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In this very minutes, our website (izzyondroid.org/) gets some updates deployed:
* we've collected some more hints on #ReproducibleBuilds (embedded paths with cmake, failed library stripping) * our "landing page" (intro) got its content a bit rewritten, to hopefully be clearer
Amsterdam airport is deploying reverse vending machines to collect used plastic bottles and cans. Their unique feature is that they are able to pay back deposit to any European payment card.
Unfortunately, they let some Dutch person write the English text making it totally obscure to foreigners: what the heck should "reverse pin transaction" mean and how I'm supposed to put in PIN if there's no pinpad? π
Are you as enraged as I am by the new Canada-Alberta energy MOU?
One way you can take action is by supporting communities and grassroots movements that are fighting for climate and environmental justice, including land defenders facing unwanted oil and gas pipelines.
This pipeline will never happen, and we'll make f**cking sure of it.
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With giving season upon us, we'd love your help to fund the Community Research Lead program in 2026, so that more Indigenous, Black and racialized communities can lead their own research, exposing systemic injustices and informing β¦
I see you mentioned that you did this project with the help of Claude. I wonder what you think about the widely discussed problems with generative AI, particularly the concerns about plagiarism and indiscriminate use of work under various licenses as training data. To be clear, I don't wish to be confrontational or start an argument; I'm just curious about your opinion. Thanks.
Huge thanks to everyone who submitted to our call for papers! Our committee is hard at work reviewing your talks. Stay tunedβour full schedule drops early December 2025.
**Talk 1 by Bogo**
**Title**: Grow your DevOps brand while putting privacy first
Working in todayβs fast-changing world means focusing on your work and sh
This is extremely important. I'll add a few things: - link for the petition inside the article: c.org/jrxHfwmMNZ (only 16k signs till now!!)
- For #india Tag the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) as the primary authority handling tech policy, app regulations, and issues with Google in India.
- @GoI_MeitY (Ministry of Electronics & IT, Government of India)
- @AshwiniVaishnaw (Minister of Electronics & IT)
- @SecretaryMEITY (Secretary of MeitY) #technology
Elena TorrΓ³ took the stage at Penpot Fest 2025 to unpack our new Render Engine and dropped key insights into how weβre bringing this ambitious project to lifeβ¨
Logged into the CRA website and wow it's way worse than it used to be. It was perfectly cromulent before but now it feels like it's managed by a used chatbot salesman.
Hallo von iPad Pro M5 11β. Nach mehreren Jahren mit ganz groΓen iPads habe ich nach Platzproblemen im Zug wieder auf die kleinere Variante mit Magic Keyboard zurΓΌckgeschaltet. Es ist sehr schnuckelig und deutlich leichter als die 13-Zoll-Variante, die ich vorher hatte. Die erfΓΌllt ΓΌbrigens demnΓ€chst in der Verwandtschaft noch gute Dienste.
Ich habe das neue iPad Pro 11β jetzt in mehreren Situationen so genutzt wie ich auch das groΓe vorher genutzt habe, und ich werde immer wieder daran erinnert, warum ich frΓΌher das MacBook Air 11β so mochte. Das war schnuckelig klein, passte ΓΌberall drauf und war auch ansonsten ultra mobil. WΓΌrde Apple ein kleineres MacBook Air als das jetzige 13β-Modell herausbringen, wΓΌrde ich es sofort kaufen. Als Blinder ist mir die BildschirmgrΓΆΓe eh wurscht.
Auch βverlaufeβ ich mich auf diesem kleineren iPad nicht mehr so viel, Elemente sind leichter direkt anzusteuern, wenn ich in einer App das Bildschirmlayout kenne. Ich war von Anfang an immer am zufriedensten mit den iPads der ursprΓΌnglichen GrΓΆΓen. Ich hatte auch mal mit dem iPad Mini und frΓΌhen Tastaturexperimenten dafΓΌr experimentiert, kam aber immer wieder zu dem mittelgroΓen Formfactor zurΓΌck. So auch jetzt wieder. Es passt fΓΌr mich offensichtlich immer noch am besten.
