Installed GrapheneOS on my spare Pixel8a to see what that's like as CalyxOS is in limbo, and I like their default black/white color scheme but there's nothing on it, you have to go find another app store and whatever yourself. They're trying too hard to be useless in the name of security
> There's an opportunity for a service like CloudFlare here give people a simple toggle that manages geoblocks on legal liability factors. It's way too much for every organisation to individually track every country's laws day by day in case just by being accessible there you incur a liability. And it sounds like the UK would have just self-selected out of the list of "safe" countries.
Insane. These people really hate the internet so much they'd be happy to centralize it all
I'm trying to move my Flatpak repo from Github to Gitlab because I'm rubbing up against Github's size limits a lot. However, my CI workflows depend very heavily on dynamically generating a build matrix. Is there something like this in Gitlab's CI too?
(concrete example: I want to run an update check for every .yml file in a particular directory, w/1 parallel job per file. There are *dozens* of these files so I'd rather not hardcode the list...)
You know, I damn #Trump and his whole administration all to hell, if you are #Trans, do yourself a favor and avoid coming to the #US whatever you do, make an excuse, avoid coming here like the plague until we've kicked #Trump and his brutish people out of office. I hope one day, we will be able to return toward a more inclusive and freedom-based time here, but don't come here, let the people who might want to visit you who can safely do so, but coming to the US right now is the same as asking for a death sentence, all because you might have a gender-neutral card or your #gender on that card is different than what was assigned to you at birth. I'm feeling so much shame for what the US has become and I feel terrible that we are being made to look like people who aren't accepting of #Trans people, but I promise, not all of us here want this to happen or condone this type of anti-trans behavior. Stay safe y'all, the storm will pass, but don't come here for your own safety, the fact I even have to write this down to me is absolutely disgusting and horrifying and I want this all to end and for us to return toward a freer, more inclusive time like has been in years' past.
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> A teenager died Saturday in rural Iowa, after he was shot by a fellow hunter who apparently mistook him for a squirrel, officials said.
No fucking way. Come on. I've spent so many hours hunting squirrels, they don't hang out on the ground. It's super rare to catch them there. They will hear you from a distance and go to the trees and start their predator alert calls and try to hide. You gotta shoot them down.
Now rabbits? Yes.
and how the hell do you confuse a human with a squirrel anyway? Someone's hiding the truth
Czech hunters shoot each other all the time, because they mistake othere for deers. There have been instances of them shooting at hikers. How do you mistake a human for a deer is also something I can't wrap my head around.
Has anyone noticed that Zoom for Windows uses text fields which are technically inaccessible? They work around this by giving screen reader alerts whenever I use the arrow keys, select text, or delete characters. Naturally, they don't just pass through the punctuation symbol to the screen reader, because they can't predict which punctuation will get spoken by the screen reader otherwise. So the names of symbols probably won't match the ones in a screen reader. It seems to be based partially on the JAWS symbol dictionary. On a Braille display, the control is borderline unusable, because there's no cursor representation and any navigation or deletion will replace the entire text field with the announcement. If you type the word "potatos" and then discover there is only one potato, pressing the backspace will replace everything on your Braille display with a line that says "s deleted". And to top things off, the announcer seems to completely ignore emoji characters and they don't seem to show up in the weird limited object navigation either, so there's no way to confirm you've typed them. I wonder what kind of absurd design choice or company culture problem led to this need to completely reinvent the wheel for a text field of all things. I know QT had cursor tracking issues in text fields, but I thought that was fixed long ago.
They use some weird Chinese UI toolkit (I also thought it was QT for some reason). No idea why they didn't just implement accessibility in text fields though.
Byla jsem na filmu Franz od polské režisérky Anežky Hollandové. Dobře okolnosti Kafkova života v Praze ilustruje. Tmavá Praha. Pražák. Zakladatel absurdního díla.
I used one of them fancy GitHub scripts, and nuked Windows Defender off my system. Why you ask? Because it was always doing its background scans. Always. Always using CPU when I don't want it to. Nope. Not dealing with this bullshit from Microsoft at all. It's gone. Off my system you go. I tried Eset (their online scanner) but it was not super accessible, so still on the lookout for an AV that lets me manually do the scan and control it, doesn't have a high flagging rate for developer .exe files and things like Accessible_output2 in TWBlu and Tweesecake (yes, stupid Eset flagged these too, argh!) - I'm just done. I'm fed up with Windows AV software. They're all false positive land these days. This is why Linux is better in every way.
