La Quadrature publie un article révélant une volonté policière a priori sans précédent de criminalisation de pratiques numériques que notre association a toujours défendues. Nous détaillons les éléments de cette affaire ici.

laquadrature.net/2023/06/05/af…

Affaire du 8 décembre : le chiffrement des communications assimilé à un comportement terroriste

Cet article a été rédigé sur la base d’informations relatives à l’affaire dite du “8 décembre”Pour un résumé de l'affaire du 8 décembre voir notamment les témoignages disponibles dans cet article de la Revue Z, cet article de Lundi matin, les art…

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Od kolegů v práci jsem získal prestižní ocenění za svou celoživotní práci s #css

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Best friends don’t want a cent from their big tech idea. This is why | Australian Story

Mick Curran and Jamie Teh are lifelong friends who share a love of music and technology. They're also blind.Both computer programmers, the pair saw an injust...

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Queridos vecinos de #Madrid que ayer recibisteis una multa por no dejar pasar a personas con silla de ruedas, porque decidisteis que teníais más derecho vosotros a aparcar que ellas a moverse:

Pienso volver. 😘

Cuenta atrás de cinco días para una candidatura de unidad que permita a la izquierda dar la batalla el 23J eldiario.es/politica/cuenta-ci…

Más claves:

– La evolución del voto del PP: el triunfo en las municipales no tiene por qué anticipar un vuelco en las generales eldiario.es/politica/evolucion…

– Electores ‘borrados’ del padrón tras mudarse que se quedaron sin votar el 28M: “Me han arrebatado mi derecho” eldiario.es/politica/electores…

– PODCAST | Alberto Garzón: el viaje del pionero eldiario.es/blog/al-dia/podcas…

The “#a11y is not accessible” discussion wants to get back to the early 2010s.

It’s a signifier, for some users (for example who are dyslexic) it’s easier to type, you need some explanation, like any in-group language. Even accessibility needs explanation.

It’s not a big deal and the energy is better used elsewhere.

a11yproject.com/posts/a11y-and…

#accessibility

(Edit: LOL mistyped accessibility in the hashtag…)

Quick tip: a11y and a brief numeronyms primer - The A11Y Project

The numeronym 'a11y' is shorthand for 'accessibility.'

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What a beautiful story of #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS #software from #ABC news from Kristine Taylor and Susan Chenery - @kristineataylor@twitter.com and @chenery3@twitter.com - Jamie Teh - @jcsteh and Mick Curran - @md_curran@twitter.com, who both live with #blindness, created #NVDA software which is a desktop #ScreenReader - and continue to give it away for free.

abc.net.au/news/2023-06-05/mic…

Get the software here on @github github.com/nvaccess/nvda

#a11y

How friendship between NVDA founders Mick Curran and Jamie Teh is changing lives for thousands of blind people

Mick and Jamie have been mates for almost three decades and have worked on a project with one goal in mind — to ensure everyone can use a computer.

^{Kristine Taylor (ABC News)}

Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid might not bring you any new apps (just 12 updated ones) – but then something I announced a few days ago just went live. Enjoy a preview of what soon will also show up in your F-Droid client, see the reasons why an app might have been flagged with "this anti-feature".

This currently only applies to my repo. Others will follow soon™ 😉

So, enjoy #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo

The Sears case cuts to bone

With its massive catalog, >100y experience w production/inventory/fulfillment & millions of devoted customers, Sears was ideally positioned to move online as THE dominant online retailer

Instead, investors [edited to add: /management] gutted the golden goose

And that’s just one example in @pluralistic’s rundown of the long history of heists like this being pulled by private equity

pluralistic.net/2023/06/02/plu…

We recently updated the @fdroidorg Inclusion How-To with a new section explaining why we consider #ReproducibleBuilds to be best practice and are hoping developers will support our efforts to make as many (new) apps reproducible as we reasonably can (whilst hopefully making sure it's clear this is not a mandatory requirement):

f-droid.org/docs/Inclusion_How…

Inclusion How-To | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This page documents how a new application gets included in the main F-Droidrepository. It includes the technical details that a submitter should beaware of.A...

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Huge win for privacy: Record fine against Facebook thanks to Max Schrems. Meta must pay 1.2 billion euros for violating the EU regulation GDPR. 🥳

Read more: 👉 tutanota.com/blog/facebook-tra…

I just read this rant about ChatGPT and the like replacing creative humans or at least putting them out of work: catvalente.substack.com/p/the-… and the following part got my attention:

> It’s just barely possible, but, you know, we could give a shit. If we wanted. We could decline to purchase anything written by ChatGPT. Consume any automated performances. Buy anything with AI-generated art on or in it.

