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When the internet is good, it's real good youtube.com/watch?v=h9mm0YlMa9…


New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Weather XL PRO Accessible with minor issues accessibleandroid.com/app/weat… #Android #App


Today's link harvest focuses on benchmarking (and statistics) & fuzzing ( @Seirdy 'd be happy to know.

Though since it just came up on my feed & I have a spot for it on the page I'm writing... @alifeee 's github.com/alifeee/polycule-vi…

scribbr.com/category/statistic…
scribbr.com/statistics/mean/
statanalytica.com/blog/types-o…
chartjs.org/
scribbr.com/statistics/simple-…
ekamperi.github.io/math/2020/1…
copetti.org/writings/consoles/…
patricegodefroid.github.io/pub…)
publications.cispa.saarland/28…

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I cannot yikes loud or hard or long enough.
vmst.io/@jalefkowit/1126503893…


Got laid off from VRC last week. Would appreciate a signal boost. Hoping to find a workplace that is as furry friendly as VRChat was.

About me:
💼 I’m looking for infosec leadership roles.
🌎 I’m open to roles in Ireland.
⭐ I previously worked at VRChat as the lead for security.

If you hear of opportunities that you think are worth looking into please send me a message! 🙏 #FediHire #FediHired #getfedihired

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#Videos können in Webseiten nun responsive eingebettet werden.

Also die Größe des Videos passt sich automatisch an die Darstellungsgröße an. Auch Hochkantvideos werden nun *schöner* eingebettet.

Alles was man tun muss:

Nicht den allgemeinen Einbettungscode verwenden, sondern auf Weitere Individualisierungen klicken und dort Angepasste Einbettungauswählen.

Hier ist das zugehörige Issue:

github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube…
Thanx to @Chocobozzz@framapiaf.org for implementing it.

#Useability#Web#FediHelp#FediVerse



Actor Donald Sutherland has died. variety.com/2024/film/news/don…


One of my favorite actors has died.

Donald Sutherland, may he rest in peace.

#movies #film #cinema #rip

variety.com/2024/film/news/don…



Matrix 1.11 is here with authenticated media! 🎉

The matrix.org homeserver will be rolling this out relatively quickly – watch the blog for news. In the meantime, developers are encouraged to update as soon as possible.

Read the release announcement for full details ➡️ matrix.org/blog/2024/06/20/mat…

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"Mit wenig Geld #lesen - aber wie?"
Gute Tipps von Eleanor Bardilac, in diesem Instagrambeitrag:
instagram.com/p/C8cV8oZNzlv/

#FediBuch #BuchTodon #Bücher #Leseliebe



Well, here we are :3

Everything shown here is merged as of today

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🆕 Digital Commons Community Platform (DCCP)!

Do you wish to sign up at Matrix.org and join the following room in order to join us in shaping Europe's #digitalcommons future?👇
matrix.to/#/#ngi-commons:matri…

@martelinnovate
@OpenForumEurope
@openfuture
@cnrs @linuxfoundation

#digitalcommons #opensource #EUpolicy#NGI #NGICommons



Länder fordern konkrete Modelle zu Asylverfahren in Drittstaaten

Die Bundesländer wollen vom Bund konkrete Vorschläge sehen, wie Asylverfahren in Drittstaaten möglich sein könnten. Darauf einigten sie sich bei ihrer Konferenz. Beim Thema Bezahlkarte für Flüchtlinge gab es eine Einigung.

➡️ tagesschau.de/inland/ministerp…

#Ministerpräsidentenkonferenz #Migration #Asylverfahren



The conversation with @josh and @matthew about @matrix on @FLOSS_Weekly was fascinating and for once I would have enjoyed more than an hour. Matthew's frustration with trying to explain to legislators why #ChatControl and #OnlineSafetyBill are so misguided was especially striking - I do hope @EUCommission listen.

hackaday.com/2024/06/19/floss-…

#OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Matrix



I've been doing more work on GNOME's issue management docs this week. The issue reporting and issue review guides have both been significantly improved. 🎉

All these wonders can be found at: handbook.gnome.org/issues.html

(You may need to force refresh to see the new version.)



