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Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…

#Shopping #OnlineShopping #News #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #Blind


Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision

Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.
Nas Campanella (ABC News)
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #News #shopping #onlineshopping

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Ed Zitron's latest is intense. wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-… The passages about the total shit show of setting up and using one of the best-selling Windows laptops on Amazon are, for me, a reality check about what computers are like for people outside of my bubble.

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Brandon Tyson

I 100 percent agree with this. So many things clicked as I read this. Even my banking app, telling me to try this other thing, shown every time I login. And there's no button a lot of the time to just flatly refuse it, it's always "maybe later," "another time," "not now," etc. Or the messages that creep into a commercial screen reader, trying to get you to listen to a podcast. Some AT isn't imune from this either I don't think, just like the example above. Thank you for sharing this.

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CNN.com

-#EdZitron, Never Forgive Them
wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-…

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
#edzitron

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“Amazon chose not to act” to address safety risks, allegedly “accepting injuries to its workers as the cost of doing business.”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Daddy, why do CEOs get shot?

#amazon #BigTech


Amazon facing strike threats as Senate report details hidden widespread injuries

Amazon ignores strike threats, denies claims of “uniquely dangerous warehouses.”…
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
#bigtech #amazon
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Season's greetings with three new and updated guidebooks for #LibreOffice, thanks to our awesome Docs community! Read them and do magical things with the suite: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Guidebook covers with Christmas decorations around

Season's Greetings! Three new LibreOffice Guides released - The Document Foundation Blog

Our team member Peter Schofield just updated the Impress, Draw and Math guides to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 release.   The Impress, Draw and Math guides are the authoritative guides for the end user.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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@RaccoonForFriendica Finally we have a Weblate project for the translations of the app UI, changelogs and metadata. Hope this will help us all create a better user experience and correct some localization mistakes!

#raccoonforfriendica #procyonproject #foss #opensource #friendica #fediverseapp

#friendica #foss #opensource #raccoonforfriendica #FediverseApp #procyonproject @RaccoonForFriendica

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Stoked for today's Oxide and Friends: @ahl and I will be joined by @pfrazee.com to talk about the wild ride that @bsky.app has been on -- and get into the technical underpinnings in the AT Protocol. Join us, 5p Pacific!

discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=13…

Join the Oxide Computer Discord Server!

The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 3907 members
Discord
@Adam Leventhal @Paul Frazee @Bluesky

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So it's unclear if #PeakDesign provided any info to the police that may have led to #LuigiMangione's arrest, but we do know this:

>> [Peak Design CEO Peter Dering] told the Times that he called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.

Don't do business with this company.

theverge.com/2024/12/13/243207…


Peak Design denies snitching on Luigi Mangione

Rumors claim Peak Design “traced” the UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect via a backpack serial number, but the company says it didn’t, and that it can’t.
Mia Sato (The Verge)
#luigimangione #PeakDesign
in reply to Artemis

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Artemis

If anyone wants to send #PeakDesign a message (no threats or other misbehavior obviously) letting them know that WE know and won't forget about that the company is run by a snitch, here's their contact page:

peakdesign.com/pages/support#c…

I just like to directly inform companies when I'm putting effort into negative word-of-mouth about their brand—it's important to me that they know I am personally doing my part to damage their sales if at all possible.

Support Center

The easiest way to get immediate answers to your Peak Design questions.
www.peakdesign.com
#PeakDesign
in reply to Artemis

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Artemis

#PeakDesign's statement about it really boils down to "Dering didn't *actually* give away customer information—he just proactively called the cops to ask if they wanted him to try to find customer data." The data either didn't exist or he was told it violated their privacy policies, but he really wanted to be a collaborator. Very reassuring: in this case there wasn't even any useful info—he just wanted to reaffirm his loyalty to the pigs and then brag to the press about it for some reason.
#PeakDesign
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#AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid, today with 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* SimbaDroid: a simple SMB file server 🛡️

RB status: 374 apps (30.6%)

at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 8 updated and 1 added #Magisk #modules

* zRAM Swap Manager

Count Count says: 123 modules there 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 your F-Droid client. 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 #magisk #izzyondroid #modules

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Wow, is this as good as it sounds? If yes, then another wow! ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

Attached: 1 image 🛰️ Connecting you from space – to every corner of Europe and the world. Securely. Today, we signed the contract to develop IRIS², Europe's solution to secure satellite connectivity.
European Commission on Mastodon

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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)

openculture.com/2024/12/how-ke…

How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)

Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne).
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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this morning I've made the choice to close 300 forum sites that have about 275k monthly active users, nearly all from the UK.

I've run forums for over 28 years, and did so to build families for those without families, to try and create a cure for social isolation and loneliness, to combat suicide, to create joy and love out of nothing but connections between people.

and it worked. it still works.

but on the 16th March 2025 I will delete the virtual servers running it all... that date is important, it's the last day before the UK Online Safety Act goes into enforcement.

