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The British and German governments have updated their advice for travellers seeking to enter the U.S. with fresh warnings about the risk of arrest or detention. A French scientist was denied entry to the US, because of text messages on their phone containing a 'personal opinion' about the #Trump administration. Veronica Cardenas, former assistant chief counsel at the US Department of Homeland Security says #deportations are eroding public trust.
#US #travel #immigration

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Former ICE lawyer says deportations are eroding public trust • FRANCE 24 English

Officials in Paris are expressing their dismay after a French scientist was denied entry to the US, because of text messages on their phone containing a 'per...
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#Trump #travel #us #immigration #deportations

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Tonight's weird tech question: Is there a DOM API/JavaScript hack of some sort I can use to track, save, and restore the screen reader's position in a relatively static HTML document? Say, for instance, you were reading a book in an HTML document with your screen reader, then closed the window. Now imagine that window was an app, and I wanted to make certain your position was restored when that app opened again. Is there an API I could hook into for that?

It's not quite focus, because that'd require tabindex. It probably isn't one of the text properties, right? Because you're not exactly in charted territory when you're arrowing through a paragraph not in a writable element like an input or textarea. Can I track that at all?

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James Scholes

No. The closest thing to an automatic solution to that is probably tracking scroll position, and you may or may not be able to make that more granular by making the text quite big (I haven't tried). But even then, the best you're gonna be able to achieve is to track the closest element and put focus back there to restore the position, without character-level accuracy.

I know that Mozilla and NV Access have done some work to allow selection of text within the NVDA browse mode buffer to be communicated to the browser for on-page actions that require a selection. But:
1. That doesn't work across browsers; and
2. your use case seems targeted at reading, not selecting.

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Nolan Darilek

Thanks, that's what I was thinking. And just to check an assumption, setting the scroll position won't update the screen reader's position in the doc--I'd have to use focus shenanigans for that?

For context, this is my attempt at a document reader that saves/restores position when the document is closed/reopened. I don't think I need character accuracy, or even paragraph accuracy, if I can open books or longer documents to roughly where the reader closed out.

FWIW I'm not just being lazy and asking, I'm trying right now and it isn't working, which I suspected it wouldn't. It's also possible I'm using my web framework wrong or that something is behaving silly under Linux.

Thanks again!

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Quin

You can sort of try and hack this by giving all your divs a negative tabindex and then calling .focus on them, we tried this a few years ago when thinking about QRead web, but the biggest problem is the inaccuracies. I'm okay with being a paragraph back in a book, but not a paragraph forward, and because of the nature of screen readers and the DOM we'd likely get the latter in a lot of cases.
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James Scholes

That's mostly correct.

There are some instances in which a webpage can move the scroll position without explicitly setting focus to the target element, and have the screen reader's reading position follow. But that can be less reliable, particularly if the target element is visually obscured, and setting focus is a more explicit/guaranteed way to do it.

Note that if you're setting focus to things like headings and paragraphs that aren't focusable by default, you'll need to dynamically inject a `tabindex="-1"` for the best results.

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Socióloga se infiltró como niñera de los ultrarricos: “Se sienten totalmente impunes”

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La socióloga que se infiltró como niñera de los ultrarricos: “Los millonarios se sienten totalmente impunes"

Alizée Delpierre publica 'Servir a los ricos', una investigación sobre lo que pasa dentro de las casas de milmillonarios franceses y las "desiguales" relaciones que se establecen entre el servicio y sus empleadores
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I’ve been working on a #freebsd from scratch blog post series and was going to skip right over Xorg (preferring #wayland and #sway)…and then I heard about #NSCDE - a reimplementation of #Solaris #CDE look-and-feel via #fvwm

Thanks to work by Christian Moerz, it was a snap. Literally `pkg install Xorg nscde` a change to my .xinitrc and I was up in a pastel bliss again. Run #interlisp on it is a beautiful joy.

I was so impressed AND I got to avoid abandonware security holes and bit rot— so I sent some librepay love. It’s a great project!

#freebsd #Wayland #sway #fvwm #nscde #solaris #cde #interlisp
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The Department of Education being closed is one of the dumbest things I've ever seen.

Most #maga supporters want it as #trump and #doge convinced them schools were federally funded, and they were going to overhaul and fix it.

They're too uneducated to know that it's already funded by states, and The Department of Education exists to fill gaps in resources, especially for #disabled and disadvantaged children.

Which red states need THE MOST.

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#scoopz #signalboost #uspol


#TrumpEdOrder States ALREADY Fund their Own Schools. The Department of Education is for Disadvantaged Children & Funding Gaps in Poorer Areas!

scoopzapp.com
#Trump #uspol #Disabled #MAGA #doge #scoopz #signalboost
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#Blind users, users that rely heavily on #keyboardNavigation or anyone else with a preference on that matter (please indicate what applies in the comments):

Do you have a preference for or comments on the format of URLs? During user research, we have learned that URLs that are easy to handle are a good thing.

