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The progress bars in F-Droid's new design look odd. Did some research into the material 3 spec and why there's a strange blue dot at the end: gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroidclient…

Maybe someone wants to improve the colour choices here?

Screenshot of F-Droid Client showing an update being downloaded for Fennec. The progress bar is coloured in blue for the downloaded part, green for the yet to be downloaded part and then again blue for what I learned to be called a stop indicator in the material 3 spec.

Update elements layout issues (#2995) · Issues · F-Droid / Client · GitLab

Device OS and version: Lineage 22.1 Device model/manufacturer: Fairphone 4 F-Droid version (in the About screen): 1.23.0-alpha0 F-Droid privileged extension version (if...
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the ban hammer strikes again as the slop counter increases...

hackerone.com/reports/3231321


curl disclosed on HackerOne: HTTP Proxy Bypass via...

### **Summary** A logic flaw in `libcurl` version **8.14.1** allows an attacker to bypass restrictive HTTP proxy firewalls by "tunneling" an arbitrary HTTP verb within a `CONNECT` request. By...
HackerOne
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Gregory

this one reminds me of the "vulnerability reports" we would sometimes get when I worked at Telegram. Where someone would claim that it's a severe vulnerability that messages, including ones from secret chats, are stored unencrypted in a database that is only accessible on rooted/jailbroken devices. And that was before AI. People would write these by hand and never stop to think it through.

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TIL about Nagashi Somen

"... As temperatures increase across Japan, residents and tourists in the western region of Okayama are embracing a delightful and traditional way to cool down, Nagashi Somen, a treasured summer ritual in Japan.

In the lovely Yamanori Valley of Maniwa City, a restaurant with over 40 years of history has reopened for the season, offering guests the chance to enjoy Nagashi Somen.

These thin wheat noodles flow down a bamboo conduit filled with icy spring water. Diners use chopsticks to catch the noodles as they pass by, dip them in a savoury broth or a thin soup, and gulp them down in true Japanese fashion."

Person holding a clump of cold noodles over a half bamboo slide in a restaurant setting
Zoom out we see people sitting at benches/tables in front of the noodle slides

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🚨 Gmail ads aren’t just annoying - they may be illegal. 🚨

Google could pay €525M for breaking privacy laws.
👉 tuta.com/blog/gmail-ads-annoyi…

This is a BIG WIN for #privacy 🔒💥

What's your reason for having switched to Tuta?

Gmail vs Tuta 1. Google tracks you. We don't. 2. Google knows you inside out. We don't. 3. Google in the US versus us in Germany. 4. Google's profit maximization versus our passion for privacy.

Gmail ads are not just annoying: Google is now facing a record fine in France! | Tuta

Google may have violated your privacy and is now facing the consequences: a 525 million euro fine.
Tuta
#privacy

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Signal on desktop flickers and makes me feel ill, but they won't do anything about it. Workaround is to use a cli flag, but I don't use it from cli? Really want Signal to go mainstream but hard to recommend

github.com/signalapp/Signal-De…


Mac - weird screen flicker possibly related to HDR images

Using a supported version? I have searched searched open and closed issues for duplicates. I am using Signal-Desktop as provided by the Signal team, not a 3rd-party package. Overall summary Signal ...
joelanman (GitHub)

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Freedom Scientific has published info on convention specials.
For #ACB25:
Convention Specials:
Visit us in the exhibit hall to take advantage of our summer show specials. Mention discount code JAWS30 to receive the specials listed below.
• 10% off all Home Annual Licenses and Home Time-Based SMA’s
Special pricing is offered to ACB convention registrants—both in-person and virtually, valid July 2-31, 2025. Register at the ACB website. Call 1-800-444-4443 to redeem.
vispero.com/events/acb-2025/

For #NFB25
Visit us in the exhibit hall to take advantage of our summer show specials. Mention discount code JAWS30 to receive the specials listed below.
• 10% off all Home Annual Licenses and Home Time-Based SMA’s
Special pricing is offered to NFB convention registrants—both in-person and virtually, valid July 2-31, 2025. Register at the NFB website. Call 1-800-444-4443 to redeem.
vispero.com/events/nfb-2025/


