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🧵 So to recap something that happened yesterday, as I see it:

Yesterday Mastodon gGmbH sent out an email to mastodon.social and .online users announcing a new TOS. The TOS would take effect July 1, and would ship in the next version of the Mastodon server software as a suggested "template" TOS instances could adopt.

This TOS had multiple problems, and several people said so loudly. This morning, Mastodon announced they're backing off and taking additional legal advice:

mastodon.social/@Mastodon/1147…

Mastodon (@Mastodon@mastodon.social)

We've heard your feedback on the Terms of Service updates for mastodon.social and mastodon.online, and we're pausing the implementation date (previously announced to users via email as 1st July 2025) so we can take further advice and make improvemen…
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‘Doctor Who’ Showrunner Says ‘We Don’t Know What’s Happening Yet’ Amid Uncertain Future, but Insists Series ‘Will Never End’
variety.com/2025/tv/global/doc…
#Global #News #BBC #Disney #DoctorWho #RussellTDavies

Doctor Who Showrunner on Series Future: 'Don't Know What's Happening'

"Doctor Who" showrunner Russell T Davies is addressing the show's uncertain future after its Season 2 finale.
Ellise Shafer (Variety)
#News #doctorwho #bbc #Disney #global #RussellTDavies

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What’s New in Prudence Screen Reader 3.0.0 accessibleandroid.com/whats-ne…

What’s New in Prudence Screen Reader 3.0.0 - Accessible Android

Prudence Screen Reader has just received a major update on Google Play, bringing the app to version 3.0.0. This version introduces a range of powerful new
Wang Ice From Prudence Interactive (Accessible Android)

David Goldfield reshared this.

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#Iran’s greatest asset is not oil, it’s its people.

The future is bright for Iranian people, but not for the #Islamic Republic, which as you can see is coming to an end.

says Iranian-American businessman #Najibnaik.

#IranIsraelWar

#iran #islamic #najibnaik #iranisraelwar

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Learning Blind Tech Episode 26 Book Reading with Braillesense 6 desireerenae.com/learning-blin…

Learning Blind Tech Episode 26 Book Reading with Braillesense 6

In this episode, I walk through options for downloading and reading books using the braillesense 6. We will explore the daisy player, bookshare download, Bard Braille download and the Audible app f…
Desiree Renae's Website

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We are ending the era of Russian fossil fuels in Europe for good!

We have proposed a gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports, to be completed by the end of 2027.

This will cut energy and economic risks tied to Russian supply, while ensuring stable and secure energy for all EU countries.

Our proposal protects markets, limits price impacts, and strengthens the EU’s energy independence.

Let's turn off the tap on Russian fossil fuels in Europe for good.

ℹ️ europa.eu/!CrrR3m

An image shows two sets of pipes, one red and one blue, with a message that reads: "Our reliance on Russian energy ends here." On the bottom right, blue pipes are connected and also move downwards. The European Commission logo is visible in the top right corner.

Commission proposes gradual phase-out of Russian gas and oil imports into the EU

The EU will gradually and effectively stop the import of Russian gas and oil by the end of 2027, under a legislative proposal put forward by the European Commission today.
European Commission - European Commission

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ARIA! It exists and on a long enough timeline you'll need to use it. Here's how to get into the right headspace to do so! #a11y smashingmagazine.com/2025/06/w…

What I Wish Someone Told Me When I Was Getting Into ARIA — Smashing Magazine

[Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)](https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/aria/) is an inevitability when working on web accessibility. That said, it’s everyone’s first time learning about ARIA at some point.
Smashing Magazine
#a11y

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Bluesky are openly welcoming, verifying and hosting accounts of prominent far right politicians. Trump's VP Vance is now on Bluesky:

bsky.app/profile/jd-vance-1.bs…

"We welcome the Vice President to the conversation on Bluesky" (Bluesky in their email to Fox News)

More 🚩: Bluesky is centralised, run by a for-profit corporation, its CEO has blockchain background, it is partly owned by VCs & Blockchain Capital.

Bluesky are going down exactly the same Nazi Bar path as Twitter.

(via @mastodonmigration)

@Mastodon Migration

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🎉 There's a new beta version of Signal!

