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The Biden/Harris administration has released a tool — a first-of-its-kind software in partnership with the Department of Energy and HHS — that connects families to solar energy through the HHS' Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program.

Those enrolled in the program can see significant electricity bill savings, aligned with the National Community Solar Partnership goal of 20% in average household savings — the equivalent of $370 yearly per household.

#Solar
energy.gov/communitysolar/clea…

#solar

"The EU’s #NGI programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end. Developers are surprised and call for the programme’s survival."

netzpolitik.org/2024/next-gene…

#softwarefreedom


Next Generation Internet: EU apparently set to end open source programme

The EU’s Next Generation Internet programme has supported free, open source software for years. But now a silent death seems to be looming: An internal document suggests that financing may soon end.
netzpolitik.org
#softwarefreedom #ngi

#curl macOS gcc / llvm build compatibility (and more) final patch landed, with write-up: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1409…

GHA/macos: improve, fix gcc/llvm, add new test matrix by vszakats · Pull Request #14097 · curl/curl

This PR began as an attempt to drop GCC support, after repeated reports on fallouts when trying to use it on macOS. Then it transformed into a 3-week project turning up the issues causing the fallo...
GitHub
#curl

Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of decentralized blockchain Ethereum, has issued a warning to his fellow tech leaders against choosing a candidate purely based on whether they claim to be “pro-crypto.”

While he didn’t name any candidate specifically, his warning comes just one day after prominent venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz announced their support for Trump in the 2024 presidential election.

“In a blog post, Buterin said it’s more important to scrutinize a candidate’s broader policies to ensure they support cryptocurrency’s underlying goals, including internationalism and protection for private communications,” reports @Techcrunch. Here’s more.

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#Crypto #SiliconValley #Ethereum #Trump #2024Election

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'Doctor Who: Disney Deal, Ncuti Gatwa & Russell T Davies In Spotlight deadline.com/2024/07/doctor-wh…

'Doctor Who: Disney Deal, Ncuti Gatwa & Russell T Davies In Spotlight

'Doctor Who' analysis: the Disney deal, Ncuti Gatwa & Russell T Davies are in the spolight after the end of the latest season.
Max Goldbart (Deadline)

Oh nice! Firefox translation will now* translate all relevant HTML attributes, e.g. title, aria-label, aria-description and more : bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.…

Thanks @gregtatum !

* this landed a few hours ago, will be in next @FirefoxNightly and hopefully should be available for all in Firefox 130

1878710 - Add translation support for all relevant HTML attributes

RESOLVED (gtatum) in Firefox - Translations. Last updated 2024-07-16.
bugzilla.mozilla.org
@Greg Tatum @Firefox Nightly
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Ah joy ... Google is turning off its URL shortener and breaking every link that ever used it:

developers.googleblog.com/en/g…

A quick search on lore.kernel.org:

lore.kernel.org/all/?q=goo.gl%…

...turns up about 19,000 messages with affected links. That's a lot of history that is going to become harder (or impossible) to find.


Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available

Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.
developers.googleblog.com

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CQ Blind Hams is "the" source for #amateur radio content for #blind people in the English-speaking world. That's why I think it would be great if you could subscribe to the channel. They could monetize the thing with 1000 or more followers, which they then want to use to finance radio equipment for blind #Hams. I think it's a cool thing, I support it. Range boosts welcome. youtube.com/@cqblindhams?si=JZ…

C Q Blind Hams

This channel discusses ham radio topics as it relates to a blind ham. We do reviews, tutorials, demos and a round table.
YouTube
#blind #amateur #hams
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Welcome Bhanu Prakash as #curl commit author 1286: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1422…

Corrected the error message for cert blob parsing failed case by BhanuPrakash-P · Pull Request #14224 · curl/curl

When parsing of a certificate is failed, the error is logged for private key.
GitHub
#curl
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Mihugo
Mihugo
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as someone who uses curl nearly daily, I love your commitment to creating the best possible tool and encouraging others.

