Happy #DocumentFreedomDay everyone! 🤩 Today, the Open Source Club at OSU had members present templates made in the open OPT standard, bringing more creative resources to the open format community at large! Big props to @dff and @libreoffice for all the work they do in bringing accessibility and sovereignty to people’s academic and professional digital lives. 😎 We can’t wait to do it again next year!
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It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
apnews.com/video/turkish-stude…

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03…

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

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The decision to shutter VOA “portends ever more troubling repression of independent journalism in the United States.” - Jim Friedlich chicago.suntimes.com/other-vie…

I filed two issues today on W3C Group Draft Note “Accessibility of machine learning and generative AI.”

• Note fails to discuss sustainability aspects of using AI
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…

• Replace ‘overlays’ as a section
github.com/w3c/ai-accessibilit…

Note: raw.githack.com/w3c/ai-accessi…

#a11y #accessibility

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This months Reaper Made Easy meet-up happens this Saturday, March 29th, at the slightly irregular time of 3PM Eastern and 7PM UK.
The change in time is of course due to the very evil Daylight savings time changing on different dates in different time-zones. So this is just a heads up for those who live where the clock has not changed to summer time yet. Such as the UK.

I so wish they'd stop doing that. Aaarg.

With that frustrated growl out of the way, Saturday. Scott and JennyK will be live, helping as much as we are able for a couple of hours. It's all about using Reaper, Osara, and how we go about this accessibly. Beginner questions take priority in these streams so don't hesitate to ask.
If you have a question, chances are others have that very same question in their head as well. It's a win win win to bring it to us. We all learn together here.

All you need to know about connecting with us via TeamTalk or listen in by other means can be found on reaperteacher.com.
and do hit the upload button on that site and send us something to listen to during the stream. We try to give a bit of feedback and troubleshooting if that is something you'd like. We all learn and have a bit of a chaotic few hours of fun on these meet-ups so do join.

There will be a reminder before go-time on Saturday.

See you there.

Jen

I want to see a fleet of these little guys swarm a Cybertruck like crows driving an eagle out of town

zjluqi.en.made-in-china.com/pr…

h/t @blaine for pointing to this amazing website

In the last commits in gitlab.gnome.org/jrb/libipuz/-… I'm doing this hack:

- get a json-glib JsonNode from the caller
- reserialize to a string
- pass the string to Rust code
- deserialize with serde
- spit back out an IpuzStyle to the C code

And this seems to be a nice, temporary way of moving libipuz's JSON code gradually to Rust.

in reply to Photo Ewen 📷

A little update to the previous photo, a short post about Kumari and our brief moment of serenity taking photos with her.

ewenbell.com/blog/Morning_Glow

#TheJoyOfTashi #Photography #Lumix

An off-cycle Synapse security release is out to address a High severity vulnerability (CVE-2025-30355 / github.com/element-hq/synapse/…). The issue can disrupt federation and is being exploited in the wild - please upgrade as soon as possible!

Questrial, designed by Joe Prince and Laura Meseguer

During colonial times, European colonial powers in Africa made their languages the official ones. Many African languages still lack typographic support, making it hard to write them correctly due to missing letters and diacritics in most fonts.
In post-colonial times and to address the lack of open source fonts for African languages, @googlefonts gave me the task of expanding Questrial for that purpose

More here:
fonts.google.com/specimen/Ques…

I want to talk about this Associated Press article: apnews.com/article/hegs... Specifically, this sentence. I don't like this sentence! The wording implies Signal has known vulnerabilities. That's untrue. I think more people should use Signal, & don't want reporting to discourage people from it.

A reminder that if you're interested in #SVG and the #WebStandards process, and specifically about trying to get SVG standardization back into gear, there is an open meeting on the topic today. It's hosted by Eric Meyer ( @Meyerweb ) of Igalia, as part of W3C Breakouts Day.

