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Die #MRMCD25 sind vorbei und es waren tatsächlich viele tolle Talks dabei. Hier eine kurze Liste von dem was mir persönlich besonders gut gefallen hat.

· Hilfe, meine Strichliste hat scope creep (media.ccc.de/v/2025-544-hilfe-…)

· Wenn der Verkehrsverbund zu transparent ist (media.ccc.de/v/2025-594-wenn-d…)

· Spaß am Gerät trotz KI (media.ccc.de/v/2025-468-spa-am…)

· Durchblick im Takt (media.ccc.de/v/2025-476-durchb…)

· Vertrauen ist gut, Kryptographie ist besser (media.ccc.de/v/2025-566-vertra…)


Spaß am Gerät trotz KI

Dass gute LLMs erst durch riesige, intransparente und ethisch fragwürdige Datensätze möglich werden, glauben die großen KI-Anbieter heut...
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Nach etwas Zeit des Durchschnaufens und mit neuen Aktiven in unserem Orgateam können wir euch heute mit Freude verkünden:
In 29 Wochen sollen die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026 stattfinden! Also zückt eure Kalender und markiert euch das Wochenende des 28./29. März 2026 für die #CLT2026

#linux #tux #chemnitz #kulturhauptstadt2025 #chemnitz2025

www.linux-tage.de

Das Logo der Chemnitzer Linux-Tage in gelb auf blauem Hintergrund, mit dem Datum für die Chemnitzer Linux-Tage 2026, dem 28. & 29. März 2026.
#linux #tux #chemnitz #clt2026 #kulturhauptstadt2025 #chemnitz2025
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Jiří Eischmann

Švagrová mi říkala, že používá ChatGPT, že si za to dokonce platí. O víkendu jsem jí pomáhal s novým počítačem a zjistil jsem, že nemá u OpenAI ani účet. Jak si za to tedy můžeš platit?
Ukázalo se, že používá chatbot.app. Prý do App Store zadala "chatgpt" a dostala tady toto. Ikonu to má podobnou...
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Nějaký chatbot nad různými modely. Mrkl jsem zběžně na privacy policy a tedy nic moc, sídlí někde v Turecku... Nejzajímavější na tom bylo, že si švagrová opravdu myslela, že používá ChatGPT.
Dnes už si to neplatí a nemá o to zájem. Chtěla s tím vytvářet materiály na další školní rok (učí na střední zdravce), ale zkušenost prý špatná.
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Podle mě jsme v kulminaci schopností, ke kterým se dostanou běžní lidi. Vytvořili výborné modely, ale jsou příliš drahé na to, aby za ně běžní lidi platili. U modulů pro ně tak podle mě začne fáze enshittifikace. To už jde vidět na GPT-5, které většinu dotazů odbavuje levnými a horšími modely a oproti 4o to je pro hromadu lidí downgrade. Ona s tím pracovala tyto prázdniny. Dívám se, že na chatbot.app je výchozí právě GPT-5, takže zkušenost asi měla s ním.
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Jiří Eischmann

@bycx Já se musím přiznat, že v poslední době mám zkušenost s ChatGPT spíš povrchní. Jedu téměř výhradně Perplexity, které mi na to vyhledávání a doptávání přijde nejlepší a mám tam Pro přes Revolut zdarma. A občas to doplním Mistralem. V práci pak Gemini a Claude, ale to vyloženě na technické věci.
@🔩 Adam Štrauch
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Jiří Eischmann

@michal @bycx ač se to z toho mého komentáře nezdá, tak tomu moc neholduju. Fakticky pravidelně používám jen to Perplexity. Na hledání informací je to fakt dobré a halucinuje to minimálně. V práci mám věci, které dělají s AI, automatizované, na to moc nesahám a že bych měl AI jako asistenta a vrbu, to mě vůbec nebere.
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Accessibility matters ❤️ Here’s a quick demo of how the new Dice feature in Skoro works with VoiceOver, so even visually impaired users can use the app.

