This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!
While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want.
On the completely impossible situation of blocking the Tor .onion TLD to avoid leaks, but at the same time not block it to make users able to do what they want.
@bagder Essentially, #curl commit 0ae0abbe72514a75c10bfc4108d9f254f594c086 broke updating #HardenedBSD packages for certain users who use HardenedBSD behind a fully Tor-ified network (a network that uses transparent Tor proxying).
Those users were unable to update their HardenedBSD systems since the package manager uses libcurl behind-the-scenes. Some of these users live in malicious environments (malicious to human life), with actively-exploited applications.
So, this prohibition had a real negative impact, putting our users in harm's way.
If curl had a way to bypass the prohibition, we would've been able to keep our users safe.
This is why I mention #Radicle: they, too, do not support the .onion TLD by default, but can be configured to provide that support.
Radicle has three options:
Default: No support, .onion domain lookups will fail.
SOCKS support where .onion lookups succeed.
Explicit transparent proxying support, so .onion lookups succeed
right, but you also re-introduce the problem to those who mistakenly use .onion without the proxy setup. Like the RFC tries to address... So right, you opt the other option of the two.
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Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday. As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years. In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).
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Orbit Research is excited to participate in SightCity 2025 in Frankfurt, Germany! Join us May 21–23 at Kap Europa, Booth L2.33, to explore our latest innovations in assistive technology. #SightCity2025 #OrbitResearch
Geeky stuff aside, let's enjoy the hottest friday party ever. @Marek Macko is on air again with his awesome show called #playgroundLive. #dance, #trance, a bit of #hardStyle, #eurodance, #90s and other party genres in an incredible live mix performance lasting a few hours spiced up with some random chat messages of fellow listeners and friends.
Physicists at Cornell University figured out how to chop onions without crying and the results are FASCINATING.
tl;dr chopping quickly with a blunt knife releases larger onion juice droplets at higher velocities resulting in more contact with your eyes and thus, more tears. Slower slicing with a sharp knife = less tears.
At Microsoft, our journey with accessibility started in 1995, and our commitment continues today as we work to engrain accessibility into our culture, design of products, and skilling.
Today marks 10 years since the first stable release of the Rust programming language! To commemorate this special anniversary, the Rust Foundation recently commissioned a celebratory graphic from Karen Rustad Tölva: the original graphic designer of t…
In a seismic shift for the U.S. cable industry, Charter Communications and Cox Communications, two of the nation’s largest cable providers, announced a merger agreement on Friday, valuing Cox at $34.5 billion on an enterprise basis.
Microsoft has confirmed that some Windows 10 and Windows 10 Enterprise LTSC 2021 systems will boot into BitLocker recovery after installing the May 2025 security updates.
This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!
While there’s no definitive playbook for building an accessibility culture, Dani shares lessons from his experience in shaping it through habits rather than mandates.
I keep cycling between "man, I miss MagicPoint" and "man, I should learn Beamer", and "man, I am sick of LO Impress" but then I go make a presentation, and if there is any sort of friction in including an ad-hoc diagram, I'll just get super frustrated and go back to LO Impress.
Microsoft claims that 30% of the code is already generated by AI. Why isn't it 100%. So I tried it. I "created" an application whose code is 100% generated by AI. I didn't write a single line of code. The goal was not to create some large or complex application. Simply just a test. If you are interested, the app is available on Google Play (currently not for iOS, maybe later). I may publish the source codes later, but for now only here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…
I chose a programming language in which I had never done anything. The entire code is the result of AI. 👍 Not only the code, but also any text changes were made by AI based on input requirements. I always wanted the entire file as the result, not just the part that changed.
What about my impressions? At the beginning it was very good. As the project gained in complexity, the problems grew. AI changed parts of the code that it should have kept or discarded them completely. I often had to point out completely obvious but essential precautions, etc. This means that some experience in application development or design was needed to fully develop this way.
I love #joplin so much. I find myself using it to publish long documents that I want others to read that are well formatted, but in plain HTML so can't be edited, and live on my server. Better than a PDF by far, and markdown makes including tables and other complicated layout easy. The only improvement I'd love is the ability to see how many visits a published note got. I don't need browser and IP and location and all that stuff. Just a number, so I can know if a link I shared with a single person was viewed by them.
