Sunday, the 27th of April 2025 marked a major turning point for Tech-Freedom, one of the blind-specific apps on Android, which includes features like a
the good thing about this at least in tech freedoms case is there's this thing called an adblocker. solves that problem without a single sent and there's nothing they can really do about it. I use an adblocker on my network and on my devices. so good luck trying to get me to watch ads, you're not getting a single sent
@pvagner add blocking is needed because of productivity. Maybe ads mena revenue, but if the site is aggressively loaded with ads, it is something bad. Also, the trackers.
Yes, the trackers... The collection of personal data, the weird things called accessibility standards where even a fullscreen ad should have a way to be closed, muted, etc. These kinda... Things.
Due to concerns from the LGM community, the planned keynote with Dr. Richard Stallman is cancelled.
The announcement made many people angry and upset, and anger and division are not what LGM is about. Public debate was one of the factors that led to this decision. The discussion can be read here: post.lurk.org/@lgm/11446210104…
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[EDIT/NOTE] The following sentence mentioning our Code of Conduct in this announcement could be interpreted as suggesting we believe Richard Stallman’s presence would make the event less safe. That interpretation is not our intention; we don’t think that way. We don’t all think that Stallman’s talk would have been a problem. Some of us wanted to hear him. The context of the discussion linked above is important to correctly interpret this announcement and the reasons that led to it. Some people voiced general discomfort about the LGM in the debate; we take these concerns seriously.
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LGM is committed to being an inclusive and safe venue for members of the Libre Graphics community, and we stand by the commitments to safety outlined by our Code of Conduct. libregraphicsmeeting.org/2025/…
Personal Note of the Organizer:
I’ll be welcoming everyone seeking a conversation with me about the topic.
On Wednesday, May 28th at 19:30, Dr. Richard Stallman will deliver a keynote on Free/Libre Software and Freedom in the Digital Society at Libre Graphics Meeting.
See the details in the linked announcement regarding admission to the talk.
I also included a personal note on the decision, as I received mixed feedback.
thank you for reconsidering. It may feel like heartbreak not to be able to host such an idol, but many, many people have done that and received the harmful effects. You are doing good.
Since day one that I lost the rest of my hearing, I have been using Skype to video call my mom, who lives in Aruba. I am fortunate that I can lipread our native language, Papiamento, well enough to…
@FreakyFwoof No. It's fully clickable. It's just that the blindy clients grab the HTML version and convert that to text, removing the link in the process, even though a text version is fully available. They're just not smart enough to look for it. But if you check Enafore, or the Mastodon web interface, or Mona, or literally any normal app, you can click the link.
Tis odd. Of course I can copy/paste it and I will, was just curious. My assumption is that you typed it without adding https to the link, which is why as you say, blindy clients ignore it.
Even on Mastodon, you have to post https:// with every link, breaks too, it's not only about GTS, or the other stuff, it broke for Mastodon too when I used it. No idea what client you're using. :)
I am not using mastodon either. The thing is, it shows up a bit broken here too, maybe look at how it does it. Because every time I post a link, it should be broken too, but it's not.
No, it's not about it not working, it works, you just have to copy paste it, or enter post and click it, and the previous link I saw from the block worked correctly if I'm not mistaken.
@JamminJerry@FreakyFwoof Correct. Tweesecake doesn't support HTML formatting in posts. So tweesecake interacts fine with itself and anything that also doesn't support that.
what I would love to know is a lot of sighted people that I follow post links all the time, and I see them as actual links, and can interact with them. that is just very strange.
@klittle667 Yeah, they're really good on desktop or with the web interface. They offer there own PVR app and IOS app as well, but those are less accessible. Use channels instead. Or VLC or Kodi or whatever else you like.
I'm glad I created the "1. Performance" label globally in #GNOME's GitLab instance two years ago, and encouraged maintainers to use it. Its now much easier to identify & manage performance issues at scale, and to have numbers to show for it.
AI generated bug reports are becoming a serious problem? Is this incompetence? Or malicious?https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832https://www.linkedin.com/fee...
AI generated bug reports are becoming a serious problem? Is this incompetence? Or malicious?https://hackerone.com/reports/3125832https://www.linkedin.com/fee...
I tend to do this thing where I pick a few songs to listen to over and over and over again for a few weeks, and this is currently one of them. Virtual Riot is so incredibly talented, this is so pretty! youtube.com/watch?v=Drl20N8q6p…
Provided to YouTube by Monstercat, Inc.New Energy · Virtual RiotStealing Fire℗ 2024 MonstercatReleased on: 2024-10-18Producer: Virtual RiotMusic Publisher: ...
VR and Au5 are the shit. For real. I always got strange vibes from this one though, the blurr going on puts me in mind of AI or an FFT gone wrong. I think my favorites off that album are Stealing Fire, Dino Killer, Star Destroyer, Scorched Earth, and Ridiculous. Give Into You is a close after but isn't really my genre. Is well done though.
@x0 I love stealing Fire, Scorched Earth, Need/Get, New Energy, and Give Into You. I love Rezz too so Give Into You kinda has no choice but to be on the list.
