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The gnome-control-center panel I’ve been working on for the last many weeks is now ready for review, including a new chart widget for showing time spent using the computer screen (so you have some visibility into your compute use habits).

Glad to finally have this off my plate and on its way to being reviewed and hopefully merged.

#GNOME #DigitalWellbeing

Screenshot of a computer user interface, the settings application for GNOME. It’s showing a ‘Wellbeing’ panel, with a chart of recent time spent using the computer screen, and settings for limiting this for yourself, to help your digital wellbeing.
#gnome #digitalwellbeing

There is something I want sighted people to understand about blind people. If you see a blind person heading toward a wall, tree, bench, or any other object they might bump into and potentially get injured, it doesn’t necessarily mean you should immediately try to pull them out of the way. It's completely natural to feel concerned, but a better approach would be to just warn them and ask if they need help. While there are times when it's actually needed, it might also be that they are going toward a landmark they use for orientation, and as unfortunate as it is, you might unintentionally get them confused and disorientated. I often purposely look for such objects to better remember the route, and not all places are accessible enough for me to be able to get back on track if I take a wrong turn. Your help and concern are really appreciated a lot, but sometimes things are different from how they seem, and that's why it's always better to ask first.

Si tú también estás flipando desde fuera del País Valenciano sobre la combinación de criminal incompetencia con escándalos delirantemente bochornosos que es la gestión del PP valenciano, en nuestro pódcast lo analizamos y damos detalles sobre el tema.

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Fango y horror | La Paella Rusa

El desastre de la DANA… y sus responsables. Cuatro años más de Trump. Óscar Puente, rey de la carretera. Terapia de grupo radiofónica para no acabar completamente desquiciados.
Plaza Podcast

🔴Los Franco pierden el juicio contra el Estado por la propiedad de los bienes del Pazo de Meirás.

Un juzgado de Madrid ha dado la razón a la Administración en el litigio que mantenía con los herederos del dictador.

Por @javierhrguez
elsaltodiario.com/memoria-hist…


Los Franco pierden el juicio contra el Estado por la propiedad de los bienes del Pazo de Meirás

Un juzgado de Madrid ha dado la razón a la Administración en el litigio que mantenía con los herederos de Francisco Franco sobre todo tipo de bienes y documentos hallados en el interior del inmueble.
www.elsaltodiario.com
@Javier H. Rodríguez

When you say, “It’s ok, we’ve survived it before, we’ll survive it again”, please realize that some people did not, in fact, survive it before, and some will not in fact survive it now.

Now more than ever.

If you ever get asked this by some software, the answer is *always* YES.

Software pop-up box Setup Are you a resident of a European country (GDPR country) or Brazil? YES/NO

Bueno, creo que ya es momento de anunciar que..., 🥁🥁🥁 ¡Acabo de empezar en un nuevo trabajo!💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 y estoy super emocionada, nerviosa y con el síndrome del impostor no por las nubes, si no más bien en el espacio sideral. Hoy primera reunión con el equipo y primera cagada! me conecto a Google Meet con mi cuenta del podcast en vez de con la mía personal. Por favor llévame pronto y mátame camión ya🚛🫢

Turns out if a technology comes along that dismantles the basic interpersonal building blocks of everyday life in this world and replaces it with constant 24/7 insubstantial but incredibly loud screams of existential agony, both overt & covert, the world…starts to come apart at the seams.

We used to call that the Singularity. Funny how we thought it hadn’t happened yet.

I'm curious, is anyone doing an open-source software cooperative?

Anyone got recommendations for an uncomplicated video editor accessible with a screen reader? Don't really care which platform it's on. I thought Reaper could do this, but when I edited and exported, I lost the video portion of the project somehow. Don't need anything fancy, nor do I want to have to spend hours learning the thing. Really just need to cut Bits out, but not just trimming from beginning or end.

Something I've thought about lots over the past few years and even more recently: what can we do to foster and normalize small tech rather than big tech?

Individual communities are going to need to manage their own tech infrastructure in the coming years if they want to be more accessible, not beholden to large corporations, not surveilled constantly, etc. Individual creators will need to distribute outside of Steam or Spotify. Co-ops need property management portals. Mutual aid groups might benefit from lightweight logistics or communication tools.

I think platform is key. It needs to be easy to host/manage for others, and those others need to eject easily either to different providers or to their own host. Lots of stuff gets us parts of that, but I don't think anything is close to what would be ideal. Needs to be easy to build for and hard to break completely. Also needs to be entirely open source and not just open core.

Daniel's weekly report November 8, 2024

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release. rock-solid, fosdem, talks, curl -v google.com, podcasts, uncurled, security, polhem prize

Daniel in a suit, at the Polhem Prize awards 2024. Doing his best James Bond impression.

