I haven't found the time (yet) to do a Putin-Trump cartoon about the new 28-point peace plan for Ukraine, but I'm also having a hard time finding a new angle or joke to make about it. So here are some oldies.
And this is what happened after two clicks on the LC side (+9 dB) and on the SC side (+ 0,6 dB). The cleaning pens are from now on my favorite tools! 🤩
Vcera jsem vypimpil AI praci na iOS mobilni appce. Poctive jsem nastavil vizualni zpetnou vazbu pres Maestro. Takze AI ovlada simulator, proklikava si ho a vidi, co se tam deje.
Idea je jasna, agent muze bezet fakticky neomezene dlouho => s dobrou smyckou doda dobre vysledky.
Claude uz se 13 hodin v kuse snazi pridat soubor do targetu pres xcodeproj CLI. Kvalitne utracenych 112m tokenu.
Povede se mu to dneska zbuildit? Bude nova Unreleased appka? Zustante naladeni!
I finally bought the Kindle version of Merriam Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 12th Edition, and converted it to EPUB. In the Browse Dictionary A-Z section, all headwords are actual links. This means that with a simple search from the top of the file, you can easily find a word and press Enter on it to jump directly to its entry and definitions, just like you would when navigating inside the Paperback reading app. The definitions also contain links, so you can conveniently move to related entries. The downside of having such an enormous number of links is the performance cost. Opening this 23.5 MB file takes time. For example, Paperback needs around 40 seconds to open it even on a very modern and powerful machine, sometimes becoming unresponsive for a few seconds during the process. Bookworm and QRead behave similarly. And any attempt to bring up a list of links in either app causes a long pause, since gathering that many links takes time. There is a table of contents, but it doesn’t list all headwords. Only the main letters and the bridge ranges between letters, like Ca to Cf, are included. Another issue is the use of the symbol ⁓ in example sentences instead of the actual word being illustrated, which is normal for printed dictionaries and Kindle editions. Merriam Webster explains it like this: "These examples are enclosed in angle brackets < >, and the word being illustrated is usually replaced by a lightface swung dash ~. The swung dash stands for the boldface entry word, and it may be followed by an italicized suffix." Naturally this makes reading more difficult for screen readers. What I did was replace this symbol in NVDA’s Speech Dictionaries with the phrase “dot dot,” with a slight pause before and after it. This way, whenever I hear it, I immediately know it marks the spot where the actual headword would appear in the example. @TheQuinbox @NVAccess @grammargirl
@RareBird15 I used to use Calibre for making the different formats of our eBooks. There was a plugin for Kindle. It stopped working but they might have updated it since - I now use Pandoc which is an open-source command line utility which fits well into my workflow - and according to this page: pandoc.org/epub.html there is a way to convert to Kindle (with a GUI app)
@RareBird15 I meant to add- I was talking about converting TO formats (including Kindle) where you were talking about converting FROM Kindle - for most other formats it works both ways - I haven't looked at that program they said for Kindle though, but if you try it, do please let us know how you go!
8️⃣ Here's the 8th post highlighting key new features of the upcoming v259 release of systemd. #systemd259 #systemd
systemd-modules-load.sevice is an early-boot service that loads a list of kernel modules into the kernel that is configured via /etc/modules-load.d/ (and similar dirs under /usr/ + /run/ as usual). It's half a legacy feature, because nowadays kernel modules are generally auto-loaded based on "modalias" information they expose, which binds them to certain hardware vendor/product …
I currently have to load `nbd` via modules-load.d as I haven't really found a way to have that automatically loaded on usage, but maybe I missed something? Do you know anything about that specifically/have a pointer on what to look/search for?
Fighting against Chat Control should be everyone's priority right now most than ever since 2022!
Unfortunately, content about it is being censored on social media such as Facebook, were accounts were suspended for posting information about it... Denmark is doing their best to force any chance of votes from MEPs at their favor (as they did to pass it...) and to do it without citizens even noticing.
So if I understand correctly, under the current proposal, if I wish to continue to use say Signal or WhatsApp to have video chats with my life partner I will need to verify my age and expect to have any communications scanned by the service providers.
But making a phone call to the same person from a dumb phone will not?
Or does the EU proposal want to extend age verification and the voluntary scanning of communications to more traditional telephony systems as well?
This is marginally better than the original proposal. Age verification, is easy enough to circumvent by using a VPN, connected to a server outside the EU.
Well, I was teaching my colleagues in Russia and Belarus how to stay anonymous and circumvent censorship. Didn't expect though, that this knowledge will become necessary in the EU
You might have noticed our main repo is currently unreachable. There are issues with its server not booting up again. We're on it and will let you know as soon as we have news; meanwhile, please use our mirrors.
