Another milestone for us at Icelandic Met Office 🎉
This week we launched a new site with #avalanche forecasts and conditions, including recent avalanches. A major update was required in the background, migrating to #Postgres and building the APIs and of course the website handled by our friends at Origo & Metall with maps from MapTiler
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Two reasons why I think it's unwise to move from Firefox.
First, browser engine diversity matters. If all browsers become chromium skins, this gives Google a very unfortunate amount of power. It can affect web standards, de facto web use, all kinds of things; and there's no guarantee chromium will keep being freely released.
Second, pretty much any other possible alternative is worse across a set of metrics that involve accessibility, access to source code, privacy, and safety.
Servo is promising, but a11y isn't there; so it may as well not exist for me.
Base DBus XML interfaces for accessibility, the accessibility registry daemon, and atspi library.GitLab
The issue for this delightful behaviour:
github.com/InfiArtt/accessify-…
Having just installed the latest version of the add-on (1.6.0), the new global keyboard layer only works once for me and then can no longer be invoked until NVDA is restarted or plug-ins are reload...jscholes (GitHub)
@Bri I don't fully agree with you on this one. The add-on is legitimately useful when it works, and the alternative would be a separate (probably huge) app with global keyboard input, gesture remapping, speech output, etc. needing to be rebuilt.
That said, it does a lot of add-on stuff wrong, like implementing its own autoupdate mechanism for some reason. And the whole not currently working thing.
the way it works is that whenever someone you follow makes a post their server notifies ours about it so we can pull it into your feed.
When our server is offline, the remote server will try again periodically for a while until it gives up completely or gets in touch.
So the bald patch in your timeline should be filling back up.
My issue with firefox soft forks is that even in their most ideal form, they can only be reactive harm-reduction, and any reasonable fork necessitates compromises that introduce some amount of risk (delayed security updates, compromised trust anchors etc.)
Perhaps that is the best anyone can do within reasonable costs.
Perhaps the only affordable proactive actions we can take is to reinforce that front against future inevitable assaults.
Perhaps that must be enough. I wish it were not so.
I've spent time this year gaming out other possible strategies with people. Because the question of "no seriously how do we move forward in a world where every single mainstream browser engine is aligned towards making the web worse?" is one of the important ones.
The only viable path I can see requires that a collection of organizations/soft-forks commit to co-maintaining a shared base browser fork of firefox (something like the base browser used by Tor for TB and Mullvad)
Need to send someone their favourite animal, butt only the backside? Want to learn various animal names in Bernese Swiss German? Just want silly stickers?
This fops got you covered!
presenting to you: the Füdliverse!
Available at tailwag.ch/stickers/Fuedlivers… (Signal and Matrix not up to date yet), have fun!
Füdliverse (Arse-nal of various characters)tailwag.ch
Was mir bei solchen Testberichten immer fehlt:
Angaben zur #Datenverarbeitung, #Datensicherheit #digitalePrivatsphäre :
adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/auto…
Und eine Frage an die Wissenden:
Kann ich ein solches Vehikel auch ohne Google oder Apple Account bewegen?
Renault bringt 2026 den Twingo zurück – als Elektroauto. Der Stadtfloh hat einen Mini-Wendekreis und viel Platz im Innenraum. Infos, Bilder, Preis.Andreas Huber (ADAC)
Skew v2 from @Sinevibes - a unique, multi-curved, reverse delay effect - adds new features like feedback and sound improvements. And one *major* new feature: now it's free.
macOS, Windows, and Linux.
cdm.link/sinevibes-skew-2-free…
Santa Sinevibes has rolled into town this week, unexpectedly. Skew, a unique "non-linear" reverse delay effect from Sinevibes, is now available for free with v2, bringing the effect's wide world of warping and multiple curves to everyone -- Mac, Wind…Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
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I feel really inept sometimes. I was trying to create a merge request on gitlab.gnome.org, and, for the life of me, I couldn't find the button to create a new merge request. I suspect that the UI has changed since I last did this. It's supposedly on the upper right corner of the merge requests page, but knowing that doesn't do anything to help me. So I started googling and found that gitlab has a CLI, which I didn't know existed, so of course I want it. Now I'm looking at the README to figure out if I can use it on GNOME's instance. htps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli.git
htps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli.git
Edit: My issue was that I wasn't signed in, but I'm still really glad that I found the CLI tool.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 2 added apps:
* Remember My Sort: LSPosed module that persists Android file picker sort order 🛡️
* 5G: a simple utility to force "NR Only" 5G network mode 🛡️
Further, our monthly quality checker chimed in again. We're still running over all the forges informing the devs of its findings¹.
