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Gajim 1.9.4 has been released 🎉

This release integrates XMPP Providers (@xmpp_providers), supports Hats and brings many improvements and bug fixes. Thank you for all your contributions!

If you like to support Gajim with a donation, feel free to visit liberapay.com/Gajim

#xmpp #gajim #chat

gajim.org/post/2024-09-19-gaji…

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Not replying when your whole body is itching with a strong desire to send something really sarcastic back. *that* is the restraint that builds character.

At least that's what I tell myself.

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Sometimes, it is important. The OP may learn something and build their own character.


Big Tech's vast surveillance exposed by FTC. Protect your privacy with Purism's ethical tech. #PrivacyMatters #Purism
puri.sm/posts/ftc-highlights-v…


Congrats Danielle!

Thanks for an awesome presentation at #matrixconf on the power of Element Server Suite.

For more information about ESS visit element.io/server-suite



"A topic dear to my heart: there is no functional URL/URI standard today."

I wrote on the #HTTPbis mailing list:

lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/i…



This week we released GNOME 47 “Denver”! 🥳

To find out more, and to see what else happened this week, you should check out the latest issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME!

👉 thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/…

#GNOME #TWIG

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Fascinating presentation at #matrixconf from Jan Kohnert at gematik.

Germany’s healthcare industry is developing the Matrix-based TI-Messenger standard. An excellent example of interoperable secure communications.

#TIMessenger #TIM




Let's say someone's running down the street, waving a machete left and right. A pedestrian doesn't manage to jump aside and gets killed. Do we call that murder?

So why, when someone is speeding in a few ton iron coffin and killing someone, we are talking of "unfortunate accident"?

#FuckCars

in reply to mgorny-nyan (he) 🙀🚂🐧

Nobody talks about cyclists in this context though. A speeding car like this is really either an accident or the driver is a dickhead which happens not too often. However, bikes and scooters speeding on pedestrian zones — all the time. they are just freaking dangerous for pedestrians, and nobody cares, because it's "healthy" and "green". As a person hit by a cyclist (fortunately without consequences), I compare *them* to that guy waving his machete.
in reply to André Polykanine

@menelion
A) Whataboutism
B) Strawman (nobody cares...)
C) You were hit by the bike, which you yourself say is the equivalent of the machete swinging, and there were no consequences. Yet you belittle the dangers of cars (accident or douchebag)


Máme 400 registrací na #LinuxDays a další přibývají. Sejdeme se už za tři týdny v Praze!
linuxdays.cz/2024/


Uvažoval jsem, že bych pokaždé, když někdo hodí lístek do urny, pustil fanfáru nebo potlesk. #volby #zápiskyzkomise
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@archos
No je to smutné. Přitom kraje taky mají dost pravomocí.
in reply to Marián Kyral

My chodíme s manželkou ke každým volbám a teď teprv po strašně dlouhé době premiéra, kdy oba musíme vynechat, protože nás dostal nějaký virový parchant (čili marodíme). Kdyby už politici pohnuli s tou digitalizací, bylo by to hned jednodušší, dalo by se hlasovat z domova (mohlo by to jít třeba i z datové schránky).
@mkyral
@archos @rholas
in reply to Marián Kyral

@mkyral @archos Mají jich fakt hodně. Lidi by si měli uvědomit, že kraje například:
1. Spravují silnice II. a III. třídy (tedy největší část silniční sítě mimo místních komunikací)
2. Objednávají autobusovou dopravu, spěšné a osobní vlaky
3. Zřizují a spravují skoro všechny střední školy a část základních
4. Zřizují a spravují významnou část nemocnic a zařízení sociální péče
5. Zřizují a spravují významnou část kulturních zařízení
6. Rozdělují dotace jak z krajského rozpočtu, tak částečně i od státu a z EU
in reply to Archos

@archos Docela dost. Třeba mezi 20.00 a 22.00 jsme měli tři voliče, z toho jedna je člen komise a jeden její manžel, tj. přesně jednoho člověka z ulice. Ne, že by to jindy byl takhle večer úplný fičák, ale dnes to byl extrém. Doufám, že se mýlím, ale vypadá to minimálně u nás na hodně nízkou účast.
in reply to Archos

@archos většinou když jdu volit, bývá nátřask, fronta, … Mívám pocit, že bude rekordní volební účast, ale nakonec je třeba jen mírně nadprůměrná.

Dneska bylo poprvé u voleb na Praze 3 úplně mrtvo. Tipuju, že i 20% účast bude nakonec úspěch. I kandidáti byli před volbama naprosto neviditelní - žádné plakáty, meetingy, jen 1 leták do schránky.



LinkedIn is "TikTok" for middle aged people.

You know how older people are always scared of TikTok messing up young people's minds with disinformation and bullshit, of influencers getting kids to do dumb shit for their profit? That's exactly what LinkedIn does for middle aged people: A constant stream of weird influencers selling absolute garbage to people who are unsure about what their job means and what they care about.




finally figured out why @mozilla's rejection of the #fediverse is bothering me so much: i had no idea mozilla.social was open to the public. i thought it was only for their employees.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m…

so am even angrier because this "experiment" was bullshit.

if i, one of the most eager early adopters of tech on the planet didn't get that mozilla.social was open to everyone, then it's their fault millions didn't flock to the platform.

