For those who are interested in alternative ways to use a Linux interface, there are things even lighter than desktop environments, called window managers. There's one called I3, and @storm has made an accessibility plugin forit, which also adds other cool stuff like the ability to control audio playback and such. It's called I38.
Tails 6.6 security-focused Linux distro rolls out with upgraded Tor and Thunderbird versions, plus improved hardware support.LinuxToday
Discipline seems to be breaking down among some of Moscow’s forces that are still reeling after Ukraine’s surprise incursion into Russia’s Kursk region a week ago.Kyiv Post
5 things white people can do to start making the fediverse less toxic for Black people
privacy.thenexus.today/start-m…
The article also has links to anti-racism resources and appendices with a list of common mistkes to avoid and blocklist resources for moderators.
Thanks to everybody who gave feedback on earlier drafts!
Read on for some excerpts (1/N)
#fediverse #mastodon #antiracism
Draft! Work in progress! Feedback welcome!Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)
The frontend community is in crisis. I know, because I could spend every waking hour helping e-commerce and productivity apps fix the *unbelievably* bad performance that is now the hallmark of contemporary, JavaScript-first web development.
But it's worse than that. This stuff has infected public services; the sorts of sites that have to serve *everyone*, iPhone or no.
Part 2 of this series is the hardest to watch, but essential to understand how far we've fallen:
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SNAP benefits sites for more than 20% of Americans are unusably slow. All of them would be significantly faster if states abandoned client-side-rendering, and along with it, the legacy JavaScript frameworks (React, Angular, etc.Alex Russell
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:
* YAM Launcher: a minimal android launcher with weather integration – and a #reproducibleBuilds 😃
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
Amazingly, somebody made a functional 35mm film camera out of LEGO, and put it on LEGO Ideas. It needs about 2300 more votes to have a chance of being made into a real set.
ideas.lego.com/projects/873670…
📸✨ Introducing ZH1: The Fully Functional 35mm Film Camera Made Entirely from LEGO! 🧱🎞️My primary goal was to create a fully functional 35mm film ...ideas.lego.com
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"Removing focus indicators for keyboard users is like hiding the cursor for mouse users." - @matuzo in Web Accessibility Cookbook
Brilliant comparison!
In fact, it made me wonder... can you hide a cursor for mouse users? Yep, you can set it to a custom png file that's completely transparent.
If you want to see for yourself how annoying that is, visit nonvisualwebsite.com/ #a11y
Emacs is one of the aged text editor with ongoing development, providing rich and powerful features that can be more extended using plugins.LinuxToday
You can see my brodalisques at Artistry in Bloomington, MN now through June 30th, 2024. #brodalisque #art #painting
Klaire Lockheart, Brodalisque Reclining in the Garage. 2021. Oil on Canvas. 24x36”.
Klaire Lockheart, Dude on a Panther Skin. 2021. Oil on Canvas. 20x30”.
Klaire Lockheart, Brodalisque Reclining in the Basement. 2021. Oil on Canvas. 20x30”.
Reminder that my book—Rust Atomics and Locks—is freely available online: marabos.nl/atomics/ 😊
(If you read it, please leave a review on goodreads.com/book/show/632918…)
Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You'll learn everything about atomics and …marabos.nl
WebAssembly proposal for 128-bit arithmetic. Contribute to WebAssembly/128-bit-arithmetic development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
A Handful of Reasons JavaScript Won’t Be Available, by @belldotbz (@piccalilli):
Apple's [MLX framework](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx) for running GPU-accelerated machine learning models on Apple silicon keeps growing [new examples](https://github.com/ml-explore/mlx-examples).simonwillison.net
Enjoyed presenting on Day 1 of Drupal GovCon -- Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices
TLDR: Drupal is doing better than average, based on most CrUX Core Web Vital evaluations, but we still need to do better for CX.
As a community we can work to improve these scores and improve the digital experience of .gov sites.
docs.google.com/presentation/d…
#DrupalGovCon #GovCon #DC #DigitalTech #Data #GoogleLighthouse #accessibiity #Performance #CX #government #Drupal
Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices Drupal GovCon, August 13, Data Analysis of Drupal, Government and Best Practices Digital.gov’s Site Scanning Program is tracking 26,000 publicly available federal .gov websites.Google Docs
#Quotes #Libraries #Ignorance #WakterCronkite
He'd be pissed that some libraries are being made to remove books.
🎉 We are the anchor sponsor for the public sector track at The Matrix Conference!
This global event highlights how Matrix is revolutionising workplace communications, especially in large public sector organisations.
Join us to hear from our innovative public sector customers about their journey towards digital sovereignty. 🌍
#OpenSource #PublicSector #DigitalSovereignty
element.io/blog/element-sponso…
Excitement around The Matrix Conference is really beginning to build! The Matrix Conference is significant as it’s the first global in-person event that The Matrix.org Foundation has created.Archie W (Element Blog)
The richest company in the world (congrats guys, you’re back on top) being fucking rent-seeking pieces of shit isn’t going to earn your precious services more $$$, it’s just going to convince a whole new generation of users to avoid the App Store for…Mastodon
One of the Haiku OS developers has ported Firefox successful to Haiku OS
New LeaseyBite. Getting Efficient With Reading Email Messages in Microsoft Outlook.
Through Leasey, JAWS has the ability to automatically speak the content of the Outlook reading pane as you move through messages in a mail folder. This means that if the reading pane is enabled, as you move to a new message JAWS will speak the usual details such as the presence of attachments, author and subject, followed by the content of the reading pane. In most cases, the reading pane displays the entire content of a message. This can be very helpful because you can read your Email messages without opening them. Listening to this information can help in making a decision as to whether you wish to open the message, move it elsewhere or delete it.
This feature is a real productivity boost.
The audio for this episode is here.
pinecast.com/listen/1983d34b-c…
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Matrix can support nation-wide deployments, and Renato Stalder will tell you why SwissPost used it for their secure communication system at The Matrix Conference in Berlin, on September 19-22
🎟️ Grab your tickets at 2024.matrix.org
🏆️ Secure a sponsorship package at 2024.matrix.org/sponsor
The Matrix Conference is coming to Berlin, Germany on September 19–22, 2024.2024.matrix.org
SwissPost has big plans for Switzerland’s ePost system and Matrix.
It’ll be really interesting to hear about this during this presentation on 20 Sept in Berlin.
We start off the week with #MuralMonday to bring some color to your week and inspire you to take some adventures around your town to find new murals!
🚲 #TernQuickHaul
📍 #Stanmore, #Australia
📸 @glowwormelectricbikes (IG)
🎨 @geebsart (IG)
LibreOffice is always free to download from our website, but it’s also available in the Microsoft Store for a small fee, which covers the costs of putting it there, and helps to sustain future development of the suite.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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in reply to Tailsteak • • •First of all, this is monopolistic behavior and needs to be stopped by regulators.
Secondly, this is exactly the problem that I and many others warned about years ago. WHY DOES EVERYONE HAVE AN APP? What is wrong with the web as it was originally designed? Don’t use the freaking app! Don’t install it! Use the website!
Jonathan
in reply to Photorat • • •Also, it saves your passwords if you use the browser! Yay! Who needs bloated apps anyway!
Also Apple is total bullshit!
Jonathan
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