We have opened the Call for Presentations for NLNOG Day 2025, which will be held on September 30th in Podium Mozaiek, Amsterdam.
If you have a talk you'd like to present, please submit it!
More details on possible topics, target audience and the requirements for presentations can be found on nlnog.net/cfp.
I had some serious anxiety about posting this, because I didn't want it to come off the wrong way. But after starting to learn how screen reader trees are actually programmed, my verdict: accessibility programming doesn't feel as accessible to me as I'd like it to be.
acidiclight.dev/blog/accessibi…
And this needs to change.acidic light
The decisions are here:
AMF v. CoinEx: canlii.ca/t/kbrbw
AMF v. XT dot com: canlii.ca/t/kbrbx
These blocking orders originally enforced copyright in the GoldTV case, but have now been used to enforce trademarks (Indigo) and now financial markets. Who could have predicted? Everyone.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:
* Pomozen: a Pomodoro timer designed to boost productivity and focus 🛡️
Enjoy your (1315) #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo – 627 of them (47.7%) are #reproducibleBuilds 
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
Für Selbstabholer in München:
* Speaker (Stereo), Anschluss: 3.5" Klinke + Euro-Stecker für Strom, durchgeschleifter Anschluss für Kopfhörer 3.5" Klinke
* ein Rudel DC (14)/DVD (23) Hüllen. Alle in gutem Zustand. Bei Bedarf finden sich auch noch ein paar mehr davon.
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#marketPlace #fediMarket #fediGive #fediGiftShop
@marktplatz@loma.ml
@marktplatz@mastodon.social
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People in Iran have been having difficulties accessing internet services, including foreign websites and messaging apps like WhatsApp.Mariella Moon (Engadget)
![Let the Sperm of a man by itself be putrified in a gourd glasse, sealed up, with the highest degree of putrefaction in Horse dung, for the space of forty days, or so long untill it begin to bee alive, move, and stir, which may easily be seen. After this time it will be something like a Man, yet transparent, and without a body. Now after this, if it bee every day warily, and prudently nourished and fed with the Arcanum of Mans blood, and bee for the space of forty weeks kept in a constant, equall heat of Horsedung, it will become a true, and living infant, having all the members of an infant, which is born of a woman, but it will be far lesse. This wee call Homunculus, or Artificiall [Man?]. And this is afterwards to be brought up with as great care, and diligence as any other infant, until it come to riper years of understanding. Now this is one of the greatest secrets that God ever made known to mortall, sinfull man. For this is a miracle, and one of the great wonders of God, and secret above all secrets, and deservedly it ought to be kept amongst the secrets until the last times, when nothing shall be hid [the apocalypse], but all things made manifest.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/678512 "Let the Sperm of a man by itself be putrified in a gourd glasse, sealed up, with the highest degree of putrefaction in Horse dung, for the space of forty days, or so long untill it begin to bee alive, move, and stir, which may easily be seen. After this time it will be something like a Man, yet transparent, and without a body. Now after this, if it bee every day warily, and prudently nourished and fed with the Arcanum of Mans blood, and bee for the space of forty weeks kept in a constant, equall heat of Horsedung, it will become a true, and living infant, having all the members of an infant, which is born of a woman, but it will be far lesse. This wee call Homunculus, or Artificiall [Man?]. And this is afterwards to be brought up with as great care, and diligence as any other infant, until it come to riper years of understanding. Now this is one of the greatest secrets that God ever made known to mortall, sinfull man. For this is a miracle, and one of the great wonders of God, and secret above all secrets, and deservedly it ought to be kept amongst the secrets until the last times, when nothing shall be hid [the apocalypse], but all things made manifest.")
Europeans are right to worry about the $250 billion stablecoin market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/18/world/digital-dollar-trade-war-weapon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #stablecoin #europe #cryptoc…Mastodon
Koukám že Piráty už to v politice nebaví a rozhodli se sami sebe vymazat z politické mapy.
Good luck, Myslím že tohle je za dlouhou dobu jediná akce, která bude mít, díky bohu, úspěch
novinky.cz/clanek/domaci-foto-…
Prázdnotou zely poslanecké i vládní lavice po část dlouhého jednání Sněmovny, při němž se chce opozice pokusit o vyjádření nedůvěry vládě Petra Fialy (ODS) v souvislosti s bitcoinovou kauzou.Stanislava Benešová (Novinky)
@aikencz @chick_enheart @archos
Mě se to líbí, jak jinak slušně oslovit mladou generaci? Politika je marketing, jako vše ostatní se mu podřizuje, protože většina řeší "koho volit" na poslední chvíli bez znalosti minulých dějů v politice.
