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Days since Brodie Robertson has blocked progress on Wayland while blaming others for doing exactly that: 0

He knows the consequences of what he does, he knows his viewers turn the threads toxic, he knows that it destroys any remaining progress, he knows that developers get harassed and receive death threats because of it.

He has been told by the CoCC that this behavior is a problem.

He denies any responsibility.

This has been going on for years at this point.

Brodie often features free software developers in his videos/podcasts, which gives him some relevance and is partially responsible for his following. So this is to my fellow developers: if you collaborate with Brodie, you are contributing to the harassment and I will hold you accountable for it.

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Trafotin

The sign of abuse is when someone asks you to stop and then you make a video saying you won't. I'd give him a shovel, but the hole is already pretty deep.

Curiously, said video is excluded from Bluesky and Mastodon: youtube.com/watch?v=OqsRFXnCzw…


The FOSS News Grind Never Stops

Today I wanted to talk about why I cover the projects that I do, why I talk about so many FOSS repos, why I talk about projects like Wayland as much as I do....
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TheEvilSkeleton 🇮🇳 🏳️‍⚧️

>*points at targeted individual* - "guys, don't harass this person!"
>*puts individual in the spotlight* - "guys I repeat, don't harass this person!!"
>*repeatedly mentions this individual negatively, makes them the center of attention several times, with full knowledge that their viewers are known to harass this person* - "guys stop harassing this person!!! y'all are not normal!!! It is totally NOT me making them an easy target, obviously!!! oh by the way, feel free to insult them on stage :D"
>*surprised pickachu face* - "why does this individual not like me :c"

@swick


What did I do to deserve this?

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 14 updated and 1 added apps:

* HiddenSettings: helps you access Android
settings and activities your ROM or launcher doesn’t expose 🛡️

RB Status: 752 apps (58.3%)

5 unmaintained apps have been removed:

- Lifyzer: +NonFreeComp
- Sangeet (MusicPlayer)
- Pebble Dashboard +NonFreeComp +NoSourceSince
- Wake on Lan: +NonFreeComp +NonFreeNet +KnownVuln
- Beat Addiction (defunc)

Enjoy your #free #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).
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#free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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Esteban Küber

@matt exactly, but even more insidious detail: it's like a blind person making that argument because they have already adapted to the far from perfect status quo. And pointing at people who haven't and blaming them saying that if they don't put the effort to figure it out then they shouldn't be using computers. Now that I write that out, I have encountered people like that.
@Matt Campbell

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I have just found a nice document scanning app for android that can do automatic edge detection, cropping, multipage scanning, OCR, PDF export and more.
It's called #makeacopy and it's using #tesseract engine to perform the OCR directly on the device with no internet connectivity requirement at all.
The app has almost full #a11y support for screen reader users in the sense that all the controls are clearly labelled and it's easy to navigate.
I can't resist and I have asked the developer if it would be doable to add a screen reader compatible notifications making the automatic edge detection somehow accessible as well.
Now I'd appreciate comments from low vision screen reader users, mobility trainers, people assisting other blind people or others who might be able to tell if my idea is viable and how much you like it?
Here is link to the github issue I have started: github.com/egdels/makeacopy/is…

Thanks for looking into it.

#a11y #tesseract #makeacopy

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1/

Da mich diese Frage umtrieb:
Sollen wir auf Plattformen wie NIUS interagieren?

Mein Fazit nach zwei Angriffen in drei Tagen.

Ich habe mein Schutzteam gefragt, ob es klug war, dass meine Community unter dem NIUS-Artikel kommentiert hat.
Danke an alle, die durch ein Newsletter-Abonnement dieses finanzieren!!

Die Antwort war eindeutig: Ja.
Warum?

Ressourcenbindung: Jeder NIUS-Follower, der dort in den Kommentaren gebunden ist, hängt nicht bei mir ab und attackiert mich nicht direkt.