I run these communities philanthropically, giving my time and money to do so, I ask nothing back, I just help build a nicer World.

but the scope of the Act is too broad, and my forums come under it... it does not matter that it's run by an individual and not a company, that it loses money every month... merely by being linked to the UK and allowing users to speak to users... it's within scope.

the penalties of non-compliance would be so devastatingly ruinous to me, that I don't see I have a choice... I must now perform a social harm to protect myself.

this is devastating.

lfgss.com/conversations/401475…

I cannot even express what these forums have achieved... the marriages, births, support for those with cancer, the love, the communities they have created.

LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) | LFGSS

Why Reading https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/ and we're done... we fall firmly into scope, and I have no way to dodge it.
www.lfgss.com

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LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 is available for testing qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…

LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)

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Slováci jsou rozděleni ohledně cesty premiéra Fica do Moskvy. Průzkum ukázal, že polovina ji podporuje, zatímco druhá také, ale už nechce, aby se vrátil zpátky. az247.cz/slovaci-jsou...

Slováci jsou rozděleni ohledně...


Slováci jsou rozděleni ohledně cesty Fica do Moskvy. Půlka chce, aby jel. Druhá půlka to chce také, ale už nechce, aby se vrátil - AZ247.cz - víc než jen pravda

Podle průzkumu slovenské agentury TISO jsou Slováci ohledně oznámené cesty premiéra Fica do Moskvy na vojenskou přehlídku ke konci druhé světové války 9. května rozděleni na dva tábory. Polovina lidí...
Redakce (AZ247.cz)
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SuspiciousDuck

úplne presne štyri a nedávno som sa dopočul že keď mačka nebehá a je skôr na mieste tak je kastrovaná, čiže snáď nič nebude.. ani v práci ani tu zatiaľ ale ináč neviem čo by sa dialo.
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Want to know more about the change from K-9 Mail to Thunderbird for Android? We're answering your questions - three of them, anyway - in this latest installation of Heise.de's "Three Questions and Answers" series!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Android

heise.de/news/Drei-Fragen-und-…


Drei Fragen und Antworten: Technischer Wandel – von der K-9- zur Thunderbird-App

Die Umstellung von K-9 Mail zu Thunderbird hat zwei Jahre in Anspruch genommen, doch das Team hat eine gute Balance dafür gefunden, meint Philipp Kewisch.
Wolf Hosbach (heise online)
#android #opensource #thunderbird
in reply to Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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Gianmarco Gargiulo

one little question from me: how come Thunderbird for Android has telemetry that goes to Google Firebase and there is no option in the settings that I could find that disables this?

Edit: I found out that it was coming from the Google OAuth login, Thunderbird's telemetry can be disabled from the settings but I don't have that toggle because I'm using the F-Droid version which removes telemetry entirely.

This entry was edited (10 months ago)

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🚨 Update on DDoS attacks 🚨

Earlier this month, Tuta suffered multiple DDoS attacks. But we will not let anyone stop you from using secure & private emails. We’ve strengthened our defenses & are now more resilient than ever. 💪

Thank you for your patience & trust as we continue this fight for privacy together. ❤️

👉 tuta.com/blog/ddos-mitigation

Tuta News Banner with a Title and Subtitle

Explanation on recent DDoS attacks & why we do not use third-parties for mitigation. | Tuta

Protecting against DDoS attacks is an integral part of our engineering practices and we architect and design our systems in a way that we minimize attack surfaces.
Tuta
in reply to Tuta

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Samuel Plumppu

Thanks for the update! It's an interesting tradeoff to potentially let a third party decrypt the incoming traffic to get less to maintain yourselves, but of course much better to build your own solution and keep full control. Especially for a critical service.

It would be interesting to learn about first-party #DDoS mitigation techniques that could be used in other projects where #E2EE is essential. However, I suspect the implementation details used for Tuta can't be shared publicly.

#e2ee #ddos

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Welcome to the RB family, Method Call 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.c…

Method Call is mapping phone numbers to a defined list of actions.

Thanks to combined efforts with its developer, this app is now RB :awesome:

RB status: 374 apps (30.6%)

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds


„Method Call“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Automate your Android with phone calls.
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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🔗 Component libraries can help with your accessibility goals, but using one doesn't mean “your team has somehow outsourced all its accessibility responsibilities”

Some great points in a11yquest.com/blog/2024-11-13-…

(I agree; they're a blessing and a curse talks.hiddedevries.nl/sHyKQE/b…)


“Built-in” accessibility: blessing or curse? by Hidde de Vries

“We’ll build in accessibility”, they say. But what does “built-in” actually mean? Whether it’s in standards, browser functionality, web platform features or design system components… the reality could be anywhere from an enormous opportunity to a hug…
talks.hiddedevries.nl

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 16. Dezember, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag um 19:00 besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist rot und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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An der Grabeskirche in Jerusalem steht seit Jahrhunderten eine ungenutzte Holzleiter. Weil die Verwaltung der Kirche 1767 unter mehreren Religionen und Konfessionen aufgeteilt wurde, weiß heute niemand, wer sie entfernen dürfte.

#Kirche #Religion #Leiter

de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grabes…

Kirchengebäude in Jerusalem

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#religion #kirche #Leiter
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