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This week in #FDroid (TWIF) is a lot to read, and also we missed the toot about last week.

In short:
- F-Droid client 1.21 was released, but you should wait for 1.21.1 before you update
- there were some bugs in DAVx⁵, Nextcloud and Tailscale, so be careful in updating these too
- we're working together with @Codeberg to get our builds from apps hosted there working again
- any much more

Read the full details at
f-droid.org/2024/10/24/twif.ht… and f-droid.org/de/2024/10/17/twif…


This Week Is on Fire | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

This Week in F-DroidTWIF curated on Wednesday, 23 Oct 2024, Week 43F-Droid coreJust after the last TWIF was published we thought it will be just another nice...
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#fdroid @Codeberg
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ACB Director of Advocacy and Governmental Affairs Claire Stanley joined Carl Richardson and Kim Charlson at a recent Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Disability Advisory Committee meeting. The meeting covered a range of topics, including gaming accessibility and the use of artificial intelligence to caption live video programming.

Access a recording of the meeting on the FCC YouTube page:
youtube.com/watch?v=geMYRdohxV…

Picture of Carl Richardson and his guide dog Dayton (left), Kim Charlson and her guide dog Idabelle (center) and Claire Stanley and her guide dog Tulane (right). The group is standing in a meeting room at the FCC.

Disability Advisory Committee Meeting - October 2024

The DAC provides a means for stakeholders with interests in accessibility issues to exchange ideas, facilitates the participation of consumers with disabilit...
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#RIPE89 kicks off online and in Prague, Czechia! From IPv6 to IoT, we’re diving deep into the future of the Internet this week. Tune in and follow the talks live at: ripe89.ripe.net/live/ #RIPEMeeting

Main – RIPE 89

A RIPE Meeting is a five-day event where Internet Service Providers (ISPs), network operators and other interested parties from all over the world gather.
ripe89.ripe.net
#ripemeeting #ripe89

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My wife and I did an interview with storycorps which was archived at the Library of Congress in teh United States. If you'd like to learn more about us and our story, have a listen. It's free and fun, and there's thousands of stories from others like us ready for the listenin. archive.storycorps.org/intervi…

Noel Romey and Tabatha Brown

Spouses Tabatha Brown (43) and Noel Romey (44) discuss how they first met during guide dog training, their long distance friendship, and finally deciding to get married.
StoryCorps Archive

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🔐 Sending a password-protected email to anyone is easy with Tuta Mail! 🔐

Check out our latest guide on how to send encrypted, password-protected emails here 👇👇👇
tuta.com/blog/how-to-password-…

#encryption #security #privacy #email

A graphic showing how to send an end-to-end encrypted email to a non-Tuta user on a mobile device.

The easiest way to send password-protected emails | Tuta

Unsure of how to send a password-protected email? Find out how easy it is in this quick guide.
Tuta
#email #privacy #encryption #security

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The fact that the Whisper transcription service from OpenAI just fills out gaps and silence with nonsense, demographic stereotyping, perpetuation of violence and sexal innuendo should get it recalled.

But no, as long as OpenAI say they are continually working to improve the tool, everything is apparently good to go.

One example:
What the person said: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat.”

What Whisper transcribed: “Someone had to run and call the fire department to rescue both the father and the cat. All he had was a smelly old ol’ head on top of a socked, blood-soaked stroller.”

Reporting in the Verge: theverge.com/2024/10/27/242811…

The research paper:
facctconference.org/static/pap… (check out the table of examples!)

My March 2023 article on AI responsibility:
axbom.com/ai-responsibility/


Hospitals use a transcription tool powered by a hallucination-prone OpenAI model

Hospitals routinely use a tool powered by OpenAI’s Whisper transcription model, which researchers find can hallucinate entire passages during periods of silence.
Wes Davis (The Verge)

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It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties — Adrian Roselli

Grat article with tons of updates on this topic. Thanks @aardrian

adrianroselli.com/2022/07/its-… #a11y #accessibility


It’s Mid-2022 and Browsers (Mostly Safari) Still Break Accessibility via Display Properties

It was late 2020 when I last tested how browsers use CSS display properties to break the semantics of elements.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility @Adrian Roselli, pH0

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Remember in August when I gave a talk about HTML tables for the WebAIM online conference?

That video is online!

I have embedded it on my site:
adrianroselli.com/2024/08/talk…

Or you can go to YouTube directly (where you can find the other swell talks from that day).

#accessibility #a11y #HTML


Talkin’ Tables — WebAIM Conference 2024

I spoke at the 2024 Web Accessibility in Mind Conference (in partnership with PopeTech). As soon as the video is available I will embed it.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility #html

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The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML [an anecdote] shkspr.mobi/blog/2021/01/the-u… #html #webdev

The unreasonable effectiveness of simple HTML

I've told this story at conferences - but due to the general situation I thought I'd retell it here. A few years ago I was doing policy research in a housing benefits office in London. They are singularly unlovely places.
Terence Eden’s Blog
#webdev #html

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Some of you may have noticed a new logo appearing in various places around the web.

🎉

We now have a new logo for Librecast thanks to @mray
You may already be aware of his work as he designed the #ActivityPub logo.

It's been a work in progress and if you're curious about the progress @mray has been livestreaming his progress as the design came to shape.

peertube.stream/search?tagsAll…

PeerTube

Instance PeerTube principalement dédiée aux directs. Bien entendu vous pouvez également publier vos vidéos favorites ici !
peertube.stream
#activitypub @mray
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Librecast

It's been a fascinating process. Mray also created the librecast matrix room, so he's a great community player. Having such a contribution is amazing, our ecosystem needs more than code. It needs people being inspired and contributing by documentation, packaging, talking to others about the projects you love.

