Want to make your own custom image of Fedora Atomic Desktops? Use bootc and have at it. :)
Learn more: fedoramagazine.org/building-yo…
#Fedora #FedoraAtomic #Linux #OpenSource
Bootc and associated tools provide the basis for building a personalised desktop. This article will describe the process to build your own custom installation.Daniel Mendizabal (Fedora Project)
👏 The UN is ditching Google Forms in favor of a self-hosted alternative! Specifically @CryptPad
Even the United Nations recognizes the importance of data sovereignty and privacy. If an org handling sensitive global diplomacy doesn't trust Big Tech, why should you?
1 cent per five years .... is the current marginal hosting cost for a #chatmail address, with which #deltachat apps facilitate world-wide private messaging including interactive #webxdc apps that run end-to-end encrypted in any chat group.
<1 Million EUR per year is the estimated marginal hosting costs for 350 Million EU citizens. Such scaling requires, however, research and development, including careful UX and #cryptography work. Related writing from @gordon
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Protocols are to institutions as packet switching is to circuit switchingGordon Brander (Squishy Computer)
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Sweet puppies and kittens what fresh hell is this?
No Matt, you can't offload WordPress accessibility into a plugin. To say nothing of the part where all the work gets offloaded to the community and the official project gets to wash its hands.
Good grief.
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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has suggested that accessibility improvements could be developed as a canonical plugin to help contributors respond more quickly to the needs of users who rely on assistive technologies.Rae Morey (The Repository)
We've reached a rating of 4.8 on Chrome Web Store!
Thanks for all your reviews!
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Watch videos up to 2x faster by automatically skipping long pauses between sentenceschromewebstore.google.com
TeleMessage, an Israeli company that sells an unofficial Signal message archiving tool used by some U.S. government officials, has suspended all services after reportedly being hacked.
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Speecx is a free speech synthesis (TTS) dubbing software. It supports English, Japanese, French, Russian, German, Hindi, Italian, Thai, Korean, Spanish,Accessible Android
Microsoft is officially shutting down Skype today and urging users to migrate to Microsoft Teams as its replacement.Adamya Sharma (Android Authority)
In modern web applications, controllers often need to process data URL parameters (query strings) or Request body. Handling this data efficiently while ensuring it’s properly validated is a critical…Kevin Wenger (Medium)
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Two recent New York district court decisions underscore how serial website accessibility plaintiffs are encountering greater challenges to demonstrate...JD Supra
TalkBack is Android’s built-in screen reader that helps visually impaired users navigate their devices using gestures and audio feedback.In this guide, Hable explains how TalkBack works, how to activate it, and what features make it so powerful.Hable One (Hable)
Notice how this still obeys the rule.
This is just a toolbar, no menubar in sight, unless you collapse the ribbon, then it becomes just a menubar without a toolbar in sight.
The Microsoft ribbon is somehow less obscene than what 99% of Qt apps do today, and I’m not even joking.
Hackers claiming to be part of the hacktivist group Anonymous claimed the data breach.Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai (TechCrunch)
It’s an Airacast reboot! We return to our monthly format with some Aira history and deep thought about technology, discrimination, AI and life with Mike Hinson.
So many explorers tell us that Mike motivated them to try the service. Now we look back over 10 years and forward to what AI brings us. Jenine also reviews how to find Access Network offers and use Aira for free!
Podcast link: pnc.st/s/airacast/e7642d52/may…
You can contact Mike at speaker@michaelhingson.com.
Visit his web site, michaelhingson.com.
Catch his podcast, Unstoppable Mindset, in your podcast app of choice.
Comments about the podcast? Email us at airacast@aira.io.
Episode Notes It’s an Airacast reboot! We return to our monthly format with some Aira history and deep thought about technology, discrimination, AI and life with Mike Hinson. So many explorers tell us that Mike motivated them to try the service.pnc.st
In this episode, Gaurav begins his journey into mastering spreadsheets with Apple’s free app, Numbers on Mac. 📊 Using an insightful AppleVis podcast as his guide, he learns how to open a spreadsheet and navigate it efficiently with VoiceOver.www.applevis.com
The web platform has been missing an imperative way to let users of assistive technology know that something has changed on the page, when no DOM changes occurred.
