You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters towards your posts's maximum size, no matter how long the link really is.

By avoiding link shorteners, you are also protecting people's privacy and reducing the risk of link rot.

(There is a bug on the official iPhone/iPad app that means links are counted as their true length instead of 23, which is yet another reason to switch to a third party app such as Ice Cubes or Mona or Ivory.)

#FediTips

Congratulations to our newest NVDA Certified Expert, Victor-Daniel Dima!

If you'd like to become an NVDA Certified Expert, you can sit the exam for FREE here: certification.nvaccess.org/

(There is a cost to receive the certificate, with all money helping keep NVDA free for all!)

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Certification #Qualification #Study #AmStudying #Exam #Leadership #Technology

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…

"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}

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.

flip.it/u1UPFX

#Crypto #SiliconValley #Ethereum #Trump #2024Election

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

We need ARIA but for terminals.

Yes, I said this a million times already, but the state of terminal accessibility is honestly that sad.

People complain about React, but React at least gives you the ability to be accessible. With TTY apps, you either make the UX suck for the 99% of users or you make it suck for the 0.001%.

P.S. Greetings from the land of "drawing box slide horizontal"

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}

I just had an idea for a talk about that explores the issues around our never-ending battle around technical abstractions and complexity. The problem is it contains heavy spoilers for The Flash movie. So I'm torn.

On the one hand, we all hate spoilers. On the other hand, I'm kind of thinking a bunch of people skipped this movie on purpose and have no plans to see it. For... reasons. 😂

Mr @icing is now ranked as committer number ten counted by the number of authored commits merged in the #curl project. Number four by the number of added lines.

In less than three years since his first commit.

My exciting finds at work recently happened because I wrote a program to analyze Saleae Logic captures and do all the things Saleae ought to do but doesn't.

Here are some screencaps of increasing semantic complexity: a thread. Gosh I wish I could post monospaced text to Mastodon without using an image.

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.

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}

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?

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

Opa peña!

Me lía un poco la interfaz, y seguro que me pierdo algunas movidas por no prestar demasiada atención, pero os aseguro que vengo con intención de aprender las manías y costumbres de la comunidad.

Me llamo Pablo, soy de Galicia y odio a muerte hacer presentaciones...

Llevo jugando a videojuegos desde que tengo memoria, últimamente títulos competitivos online, aunque juego un poco de todo.

A veces hago directos en Twitch. Probé otras plataformas, por que no me gustan los monopolios, pero al final, los colegas que tengo es la que usan... Y no fui capaz de hacer que se muevan.

Es un pasatiempo y no me lo tomo demasiado en serio, lo hago por las risas y para charlar con los colegas mientras viciamos, ¡os invito a pasaros a echar un ojo, si os apetece!

Además del mundo online soy informático, un intento de músico con un grupo sin baterista (necesitamos uno, POR FAVOR) y me flipa leer, ver series y películas.

De momento creo que basta como #presentacion . Me da que me pasé!

Un saludo a todxs!

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.

#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

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}

Im nächsten Tool das ich für Klickibuntiuser programmieren muss, werde ich den Shortcut für "Schließen ohne zu speichern" auf Ctrl+S verdrahten.

#iMogNimmer