Everyone returns to email in the end. We are there already. #whatsapp wants you to add your email to secure your account ... despite all the nay sayers and numerous well funded attempts and claims to kill #email not even WA can do it. #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are about deep collab between people, projects and operators to evolve email from within. It is not just about SMTP and IMAP and MIME and OpenPGP which are all exchangeable and can be improved ... Which we set out to do. Cheers.
Forbes Accessibility 100: These are the most impactful pioneers ensuring and expanding the civil rights of people with disabilities all across the globe. forbes.com/sites/alanschwarz/2… #a11y
At #OSPOsForGood today during #UNOpenSourceWeek, Adriana Groh made several insightful comments during the panel “The Role of Open Source in Digital Public Infrastructure”:
"At the #SovereignTechAgency, we focus on the software that developers need to develop software. We call that 'infrastructure,' which is a different understanding to what many hear when we talk about #DPI. Both things are extremely important and exist at the same time. We need to understand how they are connected..."
"and that we need to address and sustain them in different ways, if we want to get somewhere with open digital infrastructure that serves the public’s interest.
The Sovereign Tech Agency is a quasi-public government organization investing via public procurement in maintaining digital infrastructure in a way that it serves openness and participation, and makes it possible for different participants to build software, maintain software, and innovate, which we believe is crucial..." 2/ #UNOSW
"for better outcomes, more engagement, healthy competition and innovation, bringing us the results that we need to achieve the SDGs, new business models, whatever it is we desire.
What we are trying to do is provide a blueprint. We believe we’re doing something in a specific way that is new, trying to carve out a new role for governments. What does a government need to deliver in the 21st century? We had the example with airports: a few tasks, we decided to take care of…"
“collectively, because that makes them better. We invest in infrastructure when it’s roads and bridges. We need to find out how to do this in the digital world. The blueprint we’re trying to create is like new government muscle: how can we take care of this in a way that is sustainable, secure, supports our values, & then share it? It doesn’t help if just one of us doing it, we need to do that collectively. This is why it’s great that we’re talking about this at the UN…”
“It’s a global task: it doesn’t stop at borders; it’s not a geographical topic; it connects all of us; it’s one shared ecosystem. Understanding this nature, also the production logics of open source software is important for governments and all actors, if you want to do good in this ecosystem.” 5/ #UNOpenSourceWeek
“The reality is also that money doesn’t solve all problems, unfortunately. It can create wrong incentives, it can increase stress and pressure, it can rip communities apart, it can do good in the short term but harm in the long term. We need to take all of these factors into account, if we want to channel support into our shared digital infrastructure, into #OpenSource communities.”
This information is for those who are Catholic and who are attending this year’s ACB convention in person. While reviewing the program, I didn't see any references to a Mass. In light of this, the nearest Catholic church to the hotel is likely Cathedral Guadalupe | Downtown Dallas Catholic Church 2215 Ross Avenue, Dallas, Texas 75201 cathedralguadalupe.org/ It's approximately 1.8 miles from the hotel, about a ten-minute ride. Here's their Mass and confession schedule.
Weekday • Mass - Monday through Friday at 12 noon in English and 7 p.m. in Spanish • Confessions - Monday through Friday from 11:30 a.m. to 11:55 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. to 6:55 p.m.
Sunday Mass Schedule • Sunday Mass at 8 a.m. in English • Sunday Mass at 10 a.m. in Spanish • Sunday Mass at 12 noon in English • Sunday Mass at 2 p.m. in Spanish • Sunday Mass at 5 p.m. in Spanish • Sunday Mass at 7 p.m. in Spanish Taken from this page cathedralguadalupe.org/about/m… #ACB25
Learning Blind Tech Episode 26 Book Reading with Braillesense 6
In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app from the google playstore.
In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app f…
I had some serious anxiety about posting this, because I didn't want it to come off the wrong way. But after starting to learn how screen reader trees are actually programmed, my verdict: accessibility programming doesn't feel as accessible to me as I'd like it to be.
Hi. I'm one of the two main AccessKit developers, along with Arnold Loubriat. Thank you for sharing your experience. I'm sorry you had such a hard time trying to use AccessKit from C#. The only thing I can say in our defense is that we have big goals for this project, but we can't do everything at once. Please bear with us as we slowly but surely make progress toward our goals.
@matt This is why I was sitting on it for so long. I didn't want to come off as if I'm slamming AccessKit. Because once I did get everything up and running, well, I got everything up and running. Most of the bugs I'm dealing with now are just how it interacts with orca and odilia specifically, and some of them are probably bugs in the aforementieoned screen readers.