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Katja Diehl

4/4

Autoritäre Kräfte setzen darauf, dass wir verstummen. Dass wir uns zurückziehen. Dass wir aufgeben.

Danke an alle, die sich einmischen. Die kommentieren. Die widersprechen. Die da sind.
Ihr seid nicht nur Schutz für mich – ihr seid Schutz für unsere Demokratie.

Pusht das hier to the limit!
Danke an alle, die verstehen, was wirklich zählt ❤

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Hello friends, I have good news.
Thanks to you, I was able to collect 500 euros for the apartment rent.
But I still need 100 euros.
Is there anyone who can donate, even a small part?
I am sure you can help.
I love you all.
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Save Mohammad and his family from hunger and extermination

My name is Mohammad Mazen Dawood. I am 20 years old and from northern Gaza. I was a computer engineering student, full of hope and passion to finish my degree and start working to support my family.
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Einladung zur Online-Reihe „Inklusion in Bibliotheken“: Barrierefreie Medien – ein Baustein... blog-servicekommission.bibliot…

Einladung zur Online-Reihe „Inklusion in Bibliotheken“: Barrierefreie Medien – ein Baustein inklusiver Bibliotheksarbeit – Kundenorientierter Service – Blog der dbv-Kommission

blog-servicekommission.bibliotheksverband.de

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I am on an academic committee that for some reason tomorrow is discussing the ChatGPT Atlas Browser: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChatGPT_…

Several objections will be raised!

Some of my concerns are to do with critical reasoning, natural resources, user lock-in, the extraction of training data.... but I would appreciate hearing your thoughts about other themes I might bring up. Thanks in advance.

#ai #academia #policy #web


web browser developed by OpenAI

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#AI #web #policy #academia
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Zach Bennoui

I'm also concerned about those things, but more than that why do people want this? Does anyone want this? I don't really care. Honestly, I would never use it. I'm not anti AI, I think it actually is really cool and can have good utility if used in the right way, but if it's not able to help you complete tasks more quickly and just summarizes pages or whatever why is it necessary? Doesn't really make sense to me. Also the models should be local, not hosted on a cloud somewhere.

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Semi-periodic reminder that the DM feature here is utterly broken and should not be regarded as "private" in any meaningful sense. And its semantics seem designed to violate the principle of least surprise.

Example: ANYONE mentioned in a message, not just tagged at the start, is a recipient. So if you send someone a DM that says "That @mattblaze guy is an ignorant moron", I get a copy.

I was reminded of this behavior just now.

@Matt Blaze

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A while back I was making an animation of some caterpillars & found dragging the timeline scrubber back & forth in time with the music playing in the room most entertaining.

Now, if this makes you think "what a foolish thing to be entertained by" you probably want to scroll on. This post is not for you.

If this makes you think "hey - I want to make a caterpillar dance" then you want to click this link. Oh aye.

eclectech.co.uk/discoCaterpill…

#sillyScribbles #interactive #caterpillar #nonsense

Wiggle-Me Disco Caterpillar

I'm a disco ball antenae'd caterpillar! Put on some cheery sounds and make me dance. Oh aye.
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#sillyscribbles #nonsense #interactive #caterpillar

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Veterans and activists in Tuscon have gathered to protest Mike Johnson’s decision to not seat Adelita Grijalva.

#BlueCrew #TruthWarriors #Resist #ResistTrump #StrongerTogether #JusticeForAll

#resist #bluecrew #truthwarriors #strongertogether #resisttrump #justiceforall

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Can someone who uses voiceover on iOS 26 please confirm this? Or am I going mad?

Opened the kindle app, did a thing, continued with ma day. Cycled back to it later in app switcher, voiceover fully announces the app as “shit”. If you swipe up, it says close kindle. I’ve yet to check but I’m pretty certain this isn’t a drunken / stupendously high dictionary entry, as it reads kindle normally everywhere else.

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