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Happy #CanadaDay. I figured, it might be fun to share this #CanadaLand episode where one of the McKenzie brothers explains the role #CanCon played in helping #Canada get a reputation of saying "eh?" David Thomas does a great job explaining the history of #SCTV — funny how culture comes into being. Welcome to the Great White North!

canadaland.com/podcast/1164-da…


#1164 Dave Thomas of SCTV on Why Canadians Rule Comedy

 Dan Aykroyd blew in from Ottawa.  Andrea Martin came in from Maine and Joe Flaherty came in from Pittsburgh. Paul Schaffer came in from Thunder Bay. Marty Short and Eugene Levy and I came in from Hamilton.
Canadaland
#canada #canadaland #canadaday #cancon #sctv

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Reminder: Please join us for our monthly webinar scheduled for tonight, Tuesday, July 1 at 7:00 PM Eastern Time. We’ll be demonstrating the new Podcasts app which is included in the newest BT Speak update. You will also have a chance to ask questions and provide feedback to the team at Blazie Technologies.
We might even have some breaking news about the upcoming BT Braille!!
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Today I got to speak at the accessible banking conference in Brussels, organised by the European Blind Union and AccessibleEU, on a panel about making banking services actually work for everyone. I was joined by @ErikGustafsson and @DanielGoransson from #AxessLab, Hendrik Bourgeois from #Mastercard, and moderator Anna Martin from #BEUC.
Axess Lab kicked things off with a fantastic demo of a public touchscreen that starts speaking as soon as you explore it with your finger. That alone could solve a lot of the problems blind people face with lockers, kiosks, and terminals that currently rely only on visuals.
We talked about how inaccessible systems aren’t just annoying–they’re risky. If you have to tell your PIN to someone else just to pay, something’s seriously wrong. Another strong point was that accessibility isn’t something you can just add on at the end–it has to be part of how teams work, from product design to customer support. Otherwise, it just doesn’t stick well.
A view from behind of a conference room full of people. At the front of the room, several speakers are visible on stage, seated at the table with microphones, water bottles, and name tags in front of them. Behind the speakers, a large projection screen displays a close-up of Jakob speaking, along with a small window showing a sign language interpreter. Next to the screen is a banner for “European Accessibility Centre” and recognizable branding from the European Union. To the left side of the image, there is a large screen displaying real-time closed captions, In the foreground, a technical control station is set up with multiple computer monitors, keyboards, a switcher, and other audiovisual equipment spread across a long desk. The two central monitors display multiple live camera feeds of the event, including close-ups of speakers, wide shots of the panel and audience, and a view featuring the sign language interpreter. To the right, a laptop is running captioning software, showing the current captions that are being displayed both for in-room screens and remote viewers. Technical cables and small equipment are neatly arranged, with a water bottle.
#mastercard #axesslab #beuc @Erik Gustafsson Spagnoli @Daniel Göransson

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 20 updated and 2 added apps:

* TaskManager: a tool for Android inspired by the Gnome system monitor 🛡️
* Voice: a simple, minimal audiobook player 🛡️

5 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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Náš open-source podpisovač Autogram dostal natívnu podporu pre českú eObčanku.

Hľadáme testerov (a používateľov)! github.com/slovensko-digital/a…


Release v2.5.0 · slovensko-digital/autogram

What's Changed Add detected drivers to /info endpoint by @jsuchal in #603 GET /certificates endpoint by @celuchmarek in #607 Custom TL sync strategy to validate tsl signature by @celuchmarek in #6...
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This is ingenious! More companies—especially web hosting companies—should offer this feature.

👉🏾 #Cloudflare will now block #AI crawlers by default theverge.com/news/695501/cloud…

I wonder if there is a #WordPress plugin for this‽ It would be great if #WriteFreely & #Ghost offered this feature as well.


Cloudflare will now block AI crawlers by default

Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.
Emma Roth (The Verge)
#wordpress #writefreely #AI #cloudflare #ghost

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Vznika tu mezidruhove pratelstvi? Chysta se souboj? Podeli se orel s orlosupem o mrsinu mysi v soudruzskem sdileni? Nebo si jenom stezuji na velikost klece, partnerstvo, a holubi provokujici orla v krmitku naproti klecim?

