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I mentioned Be My Eyes in my top accessibility apps video. Which ISN'T a feature?
1. Volunteer calls on the Meta Glasses
2. Service Directory (Call companies/orgs)
3. Be My AI (Descriptions)
4. Groups (call a group of supporters)

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(Answer: all of them!!)


My Top 10 Accessibility Apps for people who are Blind & Low Vision (PLUS a little extra!)

Here's my top 10 accessibility apps for people who are blind, visually impaired, and low vision-- plus some other apps that aren't at the top but still helpf...
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**Push notifications for decentralized services**

How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations.

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#UnifiedPush #Webpush #decentralization

Push notifications for decentralized services

How mobile push notifications currently bring centralization to decentralized services, and how we can avoid it, even for mainstream configurations. Published the 31/01/2025 This post will focus on Android.
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#UnifiedPush #decentralization #webpush

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better-osm-org 0.8:

- 📸 Photos from Panoramax, StreetComplete, Wikipedia Commons

- 🏃‍♂️ Rendering of GPS tracks

- 💬 First comment of changeset in changesets list

- 🫂 Edits of friends

- 🛰 Satellite image switch (Firefox only)

- 📄 Experimental viewer for geotagged photos, .gpx and .geojson files

- ⚡️Faster rendering

⌨️ Hotkeys:
` — hide geometry of the changeset from the map
T — toggle between compact and full tags diff mode

Diary: osm.org/user/TrickyFoxy/diary/…

Install: github.com/deevroman/better-os…

GitHub - deevroman/better-osm-org: A userscript that adds several useful features to osm.org β

A userscript that adds several useful features to osm.org β - deevroman/better-osm-org
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Hey #FOSS enthusiasts!
Join us for a beer 🍻 this Saturday at 19:30 at Wolf Bar in Brussels!
If you're around and want to meet cool people and talk about GNOME, come on by!
📍 Rue du Fossé aux Loups 50, 1000 Bruxelles, Belgium
wolf.be/en/bxl/contact-fqa/
#FOSDEM2025

Contact - Wolf Sharing Food Market

Quoi, où, quand?
sofievranckx (Wolf Sharing Food Market Brussels)
#foss #fosdem2025
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Writing a professional email starts with a professional email address - Like @ tuta.com! Learn how to craft professional, polished, and effective emails with our latest guide. 💡 📫

tuta.com/blog/how-to-write-a-p…

#HowtToWriteEmails #ProfessionalEmail #TutaMail

How to write a professional email: I hope you're well! Kind regards, Sheila. Dear Joe.

How to write an email: succeed in professional email writing | Tuta

Email writing doesn’t need to be difficult. In this step-by-step guide, learn how to write professional emails.
Tuta
#tutamail #professionalemail #howttowriteemails
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A few days after he was sworn in as 47th US president, he claimed Greenland “wanted to be with us” and said he believed it would eventually become part of the US.

“I think the people want to be with us,” Trump said when asked about the island in the press room on board the presidential plane.

europesays.com/1811037/

Neslyšel jsem něco podobného o Podněstří? Donbasu? Ukrajině? Až mi bude 75, budu taky takovej idiot, nebo k tomu potřebuju ještě jiné dispozice?

#Putin #Trump #idiots #psychopaths


People of Denmark see US as bigger threat than North Korea amid Trump Greenland row, poll finds - EUROPE SAYS

Your support helps us to tell the storyFrom reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent
EUROPE SAYS (EUROPESAYS.COM)
#Trump #Putin #idiots #psychopaths

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We've got some exciting job openings at #Thunderbird! We're hiring for a Sr. UX Design Specialist, A #Rust /C++ Software Engineer for the desktop app, and......a Senior #iOS Engineer to join our mobile team to help us bring Thunderbird to your iPhone and iPad!

Help us spread the word!

mozilla.org/careers/listings/?…


Mozilla Careers — All open positions at Mozilla

We have a mighty mandate, serving hundreds of millions of people. Add a culture of exploration, and there is always a new way to learn and grow here.
Mozilla
#ios #thunderbird #rust

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Felichs

@edfloreshz

Maybe that could be mentioned in the OP?

It's a fairly big oversight when posting jobs to a global site, and all the details of restrictions end up being 3 clicks away.... you're not alone almost every job posting is the same.

There really needs to be a standard format for job postings that includes residency/eligibility.

@Eduardo Flores

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I don't know how many of these apps are accessible. I use Everything and it's quite accessible and super useful.
Another must-have for me is Winaero Tweaker.

Hidden gems: These 20 truly useful Windows apps are free, too! pcworld.com/article/2570670/hi…


Hidden gems: These 20 truly useful Windows apps are free, too!

