The people who keep saying crazy shit like "California should secede" clearly failed to be brainwashed by the Pledge of Allegiance they were forced to say in school every day
"one nation, under God, INDIVISIBLE, with liberty and justice for all"
They were literally trying to pound it into your head that you can't secede. It's not possible.
Please note this is not satire. I say again, I am 99% sure this is not satire but is from a Humanware email I just received. "The BrailleNote Touch Plus – My First Notetaker runs on Android 8.1. For the best experience, we recommend keeping internet use limited. HumanWare supports only the built-in KeySoft applications, ensuring a secure and dependable learning environment."
I seem to remember stories of them losing their Google Play certification and being unable to upgrade their Android version as a result. If so, this seems like an attempt to make do with the platform they have by changing their focus to children.
Introduce students aged 4 to 8 years old to braille with BrailleNote Touch Plus – My First Notetaker. Learn, read, and write with refreshable braille and accessible digital tools made easier for young children.
wow how nuts, way to put dated hardware in the hands of kids who will eventually lose support for way less time than they go through school. I wouldn't be surprised if Google's own Play services eventually began to move away from Android 8.1, at which point they would be very stuck.
A decade ago, I was an invited expert at a meeting to review the technical architecture of a £330m fraud detection system for Universal Credit at the UK Treasury.
My conclusion was that the proposal was not only massively over-priced (basically fraud-levels of overcharging), but that the system as designed would obviously have issues where automated decisions would leave vulnerable people in dire straits, against the legal requirements.
I'm still curious what people get out of posting their meals on social media. Do people engage? Are you bored? I really, truly don't understand it and I'm always a bit confused. I want to hear about the good food you have sometimes, but every single day? And it's also mostly the same kind of thing? Why...
@miki yeah, apparently. I see it every day and tbh I can't remember why I followed anymore. It's ridiculous. It makes me think that's all their lives revolve around. Social media and ... idk, a book and a cup of tea or something. Just... ugh. Sorry. I'm apparently in a shit mood and I can't filter anymore.
I can say with almost 100% certainty, and no, I have no insider info, that accounts are coming for NVDA too, because of the draconian EU regulations that are in the works. Guess what, they'll want your birthday, because they'll need proof of your age. We'll see if I'm right.
How does it even make sense for an open-source program that runs on one's own computer to require an account? Even if NV Access is compelled to require the user to log in before they can download the program, people will still be able to circulate copies as they like, and it's actually possible to verify that those copies are unmodified, thanks to Windows code signing.
You know, it's ironic to me when JAWS has to put a bugfix in for Explorer.exe's "working on it..." in Windows 11. That's right. Now if that message appears for less than half a second, JAWS 2026 will ignore it. Why? Because Explorer.exe in Windows 11 is still a leaky pile of hot shit. It really is. Builds 26100 never really got a fix, 26200 did improve navigation in one recent fix but it did not stop explorer.exe from still growing in RAM usage over time, or slowing down in performance in larger folders. Now, a screen reader had to do a bug fix for a bug they don't even own. Wow, what quality control.
You can feel free to ignore this, and it may be obvious to people who use Win11, I don't. What on earth is explorer doing? I mean I've never seen this working on it thing all the way back to XP. It's quite fast, again, back to XP. What's going on exactly, do you know? When I used 11, I kept hearing this and didn't exactly understand what was going on.
@techsinger so they now split Explorer into more modular bits. To be clear, that work started in Windows 10: we got explorer.exe, ShellExperienceHost.exe,(action center bits) sihost.exe,(shell basics), StartMenuExperienceHost.exe (start menu) - so the shell and other bits were no longer a part of it, but that also meant each bit needs basic application payloads to work. In Windows 11 things got more aggressive: SearchHost.exe, TextInputHost.exe, RuntimeBroker.exe (handles permissions for XAML apps), Widgets.exe (if you kept them), and if you use Explorer patcher, another DLL ontop of all that. Not to mention a greater split of SVCHost.exe processes, so the "Split threshold for SVCHost" hacks stop working for the most part. So really, explorer just got more bloated over time, especially once it began to pull in more bits from that "Experience Pack."