Alena to dělá jako 🍟, Turek se starými 🚘, tohle mi přijde velmi dobré.
Schopnost politika být sám sebou je k ničemu, když ho nezvolí a zůstane mimo možnost ovlivňovat současnost 🤔. Nejsme většina, podléhající marketingu, ale ten se nedělá pro/na nás.
Piráti nemají voličské jádro jako ANO nebo ODS, kterému nevadí jakýkoli jejich (i velký) přešlap.
Asi už chceme dožít po staru, bez přizpůsobení 🤷🏻♂️.
Pro mne jsou Piráti stále nejlepší, možnost 💚.
Píšu si o mladých s @Petr90 tady:
f.cz/@ferda/114709281611841378
@Petr90@mastodonczech.cz No, já jsem ve svém "mládí" tak trochu svrhával starý režim (včetně řešení bydlení, zakládání rodiny, práce a dopravy). Nemyslím si, že dnešní generace to má těžší než jakékoli minulé a budoucí 🤔.f.cz - fskutečnosti Fedivesmír :-) Brána do federace sociálních sítí. 2000 znaků pro vaše příspěvky.
@ferda Jo, rozumím.
Od té doby, co odešli z vlády, to fakt působí, jako by už jen poskakovali v oblecích a kopali do všech okolo.
Místo konstruktivní opozice vidím spíš zahořklý marketing.
A i ta jejich „vlajková loď“ digitalizace na MMR? Podle auditu manažerské selhání.
Tobě se ten styl kampaně, co je na obrázku, vážně líbí? Mně to teda moc nepřijde jako něco, co by oslovilo nové voliče.
@aikencz @chick_enheart @cynik_obecny @Petr90
"Before there was “keyboarding,” there was typing. Before there was the electronic notetaker, there were the slate and stylus and the Braillewriter. Before there was GPS, there were blind people getting around independently by using the GPS between their ears. And that is my point: no matter how advanced technology becomes, we still have to be skilled problem-solvers who are fully engaged with our environment and prepared to adapt." - Jeff Altman
Read more: buff.ly/bkuERN8
The search for a search engine is annoying.
I don't want anything exclusively bing/google powered so mullvad/ddg/the usual suspects aren't an option
don't really want something ad funded either (so no mojeek)
looking at kagi but while I have significantly better results with it, especially in badly formulated/opaque queries (and it allows quite a few poweruser features), @Seirdy points out in their search engine blog post, they might have some problematic biases.
A cursory review of all the non-metasearch, indexing search engines I have been able to find.Seirdy’s Home
For what it's worth I think Wellnhofer’s position is correct and hopefully the vanguard of a significant cultural shift in free software.
socket.dev/blog/libxml2-mainta…
Libxml2’s solo maintainer drops embargoed security fixes, highlighting the burden on unpaid volunteers who keep critical open source software secure.Socket
Historie se opakuje. Po sesti zkrachovalych hladovych oknech se objevuje na stejnem miste v poradi sedme.
Uplne vidim realitaka, jak budoucimu panu majiteli ukazuje davy lidi pred jeho budoucim okenkem. Pan budouci majitel s hlavou v oblacich pocita trzbu az kazdemu z nich narve do ruky parek v rohliku za hromadku minci. Karty neberou.
Do toho zelena!
No nic. Pan soucasny majitel bude mit k veceri ohrate parky a testo na palacinky snad nejakou dobu vydrzi.
Da gibt es die Initiative
stifter-helfen.de/
Sie vermitteln vor allem #Software #Lizenzen an #NGO's oder gemeinnützige Vereine zu Sonderkonditionen.
Sooft ich mich dort in den letzten Jahren für einen Verein informiert hatte, begegneten mir hauptsächlich Angebote für #Microsoft-Produkte.
Nun war ich auch mal beruflich in einem gemeinnützigen Unternehmen beschäftigt, welches solche Sonderlizenzen direkt von Microsoft in Anspruch nahm. Das ging ne Weile gut, bis Microsoft die Regeln änderte...
Das ist ein Grund, weshalb ich es als Vereinsvorstand ablehne, auf solche Sonderangebote einzugehen.
Nun hat stifter-helfen grad nachgefragt, warum unser Verein denn die Dienste nicht nutzen würde. Auf der Webseite heißt es, es wären über 90.000 Organisationen in ihren Datenbanken....
Eine Frage im Antwortformular lautet:
Was müsste sich ändern, damit Stifter-helfen wieder interessant für Ihre Organisation wird?
Da habe ich folgendes eingetragen:
Gemeinwohlorientierte, datenschutzmäßig unumstrittene OpenSource Software offerieren, die der Richtlinie Public Money - Public Code entspricht.
