The thing with the court wanting Google to sell off Chrome and stop paying for search engine placement is that the latter is what fund Mozilla. Granted they have a hoard of cash, it's not a good news.
Also who would "buy" Chrome? Microsoft? That would be fucking ironic.
Don't forget to join this years Matrix fridge event at FOSDEM! matrix.org/blog/2024/11/matrix…
You can meet cool people like... well, I don't know who confirmed they will be there yet, but last year lots of developers and users where there and it was lots of fun and there was some free food, which is the most important part for a fridge!
(Also, if you joined last year, remember: this year it is in a different location with likely more heat and better toilets!)
Matrix in full force at FOSDEM
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
DOJ, States Formally Recommend a Google Breakup - Thurrott.com
The DOJ and several US states feel that the only way to fix Google's abuses is to force radical changes on the company.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
Not sure why I've always done it this way, part of it I know is control over where and how formatting is applied. (Thinking about how Slack turns ``` code blocks into something that screen readers don't announce the formatting for, as an example.) The other part is typing indicators, perhaps - I get conscious if people see this typing indicator, even though I know most likely nobody cares, but if something takes me longer to write thoughts out on, I want zero judgment possibilities. In Google Docs, unless I'm making edits or proofreading, I'd rather paste in chunks of text at once because if I end up re-writing something to sound more accurate, I don't want the inaccurate version of it revisioned. And these are just my own personal reasons for always copy-pasting. I suppose if my workplace claimed I was doing all my work by AI writing, it's not like my workflow there had changed before and after its usage. With how much they promote internal AI tools though for increasing our productivity, don't see that happening.
Your keystroke biometrics are everywhere
Real time collaboration software and text boxes that rapidly save drafts to the cloud essentially log your fingerprintable typing behavior. The industry refersSeirdy’s Home
“Synchronized” methods/blocks (intrinsic locks) will no longer pin virtual threads to platform threads. This has been an annoying limitation of Project Loom. Coming in Java 24:
openjdk.org/jeps/491
This feels weird to say because it should be obvious: Don’t download random #Conversations_im forks from the PlayStore!
I don’t know why people install apps with no website or source code. If you’re reading this, you’re likely not one of them—but server stats show they exist.
Yesterday, I warned one such fork about massive security issues and asked them to take it down. They refused.
absolutely .. there's no more information that what can already be found on the Play Store description .. or to put it simple: its just as good as nothing.
In all honesty, I believe that at it's core, the main problem is that there is no free "go to" full XMPP client for users to compare against, and it is almost unavoidable: new comers will not pay for an app to find out if they like/need/want to use a new service .. they'll only do it once they know what they are getting
me to the customer support chatbot: "Is it possible to hide my number in the phonebook?"
chatbot: "Sorry to hear you're cancelling your phone subscription."
me: "no, that's wrong"
chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
me: "don't cancel my subscription"
chatbot: "sorry to hear something went wrong while cancelling your subscription, we'll try again later"
me: "I want to keep my subscription"
chatbot: "I'm sorry, I don't understand"
FUCK AI.
Working on an open source Matrix project, and you would like the world to know more about it? Our FOSDEM DevRoom's Call for Proposals is open until the end of November, don't be late!
Talks will be recorded, livestreamed, and re-uploaded to our channel!
matrix.org/blog/2024/11/fosdem…
Call for Participation to the FOSDEM 2025 Matrix Devroom
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
As of Chrome 131 you have more options to style `<details>` and `<summary>`.
You can now use the `display` property on these elements, and also use a `::details-content` pseudo-element to style the part that expands and collapses.
developer.chrome.com/blog/styl…
More options for styling | Chrome for Developers
You can now set the display type and also style the container for the part that expands and collapses using the new ::details-content pseudo-element.Chrome for Developers
That's a lot.
wral.com/news/local/climate-ch…
#climate #ClimateChange #extremeweather #hurricanes
Climate change adds 18 mph to hurricane wind speeds, study shows
Human-caused climate change is intensifying Atlantic hurricanes, with rising ocean temperatures adding an average of 18 mph to wind speeds, according to a new study by Climate Central.Liz McLaughlin, WRAL Climate Change Reporter (WRAL)
As users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the decentralized microblogging service surpassed 20 million users this week.
We got lots of spam at MetaFilter and one time someone posted trying to promote something called "Exemplary Purchase" and we kept wondering what are they were trying to say until we realized it was a translation error, they meant to say "Best Buy" in English.
Ten years on, every time I drive past a BestBuy, I think "Exemplary Purchase!"
I love that.
We were trying to arrange to meet at a restaurant with my grandmother. No idea where the 'Original Gordon' was. She was misreading 'Oriental Garden'. Original Gordon's become a placeholder when we're not sure where to go forevermore
Already looking forward to the chaos the next time a major blindness convention is held at one of their hotels.
Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview forbes.com/sites/stevenaquino/…
Be My Eyes, Hilton Executives Talk ‘World-First’ Partnership In New Interview
In mid-October, Be My Eyes announced what it called an “industry-first” venture with hospitality giant Hilton that makes travel accessible to Blind and low vision people.Steven Aquino (Forbes)
Que non se lle apague a luz que ten nin lle enferme a neurona,porque mimadriña que portavoz 🤦
lavozdegalicia.es/noticia/pont…
La portavoz de los propietarios de viviendas de uso turístico gallegas: «Quienes quieren prohibir el alquiler vacacional es por envidia y chismorreo»
La presidenta de Aviturga no entiende a las comunidades de vecinos que vetan los alquileres de corta estancia en sus edificios: «Están devaluando su propiedad»María Hermida (La Voz de Galicia)
GitHub - sjdonado/idonthavespotify: Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service
Effortlessly convert Spotify links to your preferred streaming service - sjdonado/idonthavespotifyGitHub
So if you use Matrix I just opened a small "Luddites Unite" Channel on my Matrix Server. Dunno what it will become yet but setting up a "Luddite Slack" felt like it was the dumbest thing on the planet.
matrix.to/#/!RjZTZaZdcUlIsCWJc…
(all runs on my dedicated server, no 3rd party cloud stuff)
Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
The mask comes off at LWN, as *two* editors (jake and *corbet*) dive in to frantically defend the honour of Justine fucking Tunney against multiple people pointing out she's a Nazi who fills her projects with racist dogwhistles
the sheer audacity of Jake replying:
>> I certainly don't go around personally vetting the beliefs of every maintainer of software I use against my own.
> Right. And we don't either.
Yer a journalist, Jake. You *should* be vetting the people you're doing an article on, ffs. It's literally your job.
Tomorrow and saturday, we are doing a #surveillance #camera walk in #Ghent: see meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgi… and meetup.com/openstreetmap-belgi…
We will be adding them to #OpenStreetMap using @MapComplete
Bewakingscamera's op de kaart (wandeling)
Hoeveel bewakingscameras zijn er in Gent? Waar staan ze (niet)? Hoe kunnen we dit in kaart brengen? Is dit goed of slecht voor de maatschappij? In deze woMeetup
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Power Management Settings in Jieshuo Screen Reader - Accessible Android
In order for a screen reader to function properly, it should be given the privilege to operate in the background freely without being restricted by systemKareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)
People seem to enjoy these, so here's another photo of a winter sunrise near Arrochar, with the Cobbler in the background.
If anyone wants to write me an #NVDA addon for Christmas, second to one that looked up the current word in a local English dictionary for me would be a way of turning my numpad into a calculator.
I've been a laptop keyboard user for years without a numpad but spend a lot of time alt+tabbing back into my tape calculator.
To have access to that just by turning on the Numpad anywhere in Windows would be a great boon.
@NVAccess It was part of an addon sometime ago and i got to liking it , looking up a word I mean. Text Info I think. It was online, though, so a bit laggy and prone to occasional timeouts. NVDA works really well for this because you can be "On" a word without copying it.
The calculator thing I mentioned has probably less need to be an addon, although for efficiency's sake I'd want it to work wherever I am, so it'd need to be a blindy app speaking straight to the screen reader anyway, so it may as well be an addon.
I'm in no way suggesting this is core functionality, but of course this is the beauty of the addon ecosystem.
😀😀😀 Jak se mluví o optickém kabelu, tak to je jasna věc, to musí být H48 ☝️
@cynik_obecny
ja si teda myslim, ze uz jsme v bull-runu, uz 3 mesice exponencialne rostem
davam tomu tak 2 tydny, nez zacnou #BTC shillovat velka media, a pak uz ta jizda vede jenom jednim smerem ... k totalni devastaci planety 🤭 j/k
Following up on the previous vote, the never ending flood of requests and careful considerations, the Bluesky bridge fed.brid.gy/ is no longer suspended from #tchncs 
.
The bridge depends on active consent from any linked account in order to work and will only bridge public toots: fed.brid.gy/docs#visibility
If valid concerns arise / things get out of hand unexpectedly, we might change this decision in the future.
Just did the "Global Digital Accessibility Salary Survey" by #WebAim. Looking forward to the results!
If you want to participate, go here:
webaim.org/projects/salary/sur…
The link on the website shown after submitting the survey is wrong, by the way...
#a11y #accessibility #disability #survey #salary
Blindness Technology Training as a Career with a Different Spin - ConnectCenter
Learn about Kim Nova's journey from living with total blindness to finding her career path and combining her passions.Kim Nova (APH ConnectCenter)
The full axe-con 2025 schedule is here | Deque
Announcing the incredible axe-con 2025 agenda. Register today and join virtually in February 2025.Deque Systems (Deque Systems, Inc.)
Malicious Site Links Are All Over Amazon Music and Audible
Bogus listings for forex trading sites.Christian Zibreg (How-To Geek)
Last night's dinner with Japanese colleagues was all about Persian cuisine—from lassi (my default drink of choice) to lamb biryani and kebabs, to raisin and tomato basmati rice, as well as pistachio and almond baklava. My tummy was happy. 😊
9 Tips for Creating Better Audio Recordings With Your Phone
No microphone needed!Shan Abdul (How-To Geek)
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in reply to Hubert Figuière • • •TBF I don't expect much to happen.
Lawyers will be paid, things will drag away, and then the orange fascist, after being properly bribed, will get the whole thing thrown out.