Demonstrates iOS SwiftUI Accessibility programming techniques using live good and bad examples that can be tested with VoiceOver and other AT. Includes documentation for developers explaining how t...
Apple this week announced the iPhone 16e . The company put out a press release on it , but it also posted a video to YouTube . I chose to indulge in the latter medium for entertainment value.
Edit 3: Still holding up pretty well, even with how hard y'all are trying! This is a little Beelink mini PC I got for $12 when Amazon sent me the wrong item and wanted me to pay to send it back, hosted on a home fiber connection. The jump in processor power really cut Sharkey's response times and lets my reverse proxy Traefik keep up way better. I think it was HTTPS on a 12+ year old Intel desktop chip that was really doing it in.
The Samsung Galaxy S25 Plus, the mid-tier model of the S25 series, was unveiled on January 22 and released on February 3. Receiving the device just 10 days
Hmm, encoding #braille into music tones has recently been featured in the #braille200. I think it's nice for fun. Still I'm wondering if some of you might be able to understand it in real time.
I bought a #Pixel 6a to finally switch to #GrapheneOS. You can get a used one for €120 and it still has 2.5 years of support. Software-wise, so far so good. Even banking apps like #Revolut work without having to install anything from #Google. 👌
@JamesHeather já jsem zatím zkoušel Revolut, KB, Air Bank a Fio a všechny fungují. Jen jsem narazil na problém, že při ověření přihlášení z nové aplikace přes QR kód, to QR kód z druhého telefonu nebralo. Nevím proč, tomu jsem ještě nepřišel na kloub. @archos používá GOS už dlouho, ten bude mít ohledně bankovních aplikací jistě víc zkušeností.
@JamesHeather @Jiří Eischmann George slovenskej sporiteľne kontroluje, či bol inštalovaný z Google play, tipujem, že v českej sporiteľni to bude podobné. Môj postup je stiahnuť cez aurora store, rozbaliť do /data/local/tmp a inštalovať nejako takto cez terminál priamo na zariadení:
export instid=`pm install-create -i com.android.vending|sed "s|Success: created install session||g;s|\[||g;s|\]||g"`
for f in `echo -n $@`;do
export size=`wc -c $f|cut -f 1 -d \ `
export spname=`echo $f||sed "s|.apk||g"`
cat $f|pm install-write -S $size $instid $spname -
done
pm install-commit $instid
@trilobyte yes, it's primarily privacy and security hardening. It seems to be more thoroughly de-Googled than LineageOS. Yet everything (except for Google Pay) just works without installing anything from Google. You can find a good comparison here: eylenburg.github.io/android_co…
Thanks for the comparison, it is interesting Android Auto is supported. To add some context: Currently I am running Xperia 10 IV, but its support ends in half a year. It is possible to "officially" build own AOSP for it (because of Sony Open Devices), but I am not quite happy about the idea of maintaining it. Anyway, I will need to deal with the situation and I don't like the idea of creating more e-waste with buying new phone, so buying something older could be the way...
I am 47 years old. I have seen more Nazi salutes in the last 30 days than I have ever seen before in my entire lifetime. This isn't an accident. It isn't mental illness. And it sure as shit isn't funny. This is intentional. When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.
Koketuju s myšlenkou, že by se mi na #VHSky líbilo mít nějaký živý #rádio, který by třeba místo videa mělo jen "now listening", nebo něco podobnýho (případně při podcastech třeba livestream ze studia) .. tak jsem při hledání po internetech hledal, jak fungujou komunitní rádia a objevil studentský #RádioR s licencí CC-BY-SA
Jde tenhle můj myšlenkovej průjem nějak přetvořit v něco hmotnýho, nebo je to jen kravina? :)
@Schmaker Výborný projekt #RadioR. Vždy, keď mi niekto odporučí zaujímavé rádio, kontrolujem, či je už v databáze radio-browser.info a toto tam už samozrejme je.
Says the article, contrary to it's subtitle "The system won't fail while the car is in motion":
"... So far, it has resulted in more than 3,000 warranty claims and caused 570 crashes, according to Tesla and the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.
Federal investigators have known about the problem for some time—in 2023 NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation opened a preliminary inquiry after 12 reports of steering failures, including three Model 3s and nine Model Ys.
By February 2024, NHTSA had received 124 complaints about steering failure in 2023 Teslas and found another 2,264 reports of steering problems. ..."
EDIT: They have already rescinded the policy, lol. See first comment.
'HP Inc is trying to force consumer PC and print customers to use online and other digital support channels by setting a minimum 15-minute wait time for anyone that phones the call center to get answers to troublesome queries.'
@mattblaze @ai6yr HP was founded and ran by engineers for a long time before the MBAs and the accountants took over. During that time HP was THE BRAND. It's amazing how far they fell in brand loyalty.
Engineering is about making things better and improving manufacturing loops. MBAs are about extracting as much money as possible for the shareholders - - forgetting that society as a whole is a shareholder as well in the long run.
