Other than the fact that Brendan Eich uses his money to support anti-queer legislation, here’s a nice resource listing a few reasons why Brave sucks and only uses "privacy" as a shitty marketing argument reddit.com/user/lo____________…
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Buffalo Sonnet: Launch Event for Audio Described Digital Comic; Thursday, February 27, 4:00 PM (Presumably Eastern Time) groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/87…
⏰ Reminder: The GUADEC Call for Papers is open until March 16th! Don’t miss your chance to submit your paper and join us in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29! 🇮🇹✨
Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
HEY! If you're a #poet or #artist and are interested in a Book Style cohort, join me & my colleagues as we are hosting a free book club.
We're looking at works primarily by Black writers & artists, I'm revisting some of my older works, and the idea is we create a studio space to engage with works to help us with resistance, archive, memory and more.
New capabilities coming in 2025 include advanced rules, AI-assisted testing for Intelligent Guided Tests, accessible coding with AI agents, and Axe Assistant for Slack and Teams.
There is a chance that the company might continue the same work under a different new name but I can't afford to wait for that. So I'm forced to start looking for my next job.
If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on projects involving Rust, please let me know. 🙏 My CV: github.com/zeenix/
Das durch seine Ladeflatrate bekannt gewordene Berliner Startup Jucr ist insolvent. Zum vorläufigen Insolvenzverwalter wird Rechtsanwalt Christian Graf Brockdorff bestellt. Hintergründe zur Insolvenz sind bisher nicht bekannt.
During the 2025 ATIA Conference, Peter Tucic from HumanWare showed us their Mantis Q40 Braille Display, which is a bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and 40-cell refreshable braille display that you can pai…
I'm so lucky to have had won of these bought for my use at work, it's an amazing product. I love it for reading standalone, for taking notes, and controlling my computer or phone, it just does it all.
@DesireeRenae Honestly, I don't think I've ever heard anyone say they didn't like the Mantis. It really captured the hearts of Braille display users and I can see why.
First, they shut down the Basic HTML site, forcing many of us to switch to clients such as Thunderbird. Now, they're using qr codes which are not only inaccessible to the blind but also to those who don't use smartphones! This is ridiculous! Yes, they do still have the option to click whether it's you trying to sign in or not (which still requires a smartphone and a carrier, which they claim to be concerned about), but how long before they remove that, too?
er... didn't an SMS require a phone, too? QR codes are perfectly usable by the blind. I agree that a text message works on a dumb phone, but if you're blind the accessibility of those is generally poorer anyway. As a balance of security, SMS spooffing and whatnot is a real risk.
The CPAN Security Group was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) on Feb 25, 2025. A CNA assigns and manages CVE identifiers for projects in their scope.
@bagder As Red Hat just became a root at the same time Perl became a CNA, odds are that wasn't an option yet. But yes, going forward I think having most/many open source groups be under Red Hat is a good option to help reduce the load on MITRE.
Včera O2 CZ oznámilo likvidaci značky O2TV. Nově je to Oneplay. Dovolím si zavěštit, že v roce 2027 u nás O2 přestane existovat a bude operátor One. Licence na použití značky O2 končí v lednu 2027.
Payload Dumper lets you extract boot.img or any other (partition) images without any PC and without SuperUser (root) access, directly on your Android device.
Thanks to the help of its developer, with today's release this app is now RB
Daniel is the proud and humble winner of...Polhem Prize 2017GitHub star 2021Microsoft MVP 2024European Open Source Award 2025They are all shown off in this v...
@cynik_obecny 😂 Hrozná doba, ale zase v neděli na hokeji, jsem se potrestal grilovanou klobásou, porcí hranolek a na cestu z Varů BicMac. Samozřejmě, jsem to musel spláchnout kolou 🤷 @Onqa6
Daniel makes the curl 8.12.0 release. Shows how a curl release is done. This is the 264th curl release. Shows the scripts, the procedures and the general pro...
Hi everyone. To those of you who remember the Blind Geek Zone and were fond of the content there, I'm happy to say that I was able to archive almost all podcasts on that website before it went down, and was recently given permission by @Rickster1963 to share the archive. Almost all podcasts starting in very late 2012 are now available at samtupy.com/bgz for consumption! Anyone please let me know if there are any issues with this page or the content. For older bgz podcasts, see the long available archive hoested by @datajake1999 at datajake.braillescreen.net/BGZ… where all the podcasts leading up to 2012 are archived, though without metadata. Enjoy this jaunt down memory lain folks, and thanks rick for letting me share these!
Thank you for hosting this archive. It is very important that the history of blindness technology is preserved and recordings like these are priceless.
"if you need a tool to communicate privately with your friends and family–even if your chats are boring, mundane, and totally legal–#Signal is the best damn choice I can recommend."
(Yes, I read all 6 parts. No, I don't claim to understand more than the basics of cryptography, which is why yes, I have to and do trust the author on their conclusions)
Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…
European #antifascist recommending to use a service running in a fascist-turning country on servers owned by a fascist-friendly billionaire? This is weird.
Focusing solely on the E2EE misses a lot of points, one of those being that with #signal the ends have to be Android or iOS ~spyphones~ smartphones, which is not really something you can have 100% trust into IMHO.
"Superstar-influencers not interested in engaging in discussions with nobodies like you/prefer to stay in our echo chamber", duly noted. This is unfriendly the say the least, but who am I to reply to public posts on the public internet, right?
It's really stupid when people that LARP at threat modeling insist that you can't trust smartphones while posting their opinions publicly in my mentions.
"Focusing too much on E2EE". Yeah right.
@nicoco Android can at least be de-googled. Mine is. Mine actually constantly masks my IP address through the Tor network & masks my geolocation. (Not that it does much good when I'm home since I have a completely standard WiFi router from my provider I'm not allowed to modify).
My grandmother recently got locked out of #WhatsApp because her phone broke, and the spare one we had on hand is one WhatsApp has decided is too old to run on 💀
Fortunately, #XMPP has no such qualms! She's currently keeping up with the family group chat on #Quicksy while others of us use #Conversations, #DinoIM, and #Gajim. (Of course, extended family and friends are another matter 😔)
This serves as a reminder that closed apps may close you out—but open protocols have your back forever!
They said #XMPP was connected to #xampu, so I made some! 😇
Hair is personal. Messaging should be too
The owner of Beeja Botanicals is my former classmate, and she's used the shampoo herself, so I know it's good! The first batch is ready and will be available for purchase at #PravConf (or will be, once I've finished wrapping it all 😅)
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VOA - More migrants slated for deportation from the United States arrived today at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under the watchful eye of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. voanews.com/a/pentagon-chief-t…
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[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for "eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/643550 "Flyer. Full text follows, along with a description of accompanying images:
[The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar!
What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them]
We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt]
XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles]
[Green banner saying] XMPP stands for \"eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol\". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo.
[A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products.
Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you.
Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon]
Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.")
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