Und falls ihr euch jetzt fragt, warum das Pro und nicht das Air oder das einfache iPad? Die haben doch die gleiche GrΓΆΓe, zumindest ungefΓ€hr. Die Antwort ist ganz klar Face ID. Ich mag den Touch-ID-Sensor im Power Button nicht, wie ihn das Air und das einfache iPad haben. Ich finde Face ID zum Entsperren die fΓΌr mich niederschwelligste Variante. Und das Magic Keyboard ist auch einfach unschlagbar.
@MLOSDE Ich hatte fΓΌr mehrere Jahre ein iPad Air 2 mit einem Logitech Type+ Cover. Das war bis dato die beste Kombi, die ich je hatte. Dies hier kommt dem sehr nahe.
Nutzt Du die Multitasking-Funktionen? Das hat sich in iPadOS 26 ja massiv geΓ€ndert, und ich verstehe noch nicht ganz, wie das funktioniert. Ich habe zwar diesen AppleVis Thread gefunden, aber bei mir verhΓ€lt es sich nicht so wie erwartet. mail.applevis.com/forum/ios-ipβ¦
Hello everyone, To make the iPad more efficient, iPadOS has changed some of the operations we've been accustomed to for years. For example, the split-screen operation I frequently used has been removed.
Multitasking nutze ich nicht so oft. Seit iPadOS 26 finde ich auch die Handhabung nicht mehr so schΓΆn wie vorher. Fenster nebeneinander mache ich jetzt immer ΓΌber die MenΓΌleiste und auch nur mit der Tastatur, also mit Globe-m.Ich bin aber der Meinung, dass das fΓΌr VoiceOver-Nutzer noch nicht so gut umgesetzt ist und da auf jeden Fall Nachholbedarf ist.
@MLOSDE Das GefΓΌhl habe ich auch. Ich hatte vorhin Mona und Safari nebeneinander, und wΓ€hrend ich bei Mona alles gefΓΌhlt habe, war in Safari nichts zu fΓΌhlen durch Explore by Touch. Als ob Mona drΓΌberliegen wΓΌrde und der Rest des Bildschirms ausgeblendet wΓ€re. Ich muss das noch mit anderen Apps probieren, ob das da auch auftritt.
Eine weitere Entdeckung fΓΌr mein iPad-Setup ist die Tatsache, dass der Audio Editor Ferrite, der schon von Anfang an VoiceOver unterstΓΌtzt, in Version 3 vollstΓ€ndigen TastaturkΓΌrzel-Support erhielt. Mit diesem ist auf dem iPad genauso fein abgestimmtes Editieren von Audio mΓΆglich wie z.B. in REAPER auf dem Mac. Sogar Konzepte wie Items auf Tracks in REAPER finden sich als Clips auf Tracks in Ferrite wieder. Sogar das Splitten von Clips und sog. Ripple Editing gibt es dort.
AuΓerdem unterstΓΌtzen iPads ja inzwischen auch Audio Interfaces, sodass man mit einem kleinen Audio Interface, einem XLR-Mikro und dem iPad ein sehr mobiles Podcasting-Studio bekommt, das man mit VoiceOver sehr effizient bedienen kann.
Danke, dass du deine Beobachtungen hier immer mal schilderst. Da muss ich doch mal ins Handbuch rein lesen um herauszufinden, ob die TastenkΓΌrzel halbwegs intuitiv sind.
"Device hoarding" is apparently 2025's version of "quiet quitting"βwhich is to say, a phrase that doesn't mean what it sounds like, and that is being vilified despite describing an objectively good thing.
Quiet quitting, in case you have forgotten, was the practice of employees *gasp* only doing their actual job and not working during their personal time. It wasn't quitting at all, unless quitting means "continuing to do one's job."
It was blamed for productivity shortfalls by people who believe employees are company property and owe every ounce of time and energy to their employers.
Device hoarding has a similar pedigree, referring not to the practice of collecting and holding devices one doesn't need, but rather simply holding onto a device that still works instead of replacing it as soon as possible.
Breathless headlines are blaming this so-called hoarding (again, literally not hoarding) for weakness in the economy.