There's a significant development in the saga of website blocking in Canada: Quebec's agency that regulates financial markets is banning cryptoexchanges XT and CoinEx, and to enforce it they got a court order forcing listed ISPs to block the sites: lautorite.qc.ca/en/general-pub… #siteblocking 1/3
These blocking orders originally enforced copyright in the GoldTV case, but have now been used to enforce trademarks (Indigo) and now financial markets. Who could have predicted? Everyone. 2/3
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).
* Speaker (Stereo), Anschluss: 3.5" Klinke + Euro-Stecker für Strom, durchgeschleifter Anschluss für Kopfhörer 3.5" Klinke * ein Rudel DC (14)/DVD (23) Hüllen. Alle in gutem Zustand. Bei Bedarf finden sich auch noch ein paar mehr davon.
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Say bye to #BigTech lock-in and hi to Nextcloud Workspace, the European alternative to Microsoft 365 for bigger organizations, in partnership with IONOS.
This pretty much describes my situation as my connection is slower than those old 56KB dial-up modems. Iran restricts internet access to ward off Israeli cyberattacks: engadget.com/cybersecurity/ira…
I’m not taking the side of violence because I can’t be violent. I’d get squashed by nearly anyone. But has any important social movement forward ever succeeded without violence? We have never achieved anything like suffrage, gay/lesbian rights, accessibility rights, racial rights, etc without violence. It is only when they have physically overthrown oppressors that progressives have succeeded. I don’t think that everyone who chooses violence in the name of a progressive cause is “mentally ill.”
Europeans are right to worry about the $250 billion stablecoin market. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/06/18/world/digital-dollar-trade-war-weapon/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #stablecoin #europe #cryptoc…
@CapitalB not really, IMO the existence of the Eurodollar gives EU banks practically free reign to create dollars that have almost no oversight and they could use those dollars to back a stablecoin they control
Koukám že Piráty už to v politice nebaví a rozhodli se sami sebe vymazat z politické mapy. Good luck, Myslím že tohle je za dlouhou dobu jediná akce, která bude mít, díky bohu, úspěch
Prázdnotou zely poslanecké i vládní lavice po část dlouhého jednání Sněmovny, při němž se chce opozice pokusit o vyjádření nedůvěry vládě Petra Fialy (ODS) v souvislosti s bitcoinovou kauzou.
@aikencz @chick_enheart @archos Nějak se mi z té politiky vytrácí schopnost politika být sám sebou. Ať si klidně hraje divadlo, je-li dobrý charismatický herec (záměrně neříkám charakterní). Ať je uvěřitelný. Ale když to neumí, ať to nedělá. Vypadá to směšně.
@aikencz @chick_enheart @archos Mě se to líbí, jak jinak slušně oslovit mladou generaci? Politika je marketing, jako vše ostatní se mu podřizuje, protože většina řeší "koho volit" na poslední chvíli bez znalosti minulých dějů v politice. Alena to dělá jako 🍟, Turek se starými 🚘, tohle mi přijde velmi dobré. Schopnost politika být sám sebou je k ničemu, když ho nezvolí a zůstane mimo možnost ovlivňovat současnost 🤔. Nejsme většina, podléhající marketingu, ale ten se nedělá pro/na nás. Piráti nemají voličské jádro jako ANO nebo ODS, kterému nevadí jakýkoli jejich (i velký) přešlap. Asi už chceme dožít po staru, bez přizpůsobení 🤷🏻♂️. Pro mne jsou Piráti stále nejlepší, možnost 💚.
@Petr90@mastodonczech.cz No, já jsem ve svém "mládí" tak trochu svrhával starý režim (včetně řešení bydlení, zakládání rodiny, práce a dopravy). Nemyslím si, že dnešní generace to má těžší než jakékoli minulé a budoucí 🤔.
@ferda Jo, rozumím. Od té doby, co odešli z vlády, to fakt působí, jako by už jen poskakovali v oblecích a kopali do všech okolo. Místo konstruktivní opozice vidím spíš zahořklý marketing.
A i ta jejich „vlajková loď“ digitalizace na MMR? Podle auditu manažerské selhání.
