Apple’s annual New Year Sale is back in Japan, bringing Apple Gift Cards worth up to ¥38,000 (roughly $255) and a free limited-edition AirTag on select iPhone purchases. Here are the details.
I've heard recently that there are plans to deprecate #gnome #gtk in favour of #tcltk. My source said that by 2027, most projects will have migrated from GTK to Tcl/Tk. Are you prepared for the switch over? @ebassi
Some time ago I mentioned that we went through the curl source code and eventually got rid of all strncpy() calls. strncpy() is a weird function with a crappy API. It might not null terminate the destination and it pads the target buffer with zeroes.
So I think I would like to root my Pixel Tablet, but I've heard you need to do a clean sweep of the device. Any recommendations to: 1. How I could back up my data, safely! 2. How to root, and the most straightforward and trustworthy way to go about it.
I've been using sound recognition on my phone all day, because my ears are particularly bad right now. One of the boxes I have checked is "siren". Well, I forgot that my dad likes to watch a lot of cop shows. So many notifications...
I'm about to buy a flashlight for 80€ (Olight Baton 4). I don't know whether it's just stupid and I could actually get cheaper stuff, but honestly I can always return it I guess and tonight I really needed a good one and had non.
* Auto Sleep: save some juice by sending your device to airplane mode (and back) on schedule 🛡️ * Nope Remote: turn your smartphone into a powerful, universal IR remote control 🛡️
Noticable updates: MyLocation had a "foss release" again, and Tactile Clock an update after a year's break.
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
it's crazy that we do this. Sometimes my dog refuses to eat her chicken until it has been washed again or set out for a while (as the chlorine will break down, faster with direct UV light). She must be able to smell it even when we can't.
Interstellar is a Fediverse client for Mbin/Lemmy/PieFed accounts. Having found the final culprit that kept it from being RB (after 6 months, and it was just a single thing to toggle! RBs can be bitches sometimes…), we finally succeeded
So raising the bar a little again, RB status is now at 774 apps (60.5%)
As some of you know, I like aggregating data. So here are some random numbers about GNOME in 2025. This post is not about making any point with the numbers I’m sharing. It’s just for fun. So, what...
Hey Fedi, what does everyone think about DuckDuckGo's own browser as an alternative to Firefox? Anyone know how well stuff transfers or how cooperative it is in terms of #accessibility ? #a11y #askfedi
OK, so I said this before, but sometimes I really hate being blind. On the flipside though, when I watch a show or movie with audio description and it's well done, I sometimes get more information than sighted people.
For example, when Apple TV+ released Hijack, many of the discussions I saw on Reddit were confused about which character was which. I personally found it really easy to follow the plot, because the AD writer was really good about keeping on top of all the fast paced action going on throughout. Also for shows like The Mandalorian or really any Marvel movie, it seems like the description company and studio worked together when creating the AD track. To me, they come across as higher quality and feel more like a part of the show / movie than other descriptive tracks I've heard.
Oh honestly... So I make a mistake during a game of 1000 miles, meaning I get trounced. Then I accidentally shut down the computer when instead, I'm trying to copy files from my downloads. And then my bleeping computer almost goes and puts me back on the shut down button a second time. Yet, trust @daygar to make me laugh out loud twice in five minutes. Perfect antidote dot com!
I saw my aunt this weekend. I always admired her growing up: she was a dedicated dancer, bird watcher, traveler, and general arts-enjoyer. I took up ballet and piano because I wanted to be just like her.
I just found out that she started all of those hobbies after she got sober in her 40s, shortly before I was born. Her defining characteristics, in my eyes, have occupied less than half of her life.
It was a nice reminder that you can start a new chapter of your life whenever you’d like.
I shovel the sidewalk for several neighbors, which necessitates my once-a-year obligatory toot about how Minneapolis ABSOLUTELY should have municipal snow removal.
The fact that the plows can dump literal feet of heart-attack-inducing snow on elderly folks' sidewalks and then say "you take care of it" is unconscionable.
The city prioritizes cars over people and I tire of it.
Upgrading my Framework 16 took about three hours, but was otherwise painless. Windows did need me to re-set-up my fingerprint and pin after changing the entire motherboard, and I had to re-enter my bitlocker recovery key. But that process was accessible.
