As an Open Source developer in Germany, I'd greatly benefit if our work was officially recognized as voluntary service (Ehrenamt).
If you are located in Germany, please help by signing this petition: openpetition.de/petition/blog/…
Thank you for your support! (Please do not sign if you are not living in Germany.)
Yes it's an ad for Big Tech, but it's really beautifully done and artful.
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Apple products are designed for every student. Accessibility features like Magnifier on Mac, Accessibility Reader, Braille Access, VoiceOver, Sound & Name Re...YouTube
Zwischen den Jahren ist es oft etwas ruhiger – genau dann lässt sich gut anfangen. IT-Sicherheit ist für mich kein Zustand, sondern ein Prozess über Jahre. Kein großer Umbruch, sondern viele kleine Schritte: Passwörter, E-Mail, Smartphone, Heimnetz, Backups. Wichtig ist nicht Perfektion, sondern überhaupt zu beginnen. 👇
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Von »wird schon nichts passieren« zu echter Kontrolle: Mein persönlicher Weg zu mehr IT-Sicherheit, Datenschutz und digitaler Selbstbestimmung.www.kuketz-blog.de
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PCAPdroid is a privacy-friendly open source app which lets you track, analyze, and block the connections made by other apps on your device. It also allowsAccessible Android
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When it comes to @Delta Chat (39c3) do you know it features 1 to 1 audio / video calls since v2.22?
It has a very lightweight client side app built with web technologies and a minimalist server side component turn server called chatmail-turn.
I am wondering, am I alone running that turnserver behind a nat?
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This turn server enumerates all the interfaces found on the system, identifies globally addressable addresses and creates an UDP listen socket on the default port. Relay connections for this scenar...GitHub
Die Offenheit, mit der @AwetTesfaiesus@mastodon.social hier unterwegs ist, und ihr Engagement beeindrucken mich.
Dear #QT toolkit, recently I'm again looking into your #screenreader #a11y into #QML in particular.
I'm trying to make one of my favorite apps @Mixxx DJ Software a bit more accessible.
Last night I have managed to turn the menu with items such as 4 decks, Library, Effects and more into aria toolbar pattern in terms of keyboard navigation. It only consumes single tab stop when navigating through it and other buttons can be reached using the arrow keys.
Of course there is much more to do and I've started a forum topic documenting my attempts.
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@André Polykanine On linux it's pretty decent after tweaking keyboard navigation as without accessibility specific tweaks even some of the #QML examples are not keyboard navigatable.
I am not yet sure I'm capable enough to make it into at least beta quality, however I'm trying to learn it.
Paris Buttfield-Addison with an absolute horror story:
A major brick-and-mortar store sold an Apple Gift Card that Apple seemingly took offence to, and locked out my entire Apple ID, effectively bricking my devices and my iCloud Account, Apple Developer ID, and everything associated with it, and I have no recourse.
The full blog post is chilling. Buttfield-Addison only got his Apple account reinstated after blogging about his experience, and otherhigh-profileblogs re-shared his ordeal, which caught the attention of an actual human in Apple's executive relations team who restored his account a week later.
Buttfield-Addison is the latest public example of a company revoking access to a person's digital life, probably due to some automated decision, but where affected customers have no means or grounds to appeal. In reality, this happens all the time and most people's stories never hear the light of day. Even companies like Apple, which sell physical electronics for a living, hold too much power and control over their customers' digital lives in perpetuity, and customers generally don't have the means to fight back or hold the companies accountable when things go wrong.
It's also a warning to everyone — not just Apple customers and especially this time of year — that gift cards are prone to scams and are increasingly difficult to detect. If one bad gift card can result in nuking access to someone's account, then gift cards aren't worth the risk to begin with.
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: Paris Buttfield-Addison literally wrote books on SwiftBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
I don't think I'll stop using Firefox anytime soon.
Yes, their management are fucking idiots and it's annoying that I'll have to disable new AI features whenever they release them..
But the alternative is to use something Chromium-based, which would make Google's domination of web technology absolute - and Google is 100x more evil than Mozilla ever could be.
I hope this fucking bubble pops before Mozilla fucks up Firefox so badly that it becomes completely unusable
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My slides and a video of my talk "Grow your [engineering] brand while putting privacy first" are available on my blog: talkweb.eu/openweb/4500/
If you want a funny, but useful talk on that topic, reach out!
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I have a lot of respect for #DeltaChat (@delta); By all accounts they provide a good looking client and a homogenize experience across platforms. Users absolutely don’t need to care about the underlying protocol!
However there is no way, shape or form in that IMAP+Submission is a more suitable stack for instant messaging than #XMPP.
