I thought 7€ on this kit would be a good splurge because I've been meaning to sew my own handbags and this way, I naïvely assumed, there would be a ready-made set of tools and clear instructions. but the instructions are wordless and I'm already stumped. unlike the zipper pictured mine has these little tails that make it jut out from the trim band, should I fold them? cut them out? sew them as is? am I supposed to sew the head or the tail of the zipper? does it make a difference? aah
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Federico Mena Quintero

youtube.com/watch?v=TW9t0HTK_7… - a BIG channel, lots of good tips. I like the focus on neatness.

youtube.com/watch?v=wbD9cVZsEy… - the zipper-in-a-slit technique.

youtube.com/watch?v=iEzXDxZDV6… - many pieces, reinforcing the end of a zipper.

#curl build updates: curl-for-win Windows builds are now signed with cosign. Download page now includes links to these and to GPG signatures. The latest build uses zlib-ng instead of classic zlib as an experiment. curl.se/windows
Daily builds (also for Linux and macOS) are also signed now with GPG and cosign: github.com/curl/curl-for-win/a…
#curl

Over the last 10 minutes more than 1,000 EU citizen more supported the call for an EU wide ban on conversion practices targeted LGBTQ+ persons.

Which means it is currently on track to reach the required 1 million signatures before the deadline.

Please continue the great work getting people to sign the initiative!

Edit: We pushed past the one million signatures at approx. 16:00 CET on May 16th.

mstdn.social/@nerdd/1145179017…

eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/#/…

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I so agree! Thanks for posting this! macaw.social/@sommer/114518673…


I meant to re-post this for #GAAD!

This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/f…


I wonder if #curl could follow the wonderful example from the #Radicle project on how to properly support #Tor onion service endpoints.

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/05/16…

#TorProject #libcurl #HumanRights

in reply to Shawn Webb

@bagder Essentially, #curl commit 0ae0abbe72514a75c10bfc4108d9f254f594c086 broke updating #HardenedBSD packages for certain users who use HardenedBSD behind a fully Tor-ified network (a network that uses transparent Tor proxying).

Those users were unable to update their HardenedBSD systems since the package manager uses libcurl behind-the-scenes. Some of these users live in malicious environments (malicious to human life), with actively-exploited applications.

So, this prohibition had a real negative impact, putting our users in harm's way.

If curl had a way to bypass the prohibition, we would've been able to keep our users safe.

This is why I mention #Radicle: they, too, do not support the .onion TLD by default, but can be configured to provide that support.

Radicle has three options:

  1. Default: No support, .onion domain lookups will fail.
  2. SOCKS support where .onion lookups succeed.
  3. Explicit transparent proxying support, so .onion lookups succeed

curl is missing that third option.

Salt Typhoon cyberattacks exposed major flaws in U.S. telecom networks.

Unencrypted SMS, voice, even MFA = compromised.

At Purism, we build secure tech: Isolated baseband radios Post-Quantum Crypto Secure Apps Private LTE

Link: puri.sm/posts/why-the-salt-typ…

Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).

#a11y #bemyeyes #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday
#blind #bme #tech
#disability #assistivetech

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Geeky stuff aside, let's enjoy the hottest friday party ever. @Marek Macko is on air again with his awesome show called #playgroundLive. #dance, #trance, a bit of #hardStyle, #eurodance, #90s and other party genres in an incredible live mix performance lasting a few hours spiced up with some random chat messages of fellow listeners and friends.

Physicists at Cornell University figured out how to chop onions without crying and the results are FASCINATING.

tl;dr chopping quickly with a blunt knife releases larger onion juice droplets at higher velocities resulting in more contact with your eyes and thus, more tears. Slower slicing with a sharp knife = less tears.

arxiv.org/html/2505.06016v1

AI in Action: Celebrating Global Accessibility Awareness Day - Microsoft Accessibility Blog blogs.microsoft.com/accessibil…

Ooooh my tell-all interview about the creation of Ferris the Rustacean has been posted 😆

rustfoundation.org/media/celeb…

#rustlang

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Spectrum & Cox Merge in $34.5 Billion Deal, Reshaping U.S. Cable TV Industry cordcuttersnews.com/spectrum-c…

I meant to re-post this for #GAAD!

This article by @dadederk is a great reminder of many truths about doing #accessibility work: focus on systems, not short term goals, be persistent and resilient, and work w/ a network/community however you can!

smashingmagazine.com/2025/04/f…

Yesterday I complained that “someone put math in my programming” when this slide came up at #ElixirConfEU

@federicomena replied: “Esa diapositiva no tiene el estilo de LaTeX beamer? No puede ser buena señal 🤣🤣🤣”

Which means: “doesn’t that slide have LaTeX Beamer styling? That can’t be a good sign”

To which I replied: “Oye chico! Las mías también son de Beamer!” ie “hey dude, mine are also from Beamer”

Federico: 🤐 😇

From: @simondassow
masto.ai/@simondassow/11439232…

Microsoft claims that 30% of the code is already generated by AI. Why isn't it 100%.
So I tried it.
I "created" an application whose code is 100% generated by AI. I didn't write a single line of code.
The goal was not to create some large or complex application. Simply just a test.
If you are interested, the app is available on Google Play (currently not for iOS, maybe later).
I may publish the source codes later, but for now only here: play.google.com/store/apps/det…

#AI #android #androiddev

in reply to brabitom

What about my impressions? At the beginning it was very good. As the project gained in complexity, the problems grew. AI changed parts of the code that it should have kept or discarded them completely. I often had to point out completely obvious but essential precautions, etc. This means that some experience in application development or design was needed to fully develop this way.

I love #joplin so much. I find myself using it to publish long documents that I want others to read that are well formatted, but in plain HTML so can't be edited, and live on my server. Better than a PDF by far, and markdown makes including tables and other complicated layout easy. The only improvement I'd love is the ability to see how many visits a published note got. I don't need browser and IP and location and all that stuff. Just a number, so I can know if a link I shared with a single person was viewed by them.

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in reply to 🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

I've tried Obsidian, Silverbullet and Trilium Next, all of which had very significant accessibility issues I discovered within the first minute that made them not viable.

#Joplin was such a delight in comparison. There are minor bugs I've noticed, but nothing that prevents me from being productive. Thanks (@joplinapp for the amazing work.

The main thing I'm trying to figure out is setting up a build pipeline to export my public notes to .md and publishing it as a static site.

if you're an EU citizen please vote for the petition to ban conversion therapy in the EU eci.ec.europa.eu/043/public/

its very close (19,000 left) despite looking like it was never gonna make it and its down to the wire. if you use the form method all you gotta do is put in your name and address. takes 2 minutes (maybe 4 cause the site is slow atm)

please 🙏

edit: the info required changes depending on what country you're from but if you're dutch like me the form method is super quick and easy

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