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Question for you high-contrast theme users.

I recently started an initiative in @gnome Design to standardize drag & drop overlays in entire windows and predominant views. I would really appreciate it if you could criticize / give feedback on the high-contrast variants of the overlay:

gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…

Edit: moved to gitlab.gnome.org/Teams/Design/…

(Boost appreciated)

#Accessibility #a11y #HighContrast #Contrast #GNOME

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🔒 "Activa la privacidad" es el nuevo eslogan del servicio de email privado que compite con Proton Mail

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@Tutanota

@Tuta


PureOS Subscriptions at work. PureOS Crimson Development Report is in!
puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…
#PureOS #Librem5 #Purism
in reply to Purism

will you release the numbers on how many people are paying for a subscription (and at what tiers)? it would be nice to draw some direct parallels to how these donations impact the open source and upstream work you do
in reply to caleb 🌈

@cas Thank you for the great idea! We will consider adding those metrics to future posts.


Hello! We are a small independent bookshop in Stow, in the Scottish Borders. We are no longer using Twitter, for obvious reasons, but could use some new followers on Mastodon and other social media channels - where our presence is smaller than on Twitter. Please help / share this is you can! Thank you.

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One of Europe’s largest drug store chains Rossmann stops buying Teslas because Elon Musk supports the climate change denialism candidate Donald Trump.

Thank you to @agturcz for this find.

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Disney+ will finally start cracking down on password sharing next month 9to5mac.com/2024/08/07/disney-…

in reply to Jakob Borg

it's complicated. We've had the org marked as some kind of cloud blabla account for a long time, but recently they've pushed for that sort of account is going away and is instead becoming this other account... I suspect the problem started in this other account. But who the heck knows. This is big-company mumbo jumbo at its worst.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@jakob it fits the road #GitHub has taken since it was taken over by #Microsoft. The original promise was to be #OSS friendly. Now that they are the goto place for Open Source they change the rules step by step. This also affects paying users. The SaaS price list exploded a couple of months ago. You now even pay extra for git LFS. I guess, this is the enshittification process @pluralistic is talking about.
in reply to Markus Werle

actually, it is somewhat more complicated than so. We were "bumped up" as a courtesy by GitHub to get more github action "powers" and that makes us a little special there and that sometimes leads to ... surprises.
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in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@jakob @pluralistic it is quite simple to me. OSS projects had full GitHub actions access. At least „no limits“ was the advertising and my main reason to stay on that platform. That has obviously changed. Now larger OSS projects need extra attention due to limitations never revealed before.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@jakob @pluralistic I am deeply concerned about what is happening here. I read your message such that you do not have full and unlimited access to GitHub Actions with your OSS project and this definitely is not what was promised nearly a decade ago. Can you please explain what makes the special treatment of curl necessary? What kind of facts am I missing?
in reply to Markus Werle

@markuswerle @jakob @pluralistic This is how I interpret the situation: #GitHub offers open source programs free access to GitHub actions today exactly as it did in the past. This access is limited in CPU performance and parallelism. It always was. All free CI services do this.

The #curl project was bumped to a fancier account to give us more actions powers: more CPU and more parallelism.

That is them doing us a favor and them supporting us, not the other way around.

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@jakob @pluralistic thanks for the clarification. I accept your description of the limitations at place, despite me remembering them differently. Maybe the limitations were there all the time but not prominently mentioned. I should have taken screenshots at the time when I was excited about GitHub.
in reply to Markus Werle

@markuswerle @jakob @pluralistic no services offer unlimited CPU and parallelism by default, how could they? It would immediately get abused to death.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@jakob @pluralistic and any of these abuse attempts would be easily detectable and would immediately lead to a platform ban. I accept there was a limit you ran into but I do not follow your argument here that the limit is necessary in the first place.
in reply to Markus Werle

@markuswerle no need to tell ME that. Tell that to every existing could-CI service out there that you clearly have figured out something they have not. I'm just a user.
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@markuswerle @pluralistic GitHub Enterprise offers some additional things for security, etc. I don't know if curl uses those, but I interpret it as a way to make sure curl (as critical infrastructure) gets whatever protection they can offer.


macOS Sequoia adds weekly permission prompt for screenshot and screen recording apps 9to5mac.com/2024/08/06/macos-s…



Od dnes ma volajte Nostradamus.

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It's fair to say we had a fantastic time in Colorado (and Berlin!) for GUADEC 2024.

Off the back of the event, Martín Abente Lahaye has published a conference round-up, including some highlights from his time in Denver.

Thanks to the GNOME Foundation, volunteers, staff, and everyone else who made the event unforgettable.

Read here: codethink.co.uk/articles/2024/…



Heydon reminds that the `<abbr>` element is mostly useless:
heydonworks.com/article/the-ab…

I linked it from my post (where I show SR support, which is a bit odd) that says essentially same.





WordStar 7 for DOS gets a free re-release from one of its biggest author fans

"Compared to it, Microsoft Word is pure madness"—Anne Rice.

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/0…



When Nate Silver joined a company in which extremist Peter Thiel and cryptocurrency funds are key investors, the rest of us should have stopped listening to anything he says about politics.

But he's still widely quoted, and only rarely (afaik) with this context.

axios.com/2024/07/16/nate-silv…

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I know, I know, "security." This shows utter contempt for the user.

I was just asked to authorize an app that I've used SINCE THE 1990s so it would continue working for a week. And next week I guess it'll ask again?

