the real raccoon Ⓥ Ⓐ @therealraccoon@octodon.social

GTK4 is **not** dumping accessibility features. GTK4 is still heavily under development, and as systems move around, many components will break. The intent is to fix these issues before release.

On the topic of anti-harassment I recently added the option to only receive DMs from people you're following.

This may not work for everyone, but from my encounters on this topic the creeps will mostly try to send you aggravating DMs and they'll usually be people you aren't following. This option forces creepy randos out into public visibility and hence avoids them having any plausible deniability about what they're actually up to.

« The Briar Project released version 1.2 of its Android app today. This release allows users to add each other securely by exchanging links. Previously users needed to meet in person or ask a mutual contact to introduce them. »
https://briarproject.org/news/2019-briar-1.2-released-remote-contacts/

(Si vous avez lu Zendegi de Greg Egan, Briar devrait vous rappeler le premier chapitre.)

I guess the questions are:
1) Is #platformcoop pro-worker?
2) Is #platformcoop anti-union?
3) Is #platformcoop anti-capitalist?

Year after I continue to feel like the answer to all of these might be No. Though I am iffy on 2. 🤔

Your DNA has been breached. Please change your DNA.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-11-06/breach-at-dna-test-firm-veritas-exposed-customer-information

If anyone is interested in translating, even if it's just one page or chapter, get in contact.
Would be great to be able to spread the zine in many languages!
Link to the file:
https://radicalresilience.noblogs.org/files/2019/09/Caring_Movements_ZIN_web_090419.pdf

Love and Rage!

here's a take that's not that hot because it's clearly painfully obvious:
IQ tests are racist
IQ tests are ableist
IQ tests do not provide any actual basis for intelligence, wisdom, ability, or creativity which are abstract concepts all varying in meanings and degrees, and using IQ score numbers and results as a way to prove ones superiority over others is disingenuous as fuck and completely false.

APA styleguide welcomes / encourages singular they https://apastyle.apa.org/blog/singular-they

"As deportations rise for Southeast Asian Americans, we want to show how families, organizers, and formerly incarcerated individuals have successfully fought for their freedom—and show that others can fight and win, too. The following stories highlight individuals who have survived, persisted, and resisted the many fronts of state-sponsored violence. They are stories of deep pain, stories of triumph, and most importantly, stories of hope."

https://www.asianprisonersupport.com/hope-is-contagious

Ethics is an absolutely critical topic for FOSS, so we added a new topic to the #CopyleftConf CFP this year, "How copyleft fits in with other efforts to build ethical technology" If you've got thoughts on that, we would love to hear them. https://2020.copyleftconf.org/program/call-for-proposals

Laser-Based Audio Injection on Voice-Controllable Systems
Light Commands is a vulnerability of MEMS microphones that allows attackers to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice assistants, such as Google assistant, Amazon Alexa, Facebook Portal, and Apple Siri using light. In our paper we demonstrate this effect, successfully using light to inject malicious commands into several voice controlled devices such as smart speakers, tablets, and phones across large distances and through glass windows.

lightcommands.com/
#Security #Hacking #Cloud

Get rid of these devices. Like get a refund, toss them away. Just don’t keep them home. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/11/researchers-hack-siri-alexa-and-google-home-by-shining-lasers-at-them/ (https://v2.jacky.wtf/post/07d352ef-bb7a-40a1-bc3e-579f3e62b4aa)

Spreading the word bc don't know what else I can do.

Bulgaria is taking steps that are straight out of the Nazi playbook for "a complete programme for a solution to the Gypsy problem.” (that's a quote from a high level government guy, not random neo-Nazi street thug).

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/20/bulgaria-sofia-racism-roma-everybody-hates-us-anti-gypsy-abuse

https://www.thejc.com/comment/columnists/roma-the-forgotten-victims-1.490885

#NeverAgainIsNow

https://epicyon.net is an #AGPL licensed #ActivityPub protocol compliant federated #social #network server suitable for hosting a small number of accounts on low power systems requiring minimal maintenance, such as single board computers. It's the ActivityPub equivalent of an email server, storing posts as human readable #JSON on file, rather than in a database. It also uses only a small amount of RAM.

An Internet of People, Not Corporate Agendas

"The option isn't Electron vs native, it's Electron vs nothing"

Well, no. If it wasn't for #Electron, developers who want to make "apps" would actually go and learn how to make apps, you know.

Look at how native apps used to flourish on the desktop back when Electron (and the "modern" web) wasn't a thing. Look at the mobile app market, where Electron still isn't a thing.

Can somebody who can read Spanish tell me if the linked article says when they’re going to do this?

https://cfenollosa.com/blog/mass-cellphone-surveillance-experiment-in-spain.html

just realized that FreeCAD has a full CAM thing for milling etc built in... it's the Path workbench

Tails 'is looking for a design contractor to create illustrations explaining what is Tails and how it works'
https://tails.boum.org/jobs/illustrations_how_tails_work/

9 people have died this year alone in Santa Rita

"Prisoners inside Santa Rita Jail in Dublin, CA are staging a one day hunger strike and work stoppage to protest widespread institutional neglect and abuse, including unsanitary living conditions, price gouging, poor medical care, forced labor, and lack of access to legal resources"

https://iwocoakland.wordpress.com/2019/10/29/santa-rita-jail-strike/

Your #router is important equipment because it connects your devices to the internet. However, many Internet Service Providers in Europe are imposing their specific routers to customers. The #FSFE helps you to become active for #RouterFreedom!

Read more: https://fsfe.org/news/2019/news-20191028-01.html