Ars chats with series creators Paul and Chris Weitz about adapting Martha Wells’ book series for TV.Jennifer Ouellette (Ars Technica)
zbus recently passed 20 million unique downloads on crates.io. 🎉 With downloads peaking consistently on weekdays (reaching to 70K on some days) and dropping drastically on the weekends, it's very obvious that most of this use is commercial.
So if you or your company relies on zbus, please consider sponsoring my work. 🙏 Resharing of this message would also help.
Use & love zbus and/or want to see busd become mainstream? You could help!GitHub
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Once upon a time, a blonde became so sick of hearing blonde jokes that she had her hair cut and dyed brown. A few days later, as she was out driving around
the countryside, she stopped her car to let a flock of sheep pass.
Admiring the cute wooly creatures, she said to the shepherd, "If I can guess how many sheep you have, can I take one?"
The shepherd, always the gentleman, said, "Sure!" The blonde thought for a moment and, for no discernible reason, said, "352."
This being the correct number, the shepherd was, understandably, totally amazed, and exclaimed, "You're right! O.K., I'll keep to my end of the deal. Take
your pick of my flock."
The blonde carefully considered the entire flock and finally picked the one that was by far cuter and more playful than any of the others.
When she was done, the shepherd turned to her and said, "O.K., now I have a proposition for you. If I can guess your true hair color, can I have my dog
back?"
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It's taken us a while, but we're finally able to continue work on documenting how to use the #WordPress block editor with a screen reader. Everything has been updated to include both Windows and Mac keystrokes, and has been tested with the latest versions of WordPress, Jaws for Windows, NVDA, and VoiceOver for the Mac, along with Firefox and Chrome.
Part 1: customerservant.com/block-edit…
Part 2: customerservant.com/block-edit…
John and I hope this material is useful!
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I ran a quick SFTP performance test with #curl built to use #libssh 0.11.1 vs one built that uses #libssh2 1.11.1 over a 400ms latency connection.
One of them managed to perform this at 1049K/sec, the other reached only 249K/sec.
And the winner is...
libssh2
Funny detail: I sped it up for this kind of use case **fifteen years ago** and blogged about it: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/12/08…
SFTP, the SSH File Transfer Protocol, is a misleading name. It gives you the impression that it might be something like a secure version of FTP, perhaps something like FTPS but modeled over SSH instead of SSL.daniel.haxx.se
@aris @cryptomilk I went down this rabbit hole after a customer reported performance problems using sftp. And they use a curl built with libssh.
Not saying switching to libssh2 would be an improvement enough for them though.
Neat little MNT Pocket Reform hack:
When I launch a root shell, the keyboard backlight turns bright red and it return to my default pale green when I exit the danger zone again.
It works using the command listed here: codeberg.org/selfawaresoup/uni…
I put the one for the red color in root's .bashrc and the one for returning to the default color in root's .bash_logout.
Gray’s Music: Over the Telegraph
Inventor of the telephone Elisha Gray also pioneered the world’s first purpose-built electric musical instrument.
By: Matthew Wills
daily.jstor.org/grays-music-ov…
"France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations"
👉 unite.un.org/en/news/france-be…
The 8 UN #OpenSource principles:
1. Open by default
2. Contribute back
3. Secure by design
4. Foster inclusive participation and community building
5. Design for reusability
6. Provide documentation
7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower)
8. Sustain and scale
cc @ambnum @numerique_gouv
The United Nations Open Source United community is proud to announce a major milestone: The Government of the French Republic became the first national government to endorse the UN Open SourceOffice of Information and Communications Technology
Happy #curl inspired Swisscom to add a "disclose your use of AI" to their bug-bounty program:
github.com/swisscom/bugbounty?…
Swisscom Vulnerability Disclosure Policy & Bug Bounty Programme - swisscom/bugbountyGitHub
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💡 Why we need lisp machines
｢ They were programmed in lisp the whole way down and could be run code interpreted for convenience or compiled to microcode for efficiency. You could open up system functions in the editor, modify and compile them while the machine was running. Everything worked in a single address space, programs could talk to each other in ways operating systems of today couldn’t dream of ｣
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.bbb.metalab.at
Feeling overwhelmed by endless scrolling and digital noise? 😵💫📱
In our latest guide discover how digital minimalism can help you reclaim your time so that you can focus on what truly matters.
