Excellent blog post!
Congratulations, You've Unlocked 'Expert Mode'! (Whether You Wanted It or Not)
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#disabilities #Accessibility #A11Y #UniversalDesign

Payment processors are a cartel, which is why they can actively censor what you are allowed to buy online.

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Share your own #curl story here: github.com/curl/curl/discussio… ... in celebration of c10kday tomorrow.
#curl
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It's not big enough to put it on github...

I was a wget(ter)... and then there was this debugging thing where local files instead of web files would be cool for speeding up debugging without the need to install a local web server...

And this guy said: "curl can do this - the syntax is just file instead of http and some more slashes..."

I never used wget again...🤷‍♂️

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 2 added apps:

* Permissions Summary: gives you a clear, organized overview of which apps have access to sensitive permissions on your device 🛡️
* SOS Flashlight: transforms your phone into a Morse code device, sending text through multiple channels simultaneously 🛡️

RB status: 674 apps (51%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:

Google removes over 50 DEI groups from a list of groups it helps fund
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/04/google-removes-over-50-dei-groups-from-a-list-of-groups-it-helps-fund/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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this judge strikes again with no nonsense. the defendant thinks they are going to get a bond after all the stuff listed here? the judge has had enough.

Arrogant PUNK Pushes Judge Fleischer TOO FAR! “You Got Me BENT!” "HELL NAW!"😡🔥

youtube.com/watch?v=TBQ8RLoYbC…

Yesterday, I stopped at a charging station in Mořice. It was probably the best charging experience I've had so far. There were 14 400 kW chargers, sheltered, with a picnic area, and a bistro nearby. I later learned that it had opened just four days ago, and that it is the first charging station in the Czech Republic that also supports electric trucks.

Well done, #EON. This is another sign that #electromobility is gaining momentum here.

#EV #ElectricVehicle #ElectricVehicles

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Cloudflare says Perplexity’s AI bots are ‘stealth crawling’ blocked sites

Perplexity disguised its AI crawlers and rotated its IPs to get around restrictions, according to Cloudflare.

Quotes from @pluralistic ' blog post analyzing how AI is being used by SW development companies:

"AI's are basically doing bug steganography, smuggling code defects in by carefully blending them in with correct code."

' "centaurs" (people assisted by machines)

"reverse-centaurs" (people conscripted into assisting machines)'

pluralistic.net/2025/08/04/bad…

#FreeBSD recommendations for #monitoring #alerting #observability sought. I have a much loved collectd + riemann that needs an upgrade.

Target is about 10 servers and 200 jails.

No apache2 /php, nagios or clones thereof please. I don’t have these in my stack today, and my expertise in managing them is about 20 years out of date. I prefer to avoid JVM stuff but I’m not violently against it.

Doesn’t have to be in ports yet ( like sensu.io/ server) if it’s in a friendly language.

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@feld @maikel is a huge fan of sensu. We don’t have the server in FreeBSD ports but I poked it a bit about 18 months ago and it seems feasible to port it.

I also tried openobserve, port again seems doable but I get the feeling they are experimenting with licensing and business models still. I really want a simple store of logs that doesn’t have elastic/opensearch/mongo at the core.

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@feld @maikel I recently started using #VictoriaLogs and have been impressed, at least compared to my previous usage of a central `syslogd` and `grep`. Needed a syslogd_flags containing `-O rfc5424` on BSD systems to prevent it mixing host and app names. A colleague installed Prometheus/Grafana some years back and while it produced pretty and entertaining graphs, none of it seemed actually useful and I've never seen decent use case examples for such metrics.
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It's not just about metrics themselves. You can just centralize all your stuff here. Most people use multiple systems: one for metrics (cpu % perhaps), and another for monitoring processes etc (is nginx running)

But you can just leverage a time series database to do both. You can use the systemd exporter for example to get the services into the time series database, then setup alert rules for those. Process is running if it has a value of 1, stopped or absent if value is 0 or null

You get a lot of power if you apply a little creativity

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well, VictoriaMetrics supports:

- prometheus
- influxdb
- opentsdb
- graphite
- (maybe datadog? can't remember)
- their own API
- all of PromQL, plus some improvements to it that allow you to do certain queries that are literally impossible in normal PromQL

The client/agent side is a 7.5MB binary right now vs 100MB+ for Prometheus

It's faster, uses fewer resources, and has a far more efficient storage implementation (like 10:1 compression)

and it's basically a complete drop-in replacement. It supports almost all of the prometheus.yaml config file. There are a few things you may have to remove, but all your target configuration etc will still work as-is so you don't have to re-engineer anything

It's good. Someone sat down and said "we can do this better with less bloat" and they did it. And I hope they become filthy rich for it.

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@feld so to sum it feels like they saw Prometheus did it themselved and now it looks like a worse version of it.

