A new guide called "Using GitHub Repositories with a Screen Reader" has just launched 🚀
This guide provides step-by-step instructions to help screen reader users navigate and interact with repos efficiently 💖
Check it out and share with your network 🤩
accessibility.github.com/docum…
Discover step-by-step instructions for navigating and managing GitHub repositories using a screen reader, tailored for accessibility and efficiency.GitHub
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Chromium now has initial, experimental support for the xdg-session-management #wayland protocol, which will start shipping in canary channel in the coming days. I've implemented and tested it against Mutter 48, the only compositor supporting it atm - also experimentally - since version 47.
Quick demo at youtu.be/OG9ZLXzlwkQ
#chromium #wayland #linux #gnome #opensource #foss
Short demo of Chromium M135 with Ozone/Wayland backend, showcasing its WIP support for the xdg-session-management-v1 protocol. Running unders a Gnome Shell 4...YouTube
Holy shit.
Just wow, wow, holy shit:
Completely rewriting a multi-million line COBOL codebase that has life-or-death consequences for real people in the space of a few months, using gen AI?
I’ve been writing software for 40-some years, and I have to say: this may be, without exaggeration, the stupidest software-related idea I’ve ever heard from leadership.
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The Linux App Summit 2025 schedule is now out! 🎉
Take a look to discover more about our amazing speakers and the exciting topics we'll be covering at the conference! ✨
Check out the full schedule here: conf.linuxappsummit.org/event/…
A bot for expiring messages, plenty of releases in Element land, and a beta for Fractal!
That and much more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2025/03/28/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
#Mapycz (now #Mapycom) from #Seznam use #OpenStreetMap everywhere except their home country - Czech Republic, where they have their own proprietary maps.
There have been rumours in the #OSM community that they actually copy from OSM. Today I found proof that they really do.
I mapped a new park in #Brno just by surveying and taking notes last year. Later the park showed up on Mapy.com with exactly the same path layout. The new orthophoto is out and it revealed that I didn't get everything right and Seznam got it wrong too. Exactly the same mistakes.
Not cool, Seznam.
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mind the WCAG automation gap
"Disclaimer: this content was partially produced via automation FTW! Don’t fear the AI future or the reaper."
#a11y #WCAG #testing #automation #ai
Zaterdag 29 maart 2025 is in ons land een gedeeltelijke zonsverduistering zichtbaar.
Begin rond 11.14 uur
Maximum rond 12.07 uur
Einde rond 13.02 uur
De tijden zijn benaderend: er is een verschil van enkele minuten tussen het uiterste westen en het zuidoosten van het land.
OPGELET: NOOIT zonder bescherming naar de zon kijken. Om het fenomeen goed te kunnen volgen, heb je een eclipsbrilletje nodig.
This week, we discuss getting fooled, the 'one big story' of the week, and Ghibli.Samantha Cole (404 Media)
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Recette pour une catastrophe : Prendre les 60 millions de lignes de COBOL qui font tourner le système informatique de la sécurité sociale et faire tout ré-écrire en Java par une IA.
POPCORN 
wired.com/story/doge-rebuild-s…
(ça pourrait presque être drôle si ce n'était pas encore les pauvres qui allaient trinquer.)
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🔧 Z Oscloudu zas vytahuju jednu z těch nenápadných, ale užitečných aplikací – SearxNG. 🔍 https://searxng.cz Soukromý metavyhledávač bez reklam, profilování a šmírování. Spolehlivě běží už pěkně dlouho a pomáhá s hledáním každý den.Mamutovo
Stop talking about AI already. Marvel at 249 pages of #Ghibli #GIFs posted on this ancient Tumblr from the internet's golden age. Every two-second GIF is bursting with life.
Note: I did not make all of the gifs that are on this blog. These are the ones that are mine.Tumblr
In case this is useful to somebody:
Because of corporate collusion with law enforcement dating back to the 80s, all colour printers put tracking information on their printouts, whether you're printing a colour document or not, encoding information that ties printouts back to the specific printer used.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_…
In 2018, scholars at TU Dresden created a tool to re-anonymize color-printed documents by obscuring that data:
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3206004…
The tool: github.com/dfd-tud/deda
Relatedly: don't forget that office and networked printers aren't really "printers" and haven't been for decades; they're networked servers that happen to output printed media. They store userID and datestamped logs of everything anyone prints on them, and nobody throws out logs.
Stay safe out there.
Čas vyzkoušet nové prostředí – #GNOME48 na #ArchLinux 🎉
#i3 zůstává mým hlavním prostředím pro každodenní práci, ale musím říct, že GNOME 48 vypadá skvěle.
#Linux #Wayland #DesktopLinux #AMD #opensource
Final update: The developer is now on Mastodon via @andrew_guide.
