodon.ar.al avatar

Freedom in technology must include freedom from technology.

We must not create societies where the price of admission is owning a device controlled by one of two trillion-dollar US corporations.

We must safeguard people’s access to public services and the everyday necessities of life via alternate methods.

Technology should always be a progressive enhancement.

Do not let Silicon Valley privatise your access to modern life.

https://mastodon.ar.al/@lrvick@mastodon.social/112079059430275102

cazabon, to math

Yes, I use strong #encryption.

Why, no, I don't have anything to #hide.

I also #mail my #correspondence in #opaque #envelopes, rather than on the backs of #postcards.

No, I don't have anything to hide there, either.

#Normalize encryption.

There is no such thing as "#lawful #access". Encryption is #math. There is no math that the "good guys" can do but which cannot be done by the "bad guys".

Anyone who suggests different is #lying, to #spy on you.

#Fight them.

#StrongEncryption #EEE

c47, to Cybersecurity German
@c47@chaos.social avatar
Nonilex, to BadInternetBills
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Wed to enshrine a to .

The vote on the was 51-39, falling short of the 60 votes needed to defeat a & move forward. Republicans said the bill is unnecessary as the use of is protected under precedent as if [ precedent means anything anymore].


https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/senate-republicans-block-bill-protect-americans-access-contraception-rcna155448

Nonilex, (edited )
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

#ClarenceThomas’s concurring opinion begins on page 117. On page 119 Thomas specifically states “in future cases, we should reconsider all of this Court's substantive due process #precedents, including #Griswold, Lawrence, & Obergefell.”

#SCOTUS #Congress #law #privacy #FamilyPlanning #BirthControl #BirthControlRights #ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #WomensHealth #health #MaleSupremacy #access #VoteBlue
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/21pdf/19-1392_6j37.pdf

Nonilex, to Health
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Conservative attacks on #BirthControl could threaten #access
#FarRight #conservatives are sowing #disinformation that falsely characterizes IUDs, #emergency #contraception, even #BirthControlPills as “#abortifacients” — something used to cause #abortions.
#Republicans in ≥17 states have blocked largely Democratic-led attempts to pass #laws assuring the right to birth control since 2022.

#ReproductiveRights #BodilyAutonomy #FamilyPlanning #health #privacy #law
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2024/06/05/birth-control-access-abortion-ban/

Bellingen, to random
@Bellingen@mastodon.au avatar

What’s so bad about a road?
Roads are forest killers.

"A road means access. Once roads are bulldozed into rainforests, illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive. Once they get access, they can destroy forests, harm native ecosystems and even drive out or kill indigenous peoples. This looting of the natural world robs cash-strapped nations of valuable natural resources."

"When ghost roads appear, local deforestation soars – usually immediately after the roads are built. We found the density of roads was by far the most important predictor of forest loss, outstripping 38 other variables. No matter how one assesses them, roads are forest killers."
>>
Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests
https://theconversation.com/roads-of-destruction-we-found-vast-numbers-of-illegal-ghost-roads-used-to-crack-open-pristine-rainforest-227222

PogoWasRight, to privacy

Today's reminder of your insider threat:

Deputy U.S. Marshal Pleads Guilty to Obtaining Cell Phone Location Information Unlawfully:
https://www.databreaches.net/deputy-u-s-marshal-pleads-guilty-to-obtaining-cell-phone-location-information-unlawfully/

Wen, to random
@Wen@mastodon.scot avatar

Mass #trespass on #Dartmoor to highlight England’s ‘piecemeal’ right to roam laws https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/feb/19/mass-trespass-dartmoor-england-right-to-roam-laws

90+ years after the #Kinder Scout Mass protest it is about time too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_trespass_of_Kinder_Scout

But prising (responsible) access to the countryside from the hands of the wealthy was always going to be a long term piece of work.

#access #England #RightToRoam

amir, to accessibility

Button, button, button. That's what we, screen reader users, see - I mean hear - on www.dictionary.com instead of "Pronunciation button," "Save button," and "Search button." They have altered the site and now these buttons are unlabeled. Wish @NVAccess would allow us to label unlabeled buttons or graphics - like JAWS.
#Accessibility #Blind #Access

NVAccess, to accessibility
@NVAccess@fosstodon.org avatar

It’s been 5 months since Australian Story aired an episode on NV Access founders, Mick Curran & Jamie Teh. The first Australian Story episode to be audio described. It was an incredible opportunity to share with a wider audience the importance of NVDA & our overarching message, that everyone deserves equal access to technology.

You can still watch the Australian Story episode, with Audio Description, on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3i7gkN-1sAI&t=1s
#ScreenReader #NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #A11y #Access

Superfreq, to accessibility

I love it when people mention the fact that we have an alt4me hashtag, but please, when you talk about it rather than posting an image to it, put the hashtag in quotes without the number sign "alt4me" or say "the alt4me hashtag". Otherwise, people who watch that tag could start ignoring it since at least half the posts there aren't images now. Thank you! And please keep spreading the good news!
#ScreenReaders
#blind
#AltText
#ImageDescriptions
#accessibility
#a11y
#access
#disability

news, to news
@news@mastodon.toptechtidbits.com avatar

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, August 3, 2023 - Volume 922
https://toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2023/08032023/

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in adaptive technology.