Skoro on the App Store:
➡️ apps.apple.com/app/id160831104…

#iOSdev #a11y #uxdesign #buildinpublic

‎Point Counter: Skoro

‎FEATURES • Keep scores of your games and sports. • Keep history of your Finished Games. • iCloud support. Sync scores across all your devices. • Great VoiceOver support. • No ads. CUSTOMIZATION • Name your game. • Edit player names and colors.
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#a11y #uxdesign #iosdev #BuildInPublic
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Paweł Masarczyk

Miałbym na ten moment dwie sugestie odnośnie dostępności Moons: 1. Czy dałoby się ukryć logo aplikacji tak, by VoiceOver go nie fokusował? W aplikacjach to raczej element dekoracyjny i dodaje dodatkowe przystanki podczas nawigacji gestami lewo - prawo. 2. Czy można by złączyć tytuł bieżącego zadania, nazwę projektu oraz biegnący licznik w jeden element dla VO? Opcja "Stop" mogłaby wtedy stać się czynnością na pokrętle, a dwukrotne stuknięcie po prostu otwierałoby zadanie.
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Kris Slazinski ☮️

@Piciok 1. Zdecydowanie. Żaden problem. 2. Chyba tak. To znaczy na pewno się da, ale muszę potestować, żeby było dobrze.
Dodaję te rzeczy do listy zadań. Jeśli masz dodatkowe uwagi dotyczące moich aplikacji, pisz śmiało. Mam też aplikacje do wydatków, wyznaczania celów oraz dzienniczek nastroju. VoiceOver w nich wymaga usprawnień. Zawsze słucham uwag użytkowników, więc pisz śmiało.
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Paweł Masarczyk

Jeszcze jedna rzecz, która podoba mi się w Timery: praktycznie całą aplikację można obsługiwać za pomocą skrótów: tworzenie projektów i wpisów czasu, uruchamianie liczników itp. W zasadzie nie muszę otwierać aplikacji przez większość czasu. Skróty poprzypisywałem do gestów VoiceOver i szybko mogę zacząć śledzenie aktywności. Jest też aktywność na żywo "live activity" pokazująca aktualnie uruchomiony licznik. Fajne to.

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Painted Sky - Evening thunderstorm over the Raton-Clayton volcanic field, Colfax County, New Mexico, USA. The sky looked absolutely unreal and incredible over the vast, open landscape. I watched this storm build for about 90 minutes as I was driving in its direction.The lone tree is actually a pretty large tree! (June 25, 2025) #NewMexico #sky #clouds #storm #thunderstorm #summer #weather #tree #nature #outdoors #landscape #mountains #highchairs #Fujifilm
#outdoors #nature #mountains #summer #landscape #clouds #weather #tree #fujifilm #sky #newmexico #storm #thunderstorm #highchairs

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Stop taking productivity advice from people whose lives look nothing like yours.

Remember: If their day starts with “my personal chef cooked breakfast,” their tips don’t apply to you.

joanwestenberg.com/p/why-billi…


Why Billionaire Productivity Hacks Won’t Work for You

Productivity Without Context is Just Noise
Westenberg.

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🤯 Instagram is testing new iOS push notifications that include a profile photo. Each time the notification is shown on your screen, it triggers a GET request to fetch that image, letting Meta track every on-screen impression.

The app still misuses push notifications to send detailed device analytics about the device (uptime, battery, volume, locale, timezone, memory, CPU, etc.)

#privacy #infosec #privacymatters #Apple #iOS #meta
More 👇🧵

Screenshot of the new push notification with a profile photo shown in Notification Center
A GET request sent by Instagram when the notification was shown on screen.
#apple #privacy #infosec #ios #meta #privacymatters

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#A11Y #BlindTech I’m a user of whatifsports.com, specifically its simleague baseball feature. For some unknown reason, the website has stopped working regularly over the past week or so. Combo boxes fail to appear, although I see they are there if I use the JAWS cursor. In some other instances, whole parts of the website don’t present at all. Even more strangely, this behavior happens on both #Chrome and #Firefox but I can still access everything on #Edge just fine. I’m tempted to install #NVDA to see how things perform with it, but I’ve never used it so I suspect there’s a learning curve. I’m just flummoxed as to why the website has started acting like this.
#a11y #firefox #chrome #nvda #edge #blindtech
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NV Access

I'm not familiar with the site itself, but for NVDA, we have a "Switching from Jaws to NVDA guide" which should help ease the transition: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…

Plus of course, NVDA is completely free, so you are most welcome to have it installed alongside Jaws and use both (not at the same time though - definitely exit one before starting the other :) )


SwitchingFromJawsToNVDA

NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvda
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NV Access are very pleased to announce the release of NVDA 2025.3!