@clv0 looks like (well for me anyway) it may end up coming down between Bit Defender and Vipre. Both appear to not flag packed executables as much, of course that might be a catch-22 because sometimes these things can be used by malicious actors yes, but at least it covers Trojans and a lot of the common signatures for actual viruses and ransomware.
oh, BitDefender's installer UI is inaccessible huh? Well looks like Vipre it will be. Bit Defender did not give me hope that the actual UI of the scanner is accessible if the installer itself uses some weird window I cannot even click through. By contrast, the actual Virus Scanner UI on Vipre is accessible too, though using UWP controls (so you hear the wonderful view variables told to you sometimes.) Still, better than Eset, that's for sure, and light on ram (measured ~80-200 MB at boot) Not sure, I've heard of people use Bit Defender, but also who knows if it's any good with accessibility and controls. Looks like the downside to Vipre might be phishing protection is weak. So if you're that person who clicks things through in e-mails maybe it's not so much for you. Or mis-types URLs often by accident. Not for you either as much then.
@JamminJerry looks like yeah! They really let you fine-tune when scheduled scans happen, so it's really in your control and not like Defenders always-scanning in the background that it does.
is it only for antivirus? or does it also have other things that the windows defender has? I absolutely hate windows defender, as when it is finds something when you are copying a folder, it just puts it in the quarinteen, and tells you it found a threat. well, that is great, except for not. I miss the days of popups, where it shows you what it found, where it found it, and lets you take action on it right away!
@JamminJerry yeah, if you don't do the scheduled scan (and shift+f10 to delete the quick and full one, otherwise quick is at 10 AM daily and full on Sundays at 10 PM,) you still get the auto-protection engine for malware and spyware and can optionally enable scanning compressed archives (by default this is off which was also nice, else you can manually scan something yourself.)
@JamminJerry ahah it was like $50 a year I think. So not as pricey as Mcafee or other AV, and then something like 2 years is 103, so the more years you buy up front the bigger discount you get. It also covers 3 computers which is perfect here and looks like has a Mac version too which is awesome for cross-platform. Will have to see how it works with VoiceOver, or just use it on the other 2 older Windows laptops I have here
@JamminJerry I think Defender will go into passive mode the moment it finds Vipre is installed, so at least it won't be running all the time. I personally did notice a slight performance boost not having its scheduled task for scans running always. Even if it tries to guard the percentage of CPU used when the machine is used, but still. Vipre isn't sneaky like that behind your back and I think that's what got me sold on it lol
@JamminJerry oh yeah, it was interesting because you enter your e-mail for the trial but then the download file somehow they generate has your info in it so the moment you install you don't even need to enter a product key, same with when you buy the subscription, and the 30 days gets added to it onto the same product key. They did this one super well. vipre.com/home-security/free-t…
I think I am going to give this a serious look. the 30 day free trial also is good too, so you can really try it out before making that subscription purchase.
not only that, a 30-day money back on the subscription, you just submit a ticket to them through their Zendesk. Again pleasantly surprised. I uninstalled it to try Bit Defender, one time, and no nag about "why are you removing us?" Ugh. Products these days.
@tinygirl @mcourcel @JamminJerry surprisingly yes, they list: • Windows 11 (64-bit) • Windows 10 (32- & 64-bit, all versions) • Windows 8.1 (64-bit) • Windows 7 SP1 (32- & 64-bit) • Windows Server 2022 (64-bit, excluding Server Core) • Windows Server 2019 (64-bit, excluding Server Core) • Windows Server 2016 (excluding Server Core) • Windows Server 2012 R2 (excluding Server Core) • Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 (excluding Server Core) • Windows Small Business Server 2011
@JamminJerry Oh cool. Will definitely check this out. What did you use to kill Windows defender, or did I hear right that defender will go into passive mode when Vipre is installed?
@tinygirl @JamminJerry yeah, you shouldn't have to :) I just got so mad at it that I typed into google something like "github remove defender" and grabbed this top-result one from ionuttbara/. Probably not super smart. At all. I told it though to only delete Defender, but it shouldn't run in the background once it finds Vipre is running either so result should be the same.
