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As a single solution across government, GCtranslate will generate economies of scale and reinforce the use of both official languages within the public service. It demonstrates the government’s commitment to modernizing the public service through secure, efficient and Canadian-based innovative digital tools.

canada.ca/en/public-services-p…

GCtranslate: Using artificial intelligence to build a more agile, modern and bilingual public service

As part of the Government of Canada’s digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a central role in modernizing public service operations.

^{Public Services and Procurement Canada (Government of Canada)}

«O día que nós emitamos papel-moeda non estamparemos nel o retrato dos políticos, nin dos sabios, nin dos artistas; estamparíamos, somentes, a figura dunha vaca, como símbolo da nosa economía humanamente distribuída.» Castelao, Sempre en Galiza.

O máis perto diso é o Miss Vaca da TVG, así de lonxe chegamos.

AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.

Let us play the forgotten music...

Seeing Montreal by Observation Car, c.1920s - International Fine Art Co Postcard

ebid.net/uk/for-sale/seeing-mo…

#Montreal

RE: activitypub.blog/2025/10/01/7-…

Version 7.5.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress is out, and it now lets you quote posts! 😍

7.5.0 — Follow the Feed, Quote the Lead

We’re back with a fresh release, and this one makes following and sharing smoother than ever—plus gives you more control over how your posts can be quoted.

^{ActivityPub for WordPress}

While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts.

If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also chaos.social/@delta/1134177407…

Delta Chat

2024-11-03 07:03:02

Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…

We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.

- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast")
- all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss
- interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers

#righttoexit

Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

^{pluralistic.net}

Jsem v Praze, omlouvám se 😇

ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/kvuli-na…

Kvůli nálezu miny byla asi hodinu uzavřená Vysočanská ulice v Praze

Praha - Policie dnes zhruba na hodinu uzavřela Vysočanskou ulici v Praze, která spojuje Prosek a Vysočany. Důvodem byl nález miny. Přivolaný pyrotechnik zjistil, že mina nebyla funkční. Policie to uvedla na síti X.

^ČTK

On this day in 2002, we shipped curl 7.10. The first #curl version that did certificate checks by default when speaking TLS unless specifically asked not to.

curl.se/ch/7.10.html

When I heard of the digital Pokemon TCG, I was like, "That sounds like all the downsides and none of the positives because I don't get cards with nice art at the end of it." (Ignoring the fact that many Pokemon cards are generic 3D renders that a fan could make anyway.)

Apparently there is a new "collection" in this TCG app that is just a repeat of a bunch of cards from a previous collection, and I found out about it from a YouTube video calling this a "scam". But really, I think fucking up the satisfaction of collecting stuff is a good thing to stop people with gambling impulses.

Collecting stuff is red flag behaviour if the stuff you're collecting was meant to be collected. As in, it's a red flag that you love marketing and I will dislike you. But even a garbage collection like funko-pops or physical cards is eventually cool once the company is gone – a digital TCG collection will stop existing before it ever becomes cool.

I've been thinking (and that's not good for anyone and everyone should be holding their breath) about media consumption patterns over time, and how those shifting patterns in consumer habits have shaped culture.

This might be an Old Man yells at clouds moment, but I think there's likely something to it.

I'll try to coalesce the things I'm thinking into coherent words.

Linus Torvalds Lashes Out At RISC-V Big Endian Plans

Linus Torvalds has come out strong against proposed support for RISC-V big endian capabilities within the Linux kernel...
phoronix.com/news/Torvalds-No-…

The Android Airplay client DroidPlay (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.t…) hasn't seen any update for 10 years. We still see regular downloads from F-Droid clients for it. As there are not many alternatives, we'd still keep it in our repo if it's still useful.

Anyone here using it? Does it still work, or should we rather drop it?

EDIT: solved, we'll replace it with a much more recent fork already available in our repo 🥳

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

It's wild (and unsurprising) to me that journalists act tough when they have ample opportunity to negatively comment on accessibility, but don't ever mention accessibility wins.

Despite all the noise I made with accessibility on GNOME Calendar, no journalist has gone further than "better screen reader support and keyboard navigation", meanwhile most didn't even mention it whatsoever.

#accessibility #a11y #journalism #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GNOME49

Hit a snag: when curl tries to connect to a unix domain socket, linux gives the same ECONNREFUSED when no one listens on it and when the accept queue is full.

I'd like to continue trying in the later case, but failing when no one listens seems more important. meh.

Anyone a somehwat portable idea?

⭐️ WCAG’s Longevity · Eric Eggert

I, @yatil, wrote about WCAG’s longevity and audio descriptions.

yatil.net/blog/wcags-longevity

WCAG’s Longevity · Eric Eggert

It’s no secret: I like the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines. Not only do they give us the four base principles of accessibility …

^{Eric Eggert}

PSA, the new Android 16 update will surreptitiously reenable fingerprint device unlock even if you had intentionally disabled it before. Depending on where you live and your threat model, this might not be safe! Americans have little protection against law enforcement compelling biometrics unlock. To make matters worse, the fingerprint unlock settings are found in a different part of the security settings UI than the rest of the device unlock settings. If you update to Android 16, make sure your device unlock settings are what you intended.

#android #android16

The European Commission has issued a survey ✍️ on the Governance and #Sustainability of Critical Open Source #Software. Your input is highly beneficial for identifying best practices, shared needs, and possible pathways for collective efforts 🎯, as well as for translating them into actionable #recommendations for public administrations both at national and EU level. 🤓
It's a relatively short survey, takes maximum 15 min to complete. Deadline: 5 Oct 2025.
👉 ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/F…

#opensource