Seriously people, if you're going to put work into making your blog look beautiful you HAVE GOT to see what it looks like with large minimum font size (not zoom). At my default 20pt minimum font size this blog gives me roughly 4 words per line.
I'm not going to read the damn article like this, no matter how good the words are. Yes, I can switch to "Reader View" but I shouldn't have to.
An earlier version of Trump's National Security Strategy specifically said that the US should try to break up the EU, to get Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland to leave
From the Blinux list, my thoughts below the quote:
"Hello to all.
This is partly a (re)introduction and some good news (news for definitely not all, but some) of you.
This message is actually send to two lists, as I have no clue how big intersection of the member lists there are (I suppose huge, but not complete), so sorry for double receiving, you who are in both lists.
And now, with the disclaimers out of the way... I started to be interested in Linux, say ten or twelve years ago (don't remember exactly). Through a set of happy coincidences, I managed to get a job at Red Hat in the desktop team, and because accessibility was in the times of the reorg an important thing, a tools and accessibility team actually was created. It is quite a small team, and the majority of people on it do not have work time to do anything with accessibility (we're maintaining some of the Gnome apps, we do RHEL packaging, testing etc.).
However, I am working on the accessibility related things every day, so don't be afraid to ask something, mention your issues, and such.
Personally, in terms of distributions, I use GNome on Arch (personal laptop) and Fedora (work laptop), so I have the most experience with these setups, but I definitely used Mate, and tried Kde for some time as well.
And, that's it for now. "
So, a small team, that barely has time to do what the team is about. This is really sad. This is what people with disabilities get from one of the biggest Linux companies there is.
This holiday season, remind your friends that buying Harry Potter crap literally funds #transgender genocide.
I am not even remotely being hyperbolic here. JKR gets a cut, and she funnels it to groups that have successfully curtailed trans freedoms in the UK and are working to make things even worse.
I think the dumbest modern criticism of media is "this thing doesn't follow physics, therefore it's bad/a flaw in the media". I've seen this levied at Attack on Titan and Avatar: The Last Airbender lately and it makes me want to tear my hair out
I am so stubborn about not using AI. You have no idea.
I will even go as far as writing my own texts, drawing my own images, writing my own code, and reading the whole article or email just by myself. Crazy stuff.
i've made 45 bilingual (eng/esp) copies of the Riot Medicine Field Guide, a concise companion book to the Hakan Geijer's robust protest medic text. i printed these specifically to distribute to action medics, though the content is informative for anyone and functions as a good hook for anyone interested learning more about street medicine.
if you would like one for yourself or as gift to someone ('tis the season!), please email me the address at <fallrise@riseup.net> and i will send one -- i am happy to cover the ~$4 shipping, but am willing to accept donations. if you have a medic crew and would like some for yourselves or for trainings, i can send you a box.
he producido 45 copias bilingües (esp/eng) del libro Medicina Para Motines: Guia De Campo, un complemento al texto grande sobre la medicina por manifestaciones, escrito por Hakan Geijer. los imprimí para distribuirlos a médicos con experiencia, pero el contenido es informativo y interesante por todos, y el libro sirve bien como introducción por ellxs que se interesan la medicina de la calle.
si ud. quiere un libro por su uso o como regalo a alguien, favor de mandarme un email (fallrise@riseup.net) con la dirreción postal y mandaré una copia. tengo la capacidad a pagar el gasto de envío (~$4 USD), pero sí aceptaría donaciones. si ud. es parte de un colectivo de médicos y quiere varias copias por usar en el campo o para entrenamientos, le puedo mandar un cajita.
se encuentran los textos originales en forma digital en (aunque el libro de texto está solo en inglés): riotmedicine.net/
Bývalý kouč Štybara o Pogačarovi: Neuvěřitelné, kolik toho dokáže sníst. V čem je výjimečný? isport.blesk.cz/clanek/ostatni… prostřednictvím @wallabagapp
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wow, @pluralistic has really made a splash with #enshittification, very exciting to see. I hope people take a breath and try to understand the underlying challenges that makes confronting antidisintermediation so challenging, many of use have been engaged in this struggle for years. If it was easy, we would have smashed big tech ages ago, cc @ntnsndr, @techworkersco, @disco_coop
The latest round of tech working mobilization inspired by Cory's "enshitification" framing is amazing to see, tho I can't help bracing myself for the inevitable wasted energy as people rush forward without understanding counterantidisintermediation
Auch auf die Gefahr hin, wie eine Karen zu klingen:
Habe ich irgendeine rechtliche Handhabe (Stichwort: Ruhestörung), wenn an einem Weihnachtsbaum-Stand mitten in einem Wohngebiet Stunde um Stunde laut gesägt wird? Oder muss ich das tagsüber zähneknirschend hinnehmen?