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imap idle unfortunately works very unreliably if you only use the app every 1-2 weeks.
I'm not a developer, but wouldn't that be the solution for the chatmail servers?
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This document defines a WEBPUSH extension of the Internet Message Access Protocol (IMAP) that permits IMAP servers to send WebPush notifications.www.ietf.org
If the kids who listened to Radiohead and Pulp and Oasis in the 90s grew up today, what would they be listening to?
I have absolutely no sense of the music landscape right now. Something happened somewhere after after Billie Eilish, that doesn't allow me to absorb any new music information. A kind of age-activated force field of some kind.
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people are scared because it does not need a phone number to setup 😱a
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can we delete a full chat history on conversations.im and be sure that it also gets deleted on your server?
if yes, please advertise it!
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yesterday i got asked: 'it feels too easy to login to conversations, isn't there 2fa or something to make it safe?'
Horribility. The ability to make things horrible.
Me. The ability to make things, horribly.
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The XMPP assembly for the Chaos Communication Congress 39C3 has been confirmed! We will have a space inside the Critical Decentralization Cluster habitat this year. Join the related XMPP chatroom.xmpp.org
Olen pari edellistä päivää nurissut e-kirjoista ja siitä, kuinka piloilla se maailma on, vaikka tekniikka itsessään on 20 vuotta vanhaa.
Nurinoista huolimatta jatkoin ongelman ratkomista ja lupasin kirjoittaa, jos löydän itseäni miellyttävän ratkaisun. Parin päivän testailun perusteella luulen löytäneeni sen.
Ratkaisun nimi on Booklore. Se on itse hostattava palvelu, joka tarjoaa omaan digitaaliseen kirjastoon Spotifyn tai Netflixin kaltaisen käyttökokemuksen. Pääsen siihen käsiksi suoraan omasta lukulaitteesta, eikä minun tarvitse leikkiä kaapeleiden kanssa. Sen lisäksi siinä on monen käyttäjän tuki, joten nyt minulla ja puolisollani on yhteinen digitaalinen kirjahylly.
Sovelluksesta lisää blogissa: saaste.net/blogi/2025/oma-e-ki…
Muokkaus: kirjoitusvirheitä korjailtu
#lukeminen #kirjat #KirjaMastodon
Avauduin toissapäivänä siitä, kuinka retuperällä e-kirjamaailma on. Avautumisesta huolimatta jatkoin ongelman ratkomista ja luulen löytäneeni itseäni miellyttävän ratkaisun.saaste.net
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Them: "We don't need junior engineers any more."
WHERE DO YOU THINK SENIOR ENGINEERS COME FROM? THE ENGINEER TREE?
Fucking idiots.
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After their “encore,” this band kicks straight into ANOTHER song without announcing it, apparently in the hope that John wouldn’t notice it was a different song.
John leans over to me to be heard over the PA and asks, “Hey, wanna see the suck button?”
“Sure,” I replied. I figured he was going to muck with the levels or just turn them off or something. Instead, he reaches to one of his racks and starts scrolling through patches on his trusty DigiTech unit. Sure enough, he gets to a patch titled SUCK BUTTON. He engages it, and all hell breaks loose onstage.
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Gary Larson started it and it turned out to be true, The Suck Button as imagined by our Live Sound family.al mcguire (JWSOUNDGROUP)
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the UNIX v4 tape reminded me of this story by Ali Akurgal about Turkish bureaucracy:
Do you know what the unit of software is? A meter! Do you know why? In 1992, we did our first software export at Netaş. We wrote the software, pressed a button, and via the satellite dish on the roof, at the incredible speed of 128 kb/s, we sent it to England. We sent the invoice by postal mail. $2M arrived at the bank. 3-4 months passed, and tax inspectors came. They said, “You sent an invoice for $2M?” “Yes,” we said. “This money has been paid?” they asked. “Yes,” we said. “But there is no goods export; this is fictitious export,” they said! So we took the tax inspectors to R&D and sat them in front of a computer. “Would you press this ‘Enter’ key?” we asked. One of them pressed it, then asked, “What happened?” “You just made a $300k export, and we’ll send its invoice too, and that will be paid as well,” we said. The man felt terrible because he had become an accomplice! Then we explained how software is written, what a satellite connection is, and how much this is worth. They said, “We understand, but there has to be a physical goods export; that’s what the regulations require.” So we said: “Let’s record this software onto tape (there were no CDs back then—nor cassettes; we used ½-inch tapes) and send that.” Happy to have found a solution, they said, “Okay, record it and send it.” The software filled two reels, which were handed to a customs broker, who took them to customs and started the export procedure. The customs officer processed things and at one point asked, “Where are the trucks?” The broker said, “There are no trucks—this is all there is,” and pointed to the tape reels on the desk. The customs officer said, “These two envelopes can’t be worth $2M; I can’t process this.” We went to court, an expert committee examined whether the two reels were worth $2M. Fortunately, they ruled that they were, and we were saved from the charge of fictitious export. The same broker took the same two reels to the same customs officer, with the court ruling, and restarted the procedure. However, during the process, the unit price, quantity, and total price of the exported goods had to be entered—as per the regulations. To avoid dragging things out further, they looked at the envelope, saw that it contained tape, estimated how many meters of tape there are on one reel, and concluded that we had exported 1k to 2k meters of software. So the unit of software became the meter.