Rozuzleni prijde vzapeti. Orel zautoci a potvrdi dominanci ciste rasy. Orlosup je vyhnan na druhou stranu klece a na mrsinu si muze nechat zajit chut. Tady je svet jeste v poradku.

#lbc #liberec #zoo #orel #orlosup

Orel a orlosup vedle sebe na zemi. Mezi nimi je mriz klece.
Orlosup v kleci, vedle bazenku. V pozadi je orel ve druhe kleci.
#liberec #lbc #zoo #orel #orlosup

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@gnome I just noticed the disability pride flag in the profile picture, I didn't expect it but I love it! Especially as I know it's important for many members of our community, like myself.

Despite the accessibility issues of our project and despite misinformed critics (I have no issue with informed critics), I know we are actively working on better accessibility, and that it's particularly implemented by disabled members of the GNOME community.

@GNOME

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Airacast: Convention Time!

July means it’s time to hit the road for the conventions of the American Council of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind. Jenine Stanley and Everette Bacon go over everything you’ll need to know from traveling to and from Dallas and New Orleans to where we are in the respective exhibit halls and when you can catch our workshops, plus a convention deal from the Customer Care team. But wait! There’s more! It’s “Aira on the Go!” With our Q3 Giveaway. Find out what you could win just by using one of our transportation-related offers.

Listen Now🎧: pnc.st/s/airacast/7e808010/con…

Questions or comments about this podcast? Email us at airacast@aira.io.
Learn more about visual interpreting at www.aira.io.

Check out the ACB National Conference and Convention at acbconvention.org.
Check out the NFB convention at nfb.org/convention.

Convention Time!

Episode Notes Airacast July 2025 Convention Time! July means it’s time to hit the road for the conventions of the American Council of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind.
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There's some slightly confusing messaging on Freedom Scientific's convention specials page.
vispero.com/events/acb-2025/
It states:
" 10% off all Home Annual Licenses and Home Time-Based SMA s"

For kicks, I called FS to see if there was a chance that I could renew my license a day earlier before the discounts kick in. The salesperson I spoke withh was very nice but said that this was for new license purchasers. I thought I missed this but their Web site clearly does not indicate this and I really believe that it should if this is the case.
He said that I could purchase a new license but this would change my serial number. Many JAWS users wouldn't care if their serial number changed if it meant getting a license at a discount. However, I have lots of third party software from Hartgen Consultancy that is tied to my current serial number. I know I could ask Hartgen Consultancy if they could substitute my old serial number with the new one but I might have to do the same thing again in a year if FS only offers discounts for new license purchases.
I told the salesperson, who again was extremely nice and very professional, that I wasn't going to quibble over a 10% discount but I suggested that they change the messaging on their Web site to reflect this to avoid calls from upset users who will be unable to renew their home annual license at the discounted price. I told him that I personally felt that they should honor it based on their Web site's messaging but that I wasn't willing to get into a fight over around a $10.00 discount. Other users will, however, and FS really needs to look at this.
The bottom line is that either their Convention Specials Web page should indicate that this discount is for new purchases of a Home Annual license or they should allow current Home Annual license holders to renew with the discounted price if they won't change the messaging on the Web page.

@freedomscientific


ACB 2025 - Vispero

ACB 2025 Convention Activity Schedule Vispero is delighted to be a sponsor and exhibitor at the 2025 ACB National Convention! We’re looking forward to connecting with you in Dallas, TX! Be sure to check the ACB Convention website for information on r…
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@Freedom Scientific / Vispero
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Celeste, AKA DJ Celrock!

I agree with everything you're saying here about the Home Annual License. I feel as of late, from what it seems, Freedom Scientific hasn't been very good at communicating all of the details about their products, in small fine print on their website, if you get what I'm saying, and in a way, this is only an opinion, but that's bad for business.
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Does anyone happen to know what values I'd put in an `upgrade` HTTP response header when sending an HTTP 426 to tell a client that it needs to upgrade to TLS 1.2 or 1.3?

