Hi everyone, we had a question on the weekend about the best programs, accessible with NVDA under Windows, for:

1. An accessible client to work with multiple calendars via CalDAV

2. A program which can work as a to-do-list.

The user would prefer not to use Outlook if possible. Has anyone got tips please?

CC @bdorer @WestphalDenn

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A couple of days back I posted

"Stop creating international conferences that meet in the US.

This goes beyond conference policies. Some of your attendees will not be able to get into the US and some of those that do risk arrest."

Many people said that the current risk of arrest was low for people in "safe" categories. I sort of agreed but emphasized that the future risk wasn't. Well the future is already here.

kpbs.org/news/border-immigrati…

German tourist held indefinitely in San Diego area immigrant detention facility

The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.

^{Gustavo Solis (KPBS)}

What's the state of #matrix, #xmpp and #IRC as far as #screenReader -accessible clients are concerned? Desktop (Windows, Mac) and mobile (iOS, Android).

Hoping for some input, please feel free to boost. As far as I know:

Matrix does not have a lightweight, fully accessible client for desktop, but one could be modified, such as #gomuks. On mobile, Element has scrolling issues, which is unacceptable for large rooms.

XMPP has accessible desktop clients (I used to run #Adium on the Mac), also #WeeChat. No idea about mobile.

IRC is perhaps the one which everything supports on desktop, from #MirandaIM through Weechat to the old Freedom Chat, which I could probably rewrite if I had to. Also not sure about mobile, but it would definitely need push notifications, because we can't expect people to stay constantly online on the go. #a11y #accessibility

today, i have IP-blocked the entirety of alibaba cloud’s IPv4 range (47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15, 47.76.0.0/14). And you could ask - domi, what the hell, that’s kinda sorta a lot of addresses?

fucking watch this: that’s sakamoto Mk5, my Ryzen 9 7950X3D server. Never before have I seen forgejo taking this much CPU.

They’ve generated 9GB of access logs (!) and 230GB of generated tarballs (!!!) before I got to my laptop, investigated and ip-banned them. I’m positive that most forgejo deployments in existence wouldn’t survive this.

If you needed another reason to fuck generative AI today - here’s one

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated (11 RB) and 2 added apps:

* Minimo Launcher: Home screen without distractions
* SocketChat: a simple app to chat with anyone you want on the same network 🛡️

RB status: 474 apps (38.8%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

Sunday doodle:

Every time someone launches an Android phone, they fork (copy-paste) the entire code-base for each and every device and Android version. Keeping it up to date is a lot of effort for the vendors, but don't worry - they only do so for a limited amount of time, so that you have to buy a new phone instead!

Source: postmarketos.org/blog/2017/05/…

I just sent patches to port #COSMIC to #AlpineLinux[1], so it'll soon[2] be possible to install this promising new DE on a few of the hundreds of ARM and x86 things that #postmarketos supports!

1) gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/…

2) gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma…

"At least 146 measles cases have been ID'ed in W TX, incl. 20 hospitalizations & 1 death.

"MX has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to TX & 7 states due to a measles outbreak."

"Thanks to vaccines, #Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Anti-vaxers hosting measles parties are sending their own kids to the hospital."
-J Cabellero

#RFKJr is the #HHS Sec.

The US has a #PublicHealth crisis.

#USPol #Health

arstechnica.com/health/2025/02…
borderreport.com/news/health/m…

Mexicans warned not to travel to Texas over measles

Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.

^{Salvador Rivera (BorderReport)}

If you're looking to switch away from fascist enabling unaccountable tech giants these directories are all pretty good in their own way:

1. switching.software/
2. privacyguides.org/
3. alternativeto.net/
4. ethical.net/resources/
5. selfh.st/apps/
6. european-alternatives.eu/
7. prism-break.org/en/

There is also e.g. this nice bit of guidance too optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cl…

The Cyber-Cleanse: Take Back Your Digital Footprint

New Year, New Digital You! New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no…

^{Janet Vertesi}

From the creator of 'Peaky Blinders', a new show about an all-female crime gang
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/02/nx-s1-5293407/from-the-creator-of-peaky-blinders-a-new-show-about-an-all-female-crime-gang?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Television @television-npr

An easy read with some nice pictures which gives a nice introduction to the right to roam movement in England: adventure.com/right-to-roam-en…

#RightToRoam

Right to roam: Should be able to walk anywhere? | Adventure.com

In 2024, Damien Gabet walked 500 miles from southeast England to the England-Scotland border. But this hike included a series of trespasses.

^{Damien Gabet (Adventure.com)}

I caught up on the meeting between Trump and Zelensky, and I think it's one of the most disturbing and humiliating moments I've ever seen in foreign diplomacy.

As SNL pointed out, it was a trap. I recommend watching last night's sketch about it. It's incredibly difficult to parody such an existential meeting for Ukraine, but they did a great job highlighting the real purpose behind it.

youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1Md…

Elon Musk Cold Open - SNL

Elon Musk (Mike Myers) interrupts a heated meeting with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), JD Vance (Bowen Yang), Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and Ukra...

^YouTube

XRP/SOL/ADA up 25-65% in the last hour or so.

So now we’re doing pump-and-dump schemes with the full faith and credit of the United States.

Anxiety Mounts Among Social Security Recipients as DOGE Troops Settle In
—

Elon Musk’s team has descended on an already understaffed Social Security Administration, which now faces further workforce cuts and closures of vital local offices. The consequences could be significant for millions of the most vulnerable Americans.
propublica.org/article/doge-so…

#News #DOGE #SocialSecurity #ElonMusk #Trump #Musk

What Are DOGE’s Plans for the Social Security Administration?

^ProPublica

The Trump administration may exclude government spending from GDP, obscuring the impact of DOGE cuts
https://apnews.com/article/trump-gdp-economy-government-spending-lutnick-7414ba1bd441bd4bf64620bfd66923b2?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Business and Finance @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress

Trump officials may exclude government spending from GDP amid DOGE cuts

Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick says he could take government spending out of his agency's reports on gross domestic product.

^{Josh Boak (AP News)}

I'm doing too much doom scrolling I have a lot of important things to do... However, @KFosterMarks showed me this really cool research paper, so I decided that I'm going to live-post me reading it in real time as a distraction from the $EVERYTHING right now.

(Well, I live-posted it on bluesky; I'm copying that over here)

Btw, you should follow her! She's awesome.

Now, for the paper!

Title: Predictors and consequences of intellectual humility
DOI: doi.org/10.1038/s44159-022-000…

The authors: Porter, T, Elnakouri, A., Meyers, E. A., Shibayama, T., Jayawickreme, E. & Grossmann, I

(Naturally, papers often aren't free-as-in-democracy™, so I searched the internet for a pre-print)

... As an aside, y'know what I'd love? A way to spit a DOI into something and get all the pre-prints, news articles about it, learn about what else the authors have done, etc.

And importantly! The social media handles of authors! I wanna thank them and it's *so* hard to find authors outside of academia

So normally if I wanted to really dig into and study a paper, I'd load it into an e-reader and take notes. Unfortunately, that's super cumbersome and the notes don't sync on anything on my computer and so... blah.

(This is not an ask for advice: I just don't have the bandwidth to improve that rn)
But for now, the computer works, and I use Todoist for my todo app and, weirdly, as my most global notes app for future writing / thinking directions. It works, so eh

But I got a sublime.app subscription cause I like what they do and their philosophical approach. So I'm gonna try that one out today

Two minutes before scheduled departure, this #NS #DDZ decided to depart a bit early.

The drama ended after about one minute.