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Also totally forgot to talk about this yesterday.
As a part of global accessibility awareness day, we put out a new update for the Be My Eyes app for Windows that is completely rebuild from the ground up. Along with giving us a better base to build amazing new features for desktop in the near future, this new app also fixes a lot of the accessibility issues that people have reported over the last 1.5 or so years.
In addition Chat History is now also available on Desktop, so you can start a conversation from mobile and continue it on desktop (and vice versa).

#a11y #bemyeyes #gaad #globalaccessibilityawarenessday
#blind #bme #tech
#disability #assistivetech




if I where to setup a new @matrix@mastodon.matrix.org which server software is nicer to work with?

Synapse Or Conduit?

synapse seemingly has the pro in terms of support for tools such as synapse admin: github.com/Awesome-Technologie…
and the ability to use oauth and handle user management using solutions such as authentik.

while conduit seems to be more resource efficient and better in terms of speed?

#matrix #selfhosted #tech #chat #social


4Chan hacked; Taken down; Emails and IPs leaked

Apparently they were not only running an old, unsecure version of PHP their entire stack was outdated.

the-sun.com/tech/14029069/4cha…

#news #tech #technology #security #privacy #4chan #hack #breach #databreach


Does anyone know of any good anticapitalist (whether #communist, #anarchist, or otherwise) texts that respond to and attack specifically #TESCREAL/techno-fascist/#rationalist/neoreactionary lines on things like human activity in #space, cosmic-scale threats, potential future trajectories for the development of computing, and the intersection of "high" #tech with body modification while either:

• not arriving at a solution that permanently writes off human presence beyond Earth or bodily autonomy beyond some specific, likely arbitrary threshold, or
• arriving at such a solution while actually giving a good explanation of why even a better society under a better economic system can never be trusted to do anything along those lines, specifically responding to anti-capitalist proposals and visions on that front?

I figure *someone* has to have done some writing on whether coexistence and ambition can even, well, coexist.




OK #NERDS: AMD vs. Intel processor. Does it matter? #Tech #Help


Who wants to join my Anarcho Syndicalist Tech Collective? We buy some used Taco trucks except we fit them out with inverters and lots of networking tech, and we drive around Los Angeles doing guerrilla Debian installs and selling phones with Graphene OS pre installed. Bring your own laptop and we wipe it and have our FAI server give you preconfigured desktop environment. Sell mini PCs with Nextcloud and Photo prism set up as .onion dark web sites... #infosec #tech #freedom



Any suggestions out there on a good way to turn PDFs into an audio file, or at the very least get the text extracted from them? I have a huge number to sort through one time solutions will be a challenge on time. Looking to turn these into audio MP3 files. Any help would be appreciated. #blind #accessibility #tech


One of many notable takeaways from 'Careless People':

The creators and top execs of Meta do not allow their own children on it.

Think about that.

#carelesspeople #facebook #tech


Special shoutout to the repair site iFixit who are now on the Fediverse, you can follow them at:

➡️ @iFixit

They provide repair forums and free repair guides for phones, computers, consoles, kitchen equipment, tools, medical devices, cars etc. They also review and tear down new gadgets to see how repairable they are.

Repairing your existing stuff is much, much better for the environment than buying replacements.

#Repairs #Electronics #DIY #Environment #Gadgets #Tech #RightToRepair


"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"

The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.

The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.

Other services will be hit.

therecord.media/google-refuses…

Sign our petition ➡️ you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech


Here it is: The first clear image of an eclipse of the Sun by the Earth, taken from the surface of the Moon.

This is what last night's lunar eclipse looked like from the Blue Ghost lander's perspective on the Moon. Amazing!

flickr.com/photos/fireflyspace… #space #science #art #tech


I loved working on this article:

The technology in your cell phone has a hidden connection to the stars. Modern computer chips are made using ultraviolet light from vaporized balls of tin--and those balls closely mirror the physics of supernova explosions!

spectrum.ieee.org/euv-light-so… #science #tech #space


📣 Break the silence: Save encryption!

The UK government wants to be able to access anything, anywhere, any time — from your pics to your docs.

It begins with Apple. Other services will be next. That's why we must take a stand NOW!

Sign and share our petition ⬇️

you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

#encryption #e2ee #Apple #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #icloud #tech


The message is clear across the political divide: let's hear it!

The UK government should argue in open court why they want to make us less secure by ordering a backdoor into Apple encryption.

