Just so you know, #OsmAnd is celebrating its 15th anniversary with 50% off its plans, which you can now pay for directly without paying the 'app tax' to Google or Apple.
I highly recommend OsmAnd — it's a Swiss army knife for maps! Open source. Based on #OpenStreetMap.
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I'm a friend of @gnome now ❤ Really love GNOME as my desktop UI, and hope that someday I will also use it on my phone :) Keep up the great work!
Good news for Palm OS users! Python now now encodes 0x9b correctly as › instead of a control character!
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#Python #PalmOS
0x8b correctly encodes to ‹, but 0x9b was mistakenly marked as a control character instead of ›. You can see the correct glyphs in this screenshot of Palm OS 3.5, or on this page: Issue: Missin...GitHub
"Hello pervert" sextortion emails are going through some changes and the price they're demanding has gone up considerably.Pieter Arntz (Malwarebytes)
On June 28, 2025, the European Accessibility Act becomes enforceable, advancing digital accessibility and rights for 110M+ disabled people across the EU and beyond.Jenny Lay-Flurrie (Microsoft)
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The Swift Programming language was originally created for Apple's platforms, but it's open source and was ported to Windows in 2020.Paul Thurrott (Thurrott.com)
A few years ago I wrote blog posts on what I called Accessibility Island and Ethical Accessibility. In a nutshell these posts outlined the human consequences of accessibility gaps and the need for …The Idea Place
75 let od justiční vraždy Milady Horákové.
Jako údajná hlava skupiny na svou popravu čekala nejdéle. „Skutečně postupně slyšela, jak se otvírají dveře jednotlivých cel a Oldřich Pecl, Záviš Kalandra a Jan Buchal jsou odváděni na popravu...“ irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/h…
Democracy & climate advocates, listen up! 🌍 On "You Are Not So Smart," Erica Chenoweth discusses the 3.5% Rule: nonviolent change with just 3.5% participation. Powerful insights for planet & people. #Democracy #ClimateAction #DigitalGov
youarenotsosmart.com/2025/05/1…
If you want to overthrow a dictator, resist an authoritarian regime, or create a movement that can change the national status quo, you don’t need half the country to join, you only need 3.5 p…You Are Not So Smart
Don't miss Marcy Jacobs, Maryland's Chief Digital Experience Officer, on The #CXTippingPoint podcast!
She shares insights on building user-centered digital government, from her work at USDS/VA to Maryland's new Digital Service team. It's all about designing services around people.
Listen now: dorrisconsulting.com/thecxtipp…
#GovTech #CX #CustomerExperience #DigitalGov
The CX Tipping Point Podcast, hosted by Martha Dorris, is the only podcast focused on improving the experience that citizens, businesses and governments have when interacting, engaging and transacting with the government.dorrisconsulting
Canadians, pay attention: Bill C-2 is a quiet threat to your privacy and civil liberties.
With so much happening around the world, it’s easy to miss what’s going on in our own backyard. But Bill C-2, now in the House of Commons, deserves your attention.
It lowers the threshold for law enforcement to access your private data—without a warrant. All it takes is "reasonable suspicion."
What kind of data?
* Internet and cellphone metadata
* Your location and activity logs
* Information shared across borders with foreign agencies
All accessed more easily under vague “exigent circumstances”
As a person who’s been accosted based on “reasonable suspicion” due to…. existing, I’m concerned that this bill expands surveillance powers and erodes due process protections that Canadians have long relied on.
I keep seeing arguments like, “If you’re not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to worry about.”
Let me be clear: that’s not how rights work.
Free societies are built on the principle that the law protects the innocent—not that we must prove we have nothing to hide.
If you're concerned (and you should be), reach out to your Member of Parliament. Let them know you oppose C-2 and support real protections for Canadian privacy and civil rights.
You can read the full bill here:
parl.ca/DocumentViewer/en/45-1…
Let’s not sleepwalk into surveillance. We deserve better.
