Open letter from #EPA employees says their boss has has been "adopting the messaging of political propaganda, rather than the #science that the EPA’s work relies on. This includes spreading misinformation about science through official EPA channels, claiming science is a 'religion,' praising 'clean coal'(which does not exist), and attacking members of Congress (which may have violated the Hatch Act, which disallows political campaigning by federal employees)." electrek.co/2025/07/01/hundred…
Google Tightens Android Sideloading—At What Cost to Digital Freedom?
Google has begun blocking sideloaded Android apps in Singapore, citing security concerns over apps requesting sensitive permissions like SMS and accessibility services.
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
I regularly try to use my librem5 as a daily driver... But compared to my android phone ... Performance and battery life are generations apart.... Will there be some processor upgrade at some point?
An iPhone app called ICEBlock, which allows anyone to lawfully and anonymously report ICE sightings and get notified about nearby ICE agents, went viral overnight after criticism from the US Attorney General.
FYI: The app doesn't collect or store user data. (I checked by doing a network traffic analysis of the app.)
A win! A federal judge has temporarily blocked a major reorganization of the Department of Health and Human Services, ruling that the mass firings and structural changes violated the law. bsky.app/profile/altnps.bsky.s… - From resistance team of US Natl Park Svc 500+ char posts not resent Unaffiliated w/ AltNPS - #AltNPS #Coup #Activism #NationalParkService #FederalGovernment #USpol #Trump
Given that currently 8% of the people detained by ICE for deportation are factual violent criminals, American citizens should take note that the words of a dictator are fucking meaningless gravy.
Merely having the wrong meme on your phone and not enough money for the best deals on a golden Trump card can get you thrown into a gulag in another country.
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Breaking: Trump calls for deporting US citizens: "We also have a lot of bad people that have been here for a long time ... many of them were born in our country.
The dust has not even settled from the announcement that ICE will be receiving more funding than the entire US prison system, and that a new concentration camp is opening in Florida, and already Trump is announcing he will deport US citizens.
I hate running. I used to believe that, over time, this would change. I thought, over time, that I would grow to love running out of sheer repetition. This has not happened.
I used to think that if I could write for a living I’d never have to work—my hobby would be my job. This also has not happened. It turns out that when you have to do something for multiple hours every day it’s not always fun. Sometimes the day goes by quickly because of how much fun you’re having, sure, but not every day. Some days you don’t feel like being creative but have to anyway. Some days you have absolutely nothing to say but need to keep talking because that’s the job.
Sometimes things are hard, is what I’m saying. It’s a universal human experience.
Companies, naturally, are trying to sell you things to “solve” this unsolvable problem. The logic of consumerism runs deep in all of us thanks to the hundreds of hours we’ve all spent listening to advertising’s constant rituals. In thirty second we see a problem presented, a solution offered at a reasonable price, then a moment of ecstatic relief as the product solves the problem. It’s the story we’ve all seen more than any other, drilled into our heads, shaping the way we see the world whether we realize it or not.
So obviously we all think we’re one purchase away from solving things that aren’t really solvable. Do you hate running? Buy a Fitbit and you can turn those dreaded workout into something fun. Are you having trouble feeling motivated? Maybe buy this fancy project management software, or notebook, or anything else you might come to believe will finally make it easy for you to do things you don’t actually want to do.
I am not, for the record, saying all of these things are useless. They have real purposes. But no tool is every going to make it easy for you to do things you don’t want to do. I am never going to like running—I’m just going to have to convince myself to do it anyway.
I’ve found ways to make running suck less. I do it first thing in the morning—that way I don’t spend all day dreading the workout to come. I always run with my wife, which creates the social pressure I need to actually follow through. I listen to music while I run, mostly so that I have something to think about that isn’t how much I hate running. And we basically always run the same route—that way I know exactly how much running is left and can avoid the need to make any decisions while I’m tired and angry.
None of this makes running fun. It does make it suck less. And part of doing things you dislike—or even doing things you like on days you’d rather not—is realizing that there’s never going to be some purchase or trick that will magically make it easy. There is never going to be some magic moment of truth where things click and you stop resisting the things you know you need to do.
Sometimes you just have to push through it. Sometimes it’s hard, and that’s okay. Do it anyway.
An obituary for reading the internetAnne Helen Petersen/Culture Study Pocket is shutting down and, with it, the idea of actually reading things online.
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Happy #CanadaDay. I figured, it might be fun to share this #CanadaLand episode where one of the McKenzie brothers explains the role #CanCon played in helping #Canada get a reputation of saying "eh?" David Thomas does a great job explaining the history of #SCTV — funny how culture comes into being. Welcome to the Great White North!
