The man rubbed a round mirror mounted on the wall. Within the reflection, a strange face appeared.

"Mirror, please tell me who is the most well-liked in the world?" the man asked.

"A difficult question. Possibly Keanu Reeves?"

"What about me?"

"You are supremely powerful," the mirror replied. "Your material empire is vast. You are capable of great and terrible things...."

"But am I well-liked?"

"On a likeability scale of Hitler to Keanu," said the mirror, "you're closer to Hitler...."

i made a new community! chat.micr0.dev

it's IRC but modern and cool: web client that works everywhere (phone/laptop/desktop), stays persistent, and user verification works with SSH keys instead of passwords!

why? real-time chat for discussing altbot, my projects, and just hanging out. sometimes async isn't enough, you know? also fuck discord :)

has image/link embedding, file uploads, works from anywhere, no app needed.

for IRC nerds: irc.micr0.dev (ports 6667/6697)

come say hi!

On reformule : "Des militants d'extrême droite violents et racistes font pression sur des agent·es publiques pour accéder aux données personnelles des Français·es, en toute impunité". laquadrature.net/2025/11/24/la…
in reply to Laura Kate Dale

You can read the article nominated for Best Gaming Accessibility Journalism at the link below:

Don’t Call Your Video Game “Accessible For Everyone”

access-ability.uk/2025/07/11/d…

Jimmy Cliff's death brings to mind The Harder they Come soundtrack. Decades ago, I was lucky enough to find it in a thrift shop - I subsequently played the record to death. While this isn't a Cliff tune, I've always loved it and IMHO it remains the most powerful track on album today (but feel free to disagree - it's a great record all the way through).

The Melodians, "Rivers of Babylon" (1970)

How can we sing King Alpha's song in a strange land?

youtu.be/BXf1j8Hz2bU

#RIP #JimmyCliff

in reply to Brian Gettler

And for the history and reggae nerds, this book - a study of Jamaican migration to Canada and the reggae scene they created here - is worth a read.

Jason Wilson, King Alpha’s Song in a Strange Land: The Roots and Routes of Canadian Reggae (2020)

ubcpress.ca/king-alphas-song-i…

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Woher kommt eigentlich diese Sitte bei #LinkedIn, sich gegenseitig vollkommen unironisch verbal die Eier zu kraulen?

„Uhhhah, es war so toll, dass ich diesem mega super fantastischen Vortrag von euch Powertalenten lauschen durfte.“
„Yeah, danke du großartiger Schwubbifutz für deine Teilnahme und die waaaahnsinnig progressiven Inputs“

Für wen ist dieses Laientheater gedacht?

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RE: social.mailbox.org/@mailbox_or…

Ich nutze den Dienst seit 10 Jahren und bin sehr zufrieden. Wer Mailbox also ausprobieren möchte, kann das jetzt zu einem sehr vergünstigten Tarif als Neukunde machen. Auch beim Thema Barrierefreiheit wird ständig nachgebessert und erweitert.


🚀 Der erste Black Week Deal von mailbox startet!

Nur für kurze Zeit gibt es die komplette mailbox Suite (Standard- und Premium-Tarif) für Privatkunden zum halben Preis: 2 Jahre zum Preis von 1 Jahr.

5 Gründe für mailbox:
• Datenschutz statt Datenhandel
• Server in Deutschland
• Alles unter einem Dach
• Eigene Domain & Aliasse
• Sicher & nachhaltig

👉🏼 Sichern Sie sich den Deal vom 24.11.2025 bis 1.12.2025: mailbox.org/de/news/black-week…

Es gelten die Aktionsbedingungen.

#BlackWeek #BlackFriday


🚀 Der erste Black Week Deal von mailbox startet!

Nur für kurze Zeit gibt es die komplette mailbox Suite (Standard- und Premium-Tarif) für Privatkunden zum halben Preis: 2 Jahre zum Preis von 1 Jahr.

5 Gründe für mailbox:
• Datenschutz statt Datenhandel
• Server in Deutschland
• Alles unter einem Dach
• Eigene Domain & Aliasse
• Sicher & nachhaltig

👉🏼 Sichern Sie sich den Deal vom 24.11.2025 bis 1.12.2025: mailbox.org/de/news/black-week…

Es gelten die Aktionsbedingungen.

#BlackWeek #BlackFriday

"Danke für diese Liste. Sie wird in Erinnerung bleiben!"

