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What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor?

A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I've written, and Fediverse discussions I've participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these products is simply that, from a cryptography and security perspective, they're not a real competitor to Signal. For all its other faults, Signal sets the bar for secure private messaging. It's a solid security tool, even if its user experience…

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What Does It Mean To Be A Signal Competitor? - Dhole Moments

A lot of recent (and upcoming) blog posts I’ve written, and Fediverse discussions I’ve participated in, have been about the security of communication products. My criticism of these pro…
Dhole Moments

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#CD Rohlinge werden heute nur noch selten benötigt. Vielleicht liegt aber im Büroschrank noch eine angebrochene Packung?

Nicht wegwerfen!

Denn #Blindenhörzeitschriften werden nach wie vor gern von blinden Menschen mit speziellen Playern auf CD genutzt.

Die @ComputertruheMuenchen hat uns solche zukommen lassen. Vielen Dank!

Für einen guten Zweck und dazu ökologischer als ungenutzt zu entsorgen ;-)

kom-in.de/185/wohin-mit-cd-roh…

#Spende #DAISY


Wohin mit CD Rohlingen?

Ungenutzte und nicht mehr benötigte CD Rohlinge für Blindenhörzeitschriften
www.kom-in.de
#cd #spende #daisy #blindenhorzeitschriften @Computertruhe e. V. (München)

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Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here

nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.

@Jake Gross
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Munchkinbear

@matt it's running sh.exe from within the folder i extracted it to, so it's searching for curl from within that folder and not on the actual path's, as I ran sh.exe from the run dialog and ran curl from their and it's their, also curl runs from cmd as well. So I suspect it's trying to find curl.exe in c:\portable\pc (that's the folder this thing's existing in)
@Matt Campbell
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Pitermach

@munchkinbear @matt OK, I looked at it as well, it’s a really weird way of doing things. Before the archive already included Mame, and Jake’s package still does. But what he’s doing here is grabbing the windows mame from GitHub, then just extracting it (mame’s windows download is just a 7-zip extractor, using a windows port of SH for some reason). If you download Mame manually, extract it to the same folder then take the last part of the batch file it should run.
@Matt Campbell @Munchkinbear
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Pitermach

@matt @jaybird110127 @munchkinbear @JamminJerry Relevant Mame issue here github.com/mamedev/mame/issues…

Accessibility for internal UI · Issue #5357 · mamedev/mame

In reference to https://www.reddit.com/r/MAME/comments/ceitb9/blind_user_with_a_couple_questions/ The easiest route would probably be to add hooks so OSD can speak the name of the currently selecte...
GitHub
@Matt Campbell @Jayson Smith @Munchkinbear @JamminJerry
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JamminJerry

@jaybird110127 @mcourcel @munchkinbear @matt ah, ok, will most certainly do that the next time I run it. I think this is just awesome as hell! being able to play with old dos stuff like this. you know how most people back then were using word perfect? my adoptive parents baught a program called first choice. now how many people remember that one?
@Matt Campbell @Jayson Smith @Martin from Toronto @Munchkinbear

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I express my sincere gratitude for this: • VoiceOver support is available in the Tags filter and the details of
Column view. I basiclaly live in DT and that helps me a lot. mastodon.devontechnologies.com…

DEVONtechnologies (@devontechnologies@devontechnologies.com)

Attached: 1 image The latest update to DEVONthink, version 3.9.7, brings a variety of improvements across the app, including new application scripts for web browsers, enhancements to Markdown transclusions, WYSIWYG editing, search, and more.
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Hello Jamers 😍

As you know, Transifex serves as our #collaborative translation #management platform. While the core principles remain similar, this tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application. 📲

Are you #multilingual? Your skills can make a real impact! Join our translation efforts and help us break #language barriers! 💪

👀 Want to know how ?
Here's the link: jami.net/how-to-contribute-to-…

#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters

Image from article “How to contribute to translations on Transifex - Part 2”.

How to contribute to translations on Transifex - Part 2

Transifex serves as our collaborative translation management platform. This tutorial diverges from its predecessor by focusing specifically on the translation of the Jami application.
jami (Jami)
#app #opensource #language #p2p #privacymatters #jami #management #collaborative #multilingual

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The Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans
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As #Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down.

