A VPN is not a tool for anonymity, and while it can protect your location from some companies, there are many other ways companies may track you. ssd.eff.org/module/choosing-vp…
VPN stands for “Virtual Private Network.” When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP).
I'm always dubious of these claims. Tom says it’s also proven to be extremely reliable. In fact, I haven’t experienced any outages in my two years of being with the carrier — unlike T-Mobile and Verizon.
They're an MVNO. Verizon are still providing the infrastructure. I'm all for virtualising; I use an MVNO myself, but claiming reliability differences across the same physical hardware is always a flag.
I am not going to dive into the details of and . Go read Scott’s 2019 post How do you figure? for an overview. That said, since Scott’s post there has been movement on the AAPI mapping (partly by Scott).
A great article, BTW, as always. I always quote your name the first when someone asks me about something to read on accessibility written by a real expert. I'm like: Adrian Roselli, without a second of hesitation.
@saasa I was about to write the same. On small screens I can see barely nothing form the background image, so maybe make the white content to fill the whole screen and make the whole screen scrollable. I also get a vertical scrollbar (iPhone 16e).
@petr @saasa It was not intended. It was an oversight on my side.
I'll see what I can do about the scrolling discoverability. So far all my experiments led to even worse results. But I am no web developer and this reminds me why I never became one. :D
@usul because it's what everyone around me uses. I'm not super happy about it and prefer Signal, but I do use it because of the large number of contacts and people can find me there.
na mobilu mi tam chybí jméno, jinak to asi jako rozcestník pro ne-OSVČ stačí (původně jsem tam hledal ještě telefon, adresu, IČ a DIČ; nevím, proč mám v hlavě zadrátované, že co ajťák, to ičař🙂). A to prázdné Gnome bych asi nedával jako první.
@marekzprahy Right, I didn't even realise how few contributions to GNOME through Gitlab I have these days. But the primary intention is not to show off my work, but rather point to my identities in projects and platforms I'm involved with.
Headings are a bit hard to read because of the low color contrast. Using the opportunity to promote @FirefoxDevTools since it has a nice accessibility feature to detect color contrast issues :).
@FirefoxDevTools @dannycolin I've fixed the contrast. Now the a11y inspector says the color is OK. Thank you for letting me know. I didn't know about the tool.
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A few years ago, I spent some time reading through apologies (or defenses of the faith) from the early church. It helped me to understand how Christians who were persecuted in the Roman empire related to society.
In short, they saw themselves as exiles who were to submit to authorities established by God, in obedience to Paul and Peter's instructions in the New Testament.
As both a Christian and a U.S. citizen living in the 21st century, it can be hard for me to relate to the mindset that they had at that time. It was very helpful for me to read these people's arguments so that I could have better perspective on how to relate to a society and governmental power structure that was anti-Christian.
This dynamic changed after Constantine. Then, you had people like John Chrysostom who no longer needed to defend the faith, but rather criticize the nominally Christian government for their immoral actions.
It's hard to know which context to apply today. Maybe both?
Here's the full postmortem of the nightmare postgres corruption on matrix.org which caused room corruption over the last few weeks: matrix.org/blog/2025/07/postgr… We'd like to apologise to everyone who got bitten by the incident.
📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸
Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.
Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.
that's a shame. Swedish radio has also been pushed into restricting some of their (amazing, btw) podcast offering to their own app. luckily someone put up a mirror sr-restored.se/ @james
@bano Not that we're aware of. If you do notice something like that happening, please announce it on the forum, so everyone in our community can help out and investigate. @sitnik_ru
"We are currently in the process of completing our ISO 9000 certification and as part of this we would be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of our current contract with you?"
🤣 Looks like they really need a contract... and again a deadline to "help" bring down their negotiating position to almost zero. #gogetthem #havefun
It is of course also quite brilliant to imply/admit that they don't have this contract themselves... You could write anything in the "current contract" and they would be bound by it. Is that what they are offering? 🤔 🥳
Support and Maintenance
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wolfSSL maintains two support channels: a public support forum and a support ticket system. The wolfSSL ticket system should be used when looking for the fastest response time.
Wait, somehow I may have downloaded a copy of that contract while playing with curl.
Is that the contract that says this reseller agreed to donate $100 to you, for maintenance and support purposes, for every license of their product(s) that included curl? That was so very, very generous of them.
If that is the contract they're looking for, and you can't find it, I will have my (AI) assistant send you a copy. 😉
I have to admit that, considering who built it and when, the idea of having a US chain of burgers, and a British chain of Asian fusion in this train station makes my irony sense tingle
“ #Facebook and #Instagram owner Meta Platforms has indicated it won’t be signing on to the European Union’s voluntary ✨ #AI Code of Practice, which includes restrictions on how AI companies can collect #Copyrighted content.”
As a Swiss citizen, I assure you that the EU is a better zone. (One of the reasons I use Tutanota). Some points: - No company has ever been significantly penalized in Switzerland on this issue, - The SRC, despite numerous legal violations, has never been punished, - It's a myth that falsely links banking secrecy with data protection, - All it takes is for a judge to categorize someone as a terrorist, and they lose all protection—case of a French squatter.
