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Still using OpenOffice? It has unfixed security issues over a year old: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – So all users are strongly recommended to update to one of the actively maintained successor projects, like LibreOffice. (Please share and help raise awareness about this!)

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Good document on both the Trump EOs and impact on #accessibility as well as #DEIA. Useful perspective I think
aapd.com/explaining-deia-recen…

Explaining Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility (DEIA), The Trump Administration’s Recent Actions on DEIA, and the Impact on Disabled Americans - AAPD

If you wish to view this resource as a PDF, click here. Since taking office, President Trump has taken several actions attacking diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (often called “DEIA” or “DEI”) in the federal government.
Jess Davidson (American Association of People with Disabilities)
#Accessibility #deia

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A brutal, gory fanfiction is perhaps not the best choice when you can't sleep because of a headache, but I remembered this one was short, intense, and just the sort of thing to suck me in when I needed to focus on something away from my own pain. reread from March last year, so it's been about 12 months...

The Unforgiving Minute, by Voice of the Nephilim.
Broken and defeated, the War long since lost, Harry enacts his final desperate gambit: Travel back in time to the day of the Third Task, destroy all of Voldemort's horcruxes and prevent the Dark Lord's resurrection…all within the space of twelve hours.
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New on the #LibreOffice development blog: Unterstanding the existing codebase to provide better patches: dev.blog.documentfoundation.or… #foss #opensource #coding

Understanding the existing code to provide better patches - LibreOffice Development Blog

Here I discuss some notes for the newcomers on how to better understand the existing LibreOffice code, and provide better patches.
Hossein Nourikhah (LibreOffice Development Blog)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #coding

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Stadsform treedt toe tot de fediverse! Terwijl we nog een beetje uitzoeken hoe deze hoek van het internet werkt, laten we jullie graag kennis maken met ons!

Stadsform is een centrum voor dialoog over de stad van morgen. Aan de hand van lezingen, debatten, workshops, filmscreenings en in samenwerking met academische, sociale, ondernemende partners brengen we onderwerpen uit de stad tot bij een groter publiek.

Houd deze pagina in de gaten, we kondigen hier ons programma regelmatig aan!

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#XMPP enthusiasts out there: what would you say the ultimate Achilles heel of the XMPP ecosystem is, at present? Fragmentation of clients? What?

My sense is that it's this: when one goes to store an XMPP address in one's addressbook, there doesn't seem to be standard way to store an XMPP address. #Android doesn't have that as an allowable field, and #Thunderbird and #Nextcloud have an "Instant Messaging" field, where the type can be set to "XMPP". But are these two compatible with each other when trying to sync between them? Edit: Yes, but there's a catch: *the XMPP address must be prefixed with "xmpp:"*

So "user@foo.bar" is not an OK XMPP address, but "xmpp:user@foo.bar" is.

Then to make matters worse, now there's a wish to change the labeling of "XMPP Address" to "Chat ID": gultsch.social/@daniel/1140129…

It might be a long time before the address synchy-ness ever works again between Android <-> #Davx5 <-> Nextcloud <->Thunderbird

Note: Android allows a "Jabber" type for an IM address, where you *don't* prefix the address with "xmpp:".

(#DeltaChat gets to gloat hard here, as they have plain-old email addresses)

#prosody #conversations #gajim #dino #snikket #monocles #monal

#xmpp #android #conversations #nextcloud #thunderbird #dino #gajim #prosody #deltachat #monal #snikket #monocles #davx5
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Krásné dobré ráno mastodoníci! 🙋‍♀️🐶🐈
Včera jsem byla u zubaře. Já se od dětství, po špatných zkušenostech strašně, ale strašně bojím zubařů. U toho včerejšího jsem byla poprvé. Dlouho jsem hledala. Ale tenhle kluk, a záměrně píšu kluk, protože byl hodně mladinký, bude nejspíš výhra. Poprvé jsem u zubaře úplně v klidu jenom relaxovala. Měl puštěnou hudbu, kterou poslouchám i já a do rytmu si pokyvoval. Pohodář. Tak snad HU-RÁ!
Vy mějte dnes taky jen čistě pozitivní den! 😊
#dobre_rano
#dobréRáno
#dobre_rano #dobrerano
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Takhle už je to několik posledních let, že zima je veskrze nad nulou a pak přijde po novém roce pár dní, kdy se to musí na sílu zase dostat do rovnováhy.

Takhle se prostě projevuje globální oteplování. Ne tím, že je tepleji, ale že jsou častější extrémní epizody. Klimatologové na to upozorňovali dost dlouho, že to tak dopadne ...

No nechtěl bych v takových mrazech přežívat pod mostem :(

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Valérie Plante and Projet Montréal had 7+ years... and the best they can do is temporary shelters, i.e. Dickie Moore construction site rentals?!?

Couldn't legislate new builds to have a % of affordable housing...

Couldn't stop airBnB BS...

Dismantled encampments b/c how dare people congregate and find community...

Refused to keep warming centres open if deemed too mild...

