What kind of fucked up world are we living in? All these companies should be sued and made accountable for all the damage they’ve done and are continuing to do to our planet. Make them pay to fix the mess they’ve made.

theguardian.com/environment/20…

At FOSDEM in Brussels (2025-02-01/02) we've met the #Baba team, which develops an Android app for @panoramax (the "self-hosted Street View" based on @openstreetmap – also see wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Pa…). We wanted to bring their app to the "libre space", so we discussed how we could make that possible. We found a way to get the app ready for #IzzyOnDroid 🥳 So be prepared for today's AndroidAppRain, to find this app that lets you contribute!

Many thanks to Alexis for making this possible 🥰

Záběry jsou neúprosné, Antarktida zažívá dramatický úbytek mořského ledu | Aktuálně.cz magazin.aktualne.cz/obrazem/kl… prostřednictvím @wallabagapp

🐘 Mastodoní a BS sraz v Praze! 🍻

První nadšenci už se hlásí, tak neváhej a přidej se taky! 📅 21.3. v Hospůdce Do větru.

Dej vědět @cynik_obecny, jestli dorazíš, ať se zajistí dostatek míst.

Více info: pivo.stloukal.uk

Boostni dál, ať se nás sejde co nejvíc! 🔁✨
#mastopivo #masto_sraz

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Braille, for those of you who do not know this, is a tactile writing system consisting of raised characters which is usually read by the fingers. However, if a braille reader does not have fingers, they can read using other parts of the body, often the toes or the lips.

In this regard, it would be perfectly possible to read braille with the clitoral glans, as braille does not inherently require fingers to read. However, there is a major caveat to this.

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The first problem with reading braille using your clitoral glans is one of distraction by becoming immediately very turned on. The clitoris is made from erectile tissue. When you're aroused, it becomes erect, and applies pressure to itself, the vagina and the urethra. Rubbing the glans can provoke this response. It would therefore make reading difficult, although not impossible if you set your mind to it.

@igalia will be present at the Embedded World 2025 Conference next week in Nuremberg and some of us will be around in person at Booth 4-636 during the event, showing off some cool demos on our latest work around graphics, Linux kernel, and Web engines. More details at igalia.com/2025/03/05/Visit-Ig… #embeddedworld

Let me give you another peek into the everyday work of the #curl security team. A reported UAF we deem not a security problem:

hackerone.com/reports/3022041

#curl
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Ten years ago it was a big deal that HTTP/2 appeared to only work over TLS so I blogged about it.

HTTPS everywhere is less controversial today I think.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/06…

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@denisbloodnok @Tooden Yes, linear TV networks are doing pretty badly these days.

Can't talk about Sky specifically, I don't know the UK TV market, but globally, it's a bloodbath.

Personalized advertising and algos everywhere is completely destroying everything else. Newspapers (even online newspapers) are worthless, when the alternative is a service that will give you exactly the articles you want to read, no matter who writes them.

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@miki Fox News generates about 70% of its parent company's profit of 1.5 billion dollars per year. If that's a bloodbath, I'd like to get a few cuts myself!

Meanwhile of course online ads have the problem that when someone starts using an adblocker they never stop... and the snoopier online ads get, the more likely people are to install ad blockers.

The IAB called ad blocking an "existential threat", so I'm not sure they share your confidence.

@miki

It was nice to hear a glowing testimonial from one of our customers about the BT Speak on this week's episode of Access On. You'll find it at 50 minutes, 6 seconds.
We would like to thank this gentleman for letting others know about the BT Speak, as well as for making it possible to have the BT Speak available in the German language.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/…
DG
#BTSpeak

I propose that President Trump also creates a department of stupidity and ignorance instead of education. That will serve America? :) Draft of Trump Executive Order Aims to Eliminate Education Department - The Wall Street Journal apple.news/AsdDe3imxRkarEQhETg…

🔓 „Připravme se, že USA nebudou po našem boku.“ Macron nabídl Evropě jaderný deštník
denikn.cz/1671949/pripravme-se…

Some great litanies from Tumblr:

❧ if it sucks hit da bricks <- litany against sunk cost

❧ take it easy but take it <- litany against burnout/apathy cycle

❧ fuck it we ball <- litany against perfectionism

❧ now say something beautiful and true <- litany against irony poisoning

❧ bigger idiots than you have done it <- litany against imposter syndrome

❧ holy shit two cakes <- litany against self-deprecation

❧ not [a] or [b] but a secret third thing <- litany against false dichotomies

Source: elanorpam.tumblr.com/post/7671…

Flufs, a powerful loudness analysis tool for Ableton Live, is designed for accessibility:

cdm.link/flufs-accessible-loud…

A look at the latest from Iftah - plus a full externals pack for developers working on adding accessibility features in Max for Live is on the way soon! Curious what folks think of this / how they use it!

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So the primary thing I've learned from trying out the Ducky One #mechanical#keyboard is just how much lag my previous keyboards (a codekeyboard and a razer) were adding. I use a #screenreader, so I'm deeply aware of the audio lag from headphones and the audio subsystem, and configure things to reduce that as much as I can. I also knew bluetooth can introduce lag. But on picking up the Ducky...wow! A few ms can really matter! My system feels faster than it's ever felt before. Even if I wind up returning this, now I know that keyboard refresh rate is a thing I care about. Also, the inductive switches feel really nice and clicky to press, but are reasonably quiet for those around me.

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Question for @thunderbird: I have no clue what I have changed, but since a while this message subfolder appears optically as an „sent“ folder, although it is not. And it stands above all other subfolders within the same folder, and with that outside of the alphabetical order of the rest.

How can I change this back? And what do you suggest I did to accomplish that (so that I won't do that again)?

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i am very proud of this project. it really pushed the boundaries of my CAD and python skills and it fulfilled a long held goal i had to recreate the macrodata refinement terminal from #severance

learn.adafruit.com/portable-ma…

For a while, a dog in Milan, Italy named Cacao, frequently rode the No. 54 bus—by himself! Yes, really. He would only board the bus if he recognized the driver, whom he had known for years. Cacao would go to a park and simply wander around gardens and public spaces before taking the same bus back to his house, where his owner, known only as Nicoletta, would wait for him to come back.

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glitchsoc - Link to source

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how? Are we really talking about the same? My workflow is:
1) download *.360 video files
2) use ffmpeg to convert *.360 to Equirectangular mp4
3) edit in kdenlive using "VR360" effects.

I would like to skip the step 2) and edit the 360 file directly. But I can't find how.

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There will be a lot of necessary debate over Mozilla’s original mistake and this hopeful change. This is a good move, and as a long-term user of Firefox I find it very welcome.

Organizations are made of people and make mistakes.

Can you imagine Google or Apple so quickly changing their stances like this in response to user input? Or even at all?

Brave has many integrations with third party vendors. How quickly would they sever financial ties in a similar situation?

DuckDuckGo has a lot of gaps in their privacy models.

We need more open browsers developed by communities for the public good, not unlike Firefox.

techcrunch.com/2025/03/03/mozi…

#firefox #browser

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Nice tips document on how to write accessible app UIs, or debug accessibility when it doesn’t seem to be working quite right: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/orca/-/…

#GNOME #accessibility

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Quick, less edited video to talk about the #Mozilla and #Firefox issue with their recent terms of use, and lackluster explanations:

youtube.com/watch?v=Rc96ISKh2O…

The last non-evil printer company has turned evil. Brother has rolled out firmware update that prevent third-party toner cartridges from working. tomshardware.com/peripherals/p…

Edit: Brother denies this, but some replies report experiencing this. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/0…

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