[Daniel's week] November 8, 2024

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Poď so mnou - Pavol Hammel a Prúdy

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I wonder how developers at Tailscale, Zoom, the Google Meet team, etc. test restrictive firewall and NAT scenarios in their office or, these days, home-office environments. Do they get cheap routers with OpenWrt or the like to emulate the external firewall products that corporate IT types use? Do they buy those actual firewall appliances? Do they set up a virtual network on their workstation inside VMware or the like? Something else?
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Adrian Vovk
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You can set up arbitrarily complicated network configurations on a single Linux box using network namespaces. For the purposes of networking, each network namespace is essentially a distinct device. You can "wire" them together using veth (virtual Ethernet) and a bridge (virtual switch)

Then if you know what the restrictive firewall looks like, you can emulate it without bothering with the proprietary router box, bespoke config, etc

Though, Tailscale probably affords to use the real deal

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Marcel Waldvogel
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I think even the cheap routers, when they have OpenWRT installed, behave well.

Just tried to explain Mastodon & the Fediverse to my husband, which was tricky because like.. I don't entirely understand everything myself 😅
He's currently rolling out a software product and I think he should have a presence here, but I'm not sure whether it would make the most sense for him to run his own server, which he's not keen on, or.. how to find one that would be a good fit.
It's an RPG virtual table top online thingy, so if you know a server where that would be at home, lmk I guess?
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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I picked my instance purely on the fact that they accept people who care about tinkering and the intersectionality of tech and people.
Never had any problems being on defcon.social

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Absolútne

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You Might Not Need that [JavaScript] Framework frontendmasters.com/blog/you-m… #webdev #webdevelopment #javascript

You Might Not Need that Framework – Frontend Masters Boost

There are big tradeoffs, naturally, but vanilla JavaScript is very powerful, usable everywhere, lightweight, and high-performance. Learn it and use it when it's the best choice.
frontendmasters.com
#webdev #javascript #webdevelopment

One more GNOME development and socializing meetup in Hamburg with @camelCaseNick and @FineFindus ! Today was a really productive day. @FineFindus created a libadwaita MR for some API we also want in Papers, and merged a locatization MR in udisks-rs. And @camelCaseNick and Ihelped debugging the libadwaita code and got 5 MRs in Papers in! As always, send us a message if you come around!

#GNOME #Papers #postmarketOS #Hamburg

Our 3 laptops with the libadwaita MR (https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/libadwaita/-/merge_requests/1330) on the front and the Pixel 3a with Snapshot previewing us taking the picture!
#gnome #postmarketos #hamburg #papers @FineFindus @Markus Göllnitz

Feeling grumpy

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David Goldfield
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Skipped last week due to a time off. Back to app icon sketch fridays!

#gnome #app #icon #sketch #procreate

Random sketch. GNOME is triangles.
Typester app icon sketch.
Typester app icon sketch.
Displaytune app icon sketch. A color board and a colorimeter.
#app #gnome #procreate #icon #sketch

Mood: I just put a second pair of glasses on the first pair of glasses that were already on my face.

(is it still Monday?)

I would love to see a study on how much productivity plummeted post-election over the second week of November in the technology sector, as the folks in these kinds of jobs are overwhelmingly liberal/left-leaning and are probably exposed to the fallout in some kind of way. Speaking for myself, I can say that my ability to pay attention and deliver my normal level of output has fallen ~50-75%. Luckily, I'll have a long weekend to reset.
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Tamas G
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agreed, now that would be interesting to see. I noticed a lot of my meetings got moved, project deadlines extended a little quietly, stuff like that - even though my company is EU-based they had respect for the political climate here and some of them no doubt felt nervous watching the outcome too. The tech sector, as vital as it is, will get caught up and from a business side chum up to the new admin though, which is why stocks jumped too. Odd dichotomy for sure!

I wish I could tell Firefox to NEVER open a new tab from an external URL in some of the window. Or always in ONE specific.

For now it's just a crap shoot.

in reply to Ben Cox

Hubert Figuière
Hubert Figuière
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@ben I don't want a new window. I just want it to NEVER open them in the window that is on the second screen.
@Ben Cox
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Ben Cox
Ben Cox
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Oh yeah, that drives me nuts too. I'd like a lock button on the tab bar that means "don't you dare ever open anything else in this window"

I posted this on elsewhere, and folks found it helpful, so here it is for y’all

For #lgbtq married couples, it's time to take steps to protect your marriage in case same-sex marriage is officially dissolved in the coming years. My husband and I did this when Roe V Wade was overturned, so I hope this is helpful. 👇

#LGBTQ

This is an important effort to help explore what can be done to make the #Web less energy-hungry…. and thereby help reduce the impact of the overall #Internet on #ClimateChange. (Since web traffic is such a huge amount of Internet traffic.) Good to see this happening!

