For non-health reasons, I have used in the past now and then the magnifier and the text-to-speech assistant in Windows and had noticed they did not always work with all sites and apps and also the apps themselves had a significant negative impact on the OS performance. I haven’t tried these things on Mint Linux yet, but I would’ve thought hard to believe Linux is somehow even worse than Windows when it comes to accessibility. Also, that makes me feel like even this limited accessibility only exists for the sake of legal compliance… Ableism is a huge problem and, yeah, able people should be more woke about it.

Oh, I see. Thank you for the explanation.

You are asking if encryption is enabled on the side of my client? Well, I see Allow key storage is enabled, I haven’t touched it, it’s the default. Disabling it would enable me to read message history or not? (I am not concerned for now with extra security.)

I’ve joined the room from another server, but messages posted before me are displayed as “You don’t have access to this message”. Is this a normal feature of Matrix, a peculiar feature of the server, or a bug? (I’m very new to Matrix and Element)

Sorry, it was actually this: https://www.bertelsmann-stiftung.de/en/our-projects/reframetech-algorithmen-fuers-gemeinwohl/project-news/eurostack-a-european-alternative-for-digital-sovereignty

Which one of these would you recommend then? https://blog.acer.com/en/discussion/1838/10-best-non-chromium-browsers-for-windows

Check out rule #4. The server is based in Germany.

Android and Linux

Some of the issues with accessibility in Linux seem to come down to FOSS developers not willing to take an extra mile complying with accessibility standards, others have to do with how the big corporations have much more resources for it. Sadly, that seems to be the situation - I am surprised myself to learn there’s much to be improved in this department.

Bluesky has basically bowed to the Turkish regime: https://www.turkishminute.com/2025/04/17/bluesky-restrict-access-72-account-turk-amid-government-pressure/

I wonder why isn’t Friendica more popular by now.

It’s not about “Nerd Standards”, it’s about the fact there are reasons to not deem Mozilla so trustworthy anymore: https://www.zdnet.com/article/the-firefox-i-loved-is-gone-how-to-protect-your-privacy-on-it-now/ (I am linking the article for the facts it points out; in the author’s place, I wouldn’t recommend Brave either).

Why not endorse Firefox forks instead?

The conversation in the reddit thread would then be about reddit banning discussion of platforms that apparently threaten theirs

Do note that Substack is US-based and has fash owners.

Not to mention it’s going to be common knowledge in 20 years from now that IS was designed by you know who to fuel Islamophobia.

If your own child was on the LGBT+ spectrum and was right now in the US, your take would have been way different.

NPR reported on that whistleblower: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

who gives a fuck if they dont sell in EU

They sell in some countries of the EU, but yeah, they don’t serve the entire EU.

Without Spotify, many Europeans will go back to piracy.

Their catalogue isn’t visible even if you are in a supported country? Ouch. I hate how Qobuz keeps coming up in these threads, but they still don’t serve even Eastern Europe, let alone Global South countries - I don’t want to listen just to classical and jazz.

InfinityFree are based in the Netherlands, though at one point at least they were using US servers. It seems like the best solution for free hosting by far.