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Austria’s parliament has passed a law to legalise spyware for state use — despite strong opposition.

The new law would allow police to install malware on people’s phones or computers.
Officials say it will only be used to read encrypted messages, but experts are clear: there is no way to stop this malware from accessing other private data.

Civil society organisations and opposition parties have promised to challenge the law in court.

Read more: statewatch.org/news/2025/july/…

Statewatch | Austria legalises state spyware amidst strong opposition

Austria is set to legalise the use of highly-intrusive spyware by state authorities. The government has justified the law in the name of monitoring encrypted messaging applications.
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Pojďme udělat Mastodonu reklamu v podcastu Škrty! :) Kdysi jsem tu nadhodil, že bysme se mohli složit na reklamu v jednom dílu. Dneska jsem skrz to psal autorům Škrtů, kteří jsou pro. Zrovna běží kampaň na Doniu (donio.cz/skrty-2025), kde se dá za 30 tisíc koupit celá epizoda. Pome do toho! :) Třicet lidí po tisícovce bysme mohli dát dohromady, ne?

Podpořte existenci podcastu Škrty

Podcast Škrty, který boří ekonomické mýty a nabízí alternativní pohled na moderní ekonomii, čelí finanční krizi. Poprvé v historii žádají o podporu, aby mohli pokračovat ve své práci.
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Martin Wenisch

To je super napad! Abych dal kakzvane rybu na stul, tak doplatim zbytek nevybrane castky.

Za podminky, ze pokud k tomuto eventu dojde (cti: budu doplacet vice nez 0Kc), tak budu host epizody ja, @SilvieMit a Zerubabel. A bude se to natacet v Liberci (zazemi zaridime).

Plne si uvedomuju, ze kdyz uz jsem to rek, tak vysledna castka bude 29k (Zoul si netroufne couvnout) a jsem s tim v miru.

Zena me zabije.

@Silvie
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feld

The Farm Bill is paying farmers to grow corn we don't need, which has to be turned into HFCS and ethanol, sometimes bio-plastics (which aren't magically safe, don't buy the hype)

The corn sweat is exacerbating the heat domes. You're paying for it through suffering and higher electricity bills to try to beat the sweltering heat.

WE are bearing the cost of this stupid, stupid policy in more ways than one.

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🔠 In Google’s Alphabet, C stands for control, not compliance.

That’s why with @article19, @fsfe, @HomoDigitalisGR @vrijschrift, we have filed a formal #DMA complaint vs. Alphabet.

Despite clear rules, Android users can’t uninstall pre-installed Google apps, only disable them.

This is deceptive design that limits real choice.

📣 We urge @EU_Commission to act & enforce the #digitalmarketsact.

Read the full complaint ➡️ edri.org/wp-content/uploads/20…

Symbol of justice
#dma #digitalmarketsact @Free Software Foundation Europe @European Commission @vrijschrift @ARTICLE 19 @Homo Digitalis
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As you might know, we have an #Android app version of #MapComplete in the works, which makes it even easier to see and edit #OpenStreetMap

After a bit of initial testing, we are opening up the test program to our followers here on Mastodon.

If you want to join the beta testers, send an email to info@mapcomplete.org

Any issues? Head over to mapcomplete.org/issues

#android #openstreetmap #MapComplete
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Our community team has a new video series! "Contributing to Thunderbird" breaks down the barriers to developing, testing, translating, and supporting Thunderbird on desktop and mobile. Our first videos help you build a Thunderbird development environment on your Mac and Linux (specifically Ubuntu) machines, with a Windows video in the works:

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

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#opensource #thunderbird

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as the debate about "if there are no gaps, then the video *can't* have any audio description, so it *passes* 1.2.3 and 1.2.5 automatically without needing to do anything at all" rages on, I made a little illustrative video ... youtube.com/watch?v=nZjWBjN1YF… #a11y #accessibility #barrierefreiheit

WCAG Audio Description discussion/issue - illustrative example

To illustrate the point/focus the discussion on https://github.com/w3c/wcag/issues/4460 here's an example video that, to my mind, clearly should FAIL...
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#a11y #Accessibility #barrierefreiheit

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Here it is! Our metalhead.club public advert in Wacken!

Thank you very much @MountainWizard for checking it out!

If you're in Wacken today or in the next few days: Find our advert at Hauptstraße 33 and maybe take a selfie? 😉

(are we the first Mastodon instance that has publicly deployed an advert?)