We are currently considering to introduce URLs that do not need more reserved usernames in #Forgejo, such as codeberg.org/-/something/ or codeberg.org/_something/.

#a11y #accessibility

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #forgejo #keyboardnavigation

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Codeberg

@menelion The features we are currently about to implement is moderation tooling where submitting and viewing these things is considering to introduce codeberg.org/-/abuse_reports/n… (current proposal) or something similar like codeberg.org/_abuse_reports/ne….

While it is probably a feature that is not visited frequently, it might be good to set a direction for future endpoints that are more prominent.

IIRC, Gitea has recently even moved some routes to the /-/something pattern.

~f

@André Polykanine
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Codeberg

@Ember @menelion

Yeah, the idea is to avoid adding more and more reserved usernames for every route and simply using patterns that are easy to differentiate from user accounts. For example, user accounts could be prevented to start with an underscore and you could do URLs that start with an underscore for "special use".

We wondered if there was a recommendation or best practice that is still acceptable accessibility-wise.

@André Polykanine @Ember ​
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André Polykanine

@Ember I've never heard about any best practices pertaining to URL design, so I guess the only guidance here is common sense. I.e., URLs must be:
A) Meaningful (ID in a URL is okay, like /menelion/my-fancy-repo/issues/123 is okay, of course);
B) Back-traceable (following the same example, if I cut off /123 I go to issues, if I cut off /issues I go to my repo, if I cut off /my-fancy-repo I go to my profile, etc., etc.);
C) Consistent (if everything "new" is /new, it's a bad idea to sprinkle some /create in several places, and vice versa);
D) Secure (check that I as a user cannot do /someone/repositories/new, for example, just typing in the URL in the address bar, — it might seem stupid, but believe me, it happens sometimes because "everyone click links" — spoiler alert, no!);
E) You either have reserved words, like "repositories" in my previous example (to show user's repos), or you alter the URL altogether: if my user ID is 12345, I have /menelion, /menelion/my-fancy-repo, but to show all of my repos, I have /users/12345/repositories, for example (in this case, no one can create a username "users" — also kind of a reserved word) or, as you suggested, /_users/12345/repositories, or /-/users/12345/repositories, — also makes sense. In this case, I would do a redirect from /-/users/12345 to /menelion for better readability.
If needed, I can elaborate this as you wish, in a Forgejo issue, oral or video conference, email or Slack (but not Matrix, I couldn't unfortunately find anything accessible for it).
@Ember ​

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The thing about blogs: If it looks modern with a short URL and has tons of cookie popups and self-promo, stay away. If it looks like a plain HTML page with some basic CSS, found at a long URL at the bottom of your search result, it's probably trustworthy and written by a passionate self-hosting human being.

Basically, the more it looks like motherfuckingwebsite.com, the higher the quality of the material you're about to read.

#SelfHosted #SelfHosting #Blog #ModernInternet

Motherfucking Website

motherfuckingwebsite.com
#blog #selfhosting #selfhosted #moderninternet
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Thomas Frans 🇺🇦

@dside @menelion Short wasn't the correct word. I should have said "professional" or "memorable". I'm talking about those worthless companies that have their own "blogs", which are just advertisements in disguise. The real blogs will use URLs like blog.arandomcomputerthought.org or ijustwanttoselfhost.org or something fun like that. They're just people doing it because it's fun or because they want to share interesting things they learned.
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CHARLIE ANGUS ISSUES TRAVEL WARNING AGAINST UNITED STATES
Canadian officials must stop tiptoeing around the rising fascist threat posed by the Trump regime.
The arbitrary detention of travellers and kidnapping of citizens by ICE is unacceptable. These are not the actions of a country that respects the rule of law.
I am urging Canadians to avoid travel to the US.

CHARLIE ANGUS ISSUES TRAVEL WARNING AGAINST UNITED STATES

Canadian officials must stop tiptoeing around the rising fascist threat posed by the Trump regime.The arbitrary detention of travellers and kidnapping of cit...
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Folks you are absolutely sleeping on this series and you need to rectify that. Naomi Novik’s “Scholomance” series is like the platonic ideal of the “surprise, the villain is actually the structural effects of capitalism” story and you need to read it mastodon.social/@glyph/1141927…

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Without looking it up, do you know what a "maw-mouth" is? Would that be a resonant reference for talking about AI training data? (Don't look it up. If you don't know what it is, read A Deadly Education, The Last Graduate, and The Golden Enclaves.
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It used to be quite challenging to set the precedence of individual #CSS rules without a lot of headaches. (This encouraged the practice of authoring many small utility classes that do very little on their own.)

