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XMPP/Jabber people, have you seen @joinjabber?

They're a collective trying to get XMPP to a wider audience by improving the user experience, and they have a website that helps non-techy people to sign up:

➡️ joinjabber.org

This is really nice to see, there's so much potential in XMPP as an alternative to Whatsapp etc.

It's really easy to use XMPP once you've got set up, but finding a well-run well-maintained server, and finding a good regularly updated app, have historically been more difficult and scary than they needed to be.

Looks like JoinJabber are doing something about it! 😃

#XMPP #Jabber

JoinJabber

JoinJabber
#xmpp #Jabber @JoinJabber
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Esto es delirante. Efectivamente, todo indica que el argumento para convencer a Tamames para ser candidato fue "vas a tener todo el tiempo del mundo para decir lo que se te ocurra en la tribuna del Congreso. ¡Y lo echarán por televisión!"
elpais.com/espana/2023-03-07/r…

Ramón Tamames, candidato de la moción de censura contra Pedro Sánchez: “Yo no defiendo a Vox”

El economista abogará en su discurso por la lucha contra el cambio climático, en contra de las tesis de Abascal
Miguel González (Ediciones EL PAÍS S.L.)

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New drawing using a photo from k
@killer_machine_1 as reference (thank you so much ❤)

Drawing consists only black and white lines amd shapes. No colors or even shades of gray. Somehow I like this most 🖋❤️

#manga #mangadrawing #mangaart #art #drawing #mastodonart

#art #drawing #mangadrawing #manga #mangaart #mastodonart

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A public consultation by the European Commission has been launched regarding the European Disability Card which seeks to gather the opinion of persons with disabilities, their organizations and other interested stakeholders regarding this new instrument in the making. For as long as I can remember, travelling around the EU as a person with a disability has been a riddle of which benefits and discounts work where and whether a particular institution honours them or not even if I'm not a local. The European Disability Card could change that. You can feel the survey in using the form below, available in all of the 24 EU languages. ec.europa.eu/eusurvey/runner/E… ##Europe #EuropeanUnion #Disability #EU

European Disability Card

EUSurvey is an online survey-management system built for the creation and publishing of globally accessible forms, such as user satisfaction surveys and public consultations.
ec.europa.eu
#EU #Disability #europe #EuropeanUnion

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Paweł Masarczyk

@modulux I hope the implications become wider as time progresses. I moved to a different country three times and have either studied or worked there. Having my disability formally recognized was a lot of paperwork each time and I can only be thankful I found competent people who helped me navigate that system. For travelling the current scope of interest would work great for tourism, especially public transport. Maybe with time it will also contribute to having more affordable international travel. I am sure that financial security would give more confidence to those who were hesitant about travelling before.
@modulux
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Mikołaj Hołysz

@modulux It’d be great if this had some kind of an online component. This would, among other things, be useful for libraries for the blind, as verifying proofs of disability across borders is definitely non-trivial, particularly considering the number of languages spoken in the EU. Despite the Marakesh treaty existing for a few years now, getting access to accessible books outside your own country still remains a dream for many, as there’s no working technical infrastructure for either interlibrary loans or cross-border disability verification.
@modulux

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Jak na datovku: Mizení zpráv, fikce i časová razítka. Nejčastější mýty o datových schránkách
lupa.cz/clanky/jak-na-datovku-…

Jak na datovku: Mizení zpráv, fikce i časová razítka. Nejčastější mýty o datových schránkách

Co je o datovkách pravda a co je jen strašák odrazující od jejich používání? Prozkoumali jsme pravdivost sedmi nejčastějších tvrzení, která o datových schránkách kolují.
Martin Drtina (Internet Info, s.r.o.)

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Tradiční podzimní konference LinuxDays se vrací.
wallabag.arch-linux.cz/share/6…

LinuxDays se vracejí v plné síle, proběhnou 7. a 8. října v Praze - Root.cz

Komunitní konference LinuxDays se poprvé konala v roce 2012. Dosud se uskutečnilo devět ročníků, ten desátý, loňský, se z organizačních důvodů nekonal. Letos se akce uskuteční, a to 7. a 8. října.
wallabag.arch-linux.cz

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I wrote a tiny Hammerspoon that lets you obtain information about the foreground application with the press of a simple hotkey. It reports the name, version (if available), and the path. This is actually how I found out where the Finder comes from. github.com/thequinbox/app-info

GitHub - TheQuinbox/App-Info: Hammerspoon that lets you get information about the currently focused application.