Thanks, but something happened between 10 and 11, right, in terms of speed? Why is it taking this long to display files/folders on the same machines? I mean, is something else being done, or is it just doing the same things more slowly?
is this a thread where we can whinge about how annoying they are and how their posts are always written with a god-like authority as if they're the world's leading cryptographer lmao
There's someone at work who has an auto-reply set for every email she gets. She proudly states she only checks her email twice a day. She also refers to herself in the third-person. I don't work with her. I've never even met her in person. I hate her. Smug, condescending bellend.
“The detection order will not be part of the EU presidency’s new compromise proposal. It will remain voluntary for tech giants to search for child sexual abuse material.”
Danish Minister of Justice, Peter Hummelgaard, confirms today that Denmark is backing down and dropping mandatory scanning.
I have another sizable update to my Image Description Toolkit available. In addition to supporting geolocation when available on photos, this version allows for the specifying of a web page and having images downloaded and described. Read more on this at theideaplace.net/image-descrip….
With more AI-driven development I have another sizable update for my Image Description Toolkit or IDT. There is a full What’s New document available. Highlights for this beta release include …
For those interested in airport and airplane communication, here are interesting recordings. Note to Screenreader users, it takes a while to load liveatc.net/recordings.php
The #IzzyOnDroid website just got new content added. You'll now find an FAQ there, and also some resources (in the "Basics" tab). This should especially make it easier for devs to set up badges and shields: izzyondroid.org/basics/resourc…
V neděli budu mít na #OpenAlt kratičkou přednášku (10 minut) o tom jak jsme postavili počítač planetarních rozměrů talks.openalt.cz/openalt-2025/… Bude to legrace? Doufám, že jo! Je to vtip? Rozhodně ne! Data budou seriózní. Tak přijďte.
Relativně nedávno se nám podařilo dokončit superpočítač Hlubinu myšlení - stroj, který se vyrovná člověku a dokáže odpovědět na základní otázky života, vesmíru a vůbec. Krátce zmíním jak se nám to podařilo a co šlo dobře a co už tak dobře nešlo.
Hot take: if sighted people don't need an account just to use their monitors, then Vispero doesn't have the right to strong-arm me into making one just to use their screen reading software that I've already paid for.
@menelion You're Right, there is a difference though, we can use windows without signing in, , signing no tricks required afaik, I cpan be missing something here. You can use your browser and even chatgpt without signing in.
If you uninstall JAWS (no need to remove shared components), create a file called AdditionalSettings.ini where your JAWS installer resides, and paste the following lines in it, you won't have to use the account when reinstalling JAWS:
@twynn OMG. going to use this probably until accounts roll out widely and that flag is removed, but this is a huge tip that'll save headaches at least for a little while.
@Tamasg No, they added that flag with JAWS 2026 as it was not there in the 2025 installer (`installer.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings AdditionalSettings.ini Default`). If all else fails, and this is the approach I'm taking at work, I'll go for the /DisableExternalServices command-line option, except I still want Face in View so will use installer.exe /ExtractAdditionalSettings AdditionalSettings.ini DisableExternalServices instead: support.freedomscientific.com/… @sclower
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Hello people involved in distros and/or CVEs! Is CSAF something you care about? Should projects such as #curl bother about it and perhaps even provide CVE data in this format?
I've asked at work as I remember we have one or two projects consuming CSAF, but tomorrow is a public holiday in our part of Germany and I guess there won't be an answer before next week. 😄
Perfect time for the question! CSAF Community days will be Nov 13 & 14 Nüremberg, Germany - If you‘re interested in learning more and want to get in touch with the CSAF-folks csaf.io/community-days/2025/
As you might probably know it is often used to communicate full security advisory details in a structured way. And can references several CVEs.... Maybe it's interesting for curl. And since curl is already CNA, why not publishing a CSAF feeds.
At @circl we are maintaining Vulnerability-Lookup and we already monitor several CSAF feeds (Cisco, @bsi, Red Hat, etc). The interesting thing, is that we correlate automatically with the CVE. For example: vulnerability.circl.lu/recent#…
@cedric @circl @bsi the "why not" would be that it is work to put together and maintain and I'm curious what's in it for *us* to provide the data. We already provide data as OSV JSON which from what it appears practically nobody at all cares about.
