That's the dadgum truth, right there.
#disabled #disability #disabilityawareness #spoonie #accessibility #mentalhealth
Since this got so much attention, I'd like to use this moment of sunshine to invite you all to read with us next week:
So happy : #GIMP 3.0 is here !! 
- Multi-selection of layers
- Proper high pixel density display support
- Improved graphics tablets support
- Wayland support
- New soft-proofing toggle in the status bar
- Initial UI for non-destructive layer effects
- Reworked Align and Distribute tool
- New "Outlined" and "Outlined and filled" options (text)
- Redesigned and reorganized "Fill by line art detection" settings
And many more !
› flathub.org/apps/org.gimp.GIMP
› gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/-/…
oh boy 
nothing better than beer, gloves and Spen
androidauthority.com/galaxy-no…
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is my favorite Samsung smartphone ever, but it's no longer the pinnacle. Here's how I use the 2018 phone in 2025.Andy Walker (Android Authority)
Some good news, in the news! 📰
🏳️⚧️ ✨
"By establishing that data protection extends to gender identity and explicitly forbidding surgical requirements, the Court has created a powerful legal framework that transcends national barriers. This ruling provides both protection and recognition. It tells every trans person in the EU: your lived identity matters, and no government can erase it through bureaucratic obstacles."
Kohler added this is far from just a victory for refugees in Hungary - "it's a declaration that across Europe, your gender is yours to define, not the state's to dictate."
wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refug…
A landmark case at the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) on Thursday set a significant precedence for Trans+ rights across Europe.Jamie Wareham (QueerAF)
Welcome to a new major release of the Prosody XMPP server! While the 0.12 branch has served us well for a while now, this release brings a bunch of new features we’ve been busy polishing.blog.prosody.im
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We ❤️ our users spreading #privacy! 💪
AND we're giving back when you do: Use your personal referral link in your Tuta signature so you both benefit.
Check under Settings -> Refer a friend
What does your signature say? Please comment! 👇
@kubicek U nas si zlodeji pisu trestny zakonnik, nuz putin by si rad pisal vojenske a vyjednavacie konvencie.
(A ano, tym chcem naznacit, ze #SmerHlasMafia maju vela spolocneho s vrahom a vojnovym zlocincom. Aj ked niektori budu namietat, ze ti "nasi" "iba kradnu". Ale ja tvrdim, ze kedze kradnu zo statneho, tak o.i. zabijaju ludi v tom state.
Ale to uz som odbocil. Ano, ruzzko treba z Ukrajiny vykopat tak, aby ich presli chutky na dalsie zabijanie.)
I have rarely seen a company doing so much to recommend a book.
bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zyq02…
Social media company wins US emergency ruling preventing ex-director from publicising her book.Katie Razzall (BBC News)
Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led organization that aims to help free and open source projects prosper by giving them a safe and friendly home.Codeberg.org
@fazalmajid It installs rbtlog and tools. That's what we use to verify whether apps can be built reproducible (i.e. byte-identical), thus confirming they were really built from the very source code they claim, with nothing added or taken away.
Apart from that, developers can also use this to just build their apps, ensuring they are always built from a clean tree at the specified commit, and thus making RB easier.
Proper documentation is still on our roadmap; until then: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…
The F-Droid compatible repo at https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/GitLab
Summer 24 somewhere in Sweden.
After a delicious dinner, we went for a digestive walk with the midnightsun and making some survey. Of course I used the Osmand app with Quick Action function, Streetcomplete and took pictures with Mapcomplete.
#mapping #sweden #osm #OpenStreetMap #osmandapp #streetcomplete #MapComplete
For our "automated builder setup", I've just prepared a PR adding support for RPM based systems. The PR is still marked WIP as I don't have any RPM test system at hand here – so I'm calling out for help:
Anybody willing to test the setup scripts on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS or the likes? 🙏
(more tests on Debian-based systems (Debian, Ubuntu, Mint …) are of course welcome, too)
codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/rbuil…
Fixes #2 This adds support for installing the builder package on RPM based systems. Testing needed: someone running an RPM based system, please give it a try!Codeberg.org
A new version is out, with a new theme! Ever wanted to map all those little wayside shrines (such as maria statues along the road)?
Now you easily can: mapcomplete.org/wayside_shrine…?
Thanks to @gedankenstuecke for creating it!
Other improvements:
- Added a question if toilets are supervised and have handdrying facilities
- Many bug fixes (e.g. the charge for specific objects in vending-machines now works again)
This map shows shrines found on the side of roads and paths, and allows adding new onesmapcomplete.org
@april Under 'menu' -> 'download' there are various download options to further process the data; you can embed mapcomplete in an iFrame or create another mapcomplete theme which shows this layer together with other layers.
As usual, all the data is from/goes to #OpenStreetMap, so you are free to reuse the data.