Helping us to improve.

Thank you so much Robert, for contributing so much of your time to create this logo for Librecast!

We're happy to have you as part of our community.

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They go against hospitality! [¡Van a por la hostelería!]

Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends | Hospitality industry | The Guardian

Os traigo esto para que sepáis que la hostelería no es solo un refugio de llorones explotadores e incapaz de vivir sin subvenciones sólo en España. Aquí además la calidad es pésima.

theguardian.com/business/2024/…


Pubs and restaurants warn of closures if taxes rise and business rates relief ends

Joint statement by lobby groups calls on chancellor to make Covid-era rates relief for hospitality permanent
Jasper Jolly (The Guardian)

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Well… this is new.

Last Friday I left my job of 21 years by way of redundancy. That’s a pretty significant chunk of my adult life invested into a single place. So it’s going to be a big change.

As I step into the first Monday morning in years where I haven’t had anything scheduled in an Outlook calendar… I say ‘fuck it’ and opt for McDonald’s Breakfast.

Onwards and upwards, folks.

#LifeGoals #StartAsImeanToGoOn

#lifegoals #StartAsImeanToGoOn

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Did you know IBM helped Hitler carry out the Holocaust? Is it in any way surprising that we can’t do anything about Big Tech and toxic oligarchs like Elon Musk when even those who helped carry out one of the worst tragedies in human history remain unpunished? Should it come as a shock that the very same bastards are funding and pining for fascism today?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=1rhzge9r…

#BigTech #fascism #SiliconValley #ventureCapital #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #BigData #AI


NextM Warsaw - Aral Balkan "Small Technology: the antidote to Big Tech"

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#AI #BigData #capitalism #surveillance #bigtech #peoplefarming #siliconvalley #venturecapital #fascism

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Spent yesterday afternoon in jail after trying to blockade a TotalEnergies site in the #Antwerp harbor in #Belgium with #CodeRouge
While our group didn't get to the intended target, we took up a lot of police capacity to give our comrades the chance to complete our plans.
Shut that shit down!

youtube.com/watch?v=AQicURSP1-…

#Activism #CodeRougeRood #CodeRood #ClimateCrisis #ClimateAction #ClimateDiary


First day of Blockade #StopTotal

📣 Today we blocked with more than 1000 activists the sites of TotalEnergies in Feluy and the port of Antwerp! #StopTotal 💚👏The fossil fuel industry makes ...
YouTube
#Climatecrisis #activism #climateaction #belgium #climatediary #antwerp #coderouge #Coderougerood #coderood

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 28. Oktober, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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For me, @joplinapp@mastodon.social is the most important #ToDo and #wiki tool for my efficient daily #work and #organization.

With the new version, there are some improvements for #accessibility, such as the use of #screenreaders.

I hope #blind people can enjoy this #app.

github.com/laurent22/joplin/is…
#OpenSource #a11y


Accessibility: Comply with WCAG 2 · Issue #10795 · laurent22/joplin

Summary [ Progress: Desktop ] | [ Progress: Mobile ] This issue tracks general accessibility issues in Joplin mobile and desktop and its progress on WCAG 2.2 compliance. About the WCAG The WCAG (We...
GitHub
#a11y #Accessibility #app #opensource #blind #wiki #screenreaders #work #ToDo #organization @Joplin

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Step up from being a #LibreOffice user to a LibreOffice community member! That's what Ritobroto Mukherjee did – and there are many ways to get involved, and expand your skillset: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
Ritobroto Mukherjee

Community Member Monday: Ritobroto Mukherjee - The Document Foundation Blog

Tell us a bit about yourself! I live in Delhi, India, where I’m working my way towards a bachelor’s degree in IT with a focus on network security at Netaji Subhas University of Technology.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice
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RunningLeopard

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The Nexus of Privacy

Poll: how would you describe Mastodon and the migration from Twitter that started in late 2022 after the acquisition?

(You can check more than one reponse. Or, if you've got other descriptions, please leave them in the comments)

For my take, see Mastodon could have leaned into what it's good at

@fediversenews

#mastodon #fediverse


Mastodon, two years later

A continuation of Mastodon: a partial history
Jon (The Nexus Of Privacy)

  • A success (37%, 20 votes)
  • A failure (1%, 1 vote)
  • A missed opportunity (37%, 20 votes)
  • Progress (38%, 21 votes)
  • Better than expected (35%, 19 votes)
  • A disappointment (11%, 6 votes)
  • It's too early to know (9%, 5 votes)
  • Other (please leave a comment) (1%, 1 vote)
54 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#fediverse #Mastodon @Fediverse News
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The Nexus of Privacy

Poll: What are you looking for in the fediverse?

(You can check more than one response ... and if you've got other suggestions, leave them in a reply!)

#mastodon #fediverse

  • A Twitter replacement (36%, 21 votes)
  • A place to stay in touch with friends (35%, 20 votes)
  • A place to meet new people (61%, 35 votes)
  • Discussions on technical topics (70%, 40 votes)
  • Music, photography, art, books, and other creative stuff (54%, 31 votes)
  • Potential job opportunities (19%, 11 votes)
  • Promoting my music, photography, writing, art, etc (15%, 9 votes)
  • Breaking news (40%, 23 votes)
  • Mutual aid (19%, 11 votes)
  • A social network that's not run by a corporation making money from my data (89%, 51 votes)
57 voters. Poll end: 1 year ago

#fediverse #Mastodon
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