@ai6yr When HP divested its (good quality) test equipment business, Agilent/Keysight were very fortunate that they didn't get rights to use the original company brand name.
@mattblaze It's such a shame, the company was very progressive, and ahead of its time. I remember reading HP Research papers in the 90's about how to make more easily recycled or upgradable computers, in order to minimize electronic waste. Also a lot of early literature about good corporate governance, etc. in business school studies, etc. Amazing to see them fall so far.
So, what people don't realize is that "HP" is no longer HP anymore. It is now run by some kind of metastasized parasitic organism that has only one goal, which is to extract as much money as possible out of its "customers" who don't realize it's become a giant parasite, thinking it's a "trusted brand" (which it once was). Sad to see it. Never buy anything from that company, NEVER.
Well hot damn, my Steve scammer is back. Same first 2 messages, a third "You didn't reply to me, so I'm guessing you don't know me," followed by a pic and "Remember me?"
I'm going out on a tenuous limb here and suspecting that, no, I don't in fact know this person.
As an aside, any #blind folks know how to accessibly find a Matrix ID in @element? At the very least I want to find if this person is coming through a bridge, then shut that down if needed.
And this is why Element accessibility is important. When I review the interface, I see what look like a ton of noisy stale ARIA announcements hanging around at the bottom of the interface, making it very hard to do the "move to the bottom to find if new interface elements were added to the DOM" trick. It's not just an inconvenient annoyance. It makes defending against potential pig butchering and other scam attempts much harder. How can I feel confident on a network if I can't safely use its flagship client?
@Nolan Darilek I think using tab and shift+tab to navigate in the message content will allow you to focus the profile picture of that person and activate with the enter key. After this, switch your screen reader into browse mode, find heading level 2 saying profile and find the matrix handle a few lines below after the display name and the status. Also if you are back on linux, except of @Element there is another more light weight very accessible #GTK4 based matrix client called #fractal.
Fractal seemed pretty simple when I used it last. In particular, it didn't seem to have support for spaces, which was rough since I'm in lots of rooms, many of them with similar names like "General". :) Did I miss something? I guess it'll work in a pinch, but I'd eventually like to use Matrix for voice and such so really wish a more full-featured client was accessible.
Sometimes people think #curl is a simple little HTTP tool, while in reality there's a whole internet transfer machine in there supporting 28 protocols.
I thought rsync/scp was good enough for SSH file transfers. Is the reason to include SSH in curl convenient of using a single utility for all file transfers?
@vmiheer it was added to libcurl almost twenty years ago, to offer easy sftp and scp transfers in addition to ftp(s) for an application, yes. Actually paid for by Adobe.
With my own humble ways of running c-driven network code (years ago) I know how much research this must be to make it really work on so many protocols, so many settings, so many options etc. Really strong stuff. I hope people tell that often enough to you and your contributors.
@Erklaerbaer "While the company cannot disable ADP for current ADP users in the U.K., they will eventually be required to disable it to keep using their iCloud account using guidance provided by Apple over the coming weeks or days."
Rather than comply with a UK order to make a backdoor into encrypted data, Apple has announced it will no longer offer Advanced Data Protection in that country. appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…
@klittle667 they're not bowing down to anything. The option was remove the facility for end to end backups (which has been very slow to uptake in the UK anyway), or risk not being able to sell here. More worrying is our government's slide toward further stupidity, I'd say.
@cachondo That's kind of what I meant. I mean my partner's argument to it was ""what's the big deal? What have you got to hide" and she didn't seem to understand the prinsipal. It doesn't matter what I have, but I should be able to at least semi-trust a provider not just to blindly hand over my data to whomever comes asking.
@cachondo @klittle667 Yes exactly. I don't know anyone who had actually switched this feature on. The protection we get now is the same as OneDrive, Dropbox et al. I'm not happy with the government for making this request but think Apple did the only thing they could. I'm happier they didn't add a backdoor to the system.
@andrew @klittle667 and of course the important thing to keep in mind is if you use apps that already do e2e that carries on. So all your messaging apps, outside of iMessage and Telegram.
Starting today, the #Obsidian Commercial license is optional. Anyone can use Obsidian for work, for free. Explore the organizations that support Obsidian on our site.
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Here are some issues that should be doable in a few hours even without prior knowledge of the project, maybe even without Android dev knowledge. Let me know if you want to take one of them on, I'm glad to help!
github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu… Find where this badge is hidden when wellbeing mode is active, and change the code so it will always be shown.
Using the "Hide quantitative stats on profiles" toggle in the settings hides the badge that shows if someone follows you. I found this surprising and unwanted — I don't think of the information tha...
Hmm, I must really like the Material Design language, or at least I'm a bit nostalgic for the older versions of it. Check out this screenshot of my desktop using the Materia Dark theme, but with the default Fedora Mate 41 wallpaper... I'd love to know if the use of Roboto is obvious or not. Sorry to my visually impaired followers, as trying to give this an extermely detailed description is a bit difficult. #Fedora #Mate #GTKThemes #MaterialDesign #MateriaDark
Steve Bannon, který byl v Trumpově týmu v Bílém domě během jeho prvního prezidentského mandátu, vyzýval příznivce k boji, když jeho pravice vystřelila vzhůru.