The Aria Notify API aims to bridge that gap. Try it out and let us know what you think!
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We're excited to announce the availability, as a developer and origin trial, of ARIA Notify, a new API that's designed to make web contentMicrosoft Edge Blog
Song Maker, an experiment in Chrome Music Lab, is a simple way for anyone to make and share a song.musiclab.chromeexperiments.com
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I really want to like Linux, but there's one bug that's absolutely killing it for me and making me want to switch back to Windows. If I'm typing in VS Code and an autocomplete pops up, Orca is yanked out of focus mode even if I have it set to sticky. So let's say I'm quickly typing .clone() in some Rust code. I type ., this pops up the autocomplete, I get c in before the mode switches...then it switches. So Orca then tries to go to the next (l)ist, next large (o)bject, n gets passed through to the document because there's no structural nav command...by the time I realize we're well and thoroughly off to clusterfuck city, my document contains .cn and focus is gods know where. This can happen multiple times per line if I'm unlucky. It happens less now that I've disabled Copilot for unrelated reasons, but I'm having to be much more intentional about typing code very quickly to minimize this happening.
Is there a workaround for this? If Windows didn't feel like an absolute hostile landscape of "we're going to treat this computer and the data on it like it isn't yours whether you like it or not," I'd still be there.
Tell me not to use VS Code and I'll block you. Sorry, absolutely not in the mood. Also don't want to disable autocomplete.
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Oh thanks, that's amazing and what I was hoping to get from posting this. I'll probably join the Orca lists and such and be more active soon, I'm just neck-deep in moving and other life logistics now and don't have the time.
So if I'm reading this thread correctly, the issue isn't in Orca but is instead in VS Code, and is now fixed in Insiders, at least on macOS? Asking because if it is Orca but just hasn't been filed yet, I'll put doing so on my todo list when my life isn't an absolute pile next month.
If you've ever wondered how we prioritize the front and backend features on our development roadmap - and how we're going to improve on delivering our highest priority items - the latest State of the Thunder has answers!
Great news for the wafrn app !!
As a culmination of the big journey of the past weeks, the Wafrn App is now listed in the official @unifiedpush documentation as one of the apps that support UnifiedPush
Check it at unifiedpush.org/users/apps/
#WafrnDev #FediDev #UnifiedPush #Degoogle #FreeServices
This is a non-exhaustive list of the first few end-user applications that use UnifiedPush. Android Name Description Date Since version Docs¹ FluffyChat Matrix chat January 2021 v0.26.UnifiedPush
New Blog Post:
Rust's Error Messages are Great
Examples of some of the best parts of #rust error messages. (You don't need to know rust to understand them.)
alanwsmith.com/en/2w/dt/w8/ce/
[cc: @mahryekuh who inspired this post by asking if there were error messages I liked.]
Support for Windows 10 ends on October 14, 2025. Microsoft wants you to buy a new computer. But what if you could make your current one fast and secure again?
Check out the End of 10 initiative to learn more! If you know anyone else who might find this useful, share it with them!
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browsing Ebay, I saw "Linux preloaded SSD/NVMe" listings. Not a bad idea? easy to reverse, less risks, doesn't need a location/event.
Challenges? not all hardware has easy access to disk/ssd/nvme, initializing user encryption, prop. Nvidia drivers, capital, warranty, fulfilment, (return) shipments.
The May 2025 update for the BT Speak offers an even more versatile clipboard.
First, you can cut, copy and paste across applications in both desktop mode as well as in traditional mode.
For example, you can copy a block of text from Thunderbird or LibreOffice and paste that text into our editor.