Proton's move aligns with their ethos. As a EU resident, our GDPR protections actually mean something. When choosing privacy tools, infrastructure location matters more than people realize - jurisdiction trumps encryption.
It's weird that Swiss is going to kill off the only niche they were so great at so far. For what? To drive everyone away so their mass surveilance law becomes pointless when no one will want to run business from Switzerland...
People who know Switzerland have often said that it is a false assumption that privacy is more secure there. Too bad for the services like #Quad9 that have made efforts to establish themselves there. @quad9dns Only the fundamental non-storage of personal data from the outset and the non-storage of logs can help.
Being pro-privacy, I opened both Tuta & Proton accounts to compare. Like almost all the expert reviews they seem very similar overall (pluses & minus points are not important to me). The deciding factor came down to Tuta making adverts about 'issues' with Proton, whereas I have never seen anything negative about Tuta from Proton. The current politics is to gouge the opposition, but I prefer the guys who don't so it.
Computers were expensive in those days. The base price ($1295) plus the monitor ($495) plus 256K of additional RAM ($195) brought the total up to $1985 – after adjusting for inflation, this would be about $6000!
A picture showing most modern digital products and services Current digital infrastructure is to a large degree built on layers and layers of Open Source.
if it's purely "EU funded" that implies to me that it's from a general fund that also includes personal/individual income tax, which I'd be opposed to. It should be funded by the corporations profiting from open source, not the general populace.
@hyc if the software is "critical", it is used widely in society already so you ARE using it, so adding the tax on companies makes no difference in the end because they charge their users: us. We are the ones paying either way.
I suppose. But even if everyone uses it, not everyone is financially profiting from it. If you tax the companies, even if they pass the cost onto their customers, it's still more targeted than taxing everyone.
"Since then I learned how well curl project is maintained. How quickly issues are addressed and how many work is put to have all needed resources for users of curl. What a project! What a tool! What an author! Thank you!"
On August 5 2025, it is exactly 10,000 days since March 20 1998 when the first curl release was done. For this occasion we want to collect fun, exciting, or interesting stories that involve curl an...
It’s often said that what’s inside matters more than one’s looks, but it’s hard to argue that a product’s looks and its physical user experience are what makes it inst…
Interview: Tuta Begrüssung und Vorstellung von Hanna Bozakov Wer ist und was macht die Firma Tutao GmbH und warum heisst sie nicht Tuta GmbH? Wie steht ihr zu den Themen Ethik, Nachhaltigkeit, Open Source, Zusammenarbeit mit der Community? Was sind die USPs eurer Lösung? Wie kann man mit Tuta Mail verschlüsselt mit anderen kommunizieren, die kein Tuta Mail verwenden? Man kennt euch in erster Linie als E-Mail-Provider. Wie differenziert ihr euch von Mailbox.org oder Proton Mail? Seht ihr euch als Konkurrenten oder gibt es ein Zusammenspiel auf dem europäischen Markt? Wie seht ihr Bestrebungen der EU Privatsphäre zu untergraben, Stichwort Chatkontrolle? Welche Rolle spielt die Tutao GmbH im Rennen um das europäische Souveränitätsbestreben? Welche Zielgruppe sprecht ihr mit eurem Angebot an? Gibt es Pläne für weitere Produkte? Verabschiedung
A Windows sysadmin tool that more people should know about is the Magic Number Database at magnumdb.com
This database is great for pasting weird Windows hexadecimal errors into and finding out what they might mean.
Example from today, I got 0x80d02002 during a Windows update. Magnumdb tells me that this result corresponds to DO_E_DOWNLOAD_NO_PROGRESS, so now I know it's probably because an update server isn't responding.
Is Google’s AI secretly reading your private texts?
Here’s what’s really happening—and how to stop it before it’s too late.
MSM reported that Google silently activated a controversial update: its Gemini AI began scanning popular third-party apps like WhatsApp and Messages on Android devices.
While Google claims this “helps with daily tasks,” it also exposes an uncomfortable truth about AI data harvesting.
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.
On this day forty-one years ago, the code memories for the DECtalk DTC-01 firmware version 2.0 were apparently generated. Here's an audio sample of such a unit doing a power-on self-test and then speaking a test message. Transcript in alt text.
hehe. Just playing this self-test again. I'm also happy with dictionaries generated in the 1980's, for the most part. That probably makes me a bit backward.
@remixman @lexipic I had 3 devices from Dolphin in the UK here. an Apollo 2, which connected to a serial port on my desktop. It was a box with a headphone port, volume dial etc. Then there was a version of that which sat inside the computer's case, so someone had wired that all in for me. and finally a card which attached to a laptop and provided the same feature whilst sticking out the side of the computer. I never had any American hardware though, my first exposure to doubletalk was the road runner from 1999. I then moved onto the book courier (I think the US version was the book port?) but then the port plus moved to software TTS and that was that. I was not interested thereafter haha
@remixman @lexipic Looking back, objectively, I can only have used Doubletalk for 7 years. i must have gotten through thousands of books in that time, but I haven't had a working one since I tried to show it to my girlfriend in the summer of 2007 and found the hardware broken. So it's been 18 years since I even used it. Would I move away from Eloquence long term? Probably not. but I miss it and really don't want to see any technology die
@lexipic @remixman a synthesizer? Possibly. The company that made them still sell the chipsets. But they're not compatible with any modern screen readers, so it'd just be a vanity project and I just don't have the spare cash for fun but pointless things sadly. No chance of unearthing a road runner or book courier though, I'd imagine.
