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Hey U.S. people: thinking about getting your ham license? Free training, testing, and a radio.

"The Make Operating Radio Easier (MORE) Project is an initiative to reduce both gender and age imbalances in Amateur (Ham) Radio, through education and hands-on activities."

n2re.org/m-o-r-e-project

#HamRadio #AmateurRadio




Our LibreOffice and Open Source Conference 2024 is taking place next week in Luxembourg, and one of the sponsors is @passbolt S.A., which makes an open source password manager:
blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

in reply to SuspiciousDuck

toto stále pokračuje, toto sa oplatí si pustiť.. povedal že si kúpil mikroskop, naozaaaj
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Looking forward to attend the #LibreOffice Conference 2024 in Luxembourg next week.

Hope to see many of you there with the rest of the @libreoffice community , and maybe also joining me in my talk: The long way to #softwarefreedom events.documentfoundation.org/…





Join Us for Our October 2024 Training Events – Freedom Scientific Blog blog.freedomscientific.com/joi…



Boom.

#Walz to #JDVance: "Did he lose the 2020 election?"

Vance: "Tim, I'm focused on the future…"

Walz: "That is a damning non-answer."





Pixelfed for Android (v1.0.0.70) is now available via our F-Droid repo!

Our Google Play build is pending approval, and is expected to be available within the next 24 hours.

fdroid.pixelfed.net/fdroid/rep…

#pixelfed #fdroid

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Only 7 days left in the European Citizens’ Initiative to tax the ultrarich to finance the climate transition.

Over 340,000 people have signed the petition so far. We need more than double that to send a clear message.

It takes less than 5 minutes.

eci.ec.europa.eu/038/public/#/…

#climate #ClimateChange #ClimateAction #TaxTheRich #EUPol



Motorola launches ThinkPhone25 as a durable, mid-range phone for business customers liliputing.com/motorola-launch…


M4 MacBook Pro Is Allegedly On Sale On A Private Online Group, With Additional Retail Box Images Showing No Difference In Design From M3 Versions wccftech.com/m4-macbook-pro-on…


Oh yeah, if you use Apple Intelligence with Siri on, and you have multiple alarms enabled, you can no longer tell Siri, "turn off all my alarms." Instead, it will ask you individually which alarm you wish to turn off and you need to tap on the screen, but VoiceOver does not speak while Siri is speaking or waiting on a request, so then you either tell it one or just blindly tap, blah.


The @thunderbird team just released the first beta of their email client for Android. I've filed two accessibility bugs on GitHub, and within hours one is addressed and will be in the next beta release (with a pleasant thank you note to boot).

If you feel so inclined, please consider downloading the app and reporting accessibility problems. Especially if you're a native TalkBack user.

#a11y #Accessibility #AndroidAccessibility #Android #TalkBack #ScreenReader #Thunderbird

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Snapdragon X Elite pushed past 100W shows us what the CPU can offer on the desktop — almost 4X more power for 10% to 30% more performance tomshardware.com/pc-components… (this one surprised me a bit.)



Popular ad blocker uBlock Origin Lite pulled from Firefox store pcworld.com/article/2474353/po…


There are two solutions to ARIA Live Region issues:

1. Don’t use ARIA Live Regions (but use focus, dialogs, or other managing of what’s going on)
2. Put the live region in the DOM at page load (They cost nothing. If you need an alert and a status, put two divs in with both roles.)

See more in these slides:

talks.yatil.net/Ux0REi/were-ar…

#a11y #accessibility



In Finnish the expression when you accidentally button your shirt up with the wrong button to the wrong buttonhole, thus offsetting the whole thing is "in the way of the drunkard's buttons" or juoponnapissa. If there's a fun English expression for the same thing, I don't know it. If your language has any fun expression for it, I also do not know it, and would like to know!

#Language




Auf welcher Konferenz trifft man die Entwickler der Fish Shell?
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For the last 40 days, all that's ever really played in this house is either MSNBC /progress or Fox / Tryumph. on Serius. I keep flicking among the two. I don't listen to music. I don't listen to podcasts. All I care about is politics and current world affairs and the stresses of work projects. Judge me all you want but politics remain my #1 importance to hear, even more important than talking to my own family unless they were in an emergency.
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@Tusky i switched to a new device and now the send button says "tröt!" instead of showing a paperplane icon. I don't remember if that is a setting i can change, is it?
in reply to Tusky

okay, i see. But how come my old Phone showed the icon? Is that some kind of responsive? Depending on display size or resolution ?


