Mastodawn

I am spending this #GAAD at the Github Assistive Technology Hackathon and am enjoying the community of the event with so many other knowledgeable people interested in #a11y .

I have been working independently on two projects with accessibility features recently; improving keyboard accessibility in #Wireshark and an RTS game, Tribal Trouble (https://github.com/bondolo/tribaltrouble/) to which I recently added visually distinct selection rings (style in addition to color) and improved High Contrast features.

GitHub - bondolo/tribaltrouble: Restoration fork of classic Java Real Time Strategy Game Tribal Trouble

Restoration fork of classic Java Real Time Strategy Game Tribal Trouble - bondolo/tribaltrouble

GitHub

Gerald Combs May 22

Matthew Garrett May 22

People on the "LLMs mean all bugs need to be patched immediately" train: are you replacing your ops teams with LLMs as well or have you just forgotten why Patch Tuesday is Good, Actually

Gerald Combs May 20

Wireshark May 19

Wireshark 4.6.6 is now available!

See release notes here: 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝘄𝘄𝘄.𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗸.𝗼𝗿𝗴/𝗱𝗼𝗰𝘀/𝗿𝗲𝗹𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗲𝘀/𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗸-𝟰.𝟲.𝟲.𝗵𝘁𝗺𝗹

Support ongoing development by donating via the Wireshark Foundation: 𝗵𝘁𝘁𝗽𝘀://𝘄𝗶𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻.𝗼𝗿𝗴/𝗱𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲/

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Gerald Combs May 19

…and we managed to backport the welcome page slide preferences this time around! Sorry they were missing in 4.6.5.

Gerald Combs May 19

#Wireshark 4.6.6 has been released. Cheers! These releases are brought to you by the Wireshark Foundation. If you or your employer can donate, it would help us out immensely.

https://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-4.6.6.html

wiresharkfoundation.org/donate/

Wireshark • Go Deep | Wireshark • Wireshark 4.6.6 Release Notes

Wireshark: The world's most popular network protocol analyzer

Wireshark

Gerald Combs May 17

SwiftOnSecurity May 17

Fun Fact: Your WiFi access point needs to know what country it's in because of important laws about specific radio powers and channels and other functionality. It can be super-complicated! For example, DFS detects radar pulses and switches frequency for safety.
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wens/wireless-regdb.git/tree/db.txt?id=HEAD

Gerald Combs May 16

💙🩷💜Brett🐡🍉🐧May 12

sqlite dev talked about 'free as in a puppy' (someone gives u a patch for new feature then u have to maintain it for the next 25 years)

Gerald Combs May 12

daniel:// stenberg://May 12

High Quality chaos (a slide from a talk I do next week on this topic)

Gerald Combs May 11

Wireshark May 11

Interested in Stratoshark? Want to learn how to analyze system calls and log messages more effectively? Don’t miss Pre-Conference Class II at SharkFest’26 US in Nashville!

Josh Clark will lead this 1-day training course on July 20: Introduction to Stratoshark for Network Engineers. Get hands-on experience and level up your troubleshooting and analysis skills.

Gerald Combs May 9

Joacim Jacobsson May 9

Extremely cursed.

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