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Re: last boost (cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog…), I wonder if Windows is also becoming less popular with blind kids. My immediate reaction was that they're an exception, because Windows still has the best screen readers. But my sample size of younger generations of blind people is too small for me to be sure.

Kevin Beaumont

2025-09-13 07:43:06

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Kids nowadays get Chromebooks at college, MacBooks for uni, use Android or iOS on their phones and game on PlayStation 5 and Switch.

Windows is this legacy thing forced on them by old people in business.


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Kayla Eilhart (en)

Nice one! Will probably buy one too when Pixel 11 will come out (I'm buying older Pixels when the new ones come out as there are usually good deals on them). Tbh, I'm interested in the desktop mode a lot - it seems it's really close to the official release now - and Pixel 10 may be a good device to run a Linux VM smoothly enough to be useful in the desktop mode.
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Richard Barrell

I think it's reasonable to declare that pthread_cancel() is effectively broken for any nontrivial use on contemporary OSes and it is unlikely to be fixed any time soon.

(I suspect it would actually be easier to cajole libc maintainers into adding an async friendly version of GAI() than to make GAI() cancellation safe.)

If you want a cancellable thing from which you can make blocking calls, the only near-universal option is subprocesses. Unfortunately there are reasons why in some ecosystems it is impolite for a library to start a subprocess.

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I did not know or follow Charlie Kirk until I heard of his death recently, but man. All these people claiming the world would be a better place without him/such persons are not a single bit better than what they claim him to be. Crying around about how he hated people, or encouraged to it? WTF? Do you realise you're supporting that this guy got shot, murdered in front of his family? The world is broken. RIP and god bless.

Oh and before anyone thinks this is any sort of political statement, since he was also connected to Trump. I really don't like everything Trump does, firing disabled people from federal jobs, for example.
But honestly, hearing close family members say how it might've been better if the shot back then had hit him too, and even laughing at it...
I seriously have to wonder what's going on these days.

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It’s hard to communicate sometimes just how legacy and niche the concept of a desktop workstation has become. The idea of sitting down at a dedicated space to do computer things is outdated. If we—desktop Linux I mean—are building solely for that experience we’ll die out. If you’re not building towards notebook, tablet, and mobile workflows you’re building for the past
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Kevin Beaumont (@GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social)

Kids nowadays get Chromebooks at college, MacBooks for uni, use Android or iOS on their phones and game on PlayStation 5 and Switch. Windows is this legacy thing forced on them by old people in business.
Cyberplace

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#FediBlock
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Archos

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There's a famous computer joke that goes along the lines of "we needed 4K of RAM to send people to the Moon, and now we need <e.g. 4GB to keep a grocery shopping list>".

I think it is a fine illustration of the Jevons paradox in computing, and one of the "computing Murphy laws", known as the Parkinson's Law of Data - "Data expands to fill the space available for storage". I also think it's quite intriguing to highlight observations of a similar phenomenon related to compilers, especially in the context of #permacomputing

Yesterday I read a book on a minimalist compiler written in the 00's, having a remarkable footprint of merely 424 KB of RAM.

And then I thought about Turbo Pascal for CP/M that ran with 64KB of RAM. And then various compilers that worked on micros with 16KB or less.

And then I read about things like the ALGO compiler, an ALGOL clone, for a first generation/vacuum tube computer Bendix G-15 (yes, the one Usagi Electric has): 2160 words of 29 bit RAM, no more than 370 op/s.

#permacomputing
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In world political news that went under the radar over the past few days: the government of #Nepal has been overthrown by youths following a governmental move to block social media, and accusations of corruption.

A new PM was elected over #Discord, and has been accepted by the military. They aim to hold elections within 6 months.

I repeat:

THEY ELECTED A NEW GOVERNMENT

OVER

DISCORD.

And no second ammendment was needed to rise up against against tyranny.

gizmodo.com/nepal-currently-be…

#worldPol


Nepal Currently Being Run Via Discord After Gen Z Uprising

They went from banning social media to being run by it.
AJ Dellinger (Gizmodo)
#discord #Nepal #worldpol

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> Police investigators in Russia’s Kaliningrad region on Monday discovered the decapitated body of the CEO of a local fertilizer company.

> The chief executive, Alexei Sinitsyn, is believed to have died by suicide, according to a law enforcement source cited by the Vedomosti business newspaper.