A secret Tribunal would be an affront to the privacy and security issues at stake. It must be held in public.

Read the joint letter from ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele…

#Apple #encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech


📣 Make it public!

The call is getting louder for a public hearing of the appeal over the UK's order to break Apple encryption.

Alongside the joint letter from ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship, UK MPs, US Congress Members and the BBC want the secrecy to end.

bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g0rr…

#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #Apple #tech




Read this:

blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mo…

👀 at this:

mozilla.org/en-US/about/leader…

I'm baffled about the myriad of @mozillaofficial structures, amount of directors / C-level people & how to rhyme 'investing in privacy-respecting advertising; with 'draw a bigger circle of supporters over the long run.'

As a long time Mozilla supporter, I was already unhappy about the direction of the last years & this does certainly not bode well for the future. 😞 😩

#Firefox #Mozilla #Thunderbird #Tech #OpenSource


Russia discovered already 20 years ago that it's much more efficient to spend money on affecting the discussion online than it is when spent on missiles and tanks.

Russia conducts over 60% of all disinformation operations online. In the whole world. More than everybody else put together.

The West still hasn't caught up.

Instead we have enabled the tech companies to profit from selling advertisements between shows that parrot their propaganda.

#propaganda #russia #tech


Today is #ILoveFS Day!

ilovefs.org

It is the day to appreciate all the people involved in #FreeSoftware & #OpenSource.

Not just developers & maintainers, but also designers, translators, documentation contributors etc

Personally I'd like thank:
@AntennaPod @inkscape @libreoffice @openstreetmap
@omgubuntu
@joplinapp
@LineageOS
@openandroidinstaller
@GIMP
@Mastodon
@thunderbird
@Wikipedia

Thank you all for your work! It is much appreciated!

#Commons #Volunteers #Tech


🗺️ As many people are angry with #Google & asking for alternatives to #GoogleMaps, here are some Free & #OpenSource options:

📱 App
- osmand.net/
- organicmaps.app
🌐 Web
- mapcarta.com
- openstreetmap.org

Not Open Source:
🌐&📱
en.mapy.cz
wego.here.com
mapquest.com
🌐
lokjo.com
📱
komoot.com
magicearth.com

#FCKGoogle #Alternative #Apps #App #Web #Software #News #Tech #Maps #Map #Technology #it


Stop using #Google, cubs. Transition looks harder than it really is because we are creatures of habit, but there are better pastures beyond.

I myself have a @Tutanota subscription and use it for #email, calendar, and contacts (all three things you get on the email app). Very happy with how it works and how the contacts integrate with iPhone.

Check out these European alternatives ✨

european-alternatives.eu/categ…

#tech #EuropeanAlternatives mamot.fr/@Khrys/11398203069218…


Meta staff torrented nearly 82TB of pirated books for AI training — court records reveal copyright violations

"...court records reveal that the social media company used pirated torrents to download 81.7TB of data from shadow libraries including Anna’s Archive, Z-Library, and LibGen. It then used this information to train its AI models."

#tech #news #Meta #AI #books #bookstodon #writers #libraries #media

tomshardware.com/tech-industry…



Signal is a secure messenger, but there are interesting alternatives, such as @matrix , @session , @delta , @simplex or XMPP …

➡️ matrix.org

➡️ getsession.org

➡️ delta.chat

➡️ simplex.chat

➡️ xmpp.org

If you’d like to learn more about these options, have a look at the responses to this toot.

#matrix #session #signal #XMPP #messenger #decentralized #tech #technology #OpenSource #FOSS #WhatsApp #security #InfoSec #data #safety


Fresh new start : 2025.
A few pictures of the opensource/remake project I'm working on📀, I get inspiration from ghibli universes, old multiplayer games🪡, enterprises from the cooperative world🍓
I hope to meet great people,
here this year! 🦤🦎🐜
#videogame #opensource #graphism
#creativity #linux #arm #android #game
#colorful #java #dev #developer #3dart
#2d #gaming #jeu #ghibli #anime
#animation #indie #indiegame #retro #pixelart #art #dessin #gamedev #dev
#steam #cute #computer #color #tech



🎉 Celebrate 200 years of Braille with us! This week on Double Tap, we’re diving into Braille’s past, present, and future with amazing guests, tech insights, and your feedback. Don’t miss it—daily on AMI-audio, podcast, and YouTube! 💬👩‍🏫📚 youtube.com/@DoubleTapVideo/vi… #BrailleAt200 #Accessibility #Tech