Web developers don't know HTML; or at least they don't implement proper HTML (which is ridiculous; it's like a lawyer not knowing or applying the law). Just look at 4 of the top 5 web accessibility issues from the WebAIM Million. So frustrating, and for decades now...
I recognize it as a user myself when using software by others, and unfortunately I recognize it in my users when they fail to use my software. I know the answer in both cases is "well, the workflow is awkward because reasons". There's always reasons, they're always complicated.
I wonder if I would know that were I not a developer myself.
Well-intentioned awkward free software still beats slick ill-intentioned proprietary software any day of the week. Both cause frustration, but the nature of the frustration is so, so different.
The latter pretends it Just Works, and the frustration is injected for nefarious reasons.
The frustration in the former is an accidental emergent behavior. I feel empathy to that, but it's no less frustrating.
I wonder if non-developer end-users feel the difference, or if the end result is just the same: "this doesn't work".
I've seen people not realizing they were being manipulated by slick ill-intentioned software.
I've seen people dismissing awkward well-intentioned software outright with "this is broken".
If users were looking at a person performing a task in front of them (say, an office clerk) rather than a piece of code, everyone would be able to tell the difference instantly.
In the end, all we can do as authors of well-intentioned free software is to be aware when we ended up building Frustrating Software.
Don't be mad at users when they don't "get it" that it's "because reasons".
Don't embrace the awkwardness retroactively as a design decision; just because it can explained and "that's how it is" it doesn't mean that "that's how it should be" (and definitely don't turn it into a "badge of honor" to tell apart the "initiated").
FDA noted unsanitary conditions, unwashed hands at McDonaldโs ex-onion supplier The outbreak sickened at least 104 across 14 states, killing one and hospitalizing 34. arstechnica.com/health/2025/01โฆ
Cirno is an app freezer that runs on Android 12+ platforms, it is used to make background apps completely free of CPU resources to improve the overall smoothness of the device.
Many thanks to YuSakiไธถKanade to have established an Github action for consistent & clean builds, finally making this app pass RB
@MonkeybreadSoftware we now store a null terminator ourselves to the last byte of the buffer unconditionally on Windows - which works fine since we don't use the return code from the snprintf
IIRC it doesn't overflow, it just doesn't nul-terminate. I seem to recall that we had to have a wrapper around MSVC snprintf back at a previous job, to make it behave like a C99 snprintf.
Remember that snprintf() wasn't standardized until C99, and that the older compilers had their own implementations that weren't quite compatible with each other.
@malwareminigun but they fixed it in later versions, so clearly it could be fixed without that big repercussions which is odd. And leaving an output buffer without null-termination surely has to lead to trouble every once in a while...
@malwareminigun "Beginning with the UCRT in Visual Studio 2015 and Windows 10, snprintf" ... "is now C99 standard conformant. The difference is that if you run out of buffer, snprintf null-terminates the end of the buffer"
@indigoparadox @profdc9 yeah, we have our own for curl as well, *except* for the single case of outputting floats/doubles which is where I ran into this snag I've mentioned.
@profdc9 I mean at that point you're halfway to implementing your own snprintf (which I do in my engine because the standard tokens just aren't enough)!
Why do we still need stupid crap like this to clean the freaking keyboard?
I get it, people are probably stupid and canโt turn on a MacBook with just one button anymore. But at least make an option to use the Touch ID button as the power button, not the whole keyboard.
What? How about the option to just exit all apps and just, clean out the keyboard, and my Mac only turns on with the power button. Sorry, that's a dumb app.
Die EU-Kommission setzt trotz Datenschutzbedenken weiterhin auf Microsoft 365. Dies stellt die digitale Souverรคnitรคt und die Glaubwรผrdigkeit der EU infrage. ๐
Dione Maddern and The Documentation Team are proud to announce the immediate availability of the LibreOffice Calc Guide 24.8, an update of the existing Calc Guide 24.2 with enhancements taken from the current LibreOffice 24.8 Calc module.
This is the most exciting week on the Fediverse since the beginning of November 2022.
To be honest, not much happened in 2024. Sure, there were a few interesting developments, but compared to 2022 and 2023, last year was quiet. In fact, I didnโt spend much time talking about the Fediverse at all. Most of 2024, I focused on markets, video games, and music. Occasionally, I shared some news, but it wasnโt my main focus.
But today? Wow. A lot of major developments happened in a short span of time.
Eugen Rochko Resigning
The most shocking news: @Gargron is stepping down as CEO of Mastodon and transferring all trademarks and copyrights to the Mastodon nonprofit. Thatโs huge.
