#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 2 added apps:

* Floating Mute: Quickly mute and unmute your device 🛡️
* Igatha: SOS Signaling & Recovery for emergencies when communication networks fail 🛡️

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

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

IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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).

^{IzzyOnDroid App Repo}

The Trump administration withdrew 11 pieces of ADA guidance. How will it affect compliance?
https://apnews.com/article/ada-guidance-disabilities-trump-ed2214921ac719b72b81d76c03e330c4?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Health @health-AssociatedPress

The Trump administration withdrew 11 pieces of ADA guidance. How will it affect compliance?

President Donald Trump’s administration has withdrawn 11 pieces of guidance related to the Americans with Disabilities Act that helped stores, hotels and other businesses understand their obligation to the law.

^{Kenya Hunter (AP News)}

i once saw a man, a terrifying man.

he programmed with vs code open. in it, terminal panel stretched fullscreen. and in it, he was programming in neovim.

like an absolute psycho.

Are you ready to build your perfect online productivity hub? 💻

With 400+ apps in the Nextcloud App Store, the key isn’t more - it’s choosing the right ones. Check out some top picks ➡️

nextcloud.com/blog/best-produc…

#Nextcloud #Productivity #DigitalWorkplace #OpenSource

Dire Wolves. Back from extinction, thanks to the miracle of genetic engineering or something.

Only it seems what they've really done is changed an ordinary not-extinct wolf to to just look like a dire wolf. Not quite as impressive, seeing as how humans have been turning wolves into basset hounds and bulldogs and chihuahuas and great danes for centuries, without any gene editing tools at all.

The whole thing reminds me of this story from more than 20 years ago:

edition.cnn.com/2016/01/25/afr…

We're thrilled to announce that the migration of matrix.org to the Matrix Authentication Service (MAS) is complete and went according to plan!

Find all the details and videos of how it looks like on Element X and Fractal on our blog!

matrix.org/blog/2025/04/morg-n…

Matrix.org is now running MAS!

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications

^{Quentin (matrix.org)}

From "Apple Human Inteface Guidelines 1987", page 61:

Alert boxes

An alert box resembles a modal dialog box (see Figure 3-13). The only way the user can respond is by clicking buttons or by pressing Enter or Return. Alert boxes might contain dials and buttons but usually not text fields, radio buttons, or check boxes.

Note the recommended general arrangement of the elements. The icon is at the left, with the message text to the right. The buttons are below the message, with the default button, boldly outlined, at the lower right. The default is the likeliest or safest response, and can be chosen by simply pressing Return or Enter.

The way to be sure the default button is really "safe" is to word the message carefully.

Messages in alert boxes must be brief, informative, and friendly without being misleading. If the alert is warning the user of a serious situation, it must be made clear—not hidden in a polite phrase. Messages should be phrased so that the user can easily answer them, and the wording should reflect the user's point of view, not the programmer's. Figure 3-15 shows an example.

It's time for another Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest! In this month's issue, we have updates on:

* Upstream changes
* EWS features that have landed in Daily
* Our Calendar UI rebuild
* Global Messaging Database work
* The new Account Hub

#Thunderbird #OpenSource #Development

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/04/t…

Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest - March 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

Upstream changes, the continuing Calendar UI rebuild, more Exchange features in Daily, Account Hub, Global Message Database updates and more!

^{Toby Pilling (The Thunderbird Blog)}

Are you getting it yet?

The Venn diagram showing the overlap between AI maximalists and fascists is consolidating ever closer to a circle-shaped layer cake. CEO Tobi Lütke *delights* in his employees cowering. It's the only explanation.

I'm not surprised, but I still feel the breath catch in my throat as I behold the inhumanity of it all.

theverge.com/news/644943/shopi…

Shopify CEO says no new hires without proof AI can’t do the job

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke sent a memo to employees saying that before they ask for more headcount or resources, teams must show why they “cannot get what they want done using AI.”

^{Jay Peters (The Verge)}

Holy shit, the PCB design of this new sensor board, called Ophanim, of CERN’s Aegis experiment just fucking slaps. Right now, there don’t seem to be many images of it on the web, but I hope to see more in the future.