@tinygirl @JamminJerry oooh yeah very curious about that. My partner's comission for the blind used Vipre as of like 2 years ago and had no issues back then, but it may have changed. There's some odd reading of items, like within the list of scheduled scans, but you can tab through and know what you're editing still so it's not bad.
@tinygirl I will be trying this out on friday, so that if I want to get it, I can get it next month, or something like that. I did download the trial installer, so I am good to go there.
@JamminJerry @tinygirl interestingly, they have two types. Advanced Security For Home, and just antivirus. The Antivirus one is a bit cheaper at $29 a year. The Advanced home gives you e-mail scanning (plugs into Outlook) as well as the firewall. The Antivirus is just, well, antivirus. What's interesting is that either you can get the triall for home security on that site and buy in there, in which case you pay $51. Or you can buy online directly, in which case you pay $19 for your first year but $60 for every year after, and can only do $60 a year from there on out, not extra years for a bit cheaper (like $103 for 2, 95 for 3) - so what an interesting marketing. vipre.com/home/vipre-advanced-…
@tinygirl even the 60 a year isn't all that bad at all. I mean you figure that is less than 6 dollars a month, so there is that. me personally that might be the rout I go, as I think you said the first year is what 19 for the first year? I will have to figure all of this out.
@tinygirl @JamminJerry yeah, strangely you only get that plan if you click "buy" from the app, after getting the 30-day trial first. It's very weird to me.
well, that page (for the standard "buy now") does list a 5 computer option. you just have to press enter on the little clickable dropdown to change it to 5. But! Big but: $29.99 Base Price: $82.49. So you pay $29 for year 1, $82 for year 2. Add them together? $111. So actually $7 more than the $51 / year. Wow math, weird. I guess for 2 more computers added that's not bad, if you know you'll have a lot of them at once active.
@tinygirl this is a bit confusing. I decided to just play with it now, and really mess with it over the next few days to see if this will work for me. I am only seeing the antiviaur stuff, and not the rest of things like the firewall, and such, I did get the advanced trial, so I should be seeing all the other stuff, unless with NVDA, I am not doing something right.
@JamminJerry @tinygirl yeah those tabs are hidden, you must use object navigation to go outside of the list of tabs and click that one with the mouse. I didn't see any other way to get there.
@tinygirl hmmmmm. I have lots of programs running, and this firewall says it is on, but didn't yell at me asking if I want all these programs to talk to the internet. tweesecake, station playlist studio, unigram, ETC. yet all my programs are working.
@JamminJerry @tinygirl ahaha yeah, you have to put the firewall into "learning" mode for it to yell at you about them like how Windows one does. I did that so it can add them as rules (it'll ask if you want to setup a rule for that app in learning mode)
@tinygirl ok, so if I do that, how will I deal with it yelling about a whole bunch of programs at once? I mean, if I put it into learning mode, it is going to potentually go nuts with all the things I have running, that want to talk to the internet.
@JamminJerry @tinygirl yeah, they're thankfully dialogs that appear individually so you'll just have to respond to a bunch of them one at a time. They don't appear to show up as a lot of windows until you dismiss one, the next one shows.
@tinygirl ah, ok, that is good to know. I was afraid that things would just get down right confusing. that isn't so bad. I assume right now, it is just assuming these programs are aloud to talk to the internet until I tell it other wize in standard mode.
@JamminJerry @tinygirl I will give it this, until I accepted Mist World and Tweesecake those apps really did not receive any data. So this firewall feels stronger than the Windows Defender one (which I turned off now) since it truly does block all network traffic, not just across local networks, when first encountering something unknown.
@tinygirl oh, so I still have to go turn the windows firewall off. ok. good to know. it did seem to turn off the windows antivirus. at least I think it did. lol.
@JamminJerry @tinygirl yeah thats' strange! But yeah that's slightly mis-leading I guess, as "minimize" doesn't minimize to tray as much as move the window out of the way and close doesn't close everything, or it shouldn't anyway. In task manager (the classic one) it shows me an SBAMTray.exe; process for the tray, and an SBAMSvc.exe file runs the actual security engine, they show up as system processes for me even with it closed.
