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FCC Launches Inquiry into Internet Data Caps Used By Comcast & Others cordcuttersnews.com/fcc-launch…

FCC Launches Inquiry into Internet Data Caps Used By Comcast & Others | Cord Cutters News

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today it is formally investigating the use of data caps by broadband providers and their impact on consumers and competition.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

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There was a lot of news the other day about passkeys and portability - fidoalliance.org/fido-alliance… - that says in part:

"Until now, there has been no standard for the secure movement of credentials, and often the movement of passwords or other credentials has been done in the clear."

This is true, but... there is also still no standard for any of that. The specs are mostly empty placeholders.

fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxp-…

fidoalliance.org/specs/cx/cxf-…

Solid Mitch Hedberg energy here.

FIDO Alliance Publishes New Specifications to Promote User Choice and Enhanced UX for Passkeys - FIDO Alliance

The FIDO Alliance has published a working draft of a new set of specifications for secure credential exchange that, when standardized and implemented by
Lori Glavin (FIDO Alliance)
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As always, we greatly appreciate the support of PureOS subscribers. Advancing PureOS benefits all Librem devices as well as the larger FLOSS ecosystem. Your support is crucial to that mission.
puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…
#Purism #PureOS

PureOS Crimson Development Report: September 2024 – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC
#purism #pureos

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We’re celebrating 20 years of Thunderbird this year! It’s been an incredible journey for our users, the dedicated team of contributors who have worked on it and of course our amazing open-source community who has been there every step of the way. 🎉 To mark this occasion, check out this beautiful video by @freehive and see how Thunderbird is ready for the next 20 years.

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

#opensource #thunderbird @Freehive

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My very basic, personal Web site has reached the point at which I could write a blog post. I have now written a brief post documenting the decisions made in the site's development so far. I hope someone finds this information useful.
jasonjgw.net/blog/technology/w…
#WebDevelopment #accessibility

Developing a Web Site Nonvisually in a Linux Environment

jasonjgw.net
#Accessibility #webdevelopment
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Jason J.G. White

@matt The best way for me to detect such an issue as a screen reader user would presumably be to query font attributes (as long as I know what the defaults would be in the absence of the correct CSS). The slightly more interesting approach would be to submit a screenshot to an image-processing large language model and ask for a description of the styling.
@Matt Campbell

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We mock it, but it's a serious thing that the leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition has not obtained a national security clearance.

10 perfectly innocent explanations for why Pierre Poilievre won’t get national security clearance:

thebeaverton.com/2024/06/10-pe…

#cdnpoli #polcan


10 perfectly innocent explanations for why Pierre Poilievre won't get national security clearance - The Beaverton

Pierre Poilievre’s refusal to get a national security clearance so he can read the report on foreign interference in Canada’s elections is raising eyebrows, with many suggesting that maybe he can’t get a security clearance because he poses a security…
Luke Gordon Field (The Beaverton)
#cdnpoli #polcan

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Overcast. If you are a Overcast user, and you currently pay the subscription of $10 a year, please be aware that Marco Arment is planning on raising the subscription price. The new price has not yet been determined, but could increase to $15 a year. You should know that the $10 a year has been in effect since 2016, 8 years. He discussed this on his podcast Under the Radar, which you can check out here... relay.fm/radar/303

Under the Radar #303: Raising Prices - Relay FM

Looking around the App Store, it's clear that we're not charging enough.
Relay FM
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David Goldfield

@overcastfm I have no issue with Overcast raising the subscription price if that's what the developer feels is necessary in order to ensure its sustainability. However, I recently chose to let my subscription lapse due to the recent VoiceOver regressions. While in a playlist, finding two buttons announced as "dimmed, pop-up button" after some podcasts was the last straw, along with double-tapping a podcast, hearing "play button" and then having focus move to another button. If these two items are addressed and if show notes are spoken while focussing on a podcast, I will renew my subscription but I won't subscribe to an app that I can no longer effectively use.
As an aside, why not add "Play Podcast" as a rotor option while pointing to a podcast.
@Overcast

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Thunderbird for Android 8.0b3 is out! There are two things we'd really love help testing. One is the funding feature! (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). The other is the QR code sync between desktop and mobile (thunderbird.topicbox.com/group…). Thanks to everyone who has helped beta test and given feedback!

Release notes on our GitHub: github.com/thunderbird/thunder…

#ThunderbirdForAndroid #Thunderbird #OpenSource


Releases · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-android
GitHub
#opensource #thunderbird #thunderbirdforandroid
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Peter Hanecak

Bombic je z tej miniaturnej mensiny, pre ktoru sa podarilo naplnit tu cast programoveho vyhlasenia aktualnej vlady, ktora hovori o "bezpečnejšie žiť".

Lebo nackovia, fasisti, klamari, podvodnici, atd. a pod. sa tu teraz naozaj citia bezpecnejsie. (Volakedy by sli do basy.)

ref.: mastodon.social/@phanecak/1133…

Peter Hanecak (@phanecak@mastodon.social)

Este k tomu programovemu vyhlaseniu vlady: - "Lepšie": urcite nie, aj ked to zuzime iba na ekonomiku, lebo konsokidacia zdvihne naklady vsetkym¹ - "pokojnejšie": to tiez nie, lebo "furt nieco"² - "bezpečne žiť": nuz, ani to, o.i.
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I really feel sorry for the public sector employees working on meeting this #a11y deadline for PDFs.