ACB 2025 - Vispero

ACB 2025 Convention Activity Schedule Vispero is delighted to be a sponsor and exhibitor at the 2025 ACB National Convention! We’re looking forward to connecting with you in Dallas, TX! Be sure to check the ACB Convention website for information on r…
Vispero
#acb25 #nfb25
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David Goldfield

Regarding the convention specials from Freedom Scientific, I'm disappointed that home annual licenses are only being discounted at 10% as a convention special; I believe it was 20% in previous years. It's also interesting that we so far haven't seen discounts on any of their hardware, such as video magnifiers and Focus Braille displays.
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Doug Lawlor

Given all of the trouble I've had with my Focus display, purchased back in 2020, I'll never get another. Cells kept going out on it to the point of where it's totally useless to me. It is the worse piece of assistive technology I've ever purchased. It was in the shop under warranty as much as I got to get any quality use from the thing. I wouldn't wish my experience on anyone.
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Kevin LaRose, Antifa Member

@Bruce I haven’t had any dealings with Learning Ally since 2009. I joined them when I was taking some classes at a local community college and thought I could get the books I needed more easily there. Turns out #Bookshare actually served me better and it wasn’t worth the subscription price, can’t remember how much it was now. I grew up with it when it was known as RFB, and while it was great to get the books I needed, good heavens, the narration could be dreadful! I would take AI over that.
#Bookshare @Bruce Toews

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"Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations" The book," Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Advanced", costs $169.
Yet more reason to be skeptical about #AI salespeople.
retractionwatch.com/2025/06/30…

Springer Nature book on machine learning is full of made-up citations

Would you pay $169 for an introductory ebook on machine learning with citations that appear to be made up? If not, you might want to pass on purchasing Mastering Machine Learning: From Basics to Ad…
Retraction Watch
#AI

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Wow, so that was what you were doing when you weren’t sleeping last night! It’s only 7:30 AM but it’s already a good day! Please take a moment to welcome my bride aboard the #Mastodon train if you have the notion, and let’s see if we can push her follower count past 1. LOL #GoodMorning mastodon.social/@sarahblarose/…

Sarah Blake LaRose (@sarahblarose@mastodon.social)

@Thumper1964@mindly.social surprise I am here. And hi to everyone else too. It only took me years to get here.
Mastodon
#Mastodon #goodmorning

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Kavu nemeleme!

Do tohohle jednokafackeho claimu jsme narazili jako do zdi, kdyz jsme kupovali pytlik kafe na posledni chvili na chatovy vylet. Tenkrat to byl problem, protoze jsme potrebovali rychle kafe pro hodne lidi a mlynek jsme nemeli. Zachranil nas az stary industrialni mlynek na recepci krajskeho uradu.

Obsluha jednokafe byla prisna. Nenamleli bysme ani vlastni babicce!

Uz tenkrat jsem mel napad na happening pujcit si mlynek a tech 250g tam na miste rucne protocit. Dnes, pri zaucovani slecny brigadnice, jsem se dozvedel, ze jejich nazor je podobny. Pro neodbytne #mampravonamleti maji pripravenou odpoved v podobe zapujcky hario slim mlynku.

Si rikam, ze prisel ten cas. Koupit si pytlicek. Vyzadovat pomleti. Pujcit si hario ... a vrhnout se na to pred zraky podporovatelu a kamer ... akorat ten mlynek je dost peklo, uz po dou davkach jsem doma skoro umiral ... a k tomu mam rad svuj filtr dost najemno. Dat 13 davek v kuse, to je tak na dve hodiny cisteho toceni ... a to mi nesmi v prubehu upadnout ruka ... vzdat to v pulce by bylo dost trapne.

Proto hledam podporu! Kdo by me chtel podporit v mleti kafe v jendom, vymyslime termin a vrhnu se na to.