@tinygirl @JamminJerry hmm that's so odd as I'm also on 10! Definitely make sure you have Active Protection is on toggle toggle button pressed set within Manage navigation radio button checked N on the UI. I think avc Mode check box checked is the one for setting it as an Antivirus? No idea as it's not a label I'm seeing described anywhere online either, but it's checked here. The tray i con would tell you though, it should show as "VIPRE AP: enabled EP: enabled FW: enabled Defs: 110989 (October 1, 2025 9:36 PM) button"
@JamminJerry @tinygirl hmm. So far it's found far less of things that are harmless as harmful, so that makes me happy, and it does add a shortcut in your right-click explorer menu to any file to "scan with Vipre" so you can always check a zip file yourself before opening. I'll be curious to see how it does in virus scans. VIPRE actually scored top-tier ("Advanced+") in AV-Comparatives’ March 2025 Malware Protection test, and its business edition sat near the front of the pack in 2025 enterprise rounds. Defender also tests well, but not clearly better across the board. the company’s been under Ziff Davis (j2 Global) since 2018, if you've read CNet, PCMag, Mashable, they're all brands that big portfolio company owns.
@tinygirl well I won't be able to test that as that is why I have my c:\portable as an exception. a lot of programs I have in there get eaten by windows defender, so that is just habity that now I set that up as an exception. smile.
@JamminJerry I like this way better than what we call Malware sucks. That thing is such a royal pain in the ass to work with. I eventually just got rid of it and was just dealing with windows defender.
@tinygirl I do have a good question for you regarding VIPRE with NVDA. Right now I have the firewall in learning mode, what if a box pops up, that I don't hear what the app is, or something when it pops up, and NVDA reads it. when I tab threw, I can't see it, if I use insert+7 on the numpad all I saw was blank and insert+1 only let me see the button highlighted. how can I read the screen a bit better, so I know what exactly is going on if I miss it when it pops up? I don't know if you use NVDA or JFW. also I am noticing one possible bad thing here. if I am typing away like I am right now, when the box pops up, I might hit the space bar, while typing, but the box has popped up. the allow button is highlighted, so I hit that button without reolizing it. how do you get around that?
@JamminJerry Just take this into account that VIPRE isn't the best solution in terms of scores and detection. Many review websites have confirmed this, but just see one for yourself: softwarelab.org/vipre-antiviru… @Tamasg @tinygirl
@JamminJerry I understand. But I'm perfectly fine with it, and haven't seen any performance degradation as a consequence of what it does. Moreover, it's more reliable than many of these third-party solutions as corroborated by independent websites. @Tamasg @tinygirl
@amir @JamminJerry @tinygirl my big problem is that you cannot control scheduled scans and what it calls "catch-up scans" without serious group policy editing, at least on Win 10. There's no "manage scan settings" or whatever on Windows 10's Defender, not sure if there is on Windows 11's. However, even if it's just 5% CPU, it's 5% CPU I don't want chewed away by Defender's constant auto-scanning, just so it could proudly notify me, "your device was scanned (X) times." It's kind of sad that now we must do all these scans constantly and real-time detection isn't considered enough. SoftwareLab blends protection, features, and price/value and tends to reward big suites (Norton/Bitdefender) which have password managers, parental controls, unlimited VPN, etc. AV-Comparatives measures block rates, false positives, and performance using fixed test sets; SoftwareLab summarizes across labs plus their own preferences.
