V02460 @v02460@librem.one

Our fantastic team of volunteers is at @fossasia!

#wahl #landtagswahl #landtagBW #wahl2026

Everyone, rejoice 🙌

Georges livestreamed himself reviewing and merging accessibility contributions in GNOME Calendar again, specifically the entirety of merge request !564 — introducing keyboard-navigable month cells.

This means, as of GNOME 50, GNOME Calendar's month view will be 100% navigable with a keyboard for the first time in its history! The only thing that needs to be done now is interfacing with assistive technologies such as screen readers properly.

Do note that the screen recording attached won't have any alt text, to avoid redundancy. Everything written below is a detailed explanation of the experience, and the recording is essentially a visual demonstration:

- When tabbing between events, focus moves chronologically, meaning focus continues to move down until there are no event widgets overlaying that specific cell, which then moves focus to the topmost event widget found in the next cells or rows; tabbing backwards with Shift+Tab goes in the opposite direction.
- On the last event widget, pressing Tab moves focus to the adjacent month cell. Conversely, Ctrl+Tab on any event widget does the same thing.
- Pressing an activation button (such as Enter or Space) displays the popover for creating event. Additionally, pressing and holding Shift while pressing arrow keys selects every cell between the start and end positions, until the Shift key is released, which displays the popover with the selected range.

Both merge requests !564 and !598 have taken almost an entire year to explore various approaches and finally settle on an approach that works the best for our use case. All of this was done voluntarily, without any financial backing from any entity apart from donors and people sharing these posts to others — something that keyboard navigation in the vast majority, if not all, of views in (proprietary) calendaring apps developed by trillion-dollar companies have not even managed to reach feature parity. If it is not too much trouble, please consider funding my accessibility work on GNOME, thank you ♥️

#GNOMECalendar #GNOME #Accessibility #a11y #Calendar #GTK #libadwaita #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #FOSS #OSS #Linux

Wir präsentieren: unsere neue Video-Serie “BuM Inside”!

In den kommenden Wochen geben wir euch exklusive Einblicke hinter die Kulissen des BundesMessenger (BuM). In kurzen Interviews lernt ihr die Menschen kennen, die den BuM entwickeln, gestalten und vorantreiben.

Es geht um persönliche Perspektiven, spannende Hintergründe – und vor allem um eines: den BundesMessenger selbst.

Im heutigen Trailer bekommt ihr einen ersten Eindruck davon, was euch erwartet.

RE: https://social.security.plumbing/@freddy/116125757286032273

Pretty major improvement to website security! For those that can't use this immediately FF 148 also includes Trusted Types which can go a long way in helping prevent XSS.

New blog post: Why "digital sovereignty" requires a free software alternative to Android and iOS, and how we're building towards that 🏗️

https://modal.cx/blog/sovereign-mobile-stack

The Matrix Community Summit 2026 was announced.

It will take place from 21st to 25th of May 2026 in c-base, Berlin.

The summit is the second biggest Matrix event after the annual Matrix Conference. It's an amazing opportunity to network with Matrix enthusiasts, developers, nerds and everyone else from the community.

Tickets are available at : https://tickets.matrix-community.events/mcs/2026/

https://matrix-community.events/conferences/2026-summit.html

@matrix

#Matrix #FOSS #MatrixConference #MCS #MCS2026

The #FDroid website has a new banner on top to remind visitors that #Google did not change course and #Android will be locked-down in under 200 days.

If you care about the freedom to control your devices and care about the privacy of you data, please contact your representative and make your voice heard.

https://keepandroidopen.org/ (thanks @marcprux) has the resources to guide you.

We know users will rarely visit the site so the Client(s) will get a banner soon too.

Thank you for your support!

In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud — 'The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't,' notes the experiment creator
https://www.tomshardware.com/speakers/in-a-blind-test-audiophiles-couldnt-tell-the-difference-between-audio-signals-sent-through-copper-wire-a-banana-or-wet-mud-the-mud-should-sound-perfectly-awful-but-it-doesnt-notes-the-experiment-creator?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Tom's Hardware @tom-s-hardware-TomsHardware

Newsflash 5.0-beta1 is now available on the flathub beta channel. The big new change is the new article view that renders all of its content as native gtk widgets.
Let me know how well this works for you.

#gnome #app #gtk #rss #rust

ich fordere ein mindestalter für die orphan-crushing machine

#ilovefs

Last year, for the first time, we decided to celebrate "I Love Free Software Day" in Iran and make it an annual event.

Since we only found out about this occasion very suddenly last year, we used a non-free project to create the posters and held the event for the first year.
This year, we designed a website with various Persian-themed graphics and even prepared the option to send physical postcards for I Love Free Software Day.

However, unfortunately, due to the many tragic events that have occurred in Iran over the past month, we decided to cancel this year's project.

Instead, we tried to express our gratitude simply and without any pomp, to all the activists and developers of free software.

In hopes of better days for Iran.

Bitte verbreitet die Stellungnahme der Freifunk Initiative!

https://ffmuc.net/politik/freifunk/gesetzgebung/2026/02/11/stellungnahme-referentenentwurf-ip-adressspeicherung/
#freifunk
#vorratsdaten
#adressdatenspeicherung

We've preliminary found that TikTok is in breach of the DSA for its addictive design.

There are important indicators of compulsive use of the app that TikTok has disregarded in its risk assessment.

Key features of the addictive design:
🔹Infinite scroll
🔹Autoplay
🔹Push notifications
🔹Highly personalised recommender system

We consider that TikTok needs to change the basic design of its service.

TikTok can now exercise its right to examine and reply to the finding.

https://link.europa.eu/9fTwmJ

These are the tools powered us during the complete internet shutdown of Iran. I don't know how to appreciate you guys. Thank you:

- @matrix
- @element
- @delta
- @nextcloud
- @ntfy
- SchildiChat
- @torproject
- Psiphon
- a huge number of VPN and Proxy apps I can't name one by one.

#Iran #Iran2026Protests

Talk online for streaming:
FOSDEM 2026 - EU OS: learnings from 1 year advocating for a common Desktop Linux for the public sector

https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/DTE3NX-eu-os-1-year-after-with-feedback-and-wishlist/

#fosdem #fosdem26 #EU_OS #DigitalSovereignty

📣 𝗙𝗲𝗲𝗱𝗯𝗮𝗰𝗸 𝗲𝗿𝘄ü𝗻𝘀𝗰𝗵𝘁: 𝗭𝗮𝗣𝘂𝗞

Die Zielarchitektur für Postfach- und Kommunikationslösungen (#ZaPuK) ist in ihrer ersten Version auf OpenCode einsehbar. Bis zum 25. März freuen wir uns über fundiertes Feedback dazu aus der technischen Fachöffentlichkeit. Ein Infotermin zum Feedbackprozess findet am 10. Februar von 10 - 10:30 Uhr über Webex statt.

Mehr dazu: https://gitlab.opencode.de/it-planungsrat/fit-ab/zapuk/-/blob/main/Konsultationen/Phase-2_Architektur-v1.0_21-01-2026/README.md

Welcome to Mastodon, @HennaVirkkunen !

As Executive Vice-President for Tech Sovereignty, Security and Democracy, you have highlighted how the Fediverse plays an important part in protecting the EU's #DigitalSovereignty and supporting European alternatives.

#NewHere