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Weeeeird: the BIOS had itself misconfigured (how can that happen?) After helpful hands in the data center having reset it to defaults, the machine came up again. All services should be available again by now (despite of monitoring claiming the primary mirror is not; give it a little, and it should turn green again as well: that item refreshes only hourly).
Mě tam vyhovuje, že mám vyhledávání pomocí regexp a mohu udělat sed přímo ve VIM...a taky to, že to je na každém Linuxu. (občas se člověk připojí NĚKAM a je rád, že má alespoň nějaký editor)
Na cokoli jiného už většinou používám nějaký jiný editor. (Notepad++ protože Windows a Visual Code, protože to je zajímavý editor se spoustou rozšíření)
I don’t understand all the talk show internet shows that insists that I must do video when having the interview. Every time I’ve said no, they said, well then, we can’t do the interview. I guess there’s something I’m missing. Do people like watching mouths move? In terms of interviews like this, my facial expressions are pretty blank, give or take a smile, a raised eyebrow, a quirk of the lip. I’m much more facially expressive offline and away from the microphone. For the other blind people, spare me the inevitable rhetoric of, well, we live in a sighted world. I know that. One rebuke I have is Sighted people love more audio podcasts than most blind people. The only reason where I could see where this would make sense is if the host actually told me, it makes me more comfortable if my guests are on video.
I don't care if I'm on camera or not, but nor should an audio interview be forced to be camera-centric. It's all that supposed eye-contact the sighted people need to feel happy... I don't get the fuss myself, but I've never had sight, so...
EU member states backed a revised proposal to combat online child sexual abuse, despite opposition from Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, and the Netherlands.
The plan allows companies to voluntarily scan encrypted messages as part of risk-mitigation duties, replacing earlier mandatory detection orders. Germany’s shift secured a qualified majority.
The Council will now negotiate final wording with the European Parliament, which previously rejected the scanning. #chatcontrol
@garo Yeah na that are the normal storage boxes. Also quite good but I don't have much against the Nextcloud web interface and would at least try it the month for free. I mean you don't get 1TB and that much config options for that price everywhere.
Open source contributions should be judged like scientific papers, by one or more impartial, blinded reviewers. Contributor names should not be public until a contribution is either accepted or rejected.
It will be made available on video after the fact.
tiny-curl is a libcurl flavor designed for the smaller devices. Same API. Same reliability. With some protocols and features cut out making a (much) smaller footprint. See curl.se/tiny/
Join curl founder Daniel Stenberg on December 4th at 9 AM PT for a focused introduction to tiny-curl, the lightweight version of curl designed for resource-constrained environments and embedded users.
има някаква интеракция, но мен най все повече и повече ме фрустрира бриджа - нито линковете излизат адекватно, нито става удобно ако някой небриджнат ти пише и няма как да разбереш. покрай тея болежки се предадох и си направих акаунт там и пробвам да ги жонглирам и двете места :/
I just submitted our talk proposal for @roost.tools to FOSDEM! If it’s accepted, you should come to hear about how we’re bringing the open source model to trust and safety, starting with the open source Osprey project that’s already being used in production across multiple large, well-known platforms. 👀
Robust Open Online Safety Tools or ROOST is a new non-profit entity designed to address the urgent need for accessible, high-quality safety tools in the rapidly evolving digital landscape.
80 years after the Nazis were tried for war crimes, the documents are online for all to see The Nuremberg Trials Project is a free and searchable database from Harvard Law School cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/80-ye…
@240185 Thanks! Re: vertical alignment, you can submit enhancement requests here: bugs.documentfoundation.org – But of course, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. To get the feature more quickly, you can consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer. Thank you ☺️👍
I use Libre office to 'stick it to the man.' To be a part of reclaiming the digital commons, to avoid AI, to protect data sovereignty, reduce exposure to enshitification... But fundamentally, if you will, to roll with the Rebel Alliance and take down the Imperial Forces 🙂
I use #LibreOffice because it’s a fully functional, free and compatible alternative to the bloated MS office. Your documents are yours. There is no AI being forced on you. Also, the level of interface customisation is great. Quick and easy to install and use.
It's easy enough. I use #LibreOffice because I dislike intensely being tied to a corporate sales machine that wants to monetise my every blink, that over complicates their stuff with bloat and that tries to make my pattern of work fit how they want it to function at this current time, due to the marketing dept whims. And overcharge by pushing us to a rental model.
I use LibreOffice because I don't want to make Bill Gates any richer. It's also much easier to use. I love the clean, comprehensive user interface. Last but not least, interoperability is a huge advantage compared to Microsoft Office.
I use #LibreOffice because it is cross platform, doesn't need an account to log in, and is very stable. Several times in the past I have used it to open Microsoft Word documents that were "corrupted" and Word couldn't open them itself, but LibreOffice Writer could!