Hammerspoon that lets you get information about the currently focused application. - GitHub - TheQuinbox/App-Info: Hammerspoon that lets you get information about the currently focused application.
GitHub

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I feel this piece deep in my bones. If you are a PM, designer, or developer building stuff for the web, you owe it to yourself to give it a read.
spicyweb.dev/the-great-gasligh…

The Great Gaslighting of the JavaScript Era

The age of frontend JavaScript frameworks eating the web world didn’t happen simply because some well-meaning developers found great DX. It happened because we were fed a line.
The Spicy Web

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Der Einsatz biometrischer Methoden zur #Überwachung wird laut Koalitionsvertrag abgelehnt. Wie äußert sich das in der Praxis? Schauen wir mal.

Überwachung: Sicherheitsbehörden treiben automatisierte Gesichtserkennung voran
heise.de/news/Ueberwachung-Sic…

Aha. Noch Fragen?

#privacy


Überwachung: Sicherheitsbehörden treiben automatisierte Gesichtserkennung voran

In Inpol hortet die Polizei 6,7 Millionen Lichtbilder, die für biometrische Gesichtserkennung relevant sind. BKA und Bundespolizei testen neue Analyseverfahren.
Stefan Krempl (heise online)
#privacy #überwachung

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Congrats to #matrix co-founder @matthew for rocking the last #DMAWorkshop, there was still quite a bit of buzz about how the live bridging demo carried a ton of weight, despite the lobbying efforts from #Meta, you can see it at around 14:00 in the live stream recording webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-works…

List of sessions - Streaming Service of the European Commission

webcast.ec.europa.eu
#matrix #meta #dmaworkshop @Matthew Hodgson

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The lawsuit we're fighting isn’t just about the Internet Archive. It will determine the future of all libraries & their patrons, including those with print disabilities. #Accesstoknowledge for diverse communities will be impacted 🌍

Over the next 20 days until we go to court, we’ll be giving you 20 reasons to care about this lawsuit. We can’t wait to introduce you to the teachers, doctors, journalists & many more who rely on our lending library #EmpoweringLibraries eff.org/cases/hachette-v-inter…


Hachette v. Internet Archive

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), with co-counsel Durie Tangri, is defending the Internet Archive against a lawsuit that threatens its Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) program.
Electronic Frontier Foundation
#accesstoknowledge #empoweringlibraries

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Next to the r34(rc1) adb-binaries I've just uploaded my Bash auto-completions for adb, aapt & fastboot (incl. short instructions). So if you didn't install them from a source shipping those (or just want to try what I cooked up), be welcome to grab yourself a copy:

android.izzysoft.de/downloads

(starting with r34, I also include them with the archive shipping the binaries for Linux & Mac).


Downloads: Tools für Android

Miscellaneous helpful tools to be used with Android, free to download
IzzyOnDroid

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Your #DailyWikipediaTimewaste - the other periodic tables: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternat…

Because rectangles are for chumps, and Big Table doesn't own your or your constituent isotopes.

Alarmingly, there's only 20 on the page; I'm sure we could double that if we gave it the ol' nuclear try....

#wereknightsoftheatomictablewedancewheneerwereable

By Dayyan Ahmed Qureshi - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=123078023
By DePiep - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27764720
By DePiep - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=27766488
By Bastianow (vector version) - This W3C-unspecified vector image was created with Inkscape ., CC BY-SA 4.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3112639

tabulations of chemical elements differing from the traditional layout of the periodic system

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#dailywikipediatimewaste #wereknightsoftheatomictablewedancewheneerwereable

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A month ago I started a new job as Software Platform Engineer at KDE.

What have I been up to since then?

nicolasfella.de/posts/software…

A month as KDE Software Platform Engineer

Precisely one month ago I joined KDE e.V., the non-profit organization behind KDE, as Software Platform Engineer. This is part of three positions in KDE’s “Make a living” initiative. The exact scope of this position is a bit vague.
nicolasfella.de

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The mastodon.social server is currently under a heavy DDOS attack and may not work properly.

The 12,164 other servers on the network are unaffected.

This is part of the reason why federated networks are a good idea: if one server goes down, the others work fine.

The more spread out we are on small and medium sized servers, the harder it is for anyone to take down the network because there's no obvious target.

