I am at the stage where even "Larger Text" in GNOME Accessiblity options isn't enough. I have to install Tweaks and scale font up to 1.5. When you remove options essential for accessibility, this is not lean. This is inaccessibility
Hi I'm Cy, a total loser who has written some novels that nobody reads at fedicy.us.to/stories/ I also do a lot of programming that nobody uses or looks at, such as fedicy.us.to/forum Don't have a cell phone, don't make any money, don't have a family, or any sort of relationship, can't have a family at this point, never went on any adventures, don't have any life experiences to relate, and don't really sing, play, or write music anymore. There's nothing about me worth knowing and I am a little bitter about it. I'm currently not committing suicide and uncomfortably lingering and serving as an example of how everything you tried to do to make things better has failed.
Anyway I post silly jokes and actually boost crisis posts and try to find people posting good news, instead of bad news.
Today in Things I've tried that maybe shouldn't exist: Snickerdoodle twix. I understand idea and it would have been fine if the snickerdoodle flavor wasn't burying the twix chocolate. The chocolate shows itself somewhat but not enough to balance out everything else going on. 5 out of 10.
@fireborn I feel like I would have liked it more if the two flavors weren't trying to compete with each other. I wanted more of the twix chocolate than I got
Have you ever started laughing, because something someone said was so ridiculous you knew it must be a joke, but now you're looking around, and not everyone is laughing, not nearly enough people are laughing!
Side point on #ChatControl: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.
As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper public.
Life is like tetris. Something lands in your queue. You've got to figure out how to handle it so that it hopefully doesn't negatively interact with the other things that are already in your queue. Maybe you get it handled, and then you have a moment where you can feel some relief, and then the process starts over again.
I have an idea. Instead of giving billions to a war monger for a so called "shield", why can't we use these billions to build a resilient infrastructure in Canada, notably infrastructure for a "Canadian cloud" that is vendor neutral and can work without any connection to the US.
Subsidising the GAFAM to build data-centers is NOT that. It's just tax cut to american companies.
We could also fund (open source) software to also become less dependent on the US enshittification. The hundreds of millions of tax payer money that go annually out of the Canadian economy to fund US oligarch could fund a lot of Canadian sovereign *open source* software. Licensing is a key point here as well.
" when new money enters the economy, it benefits those closest to the source first while others face rising costs. Today, purchases of proprietary software echo this theory in a similar way. Vendors and shareholders profit early, while taxpayers and communities shoulder the burden of recurring fees, upgrade costs, and discarded hardware."
Communities, governments and businesses face a choice that carries real economic weight as Microsoft winds down support for its Windows 10 operating system. ...
@thunderbird super excited about the changes to the DB you are working on. Are threads going to still be built only with headers (no weird algorithm which decides for us what is part of the same thread and what is not?)
Please keep RFC compliant threads! there are so few clients that still do this unfortunately.
No algorithms for the new Conversation View! We will use email headers to guarantee compatibility with the open standards. We're a pretty big fan of open standards. 💙
oof 😅 very happy to hear that. Will you have a tree view for threads?? Something like the image attached? Apart from the chronological conversation view I mean.
More than 300 people will be attending The Matrix Conference next week. One of the most anticipated presentations is from Sweden’s Försäkringskassan.
Based on insights from eSam, the Swedish public sector wants to move on from proprietary, siloed communication systems.
Anna and Kenneth will cover the latest developments within SAFOS, a service designed to establish a national standard for secure messaging, video conferencing, and real-time collaboration.
Join us for the Matrix Conference this October. The four day conference will take place in Strasbourg, France. Talks will be streamed live and virtual attendees will be able to ask speakers questions.
Thank you for being part of our contributor community and making everything in the report possible! (And yes, we're really excited about the new database too!!) 💙 😊
This is your yearly reminder to #contribute to the apps you depend daily and still respect your #privacy are #free and #opensource. Demonstrate your love for them, help them do what they do best.
Thank you so much for donating to us and sharing it here on Mastodon! We're incredibly grateful to you and everyone who donates who makes our work possible! 💙 😊
Thank you so much for donating to us and sharing it here on Mastodon! We're incredibly grateful to you and everyone who donates who makes our work possible! 💙 😊
видео на котором поле, усеянное трупам и полицейский кричит «есть кто живой»
мурло которое вылезает на сцену с гениальным умозаключением. зрителей фестиваля Нова убил вертолет апач. есть ли у палестинцев такие вертолеты? нет. и ебаная толпа долбоебов, верящая в плоскую землю и то, что Израиль сам разъебенил с вертолета фестиваль Нова, чтобы напасть на бедных арабов в газе.
