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Sen. Cory Booker, a Democrat from New Jersey, told NPR’s Juana Summers he stopped eating and drinking before his record-breaking speech.apple.news
Online shop for the Working Class History project: radical, union, labor, socialist, communist, feminist, Black history, anti-colonial, LGBT+, disability rights, anarchist and anti-racist products and merchandise. Purchases support the WCH project.Working Class History | Shop
An update on the latest legal accessibility developments. Learn about the Wilkins v. Starbucks case and its impact on website accessibility.Ken Nakata (Converge Accessibility LLC)
Fifty-seven years ago today, on April 2, 1968, Stanley Kubrick’s groundbreaking sci-fi masterpiece 2001: A Space Odyssey premiered at the Uptown Theater in Washington, D.C., captivating audiences with its visionary storytelling and stunning visuals.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
The world of digital accessibility is full of myths, misconceptions, and downright ridiculous stereotypes. If you work in this space, you've probably heardMonika Prasad (DigitalA11Y)
Americans' taxes just went up by $6 trillion. That is a million dollars multiplied by 6 million.
Don't tell me Trump is trying to save anything. This guy is a economy destroyer -- and not just ours.
Glad to see CNN telling the simple truth in this headline:
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Wife's step sister in TN sent us some copies of the Tennessee Magazine just so we'd know about the goings in in TN. And here's this article titled "Fun for Everyone: Nathan Bedford Forrest State Park offers much to many"
So come have fun at a park named after the founder of the KKK. I'm really glad I live in Oregon.
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I don’t know what’s scarier, Pete Hegseth drunk-texting you first thing in the morning or Pete Hegseth drunk-texting classified military operations in violation of the Espionage Act with 18 others including a reporter.
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U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling.Jeffrey Goldberg (The Atlantic)
I don’t know what’s scarier, Pete Hegseth’s wife’s lack of security clearance as she joins foreign military briefings…
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Archive: archive.is/615Pj
…Or his younger brother / podcaster getting a DoD job as a nepotism hire (and having access to classified info).
apnews.com/article/hegseth-bro…
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office confirms that his younger brother is serving in a key position inside the Pentagon as a Department of Homeland Security liaison and senior adviser.Tara Copp (AP News)
I don’t know what’s scarier, Pete Hegseth having access to any email or Pete Hegseth using Gmail with Waltz to discuss classified national security concerns.
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Archive: archive.is/gcU6p
Good thing he didn’t have a server in his basement for unclassified emails!
A previously unknown trick lets you easily bypass using a Microsoft Account in Windows 11, just as Microsoft tries to make it harder to use local accounts.
new security milestone reached: #chatmail relay servers are hardened to only transfer end-to-end encrypted e-mail with metadata minimization. No cleartext message can enter or leave the secure chatmail network anymore.
We now talk about "chatmail relays" rather than servers as they only ephemerally store messages until delivery. Dirt cheap to run.
We opened up our #rust "chatmail core" infrastructure library and set up an overview of the community driven ecosystem ...
Chatmail provides FOSS infrastructure for interoperable, secure, speedy and reliable end-to-end encrypted messaging. Check out clients as Arcane Chat, Bots or Delta Chat today!chatmail.at
Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!
Thundermail ho!
From: @thunderbird
mastodon.online/@thunderbird/1…
The bird is out of the bag! We're introducing Thunderbird Pro (you already know Appointment!), a set of productivity AND privacy boosting services. And that includes...*drum roll*...an email service we're calling Thundermail. Find all the info in this excellent article:#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Email
forbes.com/sites/jasonevangelh…
Mozilla Thunderbird Challenges Gmail With Its Own Email Service
"Thundermail" will be part of a suite of Thunderbird Pro services, as the team behind the venerable Mozilla email client begins building a complete ecosystem.Forbes
@thunderbird
Please consider setting android:allowBackup="true" on Android. Backups are an essential security feature. Without the ability to easily backup & restore data, it is extremely vulnerable to being destroyed or ransomed. Security is not just about preventing unauthorized access, it's also about protecting authorized access.
github.com/thunderbird/thunder…
Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-androidGitHub
Currently, Thunderbird for Android sets a flag in its manifest that prevents it from being included in backups. My emails, and the client configs for my email providers, are some of the most important data on my device.connect.mozilla.org
@thunderbird is this known issue with the rebranded #K9?
I composed a message while out and about, but the message didn't send because my mobile provider has ended up on #Spamhaus #XBL. The message sits in the #Thunderbird Outbox.
On getting home to my WiFi network (whose internet connectivity is provided by an entity which is not my mobile provider) and attempting to resend the message in the Outbox, the message still fails to send, with the same error. However any email composed and sent while on my home network is sent reliably.
