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📢 Introducing a Great Companion to Librem Devices 📱 💻

The Lapdock is a docking station (or “dock”) combined with a laptop frame, for use with Librem 5 phones, Librem 14 🎉

Experience the power of convergence with PureOS on Librem devices!

puri.sm/posts/announcing-the-l…

Announcing the Lapdock Kit – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
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Jonathan Frederickson

I have a few NexDocks for convergence (though not the 360) and what's turned me off from getting any more is the touchpads are consistently *awful*. Phantom clicks with even the lightest touch and they only emulate a mouse, so those nice multitouch gestures in GNOME are forever out of reach

If that's changed with the 360 I'm interested, but my understanding from those who've bought one is it hasn't. I'd be glad to be wrong though!

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Coming up live at 00:00 UTC (7:00 PM Eastern, 4:00 PM Pacific in the Americas) on The Global Voice Internet Radio: two hours of relaxing #newage, #ambient, and #meditationmusic on Northern Lights: The New Age Show with Kelly Sapergia. More information about the show is at ksapergia.net/northernlights/. Tune in either by visiting theglobalvoice.info and clicking on the Listen Live link, or put the following URL in your favorite media player: theglobalvoice.info:8000/broad… #TGVRadio #audio

Northern Lights: The New Age Show

Northern Lights is a weekly live and interactive show featuring the best mix of relaxing music from independent and mainstream artists. Genres you’ll hear include New Age, Ambient, and music …
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#audio #ambient #newage #meditationmusic #tgvradio

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Image is a post from Monica Goel from CVS Health. Full text in image alt text - it starts: "CVS Health Accessibility is happy to announce a donation to NV Access in support of their mission that every person who is blind or vision impaired deserves the right to free & easy access to technology, regardless of their language, location or financial situation."

Thank you so much Monica & the whole team at CVS Health! Your generous support helps us continue our mission to provide NVDA free to all!

CVS Health Accessibility is happy to announce a donation to NV Access in support of their mission that every person who is blind or vision impaired deserves the right to free & easy access to technology, regardless of their language, location, or financial situation. NV Access is a not-for-profit organisation that developed NVDA (NonVisual Desktop Access), a free screen reader software that allows people who are blind or vision impaired to access and interact with the Windows operating system and many third-party applications. It's been translated by volunteers into more than 55 languages and used by people in more than 175 countries. NVDA is also open-source software, enabling translators and developers around the world to continually contribute to its expansion and improvement. We at CVS Health #Accessibility look forward to building a productive relationship with NV Access as we continue to use #NVDA software to help improve accessibility of our products and services for our customers and colleagues with #disabilities. #a11y !DisabilityInclusion

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If you've arrived from Twitter and you want to find your friends from Twitter on here, there are some tools to do this:

🐦 Debirdify
pruvisto.org/debirdify

🔍 Fedifinder
fedifinder.glitch.me

🐑 Flock
mastodon-flock.vercel.app

Twitter said they were shutting down the API these tools rely on last Monday, but this doesn't seem to have happened yet.

So, for the moment these tools work, but they could stop working at any moment. If you're going to use them, this is possibly last chance to do so.


Mastodon Flock

Migrate your tweeps to the Fediverse
mastodon-flock.vercel.app

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If you're using OSM, either as a blind individual profiting from the available mapping data with one of the navigation apps or as a an OSM contributor, this OSM wiki article could be interesting as it explains how to map the world with blind users in mind. It explains specialty tags, some of which I had no idea existed, suggests tools for data entry and introduces the Blind OSM project. #OSM #GPS #Navigation #Mapping #Accessibility #Blind OSM for the blind – OpenStreetMap Wiki wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OS…

OSM for the blind - OpenStreetMap Wiki

wiki.openstreetmap.org
#Accessibility #blind #OSM #mapping #navigation #gps

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Paweł Masarczyk

@richlv @vorompatra Hello. Please check out the wonderful work some of my friends at Transition Technologies are doing with their Seeing Assistant Move app,, available on both iOS and Android. It could do with some more improvements, extracting more of the relevant information but they are pretty far already and it's going to improve. Another one coming very close is Dotwalker available for Android. For Windows, GRMapa, a map simulation tool using audio cues, allows for reading of any tags associated with a POI. zlotowicz.pl/grmapa/
@Rihards Olups @Mārtiņš Zvaigzne

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Hi @Tusky are you aware of this issue?
github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/issu…

Also seeing this problem and wondering if it is a regression in a recent version since previously adding accounts was possible on my android device.


Can't add new instance · Issue #3196 · tuskyapp/Tusky

When trying to log in to a new instance, I type the domain in, click "log in with mastodon", then I get a brief flash with the android logo upside down in the top left of the screen, then...
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modern JS is going just great 👍

- nolanlawson.com/2022/05/21/the…
- andy-bell.co.uk/the-extremely-…
- dev.to/oxharris/rethinking-the…
- daverupert.com/2023/02/the-cas…
- ericwbailey.website/published/…
- matuzo.at/blog/2023/single-pag…


Rethinking the Modern Web

Frontend has an engineering problem! It is one field that has forged about the most enviable tooling...
Oxford Harrison (DEV Community 👩‍💻👨‍💻)

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Web Accessibility Global Usage Survey

“The Data:
We will have data from this survey available at webaccessibilitysurvey.com and on /r/blind later this year (2023) for everyone in raw versions and in reports.”