Please have you already written any Framework 16 review? I'm interested in things like whether the keyboard has keys distinguishable enough, whether keyboard sections are clearly split, whether it lacks any important key such as right control which has been replaced by Copilot key on newer laptops, how about audio quality, if there are problems with any hardware driver for Windows, etc.
@clv1 I haven't written any review. But to quickly answer your questions: * no critical keys are missing, at least on the North American keyboard layout, and I also have the number pad module. The only missing keys from a full keyboard are the six pack (home/end, page up/down, etc.) * the keys are fine, though there is no gap between the function keys, and no dot on f4, f8, etc. * However, the laptop runs hot enough that I prefer to leave it on a table and use a wireless keyboard, instead of holding the laptop on my lap * Audio quality is fair, once you enable the NVDA or jaws feature that stops the sound system from falling asleep. It's just the standard real tech audio chip that's on pretty much all laptops these days * Framework updates the driver bundle regularly, and the driver and bios updaters are fully accessible * The only problems come if you allow Windows Update to install driver updates. Sometimes it installs incorrect drivers and you have to use system restore to roll back an update * If you live with others: the fans are extremely! loud when the laptop is busy. If someone was trying to, for example, watch TV or listen to music while you were gaming on the laptop, they would get quite annoyed
thanks a lot! I use an USB keyboard with my 14" laptop as well. I would only buy a 16" if I was going to use its own keyboard, otherwise I don't find worth the bigger size. From your description, the keyboard is close to the Dell Inspirons before the Copilot key, except that the Inspiron has the six keys pad, albeit disposed in another layout.
I have a curiosity from your answer to me yesterday: what are the manufacturers that put dots on the f4 and f8 keys on their laptops? So far, I owned two laptops by Dell and one by HP, and no one had such dots.
@esoteric_programmer it happens in a cut-down version of Windows, where narrator is available. I don't know how it works, but I assume Microsoft has an unencrypted boot partition with some sort of recovery Windows that it boots to. You enter the key in there, then reboot. If I were running Linux, you would probably be correct and it would be inaccessible.
O yeah, I forgot windows doesn't actually have full disk encryption per say, but it's approximate enough. I heard there's an equivalent mode to FDE, but that's actually inaccessible. It's possible to do that under linux too, encrypted home with ecryptfs, signed or encrypted /usr with the TPM, and if the TPM decryption fails, the /usr is replaced with a base one since that part of the system is immutable anyway, which would still allow you to boot to a graphical application with wayland and orca, where you can perform recovery.
@esoteric_programmer I'm sure it's possible. But it almost certainly involves a lot of undocumented hackery, and the sound drivers probably don't work, because sound drivers on Linux never work without endless babying. Accessible disc encryption on Linux is, I suspect, not the default, and not easy to set up.
correct! regular encryption that we have under linux is full disk encryption, which is more effective than anything else for sure, but then it assumes everything in your disk can be mutated at any time, and therefore it's of value. That's why the way of doing it I described can't be done unless we're talking about immutable systems. Gnome OS has this way of doing things as a future plan, so watch this space, I suppose
also re, sound drivers: not exactly, that'd be true if we're talking about the initramfs or even grub, but in this case we're talking about your full /usr, which definitely has the sound drivers. If it didn't, you wouldn't have sound in that computer at all
@esoteric_programmer You're assuming that when I actually need my replacement base /usr, whatever mechanism that's supposed to keep it up to date with kernel and driver changes is working. I'm not even sure what that would look like. Hooking into apt somehow?
it's a base /usr, that's on a different partition and that's what gets updated as part of the immutable system's updates. Everything in there is signed though, even if it's not encrypted. Another alternative would be a /usr that's still in another partition, but not regularly booted to, a recovery environment which updates only when you reinstall the whole OS.
@esoteric_programmer Right, but these days, OS updates are rolling. What happens when the kernel updates? The kernel isn't in /usr...but I think the dkms modules are? So then you get kernel/driver mismatch and ugly things happen.
nope, this is a unified kernel image(UKI), in your boot partition. And also, that all updates in lockstep, because that's how immutable systems work. To get an idea of how that's like, I recommend trying gnome OS
@esoteric_programmer Okay, you're assuming some special brand of OS that nobody else runs. I was assuming standard Debian/Ubuntu/the thing the rest of the world uses. It's just not possible to do accessible disc encryption there.
