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Added 𝗨𝗣𝗗𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝟮 - 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗡𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗶𝘀 𝗗𝗲𝗮𝗱 - 𝗟𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗟𝗶𝘃𝗲 𝘇𝗩𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 to the 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗡𝗔𝗦 𝗖𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘀𝘂𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗲𝗡𝗔𝗦 𝗦𝗖𝗔𝗟𝗘 article.

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#truenas #zvault #freebsd #zfs #storage #nas #core

TrueNAS CORE versus TrueNAS SCALE

I was really disappointed when I got to know that the FreeBSD based TrueNAS CORE storage appliance – owned and developed by iXsystems – will be moved into the ‘maintenance’ …
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#freebsd #truenas #nas #Storage #zfs #zvault #core
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JdeBP

@matt

It doesn't even work with the Mastodon WWW user interface, ironically.

The glyphs aren't in the Roboto WWW font requested by #Mastodon so WWW browsers fall back to whatever font is set locally.

Not only does that in itself make posts look like bad movie ransom notes, but it gets worse: because some fonts intentionally try to make the mathematical symbols distinct from truly boldfaced/italic Latin-1 alphabetic characters.

#Unicode #accessibility

#Accessibility #Mastodon #unicode @Matt Campbell

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Hey all I'm leading a session GAAD at AccessU. The session is free and open to the public and streamed on YouTube. I'm looking for questions about the shifting landscape of digital access and accessibility. This wide open and can be interpreted in many ways, but the hope is to get some questions that cover multiple perspectives.

You can submit questions here: forms.gle/2D9uvxfMSjC7p2pK7

Global Accessibility Awareness Day at AccessU
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From Today to Tomorrow: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Digital Access

Submit your questions for the "From Today to Tomorrow: Navigating the Shifting Landscape of Digital Access" unpanel at Access U 2025! Inspired by improv, Ignite talks, and Access U’s unconference sessions, this interactive session will be driven by y…
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Looking for something to do this weekend? Join the Month of #LibreOffice! Learn new things and expand your skillset – and get cool merch as a bonus: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
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Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, May 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

Want to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way? Then get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, May 2025! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will collaborate t…
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Your password manager is under attack, and this new threat makes it worse: How to defend yourself zdnet.com/article/your-passwor…

Your password manager is under attack, and this new threat makes it worse: How to defend yourself

Heard of polymorphic browser extensions yet? You will. These savage imposters threaten the very future of credential management. Here's what you need to know - and do.
David Berlind (ZDNET)

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This has saved me a bunch of times, so might be useful to other people. When I change firewall rules on a remote machine, I always run the following command:
# service pf restart && sleep 30 && service pf stop<br>

And then I hit control-C after a few seconds. If my ssh session is still working, this cancels the service pf stop command. If I've managed to break my ssh connection with the rule change, the firewall is disabled after 30 seconds and I can revert the changes and reenable it.

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Monopoly wasn't invented by the Parker Brothers, nor the man they gave it credit for. In 1904, Monopoly was originally called The Landlord's Game, and was invented by a radical woman. Elizabeth Magie's original game had not one, but two sets of rules to choose from.
One was called "Prosperity", where every player won money anytime another gained a property. And the game was won by everyone playing only when the person with the least doubled their resources. A game of collaboration and social good.
The second set of rules was called "Monopoly", where players succeeded by taking properties and rent from those with less luck rolling the dice. The winner was the person who used their power to eliminate everyone else.
Magie's mission was to teach us how different we feel when playing Prosperity vs Monopoly, hoping that it would one day change national policies.
When the Parker Bros adopted the game, they erased the "Prosperity" rules and celebrated "Monopoly".
a picture showing the board of the original Prosperity game.

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To all #OpenSource and #Linux warriors, to all saying "Ditch windows, install Linux", to everyone and every single person: please, spend several minutes and read this. I want you all to read this so you really understand the problem (if you want to understand, of course). And a huge, huge thanks to Aaron @fireborn for starting this post series. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w… #Accessibility

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

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Re: my last boost of @fireborn's post on Linux accessibility (fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…), I propose that fixing audio on Linux would be a good place to start. "Linux audio doesn't work" is a meme even among sighted people. I know that reducing it down to that is perhaps unfair to all of the people who work on the audio stack, but there seems to be some truth to it. Any ideas on what can be done to finally make audio output as reliable as the graphics stack? I'll put money where my mouth is.