"jeví se jako hajlování"? co to je za newspeak? Bannon a Musk prostě hajlovali, až začnou nosit hákenkrojc na rukávu, bude seznam psát, že "používají symbol který může připomínat svastiku"?
I tried to find when #Signal has published the most recent #security audit, and it turns out they either never published an audit or their code was never audited at all.
The closest thing I found is the list community.signalusers.org/t/ov… which only cites research papers and some evidence that in 2018 Signal paid Doyensec, but nothing got published as the result. Even then, it looks like the apps were not audited for more than 5 years since then.
Let’s collect past security audits here: Formal audits Year Auditor(s) Sponsor App/Component Published Link Last update / extended 2013 iSEC Partners (NCC Group) Open Technology Fund RedPhone and TextSecure ❌ Blog post 2014 Frosch et al.
Let’s collect past security audits here: Formal audits Year Auditor(s) Sponsor App/Component Published Link Last update / extended 2013 iSEC Partners (NCC Group) Open Technology Fund RedPhone and TextSecure ❌ Blog post 2014 Frosch et al.
Why don't you include the federated #XMPP (aka Jabber) protocol as an alternative? There are plenty of good clients for the phone and PC, like #Conversations, #gajim, or #dino. With the modern extensions like Omemo E2EE and various improvements for mobile use, it is very useable even on phones, while keeping the flexibility and resilience of a federated service (just like the Fediverse).
@spla +1 for Deltachat. Requires an auto-crypt-compatible email address. @Tutanota , would you please add #deltachat compatible auto-crypt goodness to your offerings?
PS: I have tuta, proton, and posteo.net email addresses (and thanks for the free service!). I pay for, and favor the posteo.net one the most. Why? Because of the auto-crypt support. (BTW: I am not paid in any way to endorse one over the other.)
I need to say it : #XMPP is also a good replacement. The first step to use it is not easy for everyone but once it is done it is way simpler than Matrix. My mother use XMPP with no problem! 😊
@feudjais Your mother uses it because you set it up for her and you are willing to be her tech support if things don't work. Most people don't have a "you" (someone who is that passionate about #xmpp that they are willing to do all the heavy lifting) in their lives.
@maple @feudjais my mother uses quicksy because I told her to install it, I have not done more "tech support" than this and it has been more than 5 years, and we have a/v calls regularly. (And she really is not technical, I regrettably have to do a lot of tech support on other stuff; XMPP just worked)
Quicksy is a "branded" XMPP client (iOS/Android) and provider for a WhatApp-like experience: quicksy.im/ There are also other providers, self-hosting XMPP is _not_ required: providers.xmpp.net
I switched to Signal and convinced my friends, mom and sister but the rest of the family, no way. They stick to WhatsApp too lazy to change. The number of people who don't give a shit about their online privacy is crazy
The main problem I see isn't finding a good alternative, but finding a person who is willing to abandon #meta I have multiple alternatives(#signal, #element #telegram #discord ) but what to do when I'm the only one using them?
My current concern is interoperability. I can’t convince colleagues and family to escape from Meta (fortunately I can convince friends, but you can’t force colleagues or cousins to change their habits). I have a terrible impression of social fragmentation behind multiplying new walled gardens. How easy is it to bridge Element with Whatsapp and Telegram? And does it require a mirror account on those platforms?
Непогана стаття про альтернативні мессенджери, але зовсім не відкрили тему #Android #Google #Messages це гуглосміття без попередження та запиту встановлює з 2025 року пару програмуль на ваші мобільні пристрої – слідкують заради вошого добробуту! Раджу перевірити пристрої та видалити: 1) Android System #SafetyCore 2) Android System #KeyVerifier
Addressing Reader Feedback on the Transition of the Top Tech Tidbits and Access Information Newsletters from Email Client To Web Browser | Aaron Di Blasi | AT-Newswire.com at-newswire.com/reader-feeedba…
Greetings everyone. Well I'll say one thing, there's never a dull moment here at Top Tech Tidbits. Last week we were forced to make a pretty major change to the way that we deliver news to you each week, and plenty of blind readers had plenty to say about it.
I was embarrassed at reading some of the comments you highlighted. It's not my place to act as a spokesman for the blindness community but I do wish to apologize for some of these over the top comments.
Zveme českou veřejnost 23. února 2025 v 15:00 na shromáždění Společně za Ukrajinu na Staroměstském náměstí v Praze k 3. výročí ruské války proti Ukrajině.
I can't help but think a company doing this is irredeemable. Their understanding of business has drifted so far from what's healthy that I think they should be shut down, and regulators should do some long reflection on how to keep others from getting this bad. theregister.com/2025/02/20/hp_…
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