On Win 11 2024H2, Defender scans barely move the CPU. Mine shows less than 2% during scans. Not sure if the “5% CPU is actually a broader issue. Compared to JAWS/NVDA, Defender feels light - LOL! It does have scheduled scans (via Task Scheduler), usually weekly, but controlling them isn’t super straightforward. I actually prefer it over VIPRE for accuracy. Real-time protection alone is plenty for most of us. @JamminJerry @tinygirl
Ahahaa I'll explain my obsession y'all. Recently I got this NucBox K11 mini-desktop, right? Well I've been trying to run it off my Sherpa 100 AC battery pack. Because it looks cool as heck to run a tiny mini desktop off battery and it being portable, but a desktop. In order to do this, I need to keep idle CPU utilization near 0. Keep in mind that Windows (nor Linux) know that I'm on a battery pack, and the computer is not tuned in terms of power draw to use less either when asked to boost. So I set hard CPU max caps at 60% limits, and hope to God that all programs honor the 1% minimum limit. This is where Defenders even 2% or 3% come in. Anythin that doesn't ramp up the CPU beyond its idle low state is going to get a ding from me because again, there's no physical way I can make Windows " think" it's running off the Sherpa 100AC pack. You're right about task scheduler! Ugh, hadn't even thought of to check that at the time for where it could put its scans. That could be one way to stop it, especially on systems where I still want to keep it on. Right now, I can get around 3 hours with Sherpa, when Defender scans. I tested yesterday without, it jumped up to around 4 hours, but I also at one point gave a Samsung phone a 9% charge boost on that 4-hoour runtime so not fully fair. @JamminJerry @tinygirl
Haha, wow, that’s an impressively nerdy setup 😄 I totally get it now. When you’re trying to eke every last watt out of a battery, even 2 or 3% CPU matters. Running a mini desktop off a Sherpa 100 AC is such a cool flex, but yeah, Windows doesn’t exactly care about “battery-conscious” mini-desktops. Task Scheduler is probably your best bet to tame Defender’s scans without disabling protection completely - if you still use it anyway. And wow, 3 to 4 hours on that setup is actually impressive, especially if you’re sneaking in a phone charge too! That gives me major respect for how much thought you’ve put into keeping the CPU near-zero idle. @JamminJerry @tinygirl
@tinygirl ok, I see how you can get to the different sections with ctrl+ tab, and shift+ctrl+tab, but when you do the ctrl+tab, it doesn't tell you what tab you are in, it jsut reads what ever setting you land on. interesting.,
@JamminJerry @tinygirl OOOh yeah, the shift+tab with control does work, wow that's a better way to do it than navigating outside the list to find sections for tabs!
What's funny is that ESET boasts being fully accessible with NVDA. Well, I mean, if oddly setup windows and a non-standard interface. Then yeah, it's amazing! lol
@mcourcel oh they do? wow! interesting. Yeah I could barely read my scan results, at least with the online scanner, so if that is your first entry point to the product it for sure gives zero confidence. Same with installers. Bit Defender might very well be accessible but if I need AIRA or another sighted person to get through it then just forget it lol
And this is too bad as BitDefender gets excellent test scores and I'd love to use it. However, I have to tell you that while MalwareBytes isn't perfectly accessible, their company is very receptive and responsive to receiving and addressing accessibility issues. One of their directors is Charles Opperman, who used to develop JAWS back in the day.
oh this is super delightful to know! I actually use malwarebytes when things aren't feeling right with the computer after boot, like extra sluggishness, so one in my toolbox at anytime to launch. Knowing they have someone from this A11Y space there is really neat.
In fact, when I reported some buttons that weren't being exposed to screen readers, the rep I was corresponding with said they had been fixed and that they were working for her. When I asked if she had tried using them with a screen reader, she responded as if to say, but of course I did, like, what was I thinking? She didn't say that, of course, but she definitely tried the screen with NVDA, which impressed me. Don't get me wrong; MalwareBytes does need some work. Combo boxes do work but they don't speak when they first gain focus and they have this annoying habit of putting the Close, Restore and Maximize buttoons in the tab order which is just silly and actually causes confusion when there's a different Close button right next to the Program Close button.
@Aryan oh not sure! There's so many out there. Ugh. I just grabbed one off github, but it's a very aggressive one. Like, you can tear out the entire Windows Security control panel and bits with it. github.com/ionuttbara/windows-… - there's also some that are using Powershell, ETC. Of course, Defender flags these as straight-up viruses but yet Eset and other scanners didn't, go figure, LOL
@Aryan well, it didn't actually disable UAC, unless they mean setting it down to 0, but not the registry tweak where it's fully disabled (everything runs as admin.) So not sure why, maybe that's all it changes in terms of UAC as I'm still able to run things as non-privileged by default.
figured it out. if you 7-zip the .exe file you can actually see its contents. It has a file, script_run.bat, that gets flagged by AV tools as the Trojan. LOL. and you can just read that file, its size matches what you're seeing, nothing scary, but looking at the different sections it runs a .reg that does this: "[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Policies\System] "ConsentPromptBehaviorAdmin"=dword:00000000 "PromptOnSecureDesktop"=dword:00000000 " - so just the consent behaviors it looks like, kind of ironic, less aggressive than I expected that way for sure.