From: @w3c
w3c.social/@w3c/11344250260640…

World Wide Web Consortium (@w3c@w3c.social)

The newly launched Sustainable Web IG will publish the Web Sustainability Guidelines (WSG). The guidelines are in line with the Sustainable Web Manifesto and aligned with GRI Standards and the UN Sustainable Development Goals to help organizations in…
w3c.social
#climatechange #web #Internet @World Wide Web Consortium

A few months ago I wrote about how I approach alternative text for images and tried to offer context for each of my considerations.

“My Approach to Alt Text”

adrianroselli.com/2024/05/my-a…

I also link other resources that are not mine.

#a11y #accessibility


My Approach to Alt Text

I ran across a survey from Tilburg University on the experiences and perspectives of image describers. It asked what process I follow to write image alternative text, and it occurred to me that I don’t use a checklist or guideline anymore.
Adrian Roselli
#a11y #Accessibility

So much for being the 'ethical, safe one'

Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers

techcrunch.com/2024/11/07/anth…

#ai


Anthropic teams up with Palantir and AWS to sell AI to defense customers | TechCrunch

Anthropic has teamed up with Palantir and AWS to sell its AI family of models called Claude to defense customers.
Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
#AI
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Imagine describing Alt+Tab as "popular", rather than, you know, critical in allowing non-mouse users to operate their computers: pcworld.com/article/2514044/wi…

Windows 11 24H2 breaks popular Alt + Tab shortcut. Here's what you can do

One of the most popular Windows keyboard shortcuts is causing a black screen for users after updating.
Hans-Christian Dirscherl (PCWorld)

Du weißt, dass eine Webseite scheiße ist, wenn sie automatisch übersetzten Tutorial-Text enthält, in dem curl als Locken übersetzt wurde.

#curl #Locken

#curl #Locken
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
IzzyOnDroid ✅
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Hast Du wieder mal in den offiziellen Google-Dokumentationen was gesucht? 🙊 💨

Ernsthaft: bevor ich da anfange zu lesen, ändere ich IMMMER zuerst "hl=de" zu "hl=en". Sonst wirste wahnsinnig – oder wie der Sachse sagt: "Orschwerdbleede!" 💡

Aaaaah, kate rusby's see amid the winter snow, bloody gorgeous! I always turn to her music when things get a bit ropey.
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Erion
Erion
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Yep, that's the one that has track 6 in particular, See Amid The Winter Snow, so huge thanks for the inspiration. Off it goes now. Hark Hark.

If you're worried about storing your data with US tech companies in light of the election results, this link has a list of European alternatives. These include:

- Email hosting
- Cloud storage
- Domain name registration
- Navigation apps
- Many other services

Stay safe.

european-alternatives.eu/

Edit: Follow the creator at: @european_alternatives


Homepage | European Alternatives

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.
European Alternatives
@European Alternatives
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Sad to see that @mozilla needs to layoff 30%😢

Is Google’s ban on paying Mozilla for including G Search in Firefox the reason?

All #privacy companies must unite against Big Tech now! 💪
👉 tuta.com/blog/will-ban-on-goog…

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Will the ban on Google payments kill Mozillas Firefox? | Tuta

How Google’s antitrust judgement could harm Mozilla and what we all must do to help!
Tuta
#privacy @Mozilla
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Jérôme
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"Is Google’s ban on paying Mozilla for including G Search in Firefox the reason?"

As far as I know, Google has not stopped paying Mozilla

in reply to Tuta

Bishop Whitewind
Bishop Whitewind
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@mozilla It's not. They threw everything they stood for under the bus to embrace advertising and AI. Shocking to see this is the result I tell you shocked.
@Mozilla

have you thought about wombats today?

Can someone explain why the #Rosenbergs were executed for providing classified documents to Russia whilst convicted felon Trump did the same thing but was elected President of the United States🇺🇸?

#Treason #TrumpIsATraitor #Russia #politics

#politics #Russia #rosenbergs #treason #TrumpIsATraitor

Me and my best friend listened to this banger a lot in college. Fickle Friends - Pretty Great.
youtube.com/watch?v=iEee4W9rEv…

Fickle Friends - Pretty Great (Official Video)

'Are We Gonna Be Alright?' is out now. Stream and buy the album now, available on CD, Cassette (& Vinyl LP's released in March) https://FFriends.lnk.to/AWGBA...
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