But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with #MAGA loyalists — remain.

#News #Government #election2024 #Election #project2025 #HeritageFoundation #Politics #Voting #GOP #PaulDans

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Paul Dans, the Man Behind Project 2025’s Most Radical Plans

As Donald Trump tried to disavow the politically toxic project, its director, Paul Dans, stepped down. But the plans and massive staffing database that he prepared — to replace thousands of members of the “deep state” with MAGA loyalists — remain.
ProPublica
#Trump #politics #News #voting #MAGA #government #GOP #election #Election2024 #project2025 #heritagefoundation #pauldans

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* Dhaaga (Lite): An Opinionated Fediverse Microblogging App (Mastodon, Misskey, Pleroma, Firefish, Sharkey, Akkoma)

One more app has been confirmed RB aka #reproducibleBuilds – and some more are in preparation.

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


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Cool class on applied accessibility for designers: maven.com/soren/applied-access…

Application for scholarship for it here (apply by 11:59pm PT August 1 2024): docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

#a11y #design #learning #lessons #accessibility #scholarship


Applied Accessibility Scholarship Application

Thank you for your interest in being considered for a scholarship for Applied Accessibility. For this scholarship, we are prioritizing people with the greatest financial needs and/or systemic marginalization Please only submit information that is tr…
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#a11y #Accessibility #design #learning #Lessons #scholarship
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Tamitha

Jeannette Ng: Eye-opening little ancdote from a friend who ran a table top game for his all male gaming group: he genderflipped every character in the pre-written module resulting in an all female setting. His players grew increasingly paranoia and were convinced of a conspiracy.

The players (convinced there's some sort of murder cult going on) started scouring the setting for men. The pre-written module's village contained only one female character: the wife of the blacksmith. Unnamed. Which of course was all the more suspicious to them.

There was absolutely nothing my friend could do to convince his players that there wasn't a great conspiracy or at least a basement full of dead dudes."

LinguisticParadox: (Hashtag) This could be a new 'Bechdel' test: If you genderswap all the characters does it feel like something must have happened to all the men?

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Cloudflare making headlines again, probably not the way it would prefer. From @dangoodin at Ars:

A familiar debate is once again surrounding Cloudflare, the content delivery network that provides a free service that protects websites from being taken down in denial-of-service attacks by masking their hosts: Is Cloudflare a bastion of free speech or an enabler of spam, malware delivery, harassment and the very DDoS attacks it claims to block?

arstechnica.com/security/2024/…

Meanwhile, from Proofpoint:

Proofpoint is tracking a cluster of cybercriminal threat activity leveraging Cloudflare Tunnels to deliver malware. Specifically, the activity abuses the TryCloudflare feature that allows an attacker to create a one-time tunnel without creating an account. Tunnels are a way to remotely access data and resources that are not on the local network, like using a virtual private network (VPN) or secure shell (SSH) protocol.

First observed in February 2024, the cluster increased activity in May through July, with most campaigns leading to Xworm, a remote access trojan (RAT), in recent months.

Campaign message volumes range from hundreds to tens of thousands of messages impacting dozens to thousands of organizations globally. In addition to English, researchers observed French, Spanish, and German language lures. Xworm, AsyncRAT, and VenomRAT campaigns are often higher volume than campaigns delivering Remcos or GuLoader. Lure themes vary, but typically include business-relevant topics like invoices, document requests, package deliveries, and taxes.

proofpoint.com/us/blog/threat-…


Cloudflare once again comes under pressure for enabling abusive sites

Cloudflare masks the origin of roughly 10% of abusive domains, watchdog says.
Ars Technica
@Dan Goodin
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BrianKrebs

For what it's worth, I've always been confused by Cloudflare's official position on abuse, which is that they are not a hosting provider, but rather a pass-through, so it's not up to them to be arbiters of what's fine and not so fine.

But if you think about it, by that definition Cloudflare is the world's largest proxy network. Probably they don't use this term to describe their business because proxy providers are -- at least historically -- somewhat strongly associated with abuse.

Either way, if Cloudflare decides to stop proxying traffic for a particular customer, they are not being arbiters of free speech, as the CEO constantly claims. Because that customer's site will still be reachable. It simply won't enjoy the protection from DDoS attacks that Cloudflare offers for free.

