#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 8 updated and 1 added apps:

* ZXTune - Chiptunes player: lets you play music from ZX Spectrum, Amiga, Atari, Commodore and more 🛡️

An update to Lanis had to be rolled back, as some proprietary components sneaked in. They were already identified and the issue fixed upstream, so it's not "stalled forever".

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

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}

Seriously, fuck this country. Arresting a mother because a 10 year old kid walked a mile?

reddit.com/r/woahthatsinterest…

So you think that Big Tech monitoring your every move isn’t a problem?

But what if you show up at the hotel at 9pm and the hotelier can ask a credit bureau how much you can afford to pay for the room? What if they can find out that you’re in chemotherapy, so you don’t have the stamina to shop around for a cheaper room? What if they can tell that you have a 5AM flight and need to get to bed right now? What if they charge you more because they can see that your kids are exhausted and cranky and the hotel infers that you’ll pay more to get the kids tucked into bed? What if they charge you more because there’s a wildfire and there are plenty of other people who want the room?

pluralistic.net/2025/06/24/pri…

#cookies #surveillance #bigtech #tracking

Anybody else out there fondly remember Geoworks?

It had a really killer office suite for low-end computers. I did all of my homework assignments in GeoWrite up until high school.

#retrocomputing

Just to give you an idea of how much software GCC 14's default of -Werror=implicit-function-declaration breaks, here are two pkgsrc bulk build results:

GCC 13.3.0: 24835/28450
GCC 14.3.0: 2589/28450

reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upst…

reports.pkgci.org/SmartOS/upst…

I also had to fix up a bunch of things before the build would even start.

This could take a while. And then the fun starts all over again with GCC 15's changes...

#pkgsrc #c

The current outdoors experience

#heatwave #SuperMario #SMB3 #retro

“Check / Uncheck all in a Table”
adrianroselli.com/2025/07/chec…

TL;DR: Unless you have user testing results saying otherwise, maybe put a check-all checkbox outside the table.

The rest of this thread has video examples…

[1/4]

#UX #HTML #accessibility #a11y

Check / Uncheck all in a Table

^{Adrian Roselli}

Interview with Lola Odelola @lolaodelola

"Lola Odelola is a force to be reckoned with. Which is why TetraLogical are delighted to sponsor her work on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG)"

#ARIA #AT #a11y #WebStandards

tetralogical.com/blog/2025/07/…

Interview with Lola Odelola - TetraLogical

Lola Odelola is a force to be reckoned with. Which is why TetraLogical are delighted to sponsor her work on the W3C Technical Architecture Group (TAG).

^TetraLogical

@Tutanota since the latest apk update the calendar app and the calendar widget stoped working.

Somebody has opened an issue in your Github, I have added logs to help you troubleshoot

github.com/tutao/tutanota/issu…

Tuta calendar

The calendar app is down and wont open at all. Ihave a samsung phone

^{nurial6 (GitHub)}

Un reportaje sobre Tuta nota en la prensa nacional... a ver si se extiende la información y más gente se escapa de su dependencia de Google.

elpais.com/eps/2025-07-02/tuta…

Tuta, el proyecto alemán que garantiza confidencialidad y planta cara a Google

Cuando Edward Snowden puso al mundo en alerta ante lo vulnerable de nuestra vida digital, la compañía ya operaba desde Hannover un servicio de ‘e-mail’ seguro.

^{Almudena de Cabo (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)}

When will #landlords and #speculators answer for their role in the #housing and #affordability crisis? cultmtl.com/2025/06/when-will-…

#gougegougegouge
#polMTL #MTLpoli
#montreal
#assnat #polQC #QCpoli
#cdnpoli #polcan

When will landlords and speculators answer for their role in the housing and affordability crisis?

When will landlords and speculators answer for their role in the housing and affordability crisis in Montreal and elsewhere?

^{Matthew Renfrew (Cult MTL)}

🔁 Bachelor's thesis survey! Please boost! 🔁

As many of you already know, I'm a cognitive science student currently working on my bachelor's thesis about the relationship between internet users' identities and their online personas.

Specifically, I want to see how that relationship might be different for cis and trans individuals, as well as for entities with non-human identities.

I prepared a short survey to collect the data I'll need for the thesis and I would greatly appreciate it if you take the time to answer it and share it around, both on fedi and elsewhere! It is meant for individuals of all gender identities and ages and shouldn't take more than 15 minutes to complete.

