My goal isn't for Mastodon to replace Twitter.

My goal is for the Fediverse to attack and dethrone God.

It seems to me that the mainstream software industry is no longer attractive to our best and brightest young technologists. This is sad. dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/…

"It might help if I had any idea what I want to be when I grow up, but I don't. Probably not a programmer, the thought of working on microservices and bloated web stuff all day does not appeal to me. But...what else? <shrug>"

a few days ago there was a heated argument about whether developers should study the humanities.

well, i'd just like if most developers can just learn how to write concisely and clearly in any format. how about that

Well now.

Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

Apparently some fiddlery went on with the CPU, but even if Rustls is "only as fast as" the traditional solutions, I feel like it''s a hell of a lot safer from a security POV.

openssl-library.org/news/vulne… (about 10-20 a year) vs ... 2 for Rustls. Now 2 a year. 2 as in forever

Now granted Rustls has less legacy technical debt and baggage and is written in a memory safe language... Which I guess is sort of the point, it's more secure. So if it's as performant...

Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.

^{www.memorysafety.org}

Health Canada: we have the tools

Also Health Canada: you peons are too stupid to be trusted with far-UVC devices so we are banning you from buying them domestically or importing from other countries. Just fucking die quietly.

Ich glaube es wird #Zeit den #Uhrenumstellungsfilter wieder zu aktivieren.

#CEST / #CET / #DST
#Sommerzeit #Winterzeit #Normalzeit
#Zeitumstellung ist nicht, #Uhrenumstellung schon.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated, 10 removed and 2 added apps:

* Rate Your Pics: allows you to rate your pictures very quickly 🛡️
* Ease The Waiting: a mix between a calendar and a clock that makes you wait faster

Thanks to Aholic Gino for walking through older apps (see: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – still a lot to do there), 10 apps which were no longer working were removed.

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

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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}

The BT Speak Users’ Manual is Now Available!!
Blazie Technologies is happy to announce the publication of a comprehensive manual for the BT Speak. The manual goes beyond what we provide in our Getting Started guide and offers the following sections.
• Introduction, including describing the contents of the packaging for new users who are unboxing their BT Speak for the first time
• Physical description and orientation
• How to power on, shut down, putting the device to sleep and waking up the device
• Battery considerations
• How to navigate menus and use shortcut keys for Quick navigation
• Adjusting speech, including how to switch to other voices and text to speech engines
• Getting help, including how to obtain context-sensitive help and accessing the text and audio versions of the Getting Started guides
• How to connect to Wi-Fi
• How to install new software updates
• Accessing the Settings menu
• Introducing the editor, including how to find and manipulate text
• File management, including how to create and open files and subdirectories
• Using applications, including the radio tuner, phonebook, agenda calendar and BT Learn for free Braille coaching, tests and games
• An introduction to desktop mode
• An introduction to using the Mozilla Thunderbird email program
• An introduction to Web browsing using Chromium and Firefox
• Concludes with an extensive list of commands

This is the first version of the users’ manual. We will be continually adding and modifying this document as new features are added, with newer versions of the manual being released on a regular basis. We welcome feedback from our users regarding how the manual can be improved. If you have feedback for us, please submit comments and suggestions via email to support@blazie.net.
Where to Download the Manual
You can find the manual on our Web site by pointing your Web browser to www.blazietech.com. You’ll find it from several locations, including the front page, from the Guides and Media page, from the BT Speak Pro product page and from the Documentation page.
For convenience, here are the direct download links.

Accessible PDF version:
blazietech.com/_files/ugd/4d64…
Microsoft Word version (also compatible with LibreOffice Writer)
download-files.wixmp.com/raw/2…

We hope that this first edition of the manual will assist you in learning more about how to use your BT Speak and that it will help you to become a more effective and productive user.

MOST EXCELLENT NEWS: The judge dismissed the case against John. He will be freed today.

Please do consider supporting freefunder.com/donate/save-the…. It's been over a year since his last paycheck, and legal representation isn't free. Thanks.

Yay! Squee!

Tune into ACB Radio on 10/24 at 3 PM ET for the Vispero Presentation: Manage Bookmarks and Lists in Google Chrome with JAWS. We’ll show you how to bookmark a site, manage and access bookmarks, plus add an article to a reading list. Request an invitation at community@acb.org

#FreedomScientificTraining #JAWS

The Accessibility Operations Guidebook by @viscousplatypus is finally out!

Spoiler alert: I, along with many other accessibility practitioners, are quoted in and contributed to it. But don't read it for those quotes; read it because Devon is exceptionally skilled in this space and has put so much care into this book!

I've only gotten sneak peeks into this book, but I already know it will be one of the best accessibility books I'll get to read. Check it out!

payhip.com/b/OSyLt

The Accessibility Operations Guidebook by Devon Persing

The accessibility field has a burnout problem. People get into this work to make accessible products and services.

^Payhip

Expanding Access: Introducing Aira ASL 🌱

We are excited to announce a new initiative at Aira to support the Deaf Community with on-demand ASL interpreting services. Recognizing a gap in access to interpreters in public spaces like retail stores, airports, and banks, we've developed a separate app, Aira ASL, to offer immediate and reliable interpreting without the need for advance scheduling.

By contracting with ASL service providers and using our technology platform, Aira ASL will make interpreting services seamless and easy to access, just as our existing app benefits the blind and low-vision community. This initiative aims to remove barriers and improve communication access when and where it’s needed most.

Read the full announcement and FAQ: aira.io/aira-asl-on-demand-int…

No, The Chinese Have Not Broken Modern Encryption Systems with a Quantum Computer

The headline is pretty scary: “China’s Quantum Computer Scientists Crack Military-Grade Encryption.”
No, ... schneier.com/blog/archives/202…

#quantumcomputing #China

Proof-of-concept exploit code is now public for a vulnerability in Microsoft's Remote Registry client that could be used to take control of a Windows domain by downgrading the security of the authentication process.

bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu…

rustls outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL.

Security and performance: pick two!

memorysafety.org/blog/rustls-p…

Rustls Outperforms OpenSSL and BoringSSL

ISRG has been investing heavily in the Rustls TLS library over the past few years. Our goal is to create a library that is both memory safe and a leader in performance.

^{www.memorysafety.org}