Right now, I'm using #shlink to generate a unique URL for this purpose. So I publish a #joplin note, then put that URL into shlink, and give my person the shlink url. Then I can see if they clicked it or not. In theory, Joplin allows plugins and I could automate this workflow somehow but I have no idea how Joplin plugins actually work.
I've tried Obsidian, Silverbullet and Trilium Next, all of which had very significant accessibility issues I discovered within the first minute that made them not viable.
#Joplin was such a delight in comparison. There are minor bugs I've noticed, but nothing that prevents me from being productive. Thanks (@joplinapp for the amazing work.
The main thing I'm trying to figure out is setting up a build pipeline to export my public notes to .md and publishing it as a static site.
if you're an EU citizen please vote for the petition to ban conversion therapy in the EU eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/
its very close (19,000 left) despite looking like it was never gonna make it and its down to the wire. if you use the form method all you gotta do is put in your name and address. takes 2 minutes (maybe 4 cause the site is slow atm)
please 🙏
edit: the info required changes depending on what country you're from but if you're dutch like me the form method is super quick and easy
It’s a shame this year’s contest is bogged down in anti-Israel controversy, says Clair Woodward – the frivolous get-together should be all about the performances, not the real world
A Finnish singer Erika Vikman is on the Eurovision stage yesterday evening. She is standing on a prop that is a huge golden microphone, and is on seven meters high. The pyros start to come out from the other end of the microphone, but there's something wrong with it, and there happens an explosion as well, and she's right next to it.
Ooooh! Professional, indeed. I was at one concert in a very small room, and all of a sudden in the middle of a song a lightbulb went BANGGGG! And the musicians continued literally as nothing happened, not a single glitch. I was impressed.
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Open Document Format (ODF) is the native format of #LibreOffice – and can be used by many other office apps too. Learn how it compares to Microsoft's formats and what the future holds: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
An introduction to the Open Document Format The documents we create today, whether reports, spreadsheets or presentations, are essential for communicating, sharing and storing knowledge.
Helder artikel over voordelen van ODF, o.a. 'Documents should belong to their authors, not to a software vendor through the file format used. In the case of a country, documents should belong to its citizens. ODF is the only effective way to regain control and ensure that data remains open, accessible and future-proof. ODF embodies the principles of digital freedom, collaboration, and user empowerment.' 👇
Helder artikel van @libreoffice over voordelen van ODF, o.a. 'Documents should belong to their authors, not to a software vendor through the file format used. In the case of a country, documents should belong to its citizens. ODF is the only effective way to regain control and ensure that data remains open, accessible and future-proof. ODF embodies the principles of digital freedom, collaboration, and user empowerment.'
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Please, everyone who wants to check if we have reached the threshhold of 1 million signatures (Update: we have :) on the "ban conversion therapy" initiative, use this link:
It's ugly, but it gives you the number you are looking for without putting extra load on the servers by avoiding all the pretty UI etc from being downloaded. Leave the full page to those who want to sign! Deal? :)
This PR removes some guards around IDN which were causing punycode encoded domains starting with www (or anything other than xn-- to fail the conversion. Removing the if statement allows libcurl to...
If the web has really reduced to the state where people are actively trying to persuade you from running services yourself, we really have utterly fucked it all up.
Yes, run your own mail server (go get @mwl 's book on it). Yes run your own DNS, stop leaking all your look ups to clownfair or Google). Yes control your software supply chain.
And definitely host your own git repo (with forjo or similar)
Stop centralisation of the decentralised web and internet.
Guy runs a hosting startup, so I'm not surprised. This sort of 'advice' has been going around in startup circles for a very, very long time, unfortunately...
The people giving this advice also invariably have extremely limited (and often no) experience with self-hosting things, and systematically overestimate the difficulty of Linux administration tasks, and *underestimate* the difficulty of interacting with SaaS/PaaS APIs and dashboards.
It's like the people arguing "AWS makes hosting so much simpler than running your own servers" and then hiring specialized "AWS engineers", ie. sysadmins who can only work with vendor-specific systems...
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