I use at my job Prometheus, AlertManager and Grafana stack and I'm wondering if this can be done better and also at the same time if I understand correctly it also comes with more easily accessible logs? Sorry I'm trying to grasp it and I see you have experience with Victoria things.

@feld
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> looks like a worse version of it.

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Are you referring to my screenshot? That's just the basic web interface to Victoria Logs. There's also one for Victoria Metrics. But I use Grafana with Victoria. You just add it as a Prometheus data source and it works.

I have never used AlertManager, just the alerts+webhooks directly in Grafana. But Victoria does have their own AlertManager equivalent.

Also, I have hated every implementation of "Logs" in Grafana. Loki is terrible and the Grafana support is bad IMHO. But I *think* you can also use VictoriaLogs with all of those things in case you want alerts based on certain log events

I am honestly so fucking dissapointed at #TRMNL (company) that I am going to look into how to decouple it from the company.

Would anyone be interested in joining a chat for it?

I am willing to drive some hacker community for this. I am shit with hardware but with enough help we might get something done.

Edit: i am not interested in building similar infra or whatever. I just want to send images to the device in local network.

Edit2: room made, followers only for now
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More context: social.lol/@adam/1149595540435…

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@nilsding Sort of, it just proxies everything through their server. All the plugins are closed off. So it is fairly useless for most cases: chaos.social/@SylvieLorxu/1148…


I would like to urge my followers to strongly avoid #TRMNL.

TRMNL calls itself "unbrickable" and Open Source, telling you you can host your own server and that basically everything is fully supported: web.archive.org/web/2025071818…. This is not true. The only thing a local server can do is send images to the device and *proxy from their proprietary server*: web.archive.org/web/2025071806….

To add insult to injury, TRMNL is trying to refuse me a refund, in gross violation of EU law.

#UseTRMNL #DoNotUseTRMNL


Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-….

New releases of Accrescent and our developer console are also out, with Android 16 updates and Material 3 changes. Check them out!

github.com/accrescent/accresce…
github.com/accrescent/parcelo/…
github.com/accrescent/console/…

#security #privacy #accrescent #android #appstre

#WenkoffRetro No. 241 🎶❤️
#retromusic

Hudební kalendář je připravený zpříjemnit pondělí všem!🤞

4.8.1901 se narodila černošská jazzová legenda - 🇺🇸 zpěvák a trumpetista
*Louis Daniel Armstrong*, přezdívaný *Satchmo*.

Výjimečně rozsáhlý článek je na CZ Wiki:
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Neradostné dětství a mládí, leč prožité v samém středu jazzové líhně New Orleans odstartovalo padesátiletou hudební kariéru jednoho z nejvýznamnějších jazzových umělců 20. století.

A teď dvě dávky toho nejlepšího:

Good. Job seekers are avoiding AI interviewers. They tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-inte…

This is how richer stay richer, instead of properly hiring HR folks, AI bots. Instead of paying for artists for Ads making or creative writing they use AI bots. They will do anything to gain profits, fire humans & replace with AI except they forget humans also need money to buy their goods

📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 4. August, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion

Parabéns a todos os idiotas úteis do Hamas:

Selon un porte-parole du Hamas, la reconnaissance de la Palestine par plusieurs États occidentaux est «le fruit du 7 octobre»

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With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

ghost.org/changelog/6/

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Keep in mind that the Apple Watch 11 should be coming out next month, but if that don't matter to you, then you can get a new Apple Watch really discounted... Top Apple Watch deals this August: Prices as low as $169 appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…

Quick recap of what happened in the #LibreOffice project and community in July! Software releases, new podcast episodes, updated guidebooks, event preparations and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility
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#accessibility #a11y

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The 4 Motivations for Accessibility - The Big WHY?
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#a11y #accessibility

Our In-Process blog is out! This week featuring:
- NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2025
- NVDA 2025.2 Beta 5
- How to test an NVDA Beta?
- Extra voices updates (Including Eloquence and Vocalizer)

Read more at:
nvaccess.org/post/in-process-4…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #Newsletter #Update

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FYI:On the extra voices wiki, the two links to the Microsoft platform voices are no longer working.

Links:

Language downloads: microsoft.com/en-us/download/d…
Speech Platform runtime: microsoft.com/en-us/download/d…

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Pay €7.99/mth for ad-free or pay with your data and see personalized ads on Instagram. 🤔 No thanks Meta, we will take neither.

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I'm a huge advocate for making apps accessible, but I find myself saying "fuck it" when dealing with Liquid Glass.

It's not possible to maintain contrast across a range of app content with a text label that's non-deterministic. When someone who's empathetic to the needs of others gives up, it's a huge loss.

Apple has a well earned reputation for accessibility and Alan Dye is fucking that up for a lot of folks who need affordances.

We should not be choosing between the lesser of two evils.