Ich arbeite von zu Hause aus und drehe langsam durch, weil ich akustische Reize nicht gut filtern kann.
#Carney ran on a build Canada platform that hasn't proposed any real nation building, rather we get pandering to foreign petro oligarchs.
Here's some nation building actions that should already be underway: 1. Get our govt data out of the USA. House it in the EU until we have a domestic datacentre. 2. Get schools across the nation off american software and networks. Like stop forcing my kid to use an enemy chromebook. This will take a large investment in infrastucture to update schools. 3. Retrofit schools, colleges and universities with renewable energy and batteries. Gift the installs and equipment to help reduce school electricity costs (and work toward climate action). 4. Similarly assist FN and especially Inuit communities getting off diesel generators. The soot is speeding melting in the Arctic. 5. Like the national railway that our ancestors built, build a national fleet of electric truck-trains (truck with 7-10 reefers). The railways are often plugged and reducing productivity.
@lexinova avoiding the default server is a goal, and the rolling 2.33 releases are the next steps towards it, where you can seamlessly switch to a new server :) automating this is a question for the future.
oh yes, i never think about matrix as their messenger is filled with security issue privacy leak, and lie on "end to end as majority of group are not encrypted ;)
Let’s say you have initially created a profile on the default relay and want to migrate away from it. Update at least to 2.33 on all your devices: Help testing upcoming Delta Chat 2.33.
@lexinova @link2xt multi relay is in advanced settings as we are carefully introducing multi relays, to avoid friction in the ecosystem and with all the existing users. Without insight into the actual implementation and coordination involved this is admittedly hard to understand from the outside.
@qyahxm Technically even more than 1000 is possible and was tested, but practically a few hundred was the largest size seen before it broke down for non-technical reasons. Delta Chat is built for private groups and has no common moderation tooling like role-based access controls.
A fun, and probably easy idea would be to be able to message all users in the server about this maintenance period. And also message back when back on.
@ivangj not easily possible. A server operator has no identities and no encryption keys Currently. With the upcoming "multi-relay" releases it will matter much less if a transport server is temporary out.
I am sending messages to users who are using "classic" email (e.g. gmx.com) with the DeltaChat app, but they are not receiving my messages; could this be related?
@aaronvonawesome it's usually related to spam checking from gmx's side. Chatmail relays all interoperate because the checks are only cryptographic. There is no so called "reputation" database
@zaire Jokes aside, all nine.testrun.org sysadmin communication happens in delta chat itself, would not be possible if it required nine.testrun.org being up.
LLMs have the potential to turn content into a diff between what you already know and the current state of the world. The problem with making any kind of content is that no two readers are the same and have the same level of knowledge. This means that you'll always get some people who find parts of your content too hard to understand, not because they're stupid, but because they don't have the necessary prerequisites yet. You will also get some people who find parts of your content unnecessary, as they contain information they already know. Those two groups might overlap!
LLMs fundamentally change this paradigm. Because they're cheap enough to run to produce content aimed at a single reader, they can take into account what the reader already knows, what preliminaries the reader is missing, and what they're trying to get out of that content in the first place.
This requires combining the LLM with some kind of knowledge tracking system, which is hard for the usual privacy / "walled gardens" reasons, but I think we'll eventually get something like that for education at least.
Our Soldering Workshop proposal has been officially accepted for FOSDEM 2026. On 31 January, from 10:00 to 17:00, participants will assemble the RVPC, an open-source hardware and software retro-style RISC-V computer. olimex.wordpress.com/2025/12/1… #fosdem #riscv #oshw #floss
FOSDEM 2026 will take place in Brussels on 31 January and 1 February 2026. It is the largest European event dedicated to Open Source Hardware and Free/Libre Open Source Software, bringing together …
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
To make it clear, I don't agree with the under 16 ban of social media because: 1. It won't remove bullying from teens' lives 2. The age verification tech will actually be used to compromise identity and may actually be used *for bullying* 3. Teens will not learn how to engage with social media. 4. Alternatives to using social media are not "riding a bike" or "reading a book", but actually "talking to Chat GPT". Good luck with that.
