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@trendless because COVID vaccines won't be paid by the federal government anymore, Québec will recommend 75+ instead of 60+ next year due to their cost/efficiency calculation. Too expensive! Younger people don't die enough!

We're all going to need so much more healthcare later...

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COVID-19 | Des vaccins pour les 75 ans et plus, selon le Comité sur l’immunisation du Québec

Pour une première fois, le gouvernement québécois doit payer les vaccins contre la COVID-19 administrés lors de la campagne vaccinale automnale.
La Presse
@trendless

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TORSERV: Host a Static Website on the Dark Web in Under 1 Minute

"Hosting a Tor hidden service — also known as an onion site — typically requires in-depth technical skills and manual configuration. With TorServ, you can host a static website anonymously in seconds, without touching any config files."


This software deserves some attention. It could be useful for at-risk people who need to publish while protecting identity.

#TorServ #TOR #Onions #OnionNetwork #Privacy #Anonymity

@selfhosting@a.gup.pe
@infosec@a.gup.pe
@linux@a.gup.pe
@networks@a.gup.pe
@crypto@a.gup.pe
@darknet@a.gup.pe
@privacy@a.gup.pe
@infostorm@a.gup.pe

Two slices of red onion stacked one atop the other. The onion symbolizes TOR, The Onion Network, and its multiple layers of cryptographic obfuscation.
@selfhosting group @linux group @Infosec group @crypto group @networks group @privacy group @infostorm group @darknet group

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🆕 blog! “How long does it take to upgrade an eBook?”

The older I get, the more comfortable I become with complaining. Not merely moaning on social media, but writing a direct email to the perpetrator of some annoyance.

I'd purchased an eBook and was appalled by how crappy the accessibility was. If you don't know, modern ePub books are just HTML…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/how-l…
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#a11y #accessibility #books #ebook #ebooks

#a11y #Accessibility #books #eBooks #eBook
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Danny Boling ☮️

If you'll add this #AltText4You then I won't have to steal your meme to repost it 😉

Black text on a white background says:

"You say you're after criminals - yet you come without warrants.

You call us lazy - yet you arrest us at work.

You say we don't contribute - yet you track us through our taxes.

You call us illegal - yet you seize us at our hearings.

Maybe this isn't justice after all.
Maybe you're just white supremacists."

#alttext4you

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Now up on the OSHWA site! Our third Healthware Highlight exploring the ways that MakeGood INC is working with 3D printing and accessible design with folks with disabilities. They can do incredible things with the support of community and being engaged with person first design work! Check it out here: oshwa.org/announcements/health…
the open healthware logo stacked on the MakeGood logo

Healthware Highlight: MakeGood Inc

Open Source Hardware Association
oshwa.org

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Maybe... and I'm just throwing this out there... maybe, don't steal? #AI industry horrified to face largest #copyright #classaction ever certified: arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20… #AIBS

AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified

Copyright class actions could financially ruin AI industry, trade groups say.
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
#copyright #AI #aibs #classaction

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New Job Alert: @tdforg is seeking a @libreoffice developer to improve the user interface of the popular open source office suite. Learn more on #OSJH
opensourcejobhub.com/job/26232…
#LibreOffice #developer #RemoteWork #OpenSource #career #jobs #FOSS #UI #macOS #TDF
LibreOffice / The Document Foundation logo

LibreOffice developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) (Remote)

Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.
Open Source JobHub
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #ui #developer #jobs #MACOS #remotework #career #tdf #osjh @LibreOffice @The Document Foundation
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Discussions about digital sovereignty are 🔥

Which countries lead the way?

@nextcloud created an Index ranking countries based on the relative presence of self-hosted tools across key application areas.

1. Finland 🇫🇮
2. Germany 🇩🇪
3. The Netherlands 🇳🇱

dsi.nextcloud.com/index.php

Digital Sovereignty Index

Discover the Digital Sovereignty Index (DSI): a global snapshot of visible, self-hosted infrastructure. Is your country digitally autonomous.
dsi.nextcloud.com
@Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

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😡 "A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — & the Canadian govt isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future. …

Quebec-based GardaWorld, which has reportedly been awarded a US$8-million contract for work on the U.S. detention site, has also been awarded > $100 million in Canadian government contracts since Carney won the Liberal leadership in March …"

- Rachel Gilmore in @thetyee
mstdn.ca/@thetyee/114993478472…

The Tyee

2025-08-08 13:53:51

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“This wishy-washy stance when it comes to jaw-dropping cruelty tied to the U.S. is yet another stroke in an increasingly clear portrait: one of PM Mark Carney with his elbows firmly planted to his sides when it comes to big business.”

@r.gilmore’s first column with The Tyee.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/08/…



The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee

Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.
Rachel Gilmore (The Tyee)

@The Tyee

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“This wishy-washy stance when it comes to jaw-dropping cruelty tied to the U.S. is yet another stroke in an increasingly clear portrait: one of PM Mark Carney with his elbows firmly planted to his sides when it comes to big business.”