I always thought the BitLocker prompt was inaccessible. How did you navigate that? Curious what you changed with your Framework and what the process of disassembly and upgrade was like accessibility wise. For example, I figure the instructions are in the form of videos which may not be the easiest.
Introduction This text describes the location, orientation and nature of some aspects of the framework 16 laptop for the benefit of visually impaired owners. It can be used alongside the framework maintenance guides.
@haui it was in the program as a self organized session, and there where posters. Next year we're planning to have an assembly. Will you pass through berlin.
Koťátka! Budu končit v současné práci, čas na nová dobrodružství. Ještě nevím, do čeho se přesně chci pustit. Ale jedna věc, která mě láká, je naučit se Rust. Je to bizarní dotaz, ale nehodil by se vám někomu člověk, co se naučí #Rust a bude pak pro vás dělat nějaké systémové věci? Jsem čistotný, programuju 30+ let ve všem možném od Basicu přes Pascal, C, assembler, Objective-C a Swift až po TypeScript. (Chápu, že ta konverzace je v principu složitější, ale to můžem vždycky dohnat později.)
u nás se občas někdo na Rust hledá, tak mrkni na jobs.redhat.com. Potřebovali bychom člověka na Rust i u nás v týmu, ale teď to máme s otevíráním pozic všelijaké.
An FFmpeg developer filed a DMCA takedown notice against Rockchip, disabling its GitHub repository for allegedly copying and mislicensing FFmpeg's libavcodec code without attribution, after a two-year dispute.
Human memorie is *not* relyable. I know we get told it by all the security fanatics, but I'll take it serious from now on. Been walking through the world as usual, unlocking my phone with the fingerprint as always, and suddanly, when I needed to enter my PIN again, I forgot it. Gone, viped from my head. And no, I don't use my birthday as literally everyone. And it didn't return. Eventually I exceeded the atempts and my phone bricket itself for uh, about 3 hours. The thing is, I hhave written my PIN down, in my Bitwarden vault, and in an encryptet container at home. But I was in anothher city. So I had to return home with no phone, so no checking the train deparchure, no entertainment, no calls or locationsharing, nothing. It worked, thanks to my friends and some nice people on the way, but danm. Gonna take a backup phone more frequently now.
Undoubtedly, and keep in mind that the memories of blind people are often considered fairly good compared to others. Having said that, it's just not enough. If you don't use a PIN or password daily, or at least don't use it often, you will almost certainly forget it. This has been my experience, at least. It's one of the minor reasons I like using my PIN/pass, rather than any other method to access the data.
Meredith Whittaker (@Mer__edith) has been invited to speak at #39C3 later today. If you make it to the mic in time, here is an interesting question for her: "If I’m put on a boycott list by the Trump regime because I’m openly anti-fascist or oppose war crimes, will you adhere to US laws and block my access to #Signal?"
Jen doplním: vím, že nová Apple TV nestojí zas tak moc, ale chci ji čistě jen na Zwift. Jinak bych ji nejspíš vůbec nevyužil, proto klidně starší 4K model 🙂
Mám dvě druhé generace (a používám je i pro Zwift). Spolehlivě funguji a stále bohatě stačí — hádám, že ani ostatní nebudou mít moc důvodů se jí zbavovat.
@pavelkout Jo, taky jsem si to myslel. Apple TV je zrovna taková věc, kterou applisti moc často nemění. Jen jsem si to zkoušel a přijde mi to jako nejlepší a nejpohodovější propojení.
Mám Zwift na Apple TV, na MacBooku i na iPadu, ale na ničem jiném než Apple TV s televizí ho prakticky nepoužívám. Je to spolehlivé a jednoduché. Mohu vřele doporučit.
@pavelkout Já ji měnil už několikrát. Ta první třeba uměla jen HD rozlišení, což bylo trochu pitomé v kombinaci s 4K televizí. Potom jsem už upgradoval téměř hned, co vyšla nová a tu původní vždycky prodal.
Stop claiming that SOC is an information security certification. Stop treating SOC2 Type II as an indicator of anything other than achieving SOC2 Type II, a standard created and audited by accountants.
I've noticed this before, but Doordash lets you order up to $150 at McDonald's. What lunatic would do this? If you drove up to the window and asked for that much food you would back up the whole line. What if the guy behind you just wants some nuggets? Insanity.
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