Update: The developer has removed the ability to download Guide until the security issues mentioned in the linked thread are fixed.
Update: this product contains some code flaws that are concerning from a security perspective, beyond just giving control of your computer to an LLM. You might want to read this thread before installing the product: toot.cafe/@matt/114258349401221651
Update: I've exchanged some long emails with Andrew, the lead developer. He's open to dialogue, and moving the project in the right direction: well-scoped single tasks, more granular controls and permissions, etc. He doesn't strike me as an #AI maximalist can and should do everything all the time kind of guy. He's also investigating deeper screen reader interaction, to let AI just do the things we can't do that it's best at. I stand by my thoughts that the project isn't yet ready for prime time. But as someone else in the thread said, I don't think it should be written off entirely as yet another "AI will save us from inaccessibility" hype train. There is, in fact, something here if it gets polished and scoped a bit more.
Just tried guide for fun. It's supposed to be an app to use #AI to help #blind folks get things done. I asked "Where are the best liver and onions in Ottawa?" It:
1. Decided it needed to search the web.
2. Thought that the "stardew access" icon on my desktop was a kind of web browser, so clicked it.
3. Imagined an "accept cookies" dialogue it needed to accept.
4. Decided that didn't work, so looked for Google Chrome (I don't have chrome installed on that machine)
5. Finally opened edge from the start menu. By the way, it just...left Stardew open and running. Because apparently having Stardew Valley running in the background is a vital part of finding liver and onions in Ottawa.
6. Opened a random extension from my edge toolbar (goodlinks).
7. Clicked the address bar and loaded google.com, instead of just doing the search right from the address bar.
8. Got blocked because it couldn't sign into my Google account, even though it could have also searched from the Google homepage.
To be fair to AI, that was the kind of open-ended task AI is terrible at. If I had asked it to check an inaccessible checkbox, or read a screenshot, or something, I'm sure it would have been fine.
Anyway, I'm still better at using a computer than an AI. So is my 87 year old grandfather, for that matter. www.guideinteraction.com
With Guide, inaccessible doesn't have to mean undoable. Guide is a Windows AI assistant that helps people with low vision or blindness navigate the digital world.Guide
There's a new product that has been gaining some buzz in the blind community, a Windows app called Guide that uses AI to perform tasks on your computer. It's pitched as a way to get around web accessibility problems in particular. I won't link to the thing itself, because I don't want to give it that validation, but I'll link to a previous discussion thread about it: fed.interfree.ca/notes/a5wf4ys…I've spent some time taking this app apart. The level of shoddy work here is deeply disgusting. 1/?
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For the next #Conversations_im release I’m refactoring how URIs are linked / made clickable. I’m adding a bunch of URI schemes like tel and mailto on top of the existing xmpp, http(s) and geo but removing support for "things that look like web URLs but aren’t actually URIs" (like 'example.com') to avoid some false positives.
Once the 2.18.0-beta comes out tomorrow or so let me know if you see things that isn’t matched and should be matched or vice versa.
The computer scientist in me says you can't find matching parentheses with RegEx.
The programmer in me says look for a solution that is "good enough". An idea that would cover a lot of cases would be, for example, to assume that a URI can contain at most one pair of parentheses. The few counterexamples are rare, and they are then the rare false negatives one has to accept.
Eleven years since the Facebook document "The Road To IPV6" that claimed #curl was "hostile" to it and I still feel offended. 😀
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/03/28…
I'd like to comment Paul Saab's presentation from the other day at the World IPv6 Congress titled "The Road To IPv6 - Bumpy". Paul works for Facebook and in his talk he apparently mentioned curl (slide 24 of the PDF set).daniel.haxx.se
MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.mapcomplete.org
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Results from tracking 34,466 images across 1,531 instances from the mastodon.social federated timeline.
Then filtering down to the top 1000 instances by active user from instances.social who had posted at least 45 images (2x the average).
Facebook is notoriously bad when it comes to data collection. 🫣
If you're still on the platform, check out how much of your data it collects 👉 tuta.com/blog/what-does-facebo…
And if you've already ditched Facebook, what platforms are you using now? 🤔
Want to know what data Facebook collects about you? In this guide we outline what data Facebook collects about its users and how they use it.Tuta
OpenAI's move to allow generating "Ghibli stlye" images isn't just a cute PR stunt. It is an expression of dominance and the will to reject and refuse democratic values. It is a vulgar display of power.
tante.cc/2025/03/28/vulgar-dis…
Hayao Miyasaki is the co-founder of Studio Ghibli, a Japanese animation studio known worldwide for their stunning, emotional, beautiful stories and movies. At the core of Studio Ghibli’s work is a deep engagement with questions of humanity.tante (Smashing Frames)
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It's no coincidence that alt-right people have taken up AI generated artwork so intensely. It allows bypassing all the ethics and care of typically left-leaning artists. To show the ability to wield aesthetics without the social values tied to those aesthetics is a power move.
