JAWS currently has a bug in it that makes Braille display users unable to properly read long lines in Paperback, or any application using wxWidgets, for that matter. When I tried to follow up on this issue three times with a Vispero contact who assured me it would be fixed in the December 2025 JAWS update, I got silence, so it's time to get louder. If you're effected by this problem, or just feel like sending a support email to Vispero to help me out, I'd much appreciate it! CC @freedomscientific

Issue link: github.com/trypsynth/paperback…

Paperback, JAWS and reading with a Braille display

There seems to be a problem in reading long paragraphs with JAWS when using a Braille display or with speech when using the JAWS cursor or the invisible cursor. It doesn't matter whether I try to r...

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Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force or #IETF . Every day billions of people use the open standards and technologies developed in the IETF. And nearly 8000 volunteer IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups evolving those open standards and making the Internet work better!

ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/

#Internet #OpenStandards

IETF@40

Forty years ago today, 21 people gathered in San Diego, California for the first meeting of what became the Internet Engineering Task Force.

^IETF

"guy" is a chameleon pronoun. When its used singularly, it's male but when it's plural it's totally gender neutral especially in the midwest USA

a truly gender-neutral pronoun would be "fucker". Both "fucker" and "fuckers" is always gender neutral.

"What's up fuckers!!!!!" -- nobody will complain, except people you don't want to be friends with anyway

My week: lists.haxx.se/pipermail/daniel… (email sent to 486 subscribers!)

bug-bounty and hackerone, exposing silly, asking me, rate limiting, features, DNS and curl, #ifdefs

Hey @Bri, when I attempt to pull up the timeline of scheduled posts in #FastSM, I get this as an error.

Error in jdking92's Scheduled Posts: mastodon_status_to_universal() got an unexpected keyword argument 'scheduled_at'

Any idea what might be causing this? Also, would you consider adding a keystroke for the invisible interface to update profiles? Maybe win+shift+alt+p? Either that or control+win+shift+u could work.

About Bluesky and federation:
Edit: There might be some mistakes, and my information could be outdated, but the point still stands - Bluesky wasn't built on 100% federation from the start.

I've been wondering about Bluesky's decentralization again. I can't think of any reason why I'd want to self-host Bluesky in its current form. I cannot 100% self host "my own Bluesky".

Their main selling points for building their own protocol were easier migration and better discoverability, but right now there's no simple way to migrate my Bluesky account to my own instance. And hosting the centralized parts yourself isn't really possible, or if it were, not affordable, they haven't made that feasible, by design, it seems.

Even if you self-host a PDS, Bluesky's Relay only indexes up to 10 accounts from it. You can run more, but they won't federate, the central infrastructure decides what gets seen. They control this (source: docs.bsky.app/blog/self-host-f….). You can self-host a PDS (Personal Data Server), but you still depend on Bluesky's centralized Relay and AppView. There's no production-ready alternative infrastructure from what I gather.

It feels like I'd be renting a room in a hotel that someone else is running anyway, when I want my own hotel.

If Mastodon gGmbH vanishes tomorrow, my instance keeps running and federating with everyone else. If Bluesky PBC vanishes, the ecosystem would need to scramble to stand up replacement infrastructure that doesn't really exist yet.

ATProto keeps getting evaluated on its promises while other systems get evaluated on their merits. The "portability" selling point depends on infrastructure that isn't mature enough to actually catch you if Bluesky falls.

I trust W3C, the builders and fathers of the World Wide Web, ActivityPub and the Fediverse.

#Decentralization #SelfHosting #SelfHosted #Mastodon #Fediverse #Bluesky #Servers

Early Access Federation for Self-Hosters

For a high-level introduction to data federation, as well as a comparison to other federated social protocols, check out the Bluesky blog.

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Wow, my work was cited in a Chinese Marxist journal by Liu Yang (刘洋), a PhD candidate at Fudan/Frankfurt. His article uses my 'Copyfarleft' concept as a key part of his argument for "knowledge socialism."

aisixiang.com/data/171229.html

Ask your doctor if consciousness is right for you.

Ehhh... Definitely didn't sleep enough last night.

Not getting to sleep until 7:30 AM and waking up at 10:00 AM will do that.