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Want to use a cheap eSIM plan but don't have an eSIM compatible phone?

Try an eSIM adapter! These nifty cards are basically removable eUICCs that you can provision eSIM profiles onto.

The one I'm recommending uses an open source app to manage profiles. The app in question is OpenEUICC, a fully open-souce LPAd implementation for Android. Other eSIM adapters use proprietary, closed source apps and require account sign-ups.

More details can be found in this article: androidauthority.com/esim-adap…

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#Gnome 47 landed to #ArchLinux :gnome: ❤️ :archlinux:

Oh no, #nvidia driver bug brakes #vulkan graphical acceleration and many apps using it wont start. Once again nvidia driver pushes me to look for workarounds... 😡

bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.ph…

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People say, linux is for power users. You have to constantly tweak your system...
Not really, unless you buy a shitty nvidia gpu.




The Hungarian presidency in the Council of the EU has proposed another text for the #ChatControl file. It is to be discussed by the law enforcement working party in Council on Monday (23 September).
Experts widely criticise Chat Control e.g. for attacking #E2EE, IT-security and violating (European) fundamental rights.
The #GlobalEncryptionCoalition now warns that the Hungarian proposal fails to resolve the problems of the regulation and calls on governments to reject it:
globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…
in reply to Freedom not Fear

Meeting notes, leaked to and published by @netzpolitik_feed (German), show that the Council's own legal service warns that the new proposal by Hungary does not solve the previously criticised incompatibility of the #ChatControl file with European law.
netzpolitik.org/2024/interne-d…


New presidency, same unacceptable #CSAR proposal: The 🇭🇺 Presidency still seeks to impose a system of mandatory scanning of online communications with intrusive technologies that undermine security and threaten fundamental rights.

With the Global Encryption Coalition, we call for the continued protection of our privacy & strong encryption 👇

globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…

#CSAR


🇩🇪Die Global Encryption Coalition warnt: Die aktuelle Vorlage zur #Chatkontrolle wird die Verbreitung illegalen Materials nicht stoppen, sondern erhebliche Sicherheitsrisiken für alle Bürger, Unternehmen und Regierungen nach sich ziehen. globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…
in reply to Patrick Breyer

🇬🇧The Global Encryption Coalition warns: The latest #ChatControl text will not solve the problem of the online spread of child sexual abuse material, but will introduce significant security risks for all citizens, companies, and governments. globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…



Tri ukrajinečky, zákazníčky, také príjemné... jedna sa prišla zoznámiť, možno ešte príde.


I38
Hunter Jozwiak pushed changes to the master branch of the I38 project Rename script.
in reply to Billy

re: I38
Thanks @sektor for the work on I38. There were actually 4 patches, but the script that reports them only picked up the last one. To see whatelse changed, use git log.


For Windows users that are doing encrypted backups of their old iPhones--I'm headed to the Apple Store to get my new phone, and don't trust iCloud implicitly--the Apple Devices app on Windows is a great alternative to using iTunes. Apple folded all of the iPhone syncing and backing up stuff into a nice little UWP app on the Windows Store and the accessibility is phenomenal. Imagine all of the iTunes sections relevant to device management, copied and pasted into their own not-laggy interface.


I38
Storm Dragon pushed changes to the master branch of the I38 project Added path to ps5 contoller to game controller battery script.


Weird question. How do you get iOS18 to stop suggesting contact names when you have a contact named a particular thing, such as an endearment, like I've done with ChocolatePie@tweesecake.social and iOS insists on popping up this little thing at the top of a message window trying to get you to change it to the name it suggests rather than simply letting you keep the contact's name the way you want it? I've gone through both phone settings and contact settings and can't find any way to get it to stop doing that and I've got no clue where else to look in settings to get rid of that annoying thing.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I just don’t see why apple has taken it upon itself to try telling people how to arrange and name their contacts. I really don’t get it. People were able to do whatever they wanted with their contacts’ names and so forth for years on end, and now there’s apple, virtually nagging them.
in reply to Steve Mann

