Several mayors, including at least 14 in greater Montreal area, elected by acclamation
cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/se…
Nobody want the job of mayor...
This video about recent and ongoing evolution of Audacity (a popular open source audio editor) is a terrific case study—or several terrific case studies—about the challenges of developing software.
I was most interested in the Technical Debt (11:45) and Gradual Transformation (16:07) chapters, about how easy it is to tangle up your software architecture (even if you know better), how the tangle causes problems for you, and how much dedicated effort it takes to untangle.
youtube.com/watch?v=QYM3TWf_G3…
How We're Redesigning Audacity For The Future
This video digs into the research and design that went into gradually transforming Audacity 3 - a free and open source audio editor and production app - and ...YouTube
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Anyone with a Xiaomi device using the MiDoze app?
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/io.gi…
It wasn't updated since 2022, and the source repo was archived in 2023 – so it's unclear if it's still working at all (to download firmwares from Xiaomi).
EDIT: thanks for the feedback! As it's still working, we'll keep it for now.
#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid
„MiDoze“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
the easiest way to download firmwares for Xiaomi wearablesIzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
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Episode 45 of Access On, is on.
This week, we bring you an extended episode featuring a look at new features in #iOS 26. It includes a deep dive into a significant new #accessibility feature, Braille Access.
We cover numerous other accessibility and general enhancements.
Subscribe to Access On wherever you get podcasts, or download the audio for this episode at:
pinecast.com/listen/5b1b77d8-6…
This week, we bring you an extended episode featuring a look at new features in #iOS 26. It includes a deep dive into a significant new #accessibility feature, Braille Access.
We cover numerous other accessibility and general enhancements.
Subscribe to Access On wherever you get podcasts, or download the audio for this episode at:
pinecast.com/listen/5b1b77d8-6…
The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. eff.org/deeplinks/2025/09/chat…
Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped
The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people.Electronic Frontier Foundation
ChatGPT on the web says:
"Is this conversation helpful so far?"
Then it shows 3 buttons:
Button, button, button.
Accessibility well executed - LOL!
"Is this conversation helpful so far?"
Then it shows 3 buttons:
Button, button, button.
Accessibility well executed - LOL!
I fully understand the need for ads in order to keep some content free for people, but why do those ads have to bog down my screen reader? If I had a magic wand, I would place heavy performance fines on all advertisers or send their developers to take performance 101 courses. I mean, seriously…
Or just add Aria hidden = true to any ads frame, problem solved lol. Especially when they misuse that attribute to begin with.
Fedi admins, be aware that a lot of people who report abuse don't forward it to its original server because the official Mastodon app doesn't include this option.
If you're running a public Fedi server and you receive a report about a bad post, you might also want to report the bad post to yourself and make sure you've selected the option to forward it to the original server.
If the original server never receives a report, the spammer/abuser/etc will keep posting.
Wired - Documents show that ICE plans to hire dozens of contractors to scan X, Facebook, TikTok and other platforms to target people for deportation. wired.com/story/ice-social-med…
El siguiente Viernes tenemos evento de #xalapacode #xalapa
Les esperamos en la Facultad de Estadística e Informática de la Universidad Veracruzana que se localiza en Av. Xalapa s/n, Col.Obrero Campesina.
Más informes aquí: xalapacode.com/eventos/meetup-…
všetkého mám dosť naozaj
deťom rastú zuby musím sa ponáhľať domov
Putin is good at wining elections.
show this to anyone else you know who also assumed DHH was just a normal conservative dude rather than a raging white supremacist lunatic
jakelazaroff.com/words/dhh-is-…
DHH Is Way Worse Than I Thought | jakelazaroff.com
DHH's politics are not normal. Maybe they used to be, I don't know, but as of right now the dude is way outside of what most people would consider moral or acceptable.jakelazaroff.com
I'm using Paperback more and more these days. Unlike QRead, which I still need for Bookshare DAISY files, Paperback removes all the unnecessary blank lines between paragraphs and pages, and you can't imagine how nice that feels! It also loads books incredibly fast, no matter how large your EPUB or PDF files are. Huge kudos to the developer, and here's hoping DAISY support gets added soon so I can fully switch over.
github.com/trypsynth/paperback
@TheQuinbox
github.com/trypsynth/paperback
@TheQuinbox
GitHub - trypsynth/paperback: An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader.
