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Great news! While Trump is busy dismantling the Library of Congress, the German National Library of Science and Technology (@tibhannover) is preparing for more to come: they've downloaded the entire 10 TB of the arXiv preprint server and safeguarded more than 2.6 million scientific articles. Thank you so much! This was especially needed since, last year, the arXiv decided to shut down its mirror network.

blog.tib.eu/2025/05/13/die-wis…

#arxiv #physics #math #unplugtrump


Die Wissenschaft schützen: TIB baut Dark Archive für arXiv auf - TIB-Blog

Forschung und Wissenschaft sind international, nicht umsonst spricht man von internationalen Fachcommunities.
Micky Lindlar (TIB – Leibniz-Informationszentrum Technik und Naturwissenschaften und Universitätsbibliothek)
#math #physics #arXiv #unplugtrump @TIB
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Ned Yeung

I have used the contact link in the email.

"You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet.

However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it.

I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform.

Regards,
Ned Yeung,
A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada"

Subject: Please do not send me links on X. Comments and Questions: You recently sent me an email announcing a new Liberal cabinet. However, your link sent me to your X post, which is NOT a public post accessible publicly by the Canadians who would want to read it. I, along with many other conscientious Canadians, have deleted our accounts off Twitter (mine was over 14 years old) or later X, because of the incredible data insecurity created by Musk, and hostile anti-humanitarian environment under Musk. It is incredibly irresponsible for our government to make public announcements on such a platform. Regards, Ned Yeung, A Concerned Public Citizen of Canada 598 of 600 max characters CAPTCHTA I'm not a robot Submit ->
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Just further proof than gop and Texas doesn't actually believe in free markets and deregulation.

> geekdom.social/users/Fantastic…

Kyle Montanio (@FantasticalEconomics@geekdom.social)

Texas is trying to make solar power plants buy energy equal to their daytime output from coal power plants. It's almost like politicians are owned by #FossilFuel companies, or something. https://thehill.
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Deve ter ouvido umas verdades e sentiu-se mal. Ele é fraco, não lida bem com isso.
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André Ventura sente-se mal e é retirado de comício no Algarve

O líder do Chega foi retirado do local para o exterior do Parque das Feiras e Exposições de Tavira e está a ser assistido por elementos dos bombeiros de Tavira e por técnicos do INEM.
Notícias ao Minuto com Lusa (Notícias ao Minuto)

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FBI Warning on Messaging Apps
The FBI urges Americans to ditch SMS for encrypted apps—then demands backdoors via “responsible encryption.”

Big Tech resists.

Law enforcement wants access.

There’s another way:

Purism’s Librem 5 & Liberty Phone

✅ USA-made
✅ No Google/Apple OS
✅ Hardware kill switches
✅ Open-source PureOS
✅ Lifetime security updates
✅ Supports Matrix, Jami & more

Don’t just switch apps. Change the platform.

Read More Here: puri.sm/posts/fbi-raises-alarm…


FBI Raises Alarm on Encrypted Messaging Apps: A New Front in the Battle for Digital Privacy and National Security – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Mircea Kitsune

Be careful of anything those snakes say! No offense to actual snakes.

The FBI is scared they can no longer spy on and control people: They've been propagating horror stories about crimes (especially against children) being caused by the internet, to scare everyone into giving up even the right to have private and secure communications. As they don't get their way they're going to ramp up the fear campaign, knowing there's always a supply of people who will fall for it.

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Manual testing with a screen reader will help you catch and fix accessibility issues that can't be identified by automated tests. Sara Soueidan has a great guide on various screen readers and how to set them up on your computer.

sarasoueidan.com/blog/testing-…


Setting up a screen reader testing environment on your computer

— The personal website of Sara Soueidan, inclusive Web UI engineer
www.sarasoueidan.com

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Starting today, photos you share to pixelfed.social* may look brighter or more vibrant, as we now preserve ICC color profiles 🥳

* - Avail to any pixelfed server running github.com/pixelfed/pixelfed/c…

#pixelfed


Fix heic, avif, webp support and add libvips driver · pixelfed/pixelfed@4e938a8

Photo Sharing. For Everyone. Contribute to pixelfed/pixelfed development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#pixelfed

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Specifically the petition to ban conversion therapy practices is lacking enough votes from:
- #germany (49.9%)
- #sweden (49.96%)
- #Netherlands (94%)
- #austria (25.5%)
- #Slovenia (83.14%)
- #portugal (24.46%)

If you're a citizen of these countries you can help advance a ban on conversion therapy practices by voting at:

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…

Screenshot from the petition websites showing which countries have crossed the threshold, which are below, and which have no support (and which are non-EU)

European Citizens' Initiative

Give your support !
eci.ec.europa.eu
#Germany #Sweden #netherlands #slovenia #austria #portugal
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You think you know the story of VoiceOver? Think again.
Apple’s bold move changed accessibility forever—and most people don’t even know how it happened.
🔗 doubletaponair.com/

Double Tap - The Podcast Where Blind People Talk Tech

Double Tap is the world's most popular podcast where blind people talk tech. Hosted by Steven Scott and Shaun Preece the duo talk about blindness and tech.
Double Tap

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Neither Simple, nor Intelligent parking system for disabled drivers.