PS The Citizen Lab has an excellent write up citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-prelim…
PPS If you're a Canadian resident, find your Member of Parliament here: ourcommons.ca/members/en
#PrivacyMatters #BillC2 #Canada
On June 3, 2025, the Canadian government tabled Bill C-2, omnibus legislation that, if passed, would introduce a wide array of new federal agency and law enforcement powers, and would significantly reform substantive and due process laws in Canada fo…Alyson Bruce (The Citizen Lab)
Wow. Solid majorities in the Liberals (60%), NDP (69%) & the Bloc (78%) all oppose Mark Carney using #BillC5 to override environmental regulations for fast-tracked projects.
angusreid.org/bill-c5-carney-i…
Half still want proper ecological assessments; two-in-five in Quebec demand provincial input June 26, 2025 – The fast track on projects deemed in the national interest is well on the way to being paved.David Korzinski (Angus Reid Institute)
I. P. Pavlova je speciální místo ve vesmíru, kde se lidé rozhodli vyzkoušet, jaké to je, když zkusí dát dálniční křižovatku do blokové městské zástavby, mezi chodce, obchody a tramvaje. Bohužel jsem nenašel nikde informaci, kdy má tenhle experiment oficiálně končit, určitě je to jen něco jako Zažít město jinak, že se to udělá na chvíli a pak to zmizí, žejo?
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In case people didn't know, Creative Commons has been on the side of "screw your rights and livelihood, it's fair use" regarding GenAI training since at least 2021.
creativecommons.org/2021/03/04…
The new "AI" license 'signals' are interesting as a development (assuming anyone honours them when companies mass pirated commercial creative works!) but not a surprise (and apparently don't include a "no" option, because that's elsewhere in a spec and this is for granularity of yes)
While we generally support broad access to content to train AI, we also aim to increase our understanding of the ethical concerns.Creative Commons
Oh, and the EFF leans the same way on "screw your creativity, big tech is right on GenAI".
eff.org/deeplinks/2023/04/how-…
Which probably shouldn't be surprising given some of their previous "screw the humans, let's be absolutist" stances on other legal arguments.
Artists are understandably concerned about the possibility that automatic image generators like Stable Diffusion will undercut the market for their work.Electronic Frontier Foundation
What's not to love about third-party software injecting itself into Firefox and causing crashes in the Rust standard library?
github.com/rust-lang/rust/issu…
Third-party software can inject a DLL into firefox.exe that detours calls to NtOpenFile to monitor the use of this system call. Some of these third-party DLLs can assume that in any NtOpenFile call...yjugl (GitHub)
DeepSeek droht Rauswurf aus deutschen App-Stores
Der chinesische KI-Chatbot DeepSeek hat die Tech-Welt aufgemischt. Doch die Berliner Datenschutzbeauftragte sagt jetzt, die App sei rechtswidrig. DeepSeek soll aus den Stores von Apple und Google fliegen.
"Flaws in any (#curl) script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities."
github.com/curl/curl/pull/1776…
Flaws in any script or compiled artifact which isn't installed by default is not considered to be security vulnerabilities.GitHub
Great talk by Hannes Mühleisen of #DuckDB about tables being a fundamental technology to civilization and not dismissing databases, SQL & ACID just because some implementation are getting old in the tooth.
DuckDB sounds awesome and I know @bert_hubert is a big fan.
Great talk at #joyofcoding by @bagder on being a long term OSS maintainer
joyofcoding.org/daniel_stenber…
A one-day conference that celebrates the art, craft, science but foremost the joy of software developmentjoyofcoding.org
Purism is leading the charge with Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Security-ready devices built on:
Finalized NIST PQC standards
Liberty Phones with Made in
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Full control over your encryption keys
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A secure, trusted supply chain
Learn more at Purism: puri.sm/posts/rip-rsa-aes-the-…
Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
Europe’s at a digital crossroads.
Big Tech’s “Sovereign Clouds” are a Trojan Horse - servers in the EU, but still under US law (CLOUD Act, FISA): tuta.com/blog/sovereign-washin…
True digital sovereignty means European tech.
Together with @ecosia #Wire #MeisterTask and @Mastodon we want to empower businesses, governments and administrations to choose technology that protects Europe’s future.
#DigitalSovereignty is just #oneclickaway 👇
AWS, Microsoft, Google - they all launched "sovereign clouds" recently. But the truth is, all US companies are subject to US data sharing legislation. Let's explore whether it's safe to use US clouds or whether it's just "sovereign washing".Tuta
fireborn wrote an excellent series of posts about how badly accessibility is broken under #Linux. They include workarounds used, patches applied, patches submitted, and depressingly with things that worked a decade ago.
Naturally somebody volunteered to not read the series and reply with "first of all, it's GNU/Linux" as their opener.
*This* post is a line-by-line response to that comment.