An accessible, light-weight, cross-platform ebook and document reader. - trypsynth/paperbackGitHub
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OK, does Paperback support OCR already? I find Bookworm's OCR implementation great; it recognizes an entire book nearly perfectly within seconds.
@clv0 As far as I know, no. But it seems to be planned. I also had no luck with Bookworm's OCR. It's good, but nowhere near solutions like AABBYY FineReader, Omnipage or even the older Kurzweil 1000. @TheQuinbox
If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.
Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.
Over 400 arrests of protesters in London thanks to the government’s refusal to admit that their decision to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group has been a disaster The Labour gov has so far arrested well over 1,000 people for holding up signs www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Police make more than 440 arre...
Police make almost 500 arrests at Palestine Action protest in London
Officers arrest activists at silent vigil in support of banned organisation, as demos go ahead despite PM’s pleasRobyn Vinter (The Guardian)
New knives are amazingly good at cutting veggies, meat and bread. Oh, and fingers. Good thing I have fingernails. Ow!
Now that you know that you have fingernails, you should probably get some finger guards as well lol.
Evening all, my lovely, reliable, loyal chiming clock broke today. it's the one i have in the living room. It started to make odd noises, different to when it's batteries ran out. I pulled the battery out last night and believe i accidentally broke something inside. It was on it's way out anyway. It just feels sad, that clock's been with me for years and years, through many situations, providing comfort. Some may say it's only a clock, however, it was more than that.
You tell me. Recently lost a small pocket knife that has been with me since I went to Switzerland in 2001. Got taken away when almost ended up in the US instead of flying back home and then we had many many adventures since. I'm not even a knife person lol.
@AntennaPod Hi! I suppose you generate deeplinks only for advertising antennapod in links. But do you also analyse accesses to your deeplinks? The latter makes me avoid your deeplink sharing. I always copy the feed url from the feed's details.
We do not analyze the deeplinks. The deeplink page is a static website and the contents are filled locally in the browser, not on the server. You can view the source code of our website here to confirm this: github.com/AntennaPod/antennap… The main reason for the deeplink is that average users are confused by rss links that just show "code" when clicking them, without any explanation what this is or how to start playing
GitHub - AntennaPod/antennapod.github.io: AntennaPod website
AntennaPod website. Contribute to AntennaPod/antennapod.github.io development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
I feel like I need to use more of my brain, anyone feels like sending some puzzle boxes over?
By the by, crossword puzzles are amazing for this.
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Crossword puzzles you mean? Yes, but if they are presented well then it works.
Puzzle boxes can be a bit more tricky, e.g. you might have to navigate a marble inside the box to a specific part of it to put some weight on something, those are harder to solve, but a lot of them are not that fancy and you can just figure them out by touch.