Dan Aykroyd blew in from Ottawa. Andrea Martin came in from Maine and Joe Flaherty came in from Pittsburgh. Paul Schaffer came in from Thunder Bay. Marty Short and Eugene Levy and I came in from Hamilton.
thinking about winding down my shared blocklists tbh. it’s draining and tons of almost entirely unpaid labor to find, archive, and catalog receipts. one awesome person pays a dollar a week but it’s really not enough to justify this effort.
i might write a retrospective and advice for anyone else who wants to try.
if more people donate I think I’ll keep going but right now I’m running on a depleting reservoir of goodwill and concern that alternatives will do worse.
i just feel like everyone likes the product but nobody is concerned with the labor. A younger version of myself with more spoons and money prided themself on not asking for donations but at this point it feels like throwing time away.
Last week I presented over at @joyofcoding on energy efficient programming & design. At some point a video might become available, but here are my annotated slides which also tell the story. Includes lots of data! berthub.eu/joc/with-notes.pdf
@RachaelAva1024 GitHub's sponsorship of our CI setup is worth a lot of money that we do not willingly just throw away. It would be a real blow to the project to switch to codeberg.
Fair enough. But do consider that if you switch to Codeberg, it does use Forgejo as the backend, so if you need to switch away from Codeberg to a self-hosted Forgejo instance, the build CIs for Forgejo that you would have built on Codeberg should still work, so you wouldn't have to scrap all the build CIs again, you should be able to reuse those again.
(I'm not too familiar with the inner workings on Forgejo, so correct me if I'm wrong)
Of course, that depends on whether you want to migrate cURL to Codeberg. We (as the community) would love to have you on there, but if not, that's okay.
Crunch, I'd even be okay if you set up an official mirror on Codeberg that mirrors the GitHub repo. At least then the root source code isn't nuked if GitHub goes down.
But that's all up to you. I trust that you will do what's in the best interest for the FOSS community.
@RachaelAva1024 the source code would survive even if GitHub went dark this instant: we have it cloned in countless places so it we rehost it elsewhere in minutes if we want to
@RachaelAva1024 No significant project lacks redundancy like this. It's just inherent to how git works. Everyone working on a project has a full copy of its history and all you need to know yours matches someone else's (modulo sha1 attacks) is the hash of the last commit in common.
for the record, my "yes" answer to this question is because I think the slightly lowered barrier to entry for newcomers that GitHub offers currently outweighs all the negative factors of remaining on GitHub, and lending GitHub the legitimacy of hosting the curl project. It's not because I think GitHub is good.
For Open Source Projects, I think these all should run their own Forgejo instance, so we can build a federated Github replacement - just like we did with Mastodon vs Twitter.
I doubt that it will be *lots* of additional work, but I see your point. Disclaimer: I am part of a team running free-to-use federated infra structure for Java User Groups, so I well know what the actual costs are. Maybe then codeberg will be interesting for you, which imposes *no* work on the developer, but still is perfectly democratic and open?
YMMV - Let's agree to disagree. Anyway, no need to convince each other, as still there are great options in the hosted area besides Github, like codeberg or Gitlab.
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Today I got to speak at the accessible banking conference in Brussels, organised by the European Blind Union and AccessibleEU, on a panel about making banking services actually work for everyone. I was joined by @ErikGustafsson and @DanielGoransson from #AxessLab, Hendrik Bourgeois from #Mastercard, and moderator Anna Martin from #BEUC. Axess Lab kicked things off with a fantastic demo of a public touchscreen that starts speaking as soon as you explore it with your finger. That alone could solve a lot of the problems blind people face with lockers, kiosks, and terminals that currently rely only on visuals. We talked about how inaccessible systems aren’t just annoying–they’re risky. If you have to tell your PIN to someone else just to pay, something’s seriously wrong. Another strong point was that accessibility isn’t something you can just add on at the end–it has to be part of how teams work, from product design to customer support. Otherwise, it just doesn’t stick well.
@miki holding a finger can trigger tts. it doesn't need to echo your results, only instructions for generating the PIN. Lots of potentialities for feeding that back: vibrations, counting taps, tonnes of workarounds.
@cachondo Do you think those complicated input methods would be usable by e.g. your average Blindshell user? Think 60-year-old, can sort of figure out tech when their nephew teaches them how, has always paid with their credit card, but isn't good about following complex instructions.
@miki Some of them, perhaps. In the UK, contactless payments have significantly overtaken Chip and PIN for in-store transactions. Contactless payments accounted for 76% of debit card transactions and 63% of credit card transactions last year, for example, reducing the necessity for PIN in many instances.
@miki haptics? Essentially buzz everytime you shift from one number to the next so you can map out the keypad, then painstakingly enter the four digits? Not great but like you I can't really think of another way. I actually soft-ran into this with an in-flight entertainment system the other week, it had a screen reader but I had no 3.5mm headphones to set up bluetooth :)
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).
What's Changed
Add detected drivers to /info endpoint by @jsuchal in #603
GET /certificates endpoint by @celuchmarek in #607
Custom TL sync strategy to validate tsl signature by @celuchmarek in #6...