With many people getting COVID from the summer surge, a reminder that the CDC's isolation guidelines are inadequate.

CDC shortened their isolation guidelines, not because of a change in the science, but in response to political pressure to keep people working even if they are sick.

Science shows most people are infectious for 10+ days; it's best to isolate until you test negative on multiple tests. If you can't stay home the whole time, wear an N95 mask to stop the virus spreading to others.

Infographic with chart of COVID infectiousness time Text: How Long Are You Contagious With COVID-19? Studies suggest: • Most people are infectious for ~10 days • ~80% of people test positive for 5 days after symptom onset • Only ~30% of people who test positive have a fever • Presence of symptoms is an unreliable indicator of infectiousness • Individuals can be infectious before the onset of symptoms • Asymptomatic cases represent at least 20 to 40% of all infections

🚀 Keyoxide Mobile 2.4.0 is here with offline-mode support! 🔒 But before you update, please back up your profiles and contacts as this update will wipe them out locally. For more info: berkersen.dev/keyoxide-mobile-… 📱 #Keyoxide #Privacy #DigitalIdentity #OfflineMode

Keyoxide Mobile 2.4.0

Hey everyone, I’ve got some exciting news – Keyoxide Mobile just got a fresh update! 🎉 I’ve been working hard to bring you version 2.4.0, and it’s packed with the most requested feature: offline mode. What’s New in Keyoxide Mobile 2.4.0? Offline-Mod.
Berker Sen (Berker)
#privacy #keyoxide #digitalidentity #OfflineMode

As requested, there is now a map for #celiacs and #glutenfree venues as well: mapcomplete.org/glutenfree

Glutenfree

A crowdsourced map with glutenfree items
mapcomplete.org
#glutenfree #celiacs
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MapComplete
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@cantences
Well, there you go! Same conditions as en.osm.town/@pietervdvn/112808…: fill out the info for every shop or restaurant you visit and promote it with all your (#lactosefree) friends mapcomplete.org/lactosefree


Lactose free shops and restaurants

A crowdsourced map with lactose free shops and restaurants
mapcomplete.org

Pietervdvn

2024-07-18 18:52:12


@AccurstDemon Only if you promise to fill it out for every shop/restaurant you visit - and if you promote it a lot!

mapcomplete.org/glutenfree



Glutenfree

A crowdsourced map with glutenfree items
mapcomplete.org

#lactosefree @Thomas

Hola a la comunidad #Celiaca y #SinGluten el grandioso @pietervdvn ha creado en #MapComplete un tema (mapa) específicamente para vosotros, esto es muy importante ya que este mapa es GRATUITO, LIBRE y editable por cualquier persona, haciéndolo una fuente de conocimiento de TODOS y para todos.

Se acabaron los mapas de google maps que solo conocen los dueños y a quienes se lo comparten.
Si tienes una lista o mapa de tus sitios favoritos añadelos!

Puedes visitarlo aqui:
mapcomplete.org/glutenfree


Glutenfree

A crowdsourced map with glutenfree items
mapcomplete.org
#MapComplete #singluten #celiaca @Pietervdvn

Would you believe it's been a whole year since I published the final version of my content, consent, and safety toolbox for tabletop roleplaying games (and other purposes), the Script Change RPG Toolbox?

buff.ly/3zKrEvw
buff.ly/467iuW5

Did you know that it remains Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution licensed, free to download with an option to donate, filled with a variety of tools and new resources for play, and supplemented by emojis for Discord and both playing & tarot cards?

An orange and pink gradient background with cascading silver text coming down from the top that reads "Script Change" above a series of symbols like on a VHS player. The text that follows is black and reads "a multi-function content, consent, and safety toolbox by Beau Jàgr Sheldon aka thoughty.

