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Mahjongg was accepted into Circle! 🀄🀄🀄

It's one the historical GNOME games, but thanks to Mat's modernization work over the past few cycles it looks very fresh and clean nowadays. Welcome :)

apps.gnome.org/Mahjongg

#gnome #circle #libadwaita

Sharepic with the Mahjongg app icon on green background and the GNOME Circle logo in the bottom right. The app icon consists of three Mahjongg tiles with different symbols on them, stacked in a pyramid shape.

Mahjongg – Apps for GNOME

Match tiles and clear the board – Single-player tile-matching game, commonly known as Mahjong solitaire. Tiles are stacked on the board at the start of the game. The goal is to remove all the tiles in as little time...
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Welcome to the age verification era! 🔞 🔍

Here's why you should be concerned

❌ Risks your privacy & security
❌ Threatens anonymity & freedom of speech
❌ It's often ineffective

We explore in today's article 👉 tuta.com/blog/age-verification…

#onlinesafetyact #ageverification #surveillance

Will age verification protect children or kill anonymity? Screenshot of an age verification banner on PornHub asking user to verify age.

Age Verification: Does it protect children or kill anonymity? | Tuta

Age verification laws like the UK’s Online Safety Act are meant to protect children from harmful content, but they also increase the risks of surveillance and an internet that’s not anonymous.
Tuta
#surveillance #onlinesafetyact #ageverification
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Pablo Majster

Does age verification really have to rely on face scans, document uploads, or other invasive methods? 🔍 Isn't there a way to do it that respects user privacy? 🛡️

I have an idea that - while it would need some adjustments - seems reasonable to me, especially when we're talking about such a sensitive topic. In my country, Poland, ID cards have an NFC chip 📲 that contains encrypted data, including the date of birth. Access to this data requires a PIN 🔐 that is set at the government office.

Wouldn't it be possible to create an app that reads this data from the ID when first launched, and then requires the PIN each time to decrypt the date of birth? The app could communicate with the browser locally and simply send a yes or no answer ✅❌ about whether the user meets the required age - without revealing any personal data.

Of course I know not every country has such ID cards, but if they truly care about protecting children 👶, they should first make sure to create proper, secure solutions - ones that respect human rights 🧭 and don't violate citizens' privacy.

That's my opinion - but I'm open to other perspectives if there's something wrong with this approach 💬

#Privacy #Freedom #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #Surveillance #HumanRights

#privacy #HumanRights #freedom #surveillance #onlinesafetyact #ageverification

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A stunning example of volcanic lightning, created when colliding particles of volcanic ash generate massive amounts of static electricity, captured by photographer Sergio Tapiro.

Sergio's website: galeria.sergiotapiro.com

A volcano erupting at night with streams of glowing lava and a towering ash plume lit by a branching lightning bolt under a starry sky.

Compra fotos y decora. Naturaleza y Volcanes. Fotógrafo Sergio Tapiro

Compra fotos, decora tu casa con naturaleza y volcanes del fotógrafo Sergio Tapiro, uno de los mejores fotógrafos mexicanos. Encuentra fotos de autor, arte, impresiones y fotografías para adornar tu oficina, hotel o empresa.
Sergio Tapiro Fotos de volcanes y Naturaleza | Prints

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It's official - `django.tasks` exists! Coming soon to @django 6.0. 585 days later, the first step (of many) in Django's background tasks journey is finally complete! 🥳

theorangeone.net/posts/django-…

django.tasks exists

As of today (well, technically yesterday), django.tasks is officially released upon the world! Mostly. Note that django.tasks and django-tasks are in fact different, albeit by a single character. Take care when reading.
TheOrangeOne
@Django
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Thomas Wilburn

I kind of like the proposed idea of Linux-style "middleman" packaging, in which I don't install little libraries via many transitory dependencies, I install larger bundled collections that are updated, audited, and shrinkwrapped/vendored at a slightly lower frequency. However, I suspect this would require moving over to an entirely new package manager in order to have a clean break from npm's tiny module culture, which means it's probably a non-starter.
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James Henstridge

The "trusted publisher" system used by PyPI would make some of the ways this worm spread more difficult: docs.pypi.org/trusted-publishe…

There is no authentication token on my machine that would allow publishing to all PyPI packages I own. Instead I've indicated that releases will be made by a particular CI workflow running on Github. That workflow can prove it's identity to the package registry and publish the package.

There's still the possibility that a dependency could infect the builds uploaded to PyPI, but it won't be able to infect all of the author's packages in one step.

