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A week ago, my employer filed for bankruptcy: electrive.net/2025/02/25/jucr-…

There is a chance that the company might continue the same work under a different new name but I can't afford to wait for that. So I'm forced to start looking for my next job.

If you or anyone you know is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to work on projects involving Rust, please let me know. 🙏 My CV: github.com/zeenix/

Also, boosts appreciated!

#FediHire


Jucr meldet Insolvenz an - electrive.net

Das durch seine Ladeflatrate bekannt gewordene Berliner Startup Jucr ist insolvent. Zum vorläufigen Insolvenzverwalter wird Rechtsanwalt Christian Graf Brockdorff bestellt. Hintergründe zur Insolvenz sind bisher nicht bekannt.
Sebastian Schaal (electrive.net)
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Monday Tech Tip: Mantis Q40 Braille Display eastersealstech.com/2025/02/24…

Monday Tech Tip: Mantis Q40 Braille Display

During the 2025 ATIA Conference, Peter Tucic from HumanWare showed us their Mantis Q40 Braille Display, which is a bluetooth QWERTY keyboard and 40-cell refreshable braille display that you can pai…
Assistive Technology at Easter Seals Crossroads

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First, they shut down the Basic HTML site, forcing many of us to switch to clients such as Thunderbird. Now, they're using qr codes which are not only inaccessible to the blind but also to those who don't use smartphones! This is ridiculous! Yes, they do still have the option to click whether it's you trying to sign in or not (which still requires a smartphone and a carrier, which they claim to be concerned about), but how long before they remove that, too?

pcmag.com/news/google-is-repla…

#accessibility #Android #authentication #blind #Google #GMail #IOS #Narrator #NVDA #sms #Talkback #technology #Voiceover #Windows

#Accessibility #android #google #blind #technology #Windows #ios #talkback #sms #GMail #nvda #voiceover #authentication #narrator

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Perl is now a CNA, able to assign their own CVE ids, this is great news!
security.metacpan.org/2025/02/…

Just in time for my talk about this very topic in a few weeks about how all open source projects should be doing this:
lfms25.sched.com/event/1urXE/t…

CPANSec is CNA for Perl and the CPAN ecosystem

The CPAN Security Group was authorized by the CVE Program as a CVE Numbering Authority (CNA) on Feb 25, 2025. A CNA assigns and manages CVE identifiers for projects in their scope.
Stig Palmquist, Timothy Legge and Breno G. de Oliveira (security.metacpan.org)

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Welcome to the RB family, Payload Dumper 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.r…

Payload Dumper lets you extract boot.img or any other (partition) images without any PC and without SuperUser (root) access, directly on your Android device.

Thanks to the help of its developer, with today's release this app is now RB :awesome:

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid


„Payload Dumper Android“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Extract boot.img or any other images without PC on Android
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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Hi everyone. To those of you who remember the Blind Geek Zone and were fond of the content there, I'm happy to say that I was able to archive almost all podcasts on that website before it went down, and was recently given permission by @Rickster1963 to share the archive. Almost all podcasts starting in very late 2012 are now available at samtupy.com/bgz for consumption! Anyone please let me know if there are any issues with this page or the content. For older bgz podcasts, see the long available archive hoested by @datajake1999 at datajake.braillescreen.net/BGZ… where all the podcasts leading up to 2012 are archived, though without metadata. Enjoy this jaunt down memory lain folks, and thanks rick for letting me share these!

Index of /BGZ Audio Archive/

datajake.braillescreen.net
@Jake Gross @Rick Harmon

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Buenos días desde la Administración Pública.

Hoy tenemos algunas noticias interesantes en Administración Digital.

En primer lugar, se pone en marcha la AEAD (Agencia Estatal de Administración Digital).

También tenemos este artículo sobre gobernanza de datos en sistemas abiertos de IA: administracionelectronica.gob.…

También es interesante ver el despliegue del EDL (espacio europeo de datos lingüísticos).

