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PS. With all the Discord stuff, in case you wonder why you never see me promoting Matrix, it’s not because it’s a usability nightmare (which it is) but because it’s made by the kind of people who’d be happy to call ICE a customer.
The “F” in FOSS doesn’t stand for fascism.
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Norrköping! As in the place in Sweden where our friends @… live?!
#osgeo #GISChat #OpenSource

When you are a C developer, every day is Xmas!
https://www.swift.org/blog/improving-usability-of-c-libraries-in-swift/

Improving the usability of C libraries in Swift
There are many interesting, useful, and fun C libraries in the software ecosystem. While one could go and rewrite these libraries in Swift, usually there is no need, because Swift provides direct interoperability with C. With a little setup, you can directly use existing C libraries from your Swift code.

"The #userinterfaces of the late ’90s were the last ones designed by people who actually cared, by people who approached the whole process with the end user in mind, rooted in scientific data collected by simply looking at people use their ideas. They were optimised for the user as best they could, instead of being optimised for the company’s bottom line.
It’s been downhill ever sin…

RE: #FreeBSD

Headed home today. Setting up the Mobile Passport Control app since Global Entry is currently not operating. The MPC app is remarkably good! Clear instructions, easy usability, it's very nice. It basically just collects your immigration info and customs declarations, replaces a paper form, but they did it nicely.

I recently posted I am exploring how I'd improve the LLM usability for CLI tools, here's a follow up of claude using a LLM format enabled CLI, how it's using it and how it helped
https://youtu.be/llc0MKVH8ik

An underwhelming experience, my first setup of T2SDE. Technically absolutely something very special and blazingly fast and snappy. But at the moment too many usability gaps (installer, upgrading, documentation) to use it (even in beta) as a daily driver. At least for me. A pity.

Older paper but worth reading: "Our findings reveal that mechanisms embedded in modern E2EE messaging architectures – such as delivery receipts and multi-device support – can have significant implications on user privacy. Consequently, it is essential to balance functional requirements, usability and convenience with privacy and security, particularly in E2EE applications that are inherently privacy-sensitive per design."

Careless Whisper: Exploiting Silent Delivery Receipts to Monitor Users on Mobile Instant Messengers
With over 3 billion users globally, mobile instant messaging apps have become indispensable for both personal and professional communication. Besides plain messaging, many services implement additional features such as delivery and read receipts informing a user when a message has successfully reached its target. This paper highlights that delivery receipts can pose significant privacy risks to users. We use specifically crafted messages that trigger delivery receipts allowing any user to be pi…

Die größte Lücke im Fediverse existiert derzeit beim Thema Videos.
Ich meine echte Videos, nicht Sekundenschnipsel.
Hier gibt es eigentlich nur PeerTube und dessen Usability ist grausam.
Der mobile Client auf iOS ist praktisch unbenutzbar und die Webseite ist nicht besser.
Es scheitert schon bei simplen Dingen wie einer funktionierenden Suche.
Die Bewertung mit 2.8 Sternen im AppStore ist entsprechend schlecht, eigentlich noch zu gut.
Einzig die Desktop-Webs…

Auf der Webseite der #BSR sind die Leerungstermine der diversen Mülltonnen so schwer zu finden, dass ich seit Jahren da immer dran scheitere.
Ich hab jetzt perplexity gefragt wo die Termine stehen, das war schneller als auf der Seite rum zu suchen oder deren eigene Suche zu bedienen, die nur Sachen findet, wenn man den genau richtigen Wortlaut eingibt.
Ich glaube, ein Usability-Team hat da noch nie drüber gesehen.

Laptop Support and Usability (LSU): roadmap – 2026, first quarter – FreeBSD Foundation
<https://freebsdfoundation.github.io/proj-laptop/monthly-updates/Roadmap-Q1 2026.pdf> @…

…OK, that plus human training on basic usage opsec, but that’s mostly not a stuff app vendors can fix. Although usability defaults would help with some of it.

It appears that you can resolve most of GrapheneOS's severe performance limitations and tendency to aggressively kill background apps (after like 15 seconds!) by globally disabling "secure app spawning" and per-app disabling the "hardened memory allocator." At that point, however, you're pretty much left with a gimped AOSP that's missing a bunch of core usability functionality yeeted in the name of security, and you might as well install LineageOS. Or maybe Ca…

I get a steady stream in my replies of meant-to-be-helpful advice of the form “You should use [complex F/OSS tech] to [do complex thing] that [solves a problem you don’t have but renders the process unusable for the people doing it]”
…when the real tech problems we’re facing on the ground here, both with Signal and other tools, are 99% just ground-level UX stuff:
- basic, basic usability glitches
- workflow friction
- problematic default settings
- reliability

Dr. #Rogalla und A. Bode haben es bei ihrem Vortrag auf den Punkt gebracht:
"#Barrierefreiheit ist kein Feature. Es ist #Usability für alle."
Das ist genau da, wo wir mit Luna LMS andocken. 🚀
#LunaLMS #Chemnitz #clt2026 #ChemnitzerLinuxTage #OpenSource