Script Change RPG Toolbox by Thoughty by Beau Jágr Sheldon

A multi-function content, consent, and safety toolbox for collaborative creation and gameplay.
itch.io

I've tagged version 0.0.1 of #libcmatrix - a #matrix client library.

The project was initiated and developed by
Sadiq (gitlab.gnome.org/pksadiq) in order to add Matrix support to chatty (gitlab.gnome.org/World/Chatty) for @purism

It has been a bit 😴 over the past months but my recent interest in #unifiedpush derailed me and I had a look at the code base, cleaned up minor things and figured it might make sense to tag a release so here we go: source.puri.sm/Librem5/libcmat…

Thanks @devrtz for the reviews!


World / Chatty · GitLab

SMS/MMS, Matrix and (optionally) XMPP messaging via ModemManager, mmsd-tng, libcmatrix and libpurple
GitLab
#matrix #UnifiedPush #libcmatrix @Purism @devrtz

Prior to C23, the C standard does not specify an underlying type for enumerations other than that it be compatible with int, which is itself unspecified beyond being a signed number of no less than 16 bits in size.

C23 gives us the ability to actually specify the underlying type of an enum, which makes bit-flag enums much more portable, among other things. This is a standardization of existing common compiler extensions, of course. Clang and GCC have had it for years.

enum mode_t : uint8_t { FILE_MODE_READ = 1 << 0, FILE_MODE_WRITE = 1 << 1, FILE_MODE_APPEND = 1 << 2 }; struct file_operations; struct file { enum mode_t mode; struct file_operations *operation; };

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* Fossify Keyboard brings your Fossify Collection up to 11 apps! ( 🇩🇪 Prosit!)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

Quick Announcement: ElevenLabs Reader Now Fully Accessible! accessibleandroid.com/quick-an…

Quick Announcement: ElevenLabs Reader Now Fully Accessible! - Accessible Android

With all that out of the way, though, now there's reasons to be happy! ElevenLabs Reader has been now made fully accessible. After reaching the developers on
Ciprian Dinca (Accessible Android)

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Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡
Darrell Hilliker 👨‍🦯♾️📡
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@TinaSohl That's nice. I'm glad the right thing was finally done, though it should have been accessible from the very beginning. Wondering how long it'll be until a task-blocking #accessibility regression gets introduced because they're still not shifted far enough left on accessibility.
#Accessibility @Tina and Tony Sohl

Permissions, please?

For #Workbench by @sonny & friends

#GNOME #Inkscape #Illustration #AppIllustration

#gnome #inkscape #illustration #workbench #appillustration @Sonny
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Brage Fuglseth
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my subconsciousness loves puns, apparently. and pears 🍐

My new favorite whiskey glass

Current City is back!

This app helps you log your travels, see the photos you’ve taken in each place, and find information about your current location.

Congratulations Taylor Arndt for releasing your first app into the App Store!

apps.apple.com/us/app/current-…


‎Current City

‎Current City is an app developed by Techopolis Online Solutions, LLC to log your travels. It helps users determine their current city and state. It is particularly useful for travelers who need quick and precise information about their location.
App Store

We're starting #GUADEC2024 early with a pre-registration party tonight! If you're attending in person in Denver, join us at 6:30 pm at Tivoli Brewing Co. events.gnome.org/event/209/pag…
#guadec2024

"Apple’s decision to strike a deal with Taboola is shocking and off-brand — so much so that I have started to question the company’s long-term commitment to good customer experience, including its commitment to privacy." #Technology werd.io/2024/taboola-apple-new…

Taboola + Apple News? No thanks

https://om.co/2024/07/16/taboola-apple-news-no-thanks/ [Om Malik] "Apple’s decision to strike a deal with Taboola is shocking and off-brand — so much so that I have started to question the
Ben Werdmuller (Werd I/O)
#technology

Frustration; transphobia, Reddit, /r/transdiy

Sensitive content

#BerlinMiniGuadec setup today ✨
Jonas at the AV console at Regenbogenfabrik. In front of him there's Jordan on the stage.
Jonas at the AV console at Regenbogenfabrik, with some laptops and cameras.
#berlinminiguadec