Ich gehe davon aus, dass unser #Verein nicht der Einzige ist, bei dem nachgefragt wird 😎
publiccode.eu/de/
#PublicMoneyPublicCode #Förderung #Gemeinnützigkeit #digitaleGesellschaft #OpenSource
Public Money, Public Code - Eine Kampagne, damit öffentlich finanzierte Software als Freie Software veröffentlicht wirdpubliccode.eu
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“In the coverage of the conflict between Israel and Iran, we need to really emphasize the asymmetry between the interests of the two states: Iran would like to destroy Israel and Israel… would like not to be destroyed by Iran. This is not a situation where evenhandedness is appropriate.”
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How close was #Iran to the bomb, and how far has #Israel pushed it back?
timesofisrael.com/how-close-wa…
The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that Israel struck in the nick of time: Iran was very close to the bomb. Its ballistic missiles were becoming a dire threat. And then there's that derided 'Destruction of Israel Plan'David Horovitz (The Times of Israel)
1984: West German intelligence sources claim that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.” US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.
1992: Israeli parliamentarian Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Knesset that Iran is 3 to 5 years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.
1995: The New York Times reports that US and Israeli officials fear “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought” – less than five years away. Netanyahu claims the time frame is three to five years.
1996: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres claims Iran will have nuclear weapons in four years.
1998: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claims Iran could build an ICBM capable of reaching the US within five years.
1999: An Israeli military official claims that Iran will have a nuclear weapon within five years.
2001: The Israeli Minister of Defence claims that Iran will be ready to launch a nuclear weapon in less than four years.
2002: The CIA warns that the danger of nuclear weapons from Iran is higher than during the Cold War, because its missile capability has grown more quickly than expected since 2000 – putting it on par with North Korea.
2003: A high-ranking Israeli military officer tells the Knesset that Iran will have the bomb by 2005 — 17 months away.
2006: A State Department official claims that Iran may be capable of building a nuclear weapon in 16 days.
2008: An Israeli general tells the Cabinet that Iran is “half-way” to enriching enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon and will have a working weapon no later than the end of 2010.
2009: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak estimates that Iran is 6-18 months away from building an operative nuclear weapon.
2010: Israeli decision-makers believe that Iran is at most 1-3 years away from being able to assemble a nuclear weapon.
2011: An IAEA report indicates that Iran could build a nuclear weapon within months.
2013: Israeli intelligence officials claim that Iran could have the bomb by 2015 or 2016.
@feld imagine being a humble white, anglo saxon / german heritage sugar water salesman. out of pride for your heritage and culture you never sell it for more than 99 cent. then one day you get The Call. "hello, mr iced tea? it's the jews. raise your price... or else..."
a nightmare? or our dark reality?
Exasperated and disturbed the new IP license in the Mastodon TOS has no termination clause.
mastodon.social/terms-of-servi…
Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.
The original server operated by the Mastodon gGmbH non-profitMastodon hosted on mastodon.social
Update:
Mastodon has checked its alarming new TOS into git as the new TOS template:
infosec.exchange/@dvandal/1146…
Meaning all new Ruby Mastodon instances created after this date who use the stock legal text will *also* adopt an irrevocable IP grant license (no way to terminate the license if you decide your instance is abusing it) for post content (and also potentially some existing instances, if they regenerate their TOS from templates)
( POST EDITED: hachyderm.io/@thisismissem/114… )
@mcc@mastodon.social @dvandal@infosec.exchange it would be up to the admin to regenerate their terms of service — the template is just used to populate a textarea which is stored in the database.Hachyderm.io
I've posted a Github issue outlining why I'm freaked out at the word "irrevokable" in Mastodon's new TOS IP clause:
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content
github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…
It's sort of long (sorry), but several people seemed confused what my problem was earlier, so maybe extra detail will help. I include an outline of my "nightmare scenario", and contrast other site TOSes.
I *will* delete my account over this, and I am not joking.
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...mcclure (GitHub)
I've posted a Github issue outlining why I'm freaked out at the word "irrevokable" in Mastodon's new TOS IP clause: New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content https://github.Mastodon
Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.
blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/06/…
#Mastodon #DPG #DigitalPublicGoods #UnitedNations #FreeSoftware #FOSS #FLOSS
Mastodon has been added to the Digital Public Goods Alliance's DPG Registry.Mastodon Blog
🌍📄 Docs, l’éditeur de texte libre et collaboratif de La Suite numérique, a été reconnu "bien public numérique" (Digital Public Good) par la Digital Public Goods Alliance ce matin à l’ONU lors de la semaine Open Source des Nations Unies.