Thankfully, that’s no longer the case. Here’s a simple example: cloudfour.com/thinks/cowardly-…

#WebDev #FrontEnd


Cowardly Defaults and Courageous Overrides with Modern CSS

Let’s make a more useful utility class without giving up any versatility.
Cloud Four
#webdev #css #frontend

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Great lineup in NYC for the Green IO conference on May 15

greenio.tech/conference/11/nyc…

If you can make it, this is an opportunity to learn a lot about how to build more sustainable tech.

#NYC #GreenTech #SustainableWeb


Greenio Tech Conference

An exciting tech conference bringing together leading experts in the field for the Paris apidays.
greenio.tech
#nyc #greentech #sustainableweb

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But of course, he promised he’s not “cutting” it. Just making it unworkable. Got it.

Via Maddow:

Trump closing #SocialSecurity field offices in:

Alabama

Arkansas

Colorado

Florida

Georgia

Kentucky

Louisiana

Mississippi

Montana

N. Carolina

N. Dakota

Nevada

New York

Ohio

Oklahoma

Texas

West Virginia

Wyoming

Mississippi, NC hardest hit. Full list here: apnews.com/article/social-secu…


A list of Social Security offices expected to close in 2025

Twenty-six Social Security Administration offices across the country are expected to close this year, due to actions taken by Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency.
Meg Kinnard (AP News)
#socialsecurity

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Check out DrDonk/OC4VM: OpenCore for Virtual Machines (OC4VM) has been built to run macOS VMs primarily on Intel based Apple Macs. It may also be used on other PC hardware using VMware Workstation. It provides an OpenCore disk image that can be used to boot Intel based macOS using VMware Fusion and Workstation, and the open source QEMU program.
Made by the same developer who makes the Unlocker:
github.com/DrDonk/OC4VM/
(experimental support for some AMD systems)
If you want OpenCore VMDK images for AMD, I suggest you check this forum post:
forum.amd-osx.com/threads/mac-…
It even has images for 15.4. All you need to get started, if you are resourceful, are found in those two links.

GitHub - DrDonk/OC4VM: OpenCore for Virtualization

OpenCore for Virtualization. Contribute to DrDonk/OC4VM development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Nintendo, Microsoft, and other developers will share accessibility labels about their games theverge.com/news/633405/esa-a…

Nintendo, Microsoft, and other developers will share accessibility labels about their games

Several big gaming companies have formed the Accessible Games Initiative to establish standardized tags that clearly label games’ accessibility features like narrated menus and subtitles.
Jay Peters (The Verge)

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The problem, aside from the product recalls, the fact you can die inside when it catches fire and the doors lock, the substandard programming and the fact they look like the entire genre of vaporwave shit itself in vehicle form, is the fact that at this point it is known the only people who want one are fascists and/or smug dicks with raging compensation issues. This is the truck you buy when you hate yourself and everyone else.

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Tesla confirms it can’t sell the Cybertruck even with tax credit and discounts

Tesla has revealed Cybertruck deliveries in the US, confirming that it can’t sell the electric truck even with federal tax...
Fred Lambert (Electrek)
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„Zkoušely se i různé odvary, třeba jalovec, který je zmiňován opravdu dlouhodobě nejen na našem území už od 16. století…“

Jalovec! Jsem jediný, kdo najednou vidí

„Vysoký jalovec, vysoký jako já
přeskoč ho má milá, rovnýma nohama
já ho nepřeskočím, já sa ráda točím
na tebe šohajku, zapomenut musím“

jako úplně jasnou metaforu? Borec ji zbouchnul, chce aby se necukala a šla do potratu, ale ona že si to radši nechá a kašle na něj. OMG

irozhlas.cz/zpravy-domov/pokus…

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated (9 RB) and 6 added (RB) apps:

* Sound Toggle: audio mode QuickSettings toggle 🛡️
* AltLocationServices: network location via BeaconDB (no Google) 🛡️
* Readeck App: manage saved articles and bookmarks 🛡️
* airplanes.live: search/track airplane locations 🛡️
* BasicCashFlow: track your cash 🛡️
* Fossify Thank You: Support Fossify apps with a warm thank you 🛡️

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


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@RealMo Show me that newer version 😉 IoD ships the NoNet variant, which hasn't seen a new release for 2 years now (none since 4/2023, see e.g. github.com/PhilippC/keepass2an…). The new release you see there is a) a different variant and b) much too big for the IoD repo (50 MB, our limit is 30 MB per app).