I love this part also. The #CSAM regulation proposal is full of how it is all great for privacy, and then it hits you with this. Apparently this is scanning of all OUR photos, not of theirs: patrick-breyer.de/wp-content/u…
#csam
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@Tusky have you considered adding an rss reader into the app? Articles would show up in the main timeline like if they were posted by an account, maybe an option for adding a tab dedicated to the rss


Odnoszę wrażenie, że to całe gadanie o dostępności to jest często taki PR - mówimy o tym jak nam pasuje, ale realnych problemów nie rozwiązujemy.

Jak to jest, że ktoś kto troszkę wypada poza standardową metryczkę klienta banku nie może założyć konta? W Polsce są pewnie dziesiątki tysięcy takich osób.

Jeśli bank nie respektuje pełnomocnika notarialnego, to powinien płacić nie wiem jak grube grzywny.

subiektywnieofinansach.pl/jak-…

#dostępność

in reply to Robert Drózd

No dostępność w bankach to jest niezła zabawa. Tam są z jednej strony pchane przez USA regulacje KYC/AML przeciwko praniu pieniędzy, finansowaniu terroryzmu i innym takim, z drugiej faktyczna dostępność, i to nie jest łatwo pogodzić.


"If you walk by my office, you'll often hear me cursing at a computer. It is always the same curse: "FOR GOD'S SAKE, STOP HELPING ME!" You're not good at it, you don't know what I want, just get out of my way. Every time I get a new computer, I spend about an hour turning off all automated assistance so I can get some actual work done. Predictive text is always wrong. Auto type and auto format are always wrong. And now here comes Gemini."

support.google.com/messages/th…



The new Tuta Calendar app is now available on both iOS and Android! 🥳

Get the iOS calendar app here: apps.apple.com/us/app/tuta-cal…

Android users can get the app here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

Try it out today! 🎉

in reply to Tuta

pixel 7 pro with grapheneOS I have a Tuta Calendar from github via Obtainium app (still waitin for a fdroid version)


My favorite package manager Homebrew ditches macOS 12, another strong signal to abandon my mid 2025 MacBook Pro and buy newer. brew.sh/2024/10/01/homebrew-4.…


I cant believe the thread where we're being told how advertising is good for us and if we let the advertisers do a little bit of spying they wont want to do a lot of spying is still happening
in reply to Kip Van Den Bos, slime farmer

also jonny you're a generous interlocutor in a way I find it difficult to be when talking with well-off corporate types, which is admirable; too often I'm distracted by the desire to tell them to eat shit, which makes it difficult to carry on a discussion
in reply to Kip Van Den Bos, slime farmer

Understandable desire, to be honest; but I think it's useful for someone to try to get through. Diversity of tactics and all that.


@RenewedRebecca @jonny I don't agree with that thought, and very much understand that advertisers want to know whether there is people clicking an ad. I also understand websites want advertisers to pay them extra for people clicking ads on their site.
in reply to pixx

That's not necessarily true. Without PPA (or an equivalent mechanism for anonymous attribution) there can effectively be no advertising.

A world without advertising, barring some kind of innovative new solution that isn't know yet, means most of the internet and its contents become available only to the privileged classes able to pay for it directly.

Good for me? Maybe. Good for the median user, definitely not.

in reply to Bas Schouten

I think the idea that if there was no advertising then everything free would disappear is pretty roundly given counterexample by the medium we're posting on and also the entire history of human culture including and especially the internet where people do lots of free stuff for each other all the time for no reason.

Really we're not talking about advertising in a narrow sense. More specifically we are talking about the kind of surveillance-backed multisided data broker conglomerate business model where profit is derived from ownership of information vectors that offer - and demand - increasingly pervasive control over lived reality for sale. Advertising, yes, but also insurance companies denying me coverage from my google searches, States trying to monitor the reach of oppositional journalism, etc.