🔗 digitalpublicgoods.net/r/docs-…
Ce label marque une étape importante pour cette solution issue du partenariat franco-allemand-néerlandais 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🇳🇱
#LogicielsLibres #OpenSource #DigitalPublicGoods #ONU #Europe #Docs #SouverainetéNumérique
cc @numerique_gouv
Docs is a collaborative text editor designed to address common challenges in knowledge building and sharing.Docs - Collaborative Text Editing
In 1988, IBM tried to seize the whole PC market back and make it proprietary again.
This seemed to be the end for the PC open platform. Consensus was that you couldn't win against IBM.
Luckily for history, Compaq, and founding CEO Rod Canion, decided to try.
Read my latest #history longform on the fight for the soul of the PC. And how Compaq won. #technology
every.to/the-crazy-ones/the-ma…
Compaq’s Rod Canion broke Big Blue’s hold on the PC market—and changed computing foreverevery.to
I can't believe that the UK would even contemplate deporting an 8 year old and an 12 year old to Brazil alone. This is the letter the home office sent the 11 year old:
“I am satisfied that there are no serious or compelling reasons to grant you settlement. I am satisfied that you could return to Brazil and continue your education in Brazil where you would have the option to attend an English-speaking school.Whilst this may involve a degree of disruption in family life this is considered to be proportionate to the legitimate aim of maintaining effective immigration control.”
I'm ashamed at the actions of this country.
#UkPolitics #Shameful #Children #Immigration
theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/j…
While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to BrazilDiane Taylor (The Guardian)
Ooo lookie, accessibility is not planned. Lol. As usual. Cause foss is just a toy that no one actually depends on.
github.com/Ylianst/MeshCentral…
#accessibility #foss #RemoteDesktop #Mesh
We're trying MeshCentral out at work, and as one of the blind staff members who have access, I'd like to ask for some fixes to accessibility issues: When accessing a PC through the Terminal, I cann...prater-devin (GitHub)
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If you’ve paid attention to my ramblings over the last decade-plus, then you’ve heard me to talk about selfish accessibility.
It’s nice to see others embrace it.
“Selfish reasons for building accessible UIs”
nolanlawson.com/2025/06/16/sel…
All web developers know, at some level, that accessibility is important. But when push comes to shove, it can be hard to prioritize it above a bazillion other concerns when you’re trying to c…Read the Tea Leaves
🔐 "Fixing Desktop Keyrings"
with Dhanuka Warusadura at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🧩 GNOME 49 plans to replace gnome-keyring with a new D-Bus Secret Service. Here’s what’s changing.
🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…
#GNOME #Security #Keyring #OpenSource
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
🍜 "State of libsoup"
with Patrick Griffis at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 12:30 CEST 📍 Brescia
🔧 From 3.0 to what’s next—Patrick gives an update on GNOME’s HTTP library libsoup.
🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…
#GNOME #libsoup #Networking #OpenSource
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
The government’s inclusion of warrantless information demand powers in Bill C-2 may make this the most dangerous lawful access proposal yet, exceeding even the 2010 bill led by Conservative Public Safety Minister Vic Toews.Michael Geist
We could just ... not give police tear gas. That is a decision we could make. A state or city could make that decision, and remove it from inventory.
Maybe police do not actually need area-denial weaponry present at every public gathering. Maybe "people are throwing bottles at us, therefore tear gas" need not be the standard playbook.
The medical research on the _safety_ of CS gas suggests a spectrum from "unknown" to "probably dangerous, particularly the way it actually used": propublica.org/article/tear-ga… med.umn.edu/news/u-m-study-sho…
I had less luck finding studies about its _effectiveness_ of CS gas for the presumed goals of police forces: officer safety and encouraging compliance with dispersal order. I found a lot of quotes from police along the lines of "well, the only alternative is bashing people with batons" One study of the introduction of CS spray in UK police forces (for personal protection, not crowd control) did not find a clear win: doi.org/10.1108/13639510010343…
Anecdotally, we might look at the current situation at LA, or that a few years ago in Minneapolis, and note that CS gas was not effective in reducing crowd antagonism, even if it does move people from one place to another.
In the middle of a respiratory pandemic, law enforcement agencies have used tear gas in especially dangerous ways. The chemical agent also seeps into homes, contaminates food, furniture, skin and surfaces, and can cause long-term lung damage.ProPublica
We did it! 🥳🎉
Thanks to you, we achieved all the objectives of the crowdfunding campaign for the #PeerTube mobile app!
Thank you so much for your support during the campaign! 🥰
To mark the occasion, we've written a final article: joinpeertube.org/news/crowdfun…
We did it! Thanks to your support, we achieved all three of our fundraising goals for developing features in the PeerTube application! We now have the...JoinPeerTube
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