Underneath all of these concerns, a lot of people in the security industry seem to believe that if Cloudflare were to somehow start clamping down on the rampant abuse of their services for cybercrime, then those bad actors will just move to someplace else where Western law enforcement and intelligence agencies have less visibility, like Russia's DDoS-Guard. That may be. But I say let's burn that bridge when we come to it.

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I love this! Ask people to boost a post if they want to be "notified" of some special news, edit the post to send a notification. In this case @eniko even changed their profile display name so you don't even need to tap on the notification to know what's going on. 💜

Many of the features we take for granted today emerged first through creative use of the existing (limited) features of the platform (e.g. boosts were just "RT @originalaccount tweet" back in the days) and were picked up by platform developers when they become popular. This is how the userbase evolves a platform.

Notification from Mastodon reads: "Eniko | Kitsune Tails out now! edited their post"
@Eniko (moved ➡ gamedev.place)
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'Friend' launches as creepy AI gadget that could be straight out of Black Mirror: An AI collar that listens in around the clock and expresses its thoughts freely - Friend is designed to combat loneliness and accompany users in everyday life. Instead of answering questions or controlling smart home devices, Friend is intended to primarily offer emotional support. notebookcheck.net/Friend-launc…

'Friend' launches as creepy AI gadget that could be straight out of Black Mirror

Hannes Brecher (Notebookcheck)

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A quick accessibility review of the new Lenovo Tab Plus accessibleandroid.com/a-quick-…

A quick accessibility review of the new Lenovo Tab Plus - Accessible Android

An 11.5 inch display, a lot of memory, the latest Android with 4 years of updates and speakers from JBL; the new Lenovo Tab Plus promises a lot of features
Steffen Schultz (Accessible Android)

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Okay @BorrisInABox here it is, the thing you've been just waiting to hear. I dug up a demonstration (unregistered/unbranded) copy of ASAP and used it for a few minutes on an emulated PC. First you hear its sign-on message, then I delete several boring minutes and you hear the first demo nag, then after several more deleted minutes you hear another demo nag, just for good measure.

@Borris
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Jayson Smith

@khronos A post about them from @pitermach: Mame 0.268 came out yesterday, and it’s a really cool release for blind fans of vintage tech because it includes a fix by @datajake1999 to its emulation of the Dectalk PC Card. What this means is it’s now possible to emulate a self-contained talking IBM PC complete with an original synthesizer without having to resort to a windows only virtual serial port driver and separate apps like you have to with Dosbox. If you want to play with this there are already 2 packages that help with setup just like the community made for the Apple II a while back - one from Jake, which just includes a talking freeDOS installation and no other programs found here datajake.braillescreen.net/uti…
As well as one compiled by Daniel Nash that also includes a bunch of games, including some text only classics like Eamon Deluxe as well as the first audio games from PCS Games or Jim Kitchen found here

nashcentral.duckdns.org/projec…
The cool thing is even though both of these come with a Windows version of Mame this all works just as well on Mac or Linux, you just have to get the latest version of mame from homebrew or your package manager, then unzip either of these and take the startup command from the .bat file and paste it into the terminal.

@Pitermach @Jake Gross @Khronos

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I got this laptop in the end:
Chuwi MiniBook X review: Small, inexpensive laptop with one niche use case xda-developers.com/chuwi-minib…
Intel N100, here we come with your crap performance. But for audiogaming and travel tasks to connect back to my home desktop, I suspect this will work

Chuwi MiniBook X review: Small, inexpensive laptop with one niche use case

The Chuwi MiniBook X is a small laptop with a surprisingly good keyboard. While the rest of the specs are pedestrian, it can work for remote writers.
Ben Sin (XDA)

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Seems like huge news: "Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission"

Study in hamsters indicates vaccines targeting nose, mouth may be key to controlling spread of respiratory infections

medicine.wustl.edu/news/nasal-…

#COVID19 #Covid


Nasal COVID-19 vaccine halts transmission | Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis

Tamara Schneider (Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis)
#covid #COVID19
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Tamas G

