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Mastodon's bizarre overly complex quote post implementation is so bogus there should be an organized campaign against it called Quote Control
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2025-09-11 18:28:47

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Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…


Introducing quote posts

Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.
Mastodon Blog

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For #Somerville, Massachusetts residents, the DSA voting guide has some useful information for the current election: docs.google.com/document/d/1H5…

#elections #MAPoli #MAPol #USPol


BDSA Boston/Somerville Preliminary Voter Guide 2025

Somerville Preliminary Election 2025 Somerville Voter Guide by Boston DSA Somerville has a preliminary election on September 16 and a municipal election on November 4. The registration deadline to vote in the prelims is FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 5TH.
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#uspol #elections #somerville #mapoli #mapol

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"I’ve had that name longer than him": Meta deleted a bankruptcy lawyer’s Facebook page for “impersonating” Mark Zuckerberg — but it’s his real name, and now he’s fighting back windowscentral.com/software-ap…

"I've had that name longer than him": Meta deleted a bankruptcy lawyer’s Facebook page for “impersonating” Mark Zuckerberg — but it’s his real name, and now he’s fighting back

A lawyer is suing Meta after Facebook banned his page for “impersonating” Mark Zuckerberg, even though it’s his real name.
Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)

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So for Blind Android users, Google has released their AI Edge Galerry app. Can anyone confirm that it isn't accessible with TalkBack?

play.google.com/store/apps/det…

#accessibility #blind #google #android


Google AI Edge Gallery - Apps on Google Play

Explore, Experience, and Evaluate the Future of On-Device Generative AI
play.google.com
#Accessibility #android #google #blind

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Les lecteurs d’écran restituent-ils par défaut les textes en gras et en italique ?

Selon les tests menés par @juliemoynat, la réponse est non. C'est le style CSS qui est restitué et non la présence d'une balise (strong, em, b ou i).

Un paramétrage spécifique et complexe du lecteur d'écran est possible, mais la restitution peut être lourde.

a42.fr/restitution-le

#a11y #NVDA #JAWS #VoiceOver

Les lecteurs d’écran ne restituent pas le (vrai) gras et italique (strong, em, b, i) des textes - La Lutine du Web

Depuis fort fort longtemps, de nombreuses personnes relaient l’idée selon laquelle les lecteurs d’écran liraient plus fort les textes balisés via l’élément HTML strong, ou encore liraient différemment ou restitueraient la sémantique des éléments stro…
Julie Moynat (La Lutine du Web)
#a11y #nvda #jaws #voiceover @Julie Moynat
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NV Access

Les lecteurs d'écran comme NVDA peuvent être configurés pour signaler des attributs de texte comme le gras ou l'italique. Cette fonction se trouve dans les paramètres de formatage des documents de NVDA (appuyez sur NVDA+Ctrl+D). Comme vous le dites, ce n'est pas la valeur par défaut. Il est important que tout ce qui est transmis par le formatage soit également transmis par le texte. Voir WCAG 1.3.1 : w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understandin… et w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/g…

G117: Using text to convey information that is conveyed by variations in presentation of text | WAI | W3C

www.w3.org
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NV Access

Here is the English, just in case Google messed up the translation to French: Screen readers like NVDA CAN be set to report text attributes like bold or italic. This is in NVDA's Document formatting settings (press NVDA+control+d). As you say though, this is not the default. It is important that anything conveyed by formatting is also conveyed in text. See WCAG 1.3.1: w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Understandin… and w3.org/WAI/WCAG21/Techniques/g…

G117: Using text to convey information that is conveyed by variations in presentation of text | WAI | W3C

www.w3.org

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Эпохальное интервью Аллы Пугачёвой. Уверен, это стоит послушать даже тем, кто не является поклонником её творчества. Дисклеймер: это три с половиной часа. youtube.com/watch?v=D6rFxVPz7U…

Алла Пугачёва: большое интервью «Скажи Гордеевой»

Билеты на новую программу «Это она»: https://katerinagordeeva.com/#stand-up Поддержать наш канал https://katerinagordeeva.com/#help Благодарим TB Palace за...
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Emmanuele Bassi

bindings will paper over any change when it comes to objects; for the rest: the API will change when it needs to change, just like it happens for every major new version. Some things may even get more Pythonic out of the box.