We really want to kill the planet as fast as possible
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Prime Minister Mark Carney raised the Keystone XL oil pipeline, which would run from northern Alberta to the U.S. Midwest, during his conversations with U.S. President Donald Trump at the White House on Tuesday, according to a source with direct knowledge of the meeting.
The source said Carney expressed renewed national interest *(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! that's Alberta)* in the pipeline from the Canadian side and the U.S. president was receptive to the project advancing.
maybe the next rewrite of Fedora / RH package install, they should add a "install <pkg-config-name>" command so that when you try to build and it says "package XYZ not found" you can just `dnf install` it.
@barthalion TIL. But then why not do that automatically.... I guess they hate good UX. Like the part where if you don't run as root to 'search'.... it will just download the whole database.
Yesterday Twitter showed me a video of a known journalist interviewing a famous muslim US representative, where they cheerfully talk how the representative married and has sex with her brother.
Very realistic looking yet 100% fake. So many will believe it.
Insanely racist, islamophobic and defamatory.
Non consensual deep fakes are so obviously problematic, and in this political environment absolutely incendiary.
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Sora is a remarkable technical achievement but these were two poorly considered decisions
1. A platform where anyone can share a video of Pikachu & Sonic the Hedgehog beating each other up will be a DMCA takedown festival.
2.
There was one on Mastodon with Linus Torvalds cheering on an anti-trans kernel maintainer, and going on a racist rant himself. It was definitely his style of communication, but it was not actually him.
🌊You have heard the EU bubble's new buzzword "deregulation" and you have no idea what it means? Or even better, you know what it means and whant to know how to fight it?
That's why we joined forces with out friends at @lobbycontrol to create free lobby tour of Brussels about the D-word!
🗓️ Join us on October 13th at 4pm 📝 It is free, but you have to register via ceo@corporateeurope.org 👟This is a physical tour of the European Quarter in Brussels ⌚ It will take about 90min
Remember. If your Province doesn't offer free COVID vaccines to all it's because the tax cut for the rich at the Federal level make they no longer supply to the provinces. So the provinces have no obligation to care.
Two Governments failing their citizens doesn't make a success.
You can write to your MP. You can write to the Minister of Health. You can also write to your MLA / MPP / MNA at the Province level, but chance that they listen, or can do anything are slim. Namely the wack jobs at the helm of both AB and QC....
⚙️ Upozornění: Probíhá přesun všech videí z lokálního úložiště na S3 ☁️ Během tohoto procesu mohou být některá videa 🎞️ dočasně nedostupná nebo se nebudou přehrávat. Po dokončení přesunu se přehrávání obnoví ✅ Děkujeme za trpělivost 🙏
Did you notice Tuta's new colors? We've already heard great feedback, particularly about the blue dark theme. 💙 What are your thoughts about this update?!
✨ New color themes ✨ Apply dark mode to emails even if they contain colors ✨ Auto-save drafts
The last one is not visible, but super handy: Tuta now saves drafts automatically so if your device shuts down, your Tuta draft will not be lost! 🎉
looks good! Just not possible to set it to be automatic by system, only the red theme is aligned with the system settings + it would be nice to have red/blue icon options so it matches as well 😊
I the default Dark (red) theme. Though it would be really cool if you could select your own color and it generates a material 3 color palette and then maybe also uses the material you color on android (if that's possible).
I don't like the new version of the light theme. It makes reading difficult; I feel like I'm in a fog... It would be better to make this new version optional, like the others, so that users have the choice to revert to the previous version. Thank you.
My boss asked me "what new skills do you think web developers will need in two years", which gave me an opportunity to tell her about my recent efforts to learn urban foraging and how to identify edible plants in my neighborhood.