Weird suicide bro

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Things Charlie Kirk, dead Nazi, publicly stood for:

1. A few gun violence deaths
2. Making children watch public executions
3. Delighting in the deaths of one's political opponents

Things MAGA wants us to feel bad about:

1. Charlie Kirk died from gun violence
2. His children watched his public execution
3. We are delighted that he is dead

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@adam You might be interested to know that I completely replaced the Bell Gigahub modem without any issues this morning. The process is perfectly accessible, other than needing someone to read the ONT ID off the back of your bell modem. You need a router or switch with an SFP+ port. You also need a fan or other active cooling for the fiber module; they run at about 90 degrees. Then I purchased my x-onu-sfpp from fibermall. Once you have these things, you can use these instructions: pon.wiki/guides/masquerade-as-the-bce-inc-giga-hub-with-the-was-110/#purchase-a-was-110-or-x-onu-sfpp

Masquerade as the BCE Inc. Giga Hub with the WAS-110 or X-ONU-SFPP - PON dot WIKI

Masquerade as the BCE Inc. Giga Hub with the WAS-110 or X-ONU-SFPP
pon.wiki
@Adam MacLeod
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Adam MacLeod

Cool stuff. Glad you're off that garbage modem. You should notice a huge increase in connection stability. I have two WAS-110 SFP+ modules, so when i upgrade the 8311 firmware, I just pull the fiber, plug it into the second one, connection comes right back up, then I do the firmware upgrade, and then swap the fiber back when its done.
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Adam MacLeod

Seems to have slowed down, star its GitHub repo for updates.
github.com/djGrrr/8311-was-110…
Although I'm not sure if that is what's running on your device. But its the custom firmware I'm running.

GitHub - djGrrr/8311-was-110-firmware-builder

Contribute to djGrrr/8311-was-110-firmware-builder development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
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Adam MacLeod

Oh yeah, they really do get warm. The chassis is the heatsink, essentially. Some have come up with air cooling solutions, but mine have run without fail for years without active cooling.
As for benefits over PPPoE passthrough, you'll probably notice a bit of a reduction in latency, perhaps 1 MS better. Minor, but a perk.
Certainly the fact that you're in control of everything up to the fiber connector, you can choose when firmware updaes happen, and not Bell. No more modem reboots over night, and even randomly during the day. Oh yeah, and no more incidents of pushing bad configs to a million modems causing them to be down for 8 plus hours, LOL.
I was enjoying the net all through that incident.
Also, may be a good reason to revisit some VLAN snooping to see if IPv6 can be found anywhere.
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Adam MacLeod

No worries. Glad to do my best attempt at describing the process. To be specific, I am describing attaching and detaching an SC-APC connector on the end of an ISP-provided singlemode 125NM fiber line.
So you will note that the connector is square, and if you feel along the sides of the square that naturally face your fingers as you grip the connector, you will feel narrow slits, that should feel like they're for finger usage to loosen or unlock the connector. And this is what happens. You squeeze these tabs inward, and the lock is released. You then pull very gently, very slowly, and very straight with your entire hand, and the connector should slide off the SFP+ module, or out of the modem. The modem will likely be a bit trickier in handling, and may require some effort to unplug the connector. Do your best in gaging if you think you're overdoing something, but at the same time, the modem connector may be stubborn. Most of all, always pull or push connectors straight.
Also, never, under any circumstances that you can control, touch or point the end of the fiber connector at your face or any one elses. Touch should be absolutely limited to necessities, or purposefully destroying a connector. To plug the connector back in, ensure it is aligned with the square receptical, and push gently. If aligned, it will slide a short distance, then lock into place with a bump and a slight click.
Hope this helps some.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

No worries! If I wanted it to be private, I’d have sent a dm. What Adam says aligns with my experience. The plug on the modem was extremely stubborn; I had to tug on it harder than I like pulling on any connector, and I had nearly resigned myself to giving up before it finally came out. Even then I was scared I had broken it. As for touching the connector, I was cowardly and had the rubber cover in my hand and ready to go. I put the cover on until I was ready to plug it into the new module.

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I thought I was going to just get up and make a bunch of new AT-SPI releases, but no such luck. I check my email and find that someone tested my latest fix and found that, for Bengali, Orca isn't reading all characters as they are typed. It isn't clear to me if this is a regression or just a bug that has been there all along and that I didn't fix, and I was going to backport my fix to the old stable branches, so now I have to figure out the answer to that before I can proceed.

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Proton Mail Falls Under U.S. Jurisdiction

If you read their Terms of Service, at first glance, they reference the laws of Switzerland. However, because they now have offices in the United States — along with registrations, trademarks, copyrights, and patents in the U.S. — they also cite U.S. laws. The only two countries you'll see mentioned are Switzerland and the United States — nothing else.

Their CEO has, on several occasions, also praised Donald Trump. Additionally, Proton left the Fediverse because they couldn’t silence users there as they have on platforms like Facebook or Reddit. The fact that they’re now trying to silence journalists doesn’t surprise me.

There are better alternatives to Proton Mail.

Tuta — Germany, Europe
tuta.com

Mailfence — Belgium, Europe
mailfence.com

Soverin — Netherlands, Europe
soverin.com

Startmail — Netherlands, Europe
startmail.com

Mailbox.org — Germany, Europe
mailbox.org

#Proton #ProtonMail #ProtonPass #ProtonVPN #ProtonWallet #ProtonDrive #ProtonCalendar #ProtonMeet #ProtonAuthenticator


Your data – under your control.