@r.gilmore’s first column with The Tyee.

thetyee.ca/Opinion/2025/08/08/…


The Canadian Company Staffing ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ | The Tyee

Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.
Rachel Gilmore (The Tyee)
@Rachel Gilmore

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Trump’s tariffs are bringing in tens of billions a month. What’s the government doing with all that money? - CNN apple.news/A6TBEs7dcRfqhJH8Hul…

Trump’s tariffs are bringing in tens of billions of dollars a month. What’s the government doing with all that money? — CNN

Hardly a day goes by without President Donald Trump boasting about the record tariff revenue the US government has been collecting since he ratcheted up taxes on almost every imported good.
apple.news

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ICYMI: earlier this week I wrote a blog post disclosing my tech stack… arguing that anyone who writes about technology should be transparent about the tools they use.

TL;DR: I’m doing well on the software front. Hardware? Not so much: 🍎

🔗: news.elenarossini.com/technofe…

Well, a few hours after publishing it, Tim Cook’s latest capitulation to the Authoritarian-in-Chief made front page news everywhere.

I can safely say my next laptop will be from @frameworkcomputer

#resist


In this age of technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to Big Tech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine

Let's normalize sharing the tech we use - and the platforms we purposefully avoid. I'm sharing my tech stack in this post to let you judge for yourselves if I'm "walking the talk" when I discuss resistance to Big Tech.
Elena Rossini
#resist @Framework

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Your inbox should be as private as your practice.

We had the privilege to chat with Matthias Baenz, a seasoned tax lawyer about why secure communication is non-negotiable in the legal field, and why he chose Tuta to protect his clients’ confidentiality.

🔐 Read the full story: tuta.com/blog/interview-why-ta…

#Tuta #LegalTech #PrivacyFirst #SecureEmail #ClientConfidentiality

Image of Matthias Baenz with a quote, "All lawyers have a special duty to ensure that the client is not put at risk to data leaks, unintentional access, or publication of data.This can only be ensured through genuine, encrypted communication like Tuta Mail.”

“Encrypted communication is not an optional extra, but a duty" | Tuta

An interview with tax lawyer, Matthias Baenz about security, responsibility, and client trust.
Tuta
#privacyfirst #tuta #secureemail #legaltech #clientconfidentiality
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DonBahno 👨🏻‍💻🥦🍀🇪🇺🏴‍☠️

Netušil jsem, že Svijany dělají nealko. Jednu dobu dělali slušné pivo, ale údajně to šlo poslední dobou do kopru. Navíc majitel je babišonek. denikn.cz/644208/majitel-pivov…

Majitel pivovaru: Do Babiše jsme vkládali velké naděje, ale systém ho semlel. Schillerovou mám rád

Pivovar Svijany hlásí kvůli pandemii ztráty v desítkách milionů korun, jeho majitel Tomáš Kučera ale věří, že v dlouhodobém horizontu je to jen „malinkatá etapa“.
Renata Kalenská (Deník N)

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Now that my one joke post about how there are only seven posts on LinkedIn has comfortably done better numbers than everything else I'd ever put on that godforsaken cringe factory of a website combined, I can only conclude that what people really want from LinkedIn is a momentary respite from LinkedIn.

mastodon.social/@mhoye/1149602…

mhoye (@mhoye@mastodon.social)

There are only seven Linkedin posts: “My pre-literate child accidentally microdosed on an adversity. Did they react like a normal human infant? No! They said something suspiciously adult. Here’s what it taught me about b2b sales.
Mastodon
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Thib

my uneducated guess is that people want to get some form of recognition they don’t get at work (or elsewhere?) and treat LinkedIn praise as transactional. If I like their post, surely they will like mine?

There’s also the fact that your boss is in the room. They will see who and what you like, and what you write.

LinkedIn has the same vibe as the watercooler in the company of The All Seeing Eye or Sauron.

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#GNOME #Desktop #a11y:
Über Fortschritte bei der #Barrierefreiheit berichtet @ktn@social.heise.de von der @gnome@floss.social Konferenz.

heise.de/news/Linux-Desktop-Gn…
#OpenSource #Linux


Linux-Desktop Gnome: Zwischen Finanznöten und technischem Fortschritt

Trotz prekärer Finanzlage organisierte die Gnome Stiftung ein Entwicklerinnen- und Entwicklertreffen in Italien, um über die Zukunft des Projektes zu beraten.
Keywan Tonekaboni (heise online)
#a11y #linux #opensource #gnome #desktop #barrierefreiheit @GNOME @Keywan Tonekaboni

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I sometimes think about text-to-speech in comparison to visual text rendering. For the latter, there's a whole suite of different solutions, from segmented LCDs (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Segmente…) to monospace bitmap fonts to proportional vector (e.g. TrueType) fonts. And somewhere in the current genAI boom, I'm sure someone is generating something that looks like handwriting. But in TTS, the industry largely jumped to generating human-sounding speech from human voices as soon as they could.