🇩🇪Klare Ansage jetzt auch der Bundesjustizministerin: „Anlasslose #Chatkontrolle muss in einem Rechtsstaat tabu sein.“ Private Kommunikation dürfe nicht unter Generalverdacht stehen. "Solchen Vorschlägen wird Deutschland auf EU-Ebene nicht zustimmen." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #ChatControl must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." bmjv.de/SharedDocs/Zitate/DE/2…
As an experiment, I am quite literally #vibeCoding an #accessibility mod for a game. I'm about 90% of the way there (AI is making a mess of things but even a broken clock is right twice a day), and so far, I have spent a grand total of six dollars, and maybe about a half an hour of work. But sure, keep telling me making things #accessible is too expensive, takes too much time and doesn't need priority. Want to force #developers to use #AI? Do me a favor, force them to use it for this as well while you're busy making their lives miserable :P #rant
Dass die Absage zur #ChatKontrolle von der CDU kam, zeigt ja auch mal wieder, dass die SPD überhaupt keine eigenen Positionen mehr vertritt, sondern ausschließlich am Machterhalt interessiert ist.
witzig, in meiner timeline taucht gleichzeitig mit deiner Behauptung ein Artikel zur Ablehnung der #chatkontrolle durch die Bundesjustizministerin auf, sie gehört der SPD an.
Is anybody here like.... #weird or whatever. I wanna embrace this app, but it seems like most people are tech geeks and I'm just not. Has anyone gone to a good concert lately? Shit. I wanna find my weirdos.
Missing option, though that would probably be unrealistic: "Only if signed by F-Droid".
Why? When Google signs, it adds proprietary BLOBs to the APK as well (keyword: DEPENDENCY_INFO_BLOCK, FROSTING_BLOCK). So the APK as it would then be distributed via PlayStore would no longer be fully FOSS.
Why unrealistic? As for new apps, Google no longer accepts APKs signed by their devs.
In general, yes. However, it would need more active maintenance so the targetSdk stays up to date enough to not get kicked off Google Play. I'm not sure how viable that is for F-Droid, as it is currently outdated and keeping F-Droid Nearby up to date while that was on Google Play did not work out: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroid-nearb….
Also some way to show messages to Google Play users in case something happens causing a migration to be necessary, like a "notices" endpoint or something.
F-Droid Nearby is a simple app for exchanging free software apps locally, device-to-device, even when internet is not available or too expensive. It is compatible with the built-in...
@SylvieLorxu Focusing on F-Droid Basic has worked well for keeping targetSdk up to date (currently 36). However, there's the signing key issue and some people think instead of the entire app we could also just add an @fdroidorg installer.
Given how the last time publishing to Google Play went I personally have serious doubts about an F-Droid installer being maintained properly. But it is not a bad idea by itself.
Yes yes. My bad. I'm running version 25.8.1.1. When I open a .csv file with LibreOffice Calc I see this Text Import window. The problem is that it doesn't fit to my screen size and for that reason the bottom buttons aren't visible.
Hi! Please report it to our QA community at bugs.documentfoundation.org with details about your setup, so they can investigate and ask you if they have further questions. Thanks a lot 😊
The kerberos5 library Heimdal is one of three GSS libraries curl support.
It has a memory leak triggered by the new test in #18917 and the project
seems mostly abandoned.
Drop support and steer use...
quick curiosity question about breaking changes and versions: this is technically a breaking change, it would mandate a new major version according to semver. I know curl does not strictly abide by semver. How do you make sure the 3 people impacted by that change actually see it when they update?
@vincentbiret it's not a breaking change, neither API nor ABI change. An affected user (assuming one even exists) just have to build with a another 3rd party library and not change anything else.
ah it's a module/lib/implementation detail. From afar it looked like it was a protocol being dropped. I'm guessing that things like dropping a protocol or a version of one would mandate a major version bump?
So, exporting 73Kb ODS document (several sheets with one small table on each one of them) into XML in #LibreCalc results in 439Mb file. #Vim basically dies on this file. #Emacs opens it instantly. I can even navigate it freely and syntax highlighting works. Although it doesn't help much. Here's a catch:
me@desktop:~/temp$ wc -l file.xml 1 file.xml
It's a 439 Mb long line. I have no idea what's wrong with LibreCalc.
Hi! We're not sure what you mean, by "export to XML", as LibreOffice's own format (.ods) is XML. Can you be more specific? Also, what version of LibreOffice are you using?
@libreoffice I mean "File -> Export..." then choosing Microsoft Office 2003 XML. Actually I wanted XLS file, but didn't put an extension manually, so LibreCalc exported to pure XML. I used LibreOffice 7.4.7.2 on LMDE 6 (pretty old, I think). Now I tested it with the same file on LibreOffice 25.2.4.3 on FreeBSD 14.3. Results are the same: 439 Mb file.
Ah, OK! That doesn't sound right. Can you please report it to the QA community at bugs.documentfoundation.org and share the file if possible (or part of it that recreates the problem). Thanks!
