my workplace bought a new firewall. the manufacturer included a cable for the iec c15 plug (Warmgerätestecker). its a US plug on the other side.
turns out my company does not own a single c15 plug cable, only boatloads of c13. (Kaltgerätestecker)
i am tempted to get my dremel.
The Document Foundation (TDF) is the non-profit entity behind the LibreOffice project. It collects donations from users, and employs a small team to support and coordinate the worldwide community that makes the software.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
Let's go to the webpage of an ISP to see what their current plans are. They only list download speeds, and tell me to click a link for full network disclosure.
OK, let's click that.
Up pops a Microsoft word document from early 2012.
Yeah, don't think that's going to provide the information I'm looking for.
Everyone that manages security reports for Open Source projects have been getting a higher workload because of AI. Both real reports and just slop - reports including vulnerabilities in code that doesn't exist. For some, this is becoming a denial of service attack, with developers having to spend valuable, and in some cases unpaid, time to sort out what's real and may be a vulnerability.
Jarek Potiuk, member of The Apache Software Foundation will talk about this on the GVIP Summit Wednesday Jan 28th in Brussels. We still have a few seats available - but hurry up to register!
The SSL options CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT, CURLOPT_SSL_EC_CURVES, and CURLOPT_CRLFILE were silently accepted by curl_easy_setopt() even when the SSL backend doesn't support them. This could mislead ap...GitHub
This was the worst Bulgarian president since 1989. He actively tried to divide the people by talking utter bullsh!t and implying we would be better off with Mother Russia. And now, he's seeking real power by getting ready to participate as a leader of his "new political party" in the upcoming Parliament elections. None of our other presidents has been so blatantly basic in their undermining words.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to Submit His Resignation on January 20
bgnes.com/politics/bulgarian-p…
“Today, for the last time, I address you as President of Bulgaria,” Radev said.BFNES (BGNES)
Entiendo que cualquiera puede construir una web que use el DNI electrónico para identificar a sus usuarios. Pero sospecho que no se puede hacer lo mismo con otros mecanismos de identificación oficiales (que son más convenientes).
Obviamente, da mal rollo, pero creo que es una idea a explorar.
Friendly reminder that putting links in alt text tells me nothing about what is in the photo and they aren't clickable so my screen reader is just reading out that nonsense.
EDIT: Oof. Ok folks, I am a small account and this post is getting attention. I am neurodivergent as well as vision impaired so I am a little overwhelmed and getting testy. Sorry. I am a human?
1. You don't have to include the full link. Leave out everything and only add the domain name (example dot com). That way our ears don't bleed and you are giving the accurate info.
2. On a vision impaired persons post, it is not nice to bring complaints or ableism. Take that shit to Twitter. No one, especially me, wants it here. I am not mad yet. A bit overwhelmed and frazzled, but this is the most amount of shares I have ever received on a post and I pretty much want to hide in a closet like a cat.
Beige bless and meow.
I accidentally opened calendar.google.com on my phone and it loaded instantly, seems to work beautifully and has a copyright year of 2010.
I think Google may have accidentally forgotten to kill something functional.
Today we're leaving X. If you're still there, we think you should consider leaving too.
A word here on:
1. why it is so difficult to leave collapsing platforms;
2. why we're making this decision today;
3. where else you can find us.
Mozilla fragt: »What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?«
Ganz einfach: einen Browser mit maximalen Sicherheits- und Datenschutzstandards. Ohne Tracking, ohne Datensammelei, ohne »wir machen das für die Finanzierung«-Ausreden. Ein Browser, der Nutzer konsequent schützt, transparent erklärt, was passiert, und sich wieder klar auf die ursprüngliche Mission besinnt: ein offenes Web, in dem der Mensch im Mittelpunkt steht – nicht Werbenetzwerke, Datenbroker und Profiling.
Und bitte: kein KI-Kram im Browser. Keine Zwangs-Features, keine Assistenten, die Daten abgreifen, keine »smarten« Experimente.
Danke!
This is a wild PIR
blog.cloudflare.com/cname-a-re…
A recent change to 1.1.1.1 accidentally altered the order of CNAME records in DNS responses, breaking resolution for some clients.The Cloudflare Blog
I can't help but notice they did a staged rollout (great!) for a DNS related change that went up to 100% in less than 24 hours (???). Seems a bit optimistic to me given how high TTLs can be?
Reading their explanation I can't help but feel that maybe the behaviour the Cisco switches rely on should have been standardized, so it puts the extra work on the server once instead of complicate every client.
Of course, the Cisco switches *crashing* instead of failing resolving is absurd.
So, here's a weird thing.
In 2004, I met a girl who's last name was Dawson, who lived on Dawson Rd. Yes, the road was named after her family.
Now, I'm working with a guy who lives on Jefferson Rd. Same kind of thing.
Jefferson Rd. is in Dawson, PA.
Full circle in a weird sort of way, I guess.
Names changed a bit.
The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there.
Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.
Hoy con algo menos de frío que ayer, pero llueve más.
Pour rappel, je serai à Saint-Cergue, en Suisse, ces 24 et 25 janvier aux Rencontres Hivernales du Libre !
J'y donnerai une conférence « XMPP ou comment ne pas réinventer la roue : Messagerie fédérée et sécurisée en 2026 » où vous pourrez découvrir XMPP et son écosystème moderne pour ne pas dépendre de produits centralisés pour la messagerie.