I dont see a company like Google, that has the immense visibility over the web that it does, voluntarily dropping targeted behavioral ads just because PPA exists as an alternative. Everything they are doing and have been saying to their investors and to us for the last 10 or 15 years says the opposite. I am not sold on the differential privacy model when you have an adversary that can see most of what goes on on the web and is pretty much the only show in town for ads - ill believe it's truly resilient to fingerprinting when google sues Mozilla for it.

I understand the uncertainty about what an advertising free web would look like - it's not what we're asking of Firefox here though, which is to not actively subvert our interests (or tell us what our best interests really are, since Mozilla knows better) and actively capitulate to the industry that is the reason that most people who use Firefox do, and if it wasn't why is the first substantive text on the Firefox homepage (in pic) literally a promise to do the exact opposite of what you're saying PPA is meant to facilitate, the continued existence of the very industry that runs these trackers? Why am I being specifically told not to check out my settings, which I would need to dig into to turn off what is explicitly an advertising technology, because Firefox will block it all?

Still, I get the uncertainty. It would look different, but to say that it would certainly look worse and specifically more egalitarian and accessible by poor people is ahistorical, does not follow from the premises, and does not appreciate the massive numbers of different ways the internet already does work, and more importantly could work if the entire stack wasn't vertically integrated around total surveillance.

Im not sure what would happen if advertising and the surveillance economy would evaporate tomorrow - that's not something the inclusion of PPA in a single browser would be sole determinant of in either direction - but it sure would be nice if the maintainers of very window through which I am able to see the whole of the world I would not see otherwise could be trusted to not keep edging me on becoming a surveillance company




Ein unglaublich guter Beitrag.

Ein mit so viel Zurückhaltung geschriebener Beitrag, der die Schamesröte in das Gesicht so vieler Akteur*innen treiben sollte, die sich stattdessen täglich selbst beweihräuchern.

Alle Probleme sind on point in den Text verflechtet.

taz.de/Essensausgabe-bei-der-T…



"To anyone with a disability: what's the most offensive question you've been asked? For me, it was, 'Blindness must be terrible, have you considered euthanasia?' Shocking, right? Blindness isn’t a death sentence. I have an amazing life full of joy, purpose, and opportunity!"
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Have you tried out the all new Tuta Calendar app yet?! 💃

This major update includes external calendar sync, offline functionality, and more!

Here is a sneak peek of what you can look forward to 😘

#calendar #encryption #privacy #teaser

in reply to Tuta

How are you guys navigating quantum safe encryption? No body else seems to be doing this!
in reply to Tuta

I tried and shared a calendar with another Tuta user (Tuta Mail app and full permissions). Notifications for test events were not transferred correctly. E.g. 1 day before and 1 hour before and the other Tuta user received no notifications. Is this behaviour intended?


Can anyone suggest an accessible Audible downloader/DRM defeater for Windows?
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo @Thaqib Just a note, I don’t think you will get the chapter names if the book has them with inaudible.
Because from what I was told those are apparently not on the .aax file.
in reply to Johann

@JohannTan Chapter marks in Audible files are inconsistent. They're always there, but sometimes inaccurate, and sometimes only numbered rather than using the names. The Audible apps and web player don't use the chapter metadata from the files themselves. @cachondo @TheCube @Thaqib
in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @JohannTan @Thaqib I never got on with m4b, either. I like it as an idea, but practically it just leaves you with huge files and a good chance you'll lose your place.
in reply to Sean Randall

@cachondo I don't mind the file size. An M4B is only a tiny bit larger than an M4A because of the chapter markers, on the order of kilobytes.

I'd also rather have a single audiobook file over multiple CDs of multiple tracks any day, including for purposes of gapless playback. But, it does absolutely require a good player to overcome the single-file limitations, and I don't know of any on Windows that come close to e.g. BookPlayer on iOS. @JohannTan @TheCube @Thaqib

in reply to James Scholes

@jscholes @JohannTan @Thaqib I guess i don't use audiobooks as a consumer. So having chaptred MP3 means I can find clips far more quickly than zapping through the whole thing, even though I know that a 1 file 1 book methodology is far more logical.