@x0 NGL, the latest production from VR feels a bit all over the place for me. It still has its magic, but all the surrounding elements are kind of blurring the main idea of the song, at least that’s how it feels to me. But lately, I generally find myself leaning toward simpler / punchier mixes and production. New Skrillex albums, Eliminate, Habstrakt, and Wink. Actually, if I can recommend one artist it would be Wink: youtube.com/watch?v=Nrf1JjNfzD…
If you use Jami on your phone, you’ve probably noticed how reliable it stays, even when the app is closed or your IP address changes. That stability isn’t magic. It comes from a piece of clever infrastructure working behind the scenes: proxy servers.
@ThibaultMartin of @matrix.org sat down with @NGICommons to discuss the role Matrix plays in building a privacy-respecting, sustainable digital communication infrastructure.
I bought the Rabbit R1 — even though it’s not for me As a blind tech user, I knew the R1 wouldn’t be accessible. But I bought it anyway. Why? Because if we aren’t testing and speaking up, accessibility won’t improve. Inclusion starts with showing up. In my latest blog post, I explain why blind voices are essential in AI—and what I hope comes from this. 📖 Read: open.substack.com/pub/taylorar… #RabbitR1 #Accessibility #BlindTech #AI #Inclusion #FediTech #DisabilityJustice
When the Rabbit R1 was first announced, it generated a lot of buzz—this tiny, stylish device promised to reinvent personal computing with the help of artificial intelligence.
Google and Facebook are two prime examples in tech where the advertiser pays for the service. In return, these services are offered for "free" to the users.
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The BlueSky post had the original untranslated alt-text of the poem. Pasting it below:
Title: Yesterday
Yesterday, All those backups seemed a waste of pay. Now my database has gone away. Oh I believe in yesterday. Suddenly, There's not half the files there used to be, And there's a milestone hanging over me The system crashed so suddenly. I pushed something wrong What it was I could not say. Now all my data's gone and Ilong for yesterday-ay-ay-ay. Yesterday, The need for back-ups seemed so far away. I knew my data was all here to stay, Now I believe in yesterday.
Medical device company Masimo Corporation warns that a cyberattack is impacting production operations and causing delays in fulfilling customers' orders.
After heartbleed in 2014, there were a lot of calls to abandon OpenSSL and support alternative libraries because it had written itself into a corner full of holes. I didn’t anticipate that 11 years later, there’d be a call to abandon OpenSSL because it’s written itself into a corner of running at 1% the performance of those very same alternative libraries haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-…
[HAProxy Technologies] The SSL landscape has shifted dramatically. In this paper, we examine OpenSSL 3.x, BoringSSL, LibreSSL, WolfSSL, and AWS-LC with HAProxy.
tangentially, I’m perplexed that someone would both name their project BoringSSL and be very willing to break API compatibility on a moment-to-moment basis. That feels like a “pick one” situation
there's nothing wrong with being the bleeding-edge option, but we need to workshop this branding. ExcitingSSL. RollerCoaster Crypto. Thrills and Chills TLS
Tldr: Sorry about what happened, Fosstodon is committed to being a safe and inclusive space, and we're taking measures to ensure this won't happen again.
I guess it’s a good thing that the genocide in Ukraine has devalued your currency so much that 800,000 rubles isn’t actually that much money.
> By the ruling of the magistrate of judicial district No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow, companies Threema GmbH and Pagebites Inc have been fined 1 million rubles each, and Gultsch & Weiss GbR has been fined 800 thousand rubles.
Мировой суд Таганского района Москвы оштрафовал три иностранные IT-компании за неисполнение российского законодательства, сообщили во вторник в пресс-службе суда.
out of curiosity: is this happening out of the blue, or have you been instructed to [do stuff]? Do you know what specific directives you're violating, how?
«Любой, кто думает, что Путин остановится после территориальных уступок, просто глуп» — Байден дал (theins.ru/news/281137) Би-би-си первое интервью после отставки Экс-президент США Джо Байден дал первое интервью с тех пор, как в январе покинул Белый дом. В беседе с Би-би-си он сравнил попытки администрации Трампа заставить Киев пойти на территориальные уступки с политикой «умиротворения», которую правительство Великобритании в 1930-х годах вело по отношению к Гитлеру. По словам Байдена, Владимир Путин считает всю Украину частью России, так что «любой, кто думает, что он остановится», если получит часть территории в рамках мирного соглашения, «просто глуп». «Я просто не понимаю, почему люди думают, что если мы позволим диктатору, бандиту, думать, что он может забрать значительные участки земли, которые ему не принадлежат, то это его удовлетворит», — добавил политик. Экс-президент рассказал также, что обеспокоен состоянием отношений между США и Европой и что разрушение этих отношений «изменит современную историю мира». Читать в России без VPN (storage.googleapis.com/kldscp/…) Подписаться на The Insider (t.me/theinsider) | Задонатить (donate.theins.ru/en) | Написать редакции (t.me/TheinsiderBox_bot)
❤️ - Trumps Bildungsministerin Linda McMahon erklärte am Montag in einem Brief, die Bundesregierung werde Harvard keine neuen Zuschüsse gewähren, da die Hochschule gegen Bundesrecht verstoße und „ihre gesetzlichen Pflichten, ethischen und treuhänderischen Aufgaben, Transparenzpflichten und jeglichen Anschein akademischer Strenge“ vernachlässige.
