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Fancy a digital chastity belt?

The UK government wants Apple and Google to stop you from taking or sending pics of your bits.

Intrusive scanning tech on your phone would block nudes unless you verify your age with biometrics or official ID.

It's creepy mission creep.

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

#surveillance #ageverification #privacy #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ukpol #apple #google


UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones

Government seeks “nudity-detection algorithms” in iOS and Android, report says.
Jon Brodkin (Ars Technica)
#apple #google #privacy #surveillance #ukpol #digitalrights #ukpolitics #ageverification

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Across India, 118 million adult women in 12 states now receive unconditional cash transfers from their governments, making India the site of one of the world's largest and least-studied social-policy experiments.

Long accustomed to subsidising grain, fuel and rural jobs, India has stumbled into something more radical: paying adult women simply because they keep households running, bear the burden of unpaid care and form an electorate too large to ignore.

bbc.com/news/articles/c5y9ez3k…


India cash transfers for women: Paying for unpaid household work

Some 118 million women in 12 Indian states receive unconditional cash transfers, one of the world’s largest experiments.
Soutik Biswas (BBC News)

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On today's episode of are you fucking kidding me?: I'm trying to get a Texas ID. On the website, it states that an ID from a different state can be used as one of the documents that you can use for the process along with a social security card and birth certificate. My visit to the DMV told me different. Apparently, because my ID from California that I got in 2020 which doesn't expire until 2027, wasn't a "real" ID, as in the newer ID's that are required for something like flying, isn't a viable form of indentification, and yet the pamphlet that was referenced and website say otherwise. "federal limits don't apply." was what the guy said. Iff this is true, information needs some serious updating.

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If you fancy a game over Christmas, you might want to try this. It is a similar concept I built for the ZX Spectrum back in the 80's. I get a pretty decent score. Quoting ChanceyFleet I'm a Blind tech educator but this is my first game design! If you support Blind or low-vision learners, please consider sharing the retro audio Space Invaders game i built with Gemini and @Marconius — you can play with any screen reader, right in the browser. I wanted to build something with a simple interface and a progressively hard game mechanic so it would be fun for tech novices and for me. The game is free and open-source and we welcome your feedback. marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…

Audio Space Invaders

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We just transitioned CoSocial from an ad-hoc combo of AWS, OVH, and DO to @fedihost, see fedihost.co, a Managed Fediverse Hosting outfit based in Canada and with no US dependencies. Already feels faster, and should be cheaper too. Self-managed instances are cool but not, I suspect, the general-case future.

FediHost - Managed Fediverse Hosting

FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.
FediHost.co
@FediHost
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Is the small market justification for the cost of #AssistiveTechnology still valid in 2025, or is it an easy copout for companies to continue charging high prices? #Accessibility #A11y

  • Yes, it's still valid (50%, 1 vote)
  • No, this argument is no longer valid. We have found ways to make these tools more affordable. (50%, 1 vote)
2 voters. Poll end: 1 week ago

#a11y #Accessibility #assistivetechnology

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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.

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I'm a Blind tech educator but this is my first game design! If you support Blind or low-vision learners, please consider sharing the retro audio Space Invaders game i built with Gemini and @Marconius — you can play with any screen reader, right in the browser. I wanted to build something with a simple interface and a progressively hard game mechanic so it would be fun for tech novices and for me. The game is free and open-source and we welcome your feedback. marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…

Audio Space Invaders

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@Marco Salsiccia
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Marco Salsiccia

@Scott Not at the moment unless you navigate up and focus on the gameplay HUD. I need to group those together into single focus elements, and was considering adding a key shortcut for an energy announcement, plus am working on adding a danger noise so you know when you are about to lose. Also realizing that I should make the high scores list inert during gameplay to clean up the interface for us screen reader users. :)
@Scott

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I've just made a MR to document the remaining AT-SPI DBus interfaces. I'll wait a while before I merge it in case anyone wants to look it over (and it would probably be good if it is looked over by people who are not me). gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2…

Document the remaining DBus interfaces (!220) · Merge requests · GNOME / at-spi2-core · GitLab

Base DBus XML interfaces for accessibility, the accessibility registry daemon, and atspi library.
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James Scholes

@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.

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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.

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Sarah Jamie Lewis

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)

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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!

A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A grey hare, a pink hare, a brown rabbit, a blue sabre tooth tiger, a black wolf, a grey wolf, another fox, a dragon, a sheep, a goat, a kobold and a rat
A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A fox, a hyena, a skunk, a lynx, a spirigatto pokémon, a housecat, an orange housecat, a plant cat, a French cat, a green husky, a polygon fox, a wolf
A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A raccoon, a beetle, a cow, a pig, a beaver, an otter, an elephant, a hippo, a marten, a snep, a walruss and a snake
A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A deer, a horse, a unicorn, a lion, a magpie, a bat (upside down), a lizard, a dolphin, a whale, a tortoise, a hedgehog and a bear

Füdliverse (Arse-nal of various characters) by Fuchs The Fox

Füdliverse (Arse-nal of various characters)
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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?

#Auto #EAuto


Renault Twingo E-Tech 2026: So niedlich kommt der Kult-Kleinstwagen zurück

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)
#Auto #digitaleprivatsphäre #eauto #datenverarbeitung #datensicherheit

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Bird2 BGP Management Networking Daemon is all configured with the Vultr private ASN, as well as the private ASN they assigned me. So that should get traffic from the global Internet to a Vultr gateway router, then to my router runnning on Vultr, then to where I am able to route it from there. The only thing missing is a subnet. But considering Servarica took nine days to assign me a /27, I expect it'll be a few more days for this restricted /24, if I get approved at all.

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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…

Skew UI with curved wavy waveform display, dials for synced tempo, feedback, wet and dry levels, overlap, and intensity.

Sinevibes Skew, 3-playhead reverse delay, improved and now free - CDM Create Digital Music

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)
@Sinevibes

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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.

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