A 137-year-old newspaper faced extinction. Readers said: ‘We’ll pay more.’
The Plainsman Herald was set to cease publication. Then readers rallied around the southeastern Colorado paper, keeping it afloat for at least another year.
We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld
On tap for the holidays: A blend of multicultural drink traditions and fond memories
For this year's All Things Considered holiday cocktail interview, we visited Providencia in Washington, D.C., a bar that brings its owners' personal stories to life.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Party City files for bankruptcy and plans to shutter nationwide
Party City was once unmatched in its vast selection of affordable celebration goods. But over the years, competition stacked up at Walmart, Target, Spirit Halloween, and especially Amazon.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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I love this site. They also have fascinating article.s This is great for those of us who love the Regency, as well as those who wear proper period clothing. This partly explains how Brummell's neckcloths were so clean! His were either superfine cambric or fine Irish muslin (he had both). To my blind friends, sometimes, the printed s looked like f during that time, hence the muflin, foap, etc.
regrom.com/2024/12/20/regency-…
#Brummell #clothing #dandyism #fashion #neckcloths #muslin #Regency #washing
I solved the filtering problem I wrote about yesterday by changing the channel and notifications settings in Friendica. I explained more n a reply to said post. Now, my timeline is filled with all sorts of lovely things. Since that post was so negative, I would like to thank those who write such wonderful and positive things. You are why I am remaining in the Fediverse. Your posts make me smile and/or think, and now I will be seeing more of them!
#friends #Friendica #posting #timeline #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
FDA approves weight loss drug Zepbound to treat obstructive sleep apnea
The FDA said studies have shown that by aiding weight loss, Zepbound improves sleep apnea symptoms in some patients.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Music + Mathematics
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music openculture.com/2024/12/john-c…
#mathematics #jazz #music #coltrane
John Coltrane Draws a Picture Illustrating the Mathematics of Music
Physicist and saxophonist Stephon Alexander has argued in his many public lectures and his book The Jazz of Physics that Albert Einstein and John Coltrane had quite a lot in common.OC (Openculture.com)
Blessed Yule Everyone
Big dreams: He's the founder of a leading African photobook library
Paul Ninson had an old-school, newfangled dream: a modern library devoted to photobooks showing life on the continent. He maxed out his credit cards, injured his back — and made it happen.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Blessed Yule 🎄 everyone
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The FDA restricts a psychoactive mushroom used in some edibles
The Food and Drug Administration has told food manufacturers the psychoactive mushroom Amanita muscaria isn't authorized for food, including edibles, because it doesn't meet safety standards.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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A pair of satellites will create artificial solar eclipses to study the sun
Astronomers hope the Proba-3 mission will help them get a better view of the corona, the sun's outer atmosphere, which is even hotter than the sun's surface.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Compte a rebours pour quitter X
Avec des outils pour conserver vos donnees.
Qu'un maximum d'entre nous quitte definitivement X avant l'arrivee de Donald Trump à la maison blanche
Est ce que quitter X revient a l'abandonner à l'extreme droite?
Elements de reponse sur HelloQuitX.
Mais un nouvel element de questionnement déboule depuis peu : quelles sont les ambitions politiques de Elon Musk en Europe? Ou de savoir qui de Donald Trump ou de Elon Musk dirige l'autre ?
Peut etre que quitter x revient a le laisser à ce qu'il est, un reseau d extreme droite justement.
While users (at least on friendica.world) don't have advanced filtering options, I was able to solve myproblem. I went back to the Friendica site, and then to contacts. I clicked on each one, and in most cases, I changed the channel setting so that I would see all posts. for the ones that I really don't want to miss anything from, I changed the notification so that will be notified for each post the contact makes. On TweeseCake, this gives me three options. I could either read the Home timeline as always, switch to notifications, or switch to Mentions. I don't know why new posts are appearing in Mentions without anyone tagging me, but ah well. The last wo options will focus on the contacts whose posts I want to see the most. In all cases, but especially the second and third, I have eliminated the types of posts I don't wish to see from anyone. It took a long time, but my timeline is now clean and pleasant.
#Friendica #friends #posting #timeline #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
I hope you find a congenial community here! For the most part it’s a lovely place. I guess you’ve learned the follow-hashtags trick? [#]mosstodon is worth a peek, as is [#]bloomscrolling
Cheers—
NPR's most-read stories of 2024 include a scam-fighter and zombie second mortgages
How can you outsmart scammers? What would you do if your friend was attacked by a wild cougar? NPR readers wanted to know the answers to those questions and more in 2024.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Big Lots says it is having going-out-of-business sales as it seeks a new buyer
The national discount retailer says that a previously announced deal to sell itself to a private-equity group fell through.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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imperialism defeated
what imperialism has been defeated where and when?
The world's biggest and oldest iceberg is on the move once again
About the size of Rhode Island, the iceberg known as A23a got stuck in an ocean vortex this summer, spinning in place for months. Now, it's free, and heading back into open Antarctic waters.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Climate-warming gas leaks must be fixed by utilities in a new proposed rule
Natural gas utilities likely will face stricter federal regulations for their climate-warming methane emissions. Among the biggest sources of leaks is the meter outside a gas customer's home.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Donnations for Mayotte Island relief
Let me relay here the call for donations for the relief of Mayotte Island after the devastations of Chido hurricane. Please repost.
