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Samsung Android Accessibility Framework 35.0 Overview: The Good and the Bad accessibleandroid.com/samsung-…

Samsung Android Accessibility Framework 35.0 Overview: The Good and the Bad - Accessible Android

For the past couple of years, I've been reviewing Samsung Accessibility Framework evolutions, starting with Framework 33, and then we saw together how it came
Ciprian Dinca (Accessible Android)

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Die U.S.-Botschaft verlangt in Briefen, dass Geschäftspartner in Deutschland sich an die Trump-Dekrete gegen Diversität etc. halten und droht sonst mit Abbruch der Geschäftsbeziehungen?

Ok, können sie haben. Die Botschaft könnte sofort konsequent handeln und jeglichen Strombezug einstellen. Der Berliner Stromnetzbetreiber unterhält nämlich ein großes Diversitätsprogramm, sogar auf Englisch nachlesbar: stromnetz.berlin/en/for-berlin…

Also: Unplug now, the president said so

Diversity for Berlin - Stromnetz Berlin

www.stromnetz.berlin

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🚨 Breaking: Tuta has submitted a DMA complaint against Apple

All we want is that our users can choose Tuta Mail as their default mail app on iOS.

Dear #Apple please get in touch!

👉 Full story: tuta.com/blog/dma-complaint-ap…

Apple pushing down Tuta

DMA complaint against Apple for failure to enable the Tuta email app as default mail app on iOS | Tuta

Or: How Apple’s gatekeeping hinders Tuta Mail offering the default mail app option on iOS.
Tuta
#apple

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We still see people on social media recommending OpenOffice. Just be aware that it's no longer getting updates, and has multiple year-old unfixed security issues: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_O… – To be safe, switch to one of the actively maintained successor projects (such as LibreOffice).

free and open-source office suite

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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jan Lu

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!

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#OtD 2 Apr 1976 filming the first Star Wars movie began at Elstree Studios, UK. George Lucas was surprised by the crew's working practices – starting and finishing work exactly on time and taking 2 set tea breaks a day. Workers had fought for tea breaks: shop.workingclasshistory.com/c…

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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
#otd

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57 Years Ago Today: 2001: A Space Odyssey Premieres, Redefining Sci-Fi Cinema cordcuttersnews.com/57-years-a…

57 Years Ago Today: 2001: A Space Odyssey Premieres, Redefining Sci-Fi Cinema | Cord Cutters News

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)

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While we believe #Accessibility should be a key component of any project from the outset, one of the advantages of open source is that those with the knowledge are able to contribute to projects to help address shortcomings. @wireshark is "The world's most popular #network protocol analyzer", and a fellow #OpenSource project. Do we know any #A11y coders with an interest in #Networking willing to give them a hand with accessibility? See their post here: fosstodon.org/@wireshark@ioc.e… #FOSS

Fosstodon

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#a11y #Accessibility #foss #opensource #network #networking @Wireshark

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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.

theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
Archive: archive.is/wR4uP

Signal message from Pete Hegseth at 9:46am: “Agree.”

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans

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)
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Adrian Roselli, pH0

I don’t know what’s scarier, Pete Hegseth’s wife’s lack of security clearance as she joins foreign military briefings…

wsj.com/politics/national-secu…
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…


Hegseth’s younger brother is serving in a key role as liaison and senior adviser inside the Pentagon

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)

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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.at

Chatmail logo (black @ sign with the lower left corner dented to signal a chat bubble) with this motto below; Chatmail makes E-Mail fun, secure and instant

Chatmail

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
#rust #chatmail

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Thunder! Thunder! Thunder!
Thundermail ho!
From: @thunderbird
mastodon.online/@thunderbird/1…

Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

2025-04-01 17:17:00

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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: Free Your Inbox

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@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-android/app-common/src/main/AndroidManifest.xml at main · thunderbird/thunderbird-android

Thunderbird for Android – Open Source Email App for Android (fka K-9 Mail) - thunderbird/thunderbird-android
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@Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

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@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…

A screenshot snippet from my firewall showing the external IP address of my home wired/wireless network. It's in a different range entirely.
The message from Thunderbird showing the human-readable part of the SMTP response, indicating that my mobile network IP address is on the Spamhaus XBL.
A screenshot of the output of `whois` in Termux on Android checking the ownership of the IP address blocked by Spamhaus.
#thunderbird #K9 #spamhaus #xbl @Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox
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Thunderbird: Free Your Inbox

Hey there. There are some issues with messages being stuck in the outbox, but they tend to heavily be related to EIG-owned web and email hosting companies. So we'd suggest opening a question on support.mozilla.org or joining our community support chat on Matrix at matrix.to/#/#tb-android:mozill… - our developers also hang out in this room as well!

Matrix - Decentralised and secure communication

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 conversation
matrix.to

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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 Watson is speaking at beyond tellerrand 2025 in Düsseldorf

Léonie is a Director of TetraLogical; Chair of the W3C Board of Directors, and co-Chair of the W3C Web Applications Working Group. She
beyond tellerrand Events
#a11y #Accessibility #AI #presentation #btconf #tellerrand @Léonie Watson

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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


Quick accessibility wins that are easy to implement

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
#a11y #Accessibility

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Q&A profile page options

v.01
@Friendica Support @Tutorial

Hi there!

A question about the different page option settings of accounts (friendica 2024.03).
/settings/account/basic

Screen of the account type options in the advanced account page type settings.

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
Screen of the setting that allows friends to post to the profile page wall of a personal page.

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.
Screen of the community group options in the advanced account page type settings.

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?

@Friendica Support @Tutorial

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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…

#Fedora #Linux #OpenSource


Introducing Fedora Project Leader Jef Spaleta - Fedora Magazine

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)
#linux #opensource #fedora @Matthew Miller
in reply to Nolan Lawson

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Matt Campbell

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.

in reply to Matt Campbell

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James Scholes

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

@Nolan Lawson
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Twenty Thousand Hertz, my favorite podcast about all things sound, just released an episode talking about Apple's accessibility and how they approach sound. Its very well written and gives a nice overview on how Accessibility has evolved in Apple. 20k.org/episodes/sonic-accessi…

Inside Apple: Sonic Accessibility

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.)

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📢 Aktualizace Mastodon instancí!
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#Mastodon #Oscloud #Update


Release v4.3.7 · mastodon/mastodon

Changelog Add Add delay to profile updates to debounce them (#34137 by @ClearlyClaire) Add support for paginating partial collections in SynchronizeFollowersService (#34272 and #34277 by @ClearlyC...
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