This release includes improvements to Remote Access, SAPI5 voices, braille and the Add-on Store.

For full details and to download, please visit: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-3/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #NewVersion #FOSS #OpenSource #New #News #Software #Blind

Close up of purple and white NVDA icon in the notification area with individual pixels visible

NV Access | NVDA 2025.3 Released

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #foss #opensource #blind #software #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #new #newversion

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SideParty 0.81! Upgrade NVGT.
Adjust pan and volume step.
Remove the experimental older buggy occlusion. Somehow, it had become even more broken than it already was. Replace with newer occlusion code.
Potential fix for door switch sounds playing at the wrong spot.
Add note in readme about potential choppy audio.
masonasons.itch.io/SideParty

SideParty by Mason

It's crazy party on sterroids, endless mode!
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I have an idea for immutable desktop-focused Linux distro/OS projects, like the various immutable versions of Fedora. The OS consists of multiple root filesystem layers (like the layers in an OCI container image): an irreducible core, plus layers for drivers, localization packs, assistive technologies, and desktop environments. The user selects the layers they want, and can change that selection by editing a file, copying layers to their boot media if needed, and rebooting. 1/?
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Matt Campbell

The OS layers are loaded into RAM on boot. That means the individual layers need to be minimal enough and fine-grained enough that the user can load just what they want. Once the layers are loaded, the boot media isn't needed for the system to keep running. Then for applications, when a Flatpak-packaged app is launched, the necessary Flatpaks are loaded into RAM, and kept resident while the app is running. This part is handwavy because I don't know enough about Flatpak. 2/?
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Matt Campbell

As I think about it, though, I think current desktop environments might be too tied to the single OS installation on fixed storage, with /etc and $HOME always available, to allow persistent storage to be swapped while the system is running like we did on early personal computers. But the Macintosh was a GUI desktop environment that originally booted from floppy and then let you swap the floppy, so I guess it could be made to work again.
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Adrian Vovk

But... why?

The reasons people had to swap floppies was because of the limitations of storage. They were so small that you couldn't really fit much useful software on them.

The operating systems also didn't do multitasking, so it really didn't matter if the backing data for any app disappeared when you swapped programs because they couldn't coexist anyway

Storage is still effectively infinitely larger than the RAM in your machine too. So you're just gonna run out quickly

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Matt Campbell

@AdrianVovk The thing I've been obsessed with lately is the idea of personal computers booting solely from removable media, RPi-style, with no internal/fixed persistent storage. As much as I disliked swapping floppies when I was a kid, on my family's Apple IIGS with no hard drive, I also didn't have to worry about wrecking the family computer; I could do whatever I wanted on the floppies that I used for playing around, as long as I didn't touch the ones with important software or data.
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Jason J.G. White

I hope more software developers start to follow your example here. When former macOS or Linux screen reader users opt for Windows for accessibility reasons rather than because they prefer it, we know there's a problem which needs to be solved in other desktop operating systems. I personally choose to run the operating systems that I prefer, even if the accessibility takes more work. I do have Windows around, but it isn't my primary OS.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 2 added apps:

* Gadgetbridge: your favorite gadget companion, now finally availabe at IoD and RB! 🛡️
* WiFi Seeker: displays power, channel, availability of WPS, encryption, cryptographic protocols, BSSID … of WiFi points nearby 🛡️

RB status: 709 apps (54.1%) – and our main builder is back online now as well 🥳

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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a #ChatControl update (shared on the ISOC "Global Encryption Coalition" mailing list):

"The good news is that the blocking minority held. Members states raised concerns about privacy and cybersecurity as reasons for their opposition. Even countries that are officially in support of the proposal asked questions along these lines for the first time – showing that they are facing increased pressure back home.