The Librem 5 uses our unique hardware kill switches to physically disconnect WiFi, Bluetooth, cellular signal, microphone & camera—nothing like the security of powered off.
puri.sm/products/librem-5/
#Librem5 #Purism #PureOS #HKS


Is your inbox stealing your time and focus like your dryer steals socks? Treating your email like you'd ideally treat your laundry (no floor wardrobes here) can help put you in control of your inbox, instead of the other way around. Read our tips and tricks for putting this method to work in Thunderbird - and as always, we'd love to read about your productivity hacks and practices!

#Thunderbird #Email #Productivity

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/06/c…

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My approach hasn't changed much since the mid 90s. I have server-side rules to deliver mailing list messages to various folders. Whatever is delivered to the inbox should be intended for me personally. If it requires a response, and I can't reply immediately, I leave it in the inbox as read. When I've finished with it, I archive the message (whether a response was needed or not).
in reply to Jason J.G. White

@jason As one of our favorite childhood movies from the 90s said, if it's not broke (or Baroque), don't fix it! We're glad you've got a system that works for you.



> When using NNG_FLAG_ALLOC, it is important that the value of size match the actual allocated size of the data. Using an incorrect size results in unspecified behavior, which may include heap corruption, program crashes, or transdimensional mutation of the program’s author.

- nng.nanomsg.org/man/v0.5.0/nng…

in reply to Michael Connor Buchan

Yes, I realise that this is an ancient version of the docs. I was searching for something else on DuckDuckGo and found this by chance.



“Buh, Aral, #Fedora is a volunteer project… you a nasty bum-bum criticising us for shipping an operating system without a functional screen reader by default for EIGHT YEARS…”

Meanwhile, in reality: “The Fedora Project is not a separate legal entity or organization; Red Hat retains liability for its actions.”

Who owns Red Hat?

#IBM.

What is IBM? A 150 billion-dollar corporation.

Cut the “we’re volunteers” bullshit, acknowledge your ableist culture, and do better.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fedora…

in reply to Aral Balkan

I get that the people that spend a ton of hours working on these projects, without compensation, as volunteers, don't agree that they bear responsibility for this.

What I don't get is why they throw themselves in front of the billion dollar company that not only failed to invest in better accessibility, but that also failed to compensate them for their work.

To put it another way, instead of the response you characterize in your post, they could also have responded with:

"Yes, it's embarrassing we don't have a functioning screenreader yet. Sadly being the volunteer run project we are we've never had the money or resources to work on this yet.

And now you mention it, it is a little weird that we don't get help and compensation for this, and other work, from the company that owns this project and benefits from our free labor.

How can we collaborate to demand better of them?"



In-Process is out! This week featuring the NVDA 2024.2 Release Candidate, user Arthur’s Experience in Brazil, the new Synth Settings Ring commands, and a long piece on assigning new Input gestures / keystrokes. Check it out at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#Blog #NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #News #Newsletter #Accessibility



We're searching for the next generation of #privacy defenders! 🔭

Do you have what it takes to join the Tuta Team? 🔐

Let's get in touch 😀 👉 tuta.com/jobs
#encryption #hiring #softwaredevelopment





Don't feel you have to respond - I'm just posting this to myself... just because.


The audio and text archive of the Excel Yourself training course can now be purchased. A complete contents listing is here. hartgen.org/excelyourself


hi @NVAccess Can you fix the lang= tag on this page? It makes some screen readers speak in German. That's an interesting lang tag by the way. nvaccess.org/files/nvda/docume…
in reply to NV Access

Noice! No worries. Thanks for fixing it. It's fun to be part of the solution.
in reply to Martin from Toronto

Definitely! And I'm glad we could be so responsive on this issue :) As a bonus update - something else I found out in investigating, we are planning to add the developer guide to our files to be translated - which should both ensure any issues like this are seen by more people before they go live, and also that it will be translated for users developing for NVDA who natively speak languages other than English :) github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…

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my favorite Rockstar dev, LIBCURL COPYRIGHT AND PERMISSION NOTICE

Copyright (c) 1996 - 2024, Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, and many contributors, see the THANKS file.

All rights reserved.

Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLU




haha. can you please stop now?

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#AudioMo: Two days ago, Jake picked up a Sony #PS4 from his friend for all of £30. Yesterday, after not playing it for many, many years, I bought #Tekken2 and introduced him to it. This is my first reaction recording after not playing it for so long.
I used to sink hours and hours into this game on the original Playstation back in the 90's, so this is incredibly nostalgic for me.
From the music, to the sounds, everything is tied up in memories of yesteryear.
First, you'll hear the intro music, then a practice match so I can remember the combos, then a survival match.
His friend also found a second controller which Jake picked up yesterday after this recording happened, so we played two-player and it was a lot of fun.
One of the first times I've been able to game with my son in this way and we both loved every minute of it.