#a11y #accessibility #web

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Web Accessibility Global Usage Survey

Participation in this survey can change the perspective of different industries and communities on accessibility and its impact on real-world issues.
72pcs53kctq.typeform.com
#a11y #Accessibility #web

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If your Microsoft login does not work anymore, automated scans could be the reason. 👀

This is what happened to Malik. Suddenly he was cut off from his Microsoft account - emails, contacts, calendars - all gone.

The best way to protect your data: encryption! 🔒

tutanota.com/blog/posts/micros…


Why Malik's Microsoft login suddenly did not work.

Big Tech companies like Microsoft and Google scan for criminal content. This could lead to your login being disabled.
Tutanota

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Hello Fediverse 😀
We are starting this account for Qt Project related communication, events, and many more things.

Did you know that there is a simple page that gives you the instructions to contribute to Qt? and also you can get some nice plots to see the activity on all the repositories!

contribute.qt-project.org

#qt #oss #qtproject #floss

The Qt Project

contribute.qt-project.org
#oss #floss #qt #qtproject

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Picked up a Fuji X-Pro1 11 years ago while I was still using mostly Canon. Today I have a whole family of X-trans sensor Fujis (and one of these is my daughter's camera, with another in "joint custody mode" between the two of us).

More than happy with this camera and sensor system. So happy I started to box up my final Canon lenses for sale today.

#photography #fujifilm

a collection of fujifilm cameras on a table, some with large bulky lenses, others with small lenses or built in retracted lenses.
#photography #fujifilm

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We were at the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany – spreading the word about LibreOffice and free software! blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Photo of LibreOffice stand

LibreOffice at the Univention Summit 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

Thorsten Behrens and Lothar Becker from the LibreOffice community attended the recent Univention Summit 2023 in Bremen, northern Germany. They had a stand with LibreOffice merchandise, talked to visitors and answered questions.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

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Webinar: Bridging The Gap Between Accessibility and Education, Feb 28, a free a11yBayArea online event meetup.com/a11ybay/events/2915… #TeachAccess #a11y #edu #events

Bridging The Gap Between Accessibility and Education

Join us to learn more about the work of [Teach Access](http://www.teachaccess.org). Their mission is: "Bringing together industry, education, and disabilit
Meetup
#a11y #events #teachaccess #edu
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Joe Brockmeier (@jzb)

Would be curious to hear your thoughts on it.

Skimming the announcement it seems they're toying with static, context-driven ads - e.g., you view a page about something JS-related, maybe you get an ad for a JS tool from MSFT.

You know - old school web advertising.

Mozilla and other FOSS entities have to pay people somehow, so I'm not automatically opposed to this.

OTOH, it's hard to imagine it stops here.

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Techdirt's @mmasnick reports that US Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna is spreading a kooky conspiracy theory about...

*drum roll*

Jira!

That's right! What looks like a mere bug tracker is actually a tool used by social media companies to communicate with the Deep State!

She even made a chart to prove it!

(Note: this is silly on so many levels. Especially when Trello is so much better for collusion 😉)

techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extrao…

Anna Paulina Luna Tweet: state actor via Twitter 1.0 Chart demonstrating big tech and big government collusion

Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov’t Censors… Via Jira

I wrote last week about the bizarrely bad House Oversight hearing that was supposed to expose how Twitter, the deep state, and the, um “Biden Crime Family” conspired to suppress the NY …
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⚠️ :google: #Google rolls out a so-called #privacy tool that replaces one form of trackers with another.

🔎 :android: Don't use Google's proprietary and distributions of #Android if you want to avoid #SurveillanceCapitalism.

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Android launches yet another way to spy on users with “Privacy Sandbox” beta

Rather than match iOS's tracking limits, Google built an additional tracking system.
Ars Technica
#android #google #privacy #surveillancecapitalism

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I can believe this, having worked in the wireless industry for six years. 5 with the fruit company. A year with vzw. Carrier systems let you do more than the fruit company's systems do. It's the same with pretty much any authorized retailor that sells iPhones. If you have a simple upgrade to do, you're fine going into an Apple store, assuming you're with one of the four major carriers. But if you're doing installments with a smaller carrier, go to them directly. If you have multiple upgrades, as in more than two, your carrier will probably be able to help you faster using their systems. Apple retail cannot answer questions about your phone bill, cannot change your plan without performing an upgrade, and you need additional documentation if you're an AT&T customer trying to add a line out of state. This is because fraudsters like to go to Apple stores to buy iPhones instead of AT&T directly. And I'm sure there's more I'm missing since I haven't worked at a store in awhile. Point is, any edge case or slight variance in a traditional process would make us send you to your carrier, back when I worked there. Because we couldn't do certain things systematically, or it would just be too slow for us to do what the customer was trying to do.

AppleInsider, Mobile carriers sell more iPhones than Apple retail stores
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Mobile carriers sell more iPhones than Apple retail stores

Apple's online sales and retail stores combine to be the leading seller of iPads and Macs, but the company falls behind carriers in iPhone sales.
Andrew Orr (AppleInsider)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated and 1 new apps:

* Focus Launcher: a minimalist launcher/homescreen

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo
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