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My interview with @Tutanota is live! We discuss the world of end-to-end encryption, user privacy, and so much more! I asked some tough questions and it only reassured me their team is the real deal—keep rocking it! 🔥
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Who Runs Your Email? Revealing Tuta's Security with Hanna Bozakov

In this interview, we chat with Hanna Bozakov, press officer at Tuta (formerly Tutanota), a leading secure email service provider. Dive deep into the world o...
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This is as good a time as any to remind folks that Donald Trump demanded the braille be removed from the Trump Tower elevators, because he didn’t want blind people to stay there. Based! archpaper.com/2018/09/trump-to… (previous link was paywalled)

Trump reportedly pressured architects to remove braille from Trump Tower elevators

Barbara Res, the former vice president of construction for the Trump Organization, recently published an op-ed in the New York Daily News, which alleges that Donald Trump once pressured an architect to remove the braille signage from the elevators in…
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Chi Kim

@FreakyFwoof Also this is a good time to remind folks that bunch of republicans mocked #Kamala providing a brief visual self description at the roundtable discussion with #disability rights activists. Regardless whether self description is useful for visually impaired people or not, at least she acknowledged and tried to be inclusive. msnbc.com/opinion/msnbc-opinio…

Kamala Harris accommodating disabled people provokes GOP attack

The Vice President began a recent meeting with “I am Kamala Harris, my pronouns are she and her, and I am a woman sitting at the table wearing a blue suit."
Eric Garcia (MSNBC)
#Disability #kamala @Andre Louis

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Přispívání do OpenStreetMap: chytání „pokémonů“ se StreetComplete

V dalším díle seriálu o přispívání do OpenStreetMap se věnuji tomu nejméně náročnému způsobu – doplňování informací k již existujícím objektům. Dozvíte se, jak na to ve skvělé aplikaci StreetComplete.

#MapComplete #mapy #OpenStreetMap #OSM #StreetComplete

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/07/24/p…

Přispívání do OpenStreetMap: chytání „pokémonů“ se StreetComplete – Sesivany's blog

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#openstreetmap #OSM #MapComplete #streetcomplete #mapy
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@podfeet interviews Mikael Vikman Sunna, CEO of Index Braille, about their affordable braille printers. Index Braille offers a full line of braille printers ranging from small and portable to high-speed embossers for production use. #a11y #CSUN2024 podfeet.com/blog/2024/07/csun-…
Index Braille company logo with the company name in white text with all caps on a black background. Just above the company name are braille characters that spell INDEX. The first dot in the first braille character is green. Above and below and adjacent to the black background are two horizontal green stripes.

CSUN 2024: Index Braille High-Speed Embossers - Podfeet Podcasts

Allison interviews Mikael Vikman Sunna, CEO of Index Braille about their affordable braille printers. Index Braille offers a full line of braille printers ranging from small and portable to full-size and high-speed embossers for production use.
Steve Sheridan (Podfeet Podcasts)
#a11y #csun2024 @podfeet

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Oh look at this
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So automattic/Tumblr's CEO is making the company email servers to redirect all mail from teamblind.com to his own personal address instead of the actual person who registered to Blind, so he can know who signed up using their corporate email (the only way to sign up).

Not only that, but by doing this, he could just go through the company email address list, hit the "forgot your password" link, and find out who already has an account, and even steal it.

Very sane, not creepy, absolutely not sociopath move, sire. Absolutely normal and not crazy maniac behavior.

‡ If you don't know blind, it's a platform that let employees of a company to anonymously talk between them about their employer

Blind - Anonymous and Professional Community

Blind - Join a vibrant community where professionals discuss careers, workplace dynamics, and more. Get career advice, engage in debates, and connect with peers.
Blind

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Letter: "We are Volunteers for Paris 2024 and we resign due to the lack of Covid-19 measures"

blogs.mediapart.fr/volontaires…

We are Volunteers for Paris 2024 and we resign due to the lack of Covid-19 measures We have been enthusiastic in the preparation of the Games as international volunteers. However, we are more and more worried at the lack of any actions from the organizers to address the epidemic of Covid-19 that is still going on across Europe and the world. We are volunteers, young and old, disabled and non-disabled, main-volunteers and substitutes, all brought up togther by our passion for sports, and involved on various assignements for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. We have been enthusiastic in the preparation of the Games as international volunteers. However, we are more and more worried of the lack of any actions from the organizers to address the epidemic of Covid-19 that is still going on accross Europe and the world. We demand effective sanitary measures against the virus, to protect the inhabitants of Paris and Seine-Saint-Denis, the athletes, the public, and the volunteers. If no steps are taken, we will collectively resign of our assignments, and will not show up on the Oympic and Paralympic sites we have been staffed.