You have to let the user say, somewhere, "never ask me again--always allow."
mastodon.online/@9to5Mac/11291…

in reply to Jason Snell

Why "utter contempt?" It's saying that, even if I know for a fact that I want to give a particular app permission, macOS will treat me a like a child and keep asking me. Because Apple doesn't believe I am qualified to grant permanent permission to any app.

Another sign that the people in charge of security and privacy features at Apple are out of control and that nobody who stands up for user experience is being heard.



ECHOTHIEF IMPULSE RESPONSE LIBRARY
Over a hundred unique spaces from around North America: caves, skateparks, stairwells, underpasses, glaciers, fortresses, and more.
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in reply to Talon

@talon Absolute bloody shocker, init? Rarely do you see that these days.
in reply to Andre Louis

yeah that kinda thing is pretty rare. Was half expecting to go through the typical mazes. Really cool that I didn't have to. And some neat stuff in here thanks for sharing!


Jen vám chci připomenout ....je středa ... tak si trochu zazlobte 🤭 🤗 😋
in reply to Michele Dvořáků

Co středa, ale dnes je MDŽO (Mezinárodní den ženského orgasmu). 😁
in reply to brabitom

Sakra, ten je až zítra. 🤐 No co, na něco takového přeci člověk nepotřebuje datum v kalendáři. 😃


Mám jmenovce, sportovního komentátora, v jisté generaci stále známého.

Často se mě ptají na příbuznost, ale hlavně když se někde objeví a především když někde chudák udělá chybu, chodí mi maily.

Díky tomu vím, že nechci být slavný. Nechci aby mi každý připomínal každou prkotinu, která se mi nepovede. Třeba když zrovna špatně vyskloňuju číslovku..



Registration is now open for the #LibreOffice Conference 2024! Join us from October 10 – 12 in Luxembourg for talks, workshops, fun social events and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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turns out #Windows is slow to fail connect attempts to non-listening ports entirely on purpose because it waits and resends the SYN several times, contrary to how other TCP stacks behave.

mskb.pkisolutions.com/kb/17552…

in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

maybe they expect this behavior from other Windows computers/servers? (missing the SYN)
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

@dalias
What would a justification for this behavior be? I'm going to assume someone had a good reason to change from convention...

#Windows




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in reply to Tuta

Fresh Look?
Wenn sich der Balken mit Tuta und "Sandwich" automatisch ausblenden würde, könnte ich die Artikel auch lesen.
Eure Designer haben von Ergonomie wohl noch nie etwas gehört... oder?



Welcome Pete Cordell as #curl commit author 1293: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1439…
#curl


Thanks to friendly neighbourhood packager @kpcyrd homebrew users can now install curl+rustls-ffi with ease: github.com/rustls/homebrew-tap ✨ 🔗 🔒


Un proyecto de #IA que me parece interesante, es Ilenia, para el impulso de las lenguas cooficiales. planderecuperacion.gob.es/noti…
#ia


Reason (checks notes) hojillion-forty-seven to use @Vivaldi as your #browser of choice. Don't like the way your right-click menu looks/feels? Change it. I got tired of scrolling to get to the Dev Tools, so I bumped them to the top and liberated "Inspect," which I want 95% of the time anyway. While there, I got rid of everything I don't want or need, eliminating the scroll entirely.

As a #product professional, I adore this level of attention to detail. Well done, folks.

in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

@stepan Yeah, I wouldn't want to either. I just tested on another PC and it appears like they are not. Vivaldi's Help page for Sync states they are syncing "some Settings (more will be added in the future)," but there's no list of which settings are being synced currently.
in reply to Ryan Pollard

That's what mainly frustrates me on Vivaldi. Most of the configuration is actually not synchronized. 😢


what people have been using for years already will start working in #curl 8.10.0: -vv, -vvv and -vvvv for more verbose logging.

Up until now, adding more vs did not do anything different.

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1397…

PR by the awesome @icing

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We are very proud of all our NVDA Certified Experts! Special shout out today to Iman Rammal from Qatar & Norbert Rum of the USA; both recently awarded certificates!

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Plus you get a snazzy certificate & badge for your email!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Certification

in reply to Patrick W

@BrailleScreen @TheQuinbox @FluidEscence I re-took it today and got an 87. A pass is a pass in my book. I had that same attitude in high school lol
in reply to Justin Yarbrough

@jyarbrough @BrailleScreen @TheQuinbox @FluidEscence 87 is a great result, congratulations! And I'm very pleased to have just sent your certificate out! We are very happy to have you on board as an NVDA Certified Expert, congratulations, and thank you for your support!


I’ve made an explainer site about vanilla web development, or webdev without tools or frameworks. Think of it as a new web framework’s tutorial, except the framework in this case is modern web standards.

plainvanillaweb.com




"Do not hallucinate. Do not make up factual information."

Do they really think the LLM knows what that even means

apple.slashdot.org/story/24/08…

in reply to Richard "mtfnpy" Harman

None of those are meaningful, no. Those are mainly to make the human feel better.

It's a prayer, not a directive.



1 year ago I switched from Mac to Linux for professional UX design work. In this article, I explain as simply as possible:
- Why I switched to Linux
- How you can do the same.

I cover design-specific concerns like:
- How to use Apple devices like the Magic Mouse in Linux
- Which design tools are available and how to install them
- How to find help if you get stuck

chris-wood.design/resources/li…

#Design #UXDesign #UIDesign #Linux #MacOS

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How to Install and Configure Samba in Ubuntu linuxtoday.com/blog/how-to-ins…