This is well covered in "AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism" newsocialist.org.uk/transmissi…
It's embarrassing, destructive, and looks like shit: AI-generated art is the perfect aesthetic form for the far right.New Socialist
One of many notable takeaways from 'Careless People':
The creators and top execs of Meta do not allow their own children on it.
Think about that.
#carelesspeople #facebook #tech
📣Jami team is pleased to introduce the new version of Jami: Εἰρήνη.☮️
As you'll discover, this release brings remarkable advances from months of silent work, sure to delight loyal Jami users and newcomers after the announcement of Skype's shutdown.
We invite you to update and try the latest version of Jami! 🙇
👀 Want to know more about Εἰρήνη? Read our article : jami.net/eirene-to-make-new-us…
#Jami #opensource #P2P #App #PrivacyMatters
☮️ Jami team is pleased to introduce the new version of Jami: Εἰρήνη.jami (Jami)
@kinetix We're also resuming communication more actively, and we understand that our lack of updates may have caused frustration. Regarding the specific issues you mentioned:
The F-Droid download link issue has been resolved.
The repository mirroring has also been fixed.
Your bug report was submitted to the wrong repository, which is why it was removed. If you ever encounter issues again, please don’t hesitate to email us directly: we’d be happy to help.
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As a small team, we’re doing our best to meet the community’s needs while continuously improving Jami. It’s not always easy, which is why feedback like yours is so valuable. We hope you’ll give the latest updates another try.
This is the kind of community we’re striving to build: one where members, like you, understand the challenges of a platform like ours and help make it better.
Thanks again for reaching out!
AI web crawling bots are the cockroaches of the internet, many developers believe. FOSS devs are fighting back in ingenuous, humorous ways.Julie Bort (TechCrunch)
Trump versucht gerade, die komplette Macht an sich zu reißen. Viele US-Unternehmen helfen ihm dabei. So hilfst du nicht mit.Philip Kreißel (Volksverpetzer)
Project Giraffe is an energy storage project, with a power capacity of 10 MW and a storage capacity of 47 MWh, located in Westhaven in the Port ofadmin (Gigastorage)
@anymouse_404 I hope the software in invertors is not dependant on or remotely controllable by vendor's online services - which is unfortunately the case of most domestic PV plants as @bert_hubert wrote the other day.
berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-…
Recently a Dutch hacker was able to take control of 4 million solar panel installations (FTM (Dutch), Euractiv, Victor Gevers). And this wasn’t the first time something like this has happened either (PV Magazine).Bert Hubert's writings
When I started The Disabled Ginger I sent it to my friends and family … as most of us do.
I was proud that I was finally standing up for disability rights. That I was taking my pain and putting it on the page in an effort to help others. That I had found something that lit a spark inside me.
Unfortunately, many of my friends didn’t feel the same way.
My disabilities are invisible, and I had become very good at hiding them. Apparently that’s what people expected of me, as they didn’t like this “new” version of Kelly.
Almost none of my friends subscribed. What’s worse, many stopped talking to me. Or would only reply in brief texts.
It’s almost been a year since I launched, and my circle is noticeably smaller. Many people I thought I was close with haven’t reached out for nearly 6 months.
When you find your purpose and your passion, it’s an incredible feeling. Hopefully people support you.
Not everyone will. And that’s ok.
It’s painful seeing so many relationships fade away. It hurts knowing they don’t see the value in me now that I’m “officially” disabled.
As painful as it is, it’s also a perfect example of why I became an advocate. Ableism is a huge problem. Being disabled can be incredibly lonely. I wanted to give a voice to those who haven’t yet found theirs.
In the process I’ve met incredible people from all over the world who inspire me to keep going. Who give me a reason to write every day. Who remind me of the compassion, love and goodness that’s still out there.
Thank you to each and every one of you. I couldn’t do this alone.
My latest looks at the reasons we hide, and what would happen if we all decided to stop hiding and show the world the realities of chronic illness:
disabledginger.com/p/why-are-c…
#chronicillness #longcovid #mecfs #ableism #disability #disabilityrights #eugenics
And what would happen if we stopped hiding and showed the world the depths of our suffering?Broadwaybabyto (The Disabled Ginger)
Thanks for sharing this! It rang so many bells with me…
> This phenomenon is hard for the non-disabled to understand.
Too true. But as one of those I can say: they can learn to "accept" that (in the sense as to neither deny it nor to expect it to "go away" one day; in the sense as to accept their friends stage, as unsatisfying as it feels; in the sense as to try finding other ways to (hopefully) give at least some consolidation, to support them & not to give them up).
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