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Let's go to the webpage of an ISP to see what their current plans are. They only list download speeds, and tell me to click a link for full network disclosure.
OK, let's click that.
Up pops a Microsoft word document from early 2012.
Yeah, don't think that's going to provide the information I'm looking for.
I set up my new phone from scratch so I could do some spring cleaning. It is incredible the perfusion of digital connections everyone has nowadays just to live normally. Email, Amazon, ring, Hive, Spotify, Ero, WhatsApp, Mastodon, Singal, Zoom, Teams...just wow.
@jakobrosin its a bit snappier. nothing unduly significant but yeah its a bit quicker overall. Nice battery life thoughi n comparison to what I came from. my 13s battery was on 86% lol
I am not shure If I can take customising everything to my liking from scratch though. There probably are so many small things I have forgotten I’ve customised, that I’d run into issues for months.
@jakobrosin I treat factory resets like a disaster recovery plan and try and keep that up to date. Mostly for Windows PCs but also the phone as well. Ensuring the information to get the important apps back online is readily available in a secure place. Mind you I do get stumped sometimes with this, for example last night I wanted to use a pub app to order drinks and I had forgotten I hadn't used that app since I did a factory reset in December.
Everyone that manages security reports for Open Source projects have been getting a higher workload because of AI. Both real reports and just slop - reports including vulnerabilities in code that doesn't exist. For some, this is becoming a denial of service attack, with developers having to spend valuable, and in some cases unpaid, time to sort out what's real and may be a vulnerability.
Jarek Potiuk, member of The Apache Software Foundation will talk about this on the GVIP Summit Wednesday Jan 28th in Brussels. We still have a few seats available - but hurry up to register!
@FreakyFwoof Good morning Andre. I'm reaching out in a professional capacity. I have a student in my assistive technology class that plans to go into the music production business. I sadly know very little about music and how to work with it as a blind person. Would it be ok if I connect you two?
Thank you. Like I said, I can teach him how to use VoiceOver and NVDA, but I have the foggiest on audio and music production. Will pass along your link and see what happens. Thank you again.
The SSL options CURLOPT_ISSUERCERT, CURLOPT_SSL_EC_CURVES, and CURLOPT_CRLFILE were silently accepted by curl_easy_setopt() even when the SSL backend doesn't support them. This could mislead ap...
This was the worst Bulgarian president since 1989. He actively tried to divide the people by talking utter bullsh!t and implying we would be better off with Mother Russia. And now, he's seeking real power by getting ready to participate as a leader of his "new political party" in the upcoming Parliament elections. None of our other presidents has been so blatantly basic in their undermining words.
Bulgarian President Rumen Radev to Submit His Resignation on January 20
Oh yeah, my mom mentioned we don't have a president. Since I came back from the states in 2017, we either don't have a government, or that kinda nonsensical crap happens. Also, Radev is annoying AF, he just, gave me those weird vibes. We need to vote better tbf. But the issue is, I refuse to. Give me accessible voting, so I can do it and not whoever's with me. How do I know what they wrote? I gotta do it to believe it and be sure. So, I am not voting, again.
Yeah, because now, as far as I know, the option to vote is to be with someone, to submit documents you want to vote with someone as your assistant, etc. Machine or paper it don't matter. Now, if I could submit all that digitally, I won't mind. I have an esignature anyway. But, nooo. Let's spend millions on machines and destroying trees, and bleh.
@bloodymirova I'm more or less expecting his party to cannibalize the pro-Russia vote and not gain much more on top of it. But every vote will be important if we want to avoid sock+pumpkin+pig leading the country.
Well, yeah, what party is that annoying dude trying to get into? I haven't watched the news, ,because let's infodump sadness on people with all that bs. But yeah. That's probs the only president I have disliked in my 25 years of insignificant lifetime...
@tardis @bloodymirova According to rumors, he will use the party of the pro-russian Kuzman Iliev. I think it was called "Bulgaria can". I guess we will know more later today.
Wow, I haven't heard of those guys, but Pro Russian says a lot. Yeah, how about, no. Never liked this guy, gives bad vibes. Through the TV, mind you, and I've only listened to him talk on new year's. Gives me the, "I just want you to shut up, because you're causing my blind insignificant self soul and physical pain." But the TV can't give my thoughts back, how truly sad. Also, no to that party nonsense... That's hypocritical tbf. Get in a party that supports your country not one where the support is to return the "great" empire of these strangers from across the sea, or some there distance relevant to it. My visual geographical map is 0 existent.