#lbc #liberec #kafe

Kavovy mlynek Hario Slim.
#liberec #lbc #kafe #mampravonamleti

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New app added to the Accessible Android apps directory: Music Folder Player accessible with minor issues accessibleandroid.com/app/musi… #Android #App

Music Folder Player - Accessible Android

Note: This app is an audio player, not a downloader. It only plays audio files already on your device. If you’re looking to download new music, this app isn’t
Accessible Android
#android #app

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#Gnome #Files (#Nautilus) has a bulk rename tool for some time now, but literally every single time I try to use it I fail. Really, everytime I need to rename batch of files, I try it first in this tool, I recognize that my task is not possible done in it and than start totalcmd in wine just for this simple operation.
Are my needs so advanced? I don't think so.
For example now I want to add xml extension to all badly named log files. Impossible.
Nautilus bulk rename dialog with search and replace that doesn't support regex, so it's useless for my current task
Nautilus bulk rename dialog with rename pattern definition that omits current extension so it can never be changed. Useless for my task.
#gnome #nautilus #files

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Štěpán Škorpil

Actually when you open rename tool, it prefills it with pattern [Original file name] and extension is completely omitted from renaming.

We need to not omit extensions, add them as separate place holder [Originial file extension] and just prefill them when rename dialog opens as [Original file name][Originial file extension]

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Big update from our Documentation team – the #LibreOffice 25.2 user guides are now available! This is fantastic work, driven primarily by volunteers: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Guidebook covers

📣 The New LibreOffice 25.2 User Guides Are Here! - The Document Foundation Blog

The LibreOffice community has great news: the Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, and Math User Guides are now available for version 25.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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miki

Europe just giving money away to worthy OSS maintainers would be such a break.

Most normal EU projects are mired in anti-fraud rules. As a result, the money goes to the people who know how to game these rules while stil staying on the right side of the law.

It's not fraud by any legal definition, bbut it's basically fraud.

I genuinely hope this project is different.

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I kick off the morning reviewing this document: "#EUSTF: A Study on the Economic, Legal, and Political Feasibility of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund"

A 42,000 words proposal to create a EU-wide version of the German Sovereign Tech Fund/Agency with a 350 million € fund over seven years. To fund critical open source infrastructure.

It even features the now mandatory xkcd 2347 image. xkcd.com/2347/

Color me positive.


Dependency

xkcd
#eustf

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Hice un vídeo para que puedas enviárselo a tus personas cercanas, explicando lo fácil que es dejar #WhatsApp, y por qué es importante hacerlo. 💬

fediverse.tv/w/35Lvufq1XW8ZVBT… (@ivangj@fediverse.tv)
También disponible en YouTube por si quieres evitar rozamientos 😅.

#SoftwareLibre #PeerTube #Chat #Signal #XMPP #DeltaChat #Matrix

#xmpp #matrix #signal #whatsapp #peertube #chat #softwarelibre #deltachat @Ivan GJ
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Ivan GJ

Aunque el objetivo del vídeo es dejar a #WhatsApp en evidencia, también otorgo una parte no-despreciable del vídeo a #Signal, como la gran alternativa.

También nombro a #XMPP (vivo amenazado por la furia de @kyva), PERO:
Signal es el único "quita-y-pon" 🧩 que tenemos ahora mismo, para seguir conversando con **nuestros contactos telefónicos**, sin tener que ir preguntando a todo quisqui por su dirección.

Que ya los iremos metiendo en el saco federado, pero tú estate en Signal mientrastanto. 😉

#xmpp #signal #whatsapp @⁂ Kyva

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OK so as people seem interested, here is a first Libervia-CLI tip.

`li` is the short alias for `libervia-cli`.

If you want to quickly upload a file to share it, you can use:

`li file upload -P your_file.ext`

`-P` shows a progress bar.

You can even encrypt it with the `-e` option in which case you'll have an `aesgcm:` with the decryption token as a fragment of the URL (the `#…` part).

You can then decrypt with `li file get`.

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#libervia #cli #li #tips #xmpp

file: files sending/receiving/management — Libervia Backend documentation

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#xmpp #libervia #CLI #tips #li

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La version 2.3.1 de Gajim est sortie et est de nouveau disponible sur Windows (prévenez vos ami·es Windowsien·nes !) \o/

Une belle harmonisation graphique en passant à libadwaita, la barre de menu disparaît (les fonctionnalités sont réparties aux endroits cohérents), des boîtes de dialogue repensés, possibilité de masquer la barre de titre (pratique si comme moi on est sur un gestionnaire de fenêtre en tuile comme i3) et d'autres petites choses.

