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The EU is mandating messaging apps be compatible with each other, but the current plan is looking less like #federation and more like "register your chat app with Meta, send them all your data, and link with their prescribed APIs that they may decide to change any day"

At the risk of preaching to the converted, here's @guusdk advocating for *real* interoperability between messaging apps, using an existing, battle-tested, #IETF-backed standard: #XMPP! :xmpp:

discourse.igniterealtime.org/t…


It’s time for real interoperability. Let’s make it happen!

When I explain to others what I do for a living, I often ask why it is that we are not surprised that one can use a Gmail account to send an email to someone who uses an Outlook account, yet many people fully accept that you can’t send a message to s…
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#xmpp #federation #ietf @Guus der Kinderen

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We’re now on Mastodon — with our very own instance! Let's celebrate together with a giveaway! 🎉

Prizes include:
-VIP DC tour in Falkenstein
-3D printer
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How to enter:
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Deadline: May 4, 2025, 23:59 CEST
ToP: htznr.li/HoM

You can see the prizes of this giveaway, which includes a visit to our data center park, a 3D printer, a gaming gadget set and Hetzner merchandise.

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Just over 8 years ago, I accidentally recorded about 11 days of audio from the Internet stream of a former local radio station (I only meant to record a clip from the morning show). More info, and the full audio (assuming I won't get in trouble for this), here: mwcampbell.us/q92-time-capsule…

I started re-listening to this yesterday, and here's one excerpt: an EDM remix of "Counting Stars" by OneRepublic, surrounded by station IDs. Anyone know what this mix is called?mwcampbell.us/q92-time-capsule…

Q92 Time Capsule

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We published a guide showing how to use Matrix bridge from ejabberd, demonstrating how you can talk with Matrix users from your XMPP client.

Let us know if you still have questions !

process-one.net/blog/hello-fro…


Hello from the other side: Matrix ↔ XMPP via ejabberd 25.03

In this guide, you'll learn how to send direct messages between Matrix and XMPP users, and even join public Matrix rooms using your favorite XMPP client.
Adrien (ProcessOne)

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In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission has issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones. japantimes.co.jp/business/2025…

In a first, Japan issues cease-and-desist order against Google

The Japan Fair Trade Commission has accused the U.S. tech giant of violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall its apps in smartphones.
Yukana Inoue (The Japan Times)

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New: BarrierBreak A11yInspect accessibility testing tool. A browser extension for Chrome and Edge. barrierbreak.com/a11yinspect #a11y #testing #tools

A11yInspect - The Only Accessibility Browser Extension You Need!

Let A11yInspect reduce time taken to implement accessibility. Detects failures, identifies issues to validate and highlights code.
BarrierBreak Solutions Pvt. Ltd.
#a11y #testing #tools

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Welcome Cole Helbling as #curl commit author 1364: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1703…

curl_get_line: handle lines ending on the buffer boundary by cole-h · Pull Request #17036 · curl/curl

Very similar to 9f8bdd0, but affects e.g. netrc file parsing. Suggested-by: Graham Christensen graham@grahamc.com I opted to write a Perl test for this, since I didn't know how dynamic the %HO...
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#curl

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4Chan hacked; Taken down; Emails and IPs leaked

Apparently they were not only running an old, unsecure version of PHP their entire stack was outdated.

the-sun.com/tech/14029069/4cha…

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #4chan #hack #breach #databreach


4Chan down UPDATES: Thousands of users report issues accessing controversial website...

CONTROVERSIAL website 4Chan has gone down for thousands with users unable to access the message board. More than 1,000 users of the site have logged complaints on the Downdetector website, which me…
Allan Glen (The US Sun)
#privacy #technology #security #News #hack #tech #databreach #breach #4chan

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If your organisation needs to be on many social networks at once, there are paid social management services which include support for Mastodon such as Buffer at buffer.com/mastodon and Publer at publer.com

However, if you just want to schedule your Mastodon posts you don't need to use commercial services. Mastodon has its own built-in free open scheduling system available through third party apps (more info at fedi.tips/scheduling-posts-on-…).

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Released last Friday, a digital reconstruction of the Titanic chronicles a never-before-seen view of the wreck that is “accurate to the rivet,” a statement says.

thisiscolossal.com/2025/04/tit…

#titanic #history #photography #science #ocean #technology

a still from a documentary about HMS Titanic, showing a large-scale digital rendering of the shipwreck on the ocean floor

'Titanic: The Digital Resurrection' Unveils an Unprecedented View of the Harrowing Maritime Disaster — Colossal

In the summer of 2022, a team of deep-sea researchers spent six weeks in the North Atlantic Ocean, revisiting the remains of HMS Titanic.
Kate Mothes (Colossal)
#technology #history #titanic #photography #science #ocean

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“Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It’s a Civil Rights Violation” from @LFLegal lflegal.com/2025/04/aps-hack/

Yeah, not only is this bad form it’s also potentially deadly. Lainey does a good job of laying out the history and what went into originally getting these in place. These jerks undermined it all.

