A new version of MapComplete is out!

This one features many bugfixes, such as not having blank screens on Chrome and some error recovery. Critical errors during data uploads are now logged remotely, giving @pietervdvn some insight in what happens and which allows some data recovery.

Furthermore, a #barbeque and #firepit theme has appeared: mapcomplete.org/fireplace

Fireplaces and barbeques

Outdoor place to make a fire or a fixed barbecue in an official place

^{mapcomplete.org}

In the current Garbage Day @ryanbroderick goes hard after VC tech bros who now shifted to openly supporting Trump:

Holy shit what a great paragraph. garbageday.email/p/now-babydog

This dumb password rule is from Virgin Media.

Your password needs to be between 8 and 10 characters long, with no
spaces, and must contain only numbers and letters. The first character
must be a letter.

Feb 2020 Update: policy remains the same but the description is hidden
leaving you to guess the acceptable length/chars. Users are now lef...

dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/vi…

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules

Virgin Media - Dumb Password Rules

Your password needs to be between 8 and 10 characters long, with no spaces, and must contain only numbers and letters. The first character must be a letter.

^{dumbpasswordrules.com}

NVDA 2024.3 Beta 4 is now avaialble. Everthing from the previous betas PLUS beta 4 also includes:

- Fix reporting addresses in Modern Outlook To/CC/BCC fields

- Improved handling of errors when installing add-ons, fixed bug where failed add-on updates remove the installed add-on

- Minor fixes to improve updating a portable copy

- Updates to translations

Read the full what's new and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2024-3b…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #FOSS #Beta #Prerelease

Don't forget to register! GUADEC starts in 2 days, but there's still time to let us know you're attending. Sign up for remote or in-person here: events.gnome.org/event/209/reg…

#GUADEC2024 #GUADEC #GNOME

This is a refreshingly good look at why extensions with both full privileged access and dynamic script + style execution are a really bad idea, greatly weakening the CSP on every site:

How insecure is Avast Secure Browser?

Injecting arbitrary scripts and styles ought to require an extra permission and be selectively allowed on a per-site basis.
RE: floss.social/@alcinnz/11280356…

How insecure is Avast Secure Browser?

Another look into Avast Secure Browser shows a massive attack surface, with some issues mentioned five years ago only partially addressed, all while new ways to attack the browser have been added.

^{Almost Secure}

Tools for collaborative development of documents, code, and more need to be accessible to people with disabilities. Here to help with that is:

Collaboration Tools Accessibility User Requirements w3.org/TR/ctaur/

It's now a complete draft ready for review. Specific questions for review are in e-mail at lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/p…

Please send any comments by 30 September 2024. Thanks!

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 9 updated and 2 added apps:

* Calculator: calculator, currency converter, time zones, ..
* Mobile Tile Server: HTTP Server for your local Map Tiles

2 apps have been removed:

* Paisa got to big ( ~90 MB)
* Metadataremover jumped from 10 to 160 MB with the last release (but is still available at F-Droid.org)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

In 2014, Steve Faulkner wrote an article What ARIA does not do. 10 years later, the message is unchanged.

buff.ly/4cJlV7S

#WebDev #WebDevelopment #ARIA #HTML #DigitalAccessibility #Accessibility #A11y

Potkaj se dva a jeden řiká: tak co je novýho?
Druhej: ále, vyšel mi článek.
První: ty seš novinář?
Druhej: ne, mám tasemnici.

Jo, no mně vyšla kniha.
knihydobrovsky.cz/kniha/odejit…

Odejít na jih - Robert R. McCammon

Panovalo pekelné léto a vzduch páchl po hořících dětech…Touto „jednou z nejchytlavějších prvních…

^{www.knihydobrovsky.cz}

Please take this survey about AI/ML and Fedora. We know that this is a sensitive subject, so the Fedora Council spent time putting a survey together to understand what our community thinks about this area of technology.

Last day to take the survey is July 31.

➡️ discussion.fedoraproject.org/t…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource

Fedora AI/ML Survey is Live until July 31st

Hello folks, I had posted this to the original discussion thread last week, but to make sure everyone is aware of its existence, I wanted to post it in this section too.

^{Fedora Discussion}

We need your votes! Tell us who you think should win this year's Pants of Thanks Award at #GUADEC2024. Our winner will be announced during the AGM on July 21, starting at 16:00 UTC.
discourse.gnome.org/t/call-for…

#GUADEC #GNOME #Awards

Call for nominations for the 2024 Pants of Thanks award

On behalf of the Board, this is a call for nominations for the Pants of Thanks award. Every year, during the Foundation’s Annual General Meeting (AGM) at GUADEC, we give out the Pants of Thanks award.

^{GNOME Discourse}

Wild blackberries will be ripe soon around here! That means extra yummy calories for my #running ! :) 🤤 🏃

#bloomscrolling

The Matrix.org Foundation joins the FOSS community and advocates of digital sovereignty in calling on the European Commission to sustain its funding for the Next Generation Internet program.

The European Union must keep funding free software: matrix.org/blog/2024/07/17/ngi…

#Advocacy #Policy #EU #FOSS #OpenSource

The European Union must keep funding free software

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Josh Simmons (matrix.org)}

Von wegen technologieoffen: Wie das ZDF berichtet, haben sich Minister Wissing & Staatssekretär Luksic als Lobbyisten für den Kraftstoff HVO100 einspannen lassen. Unterstützern von "HVO100 goes Germany" wurden exklusive Treffen mit Wissing oder Luksic in Aussicht gestellt - gegen saftige Bezahlung.
Luksic übernahm sogar die Schirmherrschaft für die u.a. von Tankstellen - Lobbyverbänden finanzierte Kampagne.

Wir fordern schonungslose Aufklärung!
vcd.org/service/presse/pressem…

#verbrenneraus #efuels

The simplicity of Dutch public transport tariff sometimes leads to illogical pricing.

For instance this 30-minute-long tram ride is cheaper with a tourist ticket for € 3.40 than when paid as you go with a transport or payment card.

I wish Dutch cities learned to implement price caps, which are common in virtually all other countries.

Hello Hello Jamers 🙂

For those who didn't have the time or energy to click on the Dev update #9 link, we've got you covered!

Here's the link, if you want to know more: jami.net/dev-update-9/

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters

Long before #Rosetta & 67P/C-G, there was Comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 & its devastating 1994 encounter with Jupiter.

I was privileged to be part of the team that made & released the very first images of Fragment A impacting at ~20:15 UTC on 16 July, 30 years ago last night, as seen from Calar Alto in Spain.

The brightness of the impact plume was a huge surprise & the following week saw intense astronomical, media, & public engagement.

#Astronomy #Astrodon #SpaceScience #PlanetaryProtection

Yemen says a ship has repaired the subsea AAE-1 cable, linking Asia and Europe, in the Red Sea, and remains in the water to repair the Seacom and EIG cables (Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
techmeme.com/240717/p18#a24071…

Yemen says a ship has repaired the subsea AAE-1 cable, linking Asia and Europe, in the Red Sea, and remains in the water to repair the Seacom and EIG cables

From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

^Techmeme

Meta is already using it’s user’s data in the USA, But its brazen attempt to use EU user data and introduce Meta AI won’t pass! 🙅 🧐

Read more here 👉👉tuta.com/blog/noyb-privacy-win…

#MetaAi #Meta #AI #NYOB #Privacyrights #gdpr #GDPR #AI #Tuta #privacy