#woa #wacken #metal #metalheadclub #festival #mastodon

Our "Doomscrolling? We also have Death, Black and Heavy" poster on a brick wall in Wacken. People standing in front of it are looking at it.
Another shot from far away. More metalheads are on the streets.
#Mastodon #metal #festival #metalheadclub #wacken #woa @MountainWizard
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`aria-label` still does not (consistently) translate.
adrianroselli.com/2019/11/aria…

Unless you only translate never-hidden content, your `aria-label`s never change, your content is an arbitrary subset of maybe only a dozen languages, and it never has a `<code>` element.

#accessibility #a11y


aria-label Does Not Translate

As of my 25 July 2025 update at the end of this post, aria-label auto-translation support is less spotty than when I first wrote this post, but still unreliable. It does, actually. Sometimes.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

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Surveillance is the new normal, especially due to facial recognition technologies. 👁📸

Dive into our latest guide on facial recognition & discover the steps you can take to reclaim your anonymity & avoid surveillance. 👇

tuta.com/blog/facial-recogniti…

#facialrecognition #anonymous #surveillance

Image with the text, Facial recognition: How to protect yourself from surveillance. Below are thee images of people using different methods to avoid facial recognition technologies.

Facial recognition: How to protect yourself from surveillance | Tuta

With advances in facial recognition, surveillance culture is rising and remaining anonymous in public is getting difficult. In this in-depth guide, we explore how to avoid surveillance from face recognition and ways to protect yourself.
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#anonymous #surveillance #facialrecognition
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crazyeddie

My beard seems to sufficiently disturb KYC processes for online banking and money processing accounts.

I'd kinda like to know the other side of it though. How to identify certain mask wearing individuals up to no good. Criminals in the act of committing crimes like breaking and entering or kidnapping or menacing or assault or thievery or what have you. Evidence could be gathered and burned onto the bitcoin ledger. Either it stays up forever or bitcoin goes down ;)

I can dream.

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Jak jsem v predchozim postu hanil Macaly (AI agenty obecne, ale oni jsou na rane), tak tu mam dalsi zajimavost.

Vitez vibecoding challenge: unbserved.com je v zasade neefektivni wrapper nad are.na

Kdyz otevrete Unbserved tak napalite frontalni utok na CDN (CloudFront) are.na, tisice paralelnich requestu a fakticky sosate vasi plnou palbou (u me GB/min) na jejich ucet.

V Unreleased uz se na podobne AI obsahove bitvy pripravuju.

#ai #agent #copyrigth

UNBSERVED - Visual Collection System

A minimal platform for organizing and discovering visual inspiration. Built for designers who value precision and clarity.
unbserved.com
#AI #agent #copyrigth

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 28. Juli, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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Hackers have reportedly destroyed the entire IT infrastructure of Russia’s Aeroflot in a year-long cyber operation. All critical systems—from databases to internal mail and executive communications—were breached. Around 7,000 servers were wiped and over 20TB of data stolen. Damages are estimated in the tens of millions of dollars. The attackers call it a "strategic strike" on the company’s and state’s digital security.

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Konečně něco pořádnýho. 👍
Jen 30 let zpoždění. 👍

TV Barrandov chce oslovit diváky erotikou, chystá nový pořad - Lupa.cz
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TV Barrandov chce oslovit diváky erotikou, chystá nový pořad

Televize Barrandov hledá nové diváky mezi fanoušky obsahu pro dospělé. V uplynulých letech natáčela vlastní noční show Intim Night a uvedla klasické…
Filip Rožánek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)

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"These features rely on tons of our user-generated data—the fuel of the platform... Crucially to the business, we users perform this crucial labor for free and without any say in the direction of the platform."

And this is why I stopped contributing to #MapyCom (and pretty much all proprietary platforms) and started contributing to #OpenStreetMap and #WikimediaCommons last year.

bikepacking.com/plog/when-we-g…

#Komoot #komooted


When We Get Komooted - BIKEPACKING.com

Following the sale of Komoot to private equity, Josh Meissner explores the broken relationship between corporate capital and our communities...
Josh Meissner (BIKEPACKING.com)
#openstreetmap #Komoot #wikimediacommons #mapycom #komooted
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Tom Lehrer died two days ago, aged 97: archive.is/ajmpU#selection-703…

If you have never listened to any of his songs, you could start here: youtube.com/watch?v=QHPmRJIoc2…