#accessibility #a11y


Hacking Accessible Pedestrian Signals is Not a Joke: It's a Civil Rights Violation

On April 12, 2025 the top story on the Palo Alto (California) online news site was "Silicon Valley Crosswalk Buttons Apparently Hacked to Imitate Musk, Zuckerberg Voices" It told the story, covered by other media too, of how someone hacked into audi…
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#a11y #Accessibility @Lainey Feingold

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I've been in talks with #TheCrowHillCompany, makers of The Vertical Piano, Vaults (free), String Murmurations and so on.
They wanted to find out about people's use of accessible music-making tools such as NKS, so I said I'd forward their email to other VI musicians.
Your feedback would really help them, so if you've a mind, please do fill it out.

The Crow Hill Company are readying a re-launch of our entire catalogue.
As such as are looking to improve our accessibility across our full instrument and effects range.

We would love to discover more from the community on how they interact with software based instruments and the tools they use to do so.

We have included a short survey link below, and as a token of gratitude have included a £20 (GBP) off coupon code for anyone who takes part in the survey.
The coupon has no expiration date and we have plenty of instruments under this limit coming out in the months ahead for you to enjoy.

Thanks again
The Crow Hill Company

Survey Link
forms.gle/yzBq56AZidNUA2cw7

You can also reach us directly at help@thecrowhillcompany.com


Accessibility Feedback

Thank you for taking the time to help us in our continual endeavour to improve accessibility in music-making. As a token of our gratitude, we have also included an unrestricted coupon code at the end of this survey. Thanks The Crow Hill Team. x
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Onj 🎶

@pitermach It's using Juce, but with a lot of unlabelled buttons. They do know about it, as I had a meeting with them this morning and was able to screen-share and let them know that lots of stuff doesn't work.
It seems that they're using the Ujam libraries, so it's up to Ujam to modify their code to allow accessibility, but they can pass this feedback to them.
Rodes also use the same framework.

If you've got any libraries where the main sample content uses the .blob format, then you've used Ujam's UI's.

@Pitermach

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Oh boo hoo! Someone doesn't like the new alt text warning on Mastodon!

> This warning is extremely annoying, I wish I could get rid of it and be allowed to post images without alt text if I want to without being asked every time like every other website. I know it is not ideal for accessibility, but I'm not going to add alt text because the warning tells me too, I'm too busy already procrastinating my life in other ways.

Go cry me a fucking river.

How can we make assholes like this even more mad?

github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

#AltText #Mastodon #Fediverse


Add warning before posting a media without alt-text · Issue #5644 · mastodon/mastodon

With #117, Mastodon now allows users to add an alternative text to media in order to improve accessibility for visually impaired people. However, many people, including me, too often forget to do s...
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#fediverse #Mastodon #AltText
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Reg

@ZBennoui
That's fair comment, but the OP is highlighting the fact that Google (and others) are deliberately making it difficult to opt out of using these AI models, presumably to drive adoption and encourage engagement for training purposes.

This obvious subterfuge combined with what we already know about echo chambers and social media herding leaves me wondering whether those who refuse to use AI will end up being the last free-thinkers in the West.

Picture of the Gemini opt-in or opt-in page with the opt-out option rediced to a small 'x' in the top right corner, alongside the text 'Google is so sneaky. This prompt inside Gmail gives you three options. The two most visible options (number 1 is 'Try it now' and number 2 is 'Continue') basically mean 'Enable Gemini AI to write emails.' The third option cancels it which is hidden well. Google, you could do better than this. This is a perfect example of a dark pattern. For those who want AI to write basic emails can enable it but there is not need to do this kind of "shady" stuff.'
@Zach Bennoui

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NVDA 2025.1 beta 1 is now available for testing! 2025.1 includes NVDA Remote, OneCore & SAPI 4 & 5 improvements, OCR, Microsoft & LibreOffice improvements, Add-on store improvements, Braille updates & new tables plus heaps more! Download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

Please note the "What's new" link doesn't currently work, we're fixing it, but in the meantime, run the installer & open what's new from the NVDA menu.
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #News #Update #PreRelease #FOSS #FLOSS #OpenSource


NVDA 2025.1beta1 available for testing

Beta1 of NVDA 2025.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
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#foss #opensource #floss #nvdasr #News #update #nvda #beta #prerelease

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Dave Taylor

2024.4 had the same behaviour as 2024.1, but I have easier access to the latter I'm using the same browser for both tests, although I am finding that NVDA with Edge seems to be becoming problematic on more and more sites, and similarly with NVDA and Firefox. It's getting to the point where most sites seem to work with one or the other but not both. I doubyt that is NVDAs fault, but it's getting harder and harder
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NV Access

@davetaylor2112 Configuration Profiles are actually very useful for giving you different settings in different contexts. Here is a blog piece we wrote on using configuration profiles between programs: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… You can also set keystrokes to configuration profiles to use, for instance, on different websites within the one browser

In-Process 19th August 2021

In recent editions, we’ve covered some of the new features in NVDA 2021.1. The exciting news this time, is we’re already up to a beta of NVDA 2021.2! NVDA 2021.2 Beta 1 NVDA 2021.2 Beta 1 is …
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