I don't think you have to worry about anything at the moment: this is an in-progress experiment, and we haven't even started working on GTK5, let alone GTK6. Plus, as I said: language bindings developers are engaged in this effort.

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Trying a sattisfaction survey for #audiopub.
Do you like the site? Do you hate it? The reality of making stuff is that you almost exclusively hear from people when something is broken or they're frustrated. If I only went by my inbox, I'd think everyone hated this project. I don’t run big intrusive analytics, so this Survey exists instead to hopefully gain a better picture!
Feel free to respond to it: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

Audiopub Satisfaction Survey

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#audiopub

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 12 updated and 1 added apps:

* Squeezelite: a 'headless' audio player for Lyrion Music Server 🛡️

We've also added a new category "Social Network", so you can find all your favorite Fediverse apps easier (we chose that name as F-Droid already uses it, and we wanted to avoid "clutter" there).

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid

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Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial nbcnews.com/world/brazil/brazi… #Brazil #Fascism

Brazil's Bolsonaro guilty of coup charges, court majority decides in landmark trial

BRASILIA — Former Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro was convicted by a Supreme Court majority on Thursday of plotting a coup to remain in power after losing the 2022 election, a powerful blow to the populist far-right movement he created
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#brazil #fascism

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Golden aspens blanket the trail at Fish Lake, Utah, in a beautiful autumn display. More than beautiful—it's part of Pando, the largest living organism on Earth. Over 100 acres, sharing one vast root system, a living wonder of nature. Walking here feels like stepping through living history, every leaf connected to a single ancient being.

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#nature #utah #photography #buyintoart #landscape #LandscapePhotography #art #photo #utah #fineartphotography #autumn #fall

A winding trail at Fish Lake, Utah, covered in golden aspen leaves with white-barked trees glowing in autumn sunlight. This forest is part of Pando, the largest living organism on Earth, sharing one massive root system.

Fall In Love by Rebecca Herranen

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#photo #art #photography #nature #autumn #landscape #landscapephotography #BuyIntoArt #fall #fineartphotography #utah

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After a short hiatus, State of the Thunder is back! This time, in addition to tackling community questions, we're also responding to the top 20-ish requested features from Mozilla Connect. Get the latest news on Sync, translations, and more!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

blog.thunderbird.net/2025/09/s…


State of the Thunder: Mozilla Connect Updates - The Thunderbird Blog

State of the Thunder is back for a new season! We're answering more questions and updating you on top requested features from Mozilla Connect
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird

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#SCOTUS #TransRightsAreHumanRights
"The Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday that a transgender boy may use the boys’ bathroom in a South Carolina public high school while he pursues a challenge to a state law requiring students to use the bathrooms for their sex..."

Supreme Court Rules for Transgender Boy in Bathroom Dispute

"The interim order came after a decision in June on medical care for transgender youths and as the justices prepare to hear arguments on transgend..."
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#transrightsarehumanrights #SCOTUS

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Today, we’re ready to show you the upcoming quote posts feature in more detail. We’ve put together a blog post with examples of how quote posts will work on Mastodon, ahead of early access on our own servers next week 💬 Full launch to come, in Mastodon v4.5

blog.joinmastodon.org/2025/09/…

Introducing quote posts

Over the years, we’ve learned just how essential quoting is to many of you. Here's a deep dive on how quote posts will work on Mastodon.
Mastodon Blog

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Mastodon

There’s documentation available today, along with an FAQ. If you’re a developer, draft documentation is available as well.