It also supports an amazing number of file formats, and I have used to amend PDF files without needing an expensive copy of Adobe Acrobat to do simple changes.
There's none of that AI rubbish or annoying prompts trying to get you to upgrade to pointless newer versions.
Yesterday I mentioned the tremendous amount of beepage going on outside my house just before 7 AM. They came back at approximately twenty passed 4 and were quite a bit more vocal about it this time. Here's a two-minute clip from that time, and an article explaining why THE protest happened. 'Arrests at farmers' central London tractor protest' bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cze8nn…
For some reason I misread the alt text here as "summer musical in nature," and got very confused. Is it summer where he lives? What's a summer musical? Why is it in nature? Is this a phrase I haven't heard before? Lmao
I really want to know what song one of the vehicles was trying to emulate there. Edit: It has been suggested to me that it was 'Coffin Dance' youtube.com/watch?v=j9V78UbdzW…
Watch This : https://youtu.be/nVdLW8kls50I do not own the music and videos, neither ads or monetization.all the things up there goes respectively to the owne...
Watch This : https://youtu.be/nVdLW8kls50I do not own the music and videos, neither ads or monetization.all the things up there goes respectively to the owne...
Watch This : https://youtu.be/nVdLW8kls50I do not own the music and videos, neither ads or monetization.all the things up there goes respectively to the owne...
About 1.5 years ago my friend was (wrongly) accused of terrorism.
All of their electronic devices were seized, plus my stash of hard drives (stored at their place for reasons).
Of course police didn’t find any evidence. Culprit that framed my friend (and many others) got arrested recently (article in Polish).
Police returned the hardware few months ago and I found that all of my drives are now e-waste thanks to their carelessness, which made me (understandably) furious. I even considered suing them.
Said very good friend of mine entrusted me with their personal phone and pattern to unlock it. I charged and booted it for the first time since February 2024 and were curious how it was pwned. I knew police used cellebrite on it.
My crime is that of curiosity
As it turns out, police forgot to clean after themselves (there was an attempt) and left payloads, logs, and backdoor intact.
Took a peek at the first-stage payload but it’s too complex for me to reverse-engineer on my own. It’s relatively well obfuscated, but I can tell it’s using RNDIS (likely spawning a server?) and TLS-encrypted connection to talk to Cellebrite box.
If you’re a security researcher (or just curious nerd with more spoons than me) and you would like to take a look - here you go.
Payload was uploaded onto the device on 2024-02-21. If you want to re-create the environment it was executed on, you will need a:
Samsung Z Flip3 5G (SM-F711B)
Android build SP2A_220305.013.F711BXXS2CVHF
Rough execution flow:
1. USB device plugged in (Cellebrite Cheetah)
2. USB controller switches to host mode
3. Gadget switching USB VID/PID to load kernel modules
4. Module 'hid_akeys' leaks memory
5. Screen unlocked
6. ADB key '82:E5:EA:F3:DC:D1:7D:CA:65:3C:D4:58:65:CD:81:8E' added to trusted keys on the device
7. First-stage payload '/data/local/tmp/falcon' copied onto the device.
8. Second-stage payload (seemingly) executed as root:
- /data/local/tmp/chrome-command-line
- /data/local/tmp/android-webview-command-line
- /data/local/tmp/webview-command-line
- /data/local/tmp/content-shell-command-line
- /data/local/tmp/frida-server-16.1.4-android-arm64
- /data/local/tmp/init
9. Data extraction (photos, telegram, firefox, downloads)
# Unanswered question: What the hell is "jtcb.sdylj.axpa" running as root? Seems to have been dropped around the same time...
OpenAI has experienced a data breach. Any user who utilized their API services should assume that personal data, including their name, location, user ID, and other details, is now in the possession of the hacker
OpenAI shares details about a Mixpanel security incident involving limited API analytics data. No API content, credentials, or payment details were exposed. Learn what happened and how we’re protecting users.
This week's In-Process is a bumper one - but don't miss it because as well as all the news on NVDA 2025.3.2, more on configuration profiles and the NEW Web interface for the add-on store, we've also got a BLACK FRIDAY SALE!
Interesting read, and thanks for your informative posts. I do have two major concerns with the Add-on Store: 1. Some add-ons are missing or not updated there. I understand this is mostly up to the developers, not NVAccess, but it still creates a gap, especially when alternative add-on stores like the Spanish or Russian ones handle this more effectively. 2. As a result of the first issue, I often find myself checking the GitHub pages of add-ons instead of relying on the official Add-on Store.
@amir Thanks Amir - Can you clarify how the Spanish and Russian stores are more efficient than ours? We have made it a fairly straightforward process now?
Well, the official Add-on store is awesome in terms of UI and features, and it gets better with every major NVDA release. However, the Russian and Spanish Add-on stores are more efficient as they offer updates more rapidly, and they offer more add-ons compared with the official store. So what counts at the end is faster access to more add-ons, and faster updates.