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"if you need a tool to communicate privately with your friends and family–even if your chats are boring, mundane, and totally legal–#Signal is the best damn choice I can recommend."

is the conclusion after 6 parts of detailed and well explained code review that starts at soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewi… by @soatok

(Yes, I read all 6 parts. No, I don't claim to understand more than the basics of cryptography, which is why yes, I have to and do trust the author on their conclusions)

Our Review Roadmap Given what we’ve covered above, the targets of interest are as follows: 1. The Rust implementations of cryptography in libsignal. - Libsignal uses curve25519-dalek under-the-hood. - For actual encryption, they use a lot of RustCrypto. - Key transparency is relatively new, and of particular interest to me. - The actual Signal protocol, which now uses post-quantum cryptography. - The zkgroup and zkcredential features, which involve zero-knowledge proofs and are paramount to Signal’s server software not being able to know who is in which group. - The account keys and usernames features, since the privacy surrounding phone numbers is important to most Signal users. - Secure Value Recovery v3. If we can find a vulnerability in a recovery system, that will definitely be high-impact. 2. The bridge code, which enables libsignal to be used in other programming languages. 3. Cryptography implemented in Signal for Android, where it doesn’t just punt to libsignal. 4. Cryptography implemented in Signal Desktop, ditto. 5. Cryptography implemented in Signal for iOS, as with the previous two.

Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal - Dhole Moments

Last year, I urged furries to stop using Telegram because it doesn’t actually provide them with any of the privacy guarantees they think it gives them. Instead of improving Telegram’s c…
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#signal @Soatok Dreamseeker
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European #antifascist recommending to use a service running in a fascist-turning country on servers owned by a fascist-friendly billionaire? This is weird.

Focusing solely on the E2EE misses a lot of points, one of those being that with #signal the ends have to be Android or iOS ~spyphones~ smartphones, which is not really something you can have 100% trust into IMHO.

#signal #antifascist
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My grandmother recently got locked out of #WhatsApp because her phone broke, and the spare one we had on hand is one WhatsApp has decided is too old to run on 💀

Fortunately, #XMPP has no such qualms! She's currently keeping up with the family group chat on #Quicksy while others of us use #Conversations, #DinoIM, and #Gajim. (Of course, extended family and friends are another matter 😔)

This serves as a reminder that closed apps may close you out—but open protocols have your back forever! :xmpp:

A purple-pink graphic for PravConf, showing a pigeon flying out of a cage. The text says: "Messaging apps got you ensnared? It's time we opened up the cage." Below is a banner with the event details: PravConf 2025, happening on 1st and 2nd March 2025 at MEC Kochi. URL: conf.prav.app Finally comes the mandatory list of sponsors: Fiscal host Navodaya Networks, Organising Partner FOSS MEC, and Gold Sponsor Mostly Harmless
#xmpp #conversations #whatsapp #gajim #quicksy #dinoim

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They said #XMPP was connected to #xampu, so I made some! 😇

Hair is personal. Messaging should be too :xmpp:

The owner of Beeja Botanicals is my former classmate, and she's used the shampoo herself, so I know it's good! The first batch is ready and will be available for purchase at #PravConf (or will be, once I've finished wrapping it all 😅)

PS: flyer designed with #Inkscape, and photo taken with #Megapixels on #Mobian on the #PocoF1! :inkscape: :debian:

A round shampoo bar wrapped with the XMPP logo, sitting on top of a flyer that will be displayed in detail in the next picture.
Flyer. Full text follows, along with a description of accompanying images: [The XMPP logo] Introducing xampu, the XMPP themed shampoo bar! What if your shampoo brand forced you to hang out only with people who use the same brand of shampoo? [Two people with focus lines on their hair. A lightning bolt strikes between them] We think such restrictions are as absurd for messaging apps as they would be for hair products. [Similarly, two speech bubbles with a lightning bolt betwixt] XMPP is a common language (protocol) that different chat services can use to talk to each other. [Image of many connected speech bubbles] [Green banner saying] XMPP stands for "eXtensible Messaging and Presence Protocol". Since both those are a mouthful, people in Brazil have taken to affectionately pronouncing it xampu—which means shampoo. [A rabbit] This shampoo bar by Beeja Botanicals is hand made using natural ingredients. It is free from harmful products like SLS and paraben, and contains no animal-tested products. Like making your own shampoo, running your own chat server allows you to address local ethical and technical issues—more privacy? solar powered? larger upload size? integrated login?—that matter to you. Not everyone has the time and energy to make shampoo, or to run their own XMPP server. Proceeds from this shampoo bar will go towards funding Prav, which operates XMPP services so you don't have to. [A pigeon] Footer saying: Hair is personal. Messaging should be, too.
#xmpp #mobian #inkscape #pravconf #xampu #megapixels #pocof1

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Having problems with mental illness, paranoia, depression, anxiety and suicidal thoughts? Want to combat Satanism? Read about this new saint!