As for the argument that distro packaging solves the problem, I'm not totally convinced on that. It can help, but I've seen enough cases where the distro packager just trusts changes from the upstream. We got awfully close to the xz backdoor being widely deployed.

Getting Started - PyPI Docs

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Please up vote this, add comments and provide meaningful feedback to help address this issue in VSCode. Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users - github.com/microsoft/vscode/is…

Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users

Type: Feature Request Add Dynamic HTML Chat View to Replace Accessible View for Screen Reader Users Subtitle Eliminate the static Accessible View in favor of an integrated, scrollable, copyable cha...
accesswatch (GitHub)

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Da ich das selbst über Mastodon überhaupt mitbekommen und frech angefragt habe ... hab ich nun auch total schöne Sticker bekommen. Die werde ich jetzt erstmal unter meinen Mitmenschen die #conversations im Einsatz haben verteilen. Ganz herzlichen Dank dafür!

Und weil es sowieso immer vor hatte, hab ich jetzt direkt eine Spende via #liberapay an liberapay.com/iNPUTmice/ vorgenommen. Danke für dieses tolle Stück Software.

#xmpp #conversations #omemo

XMPP-, OMEMO und Conversations-Sticker auf einem Briefumschlag

iNPUTmice's profile - Liberapay

Hi, I’m Daniel 🤝 I’ve been a freelance software developer for 15+ years. My main interests are in open standards and communication protocols (Instant Messaging, E-mail, …
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#xmpp #conversations #omemo #liberapay

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Heute ist wieder OSM-AT-Online-Stammtisch!

Egal ob Profi oder Einsteiger – alle sind herzlich willkommen. Wir tauschen uns aus über Projekte, Tools und alles rund um OpenStreetMap.

Infos & Anmeldung: osmcal.org/event/3440/ (Anmeldung hilfreich, aber nicht notwendig – einfach vorbeischauen geht auch!)


18. Österreichischer OSM-Stammtisch (online)

Wir treffen uns online zum Austausch rund um OpenStreetMap. Alle sind herzlich willkommen – egal ob du schon lange mappst, gerade erst anfängst oder einfach nur Fragen zu OSM hast.
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A video mocking Donald #Trump and his relationship with the late paedophile Jeffrey #Epstein is being projected on to the side of Windsor Castle, including Photographs of Virginia Giuffre, Epstein and Ghislaine #Maxwell and a handwritten note of Trump to Epstein. 👇🏻

Brits are the best! 🧡

(Source: Skynews)

#UK #Trumpvisit #KingCharles

An image of Trump and Epstein being projected on the Windsor castle.
An image of Virginia Giuffre being projected on the Windsor castle.
A picture of Jeffrey and Ghislaine being projected on the Windsor castle.
A handwritten message of Trump: "To Jeff, you're the greatest" being projected on the Windsor castle.
#Trump #uk #KingCharles #epstein #maxwell #trumpvisit
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Opet jsem mel prilezitost plne se ponorit do meho oblibeneho fetishe. Sledovat bohate lidi naprosto odtrzene od reality s neprekonatelnou touhou svetu neco sdelit.

Dnesni tema je myslenka genocidy jako hnaciho motoru transformace spolecnosti z nejchudsi zeme sveta s autoritarskou vladou jednoho muze na ... wait for it ... nejchudsi zemi sveta s autoritarskou vladou jednoho muze a kvotami na zeny v parlamentu.

#dnes #mi #to #asi #cele #doklaplo

Na komentare se tesim.

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Dnes mi to asi celé doklaplo.

Dnes mi to asi celé doklaplo. Ve Rwandě. Jsem tu na skok na expedici našeho think tanku Solvo, sbíráme materiál společně s profesorem Miroslav Barta. Zkoumáme tu totiž společnost, kterou řídí ženy. Mají 60 % křesel v parlamentu.
Ivana Tykač (www.linkedin.com)
#dnes #mi #to #asi #cele #doklaplo

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Hello, I would like to tell you about my new app, EchoBox player. It is a player for the iPhone that adds interesting features such as: independent volume control different from the system volume for playback, saving your folders so you can listen to music, books, shows... It has sound effects support like reverb and compressor, audiobook chapter support, speed adjustment... Try it, it’s free. apps.apple.com/us/app/ecobox/i…

‎EchoBox Player

‎Echobox player is an elegant, privacy‑minded audio player built for everyday listening. It respects your library, keeps folders as folders, and adds smart features that make long‑form audio a joy—chapters, effects, transcripts, and more—without gett…
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Learn how an organic product delivery company uses #LibreOffice (and other open source apps) to reduce costs, and become free from vendor lock-in: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
LibreOffice in local businesses