"PDFs are where services go to die."

No doubt the people working on this will be super under-resourced, and actually meeting this deadline won't be seen as much of a win by anyone, but not meeting it has legal and dire consequences.

To be clear more #a11y is good! Under-resourcing teams is not!

deptcivicthings.substack.com/p…

#Government #PublicInterestTech #CivicTech


The elephant in the new accessibility law: PDFs

If your government agency is typical, you have a lot of PDFs. Probably thousands. They are probably not accessible.
Rebecca Woodbury (Department of Civic Things newsletter)
#a11y #government #civictech #publicinteresttech
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Here in the United States, "I'm voting Green" is just a shorthand way of saying "I'm voting for the cheaper Putin lickspittle to help the more expensive Putin lickspittle get back into the White House."

To the Green supporters/Russian bots about to fume in the comments about how their vote is in fact something else than the above, here is my pre-emptive reply:

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Wow. I didn't expect the amount of resonance my writeup is getting. Thank you very much.

I did a lot of changes, split the document. Hopefully providing alternative, practical strategies for synthesizing sounds in a size-coding context:

ronnypries.de/notes/music-prod…

May also be generally relevant for folks struggling/are bored with their bassdrums.

#demoscene #sizecoding #sounddesign #mixing #patchdesign #musicproduction


Synthesis for coders - rktic's working notes

Hopefully actionable patch-programming insights for size-coders, who also make their own music.
ronnypries.de
#musicproduction #sounddesign #demoscene #mixing #sizecoding #patchdesign

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Hey Tuta Fans! Want to know how Tuta's new visual universe is improving our growing range of products? 🎨

Read Tuta's rebranding story told by our talented in-house designer Daniel 👉tuta.com/blog/tuta-new-creativ…

#TurnonPrivacy #Rebrand #Tuta
#MadeinGermany #Design

Tuta

Rebrand Tuta: Opening the source of our new visual universe | Tuta

Turn ON privacy. That's what we offer since day 1 of Tuta(nota). Now our brand architecture reflects this in a new app ecosystem.
Tuta
#design #tuta #madeingermany #turnonprivacy #rebrand

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👁️ @w3c AGWG (Accessibility Guidelines Working Group) Teleconference
15 Oct 2024 - draft minutes

"RESOLUTION: We will explore having a set of required provisions that is somewhat comparable to WCAG 2.2 A & AA and a set of provisions and assertions that can be used to build upon that through points, percentages, or predefined sets of provisions (modules)."

#WCAG3 #WCAG #accessibility #WebStandards

w3.org/2024/10/15-ag-minutes.h…

AGWG Teleconference -- 15 Oct 2024

www.w3.org
#Accessibility #wcag #webstandards #WCAG3 @World Wide Web Consortium

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AI-powered software narrates surroundings for visually impaired in real time - Tech Xplore google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=…

AI-powered software narrates surroundings for visually impaired in real time

A world of color and texture could soon become more accessible to people who are blind or have low vision, via new software that narrates what a camera records.
University of Michigan (Tech Xplore)

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This weekend I managed to get #wmbus receiver working. 🎉

Our housing cooperative installed new hot water and heater meters with radio readings. I found out it uses 868Mhz wmbus protocol and that there is an #ESPHome extension adding support for this.
I only needed encryption keys, which I was provided with by the cooperative.

Now my #HomeAssistant tracks out heating and hot water #consuption. Yay...

github.com/SzczepanLeon/esphom…

ESP-32 Wroom board with cc1101 radio module wired together
Log view in ESP Home web app showing incoming wmbus telegrams, several of which are recognized and decoded into values and sent to MQTT
Home assistant view of MQTT connected wmbus receiver with three heat cost allocator sensors and one hot water volume sensor. In diagnostic section there are 4 items showing the signal strength.

GitHub - SzczepanLeon/esphome-components

Contribute to SzczepanLeon/esphome-components development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#homeassistant #esphome #wmbus #consuption

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I'm surprised it's that high. "2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML" meiert.com/en/blog/html-confor… #html #webdev #webdevelopment

2024: 0.5% of the Global Top 200 Websites Use Valid HTML · Jens Oliver Meiert

The annual HTML conformance analysis, validating 200 home pages of the most popular websites. Despite improvements, there is no signal of commitment to valid output as a quality baseline to benefit end users as well as web development as a profession…
meiert.com
#webdev #html #webdevelopment

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*This* is the type of game I was talking about. This game uses #OpenStreetMap so that you can play "in" your local town.

store.steampowered.com/app/136…

#VideoGames #Games


City Bus Manager on Steam

Build your own bus depot from scratch and create your personal bus routes in City Bus Manager. Play in your own hometown or any famous city in the world with real map data.
store.steampowered.com
#games #videogames #openstreetmap

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Best password managers 2024: Protect your online accounts pcworld.com/article/407092/bes…

Best password managers 2024: Protect your online accounts

The best password is one you probably can't easily remember—that's why a password manager is so crucial to your online security. We review LastPass, Dashlane, Keeper, NordPass, and others to find the best one for managing passwords.
Michael Ansaldo (PCWorld)
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