Pixelfed & Meta Drama
Thereโs been a rush to Pixelfed due to recent moderation changes at Meta. Meta got caught removing links to PixelFed on Instagram, sparking an uproar. This backlash even caused PixelFed to trend on BlueSky.
Meta tried to walk back their actions, claiming it was a โmistake.โ Letโs be real: they only backpedaled because people noticed. If Meta throttles PixelFed links while boasting about Threads joining the Fediverse, they undermine trust. They know this, so they reinstated the links.
Elon Musk & TikTok Rumors
Another major story: Reports suggest Elon Musk might buy TikTok. If the U.S. government bans TikTok, ByteDance will have to either shut down U.S. operations or sell. Increasingly, Musk looks like the buyer. Of course, nothing is certain until the deal is signed, but if it happens, expect a mass exodus from TikTok.
Loops.Video is Coming
The final bombshell: @dansup, the mind behind PixelFed, announced the website for loops.video will go live this week.
I started using Loops today through TestFlight, and Iโm blown away. Itโs smooth, intuitive, and genuinely fun to use. Many were skeptical that a TikTok-like experience could work on an ActivityPub-enabled service, but Iโm telling you: loops.video is amazing.
Hereโs how I know itโs not just me: I gave it the โkid test.โ I handed my phone to my 11-year-old daughter and said, โHave fun.โ She was riveted. If an 11-year-old gets this excited about Loops, this platform has serious potential.
The Future of Video on the Fediverse
Iโve said this for a long time: video is critical for the Fediverse to succeed. Text-based platforms work for older generations, but kids live in the world of video. If we want the Fediverse to thrive with future generations, video has to be a major component.
PeerTube is great and has its fans, but it doesnโt hit the same way loops.video does. This is a different experience entirely.
A Huge Day for the Fediverse
Today, Iโve posted more about the Fediverse than I have in months. Between Mastodonโs leadership change, the PixelFed drama, the TikTok-Musk rumors, and the launch of loops.video, itโs been an incredible day.
Der EU-Datenschutzbeauftragte macht weiter Druck auf die Kommission. Sie soll alle Datentransfers stoppen, die sich aus der Nutzung von Microsoft 365 ergeben.
Interesantรญsimo y con muy poquitas fรณrmulas: el modelo matemรกtico que da una cota superior del rendimiento de una hรฉlice y por quรฉ los eVTOL llevan implรญcita una penalizaciรณn de rendimientoโฆ aparte de la de las baterรญas.
Por quรฉ los motores de los aviones son tan grandes, y los eVTOL tan ineficientes
https://blog.sandglasspatrol.com/por-que-los-motores-de-los-aviones-son-tan-grandes-y-los-evtol-tan-ineficientes/
Vฤera jsme navลกtรญvili na pลฏdฤ Malostranskรฉ besedy generรกlnรญ zkouลกku pลedstavenรญ Kurt & Sid. Vลele doporuฤuju na pลedstavenรญ zajรญt. Je to silnรฝ ale i vtipnรฝ rozhovor mezi Kurtem Cobainem z Nirvany se Sidem Viciousem ze Sex Pistols. kurtasid.cz/
It is more important than ever that the social web is not controlled by corporations. Today, Mastodon is taking another step towards its founding ideals: independence and non-profit ownership.
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We are very excited to announce our third annual Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card and invite you to participate in the survey that will determine the ratings.
In May 2024 we finally decided that maybe the time has come for curl to drop support of older TLS libraries. Libraries that because they don't support the modern TLS version (1.3) for many users are maybe not suitable to build upon for the future.
For TLS Inspector we're already shipping OpenSSL and a certificate store, so we're lucky that all the pieces are there already to make the transition smoother.
But, if I'm being honest, if that weren't the case - this deprecation would be difficult.
so, as someone mainly using the curl command line on macos... what changes for me? like, i know these changes are for libcurl but id imagine id still be affected by the changes on the curl cli program ๐
@pearl nothing at all changes then. curl on macOS uses LibreSSL since several years back. This is only a change for a subset of users who build curl/libcurl themselves for Apple operating systems.
@thedoctor Calling it "Apple Secure Transport" or "Apple's Secure Transport" in the title might have been better for those who had never heard of that library (and most people who don't develop for Apple systems probably haven't heard of that library).
schannel is still formally the recommended TLS backend for Windows and is the way one gets platform certificate policy applied. Secure Transport on the other handโฆ
As a podcaster, itโs weird to be the one answering instead of asking the questions, but I enjoyed my discussion with the fine folks at AT Banter. Itโs a clichรฉ for a reason, Canadians really are as nice as everyone says. AT Banter Episode 411 โ Kimberley Parsley Demand & Disrupt โ AT Banter Podcast atbanter.com/2025/01/08/at-banโฆ
This week Rob and Ryan welcome Kimberly Parsley, a blind podcaster from Kentucky, to the show to discusses her podcast โDemand and Disrupt,โ which focuses on disability issues beyond blโฆ
I just started listening to this. It's nice to put a voice to the name. Looking forward to finishing this episode and finding out more about your work.