Whatsapp's suggested names for a long time.
Sensibly named contacts also aid in sharing with others, access for emergency services etc.
Nickname field means you can call people what you want without changing who they actually are.
I have family that do the ICE thing, family that put full names in the first name box, and that make separate contacts for different numbers or even email addresses.
While of course you should be free to manage contacts how you want, the inefficiencies and legacies of using SIM cards to store name-number pairs persist widely.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo WhatsApp never popped a button up at the top of the screen that forced you to change contact name and wouldn’t disappear till you did what it dictated you do though. That’s the difference. It happened for the first time when my girlfriend and I got onto a facetime call a couple nights ago. That dialogue popped up and took over the screen and wouldn’t let me navigate away from it or do anything else with my phone until I did what it wanted, which I really don’t need happening. Technology should do what the user says, not the other way about. If it would just suggest instead of trying to force you to do things its way, that’d be one thing. But it tries to make you do what it wants and traps you in this inescapable dialogue when you’re on a facetime call. It doesn’t trap you in that dialogue in message screens, but it does in Facetime calls.
in reply to Steve Mann

oh absolutely it should always be optional. It's your phone, you're not its Human!
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo That’s where my problem comes in. At least it doesn’t trap you in that dialogue in message windows, but when you go on a Facetime call and that thing pops up, you literally can’t even navigate to your home screen. You literally have to go in and change the contact name before it will allow you to do anything else at all with the phone, which to me is fifty pounds of crap in a two pound bag.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Incidentally, I just got that damn button popping up again, and when I went into the edit field for my girlfriend’s contact details on my phone, there is no longer a nickname field. So they’ve effectively eliminated that as an option. I looked everywhere and can’t find a nickname field. So it looks as if I’m going to have to be eternally battling with my phone to keep the endearment as her contact name. Thank you very much, apple. I guess mere people are now too stupid to decide for themselves how they handle their own iPhone contacts.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo Yep, just went in and doublechecked once again, and there’s no nickname field to be seen anywhere. I see first name, last name, company name, but no nickname field what so ever. Absolutely stupid, in my humble opinion.
in reply to Tom Grant

@TomGrant91 @cachondo Oh just you wait. If you have a contact named something other than what they set up as their name, it'll do it to you. And what's worse is, if you end up in a facetime call with them, you'll be trapped in the dialogue till you do what the phone wants you to do.
in reply to Steve Mann

@cachondo Don't care for facetime, I use google meet. Yes, there is a voice call option so I use that. I found out a way of disabling it too. In the contacts settings, it's a separate thing you open called short name. Switch everything off there.
in reply to Tom Grant

@TomGrant91 @cachondo I guess my question is, why use a third party app when there’s a built in function?
in reply to Steve Mann

@TomGrant91 facetime was only available on Apple products for quite some time. Third party apps often work across multiple platforms



Přeinstalovat si ve Void linuxu jiné desktopové prostředí je skoro tak rychlé, jako se odhlásit a znovu přihlásit. #voidlinux


Impressions of Google TalkBack 15.0’s Detailed Gemini Image Description: A Feature with Great Potential accessibleandroid.com/impressi… #AI #Gemini #TalkBack
in reply to Accessible Android

So one quick note, bychanging the setting in #talkback for text in images from unlabeled to always the feature will work as before, which I have found acceptable.


My colleagues @gpiccoli and André Almeida will attend the Linux Kernel Recipes 2024 in Paris, between the 23rd and the 25th of September. Make sure to talk to him if you are interested in what Igalia works on that is related to the Linux kernel and general OS development.

#igalia #kernelrecipes #linux #kernel

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As much as we fight the EU Commission's push for #chatcontrol, we applaud the EU for protecting users' #privacy with the #GDPR.

It's about time the #EU Commission reflects on European values and increases data protection, not undermining it. ✊

Read here what Tuta does to achieve GDPR-compliance: 👉 tuta.com/blog/gdpr-compliant-e…

#DSGVO #RGPD



Have you ever wondered how your personal data is being used to power AI models?

The European Union is shining a light on this very question with its investigation into Google's PaLM2 model.

#dataprivacy #ethicalAI #WhoOwnsYourAI

techopedia.com/news/eu-investi…



Ever wondered how focus stealing prevention works in GNOME Shell? Or why you see "<App> is ready" notification?

blogs.gnome.org/shell-dev/2024…

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i was exposed to “Cruel Angel’s Thesis in the Mario 64 soundfont” this morning and now i’m making it your problem youtube.com/watch?v=lmSt4wUQeC…


Nobody is using pheromones for biometrics. Free idea right there.
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Police violence

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The Access Text Network (a US platform where some publishers share accessible PDFs of their books on demand to authorized users) has gradually been coming back online after it collapsed this spring as a result of some kind of disagreement between Georgia Tech and the Association of American Publishers.🤔

My work was only granted access to the new AccessText today, and the collection has to be built back up over time book by book.
accesstext.org/about-us

#accessibility #a11y #BookAccessibility



A week ago, in spite of all her campaign promises to defend the rights of Mexico's sexual diversities, President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the terf Renata Turrent will be the new director of the public television station Canal Once. In response, over 100 queer, antiracist and abortion rights organizations and nearly 400 individuals have signed this statement calling for her dismissal. @reclaimingtrans and @thatweirdolee have been kind enough to host the English translation

For public television and radio and free media that truly represent the diversity and dignity of all people!

healthliberationnow.com/2024/0…



Mozilla's mozilla.social Mastodon server will shut down in December.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m…
I guess there weren't enough users? In any case, this seems like a weird thing to do, given that X is a mess and we need open alternatives supported by companies…
in reply to Chris Heilmann

@mattmay do you think if there was 10 times more they wouldn't make the same decision?