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They broke #WhatsApp for #Windows completely. At least with JAWS, I hear "Press right and left arrows" instead of each and every message with virtual cursor turned off. Also, it randomly starts calls on arrow keys sometimes. Absolutely unacceptable behavior.
UPDATE. Tested without Doug's scripts and with #NVDA, same results. Random messages, especially missed calls, are read as "Press left and right arrows...".
#Accessibility #Blind
#Accessibility #blind #whatsapp #Windows #nvda
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At the moment, the only stable, fast, and high-quality internet connection from Iran is either through Starlink, which is illegal here and extremely expensive and smuggled, or through stealth VPN services that operate using Starlink, which are also very expensive. I’m currently using one of those services. Each gigabyte costs around 5 to 6 dollars. Damn these murderous dictators!

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Amir

@miki Telegram has been blocked for several years. I only managed to connect to it using a very basic L2TP VPN in order to obtain this Starlink-based service.
That L2TP connection is extremely slow, to the point that it’s basically useless for normal web browsing or even opening WhatsApp. According to NetBlocks data, right now only around 1% of people in Iran have access to the global internet.
@miki

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As part of governance updates for The Document Foundation, the non-profit behind @libreoffice, we now have Community Bylaws. Thanks to everyone who contributed feedback and suggestions: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
LibreOffice logo and words "Community Bylaws"

Version 1 of TDF Community Bylaws - TDF Community Blog

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)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource @LibreOffice
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Andrew Hodgson

@jakobrosin I treat factory resets like a disaster recovery plan and try and keep that up to date. Mostly for Windows PCs but also the phone as well. Ensuring the information to get the important apps back online is readily available in a secure place. Mind you I do get stumped sometimes with this, for example last night I wanted to use a pub app to order drinks and I had forgotten I hadn't used that app since I did a factory reset in December.
@Jakob Rosin

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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!

gvip-project.org

#NVD #CVE #EUVD #EUCRA #CRA

#cve #cra #eucra #euvd #nvd
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Welcome Frank Buss as #curl commit author 1435: github.com/curl/curl/pull/2036…

setopt: return CURLE_NOT_BUILT_IN for unsupported SSL options by Frank-Buss · Pull Request #20364 · curl/curl

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...
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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

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Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to Submit His Resignation on January 20

“Today, for the last time, I address you as President of Bulgaria,” Radev said.
BFNES (BGNES)
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Winter blue tardis

Wow, I haven't heard of those guys, but Pro Russian says a lot. Yeah, how about, no. Never liked this guy, gives bad vibes. Through the TV, mind you, and I've only listened to him talk on new year's. Gives me the, "I just want you to shut up, because you're causing my blind insignificant self soul and physical pain." But the TV can't give my thoughts back, how truly sad. Also, no to that party nonsense... That's hypocritical tbf. Get in a party that supports your country not one where the support is to return the "great" empire of these strangers from across the sea, or some there distance relevant to it. My visual geographical map is 0 existent.
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Winter blue tardis

tbh I agree with the limits in a way. People who do live abroad haven't lived in here for ages probs, at least a percentage of them, so there's the thought of they don't really know the experience of how it is to be here, and you got to live somewhere to know how to give your vote in my opinion. It's like me living here, but voting for a government in the US or something like that. Dumb example, but an example nonetheless. I wouldn't vote, because I haven't been there, I moved out, I live here now, for example, but the other way would apply too. You got to read/watch news 24/7 and you'd still not have the experience in my opinion.,
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Winter blue tardis

Yeah, if we look at it that way, it is, hence my whole point on it is agree to disagree, but then what's right of voting in this country? I haven't voted either, ever since 2018, when I could. I want to do it myself, I don't want assistance, but no, these are unchanged, blah blah. So politicians and the meaning of discrimination, they need to look it up in the dictionary, me thinks... So, yeah, if we look at the point of view on it as discrimination, I agree with you. Otherwise, my previous answer still stands. Life is complicated, and who says I can't have two points on it...