Tobě se ten styl kampaně, co je na obrázku, vážně líbí? Mně to teda moc nepřijde jako něco, co by oslovilo nové voliče. @aikencz @chick_enheart @cynik_obecny @Petr90
@archos @ferda @aikencz @chick_enheart @Petr90 tohle není kampaň. To je jenom okopávání kotníků, navíc od někoho, kdo má dostatek másla na hlavě, aby po něm mohl odklouzat do politické zadele. Viz třeba ta slavná digitalizace, Hřiboviny a podobně. Nepřál jsem jim to a byť nejsem zrovna cílovka, volil jsem je a několikrát to fakt zvažoval. Pokud se hodlají chovat jak děti ve školce, jedině co dokážou je po babišovsku fňukat co by mohli (jako by 3 roky nemohli), tak ať skončí v propadlišti dejin
"Before there was “keyboarding,” there was typing. Before there was the electronic notetaker, there were the slate and stylus and the Braillewriter. Before there was GPS, there were blind people getting around independently by using the GPS between their ears. And that is my point: no matter how advanced technology becomes, we still have to be skilled problem-solvers who are fully engaged with our environment and prepared to adapt." - Jeff Altman
I don't want anything exclusively bing/google powered so mullvad/ddg/the usual suspects aren't an option
don't really want something ad funded either (so no mojeek)
looking at kagi but while I have significantly better results with it, especially in badly formulated/opaque queries (and it allows quite a few poweruser features), @Seirdy points out in their search engine blog post, they might have some problematic biases.
Historie se opakuje. Po sesti zkrachovalych hladovych oknech se objevuje na stejnem miste v poradi sedme.
Uplne vidim realitaka, jak budoucimu panu majiteli ukazuje davy lidi pred jeho budoucim okenkem. Pan budouci majitel s hlavou v oblacich pocita trzbu az kazdemu z nich narve do ruky parek v rohliku za hromadku minci. Karty neberou.
Do toho zelena!
No nic. Pan soucasny majitel bude mit k veceri ohrate parky a testo na palacinky snad nejakou dobu vydrzi.
Sooft ich mich dort in den letzten Jahren für einen Verein informiert hatte, begegneten mir hauptsächlich Angebote für #Microsoft-Produkte.
Nun war ich auch mal beruflich in einem gemeinnützigen Unternehmen beschäftigt, welches solche Sonderlizenzen direkt von Microsoft in Anspruch nahm. Das ging ne Weile gut, bis Microsoft die Regeln änderte...
Das ist ein Grund, weshalb ich es als Vereinsvorstand ablehne, auf solche Sonderangebote einzugehen.
Nun hat stifter-helfen grad nachgefragt, warum unser Verein denn die Dienste nicht nutzen würde. Auf der Webseite heißt es, es wären über 90.000 Organisationen in ihren Datenbanken....
Eine Frage im Antwortformular lautet:
Was müsste sich ändern, damit Stifter-helfen wieder interessant für Ihre Organisation wird?
Da habe ich folgendes eingetragen:
Gemeinwohlorientierte, datenschutzmäßig unumstrittene OpenSource Software offerieren, die der Richtlinie Public Money - Public Code entspricht.
“In the coverage of the conflict between Israel and Iran, we need to really emphasize the asymmetry between the interests of the two states: Iran would like to destroy Israel and Israel… would like not to be destroyed by Iran. This is not a situation where evenhandedness is appropriate.”
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How close was #Iran to the bomb, and how far has #Israel pushed it back?
The more we learn, the clearer it becomes that Israel struck in the nick of time: Iran was very close to the bomb. Its ballistic missiles were becoming a dire threat. And then there's that derided 'Destruction of Israel Plan'
1984: West German intelligence sources claim that Iran’s production of a bomb “is entering its final stages.” US Senator Alan Cranston claims Iran is seven years away from making a weapon.
1992: Israeli parliamentarian Benjamin Netanyahu tells the Knesset that Iran is 3 to 5 years from being able to produce a nuclear weapon.
1995: The New York Times reports that US and Israeli officials fear “Iran is much closer to producing nuclear weapons than previously thought” – less than five years away. Netanyahu claims the time frame is three to five years.
1996: Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres claims Iran will have nuclear weapons in four years.
1998: Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld claims Iran could build an ICBM capable of reaching the US within five years.
1999: An Israeli military official claims that Iran will have a nuclear weapon within five years.
2001: The Israeli Minister of Defence claims that Iran will be ready to launch a nuclear weapon in less than four years.
2002: The CIA warns that the danger of nuclear weapons from Iran is higher than during the Cold War, because its missile capability has grown more quickly than expected since 2000 – putting it on par with North Korea.
2003: A high-ranking Israeli military officer tells the Knesset that Iran will have the bomb by 2005 — 17 months away.
2006: A State Department official claims that Iran may be capable of building a nuclear weapon in 16 days.
2008: An Israeli general tells the Cabinet that Iran is “half-way” to enriching enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon and will have a working weapon no later than the end of 2010.
2009: Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak estimates that Iran is 6-18 months away from building an operative nuclear weapon.
2010: Israeli decision-makers believe that Iran is at most 1-3 years away from being able to assemble a nuclear weapon.
2011: An IAEA report indicates that Iran could build a nuclear weapon within months.
2013: Israeli intelligence officials claim that Iran could have the bomb by 2015 or 2016.
