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Blazie Technologies engineers premium computers for the Blind. Check out our latest media, podcasts, and demos of the BT Speak pocket computer.Blazie Technologies
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Did you know Question Hound (that is, the "This Is Fine" dog 
) is getting its own video game? And it is looking *precious* 
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 1 added apps:
* HW Fido2 Provider: Use security key with Bluetooth, NFC, USB or your phone secure element (e.g. your Yubikey for 2FA) 🛡️
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
The US Postal Service (USPS) is testing out a new Android app that brings the carrier’s “Informed Delivery” service to...Ben Schoon (9to5Google)
AFAIK mapy.com is using raster tiles for desktop and vector tiles for mobile browser
@jachym @mcepl Looking at the file, it may actually be using tiles for desktop... 🤷♂️
{
"items": [
{
"sql": true,
"name": "Mapy.com-outdoor",
"minZoom": 5,
"maxZoom": 19,
"url": "https:\/\/mapserver.mapy.cz\/turist-en\/retina\/{0}-{1}-{2}",
"randoms": "",
"ellipsoid": false,
"inverted_y": false,
"referer": "https:\/\/mapy.com\/",
"userAgent": "",
"timesupported": false,
"expire": -1,
"inversiveZoom": false,
"ext": ".png",
"tileSize": 512,
"bitDensity": 16,
"avgSize": -1
}
]
}
@mcepl They are simple to be used everywhere, that's what I would be expecting in 3rd party apps.
Not sure about the implementation and its compliance with terms developer.mapy.cz/smluvni-ujed…
But its looking ok developer.mapy.cz/rest-api/map… just be aware of scraping/local storing
REST API Mapy.cz je datové a funčkní API. Není tedy spojené s žádnou konkrétní zobrazovací technologií či komponentou. Vývojář může zvolit zobrazovací…Developer Mapy.cz
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High tariffs become 'real' with our first $36K bill: blog.adafruit.com/2025/05/08/h…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…
This topic was automatically closed 14 days after the last reply. New replies are no longer allowed.GNOME Discourse
GUI tests are kind of pointless: testing that the toolkit is doing the right thing should be part of the toolkit's test suite, not your application's. There's no point in simulating a user click on a menu, or a button, and seeing what happens.
My suggestion, like I said on that Discourse topic, is to split UI and business logic, and then create a "mock" UI for your tests that calls the business logic.
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#YunoHost: the donation campaign have reached 70%!
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Venus probe reentry error bars are getting smaller! Reentry predicted 7:30UTC on May 10, +/-14 hours sattrackcam.blogspot.com/2025/…
If it falls in Saskatchewan, I'm going to buy a lottery ticket. Or a very sturdy, comfortable helmet.
classified military Space (spy satellites) and Missilessattrackcam.blogspot.com
It's been a while, but our Thursday Thunderbird Tips are back! And our first post is all about Thunderbird keyboard shortcuts. If you're already using them, awesome! If not, we’ve got a guide to get you started! 🤔 ⌨️
#Thunderbird #ThunderbirdTips #Email
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Keyboard shortcuts are quick key combinations that replace mouse navigation. This is a list of commonly used keyboard shortcuts in Thunderbird.support.mozilla.org
Who on this #mastodon uses #RSS? I just made 🥯 FeedBagel – feedbagel.com
An RSS feed finder #API that categorises feeds with #AI, and saves them for browsing and searching
any feedback welcome and appreciated! #webdev #design
FeedBagel helps you find and discover RSS feeds from any website. Search for RSS feeds by URL or browse our curated feed directory to follow your favorite blogs and news sites.FeedBagel
Microsoft Copilot for SharePoint just made recon a whole lot easier. 🚨
One of our Red Teamers came across a massive SharePoint, too much to explore manually. So, with some careful prompting, they asked Copilot to do the heavy lifting...
It opened the door to credentials, internal docs, and more.
All without triggering access logs or alerts.
Copilot is being rolled out across Microsoft 365 environments, often without teams realising Default Agents are already active.
That’s a problem.
Jack, our Head of Red Team, breaks it down in our latest blog post, including what you can do to prevent it from happening in your environment.
📌Read it here: pentestpartners.com/security-b…
#RedTeam #OffSec #AIsecurity #Microsoft365 #SharePoint #MicrosoftCopilot #InfoSec #CloudSecurity
TL;DR AI Assistants are becoming far more common Copilot for SharePoint is Microsoft’s answer to generative AI assistance on SharePoint Attackers will look to exploit anything they can get their hands on Your current controls and logging may be insuf…Jack Barradell-Johns (Pen Test Partners)
@🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 @Billy @Hunter Jozwiak On linux QT uses at-spi2 for accessibility on windows it used to use IAccessible2 and it's transitioning to UIA. It's different to GTK.
Back on topic I was trying out Jami a few months ago on android. The app seemed quite accessible however I had connectivity issues. On linux the app had more accessibility issues. Latelly jami have introduced so called open dht proxies that have reportedly improved connectivity for mobile apps though however I haven't played with jami with this inprovement in place.