this story goes into the many wild and different forms anti-trans discrimination comes in
including what happened with Amazon and my book Begin Transmission: The Trans Allegories of the Matrix
please read and learn about some of what we’re up against
we’re just trying to live our lives
transnews.network/p/the-discri…
The Discrimination We All Live With
Four stories reveal just some the discrimination trans people deal with every single day of our livesMira Lazine (Trans News Network)
One first step people should do to respond to this is start using the “report a speed trap” function in Apple Maps to report where ICE is operating. Make Apple party to the attempt to protect people. theverge.com/news/791533/googl…
Google removes ICE-spotting app following Apple’s ICEBlock crackdown
Google has removed Red Dot, an app people could use to report ICE sightings from Google Play, one day after Apple removed similar apps, including Red Dot and ICEBlock.Emma Roth (The Verge)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated, 3 added, & 3 removed apps:
+ Melotune: a music streaming app 🛡️
+ DSub2000: client for Subsonic & Funkwhale 🛡️
+ ArchiveTune: a Material 3 YouTube Music client 🛡️
- DSub: no longer maintained, replaced by its fork DSub2000
- Tsumugi: no longer working
- NextPass: archived 2024, development stopped ~2021
RB Status: 723 apps (55.8%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#linguists, riddle me this. Splice two words together. Terrible and horrific. You get, terrific? Which is a completely opposite vibe! Now clearly ific is some kind of suffix and probably doesn't carry it's own meaning that much, so let's ignore horrific for a second, but then how is that that the terr root of terrible, which is also used in terrify, became that meaning in terrific? Terrify and terrific are seemingly ridiculously close in the semantic tree, ify and ific I think being effectively variant forms for different parts of speech, and yet the actual meaning is completely opposite! Contrast with horrific and horrify, which are clearly related, one being an adjective and one being a verb, both meaning the same basic concept. Something horrific horrified you. But something terrific doesn't terrify you.... How does that make sense⁉️ How did that happen? Did the meaning used to be different? Was there some kind of morphing of the spoken or written form over time that ended up fudging one of those into that position? Am I incorrect about my preliminary analysis of the morphemes and their semantics? #linguistics #english
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Terrific (from terribilis), causing terror, essentially terrible. It meant this around the late 1800s and before.
Terrify, to cause (to make) terror, comes from terrificāre, it's Vulgar Latin.
While terrify's meaning remained the same, terrific had undergone a semantic shift, from negative to positive, however, there was an in-between state, where it was used ironically, or to add some flourish, extraordinaire, think of how we say something is a killer today.
This just reflects how cultural needs can change any language in even the weirdest directions.
New instance for me, so I'll try to introduce myself, because why not. I am 45/straight/cis (well, I might be ace somehow, but Idk) and live in Austin, TX, USA. In general, I tend to think about patterns that occur in society and how best to look at situations. I think a lot about the political situation in the US but feel like I don't know the solution. I am totally blind and am involved with Linux accessibility (I currently work for SUSE), so sometimes I post about that. I also find land use and transit to be interesting, since they are related, and both impact me as a pedestrian. I'd consider myself spiritual, and I've gone to the local UU church off and on, although lately I've been finding it harder to motivate myself to go out and do things. Other than that, in no particular order, I like swimming, podcasts, puns, coffee shops, music, reading and writing. I also have mikegorse.substack.com, but, alas, I haven't written there in a while--I need to get into the habit of blogging again.
Chronicles from an unstable era | Mike Gorse | Substack
It's a time of change. I sometimes write about politics, or disability, or the way we think about things, or the ways these things intersect. Click to read Chronicles from an unstable era, by Mike Gorse, a Substack publication. Launched 2 years ago.Chronicles from an unstable era
Dad just bought a lazy chair for the living room in my brother's house. I told him I'm gonna fight him for it. Giggle.
They already were though
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/floc…
Flock’s Gunshot Detection Microphones Will Start Listening for Human Voices
Flock Safety, the police technology company most notable for their extensive network of automated license plate readers spread throughout the United States, is rolling out a new and troubling product that may create headaches for the cities that adop…Electronic Frontier Foundation
#linuxdays was one of the best conferences I have ever presented. Wow.
So, is this the time where we cut off the bluesky bridge?
Hey - I am honestly responding to what I do recognize might be rhetorical, but I'm curious (as a platform moderator/community admin type) what your concern is behind the question.
And I don't mean the skinny on what's up over on Bsky, I'm quite well on top of a number of the latest ass-showings.
Looking to better understand the suggested remedy from the users' view.