You Don’t Own the Word “Freedom”: A Full-Burn Response to the GNU/Linux Comment That Tried to Gatekeep Me Off My Own Machine, 20250625,
by @fireborn,
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
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> Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt […]
>> GNU/Linux is about you owning your machine.
> Then why do I have to reassert that ownership every time a package breaks accessibility?
Shit like this makes my blood boil.
The open source Nix-like ecosystem (including GNU/Linux, Chimera Linux, *BSD, and etc) is for everyone, and this whole "erm actshulee I use arch btw and it's gnu/Linux" is why people don't really feel that way about it
Recently people noticed a subdomain of the Hyprland website that takes you to something called Hyprland Premium, you see Premium and you see a FOSS project a...YouTube
Do you love the idea of Free & Open Source Software, and Linux in particular? I certainly do. But until recently, I didn't think too much about what "freedom" means beyond licensing. If you're like me, this blog post by @fireborn could border on heartbreaking. But it may also be a call to action, not only for developers, but for the entire F/OSS community. I hope it is.
Excerpt: »Freedom is also not telling disabled users to go fuck themselves because they asked for a working login prompt. It’s not freedom if it requires you to be perfect, sighted, fluent in C, and emotionally bulletproof.«
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
found via @Natanox at chaos.social/@Natanox/11474988…
#Linux #Accessibility #FOSS #Gatekeeping
THIS.
I gonna save this to just post it every time one of those entitled FOSS-bros crosses my path.If the only way for people to use a computer is to either become a developer yourself or suffer through exploitation by big corporations it isn't an individual failure of those people, it's an absolute failure of the FOSS / Linux community to build good software.
fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/you…
#Linux #Accessibility
Make this End of Financial Year special with an #EOFY donation to NV Access, or as we call it, #NEOFY!
Your gift helps keep the NVDA screen reader free for blind people around the world, helping give EVERYONE access to technology!
Donations over $2 are #tax deductible in Australia.
#Donation #Technology #Blind #GoodCause #Cause #Philanthropy
[CZ] tož jsem skončila na titulce roota 🙈 … root.cz/clanky/zaucovani-junio…
[EN] ended up in a czech linux online magazine, as a main today's article; machine translation of the interview actually looks quite well so go ahead and read it
Maria je vedoucí týmu BIRD u CZ.NIC a v poslední době se hodně zabývá vedením lidí a rozšiřováním týmu. Proč je těžké sehnat schopné lidi na technickou podporu? V čem selhává české vysoké školství?Petr Krčmář (Internet Info, s.r.o.)
Daniel Polman přejel na kole Ameriku i celou Evropu. Letos chce sekundovat hvězdám Tour de France, trasu slavného závodu pojede takřka na jeden zátah.Ondřej Zoubek (Aktuálně.cz)
> Pizza Hut
What no they didn't
> Demolition.Man.1993.Pizza.Hut.Edition.2160p.BluRay.x265.TrueHD.Atmos-Px4KV.mk
Noooooooo I want the original Taco Bell edition
New blog post: How much code does that proc macro generate?
nnethercote.github.io/2025/06/…
Rust’s proc macros are powerful but tricky, and have some compile-time costs. This post is about a new tool to help quantify and reduce some of those costs.Nicholas Nethercote
"When the author of a book states that all sales of those books will contribute to an anti-trans fund, the only way we can choose not to participate is by not selling the books any longer. "
- #SanFrancisco bookstore #Booksmith on why they've stopped selling titles by #transphobic author #JKRowling.
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A bookstore in San Francisco announced earlier this month that it will no longer sell titles by J.K.Jo Yurcaba (NBC News)
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19-year-old Edward Coristine, a DOGE staffer known as "Big Balls" online, has joined the Social Security Administration days after resigning from the GSA (Wired)
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From Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.Techmeme
Jan Petrus
in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •In Android app I see even different prices for "Pro" plan (79,99 CZK / month or 400,00 CZK first year, 799,99 CZK next years). Bummer.
#osmand
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •I switched off all adblocks and so on, but no luck. Even on absolutelly fresh Edge (which I don't use at all and have no add-ons), I just see short blink of "working" circle and that's all. Same on "anonymous" version of Firefox...
See:
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Unknown parent • • •@JauneBaguette Yeah, but one important feature to me isn't included: OsmAnd Cloud. I use it to sync my own favorite POIs, I can plan a trip on the computer and sync it to my phone etc.
And I think OsmAnd deserves financial support. But sure, if someone cannot afford it, F-Droid is an option, too.
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