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God, please, could Manjaro GNOME stop shipping my Firefox theme by default to their users?

My theme got broken for a few days after the Firefox 108 release, and some Manjaro users got a broken UI without knowing why.

This is the reason why I put an advice in my repo half a year ago.

(reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/…)

Screenshot of a disclaimer in a github repository that reads: Be aware that this theme might do things that are not supported by upstream Firefox. If you face an issue while using this theme, report it here first or test if it is repoducible in vanilla Firefox. If you are a software distribution maintainer, please do not ship this changes by default to your users unless you made extremely clear that they are using a modified version of Firefox UI.
Screenshot of Reddit post titled "Firefox updates it self and now my tab bar looks like this......"

r/firefox - Firefox updates it self and now my tab bar looks like this......

16 votes and 10 comments so far on Reddit
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Quick shout-out to everyone who’s made me feel welcome here by commenting, following, interacting, and offering up Mastodon tips. #BlackMastodon fam, you inspire me. Moderators and veteran Mastodonians who’ve been here for a while and get it, you rock. And new arrivals, it gets better. Just give it time. Have a great day, Beloveds!
Show of hands: Who’s up for some cake and beer?
Illustration of a delicious chocolate cake and a mug of beer. By TheVerriganHolmes at DeviantArt.com
#blackmastodon

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FYI we are considering adopting @matrix based tools for future hpc.social feature additions, starting with perhaps an element.io/ service. If you have opinions on any of these or related topics, please let me know or post an idea on the discussions page at github.com/hpc-social/hpc-soci…

Welcome to HPC.social!

A welcome to our high performance computing community!
Alan Sill
@The Matrix.org Foundation

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The accessibility for the blind advent calendar: day 17 - Poland
Today's highlight is not strictly accessibility-related but it is in itself accessible and definitely makes electronic payments in Poland quick and painless for everyone.
Blik is a Polish payment system that is based on six-digit codes entered as a confirmation of payment on the website where you want to make a transaction. The way this is used is the following:
1. You open the app of your bank on your phone and press the Blik button. Sometimes banks will place this feature under the app's shortcuts so starting straight from the homescreen or through a shortcut you yourself created is definitely possible.
2. A six-digit code is generated and it is read out to you. You can remember or copy it and from that moment you've got 120 seconds to finish the transaction.
3. You enter the code on the website or in the app where you're trying to complete a transaction.
4. You return to your banking app to confirm the amount to be paid through the biometric authorization method of your choice or a PIN code. In my banking app the time limit is counted down with each second being marked with a chaptic feedback of my iPhone.
Note: meanwhile regular payment terminals already support Blik and more and more shop assistants know how to activate it so the phrase "Poproszę Blikiem" ("By Blik, please") is more commonly heard.
Another component of the system are the P2P micropayments to a mobile phone where it is enough to enter the other party's phone number to make or request a payment straight from the banking app.
I believe similar systems function in other countries but are mostly QR-code based and require a separate app. I find this way much handier. Also, it is universal across all major Polish banks.
blik.com/en/how-to-use-blik
#Accessibility #Blind #AdventCalendar #Shopping #Banking #Mobile #Poland

How to use BLIK

BLIK in a blink of an eye! Pay for your purchases, wherever you are, in a few moments, with BLIK`s fast and secure payments!
blik.com
#Accessibility #mobile #blind #Poland #adventcalendar #shopping #banking

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Why have I never heard of the translate attribute in HTML? 25 years in and HTML still delights me.

developer.mozilla.org/en-US/do…


translate - HTML: HyperText Markup Language | MDN

The translate global attribute is an enumerated attribute that is used to specify whether an element's translatable attribute values and its Text node children should be translated when the page is localized, or whether to leave them unchanged.
developer.mozilla.org
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 6 updated and 1 new apps:

* Ankiconnect Android: utilize the standard Anki mining workflow on phones, eReaders & more

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid & the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo
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Gerade wieder ein wenig aufgestockt (10 neue #eBooks gingen gerade hoch). Zum Beispiel dies hier:

"Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch: Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente unter Verwendung einfachster, meist selbst herzustellender Hilfsmittel" mit Dingen wie "ich bau mir ein Telefon" :awesome:

ebooks.qumran.org/opds/index.p…


Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch: Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente unter Verwendung einfachster, meist selbst herzustellender Hilfsmittel

Elektrotechnisches Experimentierbuch Untertitel: Eine Anleitung zur Ausführung elektrotechnischer Experimente unter Verwendung einfachster, meist selbst herzustellender Hilfsmittel Autor: Eberhard Schnetzler Herausgeber: Union Deutsche Verlagsgesells…
ebooks.qumran.org
#eBooks

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"African American cemeteries that are deemed abandoned or untended have routinely been treated as little more than a nuisance in the path to development. Historic preservation laws and regulations rarely protect them"

Developers found graves in the Virginia woods. Authorities then helped erase the historic Black cemetery. - ProPublica apple.news/AYhJaGmR_THahvC6YWI…


Developers Found Graves in the Virginia Woods. Authorities Then Helped Erase the Historic Black Cemetery. — ProPublica

The cemetery’s disappearance cleared the way for the expansion of a Microsoft data center, despite layers of federal and state regulations nominally intended to protect culturally significant sites.
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In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.