@vick21 I'll be very curious to see if it includes cuts in their foundry business, which is what they're trying to pivot to. As I read: "The company may struggle to compete with Nvidia in AI chip production, but if it can build sufficiently advanced factories and offer Nvidia attractive manufacturing solutions, it may no longer need to compete directly with Nvidia." So stock price may be a bit bullish on this hope but they'll (Intel) have to act quickly.
@victor tsaran

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The first public working draft of the EBraille spec is available! It is primarily meant for organizations that develop software that will read or write eBraille files. eBraille uses an EPUB 3-compatible file set based on the Open Web Platform — using technologies such as XHTML and CSS — to encode braille in semantically enhanced markup and allow it to adapt to the different capabilities of braille reading devices. The file set is designed for both packaged distribution to end users and deployment to the web for online and downloadable reading.

daisy.github.io/ebraille/publi…

#accessibility #Braille #Blind #reading #books #EBraille

eBraille 1.0

This specification defines eBraille, a digital reading format for braille publications.
daisy.github.io
#Accessibility #books #blind #reading #braille #ebraille

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“Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI”

futurism.com/the-byte/study-co…

> When AI is mentioned, it tends to lower emotional trust, which in turn decreases purchase intentions

Like I've been saying, we don't need the term "slop". Consumers have decided that "AI" in its entirety is bullshit. And, honestly, they’re right.


Study Finds Consumers Are Actively Turned Off by Products That Use AI

Researchers have found that including the words "artificial intelligence" in product marketing is a major turn-off for consumers.
Victor Tangermann (Futurism)

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4 Reasons An Overlay Widget Will Not Solve Your Accessibility Woes
litzdigital.com/blog/4-reasons…
#accessibility #a11y #webdesign #overlays

4 Reasons An Overlay Widget Will Not Solve Your Accessibility Woes – Litz Digital

With promises like “100% compliance now and in the future” it’d be hard not to consider the merits of these overlay widgets.
Matt Litzinger (Litz Digital, LLC)
#a11y #Accessibility #webdesign #overlays

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This is depressing from the RNIB, the Technology for Life team is to be reduced and merged with another department as part of a 6 month review on spending. I get that savings have to be made and all charities are stretched but surely access to assistance with tech issues through our national charity ought to be protected. I know there are several other orgs in the UK that we can use but as a newly blind person I turned to RNIB as a trusted source of help and this change is worrying. Plus, as far as I know the TFL team is mostly staffed by blind and partially sighted people who’re now faced with losing their jobs - bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0021hd7…

In Touch - Technology for Life; The First Blind Barbie - BBC Sounds

The world's first ever blind Barbie doll visits the In Touch studio.
BBC

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ONE. HOUR. LEFT

until our furry mario game with a queer love story, kitsune tails, releases on steam and itch!

steam: store.steampowered.com/app/132…
itch: eniko.itch.io/ (page isn't live yet)

#KitsuneTails #QueerGames #GameDev #PixelArt

Kitsune Tails on Steam

Run, jump, and dash across a land inspired by Japanese mythology and untangle the love triangle between three young women on a journey of self discovery.
store.steampowered.com
#gamedev #pixelart #kitsunetails #queergames

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We sat down with Troy Hunt from Have I Been Pwned to discuss how to maintain privacy and security despite the constant wave of data breaches. 🧑‍💻

Check it out here 👉 youtu.be/94WJbheo_T0
#privacy #security #databreach #passwords #encryption

The YouTube thumbnail showing a picture of Troy Hunt and the Have I Been Pwned website logo.

Passwords, Data Breaches & Security with Troy Hunt from Have I Been Pwned | Tuta Talks #password

We sat down with Troy Hunt from Have I Been Pwned to discuss #passwords, data breaches, and what you can do to keep your personal information safe online.Wit...
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#privacy #encryption #security #passwords #databreach

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Since 2010, the Debian Snapshot service functions as a "wayback machine" that allows access to old packages based on dates and version numbers. However, this service has been in need for big maintenance for quite a while. Luckily, thanks to Glasklar Teknik AB and DSA in June 2024 the service has been migrated to new hardware and is now fully up and running again: enjoy snapshot.debian.org/ micronews.debian.org/2024/1722… #debian

Since 2010, the Debian Snapshot service functions as a

micronews.debian.org
#debian
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