#electronics #pcb #science

Penpot is the first tool to integrate native design tokens.

A single source of truth to improve efficiency and collaboration between product design and development.

Read more! 👉 penpot.app/collaboration/desig…

Reminder: we do the #curl distro meeting 2025 this Thursday!

github.com/curl/curl/wiki/curl…

curl distro discussion 2025

A command line tool and library for transferring data with URL syntax, supporting DICT, FILE, FTP, FTPS, GOPHER, GOPHERS, HTTP, HTTPS, IMAP, IMAPS, LDAP, LDAPS, MQTT, POP3, POP3S, RTMP, RTMPS, RTSP...

^GitHub

96% of the demand-side value is created by only 5% of OSS developers

(another slide from my foss-north talk on Monday)

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imagine being the leader of a province dependent on oil revenues

and throwing in your lot with the orange guy who's driving oil prices into the ground, because what's really important is the War on Woke

There should be a word for it: the feeling of disappointment / sadness when you realize interesting people you got to know on the Fediverse have since decamped to Bluesky.

Of course, there must be valid reasons for it. Still, this makes me a little sad.

I have a dormant Bluesky account and from time to time I check in and see them posting so much there.

Not me. Why? I don't trust a place funded by Crypto Bros -> blockchaincapital.com/portfoli…

I'm 1000% ALL IN on the Fediverse, not going anywhere ❤️

Portfolio

^{www.blockchaincapital.com}

The only people doing real "responsible AI" work are those doing this.

"On Monday, Microsoft reportedly terminated the roles of two software engineers, Ibtihal Aboussad and Vaniya Agrawal, who protested the company’s reported dealings with the Israeli military during Microsoft’s Copilot and 50th anniversary event last week."

techcrunch.com/2025/04/07/micr…

Microsoft reportedly fires staff whose protest interrupted its Copilot event | TechCrunch

Microsoft has reportedly terminated employees who protested during the company's 50th anniversary and Copilot event.

^{Maxwell Zeff (TechCrunch)}

Sweden wants to #backdoor #encryption. But we, together with 230+ orgs, are saying no.

#NoToBackdoors 💪

Read our open letter to the Swedish Riksdag: 👉

tuta.com/blog/open-letter-swed…

#Mozilla changed hg.mozilla.org/releases/mozill… to use 302 redirect:

< HTTP/2 302
< content-type: text/html
< date: Tue, 08 Apr 2025 08:13:36 GMT
< location: hg-edge.mozilla.org/releases/m…
< access-control-allow-origin: *
< content-length: 0

This could lead to some failure to update the certificate data with tools that don't handle redirect correctly. These tools will fail to fetch the new certdata.txt now.

I'm putting the finishing touches on a massive release of the Converse #XMPP chat client. 🚀

✨ Here’s what to look forward to:

◾ Groupchat DMs: You can DM other participants without knowing their address
◾ Blocklists for spammers 💩
◾ Accessibility improvements, like support for RTL languages
◾ Media enhancements
◾Big performance enhancements, particularly for chats with a long history and many participants.
◾Three new themes, Nordic 🗻 , Dracula 🧛‍♂️ and Cyberpunk 🌆

From the sattirical UK-based web site NewsThump: Trump funeral remains America’s top sexual fantasy

A survey of Americans’ sexual behaviour has revealed that, for the ninth year running, the number one sexual fantasy of most people is the funeral of Donald
Trump.
“I only have to think about a funeral parade for the president and I go from six to midnight,” said one respondent...

Welcome to the random shit Z sends me, Kayla, and Gap Tangle, among others, just for a reaction.

newsthump.com/2025/04/02/trump…

Trump funeral remains America’s top sexual fantasy

A survey of Americans’ sexual behaviour has revealed that, for the ninth year running, the number one sexual fantasy of most people is the funeral of Donald Trump.

^NewsThump

Magdaléna, Kladno.. roky trochu nesedia ale to bude moja ex

edit: ty vole

ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/d…

The blog post from yday brought back this question: why aren't we using C99 in #curl? Here's my past response:

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/11/17…

Considering C99 for curl

tldr: we stick to C89 for now. The curl project builds on foundations that started in late 1996 with the tool named httpget.

^{daniel.haxx.se}