The HTTP spec says "The server *MUST* send an Upgrade header"
httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#…

...but I can't find any examples. The `upgrade` spec says the format of the value is `protocol-name ["/" protocol-version]` - so presumably e.g. `TLS/1.3`?
httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#…

It won't work for old clients obv but...trying to be correct.


RFC9110

HTTP Semantics
IETF HTTP Working Group Specifications
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Neil Craig

@bagder @SimmerVigor Agreed. We're doing a trial of retiring TLS 1.0 & 1.1 which is a soft disabling - We'll return a custom error page with info & a path to contact us for any requests to our websites over 1.0 or 1.1.
Obv this means we complete the HTTP request/response which gives us the opportunity to be more helpful to the client. TBH, until our TLS lib removes 1.0/1.1 it *could* stay like this. I'm basically just trying to "bring the audience with us" as far as possible.
@daniel:// stenberg:// @Lucas Pardue

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The progress bars in F-Droid's new design look odd. Did some research into the material 3 spec and why there's a strange blue dot at the end: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient…

Maybe someone wants to improve the colour choices here?

Screenshot of F-Droid Client showing an update being downloaded for Fennec. The progress bar is coloured in blue for the downloaded part, green for the yet to be downloaded part and then again blue for what I learned to be called a stop indicator in the material 3 spec.

Update elements layout issues (#2995) · Issues · F-Droid / Client · GitLab

Device OS and version: Lineage 22.1 Device model/manufacturer: Fairphone 4 F-Droid version (in the About screen): 1.23.0-alpha0 F-Droid privileged extension version (if...
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the ban hammer strikes again as the slop counter increases...

hackerone.com/reports/3231321


curl disclosed on HackerOne: HTTP Proxy Bypass via...

### **Summary** A logic flaw in `libcurl` version **8.14.1** allows an attacker to bypass restrictive HTTP proxy firewalls by "tunneling" an arbitrary HTTP verb within a `CONNECT` request. By...
HackerOne
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Gregory

this one reminds me of the "vulnerability reports" we would sometimes get when I worked at Telegram. Where someone would claim that it's a severe vulnerability that messages, including ones from secret chats, are stored unencrypted in a database that is only accessible on rooted/jailbroken devices. And that was before AI. People would write these by hand and never stop to think it through.

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TIL about Nagashi Somen

"... As temperatures increase across Japan, residents and tourists in the western region of Okayama are embracing a delightful and traditional way to cool down, Nagashi Somen, a treasured summer ritual in Japan.

In the lovely Yamanori Valley of Maniwa City, a restaurant with over 40 years of history has reopened for the season, offering guests the chance to enjoy Nagashi Somen.

These thin wheat noodles flow down a bamboo conduit filled with icy spring water. Diners use chopsticks to catch the noodles as they pass by, dip them in a savoury broth or a thin soup, and gulp them down in true Japanese fashion."

Person holding a clump of cold noodles over a half bamboo slide in a restaurant setting
Zoom out we see people sitting at benches/tables in front of the noodle slides

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🚨 Gmail ads aren’t just annoying - they may be illegal. 🚨

Google could pay €525M for breaking privacy laws.
👉 tuta.com/blog/gmail-ads-annoyi…

This is a BIG WIN for #privacy 🔒💥

What's your reason for having switched to Tuta?

Gmail vs Tuta 1. Google tracks you. We don't. 2. Google knows you inside out. We don't. 3. Google in the US versus us in Germany. 4. Google's profit maximization versus our passion for privacy.

Gmail ads are not just annoying: Google is now facing a record fine in France! | Tuta

Google may have violated your privacy and is now facing the consequences: a 525 million euro fine.
Tuta
#privacy

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Signal on desktop flickers and makes me feel ill, but they won't do anything about it. Workaround is to use a cli flag, but I don't use it from cli? Really want Signal to go mainstream but hard to recommend

github.com/signalapp/Signal-De…


Mac - weird screen flicker possibly related to HDR images

Using a supported version? I have searched searched open and closed issues for duplicates. I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package. Overall summary Signal ...
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