What's going on there?
check.spamhaus.org/results/?qu…
You're invited to talk on Matrix. If you don't already have a client this link will help you pick one, and join the conversation. If you already have one, this link will help you join the conversationmatrix.to
If you want to know how a spoon, ai, Matrix and accessibility are connected, then check out the #btconf talk description by @tink with the title “There Is No Spoon” beyondtellerrand.com/events/du…
#a11y #ai #accessibility #presentation #tellerrand
Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. Shebeyond tellerrand Events
Kevin Powell has an #accessibility intro video:
“Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement”
youtu.be/pJ0GPI7BMIs
This isn’t for practitioners; this isn’t new stuff.
This is for folks who are new to it, who learn better with videos, who know his name and will believe him more than us, who want recent examples, etc.
#a11y
Accessibility can be a deep topic, but there is a lot of low-hanging fruit that so many people get wrong when there really is no excuse.🔗 Links✅ axe dev too...YouTube
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@Friendica Support @Tutorial
Hi there!
A question about the different page option settings of accounts (friendica 2024.03)./settings/account/basic
Right now this page want's to merge from a standard personal profile page to kinda community profile page where only specific defined profiles can publish thru it's wall to the rest of the followers.
First thought was to stay as a single profile page, allow mutual friend relations to publish/write to this wall, and change all contacts that do not belong to the inner circle of profiles to followers only. Apparently this setting doesn't work, or doesn't work as expected.
Security and privacy settings in:/settings
Is this a known issue or some kind of misinterpretation of this option?
Next possible option would be to choose to become a public community group page.
This option would imply a continuous attention to change every new contact to followers only, if in fact this would mean that the followers would not be able to publish to the group but receive publications. Also this setting would include the risk of being exposed to unexpected posts into the community of followers whenever the administration of the profile lags behind for some reason.
The option private group looks more promising in this regard and actually would be the same than being a personal profile page that checks new follow requests and than could change the setting to allow mutual friendship to post to the profiles wall or simply define a follower relationship. The [Experimental] notice, that actually exists like lot's of years already is a little bit confusing, or creates a certain reluctance to try this option. How experimental is this still as of now or could we perhaps ask the community to run a general test on all the options of the account settings in general together with a general feed back to sum this up and come to some definite setup, wording and explanations on the matter?
I think this is Victoria Park stop, along the east-west track, well east.
#iphone4 #Toronto #Subway #CameraRoll
Meet our new Fedora Project Leader, Jef Spaleta!
As we're excited for Jef to support the community in this role, we also extend a big thank you to @mattdm (who is not leaving the Fedora community either!)
➡️ fedoramagazine.org/introducing…
Hello everyone! Current Fedora Project Leader Matthew Miller here, with some exciting news! A little while ago, I announced that it’s time for a change of hats. I’m going to be moving on to new things (still close to Fedora, of course).Matthew Miller (Fedora Project)
New blog post: "AI ambivalence" nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/ai-…
Wherein I try to grapple with all this AI stuff everybody is constantly talking about.
I’ve avoided writing this post for a long time, partly because I try to avoid controversial topics these days, and partly because I was waiting to make my mind up about the current, all-consu…Read the Tea Leaves
I did get to the end of the post, and I do care that you wrote it without the aid of generative AI. Of course, maybe that's because I'm another middle-aged programmer somewhat afraid of being left behind.
I think the fact that you find these tools particularly good at busting out unit tests suggests that we need to figure out how to make practical software testing less rote, less boilerplatey, such that lovingly crafting that code is actually worthwhile.
Counterpoint: It's unrealistic to expect every developer to "love" every part of the software development process.
I write tests because they are legitimately helpful, and because it would be irresponsible not to. And I hate every second of it.
I'm legitimately not sure what changes/improvements to software testing would make it feel less arduous, but very interested in ideas! @nolan
If you want to know where the future of sound is headed, accessibility is a great place to look. And for decades, Apple has been leading the charge in accessible technology.Kelly Nowels (Twenty Thousand Hertz - The stories behind the world's most recognizable and interesting sounds.)
Amazon has submitted a last-minute bid to acquire TikTok, according to a report in The New York Times.Aisha Malik (TechCrunch)
Thanks to our friends at Blazie Technologies, you have a chance to win a BT Speak Pro when you give to the National Federation of the Blind during the week o...YouTube
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Explore various Nintendo Switch 2 system settings that can help support different types of players and individual needs.www.nintendo.com
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Exciting news! The Matrix Foundation homeserver will migrate to the all new matrix-authentication-service on April 7th, with an expected downtime of 1h between 7am and 8am UTC.