Ich bin mir jetzt echt unsicher, wie ich diese Worte einordnen soll. 🤔

Hört sich für mich wie eine versteckte Drohung an.

norden.social/@wackJackle/1156…

in reply to cake-duke

On the server side there is a directory that stores contacts and calendars in vcard/ical format. This davx5.com/tested-with/ shows some examples. If the server is able to provide these data via the CalDAV and CardDAV protocol you can use our app to sync it down to your Android device.
in reply to DAVx⁵ 🔄

Got it thank you! I was trying to understand whether the DAVx5 brand also includes the server, but I see the answer is No. All good, thank you. Separate question, are you aware of this project (looks abandoned now) etesync.com/ ? It's basically a middleware layer for E2E encryption. My question to you is: are you aware of some sort of standard interface for E2E "apps on the cloud" so that this doesn't have to be done re-invented independently by each app?

Oh god. A friend of mine and her hubby have been plotting to sell their holiday home, plans that will fund a gentle but lovely retirement. Three weeks ago, the day after they did the budget she awoke hearing him very upset - he was looking at his trousers and couldn’t remember what do do with them.

Long story short, he has been in hospital ever since, rapid decline, he no longer recognises her and has ‘rapid onset dimentia”. From normal husband to completely unable to function in three weeks.

Love your people. Do your wills and EPOAs. Have those holidays now.

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Welcome bttrfl as #curl commit author 1421: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1965…
#curl

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 24. November, 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

Last weekend @lbky and I tagged a new python-varlink release 32.0.0 at Boiling the Ocean. The main highlights are:
* Dropping python2 support
* Raised the minimum Python version to 3.9
* varlink.Server() now supports setting a custom JSON encoder
* Various project modernisation's (PEP517 support, ruff linting, pytest, etc.)

github.com/varlink/python/rele…

#boilingtheocean #python

Yesterday an open-source developer Christian has released life changing update to the privacy respecting #android app called #MakeACopy. The app now features so called #accessibility mode that is enabling #screenReader users to take pictures of the paper documents independently.
Accessibility guide is available on github.
The latest prerelease version provides clear Accessibility guidance phrases with screen readers such as Talkback, Corvus, Jieshuo and others that can handle announcement accessibility event.

I am verry happy about this. We are now getting privacy respecting open-source based screen reader accessible solution that performs very well and is easy to use.

The prerelease version can be downloaded at
github.com/egdels/makeacopy/re…

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Mastodon, Matrix, ActivityPub, XMPP, ATProto. whatever your flavor of decentralization is, there’s room for you.

Submit your proposal to the Decentralized Communication devroom at FOSDEM before the end of this week!

fosdem.org/submit

#FOSDEM #Fediverse #ActivityPub

Still free tonight? Join me for my talk "Access Denied: Being left out by Design" 🎙️

In response to d*sign week's central question, 'For who(m) is the making?', this talk illustrates how design and development choices can unintentionally hinder access. Providing an introduction to the fundamentals of accessibility, attendees can discover how small adjustments have a significant impact.

📍Kulturverein zur Schießhalle (Linz, AT)
🗓️ Monday, November 24th 2025
🕕 6–8 pm
🔗dsignweek.servus.at

Ich werde immer wieder gefragt, was so die häufigsten digitalen Barrieren sind. Und weil da jetzt so viele Gutachten vorliegen, konnte ich die einfach mal zählen: barrieren-gutachten.de/blog/to…

In circa der Hälfte der manuell getesteten Bundes-Seiten ist die Bedienung mit Tastatur nicht möglich, noch öfter reicht der Kontrast nicht aus. Und in 77% der Fälle haben Entwickler*innen qualitativ schlechten Code produziert und Komponenten nicht wie vorgesehen entwickelt.

After a few hours of mixing, editing, rendering and writing subtitles, I've finally published the last of my talks from DebConf25 (@debian)

"The Security of Debian - An introduction to advanced users - DebConf25 " is a good starting point for those curious about how distributions handle security vulnerabilities and how that's organized outside of the distros.

youtu.be/WwHdQM5Z0jc

If you wanted to monitor a website but specify a different IP address than the one in DNS and have it only affect that one test, how would you do that with your monitoring tool? It should use the correct hostname for SNI and the HTTP Host header. Can you?

I can do that easily with my stack, but I can't picture doing this with Nagios and other common tools. Not to my recollection anyway