@feld imagine being a humble white, anglo saxon / german heritage sugar water salesman. out of pride for your heritage and culture you never sell it for more than 99 cent. then one day you get The Call. "hello, mr iced tea? it's the jews. raise your price... or else..."
That time “AI” translation almost caused a fight between a doctor and my parents
What if you want to find out more about the PS/2 Model 280? You head out to Google, type it in as a query, and realise the little "AI" summary that's above the fold is clearly wrong. Then you run the same query again, multiple times, and notice that each time, the "AI" overvi
Facebook and YouTube have terms saying you can intentionally remove your IP grant by deleting the content. Twitter lets you remove your IP grant by deleting your *accounts*, which is punitive, but possible to exercise (I did). It's very good Mastodon's grant is limited-use—but so was Tumblr, and it eventually abused its. I want Mastodon to be as pro-user as *Facebook and Google*.
I think IP termination clauses are really important! I spent two full years throwing a fit about this on Cohost and I still refuse to use TikTok because of *this single issue*. Trying to figure out what to do about Mastodon suddenly joining the irrevocable license club (a club that currently includes: TikTok and not much else).
I have been using this site since 2016 and I'd rather not move (never mind Mastodon doesn't *actually* have an account migration feature).
Meaning all new Ruby Mastodon instances created after this date who use the stock legal text will *also* adopt an irrevocable IP grant license (no way to terminate the license if you decide your instance is abusing it) for post content (and also potentially some existing instances, if they regenerate their TOS from templates)
@mcc@mastodon.social @dvandal@infosec.exchange it would be up to the admin to regenerate their terms of service — the template is just used to populate a textarea which is stored in the database.
It's sort of long (sorry), but several people seemed confused what my problem was earlier, so maybe extra detail will help. I include an outline of my "nightmare scenario", and contrast other site TOSes.
I *will* delete my account over this, and I am not joking.
Summary Since it first opened, mastodon.social has operated without any sort of explicit IP grant from the users to the service, which is unusual for a social networking service. Today Mastodon ann...
Again, if open source projects are emulating predatory policy of centralized platforms, what’s the point of using open source? mastodon.social/@mcc/114701121…
I've posted a Github issue outlining why I'm freaked out at the word "irrevokable" in Mastodon's new TOS IP clause:
New Terms of Service IP clause cannot be terminated or revoked, not even by deleting content
https://github.
Exciting day for the #Fediverse! This morning at #UN #OpenSource Week, @haubles announced that @Mastodon has been named as a Digital Public Good for its work to empower communities, protect privacy, and foster authentic connections.
🌍📄 Docs, l’éditeur de texte libre et collaboratif de La Suite numérique, a été reconnu "bien public numérique" (Digital Public Good) par la Digital Public Goods Alliance ce matin à l’ONU lors de la semaine Open Source des Nations Unies.
![Let the Sperm of a man by itself be putrified in a gourd glasse, sealed up, with the highest degree of putrefaction in Horse dung, for the space of forty days, or so long untill it begin to bee alive, move, and stir, which may easily be seen. After this time it will be something like a Man, yet transparent, and without a body. Now after this, if it bee every day warily, and prudently nourished and fed with the Arcanum of Mans blood, and bee for the space of forty weeks kept in a constant, equall heat of Horsedung, it will become a true, and living infant, having all the members of an infant, which is born of a woman, but it will be far lesse. This wee call Homunculus, or Artificiall [Man?]. And this is afterwards to be brought up with as great care, and diligence as any other infant, until it come to riper years of understanding. Now this is one of the greatest secrets that God ever made known to mortall, sinfull man. For this is a miracle, and one of the great wonders of God, and secret above all secrets, and deservedly it ought to be kept amongst the secrets until the last times, when nothing shall be hid [the apocalypse], but all things made manifest.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/678512 "Let the Sperm of a man by itself be putrified in a gourd glasse, sealed up, with the highest degree of putrefaction in Horse dung, for the space of forty days, or so long untill it begin to bee alive, move, and stir, which may easily be seen. After this time it will be something like a Man, yet transparent, and without a body. Now after this, if it bee every day warily, and prudently nourished and fed with the Arcanum of Mans blood, and bee for the space of forty weeks kept in a constant, equall heat of Horsedung, it will become a true, and living infant, having all the members of an infant, which is born of a woman, but it will be far lesse. This wee call Homunculus, or Artificiall [Man?]. And this is afterwards to be brought up with as great care, and diligence as any other infant, until it come to riper years of understanding. Now this is one of the greatest secrets that God ever made known to mortall, sinfull man. For this is a miracle, and one of the great wonders of God, and secret above all secrets, and deservedly it ought to be kept amongst the secrets until the last times, when nothing shall be hid [the apocalypse], but all things made manifest.")
David Goldfield
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