From the Firefox 109.0 changelog:

„The native HTML date picker for date and datetime inputs can now be used with a keyboard alone[…]“

Nice! Always great to see native elements being improved.

The full changelog can be found here: mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/109.…

#firefox #mozilla #release #changelog #date #picker #accessibility #keyboard

This: digitalcourage.social/@echo_pb…

We can add to @echo_pbreyer that telecommunication orders play a marginal role for prosecuting child sexual abuse.

Read the full analysis: "CSAM Scanning: EU Commission's lies uncovered."
tutanota.com/blog/posts/eu-csa…


🇬🇧🚨🤥 In order to blackmail lawmakers into agreeing to the totalitarian #ChatControl #CSAM scanner, EU Home Affairs Commissioner @[url=https://respublicae.eu/users/YlvaJohansson]Ylva Johansson[/url] at a conference just openly lied in the face of ministers.

Let’s fact-check her lies one by one:

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🇬🇧🚨🤥 In order to blackmail lawmakers into agreeing to the totalitarian #ChatControl #CSAM scanner, EU Home Affairs Commissioner @YlvaJohansson at a conference just openly lied in the face of ministers.

Let’s fact-check her lies one by one:

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Indescribably exciting to have just been the first ever(!) person to enter Matrix in VR, thanks to @thirdroomio@twitter.com's first cut of WebXR support. Add in freeform scripting via our WebSG API and built-in direct-manipulation scene editor, and the possibilities will be infinite!! 🤯🚀👽
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@utopiah Very excited! Please prioritize moderation tools. There are some excellent examples out there, Altpace’s space bubbles (are they still around?) mute buttons, etc. Do what Meta clearly didn’t do and go have fun actually playing all the other stuff that’s out there so you can see what works and what doesn’t for preventing harassment.

Layoffs are absolutely a social contagion. I've been in numerous conversations planning layoffs, and what peers are doing is always a key concerns. Layoffs are also a technology, and in the Crossing the Chasm framework, when Microsoft gets to layoffs we've reached the Late Majority. reuters.com/technology/microso…

I've been collecting interesting examples of information organisation in history, focusing on non-Western civilisations. I came across this example of an ancient Mesopotamian spreadsheet! It records wages paid to temple workers in 1295 BCE.

#History #AncientHistory #Cuneiform #Mesopotamia #CognitiveHistory

Spent my lunch break quickly writing up the fun and games of converting an svg to a pdf in #rust with out messing up the text.

Unfortunately I didn't save screenshots of all the weird errors I got along the way they would have been good to illustrate the post with.

parsecsreach.org/post/rust_svg…

#rust

📣 New! Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences

:doi: doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13230 (html)
:OpenAccess: is.gd/beyond_singlemindedness_… (pdf)

Writing as a transdisciplinary collective from across the cognitive sciences and beyond, we highlight the opportunity for a Gestalt switch that puts interaction at the heart of cognition

Fedi authors include: @andreasliesenfeld @marlourasenberg @saulalbert @abebab @cdutilhnovaes @fusaroli @davidschlangen @LizStokoe

Warning about the new thunderbird email app update, 102.7.0. If you are connecting to MS exchange servers, you may have pain. It changed App Name (see bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… ) & now some exchange servers don't recognize it & "require approval." My university server just refuses to connect, and my law school server tells me I have to ask for approval. No release notes, no explanation, nada. Really poorly handled, @thunderbird
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Sorry about this paper cut, John. it can be challenging keeping up with Microsoft's changes.

We did post about it here, as well on our blog, back in November.

blog.thunderbird.net/2022/11/i…

But you're right that release notes aren't live yet for 102.7.0 -- that's because the update isn't live yet ;-)

A new version of Weather O'Clock, a #GNOME Shell #extension that puts #weather inside the pill next to the clock, has been released

This version is the completion of what I wanted this extension to be. One day I would like to see something likes this upstreamed.

Repository: github.com/CleoMenezesJr/weath…

Get it on GNOME Extensions: extensions.gnome.org/extension…

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I use this hidden feature of Firefox many times a day, which is not advertised well because it does not work on every site. You can right click the search box on any web page and bookmark it with a keyword. So because I've bookmarked Google Maps search box with the keyword "maps" if I want to locate tamworth uk I just type "maps tamworth uk" into the browser’s address bar. Works for many, but not all, sites.