@johannab the case where the CEO of Bsky went all antitrans and did override the moderators moderating a notorious anti-trans. On this, maybe it's worth looking at whether the bridge is a good idea.
Bridging is a network technology concept now offering various tools to individual users who make their personal selections on how they do and do not want to engage with other individual users.
It is also is the category of interoperability tools which allows Bounce and similar innovations to help users migrate their social graphs off of ATProto systems and onto/into the APFediverse.
Making "the bridge" the problem is very much asking your admin to aim squarely at your own feet.
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I took a stab at converting eloquence to work with the 64-bit #NVDA alphas. Unfortunately, it's a bit laggy, and pitch doesn't come back down after a capital letter. Does anyone know what I've messed up? share.interfree.ca/api/v2/open/share/5GvHXPCRd2o-5iEwCHmxHBN-Sc64A9wtps1-e6yzfabRwV3/file/3ewj7im7W4t-AQKhhGYmydH-1KhDfBeb1YN-inxCAb3LFb8#python#grpc#screenreader#accessibility#a11y
Shocked — just shocked — to discover that supposedly-decentralised social network Bluesky is entirely under the control of the single company that developed it and runs the entire network, and that their CEO is able to personally override moderation decisions to unban high-profile transphobes and ban people who complain about it.
This was completely impossible to predict and nobody ever suspected that anything like this could happen from the outset.
I've been buying Costco brand coffee (which is basically Starbucks) for about a year now. It started off costing less than $20 CAD ($15 USD) for 40 OZ (1.13 KG). In the last year, it's slowly risen until all the varieties are well over $30 per kilogram.
So I went looking for other coffee to try. And I found Tim Hortons ($30 for 1.36 KG), McDonalds ($38 for 1.36 KG), and even Folgers ($28.49 for 1.21 KG). And looking at other stores, the prices there aren't any better. Kicking Horse used to be the expensive brand and it is now notably cheaper than McDonalds coffee. Is there like ... a coffee bean shortage somewhere in the world? This is a bizarre amount of inflation.
So I went looking for other coffee to try. And I found Tim Hortons ($30 for 1.36 KG), McDonalds ($38 for 1.36 KG), and even Folgers ($28.49 for 1.21 KG). And looking at other stores, the prices there aren't any better. Kicking Horse used to be the expensive brand and it is now notably cheaper than McDonalds coffee. Is there like ... a coffee bean shortage somewhere in the world? This is a bizarre amount of inflation.
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Along with cocoa, coffee is very likely to become a luxury product in our lifetimes. Reason? climate change.
I have to go work because childrens will be hungry and naked. 
🇩🇪Letzte-Minute-Alarm: CSU-Innenministerium drängt mit Fake-Änderung auf Koalitions-Ja zur #Chatkontrolle am Dienstag – Augenwischerei: patrick-breyer.de/beitraege/ch…
🗳️Deutschlands Stimme ist entscheidend.
🔥Protestiert JETZT! Lasst die Tasten glühen ⌨️
👉fightchatcontrol.de
Chatkontrolle
🇫🇷 Französisch: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0 🇸🇪 Schwedisch: Chat Control 2.0🇳🇱 Niederländisch: Chatcontrole Inhalt der Seite: Die Abschaffung des Digitalen Briefgeheimnisses Hilf jetzt mit die Chatkontrolle zu stoppen…Patrick Breyer
🇪🇺Germany's Interior Ministry is pushing a sham amendment to bully the 🇩🇪 coalition into approving #ChatControl on Tuesday - securing a Council majority. Total trick: patrick-breyer.de/en/posts/cha…
Act NOW and ramp up the heat on YOUR government: fightchatcontrol.eu
Chat Control: The EU's CSAM scanner proposal
🇫🇷 French: Traduction du dossier Chat Control 2.0, stopchatcontrol.fr🇸🇪 Swedish: Chat Control 2.0🇩🇰 Danish: chatcontrol.Patrick Breyer
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