Not only that but the paste operation honors your Braille translation setting. As an example, you could write a document in our editor in Grade 2 or UEB, copy that document to the clipboard and paste it in a LibreOffice document as plain text. The reverse is also true: copy a block of text from a Web browser and paste it into a Grade 2 file and the text will be pasted in Grade 2 Braille.
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Me in 2019:
“A Model for WordPress Accessibility”
adrianroselli.com/2019/05/a-mo…
Mullenweg in 2025:
A plug-in, off-loaded to the community to build and maintain!
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WordPress co-founder Matt Mullenweg has suggested that accessibility improvements could be developed as a canonical plugin to help contributors respond more quickly to the needs of users who rely on assistive technologies.Rae Morey (The Repository)
Smart input is a new BT Speak feature that lets you use natural language to type keystrokes and commands when you're in desktop mode. For example, if you want to close a program or save a document, just type "Close" or "save" and the command is sent. You can also type keystrokes, such as control a or alt+f4.
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Please boost! #FediHire
I'm looking for my next role as a program manager, team lead, or senior developer.
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The May 2025 update for the BT Speak is now live!!
Features include:
a more versatile clipboard that extends across traditional and desktop mode and which even back and forward translates what gets pasted, depending on the Braille table being used
More standard commands in the editor, such as ctrl+c for copy, ctrl+v for paste, etc.
an NFB Newsline app
Help files and the welcome screen now allow for headings and links, making them more interactive
and more!!
blazietech.com/may-2025-update
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@gocu54 First, we need to determine what your Braille input mode is set to by going to Options, Settings, Braille Settings, Change the Input Prompt mode and set it to "Expect Computer Braille" and see if that fixes the problem.
Also, we should determine what locale you are using.
You can go to Options, Operating System, System Administration, Customize This BT Speak, Change the Locale. When you do this, what locale option is it pointing to?
Why does the #AISlop problem exist at #hackerone (and likely other bug bounty platforms)?
Because apparently it works: hackerone.com/evilginx/hacktiv…
It seems that some projects pay bounties for such AI Slop reports.
This thing works by generating fake vulnerability reports. Here are some of the qualities of the HackerOne report 3125832 sent to #curl:
- It looks convincing at a glance, especially if you're not a subject matter expert.
- It's vague about actual repro steps. It makes it impossible for the victim project to reproduce the issue. For example, it makes up fake patches against non-existent, imaginary code.
- It refers to functions and methods that do not exist (in case someone tries to look for them). When confronted, the attacker refer to some old or new versions of components, using non-existent commit hashes.
- The report makes up some convincing functionality or names that are novel, but don't really exist.
An expert’s look at the report shows the number of discrepancies, but finding them takes time and effort. It requires attention from a subject matter expert, with limited resources.
The real exploit here is that the attacker (evilginx) exploits the fact that the victims (the orgs who paid the attacker money) don't have the capacity to perform thorough analysis and rather just pay up. TL;DR: It's cheaper to pay the bug bounty than hire an expert to perform true analysis.
Why didn't it work against the curl project? The attacker miscalculated badly. Curl project is not a company and has far greater capability in security response than your average org. Also they can smell #aislop miles away.
"Mir reicht's": #Curl-Entwickler spricht Machtwort gegen "KI-Schrott"
golem.de/news/mir-reicht-s-cur…
> Entwickler @bagder zeigt sich frustriert über durch KI generierte Bug-Reports. Reporter werden künftig einem Intelligenztest unterzogen.
Btw., #Golem garniert den Artikel mit einem KI generierten Bild 🤷
Aber das mit den Intelligenztest finde ich gut. Die Frage ist, ob man mit Captchas gegen LLMs ankommt.
Techlore
in reply to Techlore • • •You can follow the UN's lead:
✅ Try open-source alternatives to Google services
✅ Start with small, manageable changes
✅ Join communities that support FOSS solutions
✅ Advocate for privacy-respecting tech at work
Every small step toward digital autonomy matters! We have Google alts in our resources: techlore.tech/resources
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UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead
Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS News)