Imagine a robot you can trust. That's MiMi by Purism. Human-operated, AI-enhanced, privacy-focused. Fund the future of robotics! #MiMi #Purism
puri.sm/posts/purism-announcin…

Purism Announcing MiMi Robot Crowdfunding Campaign – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#purism #mimi
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Miss Behave
Miss Behave
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seriously, what is this? you could put ressource into the development of a newer and better version of the #librem5 , or design a linux-tablet from scratch (with hardware-kill-switches, unlike the #librem11 ) or a linux-smartwatch (with better specs than the already nice #pinetime ) or - if you wanna go crazy - design an open-source car etc... at least something useful in daily life, which is not creepy😐
#librem5 #pinetime #Librem11

Say hello to the current state of the audio processing for what is supposed to be the beginnings of KeyOp 2.0. After a week's debugging, I'm still no closer to discovering the source of the issue.
Warning: It's very obnoxious, even after being turned down by -15 DB.
audiopub.site/audio/1bde43e3-f…

Thank you, @jfayre, for taking the initiative and contributing accessibility fixes back to OPNsense. Version 24.7 is arriving this month, with bootstrap updates and other accessibility fixes that should make it much more usable for those that use screen readers. Well done. forum.opnsense.org/index.php?t…

OPNsense 24.7-RC1 released

forum.opnsense.org
@Jason Fayre
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Robin Kipp (old account)
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@alexhall Wow, that is seriously awesome news!
OPNsense was quite inaccessible when I last tried it 2 or so years ago, which is why I’m still using PFSense here. Guess it’ll be time for some serious reinstallation / reconfiguration work soon.
@Alex Hall
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Jason Fayre
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@robin_kipp @alexhall Like I said, it isn’t perfect, but it’s a hell of a lot better than it was. I would suggest installing it on a virtual machine first just to take a look at the user interface before you upgrade your production machine. And obviously if anyone finds any huge issues that I missed, file an issue.
@Robin Kipp (old account) @Alex Hall
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Jason Fayre
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@robin_kipp @alexhall There is a current GitHub issue where I’m tracking all of the various pole requests that I’m submitting. The issue title is in progress accessibility for for screen reader users. Don’t have a link right now.
@Robin Kipp (old account) @Alex Hall
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Robin Kipp (old account)
Robin Kipp (old account)
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@alexhall Excellent point, yup it is a very complex piece of software with lots of web UI for sure! I’ll look into spinning up a VM to check things out.
@Alex Hall

Modern Modern Operating Systems
Tannenbaum's OS User/kernel diagram but everything is web browser

What's the main difference between Tuta Mail and Gmail? 😎 PRIVACY 🔐

Get your #FREE Tuta Mail account now: app.tuta.com/signup

#Tuta #Germany #privacy #freedom #bestemail #encryption #security #PrivacyMatters #FREE #SecureEmail #privacyfirst #encrypted

Table showing different features of Tuta Mail vs Gmail.

Secure Emails Become a Breeze

Tuta Mail is the secure email service, built in Germany. Use encrypted emails on all devices with our open source email client, mobile apps & desktop clients.
Tuta Mail
#free #privacy #encryption #security #Germany #freedom #encrypted #privacymatters #privacyfirst #tuta #bestemail #secureemail

Reminder: It’s okay not to have a take.

"The truth is that most events ultimately don’t matter. They pass away like clouds, here today, gone tomorrow without leaving a trace. Even more so, most world events aren’t actionable, in the sense that knowing about them doesn’t make any tangible difference to what you do or how you lead your life.