Tom Lehrer Full Copenhagen Performance

I hope you enjoy this excellent performance by Mr. Tom Lehrer. He is one of the most amazing comedian/singer i have ever heard. I hope you enjoy. PS. I'm not...
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miki

@adisonverlice There's a report of all the accidents that have ever happened to a Waymo. In the US, those are tracked and regulated pretty tightly. Most of the stories rhymed with "the car was in a parking lot, there was a thunderstorm, the car got hit by a tree, nobody was inside, but the vehicle had to be scrapped." At the time of the report, which was a few years after these cars were first deployed, there were two "real" accidents, both clearly the fault of the other party as documented on CCTV. Those are very clearly safer than humans, there's no question about it at this point. Not perfectly safe, and that's a distinction that escapes a lot of people, but much safer.

You're right about the lack of accountability, and that is exactly the problem. It's the question of what do we want as a society. A safer car, but one where there's no sense of closure when an accident happens, or a car that kills a lot more people, but when your family member dies in an accident, you can watch the guilty party rot in prison.

@adison verlice
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adison verlice

@miki You know I do have a way we can actually do something about it. Obviously the human is not going to have any closure. But what if we did something like this. We have AI so you can't tell me that we can't do something like this. Let's say there's about to be an accident and they're going somewhere the car will stop and back away and alert the person that there is a car that that's about to have an axis. Or that there's an accident. And then the car will try to take an alternate route. It could be longer but we're not worried about how long the route is in this situation. We have patience we can handle it. We're worried about not getting into an accident. Or if it can't do that it will try to back away to the safest possible area. And if it can't do that it will TRY to activate the airbags or get them ready before that car gets hit.
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Pelle Wessman

I guess that the one keyboard in a laptop that would be up to par for you would be the one in the niche Berlin made laptop from @mntmn 😄 mntre.com/

MNT Research GmbH

MNT Research makes open source hardware laptops, mobile devices and keyboards that are modular and repairable. Designed and assembled in Berlin, EU.
mntre.com
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Yesterday, I read on this platform about a program called Omni Describer.
It is designed to take a local video, a direct URL of a video, or a YouTube video and provide audio description.
The audio description can be played alongside the native audio track, it can be downloaded to MP3 and even have audio ducking applied if necessary.
Not only are the descriptions in sync with the main audio track, but they can be refined to your taste.
Features provide the ability to focus in on individual scenes and get an overview of what is happening, or perhaps ask questions about specific elements of the scene.

The documentation is easy to follow and clearly explained, and the accessibility of the program is absolutely top notch. So much thought has gone into the design of this, it is unreal.
It is one of those apps which, like JAWS Picture Smart, could make a real difference.

The issue we have however is Google sensorship.
In order for the description to be generated, you need a Google API key, which is easy to come by.
The issue however seems to be that Google is most particular about the content which should be described. When the program works, it works exceptionally well. The problem is that with a lot of videos, which are completely harmless, it does not.
We do get this situation sometimes with images which the AI deems as being unsuitable for us and so will not divulge the content. We seem to have this here in a more agressive form.

I've tried plenty of videos now. A number of them are fine. But put something in front of it which could even be considered slightly suggestive, it says "No, not doing that".
Examples would be extracts from BBC shows broadcast at prime time in the 1970's through to a video of a child's birthday party.
These videos do not controvene YouTube's guidelines or terms of service and have been available for many years. If they did, you could understand what was happening. There is a feature within the program which, as far as possible, disregards apparent safety precautions, but it does not seem to make a huge difference. Essentially, I am being told what I should be watching.

To reiterate, I'm absolutely certain the developer of this program is not at fault and I hope there is a solution some way down the road. He deserves credit for magnificent application development. But until we come out of this nonsense of the "nanny State", it looks a little bleak.

I would encourage anyone to use it though if you can:
audioses.com/en/yazilimlar.php

Software | Ömer Yılmaz

Various tools and software that I have developed
audioses.com

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If you're keen to try the beta, but aren't sure how, download & run it just like any other copy of NVDA!

You can install it, but we recommend most users create a portable copy. Tips here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-9…

Particularly test any highlighted features or those mentioned in the change log.

GitHub is the best place to report issues - steps here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1…

Or ask here or via email!

What other tips would experienced users give new testers?

#NVDA #NVDAsr #beta #Test #PreRelease

NV Access | In-Process 17 July 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#test #nvdasr #nvda #beta #prerelease
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