[BUG] Please release a 'nonet' apk · Issue #2569 · PhilippC/keepass2android

Checks I have read the FAQ section, searched the open issues, and still think this is a new bug. Describe the bug you encountered: I recently improved your build system so that we could have also n...
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Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses;
Multiple pages scrubbed from the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) website due to a Trump order
theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…
#a11y #politics #UnitedStates #ADA #news #accessibility

Justice department removes disability guidelines for US businesses

Lauren Aratani (The Guardian)
#a11y #Accessibility #politics #News #unitedstates #ada

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"Retain users with convenience, honesty, and kindness."
This is at the core of what we do at @thunderbird and it drives our features implementation.
Sometimes we fail at that, we're aware of it, but we're human and we always try to do better.

Check the whole open session about our roadmap process here:
youtube.com/watch?v=2xfUO9C_6t…

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Community


State of the Thunder: Volume 1

In our inaugural State of the Thunder, Alessandro Castellani, Director of Desktop and Mobile apps, leads a discussion on the 2025 desktop roadmap with membe...
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#opensource #thunderbird #community @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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New POUR tees just dropped!

The four principles of WCAG, plus more. You can pay money for them (3 day sale)!

Available in black or white, set in Neue Helvetica Heavy or Atkinson Hyperlegible. You can choose shirt colors.

Black Helvetica:
teepublic.com/t-shirt/73535251…

#a11y #accessibility

Stacked vertically in black Helvetica on a yellow tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”
Stacked vertically in white Helvetica on a purple tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”
Stacked vertically in white Atkinson Hyperlegible on a royal blue tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”
Stacked vertically in black Atkinson Hyperlegible on a light blue tee: “Perceivable & Operable & Understandable & Robust & Punch Nazis.”

POURPN, Helvetica, black text by aardrian

The four principles of WCAG plus two more related to real-life accessibility. Set in Neue Helvetica Heavy as black text for lighter colored shirts. There is a version in white text and also matching shirts using Atkinson Hyperlegible.
TeePublic
#a11y #Accessibility

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What are Nextcloud release channels and which one is best for you? 🚢

Read our guide to understand our release process and choose what's the best way to update, depending on your needs!

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-r…


Nextcloud release channels and how to track them - Nextcloud

Discover Nextcloud's release channels, how to track them and more to choose the best versioning strategy that fits your needs.
Mikaela Schneider (Nextcloud)

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I blogged about my first time back to #CSUNATC25 since 2018 in San Diego. #CSUNATC is my favorite #a11y conference and community! I hope to get back every year. I had an amazing time hanging out with everyone and meeting you all in person!
linkedin.com/pulse/csun-assist…

This is the first year I've been back to CSUN ATC since 2018. I always had an amazing time attending in San Diego from 2012 to 2018 and was so happy to finally return in 2025 and see what CSUN is like in Anaheim.

Paul J. Adam (www.linkedin.com)
#a11y #CSUNATC #csunatc25
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victor tsaran

@dennisl Thanks for the comprehensive article! One of these years I really have to go back to CSun! :)
BTW, Linkedin tricked me again. There is something going on with their "sign in with your GOogle account" flow. It literally signs me in every time I go there. I then have to go back and cancel my account (I do not use Google Login). I really have to report it one day! This feels like a scam!
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I wrote an article about why Linux distros should use compiler hardening flags in C/C++

If mainstream distros had opted into -ftrivial-auto-var-init=zero , they would have mitigated the rsync RCE attack chain. That flag is estimated to mitigate 10% of C++ vulns.

Think about all the router and video game software built in CI without sane compiler defaults. It lasts for a long time. Distros need flags in the compiler directly.

chainguard.dev/unchained/mitig…

Cheers to @kees for inspiration and help 🙏


Mitigating a rsync Vulnerability: A Lesson in Compiler Hardening

Chainguard's defense-in-depth security strategy protected against multiple rsync CVEs before they were even reported. See how we did it, using compiler flags.
www.chainguard.dev
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Federico Mena Quintero

When I was porting librsvg to Rust, sometimes the code would run into a non-invertible matrix. I thought that maybe it was a fact of life that SVG would sometimes produce non-invertible matrixes; the code would then ignore those objects and not render them.

In the end it turned out to be uninitialized data from the C code. When it all got ported to Rust, those bugs disappeared *and* the tests showed that there were no non-invertible matrixes anymore.

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REM: Special shuttle bus service returns amid repeated interruptions

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/03/1…

Remember that the private company wanted exclusivity on public transit routes. And the corrupt people in charge granted them that.


REM: Special shuttle bus service returns amid repeated interruptions

In the wake of repeated service disruptions and slowdowns on the REM, additional shuttle buses have, once again, been added to help facilitate travel between Montreal and the South Shore.
Alyssia Rubertucci (CityNews Montreal)
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