LibreOffice case study: Flotte Karotte - The Document Foundation Blog

Companies around the world use LibreOffice to reduce costs, improve their privacy, and free themselves from dependence on single vendors.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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Time to drop support for Kerberos5 FTP in #curl

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1857…


drop support for Kerberos5 FTP by bagder · Pull Request #18577 · curl/curl

It was accidentally broken in commit 0f4c439, shipped since 8.8.0 (May 2024) and yet not a single person has noticed or reported, indicating that we might as well drop support for FTP Kerberos. Krb...
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daniel:// stenberg://

The update was a removal of a certificate from the source data that already was marked as expired so it was already left out from the output: github.com/bagder/ca-bundle/co…

update: the 2025-09-09 change · bagder/ca-bundle@6598d7f

The Mozilla CA bundle extracted and converted to PEM. This repository functions as a backup to the automated service on the curl web site. - update: the 2025-09-09 change · bagder/ca-bundle@6598d7f
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You can now preorder the Dot Pad X, with estimated shipping in a few weeks, likely less than that. You will not be charged until it ships, and can cancel at any time. Payment plans available.
Excited to be a part of the evolution of multiline braille displays.
atguys.com/dotpad

Dot Pad X - Smart Tactile Graphics and Multiline Braille Display

We are excited to bring you the latest in multiline Braille displays. Dot Pad X is a braille display that can display both braille and graphics on its display. It's designed to work with your screen reader including JAWS, VoiceOver, and NVDA.
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come check out the #WebAIM virtual conference tomorrow! Ted Drake and I will be talking about the challenges involved with trying to use AI to draft alt text; inaccuracies, hallucinations/confabulations, sanitization of disability representation and bias, lack of surrounding context, and more. Now with new potential solutions and prompts from when we presented this same topic back at #CSUN. #A11y conference.webaim.org/

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference: Home

conference.webaim.org
#a11y #csun #webaim

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I booked the one-way ticket! Going to fly to central Europe on Oct 26 and do a little traveling before settling up north in Oslo. It still doesn’t feel real. I’ll be posting Reels like this about the experience on my IG, so feel free to follow along! instagram.com/share/_4aHW0lK7

Sommer Panage on Instagram: "Moving abroad in T - 40 days … overwhelmed is an understatement!"

Renewing your passport abroad can be a daunting task, but with the right guidance, it's achievable in just 40 days.
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"Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI"

TetraLogical's @craigabbott has written a post on his own blog exploring why we shouldn’t expect screen readers to be augmented with AI to fix problems with bad content.

The real problem is producing inaccessible content from the start, such as misusing emojis, poor descriptions, or unclear writing.

craigabbott.co.uk/blog/screen-…

#Accessibility #ScreenReaders #InclusiveDesign


Screen readers do not need to be saved by AI

Why LLMs should not be integrated with screen readers
Craig Abbott (craigabbott.co.uk)
#Accessibility #screenreaders #inclusivedesign @Craig Abbott

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Matt Campbell

As a former screen reader developer myself, I mostly agree with this article. But, for the specific exzample of the clapping hands emoji, I think it would be easy enough to add a special case to the screen reader -- not "AI", but just a good old hand-coded heuristic -- to filter the text and then play a clapping-hands sound effect synchronized with each of the words. I just wonder if there's broad consistency on whether the emoji comes before or after the word.

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Glyph

@matt I really feel like this insistence that people not add "fun" expressions to their language is never, ever going to be a viable strategy for addressing accessibility more broadly. Gen alpha slackers attempting to use indecipherable emoji algospeak to impress their friends or evade algorithmic filters in their Instagram posts are not going to be persuaded to read a 216-page $30 book before they write anything.
@Matt Campbell
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Craig Abbott

@glyph @matt you’re right, people aren’t going to randomly just pick up a book and read about it. But, I think education is a key part to all of this. I just think it needs to be taught it earlier, in things like key skills communications, and computer science curriculums. Accessibility doesn’t get taught during those formative years, where it would likely have the most impact. We’re trying to re-teach every new generation retrospectively.
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Glyph

@matt Like, Know Your Meme added a "clap emoji" entry 9 years ago. Why are we carrying water for NV Access for failing to implement anything to detect that pattern for nearly a decade? Does *Apple* not have the resources to code the ability for VoiceOver to interpret the 10 or so most popular unicode & emoji idioms at the rate of one per year? Saying we need to train kids to avoid fun rather than demand more from these companies seems backwards.
@Matt Campbell
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Matt Campbell

@glyph You're definitely right about Apple. I'm much more sympathetic toward NV Access, because they're a tiny non-profit working on an open-source project. And if I remember correctly, NVDA only gained an internal TTS API rich enough to support sound effects synchronized to individual words in like 2019 or 2020. (I had written that feature in 2003, for the purpose of indicating links with a tone, but I can understand having different priorities.)

