Have you seen @nextcloud AI Assistant 2.0?

You can now chat about your own documents and data, use GPU acceleration, transcribe audio with Whisper, use your own LLMs, and a ton more integrations and new features.

All #open-source 😀

Boosts appreciated 🙏

nextcloud.com/blog/nextcloud-r…

#AI #mastodon #Linux #Foss #OSS

Lots of you have been in touch about changes with Voice Dream Reader, plus we learn about another cool obstacle avoidance device from CSUN. Oh, and could Apple AI be about to make accessibility tools even better? Check out today’s episode now in your favourite podcast app or here on Apple Podcasts - also availabe with a transcript. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/…

Anyone doing a 30-year retrospective on post-CATB open source?

Let me pitch a chapter on how it's a great example of how 1990s US-style libertarian thinking led to selectively ignoring environmental factors in describing behaviours, and in doing so, promoted exactly the wrong things as the keys to successful open source projects.

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in reply to Debacle

@debacle @valhalla I think it's almost always a good idea to define each acronym the first time it is used, in any kind of document.

In this case, bits.debian.org/2024/04/bits-f… is a fairly long text with "DPL" mentioned more than 20 times. Writing it out the first time would not take much space, and would help make the text a little bit more welcoming to newcomers.

in reply to Elias

@eliasr @debacle @valhalla

Hi from the Press Team! You are correct, sometimes we edit things and sometimes we do not, oft is is essential that the speaker speaks as intended and our edits would change the flow of the intention, so we leave them in.

Recently we are addressing this with a few policy changes on editing articles or submissions for publication, we of course invite you to join us: wiki.debian.org/Teams/Publicit…

Očividně tady někdo nestojí o konstruktivní zpětnou vazbu. 😄

Je to e-mail ze služby zvané Munipolis info.munipolis.cz/ a bohužel nikde v e-mailu se nenachází odkaz pro zadání zpětné vazby. Což by se zrovna v tomto případě hodilo, protože v něm byla pěkná blbost. 😕

Today I'm launching a project I've been working on for several months - a browsable directory of self-hosted software:

selfh.st/blog/introducing-self…

It's a supplemental tool to Awesome-Selfhosted and meant to be an alternate view focused on details that I personally find more relevant. And more importantly - it'll always be up-to-date as it's built on the dataset I use to monitor updates and releases for This Week in Self-hosted.

Feel free to reach out with feedback!

looking for software/infrastructure job in Germany, :boost_requested:​

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Actually, at some point I want to do a push protocol between AccessKit and an NVDA add-on, bypassing UIA. Then we could implement AccessKit support in alacritty or whatever, potentially covering all platforms, while on Windows, NVDA (or an add-on) could automatically speak any text added in the latest AccessKit tree update. The AccessKit model is already rich enough to distinguish between line wrapping and hard line breaks.
in reply to Matt Campbell

@matt Have you ever considered something like ARIA but for TTY applications? This would probably have to be done with escape codes, just like modern applications can e.g. emit links and images or make terminal text clickable. The terminal is supposed to be a more accessible interface than a GUI, but the lack of semantics often makes the opposite true. It wasn't so bad when all people had to play with was ASCII, but Unicode makes the problem that much worse. I'd be a much happier man if I never had to hear the words "box slide drawing horizontal" ever again in my life.

When Thunderbird for Android is ready for release, what will the upgrade path from K-9 Mail look like? Will both apps co-exist? Where does Mozilla Sync fit in?

Alex answers some of your burning questions about our Android plans in this short clip from our recent Community Office Hours session.

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#Android #Thunderbird #K9Mail

How secure is your #iPhone? 🛡️

Our security experts examine the threats to #iOS devices ranging from browser hijacking, to #Pegasus & #GoFetch.

Learn more & stay safe: tuta.com/blog/iphone-security-…

Are you a fan of iOS or do you prefer #Android? Let us know in the comments!

MiniDebconfBerlin 24 registration and CfP are open. The conference will take place Tue May 14th till Tue May 21st at c-base.org in Germany. See lists.debian.org/6183020.4L0H4… micronews.debian.org/2024/1712… #debian

I'm not a huge social personality, but I still can't quite leave twitter behind.

Yes, there is a bigger group, but there is a quality to it: it has to do with *who* follows me there, which are leftwingers, people from the industry, activists, influencers. People who add something to my experience there and, for whatever reason, don't want to leave twitter.

My threads account is just a placeholder until federation is up and running. Looking forward to @loops as a tiktok replacement.

in reply to modulux

@modulux This is a very apt metaphor. It is something I see happening on twitter. It more or less grows on its own.

There's an important caveat to that though, which is that if I go 'off topic', say, I post anything on supporting UNRWA, I immediately lose followers too.

Not that I care much (good riddance), but it is a reason I reframed my persona on mastodon to be broader than nuclear (although still mainly nuclear) a few months ago. Growth might be slower, but I attract the 'right' people.

in reply to Emil Jacobs - Collectifission

That's a good point, tempted to add something about quantisation or allowed states bu it would be pushing the metaphor beyond where it can really go.

Regarding that, on one hand I would really enjoy a circle-like system where I can expose different facets of what I want to post to different groups. On the other hand, maybe it's better to aim for integrity and show a more complete form of oneself, and at this I think the fedi is good.

Inspección de Trabajo acredita que la Universitat de Barcelona discriminó a un investigador por ser ciego eldiario.es/catalunya/inspecci…
in reply to Frantisek Nagy

Can we please raise that issue with brands like Samsung and whatever others? Because for sure I couldn't delete any of the junk Samsung bloatware from my phone when I had one. That kind of ain't fair. Apple lets you remove almost all apps, in fact, unlike Samsung. There is no way I could full on wipe them out, unless I went stock Android, but that's also inaccessible, requiring quite a lot of tech knowledge too.

It seems that #Fedilab started to fail for some instances. That happens on older devices (Android 5 and 6).
We will reintroduce conscrypt to patch the security provider for older devices.
github.com/google/conscrypt

This piece is worth reading if you’re in tech criticism or infosec/cybersecurity and are being asked for commentary on IoT and smart home devices.

People aren’t foolish for using IoT or for wanting things to be easier in their homes. This tech makes positive and meaningful change for people of all kinds of abilities. It’s valid to worry about the privacy or security issues that IoT is riddled with, but don’t draw a direct line from there to blaming the user - some people have no alternatives that don’t involve giving up independent access to their own homes and lives. Everyone deserves to live in ways that fit their needs.

Instead, join the push to hold manufacturers and providers to account for poor security and privacy practices. Advocate for better, more respectful and accessible default configurations. Help people understand how to anticipate and mitigate the worst of these issues when they’re setting things up, and give them power and agency over their home systems.

We all deserve to have tech that works for us, in all the ways that matters.

#accessibility
#a11y #infosec
#cybersecurity
#iot #smarthome

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Microsoft opens a "high priority" bug ticket in ffmpeg, attempting to leech the free labour of the maintainers


Microsoft employee:

Hi, This is a high priority ticket and the FFmpeg version is currently used in a highly visible product in Microsoft. We have customers experience issues with Caption during Teams Live Event. Please help


Maintainer's comment on twitter:

After politely requesting a support contract from Microsoft for long term maintenance, they offered a one-time payment of a few thousand dollars instead.

This is unacceptable.


And further:

The lesson from the xz fiasco is that investments in maintenance and sustainability are unsexy and probably won't get a middle manager their promotion but pay off a thousandfold over many years.

But try selling that to a bean counter

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