@tardis @bloodymirova Another thing we should want to avoid is the 20 sections per foreign countries limit (excluding embassies), that the current majority is trying to impose. This will severely affect UK and US (in addition to Turkey).
tbh I agree with the limits in a way. People who do live abroad haven't lived in here for ages probs, at least a percentage of them, so there's the thought of they don't really know the experience of how it is to be here, and you got to live somewhere to know how to give your vote in my opinion. It's like me living here, but voting for a government in the US or something like that. Dumb example, but an example nonetheless. I wouldn't vote, because I haven't been there, I moved out, I live here now, for example, but the other way would apply too. You got to read/watch news 24/7 and you'd still not have the experience in my opinion.,
@tardis @bloodymirova But this is still discrimination. 🤷 Everyone should be able to vote or the next thing will be someone demanding that we should deny the right to vote to people without the first 8 grades of education.
Yeah, if we look at it that way, it is, hence my whole point on it is agree to disagree, but then what's right of voting in this country? I haven't voted either, ever since 2018, when I could. I want to do it myself, I don't want assistance, but no, these are unchanged, blah blah. So politicians and the meaning of discrimination, they need to look it up in the dictionary, me thinks... So, yeah, if we look at the point of view on it as discrimination, I agree with you. Otherwise, my previous answer still stands. Life is complicated, and who says I can't have two points on it...
Entiendo que cualquiera puede construir una web que use el DNI electrónico para identificar a sus usuarios. Pero sospecho que no se puede hacer lo mismo con otros mecanismos de identificación oficiales (que son más convenientes).
Obviamente, da mal rollo, pero creo que es una idea a explorar.
Friendly reminder that putting links in alt text tells me nothing about what is in the photo and they aren't clickable so my screen reader is just reading out that nonsense.
EDIT: Oof. Ok folks, I am a small account and this post is getting attention. I am neurodivergent as well as vision impaired so I am a little overwhelmed and getting testy. Sorry. I am a human?
1. You don't have to include the full link. Leave out everything and only add the domain name (example dot com). That way our ears don't bleed and you are giving the accurate info.
2. On a vision impaired persons post, it is not nice to bring complaints or ableism. Take that shit to Twitter. No one, especially me, wants it here. I am not mad yet. A bit overwhelmed and frazzled, but this is the most amount of shares I have ever received on a post and I pretty much want to hide in a closet like a cat.
Mozilla fragt: »What do you want to see from Mozilla in the future?«
Ganz einfach: einen Browser mit maximalen Sicherheits- und Datenschutzstandards. Ohne Tracking, ohne Datensammelei, ohne »wir machen das für die Finanzierung«-Ausreden. Ein Browser, der Nutzer konsequent schützt, transparent erklärt, was passiert, und sich wieder klar auf die ursprüngliche Mission besinnt: ein offenes Web, in dem der Mensch im Mittelpunkt steht – nicht Werbenetzwerke, Datenbroker und Profiling.
Und bitte: kein KI-Kram im Browser. Keine Zwangs-Features, keine Assistenten, die Daten abgreifen, keine »smarten« Experimente.
I can't help but notice they did a staged rollout (great!) for a DNS related change that went up to 100% in less than 24 hours (???). Seems a bit optimistic to me given how high TTLs can be?
Reading their explanation I can't help but feel that maybe the behaviour the Cisco switches rely on should have been standardized, so it puts the extra work on the server once instead of complicate every client.
Of course, the Cisco switches *crashing* instead of failing resolving is absurd.
Public channels on #Meshcore have the vibe of internet chats from the late 90s. You're there with complete strangers and you're happy just to be able to chat with someone.
