Can someone who uses voiceover on iOS 26 please confirm this? Or am I going mad?
Opened the kindle app, did a thing, continued with ma day. Cycled back to it later in app switcher, voiceover fully announces the app as “shit”. If you swipe up, it says close kindle. I’ve yet to check but I’m pretty certain this isn’t a drunken / stupendously high dictionary entry, as it reads kindle normally everywhere else.
We're really excited to see how you, the community, jumps to our side and helps us improving the #IzzyOnDroid repo – you're wonderful 🤗
Just 6h ago we asked for your help, and we already received several very helpful reviews on apps needing some extra pairs of eyes. Please keep it up! Together, we can achieve so much more 
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Bad news. This is not just kinky folks.
I was talking to some (totally straight, non-queer, non-kinky AFAIK) blind people a few yrs ago. The subject of accidental breast touches somehow came up. They were all surprised I don't "fake" such accidents, especially around sighted people who don't know any better. I was apparently the only one in that group who didn't.
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The 2026 DSF Board elections are running right now — if you’re a DSF member, please check your inbox for a ballot. I’m prioritizing four things on my ballot:
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I started going to IETF meetings. Those events take place 3 times a year, with ~1000 people attending in person and another ~1000 remotely. A good chunk of those are paid to be there and some are employed by big companies like Apple and Google. This is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being improved. TLS 1.3, HTTP/3, MLS to name a few.
With this in mind I have no fucking clue what Moxie was on about when he said interoperable protocols are stuck in the 1990s.
#QUIC (and #HTTP3) exists to serve the interests and needs of #Google.
In particular 0-RTT is basically a low-level cookie that allows deterministic user tracking below and before #http: if it will ever spread, disabling or deleting cookies, even out-lawing them, won't be a issue for #SurveillanceCapitalism.
So these days what happens at #IETF is much more lobbying than engineering. Overpaid engineers lobby against the users to further cement the power of their corporations.
I wouldn't call these as "improvements".
These days, sadly, IETF is the place where the fundamental fabric of the internet is constantly being ^^enshittified**.
Thank you for responding.
Just to add to the discussion, it would be great to see any counter-arguments for blog.cloudflare.com/even-faste…, if anyone has the time to contribute
One of the more interesting features introduced by TLS 1.3, the latest revision of the TLS protocol, was the so called “zero roundtrip time connection resumption”, a mode of operation that allows a client to start sending application data, such as HT…The Cloudflare Blog
Well @chrysn@chaos.social, I really appreciate your good intentions and will to fight for users' #privacy.
But I was not talking about you or the few independent developers who still volunteer at #IETF these days.
I was talking about IETF effects on the Internet standards as a whole.
I'm afraid the impact of a few independent engineers is not going to balance the power of organized and well funded #BigTech lobbyists.
As an example, let's stay on topic and look at RFC 9001, "Using #TLS to Secure #QUIC".
All that is said about the impoved ability of the server to identify (and thus track) the user are in two lines about session resumption (emphasys mine):
Session resumption allows servers to link activity on the original connection with the resumed connection, which might be a privacy issue for clients. Clients can choose not to enable resumption to avoid creating this correlation.
Now please notice the #hypocrisy: the wording is set up as if clients should opt-in, but it's pretty unlikely that users will be given a choice between a personal data leak at protocol level and an imperceptible increase in connection time, in particular with 0-RTT where " Endpoints cannot selectively disregard information that might alter the sending or processing of 0-RTT".
So while I'm pretty curious about @bagder@mastodon.social's perspective, I see that #Google managed to get a protocol designed to thwart user privacy and reduce its own server costs (even just the energy consumed during TLS hadshakes, amount to thousands dollars each day).
This way, if EU would decide to forbid tracking cookies at all, Google would get a competitive advantage over all other #AdsTech companies.
Now a properly working IETF would have rejected such shit, knowing that it would have been leveraged against people (and democracies) though #Chrome browsers and #Android defaults.
CC: @daniel@gultsch.social @lorenzo@snac.bobadin.icu
This document describes how Transport Layer Security (TLS) is used to secure QUIC.www.rfc-editor.org
@electrostep @giacomo @lorenzo no
Die @ev_akademiker@kirche.social pflegen ihren #Mastodon Account sehr gut, finde ich.
Dazu interessante Themen.
Appears my Sonos stopped playing in the middle of the night (sleep sounds) because I had automatic updates off and it was behind on updates. As soon as I did updates this morning it worked again
I need to YEET this shit into the trash man
Enjoyed this Techcrunch piece about the new show Pluribus from the creator of Breaking Bad. Fun fact, the star of the new show Rhea Seehorn and I used to study for a statistics class together at GMU. I had such a secret crush back then (okay maybe still a little).
"If you watched all the way to the end of the new Apple TV show “Pluribus,” you may have noticed an unusual disclaimer in the credits: “This show was made by humans.”
"That terse message — placed right below a note that “animal wranglers were on set to ensure animal safety” — could potentially provide a model for other filmmakers seeking to highlight that their work was made without the use of generative AI."
"And just in case the disclaimer wasn’t clear enough, creator Vince Gilligan (best known for “Breaking Bad”) was even more emphatic in a Variety feature story about the show, declaring flatly, “I hate AI.”
"He went on to describe the technology as “the world’s most expensive and energy-intensive plagiarism machine” and compared AI-generated content to “a cow chewing its cud — an endlessly regurgitated loop of nonsense.”
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A person begs on the street. I give them some money.
K1: why did you do that?