The bad news is that #Denmark is moving forward even though they did not receive full support. They are keeping their plan to take this proposal to the Justice and Home Affairs Council meeting on October 14th.

After discussing with partners, we understand this as a strategy from Denmark. They are not making progress at the working level (the meeting today) and therefore will try directly at the political level (justice and home affairs). During these coming four weeks they will try to convince some of the blocking member states to reconsider their position.

What this means for us is that we need to keep up the pressure. We should be thanking the blocking countries for their position and encouraging the undecided or supportive countries to reconsider. We should keep up pressure in the media at the same time."

#chatcontrol #denmark
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feld

Only hypothetically. We can't even get people in this country to support unions, they're not going to support mass boycotts of many different companies and media outlets simultaneously.

e.g., Target has been weathering their boycott since what, January? Yeah they're hurting a little but not enough. Their CEO just swapped chairs to another board position.

Are enough people willing to hold the line for possibly years at a time for them to finally cave in? This government can crush their ability to do business *immediately*, but the public pressure will always be so much slower for them to feel

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I haven't seen this on fedi yet, but allegedly Robinson's roommate (gf? partner?) is trans and that's who he contacted on Discord to go retrieve his gun in the woods. If this is true, and Kirk was shot while about to spew some nonsense about the threat of trans mass shooters, it's quite an amusing :discourse: 🤌 footnote in history, like if a white dude in love with a black woman shot a racist spewing garbage about blacks during the Civil Rights movement

Kirk would go down as a footnote for being an agitator, and Robinson would be remembered as one of the greatest defenders of the trans community.

Almost poetic

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feld

my wife used to work for the best gluten free bakery in the country (not my claim, it was the customers) and they shipped to every state. It was a good business with perfected recipes, but my wife didn't enjoy the limitations of gluten free baking. When the owner retired they took us out to dinner and handed us papers offering to sell us the business but we were still too young and really not interested.

New owners predictably destroyed the business, I think it's gone now.

RIP to the Silly Yak bakery; it was a treasure while it lasted.

(God their gluten free pumpkin scones in the autumn were so good)

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"Do Universities Investing In Technology Transfer Via Patenting Lose Money?"

This study reaches a conclusion I've believed to be true since seeing how tech transfer offices work. The paper calls for closing tech transfer offices and instead open sourcing all innovations.
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ABSTRACT Substantial investments are made in universities patenting new developments to pursue a return. To gauge the impact of the holistic costs of patenting at universities, this study provides a new methodology for quantifying the investment in intellectual property (IP) that includes not only technology transfer staff costs but also direct and opportunity faculty-related costs. It then uses the novel methodology and publicly accessible data on an average American research university case study. The results found all component costs were higher than the IP-related income, with the opportunity cost for writing patents instead of grants being more than 33 times the income realized through IP protection. Overall, the case study university loses over $9 million per year on IP with a negative ROI of -97.6%. Research universities have opportunities to increase research income >10% by ignoring IP. It is clear that Bayh-Dole Act and similar national legislation, is harming university economics. It can be concluded that as generally practiced in the U.S. now, it is not rational to continue to support university technology transfer by patents. Instead, to improve the economic bottom lines of universities, as well as increase the good that research and development does for society, universities can open source all innovations.

DO UNIVERSITIES INVESTING IN TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER VIA PATENTING LOSE MONEY? - Transfer technológií bulletin

INTRODUCTION The Patent and Trademark Law Amendments Act (known as the Bayh-Dole Act) standardized U.S.
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Woah! Only now did we discover a great blog post from @wq who discusses the progression from hosting a #Matrix , a #Snikket and a #SimpleX server, to now running a #chatmail relay runtimeterror.dev/self-hosted-…

It's an excellent read, with lots of good advise, including having a public "hello" profile and another unpublished chat profile for private chatting. #deltachat apps have pervasive multi-profile support (and multi-device support) so it's pretty easy to establish such a two-profile setup.

#matrix #deltachat #simplex #snikket #chatmail @John Wq
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