So many great apps eventually cost money. These fantastic apps cost nothing. Don't overlook them because they're really useful!
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Glad to finally get to participate in the EU Open Source Policy Summit '25 in #Brussels. I was able to watch the morning presentation thanks to Fred Dixon's @bigbluebutton

We will have to meet again in #Ottawa. Great start to the #EuropeOpenSouceWeek & #FOSDEM.

#EUOpenSource #OpenSourcePolicySummit #EUOpenSourcePolicyForum #EUOSPF #EUOSPF25

Panel on the main stage.
Me in front of the gate for the summit.
#fosdem #ottawa #brussels #EUOpenSource #europeopensouceweek #opensourcepolicysummit #euopensourcepolicyforum #euospf #euospf25 @bigbluebutton

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A bookshop door in Canada. 🦇
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A Sleeping Bat at The Next Page Bookshop in Calgary Becomes an Unlikely Star: streetartutopia.com/2025/01/30…
The entrance of The Next Page bookshop in Calgary, Canada, featuring a handwritten sign taped to the glass door. The sign reads: 'ATTENTION — Please open the door carefully as there is a bat sleeping on it 😊,' with an arrow pointing to the left. A small brown bat is curled up against the wooden door frame, peacefully resting. The cozy bookstore interior is visible through the glass, with shelves of books and a bicycle reflected in the window. A charming moment of urban wildlife finding an unexpected resting spot.

A Sleeping Bat at The Next Page Bookshop in Calgary Becomes an Unlikely Star | STREET ART UTOPIA

A small bat a few years ago chose the entrance of The Next Page bookshop in Calgary as its resting spot. The bookstore put up a sign: 'Please open the door carefully as there is a bat sleeping on it.
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#LibreOffice is used by 200 million people. Every major release goes through extensive testing – and there are regular minor updates to fix issues too. The #QA Team analyses bug reports from users, and here’s an example of how quickly they can work: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #opensource
"LibreOffice QA Team" on a green Matrix-like code banner

LibreOffice QA Team: Fixing a bug in three days - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice is used by 200 million people around the world. Every major release goes through extensive testing, with Alpha, Beta and Release Candidate versions – and there are regular monthly minor updates to fix issues too.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice #qa
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Ondřej Caletka

@overunderlay There's no such thing as universal outlet. The one on the picture does not provide earthing for dominant european plugs nor accepts italian or swiss plugs.

I think having alternating scheme of BS 1363 and Schuko sockets is much better than that. Hopefully, during some future refresh, 60W USB-PD chagers would be installed which will make everyone's life much easier.

@Network == Abstraction Layer

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For 2025, here is a updated and hopefully-useful notice about Linux kernel security issues, as it seems like this knowledge isn't distributed very widely based on the number of emails I still get on a weekly basis:

- The Linux kernel security team does not have any "early notice" announcement list for security fixes for anyone, as that would only make things more insecure for everyone. The number of organizations that fail to understand this is way too high.

- The kernel community DOES assign CVEs, as we are a CNA, please see kernel.org/doc/html/latest/pro… for how they are handled and assigned. Side note, we were #2 in quantity for CVE assignments in 2024 despite only doing so for 10 1/2 months, averaging about 10 CVEs per day. Any process you might have where you feel you need to research each CVE on an individual basis manually is going to be a major time suck, automate it! All CVE entries are provided with proper git commit ids for the vulnerable release ranges for you to check yourself, AND we have tools and other formats that you can use to check this yourself. See git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/s… for the tools and raw data for you to pull from directly if you don't want to deal with the cve.org json feed.

- Kernel CVE entries are constantly updated over time, you can not just look a them only when created, and then ignore all updates. Too many groups are missing revoked CVE entries and tightening of vulnerable kernel ranges that we are updating on a weekly basis. By ignoring the updates, you are causing yourself more work, not less. cve.org provides an "updated" feed in their git tree, use it!

- Along the lines of the huge number of recorded CVEs, you HAVE to take all of the stable/LTS releases in order to have a
secure and stable system. If you attempt to cherry-pick random patches you will NOT fix all of the known, and unknown, problems,
but rather you will end up with a potentially more insecure system, and one that contains known bugs. Reliance on an "enterprise"
distribution to provide this for your systems is up to you, discuss it with them as to how they achieve this result as this is what you are paying for. If you aren't paying for it, just use Debian, they know what they are doing and track the stable kernels and have a larger installed base than any other Linux distro. For embedded, use Yocto, they track the stable releases, or keep your own buildroot-based system up to date with the new releases.

- Test all stable/LTS releases on your workload and hardware before putting the kernel into "production" as everyone runs a different %
of the kernel source code from everyone else (servers run about 1.5mil lines of code, embedded runs about 3.5mil lines of code, your mileage will vary). If you can't test releases before moving them into production, you might want to solve that problem first.

- A fix for a known bug is better than the potential of a fix causing a future problem as future problems, when found, will be fixed then.

CVE Website

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