sobercatholic.com/2025/02/25/b…


Blessed Bartolo Longo, Former Satanic Priest who turned Catholic and is the "Apostle Of The Rosary" to be Canonized!!!! - Sober Catholic

Pope Francis: “…approved the favorable votes of the Ordinary Session of the Cardinals and Bishops of the Dicastery for the canonization of Blessed Bartolo Longo, lay faithful, born in L…
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VOA - More migrants slated for deportation from the United States arrived today at the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under the watchful eye of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. voanews.com/a/pentagon-chief-t…

Pentagon chief tours Guantanamo Bay as more detainees arrive

Pete Hegseth visits US naval base in Cuba, receiving updates on military's efforts to support migrant deportation efforts
Jeff Seldin (Voice of America (VOA News))

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Woah! You can now run 32bit operating systems (alpine, ReactOS, ...) via the new v86emu #webxdc app available at webxdc.org/apps/#mightyshadow7…

Ethernet networking uses "webxdc realtime API" implemented via @n0iroh gossip channels.

Basically VMs are wired to an Ethernet that is constrained to chat members only and uses forward-secret encryption with #p2p connections. Result: Telnet and netcat are similarly secure as signal but with Peer-to-peer networking :)

Screenshot of v86emu webxdc app icon and description. A simple x86 emulator from MightyShadow702 X86 emulator that can load 32-bit ISOs and supports TCP/UDP networking using realtime API. Based on Copy's v86 emulator. Published: 2/25/2025 (v0.6.1) Size: 632.1 kb
a large screen, running "damn small linux" graphical user interface with the "tetris" game running in foreground. On the same screen there is a chat interface where the webxdc "v86" was started from a chat message bubble.
Screenshot of Delta Chat desktop with "v86 emulator fun" chat. The chat has a v86Emu WebXDC sent there. Next to Delta Chat desktop there is a window with open v86Emu WebXDC running ReactOS. Inside ReactOS there is a window for network settings open and a command line window with telnet open, successfully connecting to another IP address on the LAN.

webxdc apps

webxdc.org
#p2p #Webxdc @iroh
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Hi everyone, a new version of the wrapper based bestspeech NVDA addon is available. This adds the custom voices by @rommix0 and the unvoiced volume setting. It also attempts to hack NVDA's indent tones into working, people more experienced with NVDA addon dev will have to tell me if this hack caries with it any consequences though I don't think so. I apologize as if you've already installed the addon previously, this might break your saved pitch setting and other parameters (I'll try not doing that too much). I have set up a version that gets compiled with a github action on tag and can be downloaded at github.com/samtupy/b32tts_wrap…, or @datajake1999 feel free to update your version based on the current main branch of the repo. Have fun!
@Jake Gross

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@fireborn to me it feels like, the version of the DLL that had the multilingual synth may have had a higher rate limit, although could be wrong on this. It could be why the BrailleNotes could go quite faster, so doing some sort of comparing between the Win95 VXD and the DLL would be interesting there.
@aaron

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The Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) has announced its Memorial Scholarship program for 2025. The scholarship program is aimed at female amateur radio operators studying radio, communications, electronics or amateur radio related arts and sciences. Applications are due by April 30, 2025. ylrl.net/scholarships

#YLRL #YL #HamRadio #scholarships

Scholarships - Young Ladies Radio League

YLRL Scholarships 5The Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL) is an international non-profit organization of women amateur radio enthusiasts. It was founded
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#hamradio #scholarships #yl #ylrl

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LOL. And the problem is??? 😃

"Apple is working on a fix for its text-to-speech feature, which momentarily transcribes the word “racist” as “Trump.”"

deadline.com/2025/02/iphone-di…


iPhone's Dictation Feature Momentarily Transcribes Word "Racist" As "Trump"; Apple Working On Fix

Apple is working on a fix for its text-to-speech feature, which momentarily transcribes the word "racist" as "Trump."
Armando Tinoco (Deadline)

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Framework Computer is ready to transform two more types of computing devices into modular, repairable, and more user-friendly systems: 2-in-1 laptops and desktop PCs. pcmag.com/news/framework-doubl…

Framework Doubles Down on Repairable, Sustainable Computing With 2 New PCs

Here's everything we know about the new Framework Laptop 12 2-in-1, the first-ever tiny powerhouse Framework Desktop, and the updated Framework 13 clamshell.
Brian Westover (PCMag)
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