PSF voting is open, check your email for the ballot. I normally wouldn’t do something like this, but exceptional circumstances:
Please do not vote for Franz Király. He has been incredibly rude to staff and volunteers — check the Python forum for receipts. He has some beliefs about the PSF that are entirely fantasy, and has been a towering asshole to anyone who tries to bring facts to the conversation. Under no circumstances should this guy be elected.
Bildbeschreibungen helfen Menschen, die Inhalte von Grafiken zu erfassen. #Bildbeschreibungen sind nicht nur für Menschen mit Sehbeeinträchtigungen da. Bildbeschreibungen sind dank #Barrierefreiheitsgesetz jetzt auch in E-Books Pflicht. An sich ne coole Sache.
Der deutsche Buchmarkt so: 125 Zeichen müssen reichen!
#Autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor #Neuauflage #Überarbeitung #NaUndDasBuch #ebook
Nevymyslel jsem nic, je to dokonalé 🤷🏻♂️.
Jen bych poznamenal, že vzhledem k jeho věku a činnostem, které vykonává, má již zpomalené reakce, když ho zaskočí oberlený důchodce 😯.
Asi je to i na změnu ochranky, ta by to neměla dopustit a ochránit ho 🤔, od toho tam jsou 🙄.
Prostě starý kretén 🤷🏻♂️ (bez urážky), viz anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-2…
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Thank you for sharing this illuminating post-mortem[1] of an unlikely and unfortunate combination of hardware and human errors, handling these very well in a real environment in which little outstanding matters become much less little, including a very practical list of lessons learned. Good job.
Concerning the lessons, I must caution you strongly against one idea: never alias basic commands such as "rm". Wrapping using a new name, e.g. "del", is fine.
[1] matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-m…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsMatthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
So today i used AI to make a sticker.
AI made a few,which i was pretty satisfied with. But then this.
P.s. please dont greenshame me about use of electricity.
Cómo hacer que el cliente de correo @thunderbird muestre el diálogo de archivos de Plasma de #KDE en vez del de #GNOME
Buscando ví la sencilla solución a este pequeño contratiempo. Así que veamos de qué manera más sencilla podemos cambiar este comportamiento.
victorhckinthefreeworld.com/20…
Thunderbird en el escritorio Plasma de KDE usa el diálogo de archivos GNOME a la hora de añadir un adjunto o guardar un archivo. Veamos cómo modificar eso.Victorhck in the free world
Has anyone written up best practices for #accessibility with #GoogleSheet's charts & graphs? I'm struggling to deal with the best of bad choices. Text isn't legible or it is hard to differentiate between dark bars.
I wish they had patterns, but someone must have written some guidance on this. #a11y
Honestly, my first assumption is that Google only rarely pays much attention to accessibility, and generally recommend using other tools.
While not a direct analysis of Sheets and its visualizations, the University of Washington's accessibility team did a comparison of the Google and Microsoft office suites in 2023, and the TL;DR was that Google did quite poorly in nearly all test cases and that Microsoft was more accessible start to finish. The slide deck for their presentation is available here (I think the video is restricted to conference attendees): accessinghigherground.org/micr…
On September 28, I will speak at #EuroBSDCon in Zagreb Croatia.
But more importantly, I will bring #curl stickers.
ALERT for Bluesky Bridge Users 🚨 🦋
If you are using a Bluesky bridge on Mastodon, DO NOT TAG Mastodon accounts in your posts without prior informed consent from this person.
This could end up showing a preview of this person's profile picture and bio on Bluesky without their consent.
Additionally, be careful about how the upcoming Quote Post feature could behave with Bluesky bridges.
Some of us don't want our information shared with commercial platforms like Bluesky, and have not consented to this bridge.
This practice can even endanger some Fediverse users.
If you have chosen to share your
own data with commercial platforms, make sure you leave the same choice to others.
This is important.
#Privacy #Mastodon #Bluesky #BlueskyBridge #Fediverse #Consent
Therapists are secretly using ChatGPT. Clients are triggered.
