Gigi Sohn is withdrawing her nomination for FCC commissioner, blasting industry opposition and saying in a statement the continued 2-2 deadlock at the FCC will mean higher broadband prices and lax data protection policies:
Turns out, the disabled guy Elon Musk just shit all over was Iceland's 2022 Person of the Year, who took his earnings from the sale of his company to Twitter to build wheelchair ramps around his country. icelandreview.com/news/haraldu…
1/5 ✊🏽Young people in 13 EU countries refuse surveillance of their online communication!
New poll results reveal that the proposed CSA Regulation would disempower youth, stop them from organising for social change & exploring their sexuality.
Please do not use this post as an excuse to beat up the devs at Apple or Google. If you are doing that, you have missed the point of this post and you are being unnecessarily mean to individuals who may have no control over broader organizational dec…
#scale20x starts this week! We're still looking for volunteers to help out at our booth. If you're in the LA area and want to join us, learn more here: discourse.gnome.org/t/call-for…
GNOME will be hosting a booth at SCaLE in Pasadena, CA (USA) on March 10-12. If you are in the Los Angeles area or planning to attend SCaLE, we could use your help at our booth! Please review the details below and let us know if you’re interested by…
LibreOffice Technology is being piloted at the European Data Protection Supervisor, which ensures the protection of personal data and privacy in EU institutions: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Data protection and privacy is very important to us – and our users – in the LibreOffice project, so we’re happy to see that the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) is piloting the use of LibreOffice Technology.
It’s been quite a few months since the most recent updates about Flathub last year. We’ve been busy behind the scenes, so I’d like to share what we’ve been up to at Flathub and why—and what’s coming up from us this year.
They're a collective trying to get XMPP to a wider audience by improving the user experience, and they have a website that helps non-techy people to sign up:
This is really nice to see, there's so much potential in XMPP as an alternative to Whatsapp etc.
It's really easy to use XMPP once you've got set up, but finding a well-run well-maintained server, and finding a good regularly updated app, have historically been more difficult and scary than they needed to be.
Looks like JoinJabber are doing something about it! 😃
Esto es delirante. Efectivamente, todo indica que el argumento para convencer a Tamames para ser candidato fue "vas a tener todo el tiempo del mundo para decir lo que se te ocurra en la tribuna del Congreso. ¡Y lo echarán por televisión!" elpais.com/espana/2023-03-07/r…
A public consultation by the European Commission has been launched regarding the European Disability Card which seeks to gather the opinion of persons with disabilities, their organizations and other interested stakeholders regarding this new instrument in the making. For as long as I can remember, travelling around the EU as a person with a disability has been a riddle of which benefits and discounts work where and whether a particular institution honours them or not even if I'm not a local. The European Disability Card could change that. You can feel the survey in using the form below, available in all of the 24 EU languages. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/E… ##Europe #EuropeanUnion #Disability #EU
EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.
@modulux I hope the implications become wider as time progresses. I moved to a different country three times and have either studied or worked there. Having my disability formally recognized was a lot of paperwork each time and I can only be thankful I found competent people who helped me navigate that system. For travelling the current scope of interest would work great for tourism, especially public transport. Maybe with time it will also contribute to having more affordable international travel. I am sure that financial security would give more confidence to those who were hesitant about travelling before.
@modulux It’d be great if this had some kind of an online component. This would, among other things, be useful for libraries for the blind, as verifying proofs of disability across borders is definitely non-trivial, particularly considering the number of languages spoken in the EU. Despite the Marakesh treaty existing for a few years now, getting access to accessible books outside your own country still remains a dream for many, as there’s no working technical infrastructure for either interlibrary loans or cross-border disability verification.
@miki @modulux A mobile version of the card is being considered and you can actually check that as your preference in the survey. Probably that's not what you're looking for but at least it's some form of digitization that opens the way for more in the future E.G. scanning the QR code.
Komunitní konference LinuxDays se poprvé konala v roce 2012. Dosud se uskutečnilo devět ročníků, ten desátý, loňský, se z organizačních důvodů nekonal. Letos se akce uskuteční, a to 7. a 8. října.
Sketch depicting the Venus of Willendorf. Partial nudity, mild kink.
But really I just popped in to show you a drawing I did. I’ve been meaning to do a series of these for ages and finally got around to it by popping in to FEAR art space in #ballarat to sit down and spend some focused time.
Using IA Copilot (an experimental AI interface to Internet Archive) I could load in a book from the archive, and ask questions about the book. The answers are basically accurate.
stormdragon2976 pushed changes to the testing branch of the audiogame-manager project Clipboard reader now respects the rate set in speech-dispatcher with spd-conf.
I wrote a tiny Hammerspoon that lets you obtain information about the foreground application with the press of a simple hotkey. It reports the name, version (if available), and the path. This is actually how I found out where the Finder comes from. github.com/thequinbox/app-info
Hammerspoon that lets you get information about the currently focused application. - GitHub - TheQuinbox/App-Info: Hammerspoon that lets you get information about the currently focused application.
I just read this fantastic article about "disability dongles": "Disability Dongle: A well intended elegant, yet useless solution to a problem we never knew we had. Disability Dongles are most often conceived of and created in design schools and at IDEO." — Liz Jackson blog.castac.org/2022/04/disabi…
I feel this piece deep in my bones. If you are a PM, designer, or developer building stuff for the web, you owe it to yourself to give it a read. spicyweb.dev/the-great-gasligh…
The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.
In Inpol hortet die Polizei 6,7 Millionen Lichtbilder, die für biometrische Gesichtserkennung relevant sind. BKA und Bundespolizei testen neue Analyseverfahren.
Congrats to #matrix co-founder @matthew for rocking the last #DMAWorkshop, there was still quite a bit of buzz about how the live bridging demo carried a ton of weight, despite the lobbying efforts from #Meta, you can see it at around 14:00 in the live stream recording webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-works…
The lawsuit we're fighting isn’t just about the Internet Archive. It will determine the future of all libraries & their patrons, including those with print disabilities. #Accesstoknowledge for diverse communities will be impacted 🌍
Over the next 20 days until we go to court, we’ll be giving you 20 reasons to care about this lawsuit. We can’t wait to introduce you to the teachers, doctors, journalists & many more who rely on our lending library #EmpoweringLibrarieseff.org/cases/hachette-v-inter…
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co-counsel Durie Tangri, is defending the Internet Archive against a lawsuit that threatens its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program.
Next to the r34(rc1) adb-binaries I've just uploaded my Bash auto-completions for adb, aapt & fastboot (incl. short instructions). So if you didn't install them from a source shipping those (or just want to try what I cooked up), be welcome to grab yourself a copy:
just took this cross section of a smartphone camera lens. these are really fun to make! let me know if you have suggestions for other things to take sections of.
Precisely one month ago I joined KDE e.V., the non-profit organization behind KDE, as Software Platform Engineer. This is part of three positions in KDE’s “Make a living” initiative.
The exact scope of this position is a bit vague.
Moc státu nedůvěřuji na to, abych si cokoliv státního instaloval do mobilu. Leda mít na to nějaký extra, s rozbitou kamerou a mikrofonem a GPS spooferem. 😂
@LukeAlmighty Mám v hlavě takový projekt, kdy by měl člověk mobil pro takovéto účely a na něm by běžel server, na který by se dalo připojit z jiného mobilu a třeba přijmout hovor nebo odeslat SMS. Takže ten mobil by podle všech měření byl někde a odtud volal. Pro stát by byl člověk doma, ale ve skutečnosti...
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
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