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Oy. I really don't want to have to find or code a solution to handle connections better than Wireguard does. Stateless sucks sometimes. And its keepalive mechanism leaves a fair bit to be desired as well. Without knowing at all, I would at least imagine that Tailscale handles this better. I just am not too thrilled about having my infrastructure rely on a 3rd party that can simply take out my entire network with a fat finger or stroke of a pen. Of course, anyone with more power than I can do this. But by self-hosting Wireguard, I can easily move my operations to some other provider. Hmm. Lots of food for thought and deliberation.

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🚨 ROUND TWO STARTS NOW 🚨

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Well good news for a Tuesday, yesterday the Tactile Engineering devs approved my pull request for adding flip logic and command to Cadence's NVDA driver, yay to that. Honestly it's the most pleasant to use on NVDA, which is a bit ironic but not unsurprising. We're told panning on multiline displays is an iOS issue overall and Apple's aware of this as such. That's a bit disappointing on their part so I'm watching the iOS updates like a hawk for when they might add a fix because the only woorkaround for now is to pan by having "lines" in your rotor and setting these as Braille commands, then moving down line by line to pan the display forward. Kind of annoying but it works.
On JAWS, we're still sorting out panning quirks with the Tactile Engineering people (it oddly will have panning buttons work over USB, but not Bluetooth.) Really no other platform has a perfect bug-free generic HID Braille display driver, which is really a shame. NVDA's out of the box is really good, but it didn't support full Cadence keys until I installed their own driver, which will get rolled into NVDA 2026.1
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Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation: In this article, I will discuss the details of 10 innovations throughout history that were only possible through unlocking the power of accessibility and including the voices of people with disabilities. In the #disability community, it is a deeply believed and often repeated fact that improving #accessibility leads to innovations that improve the world for everyone. Necessity is the mother of invention is, after all, a proverb so frequently quoted that it has become a cliché. And yet, people with disabilities still find ourselves left out of research and design, and all too often we don’t get a seat at the product development table. This leaves our inventions overlooked, unrecognized, and sometimes unrealized. stuff.interfree.ca/2025/12/16/origins-of-accessibility.html#a11y#InclusiveDesign#pwd#blind

Sam's Stuff - Accessibility, The Origin of Innovation

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#a11y #Accessibility #blind #Disability #inclusivedesign #pwd

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David Redmond

you may find this article from Bobbie Hickey in the Irish Times this week of interest. Touches on some of the same points. irishtimes.com/health/your-wel…

Society has taught us to believe that the disabled person must follow the able-bodied

If it was common knowledge that so many efficiency hacks were created for people with disabilities, they might not be as popular
Bobby Hickey (The Irish Times)

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WordPress's "most OK" status is its strength

the real WordPress lock in is the stupendous numbers of plugins, themes and developers for both. "why don't you move to X" fails to answer "I use *this* fuckin plugin"

the control point is wordpress.org

ClassicPress has its *own* extension repo (with beer and hookers) but it would need full wordpress.org compat to be a substitute

the many many many alternate CMSes and static site generators almost never address "this fuckin plugin i actually use"

not to mention "I have ten years of posts and comments and known URLs here"

tech evangelists are delighted to dive into people's mentions with suggestions that don't address anything the system is being used for. this is about any software whatsoever. because tech evangelists in general are odious idiots.

i've had tech evangelist morons hear "wordpress" and claim "oh comments are a wrong thing to want" and wtf

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In a grand total of 6 mins I:
- signed up for a Tidal account.
- made a temporary card on my banking app with £0 on it to qualify for the subscription.
- verified my student status.
- downloaded the Tidal app.
- transferred all of my Spotify playlists, albums, and songs to Tidal.
- replaced the Spotify widget with the Tidal widget on my phone.

Then it took another 7 minutes to do the following:
- cancel Spotify.

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Spoke to a former colleague recently. Their employer monitors employee AI use and wants to see number go up.

Since the obligatory AI nannying, multiple product teams have fallen apart and they’ve stopped delivering new features of value while users are leaving.

A whole layer of middle management are destroying good products to make a Potemkin village of fake automation to justify their bosses buying crap enterprise software. It’s as if the entire industry had their heads kicked in by a donkey.

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Long post about Autism and masking - Why Autistic people are not like icebergs

Sensitive content

#actuallyautistic #autism @Actually Autistics

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Ve Fedoře mi nefunguje vypalování CD/DVD, jen přes roota. Přidat se do skupiny cdrom nepomohlo, wodis hlásí, že se nemůže dostat k zařízení. Neměla jsem ještě čas to debugovat, ale zeptám se rovnou - kam byste to nahlásili jako bug? Asi rovnou na distro jako takový? Uvítala bych, kdyby stačilo nainstalovat brasero/k3b, připojit externí mechaniku a rovnou vypalovat, ne že budu pracně řešit a lovit z paměti jak vlastně fungujou mechaniky na Linuxu.

