Fresh off the press: Transition Technologies, the Polish company behind everything with Seeing Assistant in the name, have done it again. Seeing Assistant Go is their brand-new navigation app that improves on the previous Move offering. Most of the features you know are there plus a few additions. There is a simple as well as an advanced mode with a couple more settings and options. You can explore all of the OSM tags for a point which lets you find out pretty useful things e.g. does a pavement have tactile flooring or do the traffic lights have acoustic signalling. The navigation no longer provides instructions based on clock-wise or compass directions but rather you turn around with the phone in your hand and once you hear the assigned sound, you know you have found the direction and then carry on straight. This one will need a bit of getting used to but I was told by an experienced blind tester of the app it actually works once you got the hang of it. As far as I know, a blind developer and user of navigation apps is involved full-time in the project. Happy testing! iOS: apps.apple.com/pl/app/seeing-a…: play.google.com/store/apps/det… #Accessibility #a11y #Blind

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[This time around, #Trump isn’t just separating & jailing #immigrants, he’s separating & jailing families who are long time residents.]

THE #IMMIGRANT FAMILIES JAILED IN #TEXAS

#Children have long been put in migrant #detention if they were apprehended at the #border. Today, lawyers have found, #families are being removed from stable lives in the #UnitedStates.

#immigration #law #TheCrueltyIsThePoint #EthnicCleansing
newyorker.com/news/the-lede/th…

Now up to 363 university/academic signers -- more than 60 added in the last few hours.
Still silence from Dartmouth, Stanford, and the entire state of Texas.

"We must oppose undue government intrusion in the lives of those who learn, live, and work on our campuses."

aacu.org/newsroom/a-call-for-c…

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Pronatalist agenda: Encourage white births, enforce regressive, hierarchal & stratified social roles, push women out of public sphere and narrow women’s prospects for social, professional intellectual life to pregnancy, child care & housework.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

“the pro-natalist movement...is not really interested in making parenting easier or less burdensome for women. It is not interested in making children more affordable, or making them healthier.”

“It is not interested in making pregnancy safer, or in making childrearing less damaging to women’s careers.

“It is not interested in these because all of these pursuits are in fact antithetical to the movement’s real agenda”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

in reply to Preston Austin

Pro-natalists' agenda “is to encourage primarily white births, to enforce regressive, highly hierarchal and stratified social roles, to push women out of the public sphere and to narrow women’s prospects for social, professional and intellectual life to little more than pregnancy, childbirth, childrearing and housekeeping”

“Despite the extreme anti-woman bigotry and regressive gender politics...American liberals have been hesitant to combat the right’s embrace” of it.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

in reply to Preston Austin

“women should be able, free and encouraged to live lives that do not conform to regressive notions of women’s proper roles as wives and mothers, that they should be free to invent themselves on their own terms – including as permanently childless adults. This is not, as the pro-natalists would have it, an abandonment of their biological duty – and it is not, as their liberal sympathizers would say, an example of cultural decadence.”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

A year ago, I saw someone open a book lamp in a bar. It was a pretty expensive product. Since I combine electronics and paper crafting, I had to DIY it and develop an easy-to-use circuit template and instructions for it. This educational project is perfect for libraries. Please #retoot :-)
Template and instructions are available on my website: voltpaperscissors.com/diybookl….
Feel free to ask any questions.
#papercircuit #papercraft #diy #MINT #STEM
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I don’t know who needs to hear this but corporations cannot be “furious.” They also cannot be “happy”, “sad”, or gripped by any other emotion because they are not people. Stop anthropomorphising corporations. mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…

It would be awesome if the voters in Carleton fired Pierre PoiLIEvre!

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is at risk of losing Carleton riding as the party scrambles to send in volunteers to save the seat he has held since 2004... theglobeandmail.com/politics/a… #ABC #cdnpoli #polcan #elxn45

Today Melissa Lewis over on BlueSky pointed out that the font used in the infamous "You wouldn't steal a car" anti-piracy campaign was actually designed by Just van Rossum, whose brother, Guido, created the Python programming language (bsky.app/profile/melissa.news/post/3ln7hx5rhcj2v)

She also pointed out that the font had been cloned and released illegally for free under the name "XBAND Rough". Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded (web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf).

So I chucked it into FontForge and yep, turns out the campaign used a pirated font the entire time!

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FYI Air Canada violated the provincial Consumer Protection Act!

Québec Court of Appeal is ordering Air Canada to pay passengers more than $10M in damages in a class-action lawsuit that alleged passengers were charged higher amounts than the ticket price advertised: cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/ai… #baitandswitch #cdnpoli #polcan #polQC #QCpoli #assnat

The Web Applications Working Group published UI Events KeyboardEvent key Values and UI Events KeyboardEvent code Values:as W3C Recommendations.

key Values defines the key attribute values that must be used for KeyboardEvent’s key attribute. The code value contains information about the key event that can be used to identify the physical key being pressed by the user.