@DavidGoldfield I hope you enjoyed it. I heard your name mentioned the other day on a meeting of the South Central Kentucky Council Of The Blind. I believe you were referred to as the person who knows all the tech stuff.
Ugh. Don't believe everything you hear at those meetings. ๐ That's one reason why I hang out on Mastodon, to learn from people who know way more than I do.
@DavidGoldfield Ah yes, the time-honored tradition of finding out stuff and then passing it off as your own knowledge. I am a graduate of that program myself. ๐ in this case though, it really does seem like the buck stops with you. Nothing but high praise.
There's been stories like that in Poznaล in the past year too, and technically it's illegal, but whether owners will be fined and pay anything is yet to be seen
@barthalion ten years ago friends of mine lived in a building. The one next door was left to rot. So much that in winter the common wall was freezing. A few years after they left it was torn down. They had been denied permits until the building was threatening to collapse.
We are back for day 2 of #SPEVI2025. This morning we started with an inspiring keynote presentation by Mr Michael Sheppard, a solicitor who shared his experience growing up blind. The conference is on today and tomorrow at 293 Queen Street Brisbane, Australia
Pictured is NV Access founder Michael Curran chatting with Michael Sheppard after the presentation about how he uses NVDA.
Zvukovรฝ popis na #ฤT mรก rลฏznรฉ formy. Na jednรฉ stranฤ je poลad Branky, Body, Vteลiny, jehoลพ celรฝ popis je odbyt pลeฤtenรญm nรกzvu poลadu bฤhem znฤlky.
Opaฤnรฝm extrรฉmem je nฤco, co by se dalo parafrรกzovat jako: โStฤraฤe stรญrajรญ, ostลikovaฤe stลรญkajรญ, klakson troubรญ!โ
Chudรกci vลกichni vidรญcรญ divรกci, co se nikdy nedozvรญ, jak se tahle pรญsniฤka jmenuje a kdo ji zpรญvรก.
Jako zatรญm jeลกtฤ vidomรฝ zvukovรฉ stopy pro nevidomรฉ celkem vyuลพรญvรกm. Je to super na takovรฉto puลกtฤnรญ si nฤฤeho pลi ฤem ฤlovฤk dฤlรก jeลกtฤ nฤco jinรฉho, tj to spรญลก poslouchรกm. Ano, uลพ jsem se setkal i s tรญm, ลพe i pลi sledovรกnรญ nฤco ฤlovฤk spรญลก pochopรญ z audio popisu.
Facebook employees have recently been wondering if perhaps Facebookโwhich lets politicians lie in ads, festers with extremist movements like QAnon, and by
In 2019, of course, he was giving out a different lie about how Facebook was founded to promote free speech. Then, it was because he wanted people to have a voice protesting about the Iraq war. It's amazing how often Zuck just outright lies.
Like they could have made this a "let's get the decentralized social web funded" thing and actually put money and resources towards making ATproto and ActivityPub interoperable. Could have funded Mastodon development (or the development of a new ActivityPub platform). But they just wanna funnel money into one protocol claiming that that will somehow "save" things. tldr.nettime.org/@tante/113822โฆ
Dunno, something about the "FreeOurFeeds" campaign is off. (https://freeourfeeds.com/)
It's basically trying to raise money for AT Proto so "the community" can standardize the thing and "build stuff" and they wanna run a second "relay" (which is theโฆ
On a whim when Christmas shopping I bought a tea towel with lovely illustrations depicting the full moons of 2025. Though now I have my โfancy tea towel dilemmaโ of whether to use, display or keep safe in a drawer. Of course I totally forgot about it until realising that tonight was the first full moon of the year.
Itโs too cloudy here to see the Stay Home moon, aka Wolf Moon or Moon after Yule, so enjoy this photo of the tea towel instead!
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).
the updated RB apps are a lot more than the RB apps in general. Is this a pattern, that frequently or rather recently updated apps are much more likely to be RB?
@Fadikkop I didn't make the app โ credits for that go to @y20k ; I just added it to the IzzyOnDroid repo and confirmed the app to be reproducible ๐
Eep, just 2 days to raise $34k to meet our match challenge - we've been working so hard this year with great results.... did you see our recent news about the AVM enforcement action? Check out the OpenWrt One? Hear about the DMCA exemptions we secured? Heard the success stories of our @outreachy alums? Played with a source candidate on Use the Source? Not only is that just some of our recent work but there's more news coming soon!
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