Cc @sesivany 😸

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@bycx Ono to je tím, že už to lidi skoro vůbec nemají a nepoužívají a tyhle věci se potichu rozbíjejí. A pro distribuci už je to tak okrajová technologie, že se jí nevyplatí mít na to test casy a systematicky to testovat.
Jediné řešení je někdo aktivní v komunitě, komu na tom pořád záleží a kdo to bude dál testovat a hlásit relevantním vývojářům problémy.
@🔩 Adam Štrauch

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Muok.: Täytyy julkisesti myöntää haukkuneeni väärää puuta. Tässä viestissä mollasin aiemmin J. Rinta-Joupin Autoturvaa siitä että ei saada korvauspäätöstä. Oon nyt soitellut puheluita sinne ja tänne ja paljastui ettei korjaamo ole koskaan ollut heihin yhteydessä. Toki puhelimessa sanoi että tuskin tästä korvataan mitään joten sinänsä turha sijoitus, mutta ainakin tuli vastaus. Eli homma on jäänyt jonnekin paikallisen VW-marmoritiskin prosessin syövereihin.

Ei pitäis vihaisena postailla mitään.

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worldwide (only included the West®️™️)

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🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries.
🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2.
🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act.
🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.

#Encryption is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.

➡️ Check the global overview:
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#PrivacyMatters

Global map showing encryption laws worldwide for democratic countries

Encryption legislation: Guide to global status on anti-encryption laws. | Tuta

This global encryption trends study shows why Europe — and especially Germany — remains the safe haven for encrypted services.
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This both real and a decent metaphor, so it is time for me to re-tell a story.

Ever heard of The Ping Of Death?

There was a couple of years there - years, hand to god - where you could throw a single malformed or too-large packet across the network at any IP you could see, and if you malformed it just right for its OS, you could crash the machine. You could kill a Windows machine with one line in cmd.exe.

It was bad, but almost nobody knows how bad.

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mhoye

Because you don't have a "network interface card", you have an ARM cpu, maybe even a whole-ass ARM SOC, handling ethernet frames on one side and talking PCI on the other.

You don't even have SD cards, because "memory cards" don't exist. That terabyte of storage the size of your thumbnail you bought? That's an ARM CPU managing the wear levels on its crap-ass flash backing storage while pretending to be a hard drive on the other side.

You don't know how many computers are in your computer.

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miki

This happens sometimes, screen readers (for good technical reasons) don't really understand the concept of something being visually covered by another object.

You can sometimes do extremely fun stuff because of this, like reading the personal data of some random customer that somebody didn't properly remove from their contract template. Or chitchat between the editors of your textbook.

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🇬🇧 UK & 🇦🇺 Australia have the worst anti-encryption laws among democratic countries.
🇨🇦 Canada risks joining them with Bill C-2.
🇺🇸 US still relies on secret orders under FISA & CLOUD Act.
🇨🇭 Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be.

#Encryption is under attack worldwide. Our new global overview shows why Europe remains the best place for encrypted services.

➡️ Check the global overview:
tuta.com/blog/encryption-legis…

#PrivacyMatters

Global map showing encryption laws worldwide for democratic countries

Encryption legislation: Guide to global status on anti-encryption laws. | Tuta

This global encryption trends study shows why Europe — and especially Germany — remains the safe haven for encrypted services.
Tuta
#encryption #privacymatters
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Gagagoogle

Putting Switzerland in a worse position than "EU" seems far fetched to me. Is the statement: "Switzerland is no longer the privacy paradise it was claimed to be." your only source of making it "orange" on your map?

There is a great risk that "Chat Control" will be applied in EU. What´s "green" about that?

There has to be worse threats to Switzerland regulations than "Chat control" then. Could you please enlighten me...

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Gagagoogle

Yes! Chat control has been updated... for now. But the "discussion" is still very real in many of EU:s countries of how to undermine the encryption .

What I'm gathering currently being discussed in Swiss (and not decided yet) is that providers might in the future need to "retain metadata—who you talk to, when and where—without breaking encryption"

So, revise your map, and make Swiss Green AND make a separate dystopical "What might come"-map where you can make both EU and Swiss orange

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Featuring @yatil, @GraceSnow, @SteveFaulkner, @eric, @TetraLogical, @michaelharshbarger, @deconspray, @mgifford, @lloydi, @nolan, @andy , @tylersticka, @zeldman, @AlexDawsonUK, and more.

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The Peter Cushing TARDIS is complete!

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Peter Cushing aboard an original TARDIS console MOC
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I just informed Envision that I am cancelling my preorder of the Ally Solos Glasses. It's been stuck in Customs for ten f*cking days, even thoguh I filled out a largely inaccessible PDF form that was absolutely atrocious and complicated. I also told Fedex that I am refusing reception. of the package. With that hassle with a shipment alone, I simply don't trust them to be able to handle things if the glasses need repairing. Furthermore, I've read too many less than favorable reviews. I find the app itself unnecessarily complicated, and the combination with the glasses seems to make matters even worse. Nope, I want my money back, thank you very much.
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fnord

Good on you. I think that maintainers' wasted time should absolutely be called out. Companies have simply thrown a blabberbox at people and told them to "use it". It doesn't mean the human using LLM tools absolves themselves from responsibility when they waste people's time. If we start a car, don't steer properly, and then drive into someone's garden we're responsible for the damages too, right?
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