Ça sera également l'occasion pour les personnes qui le souhaitent de poser des questions sur XMPP, venir discuter, découvrir plein de choses …
N'hésitez pas à venir engager la discussion !
Dr. Gladys West,
the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology,
has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent,
she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College (now Virginia State University).
She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1952 and went on to earn a master’s degree in 1955.
In 1956, West began working as a mathematician at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
She was only the second African American woman hired at the base and one of just four African American employees at the time.
What followed was a career that would quietly change the world.
Over many years, Jane Plitt, founder and board chair of the Alexandria-based "National Center for Women’s Innovations" (NCWI), made it her mission to put Gladys West on the map
—quite literally.
West’s story became the centerpiece of NCWI’s inaugural work,
culminating in a lavish gala celebrating her 93rd birthday on October 27, 2023.
Emceed by Deborah Roberts, the evening showcased West’s extraordinary contributions,
with West herself declaring,
“This is the best day of my life.”
thezebra.org/2026/01/18/dr-gla…
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95Mary Wadland (The Zebra--Good News in Alexandria)
My guide for #discord with #nvda isn't finished yet, but I've laid out the new structure for where I want it to go. It's got more headings and lists to make jumping around with a screen reader easier. Sections that need more work are tagged in the unrendered markdown.
The guide focuses on the structure of the Discord desktop and web interface from the perspective of someone who knows screen reader basics and can move around a website but struggles with very complex web interfaces.
There's some useful info in there already. It'll take me a while to write up all the features, but if you know how something works and want to help fill it in or make a correction, feel free to make a PR on the rework branch!
github.com/PepperTheVixen/Disc…
This is a guide for using Discord on Windows with NVDA - GitHub - PepperTheVixen/Discord-With-NVDA at reworkGitHub
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.Discord
Ok now I've looked up our own community connect page.... this is (I think) the link you want: discord.gg/YCpWVqEnvQ
(That connect page is linked from the site, but it's here github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/… with info on the various mailing lists and other community spaces we know about).
*Update. RIM may work with screen readers other than JAWS.*
(Note: You will need to skip down several headings to find the beginning of the article)
I can't comment on this from a business perspective. But I do know that I have never been able to connect remotely to any of my computers, either from Windows to Windows or from Android or IOS to Windows, with any commercially made program for the purpose. The only one that works for me is NVDA Remote, which works on all three platforms, with Windows and the NVDA screen reader being a requirement. The limitation, however, is that I can't hear the sound on the controlled computer, nor can I transfer files between it and the controller. Fortunately, I don't really need these features and am happy just being able to control my machines at all. But for those who do need them, RIM allows this, but only for users of JAWS (which costs several hundred dollars/NVDA is free), and the last time I checked, it is also very expensive for an individual user who doesn't require it for work purposes. I'm also not sure if it is cross-platform, so it may only work with Windows. If anyone knows of a free, accessible solution that works with NVDA, please let me know.
Remote Incident Manager (RIM)
at-newswire.com/remote-inciden…
#accessibility #Android #blind #computers #IOS #JAWS #NVDA #RemoteAccess #Talkback #technology #Voiceover #W
indows
Here, Aaron Di Blasi describes a familiar failure mode in enterprise remote support: organizations deploy “best-in-class” remote tools that work fine for most staff, but quietly shut out blind and low-vision technicians and users because the experien…Aaron Di Blasi (AT-Newswire)
this seems to have ben a oneoff, a fluke if you will, but have a look at the #NVDA error I got when trying to do insert q then telling it to restart NVDA.
Error dialog Couldn't terminate existing NVDA process, abandoning start: Exception: [WinError 5] Access is denied.
That's the Hotel California bug. You can exit NVDA, but you can never leave.....
Ok, late response - but did you work out what happened? I'm not sure myself offhand, but if it hasn't happened again, that is good and likely, as you said, a fluke.
I could not post about #MLK Day today.
We so completely failed to manifest his legacy & to honor his terrible sacrifice.
Given the state of the nation, posting a quote with his picture or some trite nonsense was just too utterly blasphemous.
NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvdaGitHub
"bash: yotune: command not found"
In case anyone was wondering, when you type "yotune" on a terminal, unless you map an alias, you will not get uptime.
Yotune is also not a really bad iTunes rip-off.
This PSA brought to you by me, sucking at typing.
I mean, at least when I type something wrong, it's really, really wrong..., like "gesrib" instead of "bridges" a couple of weeks ago.
The United States is a global superpower,
and its military trains for war in every domain.
During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises.
One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies.
We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Norway,
that because the Nobel Committee in Oslo refuses to give him a trophy,
he no longer feels
“an obligation to think purely of Peace”
and can instead turn his mind toward planning to wage war against NATO.
As my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote today, Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Norwegian prime minister should, in any responsible democracy,
force the rest of the U.S. political system to act to control him.
The president is talking about an invasion that would require
“citizens of a treaty ally,” as she put it,
“to become American against their will,”
all because he
“now genuinely lives in a different reality.”
And yet neither Congress nor the sycophants in the White House seem willing to stop him.
theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/…
Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.Tom Nichols (The Atlantic)
RE: mastodon.social/@Viss/11592310…
"We should stop using open source software written using 'AI'", I say
"That's impossible," people tell me. "There's no way you'll be able to tell the code was written using AI"
cool, so there's a whole new github dork people can do: claude chatlogs. they live in .claude/logs/ and are full text records of peoples entire conversations with claude and they're ending up in public on github because i guess people arent adding…Viss (Mastodon)
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