Subscribers: 10,957 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 183 Premium Subscribers were sent this issue via email.

#news #trends #access #technology #toptechtidbits #a11y #blind

petersuber, (edited ) to space

Rare and expensive pieces of scientific equipment carry intrinsic barriers. Even with an open attitude, they don't have time to run all good experiments. The just launched a method to mitigate these problems for the 2-photon fluorescence imaging platform at its . The method was inspired by the one developed for the .
https://www.news-medical.net/news/20230711/Worlds-first-completely-open-and-crowd-sourced-neuroscience-experiment-launched.aspx

Lilysea, to accessibility
@Lilysea@aus.social avatar

One thing that you can do to make Mastodon posts much more readable/much more accessible is to put your hashtags at the end of your post.

Trying to read text which is littered with hashtags and blue hyperlinks is an accessibility nightmare. Put links at the end of your post, like this, instead!

#Access
#Accessibility
#Readability
#Disability
#ADHD
#MentalFatigue
#MentalExhaustion
#Brainfog

Nonilex, to Futurology
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

Finding in many parts of is a struggle. The country is in the midst of its worst in decades. are drying up & the rainy season …has repeatedly failed to produce significant rainfall. Around the world, is worsening conditions & limiting water , leaving people searching for surprising sources, like & .


https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2023/10/06/1203891520/drought-climate-change-fog-harvesting?origin=NOTIFY

internetarchive, to conservative
@internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org avatar

When the Harkness Eye Institute moved after 90+ years, the fate of the library within was in question. Some materials could move, but not the large runs of bound,
print journals. That's when our donations team sprang into action to help preserve these useful ophthalmology journals 👉 https://blog.archive.org/2024/05/06/eyeing-the-future-harkness-eye-institutes-ophthalmology-journals-preserved-at-internet-archive/

news, to tech
@news@mastodon.toptechtidbits.com avatar

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, April 27, 2023 - Volume 908
https://toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2023/04272023/

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology

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Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in adaptive technology.

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omeraltundal, to Cybersecurity

Proper Access Control is the best security measure that you can apply to prevent security breaches.

#cybersecurity #breach #access #control

news, to accessibility
@news@mastodon.toptechtidbits.com avatar

Top Tech Tidbits for Thursday, June 8, 2023 - Volume 914
https://toptechtidbits.com/tidbits2023/06082023/

The Week's News in Adaptive Technology
A Mind Vault Solutions, Ltd. Publication

Top Tech Tidbits. The world's #1 online resource for current news and trends in adaptive technology.

Subscribers: 10,926 Opt-In Subscribers were sent this issue via email. 168 Premium Subscribers were sent this issue via email.

#news #trends #access #technology #toptechtidbits #a11y #blind

helenczerski, to sustainability

Fairscope do many other great things, but I LOVED the “Chairigami” furniture they were using on their stand here at the Ocean Sciences meeting. It was robust and comfortable and easy to flat pack. More of this!

#furniture #sustainability #access #science

Superfreq, to reddit

Here's a post quickly recapping the results of Reddit's recent zoom meeting with disability communities, from the point of view of the r/blind mods. It makes for interesting, not to mention embarrassing reading.
For those unused to reddit's layout with a screen reader, just hit H for the first heading, then B for the first button, and hit down arrow a few times until the post starts.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Blind/comments/14ds81l/rblinds_meetings_with_reddit_and_the_current/
#reddit
#RedditBlackout
#disability
#disabled
#blind
#VisuallyImpaired
#accessibility
#accessible
#access
#AccessFail
#DigitalAccessibility
#A11Y

SteveThompson, to random
@SteveThompson@mastodon.social avatar

Exactly. I address dangers inherent to privilege of access in my paper from my 2011 plenary talk at UNESCO's First International Forum on Media and Information Literacy in Morocco:

https://www.academia.edu/2519291/Endless_Empowerment_and_Existence_From_Virtual_Literacy_to_Online_Permanence_in_Presence

"The Danger of Digitizing Everything"

https://www.wired.com/story/the-danger-of-digitizing-everything/

"The creep of conducting our day-to-day interactions over screens has reached a breaking point—and it threatens to push out everyone but those with the 'right' access."

@wired @naomialderman #digitalization #access #privilege

fulelo, to Ukraine
@fulelo@journa.host avatar
Nonilex, to Florida
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

calls push for 'a fight for freedom' in speech & assails '' in

Kamala Harris in , FL, discussed as a “fundamental freedom”.

“This is a fight for freedom, the fundamental freedom to make decisions about one’s own body & not have their government tell them what they’re supposed to do,” the VP said.


https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2024/may/01/speaker-mike-johnson-marjorie-taylor-greene-updates

Nonilex,
@Nonilex@masto.ai avatar

“Donald hand picked 3 members of the because he intended for them to overturn , & as he intended, they did.”

harkened back to her grilling, as a senator on the judiciary cmte, of 2 of Trump’s nominees, saying it was clear after their confirmation that the days of nationwide were numbered:

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