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
¹ mostly "bugs" in their Fastlane trees
If you wonder about those "bugs", here's an excerpt:
* descriptions (short/full) too long and thus being truncated
* same for changelogs
But the checker also finds where fastlane has been established now, so we can add it; where a repo was renamed/moved – or where it was archived/deleted. Or where the license changed. These are things we then adjust at our end…
Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability https://www.phoronix.com/news/First-Linux-Rust-CVEnixCraft 🐧 (Mastodon)
Accessibility poll for people who use screen readers for daily use. I’m writing a guide about alt text.
🧵 Poll 1 of 2:
I’d like your opinion about alt-text length for simple images. How long should it be? (Feel free to comment if you want to elaborate.)
Please boost for reach. 🙌🏻
#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReaders #AltText #WCAG #UI #FrontEnd
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Accessibility poll for people who use screen readers for daily use. I’m writing a guide about alt text.
🧵 Poll 2 of 2:
I’d like your opinion about long description methods for complex images. What is your preferred approach? (Feel free to comment if you want to elaborate.)
Please boost for reach. 🙌🏻
#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReaders #AltText #WCAG #UI #FrontEnd
Vyhlašuju ukončení pracovního roku 2025 pro @archos a kolegům.
Cukroví je doma. Je výborné. Petřvald nezklamal. Přede mnou ještě čtyři pracovní dny a taky bude koooonec. 😁
Slavné časy bych pod stromeček pořídila někomu, koho na knihách baví jazyková stránka a má, stejně jako já, slabost pro nejapné slovní hříčky. Politická satira inspirovaná Farmou zvířat a vyprávěná sborem zvířecích hlasů je to jen zčásti, zbytek je příběh mladé ženy o vyrovnání se s generačním traumatem. Slibuju ale, že to není jenom k pláči. Autorka používá k boji s marastem tzv. humor a jde jí to moc dobře. Zimbabwského kulturního prostředí se nebojte, vláda nekompetentních egocentriků odtržených od reality podle mě není něco, co bychom si u nás nedokázali vůbec ani představit. :)
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REAPER Made Easy's end of year wrap up/live listening party will be happening on Saturday December 27th, 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern. We'll be checking out a bunch of the productions people have done with REAPER and OSARA throughout the year.
If you've got something you'd like to share, we're all ears! Send it in here:
dropbox.com/request/mB2KhxVunz…
Anything you've made this year, anywhere in the world, in any language, with any amount of experience is welcome. The only limitations are one production per person so we can play as many as possible, and the majority of what we're listening to needs to have been done with REAPER and OSARA.
Feel free to post questions in this thread or via DM if there's anything you're not sure of.
Looking forward to hearing what everyone's been cookin'!
Scott and Jen
You no those smoke detectors where the battery gets low and it loudly chirp-screaches at you? Those should be banned. Every time I hear it at my house it's like a shock to my nervous system. Every minute or so and it feels like an electric shock around my arms and shoulders.
It started beepinga little on Saturday, but I thought maybe some bug was messing around with the door bell outside to make it beep for a moment, and it didn't happen that often. I told the person over the place that the batteries need replacing in it yesterday morning, because it started beeping a lot Sunday night, and I came home yesterday and thought for a good 30 minutes that it was fixed, and then...
*beep!* right when I definitely wasn't expecting it. So last night I closed the thin, sliding door to my bedroom, put on my gaming headphones, connected them to my phone through my game controller, put on a book, and got a bit of sleep. At least with that amount of mass between me and the detector, I could pretend it's at some one else's house. I still didn't sleep good last night. Probably from wearing big headphones.
I woke up to a headache and the detector still going off. The headache is gone now but I still feel like I haven't slept well for days.
remembering how the other day a coworker wanted to follow me on the fediverse
and thinking what would happen
It's the last Development Digest for 2025! We're celebrating our Exchange success (but not resting on our labors), sharing our Calendar UI milestones, and grateful for a community contribution to fix a 19-year-old bug!
blog.thunderbird.net/2025/12/t…
We've landed Account Hub fixes and Exchange email support, and welcomed a key community contribution. We look forward to Calendar UI in 2026!Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
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