Quote posting will be available on mastodon.online and mastodon.social next week! We will be listening to your feedback on our new feature.

docs.joinmastodon.org/user/quo…

Quoting other posts - Mastodon documentation

All about quoting content (your own posts, or those made by other people).
docs.joinmastodon.org
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Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU. This means that it doesn't use on-device AI model and the microphones forward everything to remote servers 🤯

UPDATE: Before this post goes out of control. The DMA can also be a reason why this feature is not available in the EU:

infosec.exchange/@hacksilon/11…

#Apple #privacy #infosec

Apple Intelligence: Live Translation with AirPods Live Translation with AirPods is not available if you are in the EU and your Apple Account Country or Region is also in the EU English (United Kingdom) English (United States) French (France) - not available in the EU German (Germany) - not available in the EU Portuguese (Brazil) Spanish (Spain) - not available in the EU Back to Top ®

Max Maass :donor: (@hacksilon@infosec.exchange)

@mysk@mastodon.social @GossiTheDog@cyberplace.social I would bet that this isn’t about GDPR but about the digital markets act, in which case on-device or off device doesn’t make a difference.
Infosec Exchange
#apple #privacy #infosec
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Opinion: Exclusive TalkBack Features for Google TTS Are Doing More Harm Than Good accessibleandroid.com/opinion-…

Opinion: Exclusive TalkBack Features for Google TTS Are Doing More Harm Than Good - Accessible Android

TalkBack, a part of the Android accessibility suite, is the screen reader developed by Google and comes pre-installed on most Android phones and tablets.
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)

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For a while now I have been looking for an easy-to-use solution to track the time I spent on various tasks at my wor. My colleague has recommended Toggl, a tool to do just that in the browser. I have tried it and neither the website nor the Windows app were accessible. Thanks to somebody boosting it, I have discovered Timery for Toggl by @joehribar , a third-party client for the Toggl service. It is easy, definitely accessible and powerful with shortcuts and widgets. It's customizable to the point where i now use the VoiceOver gesture of two-finger swipe left to start a new time entry (an instance of time running), as opposed to a timer which is a predefined time counting config that creates its own time entries once launched (this I start with a two-finger swipe to the right, pick a timer from the list and go). The new time entry only requires a name and starts immediately. I can assign it to a project later. The quadruple tap with one finger resumes the recent timer and a single tap on both sides of the screen (actually the half of the gesture to enable Braille Screen Input), stops any running tracking (I'll have to change that actually as it gets triggered everytime I really try to activate BSI). The subscription is definitely worth it! I don't have to even open the app most of the time and tracking has become much easier. Thank you! apps.apple.com/pl/app/timery-f… #Accessibility #Blind #iOS

‎Timery for Toggl

‎Enhance your Toggl time-tracking experience with Timery! Start your most-used timers with one click. Edit your time entries easily. See reports of your time tracked.
App Store
#Accessibility #blind #ios @Joe Hribar

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The number one reason for (at least) weekly changes to my site is to update the AI crawler/siphon blockers ... it never stops : there are 97 of them right now 😤

› github.com/ai-robots-txt/ai.ro…

#BlockAI #AI #LLM #NightmareOnLLMStreet #Webmaster


GitHub - ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt: A list of AI agents and robots to block.

A list of AI agents and robots to block. Contribute to ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt development by creating an account on GitHub.
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#AI #llm #blockai #nightmareonllmstreet #webmaster

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⚡ Google is killing Android freedom by stopping you from side-loading apps. What's your reaction?

Option 1: Stop call it side-loading: Google wants to stop us from INSTALLING apps on our OWN phones.

Option 2: Awesome, now I can hate Google and Apple equally for destroying freedom.

Option 3: I don't care as I'm using a different OS anyway (please comment which one!)

More info: tuta.com/blog/android-side-loa…

Sign the petition to stop Google from limiting APK file usage: change.org/p/stop-google-from-…


Stop Google from limiting APK file usage

Brian Wahl (Change.org)

  • Stop call it side-loading (54%, 333 votes)
  • I can hate Google and Apple (23%, 141 votes)
  • I'm using a different OS (22%, 134 votes)
  • I'm using a different OS (0%, 0 votes)
608 voters. Poll end: 3 months ago

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Idcrafter

i would not yet feel that issue because microG would never implement such anti-features, and if google puts that into aosp then would i need to worry tbh, but i already am switching over to #plasmaMobile6 on #PostmarketOS and with it away from the bloat of android but i am stuck on 2 apps that need AVB so no waydroid and for them do i use a seperate phone running #IodeOS.
i hope that this pushes the devs of android roms to maybe switch and contribute to #mobilelinux for more freedom.
#postmarketos #MobileLinux #IodeOS #plasmamobile6
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