Some therapists are using #AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.
technologyreview.com/2025/09/0…
Some therapists are using AI during therapy sessions. They’re risking their clients’ trust and privacy in the process.Laurie Clarke (MIT Technology Review)
If you can’t make it to #Datenspuren, I will also be at #MRMCD25 talking about #UnifiedPush.
I taught myself how to use mermaid.js. Expect graphs!
talks.mrmcd.net/2025/talk/RLQM…
Push-Benachrichtigungen auf Android-Handys ohne Google. Dezentralisiert und Open Source. Mit Open Source Tools wie microG bekommt man zwar erfolgreich proprietäre Google Software von seinem Android-Handy verbannt; die eigentlichen Benachrichtigungen…talks.mrmcd.net
L’effet Transition Montréal.
Après avoir annoncé notre politique sur la tarification sociale il y a 5 semaines, Projet Montréal décide de nous suivre.
Honnêtement, on est content: ça démontre la pertinence de notre mouvement et de nos idées.
Vive les bonnes idées!
Libervia CLI tip 5:
You can retrieve or modify your contacts list (aka “roster” in XMPP terms) with `li roster`.
One of the subcommands, `stats`, gives you, as its name implies, statistics on your roster.
You’ll notably get the number of contacts per domain, with a percentage representing the domain's “weight.” It’s a simple way to see how decentralized your contacts network is.
The XMPP Network Graph at xmppnetwork.goodbytes.im shows how chat servers connect across the open #XMPP #federation. I'm occasionally checking the number of dots (servers) and lines (connections between servers). For the first time that I've noticed, that connection count is over 10,000!
The graphing engine is having a hard time rendering all of that. 😅
I released version 1.11 of the slixmpp library yesterday evening, here are the details: blog.mathieui.net/slixmpp-1.11…
Ever wondered why Matrix doesn't use MLS? @deepbluev7 will explore how MLS and Matrix work internally, and shed some light on it.
Join us for the Matrix Conference in Strasbourg, Oct 15-19!
Come along to see the latest and greatest progress in the Matrix world! From huge government deployments to the latest innovations, hang out with your peers to share the best learning, insights, projects and tips!conference.matrix.org
We're not saying that :)
@deepbluev7 will give his perspective on how Matrix and MLS work, why it's not straightforward to "move" to MLS and what the future could look like.
i think we've missed the point of photography with this
edit: the phone is pixel 10 pro, images are not mine
yeah this is prores zoom on the pixel 10 pro
it used to be just stacking and merging on previous models and now it's "we'll just use genai to make you a different pic ^^" lol
it's very silly
kúpil som si kapsulu THC-O a prej to bude mať účinok celý deň.. stay tuned 
edit: stay stoned
More and more organisations are conscious about the environmental impact of their products - both physical or digital - and are trying to make positive changes.TetraLogical
Oh, it's September already. Time for the HTMHell Advent calendar Call for Papers! 🖤
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…
Hello, my dear friends of high-quality markup! We're getting closer to the last quarter of 2025, which means that the HTMHell Advent Calendar is getting closer, too.Google Docs
Everyone is now realizing that WhatsApp is evolving towards its latest form (archive.md/L3W74). If you value secure messaging, you may want to check out @signalapp or @matrix (wich is #federated). EPFL also has its own Matrix instance at matrix.epfl.ch (use @element as a client).
#SecureMessaging #WhatsApp #WhatsappAlternative #Signal #Matrix #Element #Privacy #SelfHosted
Another dubious entry for #SciArtSeptember Day 1: Fluid
Water drew this irregular yellow squares. I think photographing natural processes, to bring attention to them, can be #SciArt
What happened here is that everything was covered in pollen, then it rained and watter puddles formed in the slightly concave tiles. The floating pollen in the puddles was slowly deposited on the tiles as water evaporated, registering the movement of the fluid.
#pollen #PhonePhotography #NaturalProcess #rain
There actually is some interesting research on this phenomenon. It is known as the coffee ring effect, and the way the particles are deposited is a concequence of capillary flow. There are lots of fun details, such as the gradient of particle density starting high at the outer ring and decreasing inward.
This all to say: great photo!
