Inspired by the BBC Tech report from @tdp_org, I looked at Wikipedia.

Yesterday, Wikipedia received over 45 million requests made with curl, from 113 distinct curl releases.

Of these, 32 million use the default UA (e.g. curl CLI). The other 13 million embed libcurl with a longer UA string containing curl (e.g. GuzzleHttp/PHP, PycURL, UnityPlayer)

At 12 million, most are curl/7.88.1.

Raw data, queries, and scrub/cleaning parameters:
gitlab.wikimedia.org/-/snippet…

#browserstats #curl #wikipedia

With how often I've yelled at abusive Google behaviour and its risk without anyone really caring, especially for the first round of their dev doxxing by forcefully showing everyone's legal name on the Google Play Store (forcing some trans people to choose between pulling their app(s) down or being forcefully outed and deadnamed), I feel quite tired to even consider yelling again but...

We really should not allow Google to deanonymize every single app dev: arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year

Google says it’s no different than checking IDs at the airport.

^{Ryan Whitwam (Ars Technica)}

NV Access is very pleased to announce an update to our highly-praised "Microsoft Excel with NVDA" training module!

This extensive rewrite includes new topics like Pivot Tables, plus bonus topics & more.

Purchase it on its own: nvaccess.org/product/microsoft…

Or in the NVDA Productivity Bundle: nvaccess.org/product/nvda-prod…

Previous purchases: nvaccess.org/my-account/downlo…

Thanks for all feedback!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Microsoft #MicrosoftExcel #Excel #SpreadSheets #MicrosoftOffice #Office365

Que gran descubrimiento de este programa, principalmente música contemporanea africana.

🥰

audio.urcm.net/spip.php?page=a…

Join us once more for the Reaper Made Easy Q&A. Saturday, August 30th, 3PM Eastern, 8PM UK

Hey all, it's that time again.

As summer, for most of us, moves toward fall...

Oh no! Let's not talk about that. Forget I said anything. Summer is forever, right?

What I'm actually here for is to remind you of our monthly Live Q&A meetup.
Join Scott and Jenny K on Saturday. for I'm Perplexed, What's next? A Q&A session covering all things REAPER, OSARA and accessible production. As usual, we'll be making sure questions from newcomers slip to the front of the queue.
Details are at reaperteacher.com. That's also where you can send us something that you're working on to listen to during the session. Constructive feedback from objective, experienced ears can be super useful.
There are normally a few present to help us with that if the hosts lose focus. :)

See ya there,
Jen

It's 2025, and Canada is literally on fire. 1 in 4 Canadians can't afford enough food to eat. Housing starts are down, and are projected to continue falling.

What are Carney's priorities? Subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, of course. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

ctvnews.ca/business/article/to…

#Canada #CDNPoli #ClimateCrisis #NoPipelines #GlobalBoiling #CostOfLivingCrisis

Touting ‘enormous’ LNG opportunities, Carney says Canada to unveil new port infrastructure investments within two weeks

Amid his push to strengthen energy and economic ties with Europe, Prime Minister Mark Carney revealed Tuesday that the federal government will imminently be unveiling major new investments in port infrastructure.

^{Rachel Aiello (CTVNews)}

Message de chez Bluesky :

"La petite sœur d'une copine doit rendre son mémoire dans 15j et elle vient de commencer car TDAH non-diag et peur d'échouer donc self-sabotage donc svp remplissez son questionnaire pour qu'elle ait des datas rapidement à pouvoir analyser 🥲"

C'est un sondage sur les biais de genre.

forms.office.com/e/wAR9MqGFVL

(en plus, c'est pas très long).

EDIT : Je sais pas si j'aurais un retour mais la personne vous remercie pour vos participations, en tout cas.

I enjoyed this talk by @Felienne and recommend it: "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design"
youtube.com/watch?v=kbTQlQWAHe… (h/t @joshuagrochow)

The talk covers a lot of ground and this is not at all the most important part, but she calls for study of why people like languages, with the specific example of Rust. I often cite this interaction as representative of an all-too-rare ethos that prioritizes human surfaces of the language ecosystem. Not as an afterthought, but as a major consideration in feature design and stabilization.

This interaction is between the author of the Rustonomicon and a Rust compiler team member focusing on quality of error messages, who often consults the community about quality/verbosity/ambiguity tradeoffs. The latter's bio reads: "We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one."

has anyone seen a man page with a nice approach to providing a summary for a command with a lot of command line options, like this?

having something like [-0468openrsyncPRSTWVabcdefghiklmnopqrtuvxyz] always feels silly (it's almost the whole alphabet!) but I don't see an obvious better way to do it

(I don't mean to pick on openrsync here, this is an extremely common thing)

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 2 added apps:

* Hacker's Diet Offline: track your weight and excercise and get a weighted moving average of your weight's change over time 🛡️
* Media Collection: helps you easily catalog and manage your personal blu-ray and dvd collection, including movies and TV series 🛡️

RB status: 696 apps (53.5%)

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

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}

We did it! 🎉

All 24,976,511 solvable 5x5 nonograms completed in 80 days by over 200k players.

Thank you everyone who participated!

Tonight at 4:30 pm I’ll be streaming a new branching interactive fiction game set in occupied Netherlands during World War II and is inspired by real events. It should be completely accessible and below is the steam link and Twitch is RossMinor!

store.steampowered.com/app/384… sist_Collaborate__a_World_War_2_ChoiceBased_Story/

#Blind #Accessibility #Gamedev

Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story on Steam

A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian.

^{store.steampowered.com}

The UK's national drought group is falling ridiculously short when recommending to delete old emails. How about

- stop building any new data centers, progressively tax on their size and resource consumption, no free riding

- legislatively focus on software to become more resource efficient (hint: AI hurts not helps with that)

In any case, #chatmail relays unconditionally remove emails, no user action needed. Everything interesting happens on end devices see en.reset.org/decentralised-eff…

Decentralised, Efficient, Open: Delta Chat Is Our Favourite Instant Messenger – Digital for Good | RESET.ORG

Delta Chat is exceptionally energy-efficient—and offers unique features that make it a genuine alternative to WhatsApp and other messengers.

^{Lana O'Sullivan (RESET - Digital for Good)}

The internet forgets. You don’t have to.

📥 Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to capture and preserve the sites you care about.

🕰️ Try it here ➡️ web.archive.org/save

#Wayback1T @internetarchive #WaybackMachine

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

🇨🇿 Czech Republic is now OPPOSED to Chat Control, as announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala:

"On behalf of myself and the entire TOTAL coalition, I want to say clearly: we will not allow the monitoring of citizens' private correspondence. We do not agree that any emails or messages on platforms such as WhatsApp or Messenger can be monitored. Protecting our children is important, but we have to do it differently."

This now leaves eight undecided member states.