👉 tuta.com/blog/what-is-digital-…
#DigitalMinimalism #MindfulTech #DeclutterYourLife
If you want to stop spending hours doom-scrolling TikTok or are tired of reading negative news on Facebook practicing digital minimalism is what you need, and you’re in the right place.Tuta
This week's In-process Blog post is out! A bumper edition, featuring:
- NVDA in Open-Source Promotion Plan
- NVDA 2025.1 Beta 6
- Timings for the .1 Release
- NVDA Remote Access
- Other “Remote” add-onsv
Head to nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… and check it out now!
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Newsletter #Beta #PreRelease #FOSS #Free
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NVDA Add-ons central discussion and coordination forumnvda-addons.groups.io
Prozess gegen Deutsche Bahn wegen DB Navigator App beginnt
tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter…
Die Bahn verwendet also Crashlytics, um (checks notes) Abstürze zu VERHINDERN? Wow, DAS Feature kannte ich noch gar nicht. Ebenso wenig die Nutzung von Adobe zur VERMEIDUNG von Lastspitzen...
Datenschützer werfen der Bahn Verstöße gegen die Datenschutzgrundverordnung vor. Die App DB Navigator sammle zu viele Daten der Nutzer und leite sie an Unternehmen wie Google und Adobe weiter.tagesschau.de
The Open Web Index goes public on June 6!
For over two years OpenWebSearch.eu has worked on a federated pan-European Open Web Index to promote independent web search. In June @openwebsearcheu will make almost a petabyte (and growing) of open web data available to anyone who is interested.
Join the kick-off event to learn how to access and use the Open Web index.
openwebsearch.eu/june-event-an…
After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI).ows.eu Team (OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search)
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'Impossible' to create a decent media library on my salary without copyrighted material, Angie says.
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NVDA 2025.1 Beta 6 is now available!
Read the full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…
Changes introduced in Beta 6:
- Updates to translations
- Fix for the COM registration fixing tool: don’t run when cancelling with alt+f4
- Minor fix for SAPI 4 voices
- Fix for Braille display detection
- Minor improvements to the user experience of Remote Access
Please continue to test and give feedback via GitHub!
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #PreRelease #News #ScreenReader #Accessibility
Yet another #recall
“Publix, one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains, has voluntarily recalled pouches of baby food sold in its stores after routine testing found it may be contaminated with lead, according to the company.”
nytimes.com/2025/05/18/busines…
The voluntary recall was prompted after routine testing. It is the second such recall recently of baby food over possible lead contamination.Mark Walker (The New York Times)
Apple plans to mostly stop announcing new features more than a few months before they are ready to launch, according to Bloomberg's Mark Gurman...Joe Rossignol (MacRumors.com)
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Stakes have never been this high in Romania's post-communist history, as Romanians voted in a crucial and polarised presidential election runoff on Sunday, in which centrist Nicușor Dan faced nationalist George Simion.Euronews (Euronews.com)
The Republican House unveiled their devastating cuts to Medicaid this week, and it’s going about as well as you’d expect.The Big Picture
Turns out you can social-engineer a Trezor with a $15 Home Depot wrench. Welcome to Proof-of-Pain. https://archive.is/PJTZPInfosec Exchange
From the new album ‘Everybody Needs A Hero’, download / buy / listen here: https://orla.ffm.to/bioVisualiser By Flower UpCreative Direction By Greta Isaac an...YouTube
Good news: The FDA finally approved the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine.
Bad news: There are new restrictions that will create lots of problems for people who want to get the Novavax Covid-19 vaccine.
Also, issuing vaccine access restrictions based on risk profile makes it confusing about who qualifies, and many people who would otherwise get the vaccine may not try because they think they don't qualify.
Novavax and other Covid-19 vaccines should be approved for everyone.
While working on a project I stumbled upon some oddities with the pwhash APIs. Particularly, I was wpad.gnome.org
Chafa 1.16.0 is out. Share and enjoy!
github.com/hpjansson/chafa/rel…
This is a feature release with lots of additional polish and some new API. Thanks to everyone who chipped in with issues and code. Special thanks to @AnonymouX47 for helping out with the grid imple...GitHub
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