Signal for iOS v7.65

Check out the Signal Community thread for more info: community.signalusers.org/t/be…

#signal #signalapp #signalupdates


Beta feedback for the upcoming iOS 7.65 release

Today, we’re releasing version 7.65 to beta. If you’re interested in participating, join the beta group. Release notes: Message status indicators (sent, delivered, etc.
Signal Community
#signal #signalapp #signalupdates

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bitsets are cool.

My favourite addition to curl this year, by far. We use them to track and iterate over thousands of transfers.

They are very cheap (memory and cpu) and great for cache locality. Also, they can be iterated over safely while being modified.

The latest addition is the „dirty“ set: transfers that need to run without external triggers like a socket event or timers.

A bitset for 1000 transfers has a 125 bytes array memory footprint.

github.com/curl/curl/pull/1766…


multi: add dirty bitset by icing · Pull Request #17662 · curl/curl

Add a bitset dirty to the multi handle. The presence of a transfer in the "dirty" set means: this transfer has something to do ASAP. "dirty" is set by multiplexing protocols lik...
GitHub

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#NVDA Speech History version 2025.1 has been released, to be compatible with NVDA 2025.1. Additionally:

* There is now a setting to control what happens after copying a speech history item: nothing, beep, speak, or both.
* The post-copy beep frequency and duration are now configurable.
* In NVDA 2025.1 and higher, speech history items can be viewed and copied in a browse mode window. The default keystroke for this function is NVDA+H.

github.com/jscholes/nvda-speec…

#nvda

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Yo, real talk—what the fuck are we gonna do when the internet gets shut off?

We've seen it in #Gaza, in #Iran, and when Elon “I-play-God” Musk blacked out Starlink in Ukraine. Every time shit gets heavy, the state or some oligarch clown just pulls the plug. It ain’t just a glitch—it’s strategic, it’s repression, and it’s a fucking reminder that most of our comms infrastructure is in the hands of fascists, corporations, or both.

I’ve been working with indigenous comrades who rely on #Starlink to stay connected in remote areas. And yeah, it’s wild that you can be deep in the bush and still shitpost from a mountaintop—but that signal still runs through a pipeline owned by a Nazi tech bro.

We need to be talking more about mesh networks, autonomous infrastructure, all that good shit that anarchist tech nerds have been yelling about for years. Decentralized, resilient, community-controlled comms aren’t just cool—they’re necessary for survival.

Let’s keep this convo alive and start building the lifelines before the next blackout. Shit’s coming fast.

vice.com/en/article/activists-…


Activists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrest

The Mycelium Mesh Project is testing DIY networks that can be quickly deployed on trees or lamp posts during a political uprising.
Ella Fassler (VICE)
#iran #Gaza #Starlink

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Sen. Padilla's speech on being forced to the ground & handcuffed after asking a question:

youtube.com/watch?v=G-mKheWHHD…

"… we've seen masked federal agentsn in tactical gear, ordered into our communities. We've seen a disturbing pattern of increasingly extreme and cruel immigration enforcement operations targeting nonviolent people, at places of worship, at schools,
in courthouses, all to meet an arbitrary quota."

(automated captions, some errors)

#USPol #Padilla #Immigration #Democracy #Resist


WATCH: Sen. Padilla's full Senate floor speech recounting his removal from Noem's LA briefing

Watch PBS News for daily, breaking and live news, plus special coverage. We are home to PBS News Hour, ranked the most credible and objective TV news show.Su...
YouTube
#democracy #uspol #immigration #resist #padilla

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Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice… blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

Before LibreOffice there was OpenOffice, and before OpenOffice there was StarOffice... - The Document Foundation Blog

LibreOffice is the successor project to OpenOffice(.org), which in turn was based on StarOffice, a proprietary office suite developed in the 1990s.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

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Everyone returns to email in the end. We are there already. #whatsapp wants you to add your email to secure your account ... despite all the nay sayers and numerous well funded attempts and claims to kill #email not even WA can do it. #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc are about deep collab between people, projects and operators to evolve email from within. It is not just about SMTP and IMAP and MIME and OpenPGP which are all exchangeable and can be improved ... Which we set out to do. Cheers.
Whatsapp message suggesting to add your email address for extra security
#email #whatsapp #deltachat #Webxdc #chatmail
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