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

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Adrian Vovk

TTYs are very weird environments that exist outside of any kind of session, at least until you log in. They might as well not exist as far as most services can tell. This is just a legacy of how they work

The good news is that this all will be fixed sooner rather than later, because the TTY is going away. Instead it'll be replaced with a graphical terminal, which should give you access to a screen reader

Can't say much about the other issues. I've never run into them

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Adrian Vovk

Some of your Pipewire issues might actually be Wireplumber issues. Pipewire is just dumb media routing. The smarts, like card and output selection, belong to Wireplumber. Are you using Wireplumber?

Are the bugs you've run into known issues, or have you filed bug reports? Realistically it's possible that you're triggering bugs that others haven't encountered and so they will never be fixed because nobody knows about them

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The state of Linux accessibility in 2025. This started out as a rant but became a series. Please feel free to leave feedback, comments, and subscribe via rss or email for more stuff as I release it. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w…

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 1 – Built for Control, But Not for People — fireborn

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Secure by design in Python: A FastAPI app with 5 DevSecOps tools and a real time SSTI vulnerability remediation
#python #devsecops #security #webdev
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Secure by design in Python: A FastAPI app with 5 DevSecOps tools and a real time SSTI vulnerability remediation

🌟 Introduction Security should not be an afterthought in software development. Instead, it...
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#webdev #security #python #devsecops
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Weekend reading: Apple is celebrating 20 years of Voiceover - I wrote an article about it based on the amazing chat I had with the man who brought it to life on the Mac, and also with people who use it on their iPhone every day. doubletaponair.com/20-years-of…

20 Years of Apple Voiceover - Double Tap

In 2005, Apple introduced VoiceOver, a built-in screen reader that revolutionised accessibility for blind and low-vision users.
Steven Scott (Double Tap)

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The #Linux #kernel's #PGP Web of Trust

blog.kleine-koenig.org/ukl/the… (by @ukleinek )

"[…] However there is a problem on the horizon: GnuPG 2.4.x started to reject third-party key signatures using the SHA-1 hash algorithm. […] This doesn't directly affect the kernel-pgpkeys repo, […] When Konstantin imported the updated certificate GnuPG's "cleaning" was applied which dropped all SHA-1 signatures. So Theodore Ts'o's key lost 168 signatures, among them one by Linus Torvalds on his primary UID. […] That made me wonder what would be the effect on the web of trust if all SHA-1 signatures were dropped. Here are the facts: […]"

The Linux kernel's PGP Web of Trust

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#linux #pgp #kernel @Uwe Kleine-König

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Katie Thornton’s New Series Investigates the Influence of Shortwave Radio swling.com/blog/2025/05/katie-…

Katie Thornton’s New Series Investigates the Influence of Shortwave Radio

Award-winning journalist Katie Thornton has launched a new season of the Peabody-winning podcast, The Divided Dial, produced by On the Media and WNYC Studios. In this season, Katie focuses on short…
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EPUB 3.3 Recommendations Published, Work Begins on New Features - Inclusive Publishing

The Publishing Maintenance Working Group (PMWG) has announced the final update of the W3C Recommendation for EPUB® 3.3. Whilst no new features have been introduced the updates […]
Sarah Hilderley (Inclusive Publishing)

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In my day job, I work for a media company that focuses on the toy industry.

Apropos of nothing, I decided to add the Mastodon plushie (aka #Plushtodon) to the latest products on our Toy Insider website.

Please boost this so our editors will frustratingly tell me to stop trying to make Mastodon happen.
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The #Plushtodon sitting in a chair in a grassy field.

MASTODON STUFFED TOY | The Toy Insider

This 14-inch friend-sized, friend-shaped plushie was designed with a soft Velboa exterior and polyester filling for maximum comfort. It is certified for safety and ethical production and suitable for kids (and grown-ups) 3 and up.
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Love is fun! Love is powerful. Love is... not enough. A relationship requires more than love alone to be sustainable in the longterm. Middle Age Erika Moen clears up some of her misconceptions about love with freshly-dumped 20-Year-Old Erika Moen in this comic from the archive.