Dokáže AI napsat stejně dobrý román jako člověk? Bude to někdo číst? A sehraje umělá inteligence v našich životech spíš roli klaďase, nebo záporáka? Se spisovatelem sci-fi jsme mluvili o AI, psaní i budoucnosti.David Slížek (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
vier Hörnchen auf dem Friedhof
(manche klettern einem sogar die Hose hoch um nach Nüssen zu betteln – hatte ich aber nicht dabei)
My first RFC has been published! This has been a bucket list item of mine for a long time. 🥳 🎉
rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9749.htm…
This document defines a method for JSON Meta Application Protocol (JMAP) servers to advertise their capability to authenticate Web Push notifications using the Voluntary Application Server Identification (VAPID) protocol.www.rfc-editor.org
There’s something very depressingly emblematic that Chrome Dev Tools’ annoying “Ask AI” sprinkles everywhere include one that pops up and *covers* the Accessibility Tree toggle.
#google #chrome #ai #accessibility
Last week Exercise Timer by Lőrinc Serfőző was accepted into Circle! It's a cute little app to create timers for high-intensity interval training 🏋️⏲️
Train and rest with high intensity – Exercise Timer is a simple utility to conduct high intensity interval training. Following a short preparation period, a prescribed number of exercise sets are played. In between each exercise, the...apps.gnome.org
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#191 Third Saturday Edition
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from March 08 to March 15.thisweek.gnome.org
GTK 4.18.1 is out! This is the first stable release of the 4.18 cycle, and includes a few last minute additions:
- fractional scaling support on macOS works again
- the Android backend uses GL rendering for top level surfaces
Plus, as usual, lots of bug fixes, performance improvements, and documentation updates.
You can download the release archive from the usual place: download.gnome.org/sources/gtk…
Or you can wait until your distribution of choice is updated to ship GNOME 48.
I just made some changes to @libcamera to export focus/brightness controls and created a PoC app to work with it via @pipewire (wireplumber gobject api) in @vala_lang because why not? @postmarketOS
#linuxonmobile #mobilelinux #photography #ShotOnOnePlus #ShotOnMainline #libcamera
Tým svérázných roztleskávaček z ukrajinského Charkova ale rozdělí válka. Zatímco Sveta se i s rodinou a malým vnukem odstěhuje do Amsterodamu, jádro týmu zůstává v ostřelovaném městě. Ženy udržují kontakt a vzájemně se podporují.Festival Jeden svět 2025
All the typing satisfaction, none of the sound pollution.Ismar Hrnjicevic (How-To Geek)
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I've just released my first blog post 
It talks about the process of switching fonts to Adwaita Fonts in GNOME.
You can check it out here: blogs.gnome.org/monster/introd…
PS: I'm using WordPress, which GNOME Blogs uses, I have no idea what I'm doing. Also, I'm planning to pick up writing, and I might release more blog posts in the near future.
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About the last boost.
If you ever read the GNU Coding Standards, especially gnu.org/prep/standards/standar… where it says, "Avoid arbitrary limits on the length or number of any data structure, including file names, lines, files, and symbols, by allocating all data structures dynamically",
That document is from 1992, when that advice was okay. But that wasn't a time when every software may end up processing malicious data from the internet. So, we end up putting limits everywhere now, which is fine.
President Trump’s executive order on Friday calling for the dismantling of the federal agency that oversees the broadcaster is part of a wider campaign to weaken the news media.David Enrich (The New York Times)
In which an unpaid open-source maintainer gets help from companies using the software to attack a particularly complex and ugly bug: blog.hartwork.org/posts/expat-…
Good on Sebastian and on the companies that stepped up!
Also, recursion is often bad.
#oss
@lettosprey can we qualify this a bit more?
Unbounded recursion that causes attacker-controlled stack usage is bad. It can be easy or really friggin' hard to mitigate. You need to maintain a depth counter in your state somehow, and even then, it's hard to pick a limit when you don´t know how much stack is consumed per level.
Not all languages have tail recursion. Not all cases where you'd want to use recursion actually admit tail recursion.
(Rust would have the same issue here.)
You mean if you pay $100,000 for a vehicle the panels shouldn't just fall off on the road?
Tesla Cybertruck Deliveries Paused Because Losing Sharp Metal Body Panels On The Road Is Bad Or Something:
jalopnik.com/1811333/tesla-cyb…
The longer Cybertruck deliveries are held up, the longer the rest of the public gets to go without seeing these oligarch-enabling monstrosities on the roadCollin Woodard (Jalopnik)
WOW - The French government announced a new OSS project simply called Docs:
“A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline."
It’s even offline-first, using the CRDTs under the hood (Y.js).
LOL, does this mean I get to roll out the
"Liberté, Egalité, CRDTé”
Dad joke?
I think it does. Link below:
V interesting joint project between DINUM (🇫🇷) and Zendis (🇩🇪)
Docs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely.docs.numerique.gouv.fr
Dans les maisons France services, les conseillers numériques aident les quelque 10 millions de Français qui ont des difficultés à se servir d’internet. Or, en 2025, les crédits alloués à cette mission sont en baisse de 30 %.Johan Theuret (Le Nouvel Obs)
Ich habe gerade den "Leitfaden für den Instanz-Betrieb im dezentralen Netzwerk - Datenschutz bei Mastodon" von gefunden.