I reported a use of uninitialized memory to them a couple of years ago without any response. This reminds me that I should probably submit it to the Debian BTS to see if the maintainer there has better insights than the heimdal project's listed contacts.
Another edition of LinuxDays took place in Prague last weekend – the country’s largest Linux event drawing more than 1200 attendees and as every yearm we had a Fedora booth there – this time we also representing CentOS.
I was really glad that Tomáš Hrčka helped me staff the booth. I’m focused on the desktop part of Fedora and don’t follow the rest of the project in such detail. As a member […]
PeakParkour is an audio-based endless runner where your character runs forward automatically across three lanes. Your task is to survive for as long as
The Japanese Blind ICT Network (JBICT) is currently running their fifth annual survey on Assistive Technology usage preferences of users with visual impairments. As I discovered it only this year, naturally I read through the results of the 2024 edition with the help of Google Translate. Some interesting patterns: 1. The survey was distributed through many channels including mailing lists, Line chat groups (the leading instant messaging app in Japan(, X and, if I understand correctly, a local Braille magazine. Most respondents were in their 40's and 50's with a stark difference even towards respondents in their 30's and 20's. 2. PC Talker, the locally manufactured screen reader with some 30 years of history, is still the leader, however NVDA and Narrator are winning some ground too. Most respondents admit to using a combination of two or three screen readers, the most popular combo being PC Talker, NVDA and Narrator. Interestingly enough, the reason most given for sticking with their primary option is being used to it rather than added features or exemplary app support. 3. iPhone definitely dominates the market which cannot be said about the Mac. Two users are still running Raku F-03, an early smartphone manufactured by Fujitsu in the 00's with a screen reading capability, compatible with I-Mode, the predecessor of current Web but with many modern features we associate with smart technology such as video, payments etc. I might have gotten the model wrong in which case, my apologies. One of those users owns this phone alone while the other uses it in parallel with an iPhone. 4. The adoption of Word as a text editor is super marginal compared to some local options, many of which are linked so can be tested. Outlook is the second email client next to a local option. Browsing email from the provider's website is more popular than Thunderbird and Becky was used by just a couple users. 5. OCR and image recognition apps are used primarily on mobile devices for reading mail, product packaging and social media photos rather than books. The apps we all know like Seeing AI, Envision and Be My Eyes are far more popular than Japanese products. jbict.net/survey/at-survey-04 - I'd be happy about insights, feedback and corrections from Japanese users - I'm just a geek exploring whatever can be found with the means available to me. #Accessibility #A11y #Blind #Japan
As an addendum: the most popular Braille display is Braillememo, which as I understand is a tiny display of 16 cells which perhaps bigger options available, with a feature of coupling more of them together to create a bigger one, kind of like sighted users handle things on multiple screens. Braillesense is pretty popular, Focus is way down and I was surprised how few users of Seika displays there are.
@jakobrosin Some time ago I was exploring the different advent calendars on accessibility and web design that @aardrian keeps recommending each year and there was the Japanese one - interesting resource by the way. Anyway, the JBICT network was referenced there and I followed the link and that's how I found their podcast which mostly posts interviews with exhibitors at the annual show of blindness products in Tokyo. I subscribed and transcribed some of that with Whisper which is how I got the rough idea of the products like Braillememo. They posted an episode on the results of the survey last week and had a link in the show notes - I need to take a peek into the episode itself as it might provide more context. The Raku phone is something I learnt from somebody I met through the ICC camp when I was researching the accessibility of I-Mode.
@miki @jakobrosin I guess you could have some degree of difference in one country or the other if, for instance, someone developed a suite of self-voiced apps that a lot of people have come to use over the years, or some other factor that affects the general usage pattern. I guess this would have been more of a wild ride in the 80's/90's where each country had three local screen readers for Dos and one or two odd hardware synths plus Apollo. Czech Republic is my favorite example of this - a dos-based notetaker with dialup support at the beginning of the 90's, the biggest blindness organisation hosts its own BBS, accessible public transit schedules on Dos, a Symbian app to support two or three blindness libraries by 2007...
@jakobrosin Italy had something similar re: DOS notetakers as far as I believe. There was also that device we had which let you read Teletext with a DOS screen reader.
@jakobrosin Italy had something similar re: DOS notetakers as far as I believe. There was also that device we had which let you read Teletext with a DOS screen reader.
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