Starts in 5.5 hours. You'll need a w3.org account to sign up; meeting is via zoom with irc chat.

w3.org/events/meetings/09b7b3f…

in reply to Amelia Bellamy-Royds

@federicomena @doctormo And to be clear, spec issues would still be useful despite all that because:

They provide a record for whenever someone is working on it again.

They provide evidence that there is still a demand for a better SVG spec, from devs working on all sorts of projects.

Not ideal, no, but yeah, if you have the time to at least post cross-links to your own bug tracker, it will hopefully make a difference eventually.

One of the more outstanding complaints about Super Egg Hunt has been the egg beep. apparently it can become headache inducing. So. What would happen if we gave the user the option to change it? check out this super Egg Hunt demo. and while you're listening, reply with all the changes and differences you hear.

Celou zimu jezdím bez újmy snad po každém myslitelném povrchu.
A pak udělám školáckou chybu za mokra na tramvajovém pásu 🤦‍♂️
Kolo má pár šrámů, já pár modřin, ale dopadlo to asi nejlíp, jak mohlo. Podařilo se mi celkem dost zpomalit a pak si v motorkářském stylu lehnout. Helmu jsem měl, ale naštěstí nepotřeboval. A dokonce i oblečení přežilo 😅
Teď se budu chvilku téhle trase vyhýbat 🙈

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 12 updated and 1 added apps:

+ PhotoSwooper: a dating app for ur photos (swipe to delete/keep) 🛡️

RB status: 553 apps (43%)

4 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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

in reply to loowiz

@loowiz and even as reproducible build 🤗 Waiting for you to switch from pre-releases to "real ones", so our recipe updater stops complaining 🙈

And yes, I have a few crawlers running here to find interesting apps to add. While IzzyOnDroid gained some popularity meanwhile, not all developers are aware of it and know they can request inclusion. Thanks to FOSS licenses giving us the 4 freedoms – and thanks to you applying such a FOSS license :awesome:

Today is my birthday and the release on my album on audiotape and VHS!

"Objectivity" is an audiovisual critical study of the western industrial paradigm that sees nature as something that can be analyzed, tamed and counted.

Side A is a deep drone trip through analogous soundscapes. Side B is a versatile compilation, from a post-punk song "Predmet" to a musique concrete opus Holo Electron using a weird French machine from 1960s that is supposed to heal all your pain using electromagnetic waves. "Proctor" is a drone walk through the northern sea using analogous wooden synthesizers made by a friend of mine from Karelia. "Dissolution of Hierarchy" is a drone hymn to equity of all sounds.

The album can be purchased as a hard copy or downloaded for free or for a donation here:

1-1-1.bandcamp.com/album/objec…

We are raising funds for physical therapy for my little daughter Lila who suffers from epilepsy. All money raised will help us cover medical costs of her physical and language therapy.

Following popular request, here is a proper announcement about editing and deletion of messages available in app stores now. It briefly highlights how Delta Chat actually works contrary to how even some experts thinks it works :)

TL;DR Delta Chat is not a classic e-mail client. It uses special messages to co-ordinate encryption, metadata and group interactions and now edit/delete. Delta Chat implements a Peer-to-Peer messaging paradigm without any server state.

delta.chat/en/2025-03-26-edit-…

1/2 "Ideme ďalej: v koalícii je nateraz poriadok. Zároveň však ďalej nejdeme: Slovensko neurobilo krok dopredu už viac ako desaťročie.

Namiesto toho je zaseknuté v nejakej obludnej časovej slučke, v ktorej tí istí ľudia majú stále tie isté škandály a vysvetľujú ich stále rovnako a so stále rovnakým výsledkom. Intelektuálne je to výživné asi ako nosenie dreva do lesa, aj písanie receptu na zemiakovú kašu je zaujímavejšie."

~ #SamoMarec

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Custom images from an asset catalog don't automatically resize with text. If an image is not purely decorative, we should ensure it scales appropriately when users adjust their preferred font size. We can easily do it with the ScaledMetric API in SwiftUI: nilcoalescing.com/blog/Adaptin…
#SwiftUI #iOSDev