In-Process is out, featuring all the news on the release of NVDA 2024.1, plus highlights from our trip to CSUN. Do check it out now at: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-5…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Blog #News #FOSS

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Words can’t express the horror I’ve felt about witnessing how some people in technology seem to choose to apply their skills to the weapons and surveillance industries.

In 1980, Langdon Winner asked the question in the paper ‘Do Artifacts Have Politics?’ They provided the example that capital will, to suppress labor, choose inferior machines, that make inferior products. Technology is not neutral.

faculty.cc.gatech.edu/~beki/cs…

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Want to delete that old #Gmail account? We've got you covered with a quick tutorial guide 👉 youtu.be/6sOmBDBddfE

Take your #privacy back in just a few minutes! 🎉

Ve žluté barvě ta 110R 😍 to je pecka
Až na jedinou výjimku se nabízejí bez rezervy. Na co láká aukce auto-moto veteránů?
zpravy.aktualne.cz/ekonomika/a…

In looking through Evan Doorbell's phone tapes, I found these recordings from the Greensboro 4A, in Greensboro, NC, the city in which I grew up.
This is definitely authentic North Carolina, but they don't make accents and voices quite like that anymore.
If I had to guess, I'd say this lady was probably from somewhere south and east of Greensboro.

I am, of course, late to many things, the latest one being "static site generators". I believe there are quite a few people using these? What would you say about the following article comparing Jekyll, Hugo and Eleventy? tomhazledine.com/eleventy-stat…
With SSGs, can I insert Youtube players, polls, comment forms and other dynamic content features though?

EU will Chatkontrolle im Juni unverändert durchwinken
tarnkappe.info/artikel/netzpol…

Neue Verpackung, gleicher Inhalt. Zeitbombe mit brennender Lunte.

#privacy

in reply to Johannes Hentschel

@johentsch Das habe ich nie zu sehen bekommen. Hm, da scheint die Kombi uBO+uMatrix ganze Arbeit zu leisten, ich sehe eh so gut wie keine Cookie-Banner…

Du kannst die Seite ja einfach via Archive.org & Co einlesen lassen. Mal eben für Dich gemacht: web.archive.org/web/2024040610…

Was in solchen (und Paywall) Fällen gut klappt aber ein wenig braucht ist archive.ph/<URL hier anhängen>. Hab ich als Bookmark archive.ph/%s mit keyword paywall, kann dann einfach "paywall <url>" nutzen.

I am getting tired of reading about the #xz #security issue as if it is all about issues within #opensource. It is much bigger than that, and those takes conflate the problem with the solution.

So I wrote "The xz issue isn't about Open Source" here: changelog.complete.org/archive…

in reply to John Goerzen

Several good points, but this part seems a bit naive:

> anybody that’s interested — anybody at all — can dive in and ask “why” and trace it down to root causes.

It's more accurate to say anyone who's interested, has the necessary skills, *and* is being paid to do so or has enough spare time. I point this out because it's common to have problems in FOSS that remain unsolved until someone steps up and funds a solution.

in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt True points, and those are some of the legitimate things people are raising that I alluded to. I was thinking in the sense of freedom -- what are we allowed to do. With Windows, even if one has the ability and time, they don't have the source code or the ability to modify it, so it is highly unlikely they could have discovered this sort of thing.

Signal is working on the ability to set nicknames and add notes to contacts! Notes and nicknames will only be visible to you and will be end-to-end encrypted.

This feature is currently available in Signal for Android v7.2, but it will likely come to other platforms soon. Please note that this feature is currently under active development, so its design and functionality are subject to change.

#signal

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Elections for the #EUParliament take place 6-9 June 2024.

Get active and ensure #SoftwareFreedom is part of the larger political debate!

Spread the word about #FreeSoftware among candidates running for the 🇪🇺 elections!

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some good news: thanks to @ondrej and the folks at Apple who pushed this through, as of MacOS 14.4.1, dig's man page on Mac OS now no longer says "domain information groper”! (it had been fixed in the upstream version of dig since 2017)

here's the before and after! it's really just so nice to see that things can get fixed ❤

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I realized I had not posted this here.

Short version, "AI for Genocide" article:

972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli…

Further reporting:

cnn.com/2024/04/03/middleeast/…

theguardian.com/world/2024/apr…

independent.co.uk/news/world/m…

The infographics on how they determine you are an enemy of the state use cute icons:

latest gcc can emit ascii diagrams to explain buffer overflows

developers.redhat.com/articles…

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Oh snap! Good news, Linux users: we're adding the Thunderbird Snap, previously maintained by the awesome Ubuntu desktop team, to our officially supported Linux packages! 📦 🐧

Learn all about why we made the change, what it means and what to expect, and where to report issues in our blog post.

blog.thunderbird.net/2024/04/t…

#Thunderbird #Linux #Snap

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Dear government of The Netherlands,

1. There are 24 official languages of the EU, please use the language of my country next time, thanks in advance 😉

2. No, languages don't have flags and the proper code for the English language is neither GB, nor UK or US but _en_ (notice the case as well - we use lower for ISO 639 and upper for ISO 3166)

3. It would be nice if you actually provided the return address, not just an empty box. 😯

#euelections2024

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