Toujours dispo en français bien sûr :
gajim.org/fr/posts/2025-06-29-…

#XMPP


Gajim 2.3.0

Quoi de neuf Gajim 2.3 inclus un nouveau design avec Adwaita, une bibliothèque d’interface utilisateurice qui propose des blocs pour construire des applications adaptatives modernes.
gajim.org
#xmpp

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💼 I'm hiring a staff-level Android engineer to focus on accessibility and design systems!

block.xyz/careers/jobs/4752556…


Careers - Staff Android Engineer, Accessibility & UI Systems

Made up of Square, Cash App, Afterpay, TIDAL, Bitkey, and Proto, Block, Inc. builds technology to increase access to the global economy.
Careers - Staff Android Engineer, Accessibility & UI Systems

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I just heard one of the strangest things in my life.
I was generating one of my stories in Eleven Labs with my voice. I used the V3 speech model, which is in its alpha stage. Anyway... I was trying to generate a portion of text, and what came out must have been a thread of random sounds, emotional and inflectional changes in the voice, and a bunch of poems and stories all woven into some strange pattern. Not to mention, it sounded like it was speaking about twenty languages. To demonstrate my point, allow me to show you the first generation. It does speak a few of the tags, which isn't supposed to happen but as you know this model's a work in progress. I will paste the exact generation, which will serve as my transcript. I will post the... questionable material in a separate post.
Natalie gazed around the dimly-lit hallway, her eyes landing on a stack of beat-up folding chairs against a nearby wall. Steven and Darla follow close behind, their nervous chatter a soothing, reverberant murmur. The dusty sign reading “Staff Only” hadn’t escaped their view as they’d descended the stairs that led them into this utility hall, locked doors occupying the otherwise bare brick walls. The staff parking lot was barely visible through the emergency exit glass doors that marked the corridor’s end.
Natalie hadn’t expected their plan would be so successful. As they discussed details over lunch, she told Darla that they should just tell their parents everything and get it all over with.
[firmly] “I’m not abandoning our cause. Lillie deserves justice,” Darla replied.
[muffled] “Me neither,” Steven said with a mouthful of pizza. [confidently] “Trust me, it will work. [smugly] Ms. Briggs is easy.”
Natalie leaned back in her chair with a resigned sigh. [sighs] [wearily] “I sure hope you’re right.”
Ms. Briggs taught the fifth period English course after lunch. She usually attended weekly conferences on Thursdays for one of her students with special needs, which caused her to be a few minutes late. When the three friends arrived, there were only a few students sitting at their desks, their attention captured by books and touchscreens. Ms. Briggs always left her blue mug at her work station, which still held half a cup of coffee. Gingerly, Darla had slipped the laxative into the lukewarm liquid, watching as it dissolved. More students began filing in, Ms. Briggs on their heels. Darla shot Natalie a wink as the teacher hurredly took her place at the podium.
Steven knew his stolen laptop had to be in the lost and found. Yesterday, he’d asked their math teacher Mr. Higgins if he’d seen it, and he’d casually remarked that it hadn’t been located, looking down at his notepad. Mr. Higgins wasn’t fond of computers, casting icy glares at students using their devices in the cafeteria. Steven wonder if that was why he was evasive. It didn’t matter. He’d overheard a janitor say to the principal that a computer was found by the bleachers. When he confided in Darla and Natalie, two of his best friends since the third grade, it was Darla’s brilliant idea to take some of her mom’s laxatives. Natalie chuckled, recalling the moment when their lecture on Hamlet was interrupted, Ms. Briggs making her hasty retreat with a sheepish grin.
[eagerly] “So where is this conference room?!” Darla said as she brandished the shiny key with the yellow sticker she’d managed to slip from the teachers keyring as the class idly chattered. [curiously] [whispering] “Did you ever go in there when you worked here during the summer, Natalie?”
[whispering] [hesitantly] “Only once, just to sweep,” Natalie whispered. She pointed out a small alcove in the center of the hall, ending in a set of worn wooden doors.

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