Read more at:
w3.org/news/2025/ui-events-key…

Question to people doing electronics and other fields using very small units: do you use the name "thou" or "mil" for the unit representing 1⁄1000 inch?

Considering adding this in unit list in @GIMP. Wikipedia seems to say that Thou is more common globally (but North America) and it looks like @FreeCAD (a good reference!) uses "Thou" too.

Yet a reporter insists that "mil" is more common and that "thou" wouldn't be understood by engineers.
So which is it? 😄

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thousand…

Updated #curl bug bounty stats, six years in:

520 reports
78 confirmed security vulnerabilities
104 "informative" reports, bugs that weren't vulnerabilities
11 marked as "AI slop"

The rest were just different kinds of not applicable. Some more crazy than others.

The latest confirmed curl vulnerability (CVE-2025-0725) was reported 90 days ago.

There is currently zero issues in our queue.

curl.se/docs/bugbounty.html

#curl
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mastodon - Link to source

daniel:// stenberg://

@welkin7 that did not add rust to curl really, but made curl use more rust. Dropped a while ago: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2024/12/21…

Boom, Movim 0.30.1 is out! ✨

In this new release you'll find a new avatar and banner configuration panel, animated GIF support in the picture proxy and some more improvements in the internal color palette management 🎨

Movim is also now supports the XEP-0392: Consistent Color Generation that allows you to have the same default color for your contacts between all the XMPP clients ☺️!

And as always bug fixes and improvements 😌

The complete release note on our blog: mov.im/community/pubsub.movim.…

#xmpp #release #movim

Welcome Helmut Grohne as #curl commit author 1368: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1715…
#curl

Whose Streets? Our Streets! Photos of NYC Protests, 1980-2000. Documentation of protests over AIDS, abortion rights, police brutality, housing, race, the environment, education, etc. kottke.org/25/04/whose-streets…

Any accessibility additions is a win for everyone!

Valve announces accessibility tags for Steam - Can I Play That?

caniplaythat.com/2025/04/23/va…

#Valve #Accessibility #Steam #PC #Gaming

PureOS Crimson Progress Update 🚀

Since July 2024, we’ve built a strong foundation—now climbing the stack!

March highlights:

• Faster USB charging
• Smoother touchscreen
• Speedier storage access

PureOS developer Sebastian Krzyszkowiak tackled major package updates, syncing key components from Debian Bookworm and patching PureOS-specific enhancements for devices like the Librem 5.

First alpha release coming soon. Stay tuned.

🔗 Learn More Here: puri.sm/posts/pureos-crimson-d…

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Calculator: calculator, unit converter, time converter, currency converter… 🛡️

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

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

in reply to Al Sweigart

Going to disagree on this one. Having a project that's both useful and popular can achieve a greater good that outweighs the possibility of it being exploited by megacorps. I hope that my own main open-source project (accesskit.dev/) falls into that category; the more popular it is, the more applications are accessible to more people. _Maybe_ I could make some money selling copyleft exceptions, but I'd rather have more accessible apps, as long as I can make a living.
in reply to Ahmad Albahar

Yeah, they appear with what you wrote when you quoted, but not like on twitter, instead, it's a link to the post, so essentially, to a client that doesn't support quoting, which is a lot of them, even Enafore, although it says that we can quote, well, that's just not properly implemented, and whatever you can read over there to you, is because your app lets you, but I don't think the web will.

My @thunderbird regularly marks some S/MIME-signed mails with:

"Digital Signature is not valid!"

#TIL the reason: these mails are signed with sha1-algorithm which is considered insecure since TB 115.

There is a config to accept such signatures, see blog.thunderbird.net/2023/10/t…

However, I think the error message:

"There are unknown problems with this digital signature." is suboptimal.

Seems like an easy issue to fix, but on the other hand I was not even able to finde the appropriate repo. 😬

in reply to Tamas G

This is bullshit from someone who doesn't treat LLMs as tools. If you want them to interpret your asks and respond in a certain way, put that context in the system prompt and stop wasting tokens.

Saying "You act as though I always say please" is just as effective as actually saying it. Saying you want bullet points, or headed paragraphs, or responses without visual references, or whatever is even better. Not valuing politeness from a computer is even better than all of that.

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in reply to James Scholes

I think the "valuing politeness" comes more from getting a greater effective output through it than otherwise, which isn't changing the core principle of LLMs: Since human data showed them that passages with polite dialog exert greater effort from the participant, it's likely that bias has now largely creeped into the average dataset of the models themselves. It's valid though to consider how this changes when applied to the prompt directly, as it least avoids repetition and can keep the positive sentiment the same rather than varying it across them.
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