What quiet quitting and device hoarding have in commonβbesides being liesβis the worldview of people who believe in, worry about, and report on them.
The premise of quiet quitting and device hoarding alike is that you owe everything to your corporate masters. That giving less than everything to your job is "quitting," that spending less than every dime in your bank account is sabotaging the economy.
Credits: - Animation & editing by me (Cat Lovers Forum - YouTube)--------------- Voice by elevenlabs.io--------------- Concept inspired by this video β‘οΈ "How...
Das regt mich alles so auf. Als ob Menschen mit kognitiven Behinderungen nicht ausdrΓΌcken kΓΆnnten was fΓΌr sie funktioniert. Und dann istβs natΓΌrlich alles βKIβ. KI steht fΓΌr βKeine Inklusionβ.
I've lived in this part of New York City since July of 2014, and have been using Ubiquiti wireless access points since 2018. In those seven years and change, I hadn't seen these access points react to radar and move to a different wireless channel until a few weeks ago. Now, it happens multiple times a day sometimes.
Well that's a bummer about the stupid DFS priority crap. Of course, everything else is so damn saturated, that DFS is really the only spectrum left. Perhaps the organge bafoon is moving military assets closer to your location, for... reasons...
D-Day. As in d day I officially cancelled all paid subscriptions to authors I like and follow BUT sadly publish only on Substack.
THIS IS THE PART WHERE I SHARE THE IMPORTANT TO KNOW STUFF. β¬οΈβ¬οΈβ¬οΈ
CANβT DO THIS I also attempted to make sure my account listing my original email to be a subscriber in Substack was removed or changed to a different one thatβs an alias email account. CANβT DO THIS in Substack.
After I cancel each subscription I had paid for I tried to remove my credit card. CANβT DO THIS in Substack.
Tried to delete any posts I had made in a lame personal Substack. CANβT DO THIS in Substack. Tried to delete a few photos I shared. CANβT DO THIS in Substack.
Um. How interesting these discoveries are. Even if I completely delete my account, Substack retains my email, my posts, my comments on any article published on Substack and my photos. I wonder why this would be. #Substack #SubstackNazis
Okay, I'm definitely biased, but I think joinloops.org sets a new bar for fediverse project websites.
Sites like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and Bonfire are beautiful, but I wanted to go further, making it resonate with people by focusing on what matters most to them.
TikTok is hard to crack. Few are attempting this because of how established they are.
When you remove the VC funding and toxicity, you're left with the platform every TikToker wanted.
Hi Dan, just curious whether you received a testflight email about VoiceOver accessibility for the Loops app? I sent it a few weeks ago. No doubt you got hundreds, so it's possible it went missing. I outlined some huge issues I faced when trying to log in with the app.
This post could be a bit of a downer, but sometimes life is just like that. I've encountered an inordinate number of people in the past week who were beyond nervous about dealing with me as a blind person. It just gets so old! What do they think I'm going to do? Spontaneously combust? I feel that I try so hard to put people at ease with me, but when all they can do is keep chanting about how nervous they are, I just want to suggest they get over themselves. I wish there were a cure, a more reasonable way to deal with this. When I was a kid and stuff like this happened, I thought that for sure by the time I was an adult, people would be better informed. Sadly, no.
@FreakyFwoof I was tempted, but in one case, it probably would've meant I would've left a little old lady in tears, and I couldn't have that on my conscience.
Tested: Windows 11βs βfasterβ File Explorer (preloaded) is still slower than Windows 10, and uses additional RAM. Microsoft is testing a βfixβ to Windows 11βs File Explorer, which is supposed to improve its launch performance by preloading it in the background. The move came after years of user complaints about the slow File Explorer, especially after coming from the now-retired Windows 10 File Explorer, which was snappier every time you launch it. But Microsoftβs solution to preload the File Explorer instead of fixing the underlying code is being scoffed at by users online. windowslatest.com/2025/11/28/tβ¦
Meta allegedly buried research showing its products are harming users engadget.com/social-media/meta⦠"A court filing suggests the company knew that deactivating Facebook lessens depression, anxiety and loneliness." - Some high-tar unfiltered Philip Morris tactics going on here
As I'm adding unit conversions to my app, I'm strongly considering adding "baby elephant" as a unit of mass and "olympic swimming pool" as a unit of volume for, ahem, some countries.