Freedom isn’t freedom if it’s only for abled people.

Then again, there’s a reason you don’t see the word “freedom” in “open source.”

And there’s a reason “share alike” is just one of the principles of Small Technology, alongside a non-colonial approach, inclusivity, and others. (small-tech.org/about/#small-te…)

#openSource #ableism #foss #freedom #accessibility #a11y #inclusivity #SmallTech



For eight years Fedora has been shipping GNOME with a broken screen reader!

EIGHT YEARS!

(Wayland has been default on Fedora for eight years – since Fedora 25, released in 2016.)

And a hundred-billion-dollar corporation like IBM ships operating systems today based on it with a broken screen reader.

What is an ableist culture? One in which the people who call this out get ostracised.

#ableism #fedora #redHat #IBM #gnome #cosmic #wayland #a11y #system76 #linux fosstodon.org/@soller/11264637…

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in reply to xbezdick

@xbezdick @mattb @jgamble I always find this an interesting take. On the one hand I completely get it, it's a valid point. But on the other hand I think it's important to keep in mind it's not just FLOSS developers who use this, or any, Linux distro. A user switching from Windows/Mac isn't going to want to learn a programming language, Linux internals, Orca internals etc. jut to get their system to work. Does that by proxy then mean they can't call out they feel being excluded, when an initiatve (Wayland, pipewire, take your pick) was quite obviously developed in such a way where accessibility was excluded?
It took 8 years for Wayland to develop some kind of semblance of accessibility. Calamares installer has had issues open for almost the same amount of time. Screen reader users, who are definitely not always developers or even open-source enthusiasts, who just want to use a piece of software like everybody else does, can't, and haven't been able to for a very, very long time without all kinds of blackbelt tech fuckery that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy, let along a random user who just wants to try Linux. Such a user doesn't care about issues, or giving back to the community, or how to best and constructively provide feedback to the right person. THis user sees people exclude them for years, and then give them a hard time for daring to speak up. I have had people in my streams asking me if it's even worth creating issues because they feel they'll either be ignored or yelled at. Is that the message we want to send?

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in reply to Florian

Let's take IBM out of the equation for a minute and let's not even look at Fedora, let's look at Linux as a non-techie sees it. Oh yeah, Linux, the alternative to Windows. There's different flavors of it right? Cool, I like (insert_favorite_distro_here), let's install it.
From this viewpoint, ANY Linux distro is outright hostile to a user with assistive tech needs. Many of them don't include a screen reader at all, which means a user who needs one can't install it by themselves. Some have one, but require a to the user unreachable checkbox to be enabled first. Some have a screen reader, but no voice to speak through. And that's just screenreaders.
Xorg is a security risk so the change was warranted is all well and good, but what a lot of these projects fail to take into account is that accessibility should be up there with security, localization, performance etc., because otherwise you're, at this point, wilfully discriminating against potential users. Not fun to say, not fun to hear I'm sure, but a fact nonetheless. And I get to say this. As a developer who's fully blind, has a 40-hour a week job, and would very much like to find an OS that isn't Windows/Mac OS without having to essentially rearchitect the entire freaking accessibility API before I do anything else, i get to bitch when literally an entire ecosystem figures that I'll get my turn years, maybe even decades after everybody else is already moving onto the next thing. Even if I don't have issues to my name that provide me that street cred, sorry to say

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Heute 19. Juni 2024 Stuttgarter Nachrichten
Marcel Fratzscher, Präsident des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung (#DIW), zur Diskussion über das #Bürgergeld.
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We are aware of an issue some users are facing purchasing from our shop currently. We believe the issue is a misbehaving WooCommerce plugin, which we're working on fixing. Thank you for your patience in the meantime!
in reply to NV Access

Good news, we *believe* we have squished the gremlim! Please, go to the NV Access shop and buy many things to confirm it works again!

Or, you know, don't feel you have to do that at all.... but if you were waiting to buy something.... thanks for your patience!



A PR to make `curl -vv...` do something:

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1397…



I've spent too much time adding this stupid animation LOL.

I've been careful to wait some time to let the image load before playing the enter animation, and I've also put an hard limit on how much to wait. I've done things properly™️