So now that bit.ly is showing ads, if you need a URL shortener, #lynx is decent and #accessible and easy to host. And before you tell me that we don't need URL shorteners anymore and how they're a security risk, I need them for:
1. Business cards, slides, signs, and other physical objects that need a URL. While most phones can scan QR Codes, you can't read them out loud for #blind folks. If you're doing a presentation, "scan the QR code on screen" isn't good enough. You need to have a URL that you can speak and another human can remember. Yes, NFC is a thing, but it doesn't solve that problem.
2. Places that still don't allow URLs (LinkedIn) or where long URLs are awkward to work with (text-only emails, the terminal, etc.)
3. Times (like a phone call) where I need to tell someone a URL using the noises that come from my face-parts

Find it here: getlynx.dev/#a11y#bitly

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 8 updated (all RB) and 2 added (also RB) apps:

* ReTerminal: a Terminal Emulator 🛡️
* Dharmik: an offline app to browse Hindu texts (currently: Bhagavad Gita and Atharvaveda) 🛡️

Our first "RB only" AppRain, so to speak 🥳 Current RB status: 468 apps (37.7%)

3 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds

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@anyDr0id Ever scrolled down to the "Packages" section in our repo browser? Hover your mouse over those "green shields", click the question mark next to them for details 😉

Clients such as Droid-ify and Neo Store will support this soon™ as well. And there's apt.izzysoft.de/packages/dev.b… if you want a client to explore them right now™ :awesome:

#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #Android

Dozens of things you can do to clean up a fresh install of Windows 11 24H2 and Edge
If you start using Windows 11 this year, you'll want to know how to clean it up.
arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

Editatona Ciencia y Género desde Jalisco 🧪🚺❤️‍🔥

La perspectiva de género no termina en la academia, ayúdanos a documentar el trabajo de las mujeres jalicienses.

El Centro de Estudios de Género, la Revista de estudios de género, La Ventana y Wikimedia México te daremos las herramientas para editar la Wikipedia 🫡💗

La actividad es presencial y abierta para todas las mujeres, nos vemos en Zapopan Jalisco el 3 de marzo.

Regístrate
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#NuncaMásWikipediaSinNosotras

"Air Canada et SNCF Voyageurs"

These two guarantee that if the project goes through, the customer service will be utter garbage.

This should be VIA Rail.

ici.radio-canada.ca/nouvelle/2…

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Die Berliner Polizei hat ein satirisches Plakat, das Friedrich Merz und Alice Weidel beim Küssen zeigt, vorübergehend abhängen lassen und wollte es beschlagnahmen. Daraufhin pfiff die Staatsanwaltschaft die Polizei zurück.

netzpolitik.org/2025/kunstfrei…

I'm now confident enough to show off my new app Chimeful 😏
Create "Chimes" that regularly remind you to take a short break, refocus on your current task or anything else that needs reminding. Chimes have individually adjustable scheduling rules.
It was especially designed for people with #ADHD who tend to get lost in thought and need to be brought back to the present moment.
TestFlight open now, any feedback is welcome!

testflight.apple.com/join/ASkW…

#indiedev #buildinpublic

There are so many words missing from #Emacs's iSpell dictionary that I feel like I'm being constantly gaslit.

"That's not a word." "That's not how you spell that."

Just now it was "smattered" As in "her skin was smattered with freckles"

Fucking A. As I type this even macOS doesn't think it's a word despite the fact that it's in the dictionary app that ships with the system.

#Writing

uspol, authoritarianism, this one's serious

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Should you need inconspicuous ringtones or notification sounds, there's a new project aiming to do exactly this at sober-ringtones.wize.io/ for free. Previews are available as well (press/click the image next to the download link if you use a screen reader). #ringtones #notificationSounds #free

Any interest in learning to #code from the #Blind community on an old-school platform?

a MOO is a text-based virtual world. if you ever played an old interactive fiction or text adventure game you'll be familiar with the idea. you type in commands like "go north" to move, "put coin in box", "kill dragon with sword" and so forth, and you get written responses unfolding the story.

This type of interface was taken online with a MOO in the 1990's, and rather than a playable story, you can join in and work with other people in an interactive, virtual world.

More than that, as well as just playing, MOO has a rich and beginner-friendly programming language, so you can create objects and code them to do things to your own specifications.

through a series of structured lessons with code samples and plenty of explanation you'll learn some of the basics of any programming language, all whilst having fun and playing about. The world is always open and you can build as many rooms and items as you like. You can practice your written English, socialising and programming all at once, in a 100% text-based environment perfect for screen readers and Braille displays.

This will be my twenty-seventh empty MOO. Each one has gone off in a different direction with between 1 and 15 participants, mostly young visually-impaired school-children and teens needing an introduction to programming in a fun way when the UK introduced coding as part of our national curriculum.
I taught high school computing and college for a decade, and I'm wanting to open this opportunity up to more blind and visually-impaired people because coding is fun, and a MOO is a fun thing to play with.
it's Only worthwhile if we have the numbers though, so if you're not interested please pass on if you can.

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Unser Webshop hat eröffnet! oskars.org/b/ Hier bekommst du Schilder mit deinem eigenen Text. Der Schildgenerator erzeugt dir eine Voransicht deines Schilds. Unsere Schilder mit Blindenschrift Braille und Profilschrift sind von Menschen mit Seheinschränkung oder Blindheit entwickelt worden. Begreifbare Zeichen laden zur Teilhabe ein und sorgen für Orientierung. #make #blind #inklusion
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Yesterday's toot sparked an amazing discussion:

How can we fight off Google's fingerpriting❓

Share your insights so we can update the blog post. Let's make the web a better place for everyone. 💪 🔒 ❤️

mastodon.social/@Tutanota/1140…


🚨 BREAKING 🚨

#Google just launched a new era of tracking. Digital #fingerprinting.

❌ No consent
❌ No escape

Here’s why this is a #privacy nightmare much worse than #cookies: 👇

tuta.com/blog/digital-fingerpr…


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Holy fuck, people seriously need to stop this bullshit that Flathub inclusion rules and reviews are lax... I am going to send you the bill for my broken monitor next time you make such claims.

*Every* *Single* *Statement* about Flathub here is False.

And this has nothing to do with why Flathub is popular either.

For fuck sake..

youtu.be/oKP1hgdFJKo?t=542

in reply to Jordan Petridis

I honestly can't watch a single Brodie video without cringing hard; but this looks like yet another case of "distro person says that software distribution is a solved problem as long as everyone uses the same distribution and tooling to package software" that led me to write that blog post about "dev vs ops" in 2017. In the end, Richard changed his mind, but remember: it is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.
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the fun part is that Flatpak and Flathub took the "we need to get better" conclusion and made it happen, whereas distro folks just shut off when I pointed out that they are becoming complacent and risk becoming so irrelevant to the Linux landscape that nobody is going to replace packagers retiring. Oh, well…

Tak jsem zase přidal nějaké to video, díky @archos za zvýšení limitu nahrání. Snad vám nebude vadit ten delší formát, za ten skoro měsíc jsem měl víc jak 20 min záběrů jen na mobilu.

vhsky.cz/videos/watch/cf32420b…


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Dlouho jsem sem nic nedal až jsem měl 20 minut záběrů. Tak snad to nevadí že je to větší.

Je to za cca 1000km