#Toronto @ChristineMalec is hosting The Description-Rich Story Hour on Saturday, September 27, 2-3:30pm on the land currently occupied by Lee Lifeson Art Park in North York. This is attached to her podcast "Described Toronto".
Let's go check it out!
torontoartsfoundation.org/even…
I've been informed that the Nordic Software Security Summit (nsss.se) is postponed due to health reasons and *will not* take place in early October as previously scheduled.
No new date has been set yet.
Big News! The completely #opensource #LLM #Apertus 🇨🇭 has been released today:
📰 swisscom.ch/en/about/news/2025…
🤝 The model supports over 1000 languages [EDIT: an earlier version claimed over 1800] and respects opt-out consent of data owners.
▶ This is great for #publicAI and #transparentAI. If you want to test it for yourself, head over to: publicai.co/
🤗 And if you want to download weights, datasets & FULL TRAINING DETAILS, you can find them here:
huggingface.co/collections/swi…
🔧 Tech report: huggingface.co/swiss-ai/Apertu…
After #Teuken7b and #Olmo2, Apertus is the next big jump in capabilities and performance of #FOSS #LLMs, while also improving #epistemicresilience and #epistemicautonomy with its multilingual approach.
I believe that especially for sensitive areas like #education, #healthcare, or #academia, there is no alternative to fully open #AI models. Everybody should start building upon them and improving them.
#KIMündigkeit #SovereignAI #FOSS #ethicalAI #swissai #LernenmitKI
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.huggingface.co
![[matrix] oopsie woopsie](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/700033 "[matrix] oopsie woopsie")
Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Meine letzte Frage an Tolino war entsprechend auch, ob sie ihr System jetzt noch an den internationalen Markt anpassen wollen oder ob das dauerhaft so bleiben soll.
Vielleicht schau ich schonmal nach einem anderen eBook-Distributor. Ich hab echt wenig Zeit und Nerven dafür, ab jetzt immer ein ordentliches internationales Exemplar und dann noch ein zusammengekürztes extra für den deutschsprachigen Buchmarkt zu machen.
#Autorenleben #writerslife #indieauthor
Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Letzte Antwort vom Tolino-Media-Support:
"im Rahmen der Barrierefreiheitsverordnung haben zahlreiche der Shops und Vertriebskanäle neue Anlieferungsrichtlinien herausgebracht, die wir entsprechend einhalten müssen.
Daher ist es uns nicht möglich, Alt-Texte und Bildbeschreibungen gleichzusetzten und Alt-Texte über 125 Zeichen zu erlauben.
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Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Dieses hat wenig mit irgendeiner fehlenden Anpassung an den internationalen Markt zu tun, sondern mehr mit den Vorgaben der Auslieferungsdienstleister und Vertriebskanäle, die wir beliefern (mit dem Schwerpunkt im DACH-Raum).
Zudem soll ein Alt-Texte gerade kurz und prägnant sein, keine ausführliche Bildbeschreibung.
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Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Screenreader, die von Personen mit Seheinschränkung zum Auslesen der Alt-Texte verwendet werden, haben oft Probleme mit längeren Alt-Texten und brechen diese ggf. nach 125 Zeichen ab. Auch dieses ist ein Grund für unsere Zeichenbegrenzung."
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Also entweder brechen die Bildbeschreibungen auch bei den internationalen Märkten nach 125 Zeichen ab oder DACH kocht mal wieder ein eigenes Süppchen. Bei ersterem würde ich erwarten, dass mein Satzprogramm mir nur 125 Zeichen erlaubt.
Klaudia (aka jinxx)
in reply to Klaudia (aka jinxx) • • •Hier sind doch sicher Menschen, die im Bereich #Barrierefreiheit aktiv sind. Bitte um Unterstützung, die #Bildbeschreibungen in einem #Ebook zu fixen. Auch hilfreich wären Infos, wie die #Barrierefreiheitsverordnung bei #Ebooks auf dem internationalen #Buchmarkt umgesetzt wird, ob sich das vom DACH-Raum unterscheidet. Habe hier ein konkretes Problem mit dem deutschen Distributor und ALT-Texten versus Bildbeschreibungen.
Gerne RT.