You should also add a "football field" (a very interesting unit, as its definition is always what the writer wanted it to be, never what the reader thinks it is).
There's also the famous Boeing 737 wingspan, a unit as old and storied as Archimedes himself. The wingspans of other types of airplane may also be used in some cases, though not as often. Consulting an airplane engineer may be a good idea.
Last but not least, you have the famous ounce, a unit whose SI equivalent depends on *what it is measuring*. This is still better than the Pound, whose value varries daily in some contexts.
Oh, and don't forget about the unassuming "proof", a unit of alcohol strength derived from whether it burns when mixed with gunpowder (because no American unit system can ever be complete without a firearms reference).
Did you know it's now possible to select text on the page loaded in #Firefox, press shift+F10 to inwoke a popup menu and translate selected text into a different language?
I like it as I can easily copy text translated locally instead of using online services for the actual translation work.
@miki I guess native selection is now possible with #nvdasr and #firefox. This is just a guess on my part as I'm on linux with orca and firefox most of the time.
@miki We had native selection in Firefox FIRST. Looking at the release notes we've had that in NVDA for Firefox since NVDA 2024.1, and for Chrome since NVDA 2025.1: download.nvaccess.org/releasesβ¦
If you try it out, do please let us know how you find it :)
Captain of Industry Update 3 is out NOW. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1594320/Captain_of_Industry/?utm_source=youtube&utm_campaign=u3ltTrains, Expanded...
Colossal 28TB Seagate Ironwolf Pro drops to $449 in Amazon Black Friday deal β egregiously big HDD costs just $16 per TB, makes recycle bin pointless
Seagate's enormous 28TB enterprise-grade Ironwolf Pro is on sale for just $16 per terabyte in this Amazon Black Friday deal #hardware tomshardware.com/pc-componentsβ¦
I prefer installing a custom ROM and not having the Play Store over not having my FOSS apps. People already recommend having a second phone just to use banking apps anyway (to be left home, so to discourage kidnapping), I can use my old phone for that.
Better yet, drop Google altogether. Look into CalyxOS, GrapheneOS, Murena's /e/OS. Granted, custom ROMs are in their infancy, but they will never get out of it without popular support.
Google is using poorly contrived MS business strategies (organized crime). What has happened to these businesses that greed and power is their driving mantra?
To everyone in the comments trying to start petitions, remember that the European DMA is a thing and what Google is trying to do is a direct violation of the DMA.
I wish there was a Mastodon setting to *completely* hide media posts without alt-text. Not only would I use it in a heartbeat, but I'd encourage all my followers to as well.
A new version of #SARA is available on GitHub. A lot has changed, mainly under the hood, but also in the interface. Among other things, a break (Ctrl+B) has been added to a track, which causes playback to stop after the track marked this way in automix. Speaking of automix, its behavior is now much more predictable. The mix window now allows monitoring of both the loop and the mix with the next track, both triggered by the Alt+V shortcut. A βDo Not Disturbβ mode has been added to the NVDA add-on, enabled by default, which makes SARA speak very little, but as a side effect it also stops reading some interface elements, so for example it is best to switch between playlists using the F6 key. The Do Not Disturb mode can be turned off at any time with the Alt+NVDA+D shortcut. Attached to this post you will find a sample of how SARA mixes in practice, and you can test it here: gitrls.com/michaldziwisz/sara/
Tokyo, Japan β The LibreOffice Asia Conference 2025 is scheduled to take place on December 13-14, 2025, at the Internet Initiative Japan Inc. headquarters in Iidabashi Grand Bloom, Tokyo.
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Die Umfrage richtet sich an Einrichtungen, FachkrΓ€fte und UnterstΓΌtzende, die mit Menschen mit Lernschwierigkeiten arbeiten oder Lernangebote organisieren.")
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