Amazing campaign by the French not-for-profit association Framasoft.
The De-google-ify Internet project offers 26 ethical and alternative online tools that may be used by everyone.
They build open source alternatives to many Google services like Youtube, Agenda, Docs, Forms, Maps etc, as well other services to replace Doodle, Facebook Event, Github, Zoom, Slack and much more!
Check their beautiful website, watch the videos to know more about their work and follow them here in Mastodon:
Les géants du web centralisent nos vies numériques en échange de leurs services Les communautés du logiciel libre offrent des services alternatifs éthiques Le réseau Framasoft souhaite le démontreren les hébergeant
A wearable called the SuperBrain 1 from 7Sense wants to give the blind and visually impaired a remote sense of touch with haptics. Learn all about what it's like and what it can do in this Epic Ally podcast interview. Let me know in the comments what you think about this device!
A wearable called the SuperBrain 1 from 7Sense wants to give the blind and visually impaired a remote sense of touch with haptics. Learn all about what it's ...
Well I wonder if this new multi-region PaaS is any good: bunny.net/blog/introducing-mag… No persistent storage or databases yet, and the talk of an "AI provisioning engine" is perhaps a cause for concern. But maybe worth a try for some toy apps.
Magic Containers makes edge computing simple, efficient, and affordable. Deploy any app globally in seconds—no vendor lock-in, no complex configurations, just seamless performance.
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).
👀 "This document describes how user agents should expose semantics of PDF content to accessibility APIs. This helps users with disabilities to obtain and interact with information using assistive technologies."
You know, to be honest... By the time these content creators turn around, AI is already here to pretty much solve most of the extraction problems we have had for years. Nothing against the standards, and I do think they need to be enforced, but I just wonder about the outcomes. :)
Alex Gaynor considers the problem that even if they are maybe sometimes good at some things, LLMs are not always good at everything, and the fact that we have no way to tell the difference severely limits their utility: alexgaynor.net/2025/mar/05/gen…
Firm restatement of a ban on using services like Google Workspace and Microsoft 365 in French schools, citing data privacy, the sensitivity of student information, and the need for educational neutrality. It emphasizes the use of French and European alternatives.
Cell-site simulators (CSS, also known as Stingrays or IMSI catchers) are devices that masquerade as legitimate cell-phone towers, tricking phones within a certain radius into connecting to the device rather than a tower. Our new tool, Rayhunter, can help you find them. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet…
Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators (CSS) around the world.
Join Blazie Technologies For Our BT Speak First Anniversary Celebration: Tuesday, March 11, 7:00 PM Eastern Time
During the month of March, we celebrated the first anniversary of the BT Speak by releasing a huge update with many new features and enhancements. Join us for our online anniversary celebration where we’ll demonstrate some of these features as well as giving you an opportunity to ask questions to members of the Blazie Technologies team. Also, we’ll be announcing a contest where you’ll have a chance to win a USB headset for your BT Speak!
Date: Tuesday, March 11 Time: 7:00 PM Eastern Time
Zoom is the leader in modern enterprise video communications, with an easy, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conferencing, chat, and webinars across mobile, desktop, and room systems.
During the 2025 ATIA Conference, Peter Tucic from HumanWare showed us the Humanware Brailliant BI 40X braille display, which is a device that allows blind or visually impaired people to read digita…
Apple today updated the MacBook Air and Mac Studio product lines, bringing the M4 chip and an upgraded camera to the MacBook Air, and M4 Max and M3 Ultra chips, Thunderbolt 5 support, and support for up to 512GB of ram to the Mac Studio.
Apple has today released new 11-inch and 13-inch iPad Air models, as well as a new Magic Keyboard for the iPad Air and an updated entry-level iPad. The new iPad Air comes in 11-inch and 13-inch screen sizes and features the Apple M3 Chip.