Harvard reagierte, überprüfte den Brief auf Rechtschreibfehler und Zeichensetzung und veröffentlichte ihn anschließend in den sozialen Medien:
Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice! The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Info…
- extremely unfortunate location for this, as the country has proven to be anything but ‘free’, as it is routinely against anything supportive of the rules and regulations geared towards the citizens in the EU. Belarus Lite.
Title: Curl ProgrammingAuthor: Dan GookinISBN: 9781704523286Weight: 181 grams A book for my library is a book about my library! Not long ago I discovered that someone had written this book about curl and that someone wasn't me! (I believe this is a f…
This is a gruelling summary of all the things wrong with OpenSSL haproxy.com/blog/state-of-ssl-… I've mostly watched this whole thing from the sidelines, but was also affected noting that private key parsing suddenly became 70 times slower. I think they've now improved it to "only" be 10-20 times slower, and there does not seem any effort to work on it any more.
New research shows glitter that makes its way into the sea is actively disrupting a crystal-forming process known as biomineralisation, which affects how marine life such as sea urchins, corals and oysters form their shells and skeletons. This mineral formation also contributes to how the ocean helps regulate Earth’s climate by moving carbon through the planet. So the consequences could be far from pretty. #Glitter #Environment #Oceans #Biodiversity #ClimateEmergency
Ooh, I really like your site! Awesome! Can a curious soul ask where you made it, or if you host it via something like wp? Real cool accessible stuff! :)
@tardis Of course! It is a static site generator, in this case, Eleventy. At the moment I upload it to a server myself but with a backup on Github. I host with Nearly Free Speech because I intend to write about my own sexual experiences and I will be explicit, so I need a place that won’t ban me for writing about adult sex. The more important thing is I made it with #Eleventy.
Oh, this is cool. I see. I should look at it. I have a wiki, but have to add a whole page every time I want to post, and that's a bit tiring, so having an actual way of posting, would be better. As for expereicnes and particular this type that can get you banned from popular company ran thingies, I can't say. Hehe. I tend not to like them, mine or others, I cringe when I see a movie, what can I say? ıut good luck with writing! :) ;)
@tardis Ah! I used to work on a ClassicPress hosted on someone elses server but what I like about static site generators is, if I want to edit a post, for example, I just opened up a text file, edit the Markdown that’s there, then update the site and it all happens offline and in spaces that I control, which is nice!
Can WCAG be applied to mobile? Well, sort of… it maps quite well, as long as you carefully assess how each criterion works in the mobile context.
That's what the W3C's Mobile Accessibility Task Force has done, with a group of experts. We've just published our first public working draft of WCAG2Mobile: w3.org/TR/wcag2mobile/
This document describes how Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 [WCAG22] principles, guidelines, and success criteria can be applied to mobile applications, including native mobile apps, mobile web apps and hybrid apps using web component…
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Goodbye my sweet Peter. You had too much love for this world and people didn’t understand you. You gave me the best 10 years of my life, you thought me many things, and you saved me with your love. I will never forget you. I miss you like the sun. Until we meet again…
If you use Jami on your phone, you’ve probably noticed how reliable it stays, even when the app is closed or your IP address changes. That stability isn’t magic. It comes from a piece of clever infrastructure working behind the scenes: proxy servers.
![@pierostrada L'immagine presenta un testo intitolato "YESTERDAY" (Ieri) scritto in caratteri grandi e in grassetto di colore verde acqua. Il testo è strutturato in quattro versi, ciascuno con un ritmo e una rima che ricorda la struttura di una canzone. Il testo racconta una storia di rimpianto per i backup dati che, in passato, sembravano inutili. Ora, dopo un sistema crashato, il testo esprime un desiderio nostalgico per i giorni passati, quando i backup erano considerati una spesa inutile. La poesia è attribuita a Geza Giedke e include il suo nome e il suo account [@]nixcraft in basso.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
🌱 Energia utilizzata: 0.202 Wh](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/665240 "@pierostrada L'immagine presenta un testo intitolato \"YESTERDAY\" (Ieri) scritto in caratteri grandi e in grassetto di colore verde acqua. Il testo è strutturato in quattro versi, ciascuno con un ritmo e una rima che ricorda la struttura di una canzone. Il testo racconta una storia di rimpianto per i backup dati che, in passato, sembravano inutili. Ora, dopo un sistema crashato, il testo esprime un desiderio nostalgico per i giorni passati, quando i backup erano considerati una spesa inutile. La poesia è attribuita a Geza Giedke e include il suo nome e il suo account [@]nixcraft in basso.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Ovis2-8B
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in reply to Accessible Android • • •I use an adblocker on my network and on my devices. so good luck trying to get me to watch ads, you're not getting a single sent
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