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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.

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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!

mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net…

#mozilla #umfrage

What Is Your Dream for Mozilla?

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#mozilla #umfrage
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Sylvia

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.

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Consejo cafetero: me regalaron una cafetera express (DeLonghi Dedica Style). Quiero comprar un molinillo de café, pero al quien me hizo el regalo le dijeron que el molinillo tenía que ser de la misma marca. No me tenía sentido y buscando un poco de información veo que hay molinillos de cuchillas de acero inoxidable y de muelas (de acero o de cerámica), y que las que aseguran una buena molienda y evita atascos en el de muelas.
¿Es así, hay tanta diferencia?
#cafe
#cafe

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Ooo! Dave's Garage Youtube channel did avideo on setting up OPNSense as a transparent filter bridge! So, that means enterprise-grade IDS and IPS, but with none of the potential network renumbering, port forwarding remapping. Basically entirely rebuilding your network from a logical perspective is no longer necessary. Simply obtain hardware with two NICs, plug one end into ISP modem, other end into WAN port on your existing router, configure as specified, and you have transparent filtering, intrusion detection, and protection, and whatever your router was doing prior to the introduction of OPNSense still happens, and no one and nothing knows about OPNSense, accept of course, until and when something looks like it should be working, but in actual fact doesn't. Of course, you'll have to reprogram your mind to always check the IDS/IPS log to see what it has done to the traffic. But if you've got rules in place to deny said traffic for whatever reason, it most certainly will be done, directly out of the modem WAN port. It won't make it to your router's WAN port, and it most certainly won't make it close to anywhere that can be fooled by spoofing and other such techniques to create an "I'm your friend" IP address and thus be allowed into everything.

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I think my opinion on vibe coding shifts again:
I dislike people who just throw promts at the AI without any significant knowledge about what they're doing/the codebase they're producing, and just let the AI do everything waiting what it might come up with.
But with so many things, if it's in the right hands it can actually be a quite good thing, in this case a productivity booster. Of course I can't comment on the code quallity itself at the moment. But I guess as long as you can fix up and understand stuff with out the AI in between you and the code, heck that's just what coding is going to be in the future I guess. Gotta get used to it.

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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 !

#RHL26 #XMPP

#xmpp #rhl26

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Here's a random harry potter what if for you. What if Modesty Barebone grew up and married some squib great uncle of Penelope who's branch of the family moved to America, and he decided to start a band, named in rememberence of her late brother? What do you get? Creedence Clearwater Revival!
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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.”

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Dr. Gladys West, Mathematician Whose Work Made GPS Possible, Dies at 95

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 95
Mary Wadland (The Zebra--Good News in Alexandria)
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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…


GitHub - PepperTheVixen/Discord-With-NVDA at rework

This is a guide for using Discord on Windows with NVDA - GitHub - PepperTheVixen/Discord-With-NVDA at rework
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#discord #nvda
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NV Access

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).


Connect

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvda
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*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)

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#accessibility #Android #blind #computers #IOS #JAWS #NVDA #RemoteAccess #Talkback #technology #Voiceover #W
indows


Remote Incident Manager (RIM) From Pneuma Solutions - AT-Newswire

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)
#Accessibility #android #blind #technology #ios #talkback #computers #nvda #jaws #voiceover #remoteaccess #w
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NV Access

RIM should work with NVDA. I found this guide on their site: manual.getrim.app/en/windows/w… Otherwise, I'm glad NVDA Remote Access is working for you - we do have a request to add file transfer ability, but no timeline on that as yet. Another option is the Remote Desktop Accessiblity add-on which "allows using speech and braille with Microsoft Remote Desktop, Citrix Workspace, Parallels RAS and VMware Horizon". From the add-on store or addonstore.nvaccess.org/?chann…

NVDA Add-on Store

addonstore.nvaccess.org
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