@amir The Spanish one is the big one, there are quite a few add-ons that haven't made it to the main store yet, so I still have the nvda.es store installed as well.
Thank you for offering this discount. This is really tempting me to upgrade my previous certification. And a big and very sincere thank you for your screen reader and for continuing to make it better with each release.
@DavidGoldfield David, as a very respected member of the community, we would love to have you as an updated Certified Expert! Thank you for your kind words, and we do hope we can tempt you :)
2025 Thanksgiving! I am absolutely not thankful for hCaptcha and their shockingly careless approach to accessibility. When trying to sign up for their so-called accessibility cookie, this is the audio they expect us to understand. My hearing is excellent, yet the recording is chaotic, garbled, and completely impossible to interpret. It is presented as an accessibility feature, but it is anything but accessible. This is my fifth attempt to sign up for Bluesky and hCaptcha keeps ruining the process every single time, even when trying to sign up through Google.
Ok, so it sounds like the dude is just reading various numbers that you type into the box, but this is probably one of the worst audio captchas I've ever heard.
"How do you navigate by headers?" This is what I got asked the other day by a client, so I showed them how to use the accessibility rotor and navigate a page jumping from header to header. Do you use this kind of header navigation? Let me know what you think about it! #Accessibilityyoutube.com/watch?v=syk7RMNZM-…
It's great for accessibility to mark your headers with an accessibility trait or role saying it is a header. But why is this important? And how would your us...
@Piciok That's so much quicker! How do you set that up? I made a custom gesture in the assistive touch menu but I'm missing how to connect it to the header navigation.
Blocking the WhatsApp messenger in Russia is "only a matter of time," said Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy and a member of United Russia.
Блокировка мессенджера WhatsApp в России является «лишь вопросом времени», заявил член комитета Госдумы по информационной политике, единоросс Антон Немкин.
In this modern era of acquisitions, weak antitrust regulations, and platform capitalism leading to extreme concentrations of wealth, non-profits remain a bastion defending what remains of the commons.
PSA: Codeberg currently does not implement accessible account registration. It is impossible for screen reader users to make a Codeberg account due to the image-only captcha. There's a manual fallback path, but no idea how long that takes. I've been forced to use the Wikimedia one, and that was about 3 months. This has been pointed out to them many times, and it's seemingly not something they're prioritizing.
The issue is 9 months old, but it's a continuation of older discussions. It now seems that there's a workaround, but it's so well-hidden that at least 2 users in the issue + me missed it when looking at the form, and the maintainers were unwilling to explain it for some reason. Somebody finally took mercy on us and explained it in the issue comments, but that's about 15 messages deep in the thread, and there's no indication that it's even there, so unless a user is extremely patient and thorough, they won't find it either. The way the maintainers hint at it but are unwilling to explain it seems very strange and cagey.
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Happy thanksgiving everyone. Once again, I find myself getting ready for my annual thanksgiving show, as broadcast on HKC @radio. Among the songs and random nonsense, Lets begin at 9 AM eastern, by thinking about the weirdest things we're thankful for. www.hkcradio.com
Youth pastor (after sitting down on a chair turned backwards): I know you kids like these modern pop songs by Sabrina but you know who else was a Carpenter?
So I lost my job yesterday, which means I'm looking to #GetFediHired! I've been a Senior Software Dev for ~8 years, but I've been programming for more than 20 years.
I have lots of experience with C, C++, C#, Python, JS, x86 and other assembly. I've touched a lot of languages on several platforms. I have worked a bunch in simulation and robotics (ROS), open-source software, and 2D and 3D graphics.
Hoping to work with interesting people on interesting projects. Diversity and accessibility are very important to me. Remote work is preferred. I am in Canada.
Edit: Getting ahead of this now. No GenAI cultism please. No late-stage corpo ad-serving, data scraping, always online, crypto stuff either.
You shouldn't use static types because they may discharge static to sensitive parts of your computer causing damage to them. You should always use grounded types instead.
Oh look. It's Thanks Giving again, and let me tell you, I am thankful. Yes, full of thanks. I contain so many thanks that my movement is now restricted. My digestive system can't properly process all this thank that I am full of, and I quite honestly don't know what to do about it.
I'm assuming you have so much thanks to the point where your actively thanking the thanks because your thanking the thanking thankers thanking thanks. Lol
So, it's Thanks Giving, a holiday that I don't particularly care for, *and* Thursday, because all American Thanks Givings are Thursdays. All I have is, good whatever combination of stuff works for you, if any of it does.
Let's go to IHOP!! They're apparently open today! And, if I wasn't doing the usual traditional crap, I would seriously go there. Good food...Served quickly.
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