Consejo cafetero: me regalaron una cafetera express (DeLonghi Dedica Style). Quiero comprar un molinillo de café, pero al quien me hizo el regalo le dijeron que el molinillo tenía que ser de la misma marca. No me tenía sentido y buscando un poco de información veo que hay molinillos de cuchillas de acero inoxidable y de muelas (de acero o de cerámica), y que las que aseguran una buena molienda y evita atascos en el de muelas. ¿Es así, hay tanta diferencia? #cafe
Ooo! Dave's Garage Youtube channel did avideo on setting up OPNSense as a transparent filter bridge! So, that means enterprise-grade IDS and IPS, but with none of the potential network renumbering, port forwarding remapping. Basically entirely rebuilding your network from a logical perspective is no longer necessary. Simply obtain hardware with two NICs, plug one end into ISP modem, other end into WAN port on your existing router, configure as specified, and you have transparent filtering, intrusion detection, and protection, and whatever your router was doing prior to the introduction of OPNSense still happens, and no one and nothing knows about OPNSense, accept of course, until and when something looks like it should be working, but in actual fact doesn't. Of course, you'll have to reprogram your mind to always check the IDS/IPS log to see what it has done to the traffic. But if you've got rules in place to deny said traffic for whatever reason, it most certainly will be done, directly out of the modem WAN port. It won't make it to your router's WAN port, and it most certainly won't make it close to anywhere that can be fooled by spoofing and other such techniques to create an "I'm your friend" IP address and thus be allowed into everything.
I just realized, almost two years later, that I forgot to put heatsinks on the Raspberry Pi 4 I sent to a data center for co-location. Oops... It's running OK at 57 degrees C, but it could be cooler.
@HopelessDemigod Yep. At the time, I wanted to host something that was only available on 32-bit armhf and couldn't be compiled for other stuff, and that was the best way to do it. Not essential these days, but it's still doing it's one job, so no immediate need to change it, until there is.
I think my opinion on vibe coding shifts again: I dislike people who just throw promts at the AI without any significant knowledge about what they're doing/the codebase they're producing, and just let the AI do everything waiting what it might come up with. But with so many things, if it's in the right hands it can actually be a quite good thing, in this case a productivity booster. Of course I can't comment on the code quallity itself at the moment. But I guess as long as you can fix up and understand stuff with out the AI in between you and the code, heck that's just what coding is going to be in the future I guess. Gotta get used to it.
@JustinMac84 Well they still have to be either a very good promter, but over all understand the code the AI is producing. Where's the point otherwise. Unless you're only doing it for yourself though but I'm mainly talking about software others provide. I mean tbh, what would they have done without AI? Either find the money, or learn coding, or, keep it an idea. I think AI can be good in producing something like a draft, and it'll surely improve in the future, but for now, idk really.
The Open Web means several things to different people, depending on context, but recently discussions have focused on the Web's Openness in terms of access to information -- how easy it is to publish and obtain information without barriers there.
Pour rappel, je serai à Saint-Cergue, en Suisse, ces 24 et 25 janvier aux Rencontres Hivernales du Libre !
J'y donnerai une conférence « XMPP ou comment ne pas réinventer la roue : Messagerie fédérée et sécurisée en 2026 » où vous pourrez découvrir XMPP et son écosystème moderne pour ne pas dépendre de produits centralisés pour la messagerie.
Ça sera également l'occasion pour les personnes qui le souhaitent de poser des questions sur XMPP, venir discuter, découvrir plein de choses …
Here's a random harry potter what if for you. What if Modesty Barebone grew up and married some squib great uncle of Penelope who's branch of the family moved to America, and he decided to start a band, named in rememberence of her late brother? What do you get? Creedence Clearwater Revival!
Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95.
Born into poverty on a Virginia farm during the Jim Crow era, West grew up in a segregated South where opportunity was scarce.
Through determination and extraordinary academic talent, she graduated first in her high school class and earned a scholarship to Virginia State College (now Virginia State University).
She received her bachelor’s degree in mathematics in 1952 and went on to earn a master’s degree in 1955.
In 1956, West began working as a mathematician at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Dahlgren, Virginia.
She was only the second African American woman hired at the base and one of just four African American employees at the time.
What followed was a career that would quietly change the world.
Over many years, Jane Plitt, founder and board chair of the Alexandria-based "National Center for Women’s Innovations" (NCWI), made it her mission to put Gladys West on the map —quite literally.
West’s story became the centerpiece of NCWI’s inaugural work, culminating in a lavish gala celebrating her 93rd birthday on October 27, 2023.
Emceed by Deborah Roberts, the evening showcased West’s extraordinary contributions, with West herself declaring, “This is the best day of my life.”
ALEXANDRIA, VA — Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She passed away Saturday, surrounded by her loving family. She was 95
My guide for #discord with #nvda isn't finished yet, but I've laid out the new structure for where I want it to go. It's got more headings and lists to make jumping around with a screen reader easier. Sections that need more work are tagged in the unrendered markdown.
The guide focuses on the structure of the Discord desktop and web interface from the perspective of someone who knows screen reader basics and can move around a website but struggles with very complex web interfaces.