I might just do that. I probably have nothing to lose in that small act of resistance. 1/?

Latest comic on a Delaware town's bill that would allow LLCs and other corporations to vote in local elections:

#democracy #voting #plutocracy

Alright, here's a response article to @martijnbraam's "Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak". I'll be addressing some of their claims by explaining why some of the design decisions make sense the way they are.

theevilskeleton.gitlab.io/2023…

Edit: should there be a response article to mine, I'll respond it here (unless it doesn't address any of my points).

#Flatpak #Linux #FOSS #OpenSource

Response to “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”

Recently, the article “Developers are lazy, thus Flatpak”, by Martijn Braam, was published to criticize a few things regarding Flatpak. I want to go over the article and address some points that were raised.

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Here we go #DrupalCon!!

Please stay home if feeling unwell.
Please take a rapid test before traveling.
Please test while at the conference.
Please, wear an N95 mask with over the head straps, flatten the metal nose piece and bend to fit, check no gaps, and verify tight seal for the best protection for yourself and others.
Please eat outside, when possible.

johnsnowproject.org/primers/wh…

#CovidIsAirborne #CovidIsntOver

World Health Organization Advice to Protect Against Long Covid - John Snow Project

The World Health Organization has joined the US CDC and HHS in providing new guidance on the ongoing public health threat posed by Long Covid.

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I have just read the Interview with Georg Romer from University Hospital Münster in "Süddeutsche Zeitung" titled "Wait and See is Not an Option!"

He is a child and young adult psychiatrist. The interview is really very long.

But the gist is that this Georg Romer is really one of the Saints that we wish for.

The questions asked by the newspaper were great, mentioning all the controversy in society, asking tough questions (but in a very respectful manner), asking things like "what about the impression that transition numbers just exploded and that this is 'fashionable' at the moment" and so on.

During the interview Alexander Knote from LMU Munich was also mentioned aht Georg Romer was asked why he refused to talk / discuss with Alexander Knote.

In essence, A. Knote says that "coming out as trans gender has become fashionable among the AFAB." He then continues to prove that by showing that in Germany 85% of trans gender people AFAB trans men.

Georg Romer takes that as data and looks at "why is that so" in a different way. He analyses the societal environment and comes to the conlusing that the actual number of trans woman is significantly higher than the 15% but the fact that trans women have a significantly higher chance of being discriminated against, hated, or even experience violence is the actual reason why we don't see more trans women coming out. And yes, contrary to A. Knote, Georg Romer has scientific data on that.

A few machine translated excerpts:
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Some of your colleagues report that young people are becoming more and more demanding and doctors are called transphobic if they do not immediately accept being trans as given without question. Do you experience that too?

Not at all. If we want to avoid an escalation of sensitivities in the doctor-patient relationship, it starts with ourselves. We must understand and respect that there is already a long history of discrimination, pathologization and bullying of trans people in medicine at every first encounter. I think the young people immediately feel the attitude and agenda with which they are met.

So it is the responsibility of the doctors how well the young people cooperate?

We doctors have to get away from the idea that we define whether someone is trans or not. It starts with the speech in the waiting room. I always ask first of all with which name someone would like to be addressed. With this, I do not determine anything for the future, but I signal: I see you, I respect you, I listen to you.
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At the end he says:
I also think of a sentence in a letter that the mother of a 13-year-old trans boy once wrote to us: Without the treatment, we would steal the boy's youth. Every person deserves the chance to remember a happy youth for the rest of their lives. If we force young people to live through these years in the wrong sex, then this hardship of the children is in every class photo, in every memory of a school trip that you still had to experience in the old sex. People who only begin their transition as adults often eras these years of youth in their memory. That's very sad. A coherent identity, even in youth, contributes to the happiness of life.
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The interview is here: if you can get it free and want to read it in your language, I guess you need a machine translation

sueddeutsche.de/projekte/artik…

#Trans #YoungTrans #TransPride

Transgender

Wie soll die Medizin mit trans Kindern und Jugendlichen umgehen? Interview zum Stand der Forschung mit Jugendpsychiater Georg Romer

^{Christina Berndt (Süddeutsche Zeitung)}