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Question for #blind people who use refreshable #Braille displays routinely: Does anyone run brltty on Windows? NVDA has the option to use brltty, but NVDA's default plug-and-play drivers don't use it. JAWS doesn't use brltty. Narrator does. So does anyone actually use Narrator's Braille feature, or otherwise use brltty on Windows?
Trying to gauge the usefulness and reliability of brltty on Windows specifically.
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We just tried out our collaborative text-editor Reflection on a smartphone using @postmarketOS and are a bit blown away by how cool that was. All it took was to install it via the Flathub store.
#localfirst #p2p #postmarketos
Is software ever done? When I started writing this I assumed the answer was yes, but by the time I finished, I'm not sure anything is ever done (not just software)
opensourcesecurity.io/2026/01-…
I posted a graph on LinkedIn. It showed that of the 10 million open source projects tracked by ecosyste.ms, more than half haven’t been updated in two years.Josh Bressers (Open Source Security)
"We actually hired a guy to do Community Outreach but he just keeps disingenuously wanging on about making the dick-hammering opt-in"
mastodon.social/@TheZeldaZone/…
"Hello, We're Firefox, The Only Browser That Hasn't Hit Itself In The Dick With A Hammer. For years now, folks use us because of our un-hammered dick. Now, you may be wondering why today we've brought this hammer and pulled out our dick.Zelda 🎀 (Mastodon)
RE: drwebdomain.blog/2026/01/28/mo…
They have 1.4 billion dollars to drop on some AI bullshit
mastodon.me.uk/@drweb2@drwebdo…
THEY. DON'T. NEED. MY. MONEY.
Or yours
Mark Surman, president of Mozilla Foundation, speaks at The Wall Street Journal’s Future of Everything Festival in New York City, U.S., May 22, 2024. Andrew Kelly | Reuters Tech Mozilla is building…DrWeb's Domain
#XMPP Summit
The current topics are "Account Recovery", "Passwordless Authentication" and "Mentions".
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
Lyrics:Through the winter’s ice and coldDown Nicollet AvenueA city aflame fought fire and ice‘Neath an occupier’s bootsKing Trump’s private army from the DHS...YouTube
RE: mastodon.thenewoil.org/@thenew…
Next up will be a VPN ban. Many tech-y people will see that and think “lol yeah well that’s not going to stop *me* from using a VPN”
A VPN ban isn’t really meant stop you from using one. It means when they catch you doing so, they’ll use the fact you’re using this harmless technology itself as a *pretense* to lock you up without needing to do any “hard work” (i.e. an investigator’s job) like actually confirming whether you committed a real crime.
Don’t think you won’t be impacted just because you know how to outsmart an ISP filter! This is not a plan to protect children or stop you from consuming adult media. It is a ploy to eventually eliminate ALL freedom of expression and free access to information in the UK.
And the same goes for Chat Control and encrypted messengers, btw
#UKpol #VPNban #PornHub #ChatControl #Privacy #FreeSpeech #SocialMedia
Many #UK Users Soon Won't Be Able to Access #Pornhub https://www.404media.co/uk-pornhub-blocked-age-verification-vpn/ #nsfw #porn #privacy #OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #IdentityVerificationThe New Oil (Mastodon)
I think some are still missing the point. I’m not saying they’re going to lock up every single person who uses a VPN or watches porn.
Your government’s strategy is to make “crimes” like this as common and easy to commit as possible.
This way, if you ever do something completely legal which they *actually* don’t like, *which can be completely unrelated to VPNs or bypassing age verification,* they can pull up your internet history and easily prosecute you.
Organize a legitimate protest, and the government’s swift response will be to label you a child sex offender because they found you using evil VPN technology.
This is how free speech dies, not from a law that says “free speech is dead now,” but from draconian, authoritarian laws like this that give the government “plausible” reasons to go after anyone, which can’t easily be fought against.
This has always been the playbook to target innocents. In the USA, drug possession laws being created as a pretense for cops to raid and dismantle minority communities, for example. And now this is coming to the digital realm.
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Amazon have reported "hundreds of thousands" of pictures of child sexual abuse material found in shared AI training data... but is refusing to tell regulators which data sets.
If you're using generative AI tools, there's a pretty good chance you're generating imagery with child porn training data behind the scenes.
bloomberg.com/news/features/20…
#XMPP Summit
Listen in to our next topic "Encrypted profile/vCard".
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
Rachel Gilmore has found 9 Canadian companies profiting off ICE contracts, -- all but one of whom also have contracts with the Canadian government ... so our taxes at work for ICE. #cdnpoli
For those who decline to visit substack:
Garda, Hootsuite, JSI Telecom, Roshel, Thomson Reuters, Jim Pattison, Magnet Forensics, Icor Technology, and CGI Inc.
Only Roshel doesn't have a Canada gov contract.
Note ATCO Frontec is not one of them.
rachelgilmore.substack.com/p/a…
Watch now | Several Canadian companies appear to be pocketing profits as this horrific agenda rolls out.Rachel Gilmore (Bubble Pop with Rachel Gilmore)
Seeing some company-internal post about AI trainings and AI strategy kickoff makes me want to reply with “I really couldn’t care any less about this. I hope it goes nowhere. I can’t wait for the AI bubble to burst.” I don't dare, so instead I'll share some thoughts here.
1/n
My much more negative stance makes me not want to interact with any AI, not so much because it has its flaws, but because the whole ideology and practical effects are fundamentally bad. For once, I don’t want my freedom as a programmer to be enclosed by Microsoft and Google, becoming completely dependent on subscriptions to their tools. That’s a direction they’re going for. I think we need to actively fight this and not just wait for it to fail in some way.