Your digital workspace with email, cloud, office & meet. Secure & GDPR-compliant for businesses, public authorities and private individuals. ▶ Try us now!
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#proton #ProtonMail #protondrive #protonpass #protonvpn #protoncalendar #protonwallet #protonmeet #protonauthenticator

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"Apple is about to drop Accessibility Nutrition labels on the App Store, offering users transparency about which accessibility features apps support."

gerireid.com/blog/how-to-add-a…

#apple #a11y #apps #accessibility #appstore


Add an Accessibility Nutrition Label

I've just completed an app audit for an iOS accessibility nutrition label. Here's what I learned.
gerireid.com
#a11y #Accessibility #apple #apps #AppStore
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Andreas vom Zwenkauer See

friendica.log

2025-09-13T10:41:17Z app [ERROR]: Uncaught Exception ValueError: "DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Argument #1 ($source) must not be empty" at /content/web/friendica/src/Model/Item.php line 3558 {"exception":"ValueError: DOMDocument::loadHTML(): Argument #1 ($source) must not be empty in /content/web/friendica/src/Model/Item.php:3558\nStack trace:\n#0 /content/web/friendica/src/Model/Item.php(3558): DOMDocument->loadHTML()\n#1 /content/web/friendica/src/Model/Item.php(3481): Friendica\\Model\\Item::replacePlatformIcon()\n#2 /content/web/friendica/src/Object/Post.php(451): Friendica\\Model\\Item::prepareBody()\n#3 /content/web/friendica/src/Object/Thread.php(190): Friendica\\Object\\Post->getTemplateData()\n#4 /content/web/friendica/src/Content/Conversation.php(666): Friendica\\Object\\Thread->getTemplateData()\n#5 /content/web/friendica/src/Content/Conversation.php(569): Friendica\\Content\\Conversation->getThreadList()\n#6 /content/web/friendica/src/Module/Profile/Conversations.php(228): Friendica\\Content\\Conversation->render()\n#7 /content/web/friendica/src/Module/Profile/Index.php(79): Friendica\\Module\\Profile\\Conversations->content()\n#8 /content/web/friendica/src/BaseModule.php(236): Friendica\\Module\\Profile\\Index->content()\n#9 /content/web/friendica/src/App.php(668): Friendica\\BaseModule->run()\n#10 /content/web/friendica/index.php(32): Friendica\\App->runFrontend()\n#11 {main}"} - {"file":null,"line":null,"function":null,"request-id":"68c54a4ca1c51","stack":"ErrorHandler::handleException (114), ErrorHandler::Friendica\\Core\\Logger\\Handler\\{closure}","uid":"b9e0be","process_id":1453}

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#serviceToot one of the mirrors at #IzzyOnDroid had a power outage, and is currently in recovery (file system repair) – the USV didn't like to be triggered 3 times in a row 🙈). Good thing there are multiple mirrors, so you shouldn't even notice it – unless you pinned your client to our US mirror…

You can watch the state at our monitor, and thus see when the mirror recovered:

monitor.izzysoft.de/

(one of our builders was affected too – but as with the mirrors, we luckily have more than one)

IzzyOnDroid

Welcome to the official IzzyOnDroid Status Page. This page contains an overview of the status of various IzzyOnDroid services and the official mirrors. I
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#serviceToot #izzyondroid

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@Bodo Danke Bodo! Den meisten Stress damit hatte Andrew, der die Server in den US betreut. Und ja, Murphy hat natürlich zur passenden Unzeit (Dinnertime) zugeschlagen. Wir hoffen jetzt, die letzten Rätsel bzgl. unseres Buildservers noch zu lösen – und auch das bleibt leider wieder größtenteils an Andrew hängen, wir können von hier aus nur mit "SchauMalObsJetztGeht" helfen, da wir den Server derzeit nicht erreichen können, obwohl er fein läuft… Verrücktes IT Zeugs das…
@Bodo
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Bodo

Danke dir für den kurzen Einblick! Dann erweitere ich meine Wünsche für einen entspannten und erholsamen, sonnigen Sonntag für Andrew gleich mit. 😉

Wie so vieles im Leben, weiß man gewisse Dinge erst zu schätzen, wenn sie nicht mehr rund laufen.
Toi, toi, toi, dass quasi "im Schlaf" des Rätsels Lösung dich/euch finden wird! ✨

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I can’t believe how easy it is to switch to @Tutanota and its excellent apps. I’ve been frustrated by how most alternatives to Apple Mail and Apple Calendar fall short. But Tuta Mail and Calendar work so well — including with my own domains. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #email #calendar #ios #macos #apple #EUAlternatives
Image of app icons for Tuta Calendar and Tuta Mail on the iPhone
#apple #email #ios #MACOS #calendar #eualternatives @Tuta

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Odborníci tvrdí, že drastické obrázky, neustálé rozhořčení a nepřetržitý příval negativních zpráv nás nejen rozrušují, ale také mění naši reakci na stres a poškozují duševní zdraví.
nationalgeographic.cz/veda/jak…

Apokalyptičtí jezdci útočí skrze zpravodajství. Co se s námi děje, když je vyhlížíme příliš často

National Geographic (www.nationalgeographic.cz)
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