@Aryan yeah, looks like that reg script just blocks smartscreen, disables the Spector / Meltdown mitegations (in modern 10th generation and above chips this matters less or AMD Zen 3/4), and does the UAC thing, oh, and disabling virtualization-based security. The security health app gets taken out with the defender option as well it looks like? Potentially not. But it does give you several levels to run, so you can keep the other bits whilst just disabling Defender which is nice. At this point I might just say to hell with it and tear it all out fully, not like that Windows Security app is something I look at and adore every single day for what it does or is telling me. If my AV works, my AV works, if it doesn't, my AV will tell me that.
A little hint for those who may not know. On this pc, since it's the company pc and I can't install things here, I run NVDA as a portable version. Therefore, if you ever want to install an NVDA addon that you downloaded from an external source such as Sonata voices or RHVoices, Windows does not automatically guess it's an NVDA addon, it asks with which program you want to open the NVDA addon...in that case, use: Install from external source within the #NVDA addon store installed addons tab. You'll then be presented with an open file/browse dialog, after which you can select wherever you put the Sonata voices or RHVoices addon, and it'll install as it should. After you've installed stuff from external sources, just tab to the close button and NVDA will come up with the normal dialog, Addons were installed/removed...you must restart NVDA for the changes to take effect...just press enter and it'll do it's thing, now you can use the addon/s you have installed.
Great tip! If it would help, we're happy to advocate with your employer to help you get NVDA installed. We also have a lot of the information we commonly get asked for by companies on a page at: nvaccess.org/corporate-governm…
@NVAccess I will post this link to our weekly meeting today. Thank you for the information. At the moment they have Dolphin/Supernova on here, and they insist on me using proprietory software...hides from supernova...it's laggy, and just not what I'm used to for the last 6 odd years, so I immediately quit it after the sign-in process, then launch NVDA Portable.
If they need any info from us, we're happy to chat with them - we have very strict procedures before any code is added to NVDA and it can only be done by staff - so really, it's no different to closed-source software, except that you can view our source code and verify it for yourself - oh, and it's free - that's usually a good incenstive for organisations :)
@NVAccess I'd like to report an adon in the adon store that possibly contains malware and is being flagged as malware by Windows Defender and other antivirus programs and therefore won't install. It is redundant anyway now since the thing it is built for is now included in NVDA as of the latest version. The adon in question is called "Tele NVDA Remote Assistance" by HM something (HMDorb? HMDub? something with HMD in the developer's name anyway) and I couldn't find a report feature in the store directly so that's why I'm reporting it directly in a post on Mastodon. Anyway I tried installing it myself and sure enough Windows Defender flagged it as a threat and stopped it from installing on my computer, so that's how I know it's Malware. The URL to the adon is github.com/nvda-es/TeleNVDA I strongly recommend you take a look as I think it's definitely got some sort of Malware in it. I have already reported it to Github so they can take a look on their end.
Echoing @cubic - we have looked at that & we believe it is a false positive. What is being flagged is basically the same as what was flagged in the original NVDA Remote & in our built in implementation until we reported it as a false positive and had it fixed. We have helped TeleNVDA report the false positive as well - it can just take awhile. We do actually virus check all add-ons (as well as all NVDA core code), and it's amazing(ly annoying) how often things get falsely falgged
@cubic That is good though that it is not actually harmful and that it's a false positive. I had a scare that people were downloading things with viruses in them lol. Thanks for alleviating our fears.
@cubic Not a problem, thanks for ensuring we knew! And one of the reasons we run everything through VirusTotal as well to ensure we keep on top of any potential issues - as much as possible - as mentioned, it's not perfect and there are false positives, but it's an extra line of defence to prompt manually checking.
@Aryan The first time you submit an add-on, it is manually reviewed, which usually takes 3-4 businss days - allow up to a week perhaps? Subsequent updates to THAT add-on are automatic, and generally take less than an hour - unless they are flagged by VirusTotal or CodeQL and require manual review.
@Aryan If you're submitting an update to an add-on you have previously submitted, then yes you can simply update it. If you want to submit an update to someone else's add-on, you'd need to either work out taking it over from that developer, or fork it and make it clear this is a new fork of that add-on.