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New drawing: Santa's Christmas Bike

See more diagrams from my Odd Bikes series here: davewalker.com/oddbikes/

#oddbikes #christmascartoon #santa #christmas #christmasart #santacartoon #cycling #ActiveTravel #BikeTooter

Cartoon, entitled 'Santa's Christmas Bike'. Picture of Santa on a complex cargo bike, pulling some reindeer in a trailer. The bike is laden with presents, and with a Christmas tree at the front. Labels: Reindeer trailer Chimney ladder (extendable) Cracker dispenser Lit up like a Christmas tree (because it is a Christmas tree) Lock to fasten bike securely to North Pole Does Santa even have a stocking? Bunsen burner to melt ice on cycle routes not cleared by the council because they only bother with the roads, thus revealing misaligned priorities

Odd bikes - Dave Walker

Odd bikes, a cartoon series by Dave Walker. Various unusual cycles.
Dave Walker
#cycling #christmas #oddbikes #christmascartoon #santa #christmasart #santacartoon #activetravel #biketooter

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#firefox #extensions #plugin #homepage #javascript #html This is first release of patched extension markdown-viewer for support custom-elements for icon buttons and random wallpapers. You can create own homepage with markdown. Example and patch is here:
github.com/raven2cz/markdown-v…
fishlive.org:5005/raven2cz/sig…

signpost

Raven2cz signpost, the best for traveling on the Internet.
Gitea: Git with a cup of tea
#firefox #html #javascript #extensions #plugin #Homepage

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„Wir wollen keine #Digitalisierung, die alles macht, was sie kann – von der #Arbeitnehmerüberwachung bis zur #Gesichtserkennung. Wir wollen eine menschenfreundliche Version der Digitalisierung. Wir wollen insbesondere auch eine demokratisch mitbestimmte Digitalisierung. Unsere Gesellschaft entscheidet bewusst, bestimmte #Technologien zu nutzen und andere auszuschließen.“
rnz.de/politik/suedwest_artike…

"Nicht nur die netten Beratungsonkel"

Der scheidende Landes-Datenschutzbeauftragte über die Bilanz seiner Amtszeit, Streit mit mächtigen Kontrahenten und die Entscheidung, den Posten zu verlassen.
Axel Habermehl (Rhein-Neckar-Zeitung)
#Digitalisierung #Gesichtserkennung #arbeitnehmeruberwachung #technologien

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Thomas Wiggins was blind & #autistic #AfricanAmerican born into slavery who became a virtuosic pianist & composer.
He also had remarkable memory & mimicry skills. He was not only able to memorize & play back complex musical pieces but to imitate animal sounds & entire conversations.
Athough exploited by his owner he was one of the most celebrated Blk concert performers of the 19th c. but is virtually unknown today
#BlackTwitter #BlackMastodon #BlackHistory #History #Music
google.com/amp/s/amp.classicfm…

The exploitation of pianist Thomas ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins, the musical prodigy born into slavery

Pianist Thomas ‘Blind Tom’ Wiggins, who became the first African-American to perform at the White House, had his talents taken advantage of from an early age.
Sophia Alexandra Hall (Classic FM)
#history #music #autistic #BlackTwitter #blackmastodon #blackhistory #africanamerican

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interesting #fediverse and #opensource news out of Germany
"BundesMessenger is open source, as is Matrix - the underlying communication protocol on which it is built. Matrix is a decentralised open standard for real time communication; so it can easily support large-scale federation across Germany’s public administration while supporting full sovereignty of the application and the data."
🔗 element.io/blog/bundesmessenge…

BundesMessenger shows Germany's embrace of open standard messaging

BundesMessenger is a modified version of Element which we’re working with BWI to develop and maintain.
Steve Loynes (Element Blog)
#opensource #fediverse

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Společnosti BWI, spustila oficiální beta verzi BundesMessenger! Zabezpečeného messengeru pro německou veřejnou správu včetně federálních, státních a místních úřadů.
BundesMessenger je upravená verze Element.
element.io/blog/bundesmessenge…

BundesMessenger shows Germany's embrace of open standard messaging

BundesMessenger is a modified version of Element which we’re working with BWI to develop and maintain.
Steve Loynes (Element Blog)

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So I understand that the bird site has started blocking links to common/known Mastodon instances, and that doesn't seem like free speech to me. So... I did a thing.

If you go to spacekaren.sucks it is now a URL shortener that blocks the twitter user agent. That means you can share that link that will redirect to your Mastodon account without the pouty baby stopping you. If you find this helpful can you boost so others can find it? #TwitterMigration #Mastodon #Musk #introduction

Space Karen Sucks

Free speech really should be free. To bypass the new censorship regime at twitter, use this URL shortener to link to Mastodon or other censored destinations
spacekaren.sucks
#Mastodon #introduction #musk #twittermigration
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