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I once read a story about the people writing the software for the NASA Apollo missions. There was a functionary in charge of weight accounting, who came to them and asked how much the software would weigh.
They told him it weighted nothing, but the functionary had heard *that* one before and insisted—everything had to be accounted down to the last ounce. He demanded to see it.
They showed him a stack of punched cards, and he was triumphant. “You see,” he said smugly, “it doesn't weigh only ‘nothing’!”
“No, you misunderstand,” they replied. “The cards aren't going on the spacecraft. Only the holes.”
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#Spotted on the Market Day Before Christmas in Aotearoa New Zealand:
A cheerful Pomeranian is rotating in a skipping circle below a hotdog being eaten by its human.
Perpetual Motion Dog is generating more energy than it's consuming.
If only science could harness this power for good!
A young human (5?) in grinch themed T-shirt and shorts is holding up a Bundaberg ginger beer to his little sister, saying officiously: "Cheers!" and then instructing her imperiously that she has to say "Cheers!" back or it "Doesn't WORK!"
Little Sister is looking pugnaciously skeptical.
A man (30s?) is studying some earrings with a cheerful smile. He looks down at his small human (4?) in a Spiderman t-shirt and asks: "Which ones d'you think Nana would like?"
Small Human Spiderman gives him an incredulous look before roaring: "The PRETTY ONES!"
Some things are just obvious.
A tiny human is putting on a full sturm und drang performance.
Hand beseechingly raised to Mum.
Face a picture of tearful fury as she bellows: "I WANT STRAWBERRIES!"
Mum says wryly. "You've GOT strawberries in your lap Bub."
"BUT I WANT OTHER STRAWBERRIES."
The strawberry struggle is real.
A pâtissier (30s?) stops his partner from offering their last madeleine to customers because it's already taken. Moments later, a very serious looking small human (3?) arrives with his Mum and accepts his weekly madeleine treat with a solemn high five and a hug.
Pâtissier beaming.
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Joanna Stern:
We Let AI Run Our Office Vending Machine. It Lost Hundreds of Dollars.
In mid-November, I agreed to an experiment. Anthropic had tested a vending machine powered by its Claude AI model in its own offices and asked whether we’d like to be the first outsiders to try a newer, supposedly smarter version.
Claudius, the customized version of the model, would run the machine: ordering inventory, setting prices and responding to customers—aka my fellow newsroom journalists—via workplace chat app Slack. “Sure!” I said. It sounded fun. If nothing else, snacks!
Then came the chaos. Within days, Claudius had given away nearly all its inventory for free—including a PlayStation 5 it had been talked into buying for “marketing purposes.” It ordered a live fish. It offered to buy stun guns, pepper spray, cigarettes and underwear.
Profits collapsed. Newsroom morale soared.
OK this is why they need #autistic people to watch shows before they put them out. Not just for continuity, but for checking actual facts.
I am finally watching the Queen's Gambit, which of course I love for many reasons, not just redheads and chess, but she just came home from Paris and there's a August 1967 calendar on the wall next to the phone -- and it is utterly wrong!
It shows the month starting on a Sunday. The first day was a Tuesday!
https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=300090 Reviewed by Adrian Perez de Castro. R296017 removed the Footer member from Atspi::Role and also added SectionHeader and SectionFooter, which do not ...GitHub
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Y por artículos como estos me niego a dar dinero a El Diario: eldiario.es/internacional/fias…
En todo el artículo no se pone en duda, ni siquiera en una frase, la idea de violar el derecho internacional público y la inmunidad soberana, ni siquiera la conveniencia de actuar ilegalmente cuando así se desestabiliza el marco jurídico y se expone a Bélgica y la UE a represalias. Imperialismo 100%, ni un paso atrás, ni un instante de reflexión. Y a esto lo llaman autonomía estratégica en vez de lo que es, seguidismo atlantista.
Los vetos de los países miembros a políticas europeas y su compleja gobernanza dejan a la UE sin capacidad para ser un líder global.Rodrigo Ponce de León (ElDiario.es)
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