We are Volunteers for Paris 2024 and we resign due to the lack of Covid-19 measures

We have been enthusiastic in the preparation of the Games as international volunteers. However, we are more and more worried at the lack of any actions from the organizers to address the epidemic of Covid-19 that is still going on across Europe and t…
Volontaires Inquiets Paris 2024 (Mediapart)

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Excuse me we are now living in a time where search engines strike exclusivity deals with websites to exclusively show results of these websites on the one search engine?? Will I need to go with Google to look up reddit posts, Bing to see movie information, and DuckDuckGo for info on ducks now?

I love our post-capitalist cyberpunk dystopia.
RE: mastodon.social/@Mojeek/112841…

Mojeek (@Mojeek@mastodon.social)

Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal “They’re [Reddit] killing everything for search but Google,” Colin Hayhurst, CEO of the search engine Mojeek told me on a call.
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Seirdy

@lispi314 @Jessica @404mediaco @Mojeek @privateger Brave Search (I know…) follows rules for GoogleBot in robots.txt if Brave’s robots.txt entry isn’t explicitly defined. I know it’s not the only engine to do this, but it’s the only one I recall off the top of my head. I imagine that this is the direction more engines are heading in.
@Mojeek Search Engine @Latte macchiato @Jes Moved to @Jes@labyrinth.zone @404 Media @LisPi

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[Checklist] How to make back-to-school (and family life) easier with a password manager blog.1password.com/password-ch…

[Checklist] How to make back-to-school (and family life) easier with a password manager | 1Password

Discover the top back-to-school checklist by 1Password for students and parents. Learn how to manage digital identities and passwords effortlessly, simplify logins, and ensure online security.
Agile Bits, Inc.

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Guide Dogs and Tech innovations: Celebrating International Assistance Dog Week abilitynet.org.uk/news-blogs/g…

Guide Dogs and Tech innovations: Celebrating International Assistance

AbilityNet's Head of Digital Inclusion, Robin Christopherson explores the cutting-edge technologies enhancing the abilities of assistance dogs, showcasing the incredible synergy between traditional
abilitynet.org.uk

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«Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal»

We move to the next level of information feudalism: some of the few bits of human-generated things left on the internet are now blocked off from being openly searchable…

404media.co/google-is-the-only…


Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now Thanks to AI Deal

DuckDuckGo, Bing, Mojeek, and other search engines are not returning full Reddit results any more.
Emanuel Maiberg (404 Media)

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Another reason to use ALT text which some people might not have considered: it benefits people who are not visually impaired as well.

As #Mastodon is #decentralized there is no central network hosting all of the images. Should the admin of a server decide to purge old images to save space, users accessing older posts will not know what an image was without an ALT text.

Take this post from 2022 for example.

@alttexthalloffame

A screenshot of a Mastodon post from 2022 which lists 3 textual steps for catching a mountain lion, followed by an image showing the fourth step. However, the image is no longer available as the original server has purged it. The image has an ALT text, allowing the reader to understand what the fourth step would have been, had the image still been available to see. If the original poster had not included this ALT text, readers would have been left with an incomplete understanding of the original post.
#Mastodon #decentralized @Alt Text Hall of Fame

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How to donate to Kamala Harris AND promote Mastodon

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#uspol #harris #kamalaharris #kamala #mastodonforharris #harris2024 @Heidi Li Feldman

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 13 updated and 2 added apps:

* TaskLabAct: save and sync on your git server a TODO list and shareable links
* Fossify Calculator: Simple and open-source calculator for quick and easy calculations – and app number 12 in your green collection. One app for each month now!

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :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, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm

Link: blog.emojipedia.org/x-redesign…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…


X Redesigns Water Pistol Emoji Back To A Firearm

X (fka Twitter) has quietly redesigned its 🔫 Water Pistol emoji to display as a firearm. This diverges from the cross-platform conversion of this emoji from firearm to water pistol from 2016 to 2018.
Keith Broni (Emojipedia)

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CrowdStrike is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology for crashing millions of computers around the world due to a defective software update.

“To express our gratitude, your next cup of coffee or late night snack is on us!,” says the email from CrowdStrike's chief business officer Daniel Bernard.

But some found that the gift card didn't work, while others got an error message saying the voucher had been canceled.

