Update: This has been resolved. Okay passing this along, anyone who has @stirlock on Discord, ignore all messages from that account until now on Discord. He's been hacked with someone who will ask you to test a video game beta for ten or fifteen minutes and provide what looks like a Youtube link. Don't interact or anything with this link. Passing this on to get the word out that this is going around on Discord and he may not be the only account hacked doing this.
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With our latest article “Decentralized Socialist Economic Planning: The Report of Labor-Time Accounting’s Death Was an Exaggeration”, we go on the offensive, directly challenging Robin Hahnel’s (founder of Parecon) critique of labor-time calculation and demonstrating why it fails—and why, for precisely this reason, it remains the cornerstone of the growing debate on democratic, decentralized socialist planning:

arbeitszeitrechnung.org/en/dec…

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What could be the reason for #NVDA #NVDASR not running on UAC screens on my work Laptop even though I've copied the settings (including add ons, etc) to use on secure screens through the settings with administrator permissions?
Note: I don't have the administrator permissions when the UAC screen pops up, but NVDA should still start regardless. Also, on the login screen it works, it's really just the UAC (User account control) dialog, where its gone.
@NVAccess
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I just tried to have an AI-powered "screenReader" drag a song in a SPotify playlist one position upwards. Both songs were visible, and supposedly the AI knew exactly how to do this, and yet ...the poor thing kept going in circles trying to drag-and-drop things. Given every corporate high-flyer insists this is the best thing since porn, will this mean we FINALLY get an #accessible equivalent to drag-and-drop actions in popular applications? So the AI can use them? I mean hey, if that were to happen I guess I'll know a robot's more important than I am but hey, I'll take the win I suppose #dystopia

Welcome to the RB family, AntiQ 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.c…

AntiQ is an offline Android Music Player with some opinionated features and a distinctive User Interface tailored for large music libraries and collections. Joint efforts with its developer were fruitful, so now the APK for v1.7.0 was confirmed to be reproducible :awesome:

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* Tempus: an open-source and lightweight music client for Subsonic 🛡️

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

I hate that anyone named Melissa will now be associated with this potentially deadly hurricane. I have a friend named Katrina who changed her name to Kat after the 2005 hurricane killed nearly 1400 people.

Maybe we could just name hurricanes/cyclones after the oil companies and the billionaires who profit off them? Have to reuse the names a lot, but we can just add numbers, like we do for Kings or Popes: ExxonMobil III or BP XIX.

#Hurricane #Melissa

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25 years, one website: ISS in Real Time captures quarter-century on space station
From the makers of Apollo in Real Time comes a site with 500 times more data.
arstechnica.com/space/2025/10/…

Pretty wild that Unix and C didn't have getcwd until relatively recently (historically speaking -- it starts appearing in the 2.x BSD series and didn't make the POSIX.1 cut, finally landing in the 2001 rev).

As a result, there's a decade+ period where this is a perfectly reasonable way to get the current working directory path. This code is from the V7 tar implementation, but similar code appears in the shell.

Amusingly, the first documented reusable library version of getcwd that I can find appeared in 2.9BSD... in Fortran77 only.

How is the state of PDF #accessibility on macOS for #screenReader users? If I gave someone a PDF that was prepared in a fully #accessible way, what would they use to read it with #VoiceOver, and to what extent would the accessibility be retained?

Note that I'm specifically not interested in applications that strip out all of the text to essentially make a plain version. Those can be useful when you just need to read something and don't care how, but the degree to which accessible semantics like headings, tables, lists, etc. are kept at that point is usually zero.

I'm also not asking about applications that reinvent the accessibility for PDFs and ignore what's already there, as many browsers do.

in reply to James Scholes

Hmm. I know that NVDA and Acrobat has issues with line breaks, but did not know the opposite was true in Firefox, i.e., it added breaks where there were none:
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue…
#CC @jcsteh
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There's a thing that @nick and Bob couldn't talk about they've been teasing.

Now they can talk about it.

That and more on the Digital Domain Online Radio Show at 7 PM EDT. Those in Europe please take note of the time zone difference, for this week only, it's an hour early for you.

HKCRadio.com

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'AI' Sucks the Joy Out of Programming

I’ve used spicy auto-complete, as well as agents running in my IDE, in my CLI, or on GitHub’s server-side. I’ve been experimenting enough with LLM/AI-driven programming to have an opinion on it. And it kind of sucks.

alexn.org/blog/2025/10/27/ai-s…

#AI #Opinion #Programming #ProgrammingRant

A mundanely fantastical poll, contains friendly spider mention, no image!

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A little Monday morning free labor to remind people that CSS-only widgets are not accessible (anchor link):
css-tricks.com/pure-css-tabs-w…

I appreciate the author asked for feedback. I don’t appreciate I found this because someone assumed it was accessible based on that one heading.

#HTML #CSS #accessibility #a11y

The sad truth is, computers have always been fascist technology.

IBM helped the Nazis organize and tally the Holocaust.

Early computers were used for weapon calculations, from artillery to missiles to nuclear weapons, etc.

The web was used at first as a way to disseminate information (CERN) but quickly mutated into the ungodly spawn of Edward Bernays public influence and Jeremy Bentham panopticon (Google, NSA).

It brings to mind the Soviet critique of US cybernetics.

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in reply to Parade du Grotesque 💀

Neil deGrasse Tyson wrote a little book about how every scientific advance in astrophysics gets used for war. A complementary book on computer science could also be written about the same type of thing...

neildegrassetyson.com/books/20…

Libervia CLI Tip 13:

Somebody is annoying you or you're receiving unwanted messages? You can block a single entity with `li blocking block some_jid@example.org` or a whole domain with `li blocking block example.net`.

See who is already blocked with `li blocking list`, and remove an entity from the list with `li blocking unblock some_jid@example.org`.

The commands use XEP-0191, which must be supported by your server.

libervia.org/__b/doc/backend/l…

#Libervia #CLI #li #tips #xmpp #spam

The lack of #accessibility aside, this was a fun read about many other ways in which this is not the year of #Linux on the phone:

medium.com/@mathias-steiner/mo…

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Semi-personal commentary:

The NSF's terms were quite perverse – even ignoring the clear ethical fuckery they demanded.

"Promoting a diverse and international Python community" is written into our IRS-registered mission. Accepting the NSF's terms would have meant using funds in a fashion contrary to the mission that gives us a non-profit status in the US, and explaining that to the IRS in four years time would have been a heck of a time.

pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/N…

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good on the python software foundation, refusing US grant money rather than sacrificing the community
fosstodon.org/users/ThePSF/sta…


TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/N…
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