So, you park, get into your wheelchair, wheel yourself 100m to the building where the scanner is (inside the Medical Centre), scan your badge, wheel yourself 100m back to the car, return the badge, wheel yourself 100m back to the Medical Centre for your appointment.

Could it be ANY more disabled unfriendly?
#stupidity #disability #DisabilityInclusion #medical #commonsense

Parking sign. Claims to be simple intelligent parking. Instructions telling disabled people to enter the building, scan their badge, return to their car with their badge, then re-enter the building for their appointment.
#Disability #disabilityinclusion #medical #commonsense #stupidity

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I was cleaning out my desk, and I found a mystery thing. It's a thing that generates numbers, probably as two factor codes. But I have no idea what the codes are for, where I got the thing, who made the thing, or if I can somehow reset the thing or do anything else with it. Based on where I found it, the thing has to be at least four years old, if not older. Being a blind person, I of course recorded the thing. Do you have any advice about what I could do with my mysterious thing other than throwing it out?

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Andrew Hodgson

Yeah its super frustrating isn't it? My device did something similar and there was no way to reset it other than getting a new one. The devices given out to sighted people were tiny in comparison and had non replaceable batteries. When my device expired in 2019 I got it replaced with a phone token as it was the right thing to do. If I remember correctly the token comes from the factory with a specific shelf life of 5 years.
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Andrew Hodgson

I used to have a device very similar to this for a job. It was a SecureID token generator from either RSA or SafeNet. The end of life means that the codes are probably useless at the remote end and the only thing you can do is throw the device away. I'm not sure whether its still fashionable to give out these hardware tokens, I haven't had one now since 2019, everything being done on my smartphone.

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Wer #Nextcloud unter #Android über den #GooglePlay installiert hat kann nur noch Fotos und Videos hochladen, Dokumente funktionieren nicht mehr. Hintergrund ist, dass #Google wegen "Sicherheitsbedenken" den Zugriff für die App entfernt hat. Wer andere Appstores wie #FDroid nutzt ist nicht betroffen.
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Unhappy with the recently lost file upload feature in the Nextcloud app for Android? So are we. Let us explain. - Nextcloud

Discover why Nextcloud file uploads for Android app are not working properly, and how Google’s app store rules are hurting Nextcloud users.
Christoph Weissthaner (Nextcloud)
#android #google #fdroid #nextcloud #googleplay

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The GitHub Copilot Accessibility video series launches today in celebration of Global Accessibility Awareness Day (#GAAD) which is Thursday, May 15th 🎉

Each day this week, we’re spotlighting a new video featuring a person with lived experience using GitHub Copilot to solve real-world challenges — both personal and professional. These stories show how AI can reduce barriers, boost productivity, and unlock creativity in coding and beyond ✨

github.com/orgs/community/disc…


Five different ways you can use GitHub Copilot · community · Discussion #158705

Less than six months ago we launched GitHub Copilot Free for all our users, starting a new era of possibilities. So many possibilities in fact that it can be easy to miss all the great ways you can...
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cariefisher

First up: Meet Vytautas, a screen reader user who codes in Visual Studio Code. With GitHub Copilot by his side, editing becomes faster, smoother, and more efficient 💪

For more videos please follow along, share widely, and help us spark conversations around accessibility, inclusion, and AI 💬

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How to use GitHub Copilot to edit your code [Day 1] · community · Discussion #159015

Vytautas takes GitHub Copilot with him step-by-step in the editing process of Visual Studio Code. Copilot_Accessibility_Vytautas_FINAL_Captions.mp4 This video is part of our Five ways you can use G...
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André Polykanine

@cachondo Actually, it's not, I use GitHub Copilot extensively and it helps me with lots of boilerplate code. I wish it was smarter though, but I'm sure it will come. I do have one small problem with it though for some reason: when it says "Next edit suggestion", it doesn't tell me the whole code of the next suggestion, unlike with the first suggestion it has. I'd like to see where its development goes, actually.
@Sean Randall
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Andre Louis

@cachondo @menelion As someone who is nobody's idea of a programmer, I don't use copilot admittedly but I do use AI in-general to help me with bash scripting etc. Two of the most useful are running on my Raspberry Pi's and though searching for code snippets could have aided me I suspect, having an AI write the code out for my specific usecase meant that I could look at each line and understand why something does what it does.
There is legitimately a lot of AI hate but on the other side of the coin, a lot of good uses for it.
Tailor-made scripts which might be childsplay for some of you, aren't things I think about or know how to do, so AI has been super-useful in making my wishes a reality. Nothing overcomplicated or anything, but useful none the less.
@André Polykanine @Sean Randall

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New bug posted to the bug tracker: TalkBack navigates between keyboard items instead of moving focus out of the Gboard window when swiping accessibleandroid.com/bugs/tal…

TalkBack navigates between keyboard items instead of moving focus out of the Gboard window when swiping - Accessible Android

Issue Description: When using Gboard with TalkBack, swiping right or left to navigate to the next window (e.g., to access "Submit" or "Send" buttons) causes
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