Je relaie ici l'appel aux dons pour Mayotte de la fondation de France suite apres le passage du cyclone Chido. Merci de partager ce lien
I just learned that Friendica, itself, has at least three different types of filters. These are content, advanced content, and language. The first two would allow me to block certain words, topics, etc. from my home timeline, while the third would allow me to collapse or delete things that aren't in languages that I understand. Unfortunately, it seems that Friendica.world has not implemented these, so I've been forced to block many people so that I don't see these things. I do undersatnd that only one or two people run this instance, but would it be possible to give users these abilities? I would rather not switch instances. Alternatively, I don't see such options available in TweeseCake. Maybe, sinceI just heard they're rewriting it, they will include such features in the new version.
#Fediverse #filters #Friendica #friendica.world #posting #Tweesecake #TweeseCake
Is there any way I can stop an entire conversation from appearing in my timeline? I see several in which I have no interest, and they are taking up time and space. Remember, screen reader users can't simply scan things quickly, see a word and move on, as sighted people can.
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I'm not sure if it's what you're looking for, but the filters work really well. You can filter out any posts mentioning certain words or hashtags.
Doctors Without Borders expose Israel’s campaign of total destruction
msf.org/msf-report-exposes-isr…
MSF report exposes Israel’s campaign of total destruction | MSF
A new MSF report finds that amid continued attacks, siege, and blockade, Israel is destroying conditions of life in Gaza, Palestine.Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) International
Trying to tune Friendica...
Trying to tune friendica to get it to process the job queue faster.
So far just managed to break the site...
So far just managed to break the site...
I just saw something extremely interesting that I have never seen before. It doesn't appear to be the usual overlay, but I didn't explore it, having just found it about two minutes ago.
"This website is AudioEye enabled and is being optimized for accessibility. To open the AudioEye Toolbar, press "shift + =". Some assistive technologies may require the use of a passthrough function before this keystroke. For more information, activate the button labeled “Explore your accessibility options”."
Here's the website, if you wish to try it.
blountfinefoods.com/blount-s-f…
#accessibility #audio #blind #blindness #NVDA #screenreaders #websites
Para que usas IE ?
I have written about this before, and it just happened again. I somehow managed to hide the TweeseCake window. I know that there is a way to unhide it, and also to show all commands. However, not every keyboard can handle the alt+Windows+shift+letter commands. Right now, I'm using a Toughpad, and the only access I have to it is via such a keyboard. I had to go into my application data folder, delete the TweeseCake folder (why it's not a true portable app, I don't know), then log into TweeseCake, then reauthorise Friendica to use it, then reset a few settings. I am going to save said folder so that, if this happens again, I can delete it from my computer and readd it from my thumb drive, but please, can anyone tell me if there is a way to disable this invisible windows mode, or whatever it's called? If not, can someone write a script to do it? This is beyond annoying, and it's really the only thing I don't like about this program, which is perfect otherwise!
Given that TC is currently being rewritten, I really don't think anything is likely to be done about this from the developer's end. From your posts, I assume you know quite a bit about editing files, so you may want to handle this from your end. It's quite a simple process. In the main TC config session, you'll find a listing for "keymap", with a name after it. Go to the main TC folder (not the one you deleted and replaced, but the actual program folder), go into the keymaps folder, and find the named keymap. That is, if your keymap entry in the TC config session says "default", find default.keymap", and open it in notepad. Search for window_toggle and edit the keystroke to the right of the = sign to something which you will never hit, or something that can be accessed from your current keyboard. Save the file and restart TC. The new keystroke should now work and you need never hit the old keystroke which your keyboard can't do, whether accidentally or on purpose.
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I just saw "Y'all", "gotta", and "ain't" in a single post! I think it's time for me to sleep.
I wish to begin this by saying that nothing can replace the wonderful consideration of people adding alt text to their images. It is very much appreciated, and I thank you for doing it. But for those images without said descriptions, I found something truly useful. It's called AltBot, and it adds alt text to posts without descriptions. I just followed it a few hours ago. On TweeseCake, at least, you'll hear something like "image with no description", and when you go to the next post, you'll hear the bot's explanation of the image. If you wish to folow Altbot, it can be found at altbot@fuzzies.wtf. I don't know who created it, but I sincerely thank whoever did. If only such a lovely bot could work on all sites.
#accessibility #altbot #alttext #blind #blindness #descriptions #Fediverse #Friendica #helpful #images #kindness #tools #TweeseCake
@Tech Singer I use NVDA with the Cloud Vision Ad-on. It's good, but it's nowhere near as good or descriptive as Altbot. There was another one (I forget its name) that used gemini and that was a bit more customisable, allowing a user to write a prompt, set the character limit, etc. , but google updated the version, so the ad-on no longer works. I believe it's available for other sites, though those do require payment.
I could never get really good descriptions with CloudVision, I'm not sure what LLM it's using, and gave up on it when I got the OpenAI add-on I mentioned, which has a much wider choice of models, can handle text prompts, and does more than describing images.
The CDC has confirmed the first severe case of bird flu in a human in the U.S.
A person in Louisiana has been hospitalized after becoming infected with a case of bird flu that's been linked to wild birds and poultry.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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The bald eagle isn't actually America's national bird — but that's poised to change
After learning the U.S. doesn't officially recognize the bald eagle as its national bird, a Minnesota man swooped in. This week the House passed his bill, which now heads to Biden's desk.#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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