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The Hungarian presidency in the Council of the EU has proposed another text for the #ChatControl file. It is to be discussed by the law enforcement working party in Council on Monday (23 September).
Experts widely criticise Chat Control e.g. for attacking #E2EE, IT-security and violating (European) fundamental rights.
The #GlobalEncryptionCoalition now warns that the Hungarian proposal fails to resolve the problems of the regulation and calls on governments to reject it:
globalencryption.org/2024/09/g…
#chatcontrol #e2ee #globalencryptioncoalition

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A week ago, in spite of all her campaign promises to defend the rights of Mexico's sexual diversities, President-Elect Claudia Sheinbaum announced that the terf Renata Turrent will be the new director of the public television station Canal Once. In response, over 100 queer, antiracist and abortion rights organizations and nearly 400 individuals have signed this statement calling for her dismissal. @reclaimingtrans and @thatweirdolee have been kind enough to host the English translation

For public television and radio and free media that truly represent the diversity and dignity of all people!

healthliberationnow.com/2024/0…

@Ky Schevers

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Mozilla's mozilla.social Mastodon server will shut down in December.
support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/m…
I guess there weren't enough users? In any case, this seems like a weird thing to do, given that X is a mess and we need open alternatives supported by companies…

Mozilla Social FAQ | Firefox Help

Mozilla.social will shut down on Dec 17, 2024. Download your data and migrate before then.
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I just read a Hacker News comment with a pretty gloomy take on the future of FOSS: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…

He says all the 25-year-old hackers are writing JavaScript frameworks that only work on AWS these days. At least the things I'm seeing from the (relatively few) 25-year-old (and younger) hackers that I know, particularly here on the fediverse, give me hope that he's wrong.

It hasn't existed for so long! Jeez, kids these days. As a movement it's really ... | Hacker News

news.ycombinator.com
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Matt Campbell

@nick Oh, at one point at Serotek, we had an internal fork of PRS where the scheduler and related high-level modules were rewritten in Python, while the mixer remained in C (we used the Python ctypes module to call into the C code). The rewrite was actually mostly not done by me, but by a developer we had hired. The Python rewrite was supposed to be followed by further enhancements to the scheduler, but that never happened. SPN Radio ran that version of PRS.
@Nick Giannak III
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Matt Campbell

@nick And did I ever tell you about the personal project I did with another fork of PRS, for Christmas 2014? I got it running on a Raspberry Pi, using SQLite as the database and with a quick and dirty ALSA output, so I could give my dad an easy way to listen to his MP3s in the car, with mixing, compression, and interspersed liners. I called in a favor from a friend to produce professional-sounding IDs like "Your favorite classic rock, all the time. This is Don FM."
@Nick Giannak III
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Matt Campbell

@BrailleScreen I think the Pi 2 came out right after I finished the project.

The whole thing was super-custom, with a stripped-down kernel and a minimal buildroot-based userspace image actually embedded in the kernel as an initial RAM disk. The payoff was that it booted in like 5 seconds, and I think I later learned that a big chunk of that was the Pi boot loader.

@Patrick W

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It is always fun to meet @pabloyoyoista and @FineFindus. And this time, we had the pleasure of meeting with one of the GTK maintainers, Benjamin Otte, as well.
Amongst other, interesting discussions about GTK's new renderers and phones, performance, regressions, collaboration, and testing. And the general “wouldn't it be nice if”s … language support, upstreaming things … and maybe, someday, some of them … 🤞
And if you happen to be in the Hamburg area and want to join, shoot us a message.
nearly straight down, high angle shot of a dark brown to black wooden plank outdoor table. On it are a croissant on a china plate to the left, and a impressively large coffee with milk to the right, between them is a OnePlus 6 running postmarketOS with multiple apps open (Foliate, Railway, Meteocool). The table has a fritz-kola branding on the bottom left and a postmarketOS logo in the top left. The postmarketOS logo might look convincing unless zoomed in extremely closely, because there is suspiciously little chromatic apparition, showing it was added later, and wasn't there when the photo was taken
@FineFindus @pabloyoyoista

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“Elon Musk lived in apartheid South Africa until he was 17. David Sacks…left aged five, and grew up in a South African diaspora family in Tennessee. Peter Thiel spent years of childhood in South Africa and Namibia, where his father was involved in uranium mining[…]. And Paul Furber, an obscure South African software developer and tech journalist living near Johannesburg, has been identified by two teams of forensic linguists as the originator of the QAnon conspiracy.”

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Our In-Process blog is out! This week, we feature NVDA 2024.3.1, Mykael making it happen in Brazil, RACQ's Road Ahead article, NVDA 2024.4 Beta 4 and Which reference is right for me?

Read it all here: nvaccess.org/post/in-process-2…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #Newsletter #FOSS

#Accessibility #foss #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda

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