0 non conformité, mais le début de tout un challenge. Merci à tous ceux qui ont aidé à y croire, notamment @armonyaltinier . Prochaine phase: s'outiller correctement pour rendre le maintien de cette qualité respirable
W trzech miastach Polski (Poznań, Warszawa, Wrocław) udało się zorganizować wydarzenia z okazji #ilovefs obyśmy spotykali się co roku i oby nie tylko tak rzadko ilovefs.org
Made a small demo for the event in @hswaw about @mixxx (which I'm hooked up with for a few weeks now) and it's definitely another piece of Free Software that I love #ilovefs
From Institute on Disabilities at Temple University: Cooking Up Accessibility: Assistive Tech in the Kitchen; Monday, March 31, 5:00 PM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/87…
This move, which had been in development for some time, was finalized last week. The SSD division has been fully spun off into SanDisk, leaving Western Digital...
Hi there @islieb? ! This is a post actually directed in part to the @Friendica Support forum page of our free open source software community. I guess you heard the term #friendica already, as you are quite a while in the fedi, beginning with your #diaspora presence a long time ago. Our main coder @Michael Vogel is a fan of yours (if I got that right). I asked him the other day in a FOSDEM element chat, if he considers it possible that you make some drawings for friendica, maybe even for every new version, we have like two o three releases every year.
The idea came up because on this server we decided to use the following comic on the login/welcome page: Than we came up with this variation for the text as you can see:
It seemed to me that Michael liked the idea to have some drawing by you, so I don't want to let the idea slip away and ask you, as well as the community, what everyone thinks about such an option. There are also the 403, 404, 500 and so on error pages. Well maybe those are more a task for @isfies!, who knows ..
Sumasumarum, any ideas, comments or questions about this proposal @all ?
Ahhh... I'd love to say yes (really!), but I've already got so much stuff to do and I'm behind with everything.
Here's what I could offer:
If you want to use any comics or parts of them, rearrange things or change the text, just go ahead. heluecht knows my stuff and could probably find something that fits. On this page are two zip archives with comics ("islieb" = German, "heyokyay" = English): islieb.de/comic-archiv/
I've also got some comics about themes like privacy, Social Media, AI, Windows/Linux and tech in genereal that were pretty popular, especially here on Mastodon. I could find them for you, maybe you want to use a few of them.
Other than that, I'm sure I could draw you *something*, but not a bunch of new comics. The drawing-part takes very little effort with these simple stick figures, illustrations wouldn't be a problem.
But coming up with several new comics on specific topics takes time, at least for me. If I try to force or rush ideas, the results are pretty lame most of the time.
Maybe you could ask other cartoonists as well? I'm sure many would be happy to contribute something and you'll probably end up with more material than you need.
👍 if you like the drawing above for a 404 page 👍👎 if you consider that somehow the image should be without text because of language compatibilites 👎 if you consider we should keep on posting proposals for to vote her, including @islieb's handle so he/she/it becomes obsessed with friendica and the idea and wakes up with fresh ideas burned into his/hers/it's mind every once in a while
I guess I'll have to restart my friendica accounts now to calm my conscience.
I was about to try to tease you into open one, as you could handle all of your fedinetworks from there, crossposting to D* and bluesky and so on. Or even to set you up your own instance, if you have a domain or subdomain name. Actually I guess you could create things like "Vorpremiere publishing for subscribers" and things like that. Limiting access to published posts and even images. Not really paywalled, I guess we all hate that, but courtesies like things the commoners are going to see next week, behind the scenes and all that influencer celeb fan stuff you know ..
Utah has become the first US state to pass legislation requiring app stores to verify users' ages and seek parental consent before allowing minors to download apps. pcmag.com/news/utah-lawmakers-…
Eter is now the most feature-rich and accessible radio app for iOS! It supports the public Radio Browser directory, giving you access to thousands of stations worldwide. You can also add stations directly from the app for ultimate customization. Plus, extensive VoiceOver Rotor actions make navigation and control smoother than ever. apps.apple.com/us/app/eter-str… #Accessibility
Eter Radio is an app for listening to Internet radio stations. Eter Radio is available in a universal version for macOS, iOS, iPadOS, watchOS and tvOS.
Eter Radio uses the publicly available radio-browser.
In the newest Thunderbird for Android Progress Report, we have:
* Account drawer and notification improvements * A roadmap sneak peak * Updates on K-9 Mail and Gmail * Our plans for an iOS app and * A report from FOSDEM!
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