There's some useful info in there already. It'll take me a while to write up all the features, but if you know how something works and want to help fill it in or make a correction, feel free to make a PR on the rework branch!
Discord is great for playing games and chilling with friends, or even building a worldwide community. Customize your own space to talk, play, and hang out.
Ok now I've looked up our own community connect page.... this is (I think) the link you want: discord.gg/YCpWVqEnvQ
(That connect page is linked from the site, but it's here github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/… with info on the various mailing lists and other community spaces we know about).
*Update. RIM may work with screen readers other than JAWS.* (Note: You will need to skip down several headings to find the beginning of the article) I can't comment on this from a business perspective. But I do know that I have never been able to connect remotely to any of my computers, either from Windows to Windows or from Android or IOS to Windows, with any commercially made program for the purpose. The only one that works for me is NVDA Remote, which works on all three platforms, with Windows and the NVDA screen reader being a requirement. The limitation, however, is that I can't hear the sound on the controlled computer, nor can I transfer files between it and the controller. Fortunately, I don't really need these features and am happy just being able to control my machines at all. But for those who do need them, RIM allows this, but only for users of JAWS (which costs several hundred dollars/NVDA is free), and the last time I checked, it is also very expensive for an individual user who doesn't require it for work purposes. I'm also not sure if it is cross-platform, so it may only work with Windows. If anyone knows of a free, accessible solution that works with NVDA, please let me know.
Here, Aaron Di Blasi describes a familiar failure mode in enterprise remote support: organizations deploy “best-in-class” remote tools that work fine for most staff, but quietly shut out blind and low-vision technicians and users because the experien…
RIM should work with NVDA. I found this guide on their site: manual.getrim.app/en/windows/w… Otherwise, I'm glad NVDA Remote Access is working for you - we do have a request to add file transfer ability, but no timeline on that as yet. Another option is the Remote Desktop Accessiblity add-on which "allows using speech and braille with Microsoft Remote Desktop, Citrix Workspace, Parallels RAS and VMware Horizon". From the add-on store or addonstore.nvaccess.org/?chann…
this seems to have ben a oneoff, a fluke if you will, but have a look at the #NVDA error I got when trying to do insert q then telling it to restart NVDA.
That's the Hotel California bug. You can exit NVDA, but you can never leave.....
Ok, late response - but did you work out what happened? I'm not sure myself offhand, but if it hasn't happened again, that is good and likely, as you said, a fluke.
Do any NVDA users ever use annotation navigation (a) or error navigation (w) in browse mode? Every time I try to use the latter, it tells me it's not supported in the current document, and I don't remember the last time I even had the need or desire to use the former #nvda #nvaccess
Hey apologies for the late reply. What kind of document are you working in? I just tested both in Word (365) and both commands worked as expected. But of course we're always keen to hear where something isn't working as it should. github.com/nvaccess/nvda/issue… is the best place to report but would be interested to hear here as well.
One of the most believable parts of the bible is that Jesus' gang had brothers and duplicate names among them, like the neighborhood kids that all grew up together. If every one had a unique name you'd know it was complete fiction, but this detail really has some truth to it.
My proudest parenting moment was when my 11yo daughter asked me to teach her how to write software so she could strip the adverts from the podcasts she downloaded. That's when you know you have a good kid.
I always enjoy getting a message from someone that was clearly typed with misaligned fingers, and just casually decoding it and responding as though nothing happened.
The United States is a global superpower, and its military trains for war in every domain.
During my years as a military educator, I saw American officers wrestle with any number of scenarios designed to challenge their thinking and force them to adapt to surprises.
One case we never considered, however, was how to betray and attack our own allies.
We did not ask what to do if the president becomes a threatening megalomaniac who tells one of our oldest friends, Norway, that because the Nobel Committee in Oslo refuses to give him a trophy, he no longer feels “an obligation to think purely of Peace” and can instead turn his mind toward planning to wage war against NATO.
As my colleague Anne Applebaum wrote today, Donald Trump’s threatening message to the Norwegian prime minister should, in any responsible democracy, force the rest of the U.S. political system to act to control him.
The president is talking about an invasion that would require “citizens of a treaty ally,” as she put it, “to become American against their will,” all because he “now genuinely lives in a different reality.”
cool, so there's a whole new github dork people can do: claude chatlogs.
they live in .claude/logs/ and are full text records of peoples entire conversations with claude
and they're ending up in public on github because i guess people arent adding…
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