Dieser gibt neben grundsätzlichen Informationen auf was Instanzbetreiber achten müssen, vor allem auch eine sehr praktische Sammlung an Musterdokumenten unter CC BY-ND 4.0-Lizenz. Ihr könnt es also für euere Instanzen anpassen und nutzen.
Auch relevant für @Friendica Admins / @Friendica Support
Auf einem abstrakten Niveau sind die Anforderungen, die wir beschreiben, auch auf andere Plattformen des Fediverse übertragbar. Dennoch gibt es einige Aspekte, die von der konkreten Plattform und Software-Implementierung abhängen. So sind zum Beispiel die Möglichkeiten, rechtliche Texte einzubinden und anzuzeigen, unterschiedlich.
Danke@DS_Stiftung@social.bund.de
stiftungdatenschutz.org/praxis…
#impressum #dsgvo #fediverse #friendica #mastodon #tos #deutschland #datenschutz
Die Stiftung Datenschutz wurde im Januar 2013 von der Bundesrepublik Deutschland als Stiftung privaten Rechts gegründet. Sie ist gemeinnützig und verfolgt keine gewerblichen Interessen.stiftungdatenschutz.org
Danke für den Hinweis. Ich habe es anders interpretiert, aber bin da auch wahrlich kein Experte:
Namensnennung — Sie müssen angemessene Urheber- und Rechteangaben machen , einen Link zur Lizenz beifügen und angeben, ob Änderungen vorgenommen wurden. Diese Angaben dürfen in jeder angemessenen Art und Weise gemacht werden, allerdings nicht so, dass der Eindruck entsteht, der Lizenzgeber unterstütze gerade Sie oder Ihre Nutzung besonders.
-> Angeben das die Bedingungen
auf dem Leitfaden basieren:
"Sofern nicht anders angegeben, basieren alle Angaben auf dem Leitfaden für den Instanz-Betrieb im dezentralen Netzwerk der Stiftung Datenschutz unter der CC BY-ND 4.0-Lizenz veröffentlicht. Die Lizenzbedingungen sind auf der Website von Creative Commons einsehbar."
Keine Bearbeitungen — Wenn Sie das Material remixen, verändern oder darauf anderweitig direkt aufbauen , dürfen Sie die bearbeitete Fassung des Materials nicht verbreiten.
Das Anpassen der Erklärung in der zum Beispiel die Adresse der Instanz konkret gegenüber der Vorlage angepasst wird habe ich als "nutzen" interpretiert und nicht als "verbreiten"
Wenn das so tatsächlich nicht erlaubt ist, wäre der Zweck der Muster ja hinfällig?
Die Adresse darf man dann sicher anpssen. SOnst aber nichts, wenn einem zum Beispiel Dinge am Inhalt nicht gefallen oder nicht passen.
Aber wie @oldkid anmerkte, stimmt deine Lizenzangabe auch nicht. Die Dokumente sind CC-BY-SA. Daher darf man sie tatsächlich anpassen.
Hey everyone,
I'm micr0, the creator of @altbot, the open-source bot that helps generate alt-text for images on the Fediverse to make content more accessible.
I have some exciting news to share - Altbot no longer uses Google's services! Many of you expressed concerns about privacy when I first launched Altbot using Google Gemini, worried about your images being processed on their servers and potentially used for training.
I promised to fix this, and I'm thrilled to announce that Altbot 2.0 is now running entirely on my own hardware using the Ovis2:8B model. Your images are processed locally with absolutely zero data retention - your content never leaves my server and isn't used to train any models.
The new system is fully GDPR compliant, and descriptions are even better across all 11 supported languages. What's also cool is that the setup is significantly more energy efficient, with 36% of power coming from clean sources. Altbot now even shows you how much energy was used for each request!
The only things Altbot 2.0 records are that a request happened, how long it took, and what language was used. No images, no content, no personal data - nothing that could identify you.
Building this upgrade was more expensive than planned - I needed a more powerful server with an A5500 GPU, which exceeded my budget by about $900 that I covered out of pocket. If you appreciate this commitment to privacy and accessibility, any support through my Ko-fi page would help recover these costs and keep Altbot free for everyone: ko-fi.com/micr0byte/goal?g=18
Thanks so much for your support! I built Altbot because I believe accessibility shouldn't compromise privacy, and now that vision is reality.
Feel free to boost or reach out with any questions! For press inquiries: inquiries@micr0.dev
Become a supporter of Micr0byte today! ❤️ Ko-fi lets you support the creators you love.Ko-fi
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Support QuyetPawz On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donationsKo-fi
The public comment period for the transphobic bullshit on US passports ends TOMORROW! (Monday)
Ronnie
in reply to Inkican • • •Erik
in reply to Ronnie • • •Agreed.
I don't think "disability advocacy" went wrong at all, this "differently abled" shit is from the 90s when wheelchair users had to crawl up the Capitol steps to get the ADA (Americans with Disabilities Act), when "nothing about us without us" became a slogan because it was such a common problem.
"Differently abled" and cripspiration came from abled people trying to manage their own fear of mortality and their own discomfort around the concept of disability.
@inkican