Thank you for your time :)

docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Survey about the importance of online personas for internet users

The purpose of this survey is to study the relationship between internet users and their online personas and to compare how this relationship may differ between cisgender and non-cisgender individuals.

^{Google Docs}

Я продолжаю - и пока не собираюсь бросать - заниматься переводами Mastodon на русский язык.

Чтобы переводы были лучше, можно подарить мне справочную литературу, например:

* "Справочник по правописанию и литературной правке" Розенталя;
* "Трудные случаи русской пунктуации" - Пахомов, Свинцов, Филатов;
* ещё что-нибудь, что посчитаете полезным.

Если я утвердила неудачный перевод, не стесняйтесь тегать меня в Crowdin:
ru.crowdin.com/project/mastodo…

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Edit: And now we find out the Forza team was completely disbanded. I am heartbroken. Good thing both SKG petitions reached their targets because this shutdown might be sooner than later…

Fuck Microsoft. No wait, actually fuck all the execs at every big tech deciding to keep laying on the layoffs while taking larger and larger bonuses. Over 9000 people got layed off from their gaming division today, cancelling a number of projects. This also included the majority of people working on Forza, essentially putting the game on life support.

theverge.com/news/696676/micro…

I got a bit emotional because it really sucks seeing this happen over and over, and in the case of Forza it's a game that means a lot to me personally because it's the first, and basically only racing game that's playable by blind gamers. It's the game I've logged by far the most time in recently, because it's a genre I always wanted to play and I had an interest in... And honestly, if it ever gets shut down and no one else decides to follow in their footsteps there's really nowhere else to go for this genre at least. Which really sucks. Well, there is F1 25 from EA, but it doesn't have a menu screen reader and the racing assists are less precise and not as complete.

Something else this is making me realise is a lot of the gaming accessibility successes we enjoyed recently have all broadly been considered a disappointment or involved in some controversies with the mainstream. The Last of Us 2's ending had people up in arms, the game also launched in the middle of a pandemic which didn't help, though I think it might be enjoying a bit more favor now. Mortal Kombat 1 seems to have largely disappointed WB games with Sales, which considering the game was designed to be a live service much like Forza actually is not good. We know plans for a second content expansion were cancelled and the game has basically had no updates since April, and knowing WB's CEO especially after the split they just had I wouldn't be surprised if he decided to lay on some layoffs of his own. Blizzard also experienced a lot of layoffs which affected the team working on Hearthstone which already resulted in 1 mode being completely removed, another frozen and the game pivoting even harder into microtransactions recently enjoying some controversy of its own involving a cosmetic pet item that can potentially cost over $100. All of these games were celebrated by the disabled gamer community but disliked in some way by everyone else, and could potentially shut down any minute. On that note earlier today I signed the stop killing games petition which would make preserving games like this much easier in the future, and if you're either in the UK or EU you should seriously do so as well.

stopkillinggames.com

Microsoft’s Forza Motorsport developer hit hard by Xbox cuts

Microsoft is laying off more than 70 people at Forza Motorsport developer Turn 10 Studios. The company announced sweeping layoffs today.

^{Tom Warren (The Verge)}

ICEBlock, an app for people to report and be warned when ICE raids are occurring in a 5 mile radius, is now the top social networking app in the iOS App Store.

We are all living in a Black Mirror episode.
engadget.com/social-media/iceb…

ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store...

^{Mariella Moon (Engadget)}

Microsoft is laying off 4% of its workforce (9,000 employees) which is separate from the 6,000 laid off in May, 300 in June and 2,000 laid off in January as low performers.

Today’s layoffs are to reduce layers of management.

The company beat estimates with $26B in profits and $70B in revenue during its last financial quarter.

cnbc.com/2025/07/02/microsoft-…

Microsoft laying off about 9,000 employees in latest round of cuts

Microsoft surpassed expectations on revenue and profit but is slimming down across ranks, organizations and geographies.

^{Jordan Novet (CNBC)}

am I crazy or is this a terrible scrolling timeline design?

Why is the 2021 demarcation for the END of 2021 instead of the beginning?

"ICEBlock - An app that allows for reporting sightings of of the US agency ICE - climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it"

engadget.com/social-media/iceb…

ICEBlock climbs to the top of the App Store charts after officials slam it

The application, which allows users to add a pin on a map to show where ICE agents have recently been spotted, has climbed to the to the top of the App Store...

^{Mariella Moon (Engadget)}