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Wenn Schneider zur Wohnungsbesichtigung eingeladen wird, Waseem aber nicht, haftet nach dem BGH auch der Makler wegen Diskriminierung nach dem AGG.Legal Tribune Online
#XMPP Summit
After a break with many interesting discussions we are now at "Pinned messages".
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource #rtc
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
Indonesia’s Communications and Digital Ministry opened a job vacancy and invited the public to apply by dropping their resumes and other required documents into a publicly accessible Google Drive. Turns out you can access and download all of the documents submitted by everyone who applied.
Someone pointed it out in an Instagram video which went viral and soon after he’s had multiple and sustained phishing and hacking attempts of his social media and email accounts.
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Určite nejaké obmedzenia pri ADHD či iných diagnózach sú, veď sám mám isté obmedzenia kvôli môjmu autizmu. Treba ale rozlišovať, či to je pre daného človeka naozaj obmedzenie alebo sa iba skrýva za diagnózu. To však zainteresovaná osoba iba z pozorovania nemôže veľmi vedieť, pretože nikto nevie čo ten človek prežíva, okrem neho samotného.
Každopádne si myslím, že ľudia by mali byť najprv tolerantní a chápaví, a nie hneď na prvú zľahčovať/spochybňovať diagnózu (a tým nemyslím nikoho konkrétneho, píšem vo všeobecnosti, keďže aj pri autizme ľudia veľmi radi hovoria vetu "nevyzeráš ako autista").
@Ralfeek A s tou "neschopnosťou vychovávať deti>deti majú ADHD" by som bol opatrný. Veľa autistických detí vyzerá ako keby boli nevychované, rovnako to je určite aj pri ADHD, ale o nevychovanosť tam vôbec nejde.
Je úplne normálne a prirodzené, že takýchto diagnóz pribúda čoraz viac, keďže v minulosti sa to neriešilo, kvôli čomu to teraz vyzerá, že je toho veľa, keď sa ľudia v dospelosti diagnostikujú, a taktiež sa ľudia množia, a keďže ADHD a aj autizmus je dedičný, tak je tiež logické, že ľudí s takýmito diagnózami bude každý rok viac a viac.
Určite to ale nie je móda, a ak to má niekto oficiálne diagnostikované, tak by som to určite nespochybňoval, pretože takáto diagnóza sa nedá získať len tak, a neviem kto normálny by vyhodil peniaze na diagnostiku iba preto, aby sa potom na to mohol vyhovárať.
Learn about all the cool projects #GNOME contributors have been working on by watching some talks at #FOSDEM!
Here is a list for Saturday:
WebRTC support in #WebKitGTK and WPEWebKit with #GStreamer: Current status and plans fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
Funding Lessons Learned Panel fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
Machine Learning in GStreamer: Frameworks, Tensors, and Analytics fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
Running #GNOMEOS on mobile phones fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event…
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.”
― Frank Herbert, _Dune_
shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/01/are-t…
One of the dreams of Web 2.0 was that website would speak unto website. An "Application Programming Interface" (API) would give programmatic access to structured data, allowing services to seamlessly integrate content from each other. Users would be able to quickly grab data from multiple sources and use them for their own purposes. No registration or API keys, no tedious EULAs or meetings. Just pure synergy!
Is that dream dead? If so, what killed it?
A decade ago, I posted a plea looking for Easy APIs Without Authentication with a follow up post two years later. I wanted some resources that students could use with minimal fuss. Are any of the APIs from 10 years ago still alive?
These ones are still around:
These have shuffled off this mortal coil:
These are still alive, but you either need to pay or register to use them:
Something something … enshittification … blah blah … zero interest rate phenomenon … yadda yadda our incredible journey …
But back in the land of rationality, I've had a lots of experiences running APIs and helping people who run them. The closure and lockdown of APIs usually comes down to one or more of the following.
APIs cost money to run. Yes, even the static ones have a non-zero cost. That's fine if you're prepared to endless subsidise them - but it is hard to justify if there's no return on investment. Anyway, who is using all this bandwidth? Which leads on to:
Lack of analytics. Yes, I know tracking is the devil, but it is hard to build a service if you don't know who is using it. Sure, you can see traffic, but you can't tell if it is useful to the end consumer, or what value you can share. There's no way to communicate with an anonymous consumer. Which, of course, takes us to the next barrier:
Communication is key. If you need to change your API, there's no way to tell users that a change is coming. That might be the announcement of a deprecation, an outage, or an enhancement. You can try smuggling error messages into your responses and hoping someone notices a failing service somewhere - but it's much easier to email everyone who has an API key. And you know what else keys are good for?
Stopping abuse. It'd be nice if everyone played nice online; but some people are raging arseholes. Being able to throttle bad actors (figuratively or literally) is a desirable feature. On a resource constrained service, you sometimes have to put rules in place.
Still, if you know of any good open APIs which don't require registration, and that you think will survive until 2036, please drop a link in the comments.
#api #coding
#XMPP Summit
Continuing after the lunch break with #XEP-0503: #Server-side #spaces. xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0503.h…
The XMPP Summit:
xmpp.org/2025/11/xmpp-summit-2…
Meet us at #FOSDEM 2026, too!
#jabber #chat #opensource #messaging #federation #Brussels, #Belgium #opensource
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …xmpp.org
#Reading
Apparently, in the wider bookish community, there is this idea that listening to audiobooks doesn't count as reading. This idea is ableist af.
I mean, what about blind people?
And besides, what about people who can focus better and longer when listening (audio), instead of reading (visual)?
What about people who can better focus on listening to stories while doing something, for instance going for a walk, doing sports, crocheting, knitting, or arts and crafts?
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