Looks terrible. Developing a browser in a game engine means zero accessibility with multiple different assistive technologies. Using parts of HTML means you still need to develop an entire browser engine, or use webkit or something, meaning you're open to all of those security problems and can't really leave big tech behind. They could have at least used XHTML 1.1, meaning that you can parse it with an XML library. LUA, in fact, has a perfectly good XML library; you could parse the page in the same language as the scripts are written in...that's bound to have some advantages. And what's the point of replacing HTTPS if you're just going to re-invent all of the centralization and problems with SSL certs? This is in a super weird and awkward spot where it's both doing too much, and not enough, at the same time. Who's it for? It won't solve any of the issues with centralization, tracking, or privacy. It depends on big tech to exist. So why not just use the current web? Or if you don't like the current web, why not use something like Gemini?
I won't discourage ppl from trying new things but lua really seems like a downgrade in every way except to a superficial degree the language syntax is more consistent but less expressive
Wife had a job interview as the doctor she works with is going on maternity leave and she's kinda being left in limbo there
Them: so if you show up on time, you get $2/hr more. If you wear your uniform, you get $2/hr more. If you submit this paperwork on time, you get $2/hr more.
Her: Wait, what? Why is this a thing?
Them: oh you were born before 2000 weren't you? This is what we have to do now to get young people to actually follow the rules.
I just had a zoomer quit. He was only with the company 5 months and has to pay back $38k by year's end in relocation benefits. It goes up to $57k if he doesn't pay it all back in time, due to the "tax advantaged" nature of the package.
@black6 he'll never pay that back, it will have to go to collections. And then if he has half a brain he'll negotiate with them and demand they remove it from his credit history and settle it for like $200
* SMS Forwarding: listens for incoming SMS text messages and conditionally forwards them to other numbers 🛡️ * Retherm: converts RTD and thermocouples sensors to temperature 🛡️
RB status: 720 apps (55.5%) – a lucky number in the percentage 🤣
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).
Our ongoing repo reorg also resulted in other 8 apps having been removed, as they were no longer maintained AND rarely requested anymore:
* Elfreader * Fastair * Warpshare * OpenFarManager * Calculator (ha! yeah, which one 🙈 The one from 2016) * BookShelf * TailPos * domodel-diary
Our reorg is still ongoing, so more will probably follow. We hope the cleaning also makes it easier for you to find what you need in our repo, without distraction.
@deusfigendi Hehe, yeah. 500 char limit… ElfReader was just showing basic information on Linux ELF binaries. TailPOS was a point-of-saled app – and Open Far Manager a text-based file manager like Midnight Commander, or, Farr on Windows.
@deusfigendi We were asked to name the removed apps. Unfortunately, the 500 char limit at Mastodon doesn't allow to include extensive info or links for all. Would also mean a lot more effort to write those.
But there's light at the end of the tunnel; we hope to have something available toward the end of the year 🤞
Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post / "A firm working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a series of invoices for its “Influencer Campaign” to an international media group working for Israel. The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000 for 14-18 influencers to create content."
Anybody looking for #FreeBSD #ZFS job in Europe or Armenia? Take a look at lists.freebsd.org/archives/fre…. As I worked on that position until this August, I can only recommend it. The only reason I left is because of a full time open source position. Whoever fills in the position, I can promise you, you'll see wonders and make wonderful friends for life! 😃 I still chat with my old team members, and with some of them on a regular basis. In any case, good luck!
Multi-millionaire JK Rowling, who once published a book as a man, has decided to become a champion for the marginalised and vulnerable.. herself, apparently.
There's a lot of people in my timeline boosting and posting misinformation (and disinformation).
(eg that McAfee *unwittingly* posted an AI image of a woman with three hands - even though that was the *point* of the ad campaign... selling AI detection.
or that Madonna has rejected a $500 million dollar deal from Elon Musk)
Everyone can fall for misinfo. If you read a claim - ESPECIALLY IF YOU AGREE WITH IT OR GET JOY FROM IT - please verify it before you post or boost it.
Dont boost until you validate. Dont boost until you validate. Dont boost until you validate.
(and unboost or delete the post if you later find it to be fake)
Posting this as a personal reminder. I make mistakes too and have accidentally boosted false info in the past. Bonus points for anyone who sends this post back to me in the future when I make that mistake again 😅
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