More details about the impact for your on our blog.
matrix.org/blog/2025/04/matrix…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsQuentin (matrix.org)
I administer my own home server. I've set up an upstream OIDC server (Authentik) in anticipation of the new MAS standard. What else do I need to do in order to have a smooth migration?
I've seen a lot of promotional material about the new MAS implementation, but not much about how it will break my instance or how my configuration will need to change.
More users than ever are flocking to the open source suite since its latest update. The end of Windows 10 support is far from the only factor.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Jamison Alexander
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to Jamison Alexander • • •NumeRe.org
in reply to LibreOffice • • •We still see people recommending Excel and throwing around those "Excel tools" (aka spreadsheets with some formulas).
Please stop endorsing spreadsheet apps for anything else than spreadsheets. Better use applications for numerical computations like #NumeRe or #R, which produce understandable, mainainable and debuggable solutions.
Helga Secures All the Things
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Flauschtext
in reply to LibreOffice • • •MegatronicThronBanks
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I feel so guilty downvoting OpenOffice. It was a good friend, the people were ace, and for a while it had the only decent EPUB exporter plugin. I wrote my first book on it.
But, time has gone under that bridge. Alas.
nowhereman (nicht der andere!)
in reply to LibreOffice • • •@kontrollierterWahnwitz
I suspect there have been some recommendations for openDesk recently, which for some reason is being confused with openoffice.
opendesk.eu
Die Office und Collaboration Suite für die Öffentliche Verwaltung | openDesk
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in reply to LibreOffice • • •Thomas Brand
in reply to LibreOffice • • •@kbsez@mstdn.social Has Moved
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I recommend LIBREOFFICE to everyone. Very regular updates and it's been flawless.
I can open ANY file from office and save and send back in the same format.
And it's FREE.
There is no reason for 99.9% of users to be paying for M$ Office.
chesheer
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Pure nostalgia, but LibreOffice doesn't evoke such a warm feeling of "Linux back then".
On the other hand, LibreOffice is always reliable and stable.
Doctacosa
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to Doctacosa • • •Doctacosa
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
Unknown parent • • •formuchdeliberation
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
Unknown parent • • •It's time to let go, Apache Software Foundation
rocket9labs.comElias Mårtenson
in reply to LibreOffice • • •I don't understand the openoffice project.
They claim to maintain it, and if you look at the repository, there are updates all the time, but pretty much every single one of them are reformatting, some typo fixes, changes to formatting of documentation, etc.
You have to scroll way down before you find a single fix that actually changes the code.
github.com/apache/openoffice/c…
Just read the commits. It's so very strange.
Why are hey even spending the time doing this? The only explanation I have is that they have some contract where someone is paying them money for it to be updated, and they do the absolute bare minimum to avoid breaking the contract.
This, unfortunately, has had an extremely harmful effect on the open source community, who are best represented by libreoffice here.
Commits · apache/openoffice
GitHubElias Mårtenson
in reply to Elias Mårtenson • • •I paged down page, after page, after page, and with maybe 3 exceptions, every. single. fix modifies code comments, change the character case of html tags.
Here is one of hundreds of examples: github.com/apache/openoffice/c…
What on earth is going on? Surely a human isn't assigned to make a few of these changes every single day? Or maybe the contract allows them to afford this?
Clean up resource files · apache/openoffice@8c3681a
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in reply to Elias Mårtenson • • •Wilm has moved / is verhuisd
in reply to LibreOffice • • •how about a module that replaces the Outlook functionality (multi-service mail organizer)?
It is the one thing that prevents me from ditching Windows altogether. And no, Thunderbird does not meet my requirements
Sjoerd Aalbers 🇪🇺🇾🇪🇺🇦
in reply to LibreOffice • • •duncan
in reply to LibreOffice • • •LibreOffice
in reply to duncan • • •Internet Rando
in reply to LibreOffice • • •y'all taggin' @libreoffice left and right.. but needs more #libreoffice
Thank you for your consideration.
💉😷🌿🇺🇦🇺🇳🇪🇺Oiselarius (he/him)
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Robert-André Mauchin
in reply to LibreOffice • • •jan Lu
in reply to LibreOffice • • •Hello, friends of LibreOffice!
I am one of those people who are still recommending Apache OpenOffice. But there is a reason, I am not doing it randomly or for fun.
I work with people at rural schools, where they use old computers, mostly donated ones, and mostly offline. They need to use a fast, lightweight office suite, and even LibreOffice 7.6 is not lightweight enough for these situations. However, Apache OpenOffice 4.1 works PERFECT because it is certainly lighter.
Regards!