When you never withdraw from the stream of distraction, when you never allow yourself quiet time, the result is anxiety, depression and chronic stress. These aren’t inevitable responses to a broken world. They’re the symptoms of a brain that’s always on red alert, that never gets to relax or be calm or rest."

freethoughtblogs.com/daylight/…

Reminder: It’s okay not to have a take

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Allyant® Partners with CivicPlus® to Empower Local Governments with PDF Accessibility Remediation. groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

Allyant® Partners with CivicPlus® to Empower Local Governments with PDF Accessibility Remediation.

groups.io

Change of legal form - Help Tech GmbH becomes Help Tech GmbH & Co. KG groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

Change of legal form - Help Tech GmbH becomes Help Tech GmbH & Co. KG

groups.io

“You know what we call that, @bagder? Total World Domination.” – @jerod

Where ISN’T #curl?! 🎥 youtu.be/Vefr0IsPoBA


curl has achieved total world domination

@DanielStenberg explains how his curl project is pretty much everywhere on the "Changelog & Friends" podcast. Full audio 👉 https://changelog.com/friends/40S...
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#curl @daniel:// stenberg:// @Jerod Santo
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daniel:// stenberg://
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@sushee people often also mention zlib as a contender for the most widely used software component in the world. There is just no way to name a winner with certainty.
@Su-Shee
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Su-Shee
Su-Shee
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well I can def say I'm using cURL five times a day ("... keeps the doctor away..") - today and yesterday to extract some terabytes of data out of elasticsearch 😂
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NVDA 2024.3beta4 available for testing groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

NVDA 2024.3beta4 available for testing

groups.io

How APH’s Partnership with the DAISY Consortium Assisted with the Development of eBraille groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/73…

How APH’s Partnership with the DAISY Consortium Assisted with the Development of eBraille

groups.io

Leaked documents claim that Cellebrite software used by law enforcement agencies cannot unlock any more recent models than 2018's iPhone XR if they've been updated to iOS 17.4.
appleinsider.com/articles/24/0…

Cellebrite can't crack iPhones running iOS 17.4 or later

Leaked documents claim that Cellebrite software used by law enforcement agencies cannot unlock any more recent models than 2018's iPhone XR if they've been updated to iOS 17.4.
William Gallagher (AppleInsider)

🚨 Hello hello Jamers 😍

🎊 New versions of Jami are available:

🤖 A Beta version and an official version on Android: jami.net/download-jami-android…

📺 An official version on Android TV: jami.net/download-jami-android…

💻 A beta and official version on Windows: jami.net/download-jami-windows…

💻🐧 A Beta version on Linux: jami.net/download-jami-linux/

💻🍏A Beta version on macOS: jami.net/download-jami-macos/

🍏 A Beta and official version on iOS: jami.net/download-jami-ios/

🗨 Download your Jami's version!

#Jami #opensource #P2P


Download Jami for Windows

Download Jami Windows
jami (Jami)
#opensource #p2p #jami

It's true though:
Picture of the Windows 95 startup screen, with the text: Upgraded to Windows 95 from Windows 8, March 20, 2014 By Brenden This review is from: Microsoft Windows 95 (CD-ROM) I upgraded to Windows 95 from Windows 8. Before in Windows 8 I had to go to the ginormous start screen to launch a program on the desktop, but now in Windows 95, there is a start menu that makes launching programs much easier. Alot of the default programs that came with Windows 8 are in Windows 95 like calculator, paint, notepad etc. A notable and cool in Windows 95 is the briefcase, I can stick folders in it and bring the file up in another computer. Minesweeper is a great game in Windows 95 to try. Unlike Windows 8, MS-DOS games are fully compatible, so no need for DOS Box. Additionally, Windows 95 uses significantly less resources like hard disk space, so my hard drive went from 475gb out of 500gb with Win8, to 499gb out of 500gb with Win95. Some other useful features in Windows 95 are disk defrag for defragging your drive, and Scan Disk for checking for disk errors. The thing I love most with Windows 95 is the simplicity, there is no other interface, and not a bucket load of apps preinstalled. Windows 95 is overall a great OS and I highly recommend it.
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