Cloudflare has announced that it will now block AI web crawlers by default for new customers. It’s also introducing a new “Pay Per Crawl” fee that will let some publishers make AI companies pay to scrape their content.
Vznika tu mezidruhove pratelstvi? Chysta se souboj? Podeli se orel s orlosupem o mrsinu mysi v soudruzskem sdileni? Nebo si jenom stezuji na velikost klece, partnerstvo, a holubi provokujici orla v krmitku naproti klecim?
Rozuzleni prijde vzapeti. Orel zautoci a potvrdi dominanci ciste rasy. Orlosup je vyhnan na druhou stranu klece a na mrsinu si muze nechat zajit chut. Tady je svet jeste v poradku.
@gnome I just noticed the disability pride flag in the profile picture, I didn't expect it but I love it! Especially as I know it's important for many members of our community, like myself.
Despite the accessibility issues of our project and despite misinformed critics (I have no issue with informed critics), I know we are actively working on better accessibility, and that it's particularly implemented by disabled members of the GNOME community.
July means it’s time to hit the road for the conventions of the American Council of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind. Jenine Stanley and Everette Bacon go over everything you’ll need to know from traveling to and from Dallas and New Orleans to where we are in the respective exhibit halls and when you can catch our workshops, plus a convention deal from the Customer Care team. But wait! There’s more! It’s “Aira on the Go!” With our Q3 Giveaway. Find out what you could win just by using one of our transportation-related offers.
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Airacast July 2025
Convention Time!
July means it’s time to hit the road for the conventions of the American Council of the Blind and the National Federation of the Blind.
There's some slightly confusing messaging on Freedom Scientific's convention specials page. vispero.com/events/acb-2025/ It states: " 10% off all Home Annual Licenses and Home Time-Based SMA s"
For kicks, I called FS to see if there was a chance that I could renew my license a day earlier before the discounts kick in. The salesperson I spoke withh was very nice but said that this was for new license purchasers. I thought I missed this but their Web site clearly does not indicate this and I really believe that it should if this is the case. He said that I could purchase a new license but this would change my serial number. Many JAWS users wouldn't care if their serial number changed if it meant getting a license at a discount. However, I have lots of third party software from Hartgen Consultancy that is tied to my current serial number. I know I could ask Hartgen Consultancy if they could substitute my old serial number with the new one but I might have to do the same thing again in a year if FS only offers discounts for new license purchases. I told the salesperson, who again was extremely nice and very professional, that I wasn't going to quibble over a 10% discount but I suggested that they change the messaging on their Web site to reflect this to avoid calls from upset users who will be unable to renew their home annual license at the discounted price. I told him that I personally felt that they should honor it based on their Web site's messaging but that I wasn't willing to get into a fight over around a $10.00 discount. Other users will, however, and FS really needs to look at this. The bottom line is that either their Convention Specials Web page should indicate that this discount is for new purchases of a Home Annual license or they should allow current Home Annual license holders to renew with the discounted price if they won't change the messaging on the Web page.
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I agree with everything you're saying here about the Home Annual License. I feel as of late, from what it seems, Freedom Scientific hasn't been very good at communicating all of the details about their products, in small fine print on their website, if you get what I'm saying, and in a way, this is only an opinion, but that's bad for business.
Does anyone happen to know what values I'd put in an `upgrade` HTTP response header when sending an HTTP 426 to tell a client that it needs to upgrade to TLS 1.2 or 1.3?
...but I can't find any examples. The `upgrade` spec says the format of the value is `protocol-name ["/" protocol-version]` - so presumably e.g. `TLS/1.3`? httpwg.org/specs/rfc9110.html#…
It won't work for old clients obv but...trying to be correct.
@bagder Thanks 🙌. Yeah same TBH, I'm more doing it to try to be correct - just in case. It'd be my luck to encounter the one and only weird client that does something with it 🤣
@SimmerVigor @bagder Ah perfect, thanks Lucas - that's a massive help. Through all this, I am not sure there's a very good method for a server to communicate to a client that the version of TLS (or ciphersuites I guess) the client supports isn't modern/good enough. I dearly wish there was...
@SimmerVigor I think typically a server that thinks TLS v1.X is not good enough will simply not negotiate said version so there will never be a HTTP reply using it... For reference, see TLS 1.1 and TLS1.0 treatment in the world.
@bagder @SimmerVigor Agreed. We're doing a trial of retiring TLS 1.0 & 1.1 which is a soft disabling - We'll return a custom error page with info & a path to contact us for any requests to our websites over 1.0 or 1.1. Obv this means we complete the HTTP request/response which gives us the opportunity to be more helpful to the client. TBH, until our TLS lib removes 1.0/1.1 it *could* stay like this. I'm basically just trying to "bring the audience with us" as far as possible.
It's official, jacket FM is now a read only app. I wanted to test it and see if I could put anything out there and it says HTTPError: Request failed with status code 405: POST jacket.fm/upload. I was expecting that because today is the day that it was going to happen. At least we can look through all the posts on this app.
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