@circl @bsi I get your point and I agree for OSV... for you it will be indeed just more work. And I think the quality of the advisories of the curl project as a CNA is already high. I am currently checking various advisories related to curl. I like this kind of pages curl.se/docs/CVE-2025-10148.ht…
@cedric @circl @bsi OSV was developed by Google to provide a simple format that all vulnerability databases can use. CSAF is able represent every security advisory and VEX - free and for commercial, closed and open source, software, firmware, hardware, software installed on hardware as well as specifications. This allows the information to flow in a single format through the whole supply chain. CSAF Profiles docs.oasis-open.org/csaf/csaf/… select a minimum set of fields that need to be present. Tests ensure validity, consistency and provide guidance for the usage. PS: CVSS is not mandatory, you can use aggregated_severity or in upcoming CSAF 2.1 qualitative_severity_rating 😉
Great that you are considering #CSAF. We think that CSAF is a gamechanger: CSAF works for open source as well as closed source, hardware, specifications etc. - basically anything you can think of writing a security advisory or #VEX for. Supply Chain Security: No one can secure single handed - everyone is needed. A single format: You can profit from the upstream CSAFs, your downstream users profit from your CSAFs.
However, it's the classic chicken-egg problem: Why should I start? The answer is: #curl is a mature project and can lead the way. We are happy to help you and others getting started. Feel free to reach out to our #CSAF team at csaf@bsi.bund.de.
@bsi we're entirely open source and so is our website and the tools generating the content on the site, so anyone can step forward and contribute a CSAF format generator.
@bsi As a Federal Office it's not easy to do cherry-picking - even for system critical projects like #curl if the tools developed are not agnostic. A OSV-CSAF converter would be possible, but OSV is lacking Information mandatory for CSAF. On a personal note: my last perl-programming was 1998 - therefore I won't make any promises what I might or might not be able to contribute in my spare time or how long it would take.
@jensweidraussen @bsi I understand. I would've expected that if CSAF is such a cool format that it actually improves the lives and the ecosystem of the CVE consumers it would push some of the consumers to make it happen more widely. As a producer of a dozen CVEs per year, there's just no reason for me to put in the work and produce CSAF. It's just not an itch we have.
@bsi TBH: I feel the same way, but IMHO it is like everywhere else in open source: people & #bigtech are using it but rarely contributing to the ecosystem
PSA to #GTK and #GNOME app developers: if your application deals with saving files, it is extra nice to show an in-app notification with an "Open Folder" action button so the user can directly open the containing folder in their file manager afterwards!
Use case I don't always keep Nautilus open to the folder where Reco records, and that folder might be buried multiple levels deep within my filesystem. However, there are situations where I need to...
1/ A longtime Wired editor just wrote a mush-brained essay about how he totally missed the political rot of Silicon Valley (& still doesn't get it). But in the late 1990s, a Wired journalist warned of a toxic ideology bubbling up from tech. Paulina Borsook has largely been erased. Let's change that
I'm very sad inside, because I feel so stuck "Between a rock and a hard place" as Americans say it here. Windows 10 is light, lean, Explorer.exe isn't leaky, but yet, I miss out on two key things: 6 gHZ Wi-Fi and better CPU scheduling for E-cores and P-cores on Intel machines. Windows 11 is bloated, leaky, has newer driver stacks, better support for built-in neural processors if that sorta thing matters, Bluetooth LE Audio on Intel, and Intel's thread director is more tuned for it of course. All of that adds up to an OS upgrade where I don't see the difference in day to day usage at home, where I'm mostly on Ethernet and for my laptops the lack of thread director has not bitten me yet. For GoldWave, 7-zip, or other things that crank out multi-threaded perf, I can always just change process priority to high and I'm good. Linux? Don't even get me started on it, as you may know from my posts around here. I'm still going to experiment with various flavors and distros, but even still, I would be using it to run mostly Windows programs and games, and there's no Mastodon client that has built-in sounds, so that's a deal breaker for me as it is. So, it's a sad day. Until I can figure out which OS is the best and can last years. That answer has nothing to it for me right now, because every single darn OS is like Swiss cheese in some way, once you start using it. Mac OS? VoiceOver gets exhausting and TDSR is your only Terminal reader. So, yes. Super sad, computing is changed.
@mhussain @EdenLinnea ha, that's what I was hoping someone would do on GitHub, but perhaps not enough folks care about losing or missing out. I'm also seeing a lot of move towards Linux, but only time will tell if this leads to any meaningful number changes or if it's just a 1-2% increase. This story would really change if we saw a massive 15-20% spike towards Linux, since then we know there's a lot more development on it too that polish it, but that's the optimistic version of this story.
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