Me: because they need it
K1: [friend]'s mother says these people aren't poor, they have a lot of money
Me: if you had a lot of money, would you beg in the wet and cold?
K1: no... *thinks* ...but what if though?
Me: you're right, we can't know it. But giving the money doesn't hurt me. And if I gave nothing and that person went hungry, it would be far worse than giving too much
Now let's hope that sinks in.
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Ist Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt? - Stimmt es, dass ...? | ARTE
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"Der verbreitete Gedanke, dass Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt ist, hat sich fest in den Köpfen der Menschen verankert. Aber stimmt das überhaupt?"
#Eigentum vs #Commons / #Gemeingüter / #Allmende & #TragikDerAllmende / #TragedyOfTheCommons vs #GoverningTheCommons nach
#ElinorOstrom (erste Frau die 2009 den Alfred-Nobel-Gedächtnispreis für Wirtschaftswissenschaften erhielt)
Der verbreitete Gedanke, dass Kollektiveigentum zum Scheitern verurteilt ist, hat sich fest in den Köpfen der Menschen verankert.ARTE
Up to now I haven't really understood why weddings are notoriously so stressful.
But today I spoke to a colleague who's getting married next autumn and she has been to her venue recently to measure the length of the aisle so she can work out precisely how many steps she needs to take to end up on the correct foot when she reaches the front so she can turn the right way.
That's how. That's how one gets stressed about a wedding.
#MatrimonyMusings
People in the future are going to be super confused by Windows versions.
"So there was Windows, right?"
"Well, mostly Windows 3.1."
"Which was the third version?"
"No."
"So then Windows 4 must have come after that."
"No, they jumped to version 95."
"So then Windows 96..."
"No, then they skipped to 98."
"Oh, but it was for the year it came out, right?"
"Kinda."
"But surely after that..."
"Well, after that they actually moved away from version numbers and gave them names."
"Oh, like MacOS!"
"Sort of..."
"What do you mean?"
"Well, the first version was XP."
"What does that stand for?"
"No idea."
"Did they just use letters after that?"
"No, then they named the next version Vista."
"Like... the stuff you see out of a window! Ok, so the version after that was Windows Outlook, right?"
"No, the version after that was Windows 7."
"7?!"
"Yeah."
"But... It wasn't the seventh version of Windows even."
"Yeah, but the version after 7 was 8."
"Okay, back on track!"
"Not really. The next version was 10."
"Because it came out in 2010?"
"No."
"Fuck."
"Then came Windows 11, and they stopped releasing new versions for a while and just added LLM panopticon nonsense until everyone switched to Linux in the 2030s and then when the second coming of Jesus fried everyone's hard drives..."
"Yeah, yeah, I know, Windows II: The Empire Strikes Back..."
"No, that was Windows V."
"I give up."
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Dear #IzzyOnDroid community, we need your help for keeping our repo as useful as possible. No tech knowledge needed for this one, so anybody who's got an #Android device and some spare time can jump in here:
codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every…
Are you using any of those apps, or would be willing to install one (or more) of them to see if they are still useful? Please then report there, or here to this #serviceToot – so we can get that issue solved 🙏
Thank you all in advance!
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps: * [x] [`com.projects.musicplayer`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.projects.Codeberg.org
Contributed :)
Hope my testing was helpful
> No tech knowledge needed for this one
Was not quite true in this case 😆
@daniel Thanks a lot! At least we know now the app is still working as described, and even on Android 16. I personally also use ScrCpy, as you mention 😉
Updated the initial post, linking to your review. We'll probably keep this app then.
Beat Addiction: Didn't work without unrestricted background access. The stats were impossibly wrong. When given full background & notifications access didn't work either. Totally abandoned. I'd remove it.
VideoCrop: Doesn't offer the crop controls with small video. Fails completely with bigger video. I don't see a use for it, maybe let anyone else try it.
PhotoPlay: Works. It's a frontend for Imdb or similar (actually for themoviedb.org) where you can make local lists.
The app description can be misleading though: "All of your data stays on your phone forever; nothing is sent to a server" my ass. Lots of calls to api.themoviedb.org and image.tmdb.org
The app can stay but its description should be more accurate.
@jandi Thanks once more, Jandi! As the repo seems to be unmaintained (hence the issue on our end), and there's no Fastlane set up upstream that could override it, we can of course update the description at our end. Of course it needs to contact the server it gets the data from, but "nothing is sent to a server" indeed isn't accurate (the queries are, but that's to be expected).
Adjusted it to "apart from the queries for movie data, nothing is sent to a server". That OK, or miss something else?
@jandi Hm, seeing the ToS at themoviedb.org/api-terms-of-us… – wouldn't that qualify as NonFreeNet? If so, we could raise that anti-feature and put that explanation there. Yupp, confirmed: other apps using TMDb are flagged such. Done then, thanks for digging in!
(note the anti-feature may show up with delay, as the indexer was already running here when I added it; but it should show up latest next day.)
The Movie Database (TMDB) is a popular, user editable database for movies and TV shows.The Movie Database
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#Linux und #Barrierefreiheit, insbesondere für Menschen mit Einschränkungen beim Sehen: habt ihr da Tipps?
Ich weiß, dass es bei @kde die Bildschirmlupe gibt und ich in den Bildschirm zoomen kann. Aber bei anderen Umgebungen? Und für den Zeitraum, bis KDE hochgefahren ist?
Eine Boot-Textkonsole mit 80×25 Zeichen halte ich für gut lesbar. Allerdings zeigt zumindest meine Kiste beim Bootvorgang eine recht kleine Schrift, bei der ich meine Brille brauche.
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