More from @lorenzofb: techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crow…

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Switzerland passes law requiring #OpenSource software in the public sector. "All public bodies must disclose the source code of software developed by or for them, unless precluded by third-party rights or security concerns" Well done @maemst, great work!

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Switzerland mandates software source code disclosure for public sector: A legal milestone

Switzerland has enacted the "Federal Law on the Use of Electronic Means for the Fulfilment of Governmental Tasks" (EMBAG), establishing a mandatory requirement for open source software within public sector bodies.
Axel Thévenet
#opensource @Matthias Stürmer

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🚨 New pre-print – dark times for privacy. Not only announced Google yesterday to continue allowing cross-site cookies. We find that Android's central privacy options are ineffective and arguably misleading for consumers.

For 10+ years, Google has allowed #Android users to limit data sharing for online ads. We find that this setting does... NOTHING much. The same goes for Californians, when they exert their LEGAL right to limit sale or sharing of their data. #GPC

Link: arxiv.org/abs/2407.14938

From Ad Identifiers to Global Privacy Control: The Status Quo and Future of Opting Out of Ad Tracking on Android

Apps and their integrated third party libraries often collect a variety of data from people to show them personalized ads. This practice is often privacy-invasive.
arXiv.org
#android #gpc

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When people start popping off with their opinions about how the world should work, one of my favorite questions to ask is "who is we?" Let's start to unpack who we're talking about, and what we're talking about in terms of changes in their words and actions.
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Marco Rogers (@polotek@social.polotek.net)

@mwl@io.mwl.io people love to say "we" when they mean "somebody who is not me".
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More importantly though, every actor in this dynamic feels that it's not their own actions that need to change. It's always somebody else that needs to change.

That's why I end up poking people about this. Even though I know it often just makes them defensive. Each of us has to understand that we don't have any control over what other people do. The only thing we can actually make a decision about is whether our own actions in the system match up with our stated values.

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"Testes à covid-19. Autoridade da Concorrência condena laboratórios por "envolvimento num cartel""

"em setembro de 2020, o valor os testes covid em Portugal estavam ao nível dos preços na Europa, em junho de 2021 Portugal era o país europeu com o preço por teste mais elevado."

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Testes à covid-19. Autoridade da Concorrência condena laboratórios por "envolvimento num cartel"

A Autoridade da Concorrência (AdC) condenou uma associação empresarial e cinco dos principais grupos laboratoriais a operar em Portugal ao pagamento de coimas superiores a 48 milhões de euros por "envolvimento num cartel que operou no mercado portugu…
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🦝 Laboratorio de Infraestructura Maliciosa 🦝
🗓️ Sábado 27 de Julio de 11:00 a 14:00
🏚️ Colonia Centro - Ciudad de México
Entrada Libre, Cupo limitado
#autocuidadodigital #cuidadocolectivo #infraestructura #linux #laboratorio #softwarelibre #mexico
cartel del lab de infra maliciosa con 3 mujeres con computadoras
#linux #softwarelibre #méxico #autocuidadodigital #cuidadocolectivo #laboratorio #infraestructura

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Beyond parody. To quote Penny Arcade, how do you make fun of a clown? Insult his big shoes, his red nose?

CrowdStrike, the cybersecurity firm that crashed millions of computers with a botched update all over the world last week, is offering its partners a $10 Uber Eats gift card as an apology, according to several people who say they received the gift card, as well as a source who also received one.


techcrunch.com/2024/07/24/crowdstrike-offers-a-10-apology-gift-card-to-say-sorry-for-outage

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Dark mode & accessibility myth

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#darkmode #a11y #accessibility #webdesign #webdev #UIDesign


Dark mode & accessibility myth by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.

Dark mode isn't always better for accessibility, you need to let users chose. And if you build a dark theme, make it accessible!
Stéphanie Walter (Stéphanie Walter - Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Conference Speaker, Blog writer and Teacher.)
#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #uidesign #darkmode

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This summer, #Kdenlive is all about the ASS. Yup you heard it right, .ass subtitle support is coming along with some nifty other features like multiple subtitle tracks. Stay tuned for more.

seri037.github.io/blog/posts/d…

#gsoc #gsoc24

@kde

Kdenlive timeline showing new multiple subtitle tracks

GSoC '24 Progress: Week 7 and 8

Multiple Subtitle Track I continued to refine the feature proposed in my previous blog. We can now add new layers directly on the timeline by simply dragging the existing …
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#kdenlive #gsoc #gsoc24 @KDE
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