These days I'm really excited about deltachat as I have recognized how much accessible the deltachat apps became latelly.
The fact messages are end to end encrypted as much as possible, chatmail does elliminate what makes email slow incl. spam / virus filtering, ability to migrate to a different chatmail relay is being considered / worked on.
Not to mention simple colaboration webxdc apps with p2p connectivity e.g. for handling file transfers, possibly audio calls in the future and other real time data.
So it is decentralized, it's federated, it's secure, it attempts to be lightweight as much as possible and as compared by other attempts it really turns to be that. Creating a profile, adding multiple devices, exchanging contact data is easy. Apps are very similar and simple at the same time on each platform. I believe it might be easy to use even for non tech savvy users.
Here is the blog post that is verry accurate and describes all of this in more details.
@Cleverson @Devin Prater :blind: @🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦 Frankly, we had an attempt to test and use this about a year ago.
At that time I was also excited.
I'd be interested if you can say the accessibility of jami has improved since that time...
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I am just testing @Jami with a #screenreader on both linux desktop and android for #accessibility.
Initial setup is accessible on both the platforms.
Listing conversations I can't really say as I only have single contact.
Audio calling is working fine. I am impressed that the call setup took just a moment. On android controls like microphone toggle, speaker / earpiece toggle and hangup button are working fine.
I am unable to find out in call controls with the keyboard on linux.
On both desktop and android I can write messages.
On android I can read messages, find and execute additional actions in the popup menu.
On the desktop I can't read incoming and outgoing messages with a screen reader. I haven't discovered on how to copy them.In conclusion comparing this to the tox chat the Jami is more accessible with a screen reader. Perhaps I will be able to figure out how to handle the calls with a keyboard shortcuts however the fact message text is not readable with a screen reader on desktop linux and perhaps other platforms sounds dissapointing. The idea and decentralized nature of this communication app sounds really amazing.
Tired of searching through emails, calendars, and messages to find the right meeting link? Perspective Meetings makes it easy to keep all your video meeting links in one convenient place.App Store
Who says you can’t have privacy and security in an OS?
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Thanks for the article. It is a good read, and I appreciate your approach for both PCs and 'Phones.
I've had a wee saga recently getting a privacy-respecting 'phone that supported VoLTE. Does the Librem 5 support VoLTE, in both hardware terms and success reports with carriers?
AI is coming for your water
An analysis by Bloomberg in the USA found that about two-thirds of AI-driven data centers built or in development between 2022 and 2025 were “in places already gripped by high water stress.”
AI is draining demand from areas that need it most, Leonardo Nicoletti, Michelle Ma, Dina Bass, Bloomberg, 2025
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Berlin, 8 May 2025 – LibreOffice 24.8.7, the seventh and last minor release of the LibreOffice 24.8 family of the free open source, volunteer-supported office suite for Windows (Intel, AMD and ARM), MacOS (Apple and Intel) and Linux, is available at …Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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its: 24.8.6-4 (archlinux.org/packages/extra/x…)
According to arch wiki: LibreOffice Still in Arch Linux is the stable and well-tested version, with fewer updates, ideal for users who prioritize reliability.
LibreOffice Fresh, on the other hand, is the latest feature-rich version, receiving frequent updates with new enhancements.
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I use Captura. The UI is not very accessible but I set everything up in the JSON config file manually so that when I press Alt+F9 globally, it starts and stops recording of screen, microphone, system audio, and a log of timestamped keystrokes.
Let me know if a sample config file would be helpful.
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…www.w3.org
I can still remember when the 33MHz 486DX was the fastest chip around.Steven Vaughan-Nichols (ZDNET)
In this episode of A11y Insights, Thomas Logan and Ken Nakata welcome Nicolas Steenhout, a veteran in the field of digital accessibility with over 30 years of experience.Equal Entry
Design for 3D Printing, An Excellent Article
It's wonderful when people take the time to share the expertise they've developed. Even more so when the resulting article is filled with FreeCAD screenshots.
Fabulous FreeCAD user Rahix has put together this impressive long read (80 mins) over on their blog. It's a collection of knowledge relating to various areas of 3D printing and it's an amazing read! Thanks @rahix blog.freecad.org/2025/05/08/de…
#Tutorials
It's wonderful when people take the time to share the expertise they've developed. Even more so when the resulting article is filled with FreeCAD screenshots. Fabulous FreeCAD user Rahix has put to…FreeCAD News
"Milestone for digital sovereignty": 20 years of the Open Document Format (ODF)
The Document Foundation celebrates the 20th anniversary of adoption of ODF as an OASIS standard. This promotes global digital independence and interoperability.
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#IT #LibreOffice #OpenSource #news
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Because of security vulnerabilities: LibreOffice advises against OpenOffice
The developers of LibreOffice advise against its competitor OpenOffice. The Apache software contains security vulnerabilities and is not being further developed
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#ApacheSoftwareFoundation #DocumentFoundation #IT #LibreOffice #OfficeSuite #OpenSource #OpenOffice #Software #news
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