WHAT IS THE POINT OF PROJET MONTRÉAL, EXACTLY?!?!?

ctvnews.ca/montreal/article/ci… #unhoused #homelessness polMTL #MTLpoli


City building 90 modular housing units to deal with Montreal’s homelessness crisis

In an effort to deal with the homelessness crisis, the City of Montreal is building 90 temporary modular housing units slated to open in the spring.
Swidda Rassy (CTVNews)
#homelessness #mtlpoli #Unhoused

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I wonder who might be willing to fund an overhaul of Java accessibility on Windows, particularly for frameworks that run on top of AWT like Swing and the desktop version of Jetpack Compose. The old Java Access Bridge for Windows was necessary back when there was nothing but Microsoft Active Accessibility (MSAA). But today, Java should implement UI Automation.

The decrepit state of Java accessibility on Windows has real consequences for users. mindly.social/@valiant8086/114…

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It's too far back in my timeline, but I just installed blip, a free file transferring application on Windows. It works on other platforms too. The link I used was on a blog post where they discussed how it worked with Voiceover on the Mac. On windows? 100 percent inaccessible. I can't navigate anything at all. I pushed enter and it took me to a license agreement page. That's all I can get it to do. What a blah. I imagine it works fine on Android. How is there anything on Windows that is just 0 navigation at all. I can't move the navigator object in NVDA or anything. Absolutely nothing, like it's a video game. That's pretty rare to find something that bad.

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It's too far back in my timeline, but I just installed blip, a free file transferring application on Windows. It works on other platforms too. The link I used was on a blog post where they discussed how it worked with Voiceover on the Mac. On windows? 100 percent inaccessible. I can't navigate anything at all. I pushed enter and it took me to a license agreement page. That's all I can get it to do. What a blah. I imagine it works fine on Android. How is there anything on Windows that is just 0 navigation at all. I can't move the navigator object in NVDA or anything. Absolutely nothing, like it's a video game. That's pretty rare to find something that bad.
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@Matt Campbell @valiant8086 Nice to know compose apps can run on windows. Reading this I'm wondering about two unrelated things:

  • Can java jetpack compose apps run on linux too and how much accessible they are? I imagine java atk wrapper feels somewhat rough from my users point of view.
  • On an unrelated note is there a filesharing app that allows me to publish my directory listing and my peers will choose what they would like to download? I'd prefer a P2P apps similar how DC++ or IRC file servers operated back in the days.
@Matt Campbell @valiant8086

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🚀 Cinny v4.3 Update! 🚀

We're excited to introduce Cinny v4.3:

✨ New user settings design with Folds system for a cleaner, intuitive experience
🔐 Major security upgrade with vodozemac encryption
📱 Simplified device management with improved verification
💬 Pin messages and bulk import custom emojis & stickers
⚙️ Added developer tools for advanced customization
🌟 Emojiboard now supports emoji spec v15.1.0

Check out the update here: app.cinny.in/

#matrix #cinnyapp #reactjs

New user settings!

Cinny

A Matrix client where you can enjoy the conversation using simple, elegant and secure interface protected by e2ee with the power of open source.
app.cinny.in
#matrix #reactjs #cinnyapp

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A secret trick is to first land slow code, as then you can make a PR that improves performance by 108% 😋

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1637…


strparse: speed up the hex parser somewhat by bagder · Pull Request #16374 · curl/curl

Around 108% speed-up parsing many large hexadecimal numbers: original speed: 120000000 nums in 10.56473 secs, 88.0 ns/nums, 11358547.605 nums/sec patched speed: 120000000 nums in 5.06768 secs, 42.2...
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@nekohayo pointed me to this slashdot article - tech.slashdot.org/story/25/02/….
Woo, it has all the old hits. It's the Princess Bride of threads with conspiracy theories, systemd hate, X11 romance, GNOME 1 supremacy - it's like I stepped back in time largely because they are still battling old grievances from 20 years ago.

#GNOME


Is It Time For a Change In GNOME Leadership? - Slashdot

Longtime Slashdot reader BrendaEM writes: Command-line aside, Cinnamon is the most effective keeper of the Linux desktop flame -- by not abandoning desktop and laptop computers.
tech.slashdot.org
#gnome @Jeff Fortin T. (風の庭園のNekohayo)
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@ebassi
Oh there are so many wonderful hilarious quotes from that thread. Makes me laugh.
"MATE and XFCE are fine for the vast majority of users. For everyone else who needs that last 3% of functionality there's KDE. GNOME has run its course and should be allowed to die in irrelevance for what it did to us regarding systemd."

KDE is only worth 3% over the functionality of MATE and XFCE.

@Emmanuele Bassi
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CTV - A Delta commuter plane, landing on a flight from Minneapolis, flipped upside down after landing at Canada's busiest airport, in Toronto, injuring multiple people on board. ctvnews.ca/toronto/local/peel/…

LIVE UPDATES: 15 people injured after plane crash at Pearson airport, all flights cancelled

A total of 15 people have been injured after a plane crash at Toronto Pearson International Airport on Monday afternoon.
Alex Arsenych (CTVNews)

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Samsung Still Hasn’t Updated a Single Device to Android 15, One UI 7
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Samsung Still Hasn’t Updated a Single Device to Android 15, One UI 7

Samsung has long been referred to around these parts as the “King of Android Updates” because of their long-term commitment to device support, steady delivery of monthly patches, and their quickness at delivering major Android OS updates even with th…
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OK, #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today once more brought you no new apps – but 25 updated ones, 13 of them (so every second one) RB. Numbers getting closer together now with ever more apps covered by #reproducibleBuilds at #IzzyOnDroid – our status currently is

457 apps (36.8%)

and counting. Let's see if we can make it to 40% …


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
#AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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