A Complete Guide To #Accessibility Tooling (Smashing Mag, 2021) smashingmagazine.com/2021/06/c… #a11y #tools #testing

LibreOffice 7.5 is revving up at the start line, ahead of the green light for its release in early February! Help us to test the development versions beforehand: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…

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Interesting open source alternative to #Calendly that I just DISCOVERED. Anyone know if it's accessible?

"Meet Cal.com, the event-juggling scheduler for everyone. Focus on meeting, not making meetings. Free for individuals."

github.com/calcom/cal.com

#accessibility #usability #calendaring

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While the EFF debunks the "public wifi is dangeous" myth, I login to a company's guest wifi with a tiny little bit of paper (which I have to photograph and zoom in to be able to read the password) to then get a network connection which supports TCP/443 only. (Yes, girls and boys, neither SSH nor mail submission or any other of those pesky protocols)

Have a nice day.

eff.org/deeplinks/2020/01/why-…

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I've asked it in a poll in 8/2021 at Mastodon.technology, now it's time for a refresher: To improve #security I finally consider to really drop support for #TLS 1.0/1.1 (see blog.qualys.com/product-tech/2… and e.g. ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.ht…). This basically would affect devices running Android < 4.4. As I do not want to lock anybody out, I'd like to see how many of you would this effect.

🇩🇪 Noch wer mit Android < 4.4 unterwegs und somit auf TLS 1.0/1.1 angewiesen (1. ja, 2. macht nix, 3. nein)?

So:

  • I still use such a device and need compatibility (1%, 4 votes)
  • I still use such a device but wouldn't mind (6%, 21 votes)
  • I don't care (92%, 320 votes)
345 voters. Poll end: 2 years ago

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Running #archlinux ! After 3 wonderful and mostly problem-free years with #manjaro I decided to move forward and do what I've been putting off for so long and try Arch ... after much consideration I've decided to forego any installation script and get the full experience with manual installation. I got it right on the first try. It's not as hard as some rumors say ... 😎

#linux

Haha!
Young black men offer to stop and search Met Police officers to ensure public safety newsthump.com/2023/01/17/young…

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I know it is not going to resonate much with people in English speaking countries, but this has been a major issue for people who use alphabets with special characters (my native Czech included).

For years #PDF viewers on #Linux such as #Evince couldn't save characters outside the basic charsets in PDF forms. It turned out to be a complex problem and multi-year effort, but it's finally done and you can use unicode in PDF forms. First available in #Fedora 37 where we've already backported it.

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What's even better than top-notch #LibreOffice documentation? The answer is: LibreOffice documentation in many languages! Our Czech community just finished translating the latest guide for Calc: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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@thunderbird @zsteinmetz This extension works, and I’ve bought a licence for the next year. We used to have more then 10.000 users running Thunderbird - now TB is only supported on Linux and we have a few hundred users left…

In a world where Exchange has no serious competition in work life, IMAP is not the way to go. TB should embrace EWS, EAS or MAPI

'Culture is molded on social networks, it sucks to lose out on a shared social language because you can’t see the images everyone is talking about.'
Snip from a wonderful article linked below. Please include more alt-text in your posts. It helps out greatly. Thanks.
theverge.com/2021/7/30/2258754…

Yolanda Díaz tiene razón en que esto no va de siglas. Pero tiene que ser consciente de que su proyecto no puede ni debe prescindir de nadie. Nuestro consejo editorial es la prueba de que es posible que todas las corrientes dialoguen y lleguen a acuerdos.👇
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Editorial CTXT⚫️| "Por un lado, @sumar@twitter.com debe hacer honor a su nombre e integrar a todas las fuerzas a la izquierda del @PSOE@twitter.com. Y @PODEMOS@twitter.com tiene que apartar cualquier actitud temerosa o agresiva y confiar en el proyecto que su candidata está configurando".
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RIP Mum. Missing you every single day. An article in which mum gets a mention.

Community Matters, North Kensington 2019 urbandandylondon.com/2023/01/1…