@lexipic @cachondo At one point I had Access32 working on XP, which was heavily used on netbooks. So if you could find that, you could probably just use that.
@remixman @lexipic I had no idea that RC Systems sold a version of the doubletalk I could wire up to a breadboard. $75 for a v-stamp. That's cool. Would be a relatively simple matter to turn that into a keypad-driven text file reader. I could remake the book port, effectively.
@troed I still haven't gotten it completely up and running, been vacationing mostly the last few days. I'll write up a blog post about it once I have. Probably within a week or so.
To be honest, I would've preferred no "we know exactly who you are, enjoy this machine you'll be trusting for the next couple of years" note in my shipment.
But I'm probably a tiny bit paranoid about these things.
I'd like to just add that this is more appreciation shown in this note than from most companies that ever used my Open Source. It's not a high bar. I truly appreciate it - said without sarcasm.
Google used to be really good, they once donated a big quad-socket server to the OpenLDAP Project, and they sent me a little gift pack with some shiny metal gadgets. Back ~2007 or so. Back when Jeremy Allison from Samba Team was their head of open source...
the mousepad idea is cute 🤏🏻❤️ for nostalgic reasons, a cdr with a kind of bad lettering but they messed up with the date, no one was burning cd's in 2023 anymore, it should be 2003 #imho 🙃
I seriously am curious if Tweesecake Clyant's built in recording feature even works, as i don't see anyone that uses it. So, guess what? We are gonna try it! Hope this works! As i havn't made a post with Tweesecake in a while.
Do you think you could add eleventy-excellent.netlify.app… and add an accessibility statement marking what you do, and how folks can report errors when they come in?
Every little website is being pushed onto Facebook thanks to the computer illiterate duckheads in UK Parliament. We'll played MPs, people are much more vulnerable on Facebook you cuckwombles 🤬
Look, I don't want to go all xkcd 1172 here, but it'd be really great if I could do actual work instead of having to work around things broken by random updates.
Steps to reproduce the problem Open https://mastodon.social/deck/getting-started Scroll to a post containing an image with alt text Mouse over the image Expected behaviour Alt text appears Actual b...
Tohle je ta zajimava stranka, jak ti agenti funguji. Cela magie kolem toho jsou algoritmy (ne-AI), jak se v tom repozitari pohybovat a hledat (neco, co treba lidi moc nezvladaji).
V zasade dela pseudo-nahodne veci, dokud nenarazi na ten emscripten build do wa a ten spusti. Nasazene je to potom pres Github pages (efektivne udela staticky webserver z build directory).
Ale to hledani v repozitari me fascinuje a bavi sledovat, treba jak si Codex poradi s iOS appkou Unreleased u nas.
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Dear Sir/Madam
I was wondering if you could help as is a current Customer/Reseller of yours.
We are currently in the process of completing our ISO 9000 certification and as part of this we would be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of our current contract with you?
Given our impending deadline, we would be grateful if this could be provided by COB on 1 August 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
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Dear Sir/Madam
I was wondering if you could help as is a current Customer/Reseller of yours.
We are currently in the process of completing our ISO 9000 certification and as part of this we would be grateful if you could provide us with a copy of our current contract with you?
Given our impending deadline, we would be grateful if this could be provided by COB on 1 August 2025.
We look forward to hearing from you.
Kind regards
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@jonah@neat.computer posted here: https://mastodon.social/@jonah@neat.computer/114902990636685184
Buried in Proton's Al announcement [proton me] today is a pretty
shocking detail about their service:
"Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government
proposals [www.tdg.ch] to introduce mass surveillance —
proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving
most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will
be the first product to move."
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@jonah@neat.computer posted here: https://mastodon.social/@jonah@neat.computer/114902990636685184
Buried in Proton's Al announcement [proton me] today is a pretty
shocking detail about their service:
\"Because of legal uncertainty around Swiss government
proposals [www.tdg.ch] to introduce mass surveillance —
proposals that have been outlawed in the EU — Proton is moving
most of its physical infrastructure out of Switzerland. Lumo will
be the first product to move.\"
Preview of the Proton blo")
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in reply to David Goldfield • • •I'm always dubious of these claims. Tom says it’s also proven to be extremely reliable. In fact, I haven’t experienced any outages in my two years of being with the carrier — unlike T-Mobile and Verizon.
They're an MVNO. Verizon are still providing the infrastructure.
I'm all for virtualising; I use an MVNO myself, but claiming reliability differences across the same physical hardware is always a flag.