Segmented liquid-crystal display - Wikipedia

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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Paul Hudson

@nuno_nuno I'll be adding accessibility support for VoiceOver, Switch Control, Voice Control, Reduce Motion, and more, but – and this is a massive but – it will never be a great VoiceOver experience. Some tasks are things like "look through 500 lines of binary gibberish to find GPS coordinates at the end," and I don't think that can be exposed to VoiceOver in any meaningful way.
@Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱

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Random pop song that just popped in my head: "Try" by Pink. youtube.com/watch?v=yTCDVfMz15… Not anything particularly special, just that a random phrase made me think of it, and I think it's a good song.

P!nk - Try (Official Video)

Official Video for "Try" by P!nkListen to P!nk: https://Pink.lnk.to/listenYDSubscribe to the official P!nk YouTube channel: https://Pink.lnk.to/subscribeYDWa...
YouTube

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400 years to Proxima Centauri means velocity of roughly 1% of c. To accelerate to that, then decelerate, takes energy on the order of 1-2% of the ship's rest mass.

Ship is 36 miles (50km) long.

So it obviously masses many gigatonnes (1 cubic kilometer of water—0.15 the density of steel—masses 1 billion tonnes). Conservatively this masses 10-100gt.

Fusion bomb yield is about 2% of the payload mass. Our current 10,000 H-bombs probably contain 1000kg of fuel.

/1
spacey.space/@nyrath/114992789…

Winchell Chung ⚛🚀 (@nyrath@spacey.space)

https://www.livescience.com/space/space-exploration/proposed-spacecraft-could-carry-up-to-2-400-people-on-a-one-way-trip-to-the-nearest-star-system-alpha-centauri
Spacey Space
in reply to Charlie Stross

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Charlie Stross

@nyrath Upshot: I think this thing will take 100-1000 years of our current worldwide civilizational energy budget to propel.

And at the other end? Congratulations: a colony of 2400 people is at least 3 orders of magnitude too small to sustain a self-training technology base able to service an autonomous space colony. (Because resupply with finished products is impossible at that range.)

TLDR: magic wands or scientific breakthroughs required.

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@Winchell Chung ⚛🚀
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This is what 5 years of reforestation looks like ✨

Once cleared for a palm oil monoculture, this forest is now lush and diverse again.

Together with Leuser Conservation Forum, we’re restoring the Leuser ecosystem in Indonesia — supporting natural regeneration and planting native trees with local communities.

5 years of progress, powered by the Ecosia community 💚

#trees #reforestation #regreening

A before after image with 4 photos showing increased forest cover.
#trees #reforestation #regreening

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Looking for a new job? Got experience with C++? Join the #LibreOffice team: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Banner saying to join the LibreOffice team as a paid developer, focusing on the UI, with an initial emphasis on macOS

Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on UI with initial emphasis on macOS, preferably full-time, remote (m/f/d) - The Document Foundation Blog

Love LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice.
Ilmari Lauhakangas (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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Le Monolecte 😷🤬🐧

Intéressant : réadapter l'interface utilisateur avec les concepts Apple… Ça pourrait effectivement améliorer l'ergonomie, parce que calquer sur MS Office est un non sens ergonomique global (c'est fou que MS Office soit si populaire alors que son interface est une torture) (bon d'accord : c'est surtout parce que MS Office est imposé aux utilisateurs et que les pauvres n'ont jamais connu autre chose que cet instrument de torture !)

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Just read @glyph's latest: blog.glyph.im/2025/08/the-best… and this part triggered a thread on my own experiences of reading with low vision:

> when you read a block of text, you are not consciously moving your eyes from word to word like you’re dragging a mouse cursor, repositioning continuously.

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Deciphering Glyph :: The Best Line Length

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
blog.glyph.im
@Glyph

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"…but the children!" they scream, and claim they want to protect them from e.g. Transgender folks. Now, someone run stats on a full year of child abuse cases. Interesting that those who scream have a pretty high number of cases – while those they want to protect them from, seem to have none at all.

whoismakingnews.com/

Projection? "Every accusation is a confession" shows pretty clearly there.

(unfortunately, that site depends on several Google services to show the graphs 😢)


Who's Making News?

Tracking News Reporting of Sex Crimes Against Minors
Who's Making News
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Matt Campbell

> when you read a block of text, you are not consciously moving your eyes from word to word like you’re dragging a mouse cursor, repositioning continuously.

When I read visually, I have to get my head close enough to the screen or page that I do in fact move it continuously back and forth. Or if I were to use a screen magnifier at a zoom level high enough that I could lean back, I would in fact be literally moving the mouse back and forth, or perhaps doing equivalent keyboard commands.

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