@craigabbott @TetraLogical

@Glyph @Craig Abbott @TetraLogical
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Matt Campbell

@glyph The company that I _really_ think we shouldn't carry any water for is Vispero, the current owner of JAWS. Clearly at this point the company is mainly trying to squeeze more money out of what IMO can justifiably be described as the WinZip of screen readers. I make that comparison deliberately; WinZip was at one point owned by the same private equity group that invested in Vispero. And both products now have high-quality free counterparts.

@craigabbott @TetraLogical

@Glyph @Craig Abbott @TetraLogical
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Matt Campbell

@glyph To clarify, when I said "I wrote that feature in 2003", I meant I implemented sound effects synchronized with TTS _in my company's own product_. And I was still entirely new to developing a screen reader, or more precisely, a talking web browser, back then. I was also quite new to _using_ a GUi screen reader, so I brought my own ideas about how they should work. Maybe the current screen readers are getting long in the tooth and it's time for a new generation.
@Glyph
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Glyph

@matt I am just frustrated with the way that a lot of the way accessibility breaks through as a topic into broader conversations is "look at this common mode of communication. look at this hilarious failure mode that a screen reader has when it's used. now that you know that, everyone stop doing it". It's practically a meme template at this point. I'm sure that you've done tons of other great stuff on the subject that I've never seen because it didn't break through.
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Glyph

@matt To keep things on the topic of your actual words, I do disagree with the sentence from your article: "The responsibility for accessibility lies with the person creating the content". This is individualizing a systemic problem. It's applying scaling leverage at the most inefficient point. Fix ~100 screen readers or train a billion or so sighted people? One of Those numbers is much smaller than the other.
@Matt Campbell

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Waiting until THIS week to patch all the potholes that have existed since the March/April thaw!

Montréal ‘patches’ potholes ahead of weekend marathon... just to make sure people don't break legs and sue the city, I guess, eh.

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/mo…

#polMTL #MTLpoli #montreal


Montreal ‘patches’ potholes ahead of weekend marathon

City spokesperson Philippe Sabourin says roads have already been patched to ensure the Marathon Beneva de Montréal unfolds safely.
Anastasia Dextrene (CTVNews)
#polmtl #montreal #mtlpoli
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This week's bumper In-Process is out! Featuring:
- NVDA 2025.3 Released
- Using Chromium with the mouse issue
- We've been to WBU AND Something Digital
- and using Single Letter Navigation with web apps.

All that and more at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

And don't forget to subscribe to receive future posts by email: nvaccess.org/newsletter

#NVDA #NVDAsr #News #Blog #Newsletter #NewVersion #Chrome #Chromium #WBU #WBU25 #SomethingDigital #Tips #FOSS

NV Access

NV Access Email Forms
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#foss #blog #chromium #chrome #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda #tips #newversion #somethingdigital #wbu #wbu25

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The movie "Hackers" was released 30 years ago today. It still stands as my favorite hacker movie. What is your favorite "Hackers" movie quote?

Here are some reasons why it remains my favorite:

- The hacker handles suggested by Joey were aliases of real hackers (at the time)
- The books passed around at the club were all real
- The soundtrack
- The Emanuel Goldstein reference (And many other references to hacker people)
- The Ginsberg quote is relevant to Hacker culture

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Ken Thompson, 1984: Whenever you use other people's software, you should think about why you trust it.

npm, 2010: LEEEEROY JENKINNNNNSSSSSSS!

krebsonsecurity.com/2025/09/se…


Self-Replicating Worm Hits 180+ Software Packages

At least 187 code packages made available through the JavaScript repository NPM have been infected with a self-replicating worm that steals credentials from developers and publishes those secrets on GitHub, experts warn.
krebsonsecurity.com

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Gajim 2.3.5 has been released! 🥳

This release brings reorganized account settings 🔧, a brand new shortcuts manager ⌨️, more contact infos ℹ️, video previews 📺 , performance improvements 🚀, and many bugfixes.

Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!

Support Gajim's development: liberapay.com/Gajim

#gajim #xmpp #chat

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Gajim 2.3.5

What’s New Gajim 2.3 comes with a new design featuring Adwaita, a user interface library which provides building blocks for modern adaptive applications.
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#xmpp #chat #gajim

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