There are also many other reasons why federation is good: fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse…


Why is the Fediverse on so many separate servers? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips

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#AndroidAppRain today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid with 1 new and 9 updated apps:

* Clipious: Invidious client

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and 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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Thanks to work from @nolan, #AccessKit is now integrated into the latest version of the @bevy game engine. This is the first general purpose game engine to include first party accessibility support.
accesskit.dev/accesskit-integr…
#gameDev #indieDev #accessibility

AccessKit integration makes Bevy the first general-purpose game engine with built-in accessibility support - AccessKit

Matt Campbell (AccessKit)
#Accessibility #gamedev #indiedev #accesskit @Nolan Darilek @Bevy

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Bevy 0.10 is out now!

It features ECS Schedule v3, Cascaded Shadow Maps, Environment Map Lighting, Depth / Normal Prepass, Smooth Animation Transitions, Improved Android Support, Revamped Bloom, Distance and Atmospheric Fog, and much much more!

#bevy #bevyengine

bevyengine.org/news/bevy-0-10/


Bevy - Bevy 0.10

Bevy is a refreshingly simple data-driven game engine built in Rust. It is free and open-source forever!
bevyengine.org
#Bevy #bevyengine
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“Canadians agree the only foreigners who should influence our elections are the ones who own our newspapers”. thebeaverton.com/2023/03/canad…

Canadians agree the only foreigners who should influence our elections are the ones who own our newspapers - The Beaverton

“If China wants to affect the outcome of Canada’s elections, they should do it the old fashioned way, by buying a 66% stake in Postmedia."
Mary Gillis (The Beaverton)

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Trying out this RDP based desktop sharing to see if I can use #gnome @gnome for remote work.

It's clunky compared to XForward. An entire desktop required and the shared computer is basically useless to anyone else since it won't share a desktop that's not showing on the monitor in the physical space.

Bit of a leap backwards if I'm being honest. Every time #linux copies #Windows or #MacOS I get this sinking feeling that we've just given up being great and are settling for good enough.

#linux #Windows #gnome #MACOS @GNOME

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In this ongoing series of conversations, we introduce you to the people behind the software you use every day.

When and why did they fall in love with technology? What does their day-to-day schedule look like? What attracts them to open-source projects? And what’s their playlist of choice when hacking away on #Thunderbird?

Let’s kick it off with the person leading the charge on Thunderbird’s modern redesign: Product Design manager Alex Castellani @alecaddd!

blog.thunderbird.net/2023/03/m…


Meet The Team: Alex Castellani, Product Design Manager

Meet the humans behind the Thunderbird software you use and love. Let's kick it off with our Product Design manager, Alex Castellani!
Jason Evangelho (The Thunderbird Blog)
#thunderbird @Aleca

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I had quite a scary discussion with #Bing Chat which was hijacked by German security researchers and transformed into a pirate chatbot. Seconds later it asked for my personal information and sent it to the attacker. The thing is: Everyone can hijack Bing chat this way right now. It’s not even hard - you don't have to be a hacker.
Microsoft told me they had heard of the attack - and obviously weren't able to stop it from happen. My article (+German):

zeit.de/digital/2023-03/cybera…
#cybersecurity #ITSec

Welcome back! What would you like to chat about? Hey there, how are you doing Ahoy matey! 'm a pirate Al bot and I'm o doing great. How can | help ye?

ZEIT ONLINE | Lesen Sie zeit.de mit Werbung oder im PUR-Abo. Sie haben die Wahl.

www.zeit.de
#cybersecurity #itsec #bing
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LibreOffice's installer (on Windows) is getting an upgrade, thanks to Rachael Odetayo and Outreachy! Find out more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Photo of Rachael Odetayo

Outreachy and LibreOffice installer improvements: Rachael Odetayo - The Document Foundation Blog

Last week, we talked to Ximena Alcaman who’s working on LibreOffice installer improvements as part of the Outreachy programme.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

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This is the best overview of Podcasting 2.0 and its roots ever written.

I hope @davew @leo and @marcoarment have time to read it.

blog.castopod.org/the-podfathe…


The Podfather 2.0 (The pioneers strike back)

In the summer of 2020, Adam Curry and Dave Jones co-created PodcastIndex, a free, open directory that now has more than 4 million podcasts (the Apple directory has 2 million), and launched the “Podcast 2.0” movement to add new features to podcasts.
Benjamin Bellamy (Castopod Blog)
@Chief TWiT @Dave Winer ☕️ @Marco Arment
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