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#Bisexual #Autobio #Comic

The comic starts with a younger Erika and her first girlfriend soaring through the air together with large angel wings on their backs. Young Erika is caressing her girlfriend’s face as her girlfriend embraces her from behind. Erika narrates, “The first time I fell in Real Love, I was flying high on a cloud of euphoria. It was my first Real Relationship and I knew I had found my Forever Soulmate.” “Until.” “Suddenly.” With a serene expression, Erika’s first girlfriend snips off Young Erika’s wings with a pair of shears. The next frame shows Young Erika right before she hits the ground, frozen in shock and disbelief. “She dumped me.” In anguish, Young Erika curls up into a ball on the floor. “The heartbreak made me physically ill, I had never experienced pain like this before.” Our current Erika steps into the frame to stand next to her past self, who has started crying alone. Erika puts her hands on her hips and looks at Young Erika with an understanding expression. “Aw, kid,” she says.
Young Erika sobs out, “All I did was love her and then she threw me away for no reason!” Erika reaches over to pat her younger self. “Well, honestly, you were kind of a dick.” “WHAT!” Young Erika yells back defensively. She angrily pushes herself up to glare at her older self, before pointing a finger at her. “Hey, who are you, anyway?!” Erika shrugs reassuringly. “I’m you. About 20 years in the future. Listen, you weren’t a dick on purpose, you’re not a bad person (and neither is she!). You’re just… young, you’re inexperienced with being a partner, and you’ve got some pretty unrealistic ideas about love.” Young Erika grumbles, “...Unrealistic ideas about love…? Love is love! What more do you need to know?” Erika takes Young Erika’s hand to help her get up. “C’mon,” Erika says. “Let’s you n’ me go down a trip down the River of Love.” Young Erika strikes a “Woe is Me” pose as the two make their way over to an inflatable raft with a paddle. She cries out, “What we had was MAGIC! Two souls combined! Such a pure connection can never be replicated!” “Go home, Erika, you’re drunk,” her older self responds. “ExCUSE you?!” Erika says, “Seriously! When you first fall in love, your brain is flooded with neurochemicals that make you high as balls.” An illustration shows a watering can pouring out a stream of neurochemicals including Dopamine, Serotonin, and Norepinephrine over a brain.
The stream from the brain continues to flow down to form a river that the two Erikas start to ride down in their raft. Young Erika leans over the side of the raft to run her hand through the flowing neurochemicals. She starts to cry. “What, so ‘love’ is just a buncha chemicals? LOVE IS A LIE!!!” (A note says, “Actual thing I actually said.”) Erika continues to paddle the boat. She replies, “Love is real, you’re just not in a sober mindset about it early-on.” “You think being in love with someone is this stationary state…” An illustration shows two people holding hands while enclosed in a glass cloche labeled “LOVE” with a heart for the O. “... When really it’s this living entity that’s constantly in motion.” The raft the two Erikas are in splashes around as they ride out a sudden wave. Erika calls out, “It never stops changing!” The water starts to calm. “Sometimes in ways that make you happier.” The water suddenly rushes down, dropping their raft down and forcing Young Erika to cling onto her older self. “Sometimes in ways that make you sadder.”
At this, Young Erika finally turns and looks back up at her. Erika leans in closer to face her younger self. “Two people can really love each other and still not be good partners together. Love by itself is not enough to keep a relationship afloat long term. A healthy partnership needs mutual support, mental and emotional nourishment, communication, negotiation, acceptance, boundaries, forgiveness… Love can’t fill all those roles itself. Sometimes the most loving thing to do is end a relationship before the things that don’t work rot into something dysfunctional or toxic later.” Young Erika angrily blows up at this. “... ‘loving thing to do’?! She HURT ME!!!” Young Erika flails about with spirals in her eyes as she continues to vent. “She betrayed me! She used me! She didn’t try hard enough! She never REALLY loved me! She threw me away! She’s a BAD PERSON! I hate her!” She sobs, holding her head in her hands. Erika moves over to comfort her. “Getting dumped sucks,” Erika says. “I’m sorry.” She brings her younger self in for a hug.

Love Is Not Enough

Erika's sick in bed today (Monday as I write this), so I'm doing all the prep work for today's comic. Usually, I'd write all kinds of thing-a-ma-bobs, but since I know Erika will want to fill this blog post up with all kinds of helpful stuff.
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