The new web-based WhatsApp for Windows is uninstalled for now. After the forced switch from the previous app, messages simply stopped syncing on my PC. Nothing I send from Windows goes through, and anything that arrives on my phone never shows up on the desktop. Only Meta could take a perfectly good app and turn it into a trash-tier experience. Honestly, it’s unbelievable how consistently they manage this.
@FreakyFwoof Oh absolutely. At this point a browser tab is probably the most stable WhatsApp client Meta has ever shipped. Which is impressive, considering they didn’t actually “ship” it. 😄
Haha I hear you there. For now I still have the old client but I'm worried that one day I'll wake up and it will be gone forever. That will be a very sad day indeed.
The funny part is… that sad day has already come for me. I woke up this morning, opened the old client, and Meta had just killed it. No warning, no apology, no “we messed up,” nothing. At this point I’m convinced Meta doesn’t sunset apps, they just ambush them in the dark. 😄
@FreakyFwoof Based on my experience that's exactly what will happen unfortunately. It was a very sad day for me as well. Brian Hartgen's scripts make a massive difference, but of course that only helps if you're a JAWS user. I'm not sure how things are with NVDA add-ons at the moment, but I'd be surprised if there wasn't something out there to help make it a bit more usable
Maybe it’s my imagination, but if you’re going to ban somebody permanently, you should probably send them an email about it.Yesterday, my wife, myself, and m...
The Mr Robot TV series features a security expert and hacker lead character, Elliot. Season 4, episode 8 Vasilis Lourdas reported that he did a "curl sighting" in the show and very well I took a closer peek and what do we see some 37 minutes 36 secon…
Did YouTube ask you to verify your age with ID or credit card? You're not alone! YouTube AI is increasingly trying to estimate how old you are based on your habits following the global push for age verification.
So just like #europe with #chatControl is going to be in few months for >17yo...
What is the purpose behind banning minors from general internet? I get that now in 2025 governments are getting obsessed with surveillance, but what does these bans even for?
I actually don't mind this, IF it's done in a non-kyc way, where the only thing the platform knows is whether or not you're above the age threshold. Unfortunately, that "if" is sometimes forgotten by governments...
Bei einer technischen Untersuchung von zehn Passwortmanagern, die wir als BSI zusammen mit dem FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik und der @verbraucherzentrale_nrw durchgeführt haben, kam heraus, dass es durchaus Unterschiede in den getesteten Produkten gibt.
I absolutely hate anticipating a thing, and just simply not being able to function until that thing happens. I currently have three such of those things stacked on top of each other. Needless to say, productivity has been non-existent.
An experiment carried out in Luxembourg this summer shows that, despite ten years of awareness-raising and widely-documented cyber-risks, a significant proportion of the population still pick up and plug into their computers USB keys they come across…
Hallo. Derzeit ist der Import nur für unsere Legend-Nutzer verfügbar, da er noch verbessert wird. Zukünftig wird er für alle kostenpflichtigen Tuta-Tarife verfügbar sein.
Puh, schade. Dann bleibe ich halt bei Proton und muss meine Familie auch dorthin migrieren.
Sorry, ihr macht es einem echt schwer zu euch zu wechseln. Wie soll man das anderen erklären warum sie für grundlegende Dinge den Maximal-Tarif bezahlen müssen den sie eigentlich nicht brauchen.
Hi @NVAccess if possible in a future in prossess blog, could you tell us how to interact with split buttons on windows? For example when a windows update requires restart, the button is a split button. The default action is to restart the machine, but I think there are more options to it and I am not sure how to find them. Somebody told me in the past but I don't remember. I couldn't find anything online. If I type split buttons, I get the buttons for split screen etc.
Usually either down arrow or alt+down arrow (both work if you press say alt+d to go to desktop then alt+f4 to open the shutdown dialog. alt+down arrow works in the Office ribbon on split buttons. I thought there were some in Windows settings, but I can't find them now (or they've changed them).
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in reply to Stéphanie • • •Also history repeating
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1941: The Nazis ban Jewish fonts
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