Benzene @Benzene@toot.wales

It has now been a year since we first created this #glimpse social media accounts! 🎉

Given no one expected us to last the summer (let alone produce a release) we think that’s something we can all be proud of. 🙂

Thank you to everyone who chose to support us. Given the very negative way a vocal minority of the free software community was behaving towards us, your kind gestures were much appreciated!

The #Welsh Alphabet #3

y has two sounds:

If there's only one y in the word, or it's the last one of words with more than one y, it sounds like a shortened "ee" like the end of "shabby"

dydd (day) sounds like "breathe"

if there's more than one y, the extras, not the last one, sound like "uh" as in brother, fun.

example "mynydd" (mountain):

muh as in mud
nith rhymes with "with"

The #Welsh Alphabet #2

Pronunciation is surprisingly easy because with few exceptions all letters are pronounced phonetically, exactly the same way no matter the context.

Once you've learned the pronunciation you will be able to read Welsh with few mistakes.

Pronouncing vowels:

a as in can, map

e as in bet, shed

i as in pin, gin

o as in lot, hop

u "ee" as in queen, see

w "oo" as the 'oo' in zoo, moon

y has two sounds:

y has two sounds:

Yr Wyddor Gymraeg

The #Welsh Alphabet #1

There are 28 letters in the Welsh alphabet, 7 vowels, 21 consonants, and 13 dipthongs

Letters: A B C CH D DD E F FF G H I L LL M N NG O P PH R RH S T TH U W Y

Vowels: A E I O U W Y

Dipthongs: AE AI AU AW EI EU EW I'W Y'W OE OW WY YWY

I've written them in CAPS to avoid confusion, but when written the second letter of a two-letter is always lower-case, e.g. Llanilltud not LLanilltud, Rhiannon not RHiannon.

#cymraeg #ymarfer

Do you use uBlock Origin? Did you know that you can use the Better Blocker block list on it?

Just add the rules from here:

https://better.fyi/blockerList.txt

PS. If you have other rule sets, I’d recommend not mixing them as we go to great pains to ensure that we don’t break sites while protecting your/our privacy. If you are mixing rulesets, we can’t help you if things break :)

Today at 14:00 UTC, tune in for Philipp Winter's presentation on circumventing Internet censorship with @torproject!

Watch the live-stream here: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g6xEfNHkFKY

💫 🐙 💫

#imv2020

#Apple refuses to add support for 16 web APIs for privacy concerns. I look at the list and I wonder - what is wrong with you web people? What are you doing? This is not the web I want. This is Orwellian and out of control. https://www.zdnet.com/article/apple-declined-to-implement-16-web-apis-in-safari-due-to-privacy-concerns/

#Facebook just bought #Mapillary.

Move your images to a #FOSS *community run* project instead! How? Simple:

1. Download your images: https://github.com/gitouche-sur-osm/mapillary_takeout

2. Upload to #OpenStreetCam:
OpenStreetCam.org

3. Enjoy giving a giant, fat middle finger to #Zuckerberg. 🌻 🌈 🌻

4. Boost and have a nice day!

Patagonia joins growing list of companies boycotting Facebook ads
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/06/22/patagonia-joins-growing-list-of-companies-boycotting-facebook-ads.html

#minimalism