Friend of mine is asking for Audible alternatives, and I don't really do ebooks so I don't have a clue. But I'm *sure* I've seen some of you all talking about some. What are your favorites?
Linux Deploy (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/ru.me…) hasn't seen any update since 2020, and its repo fell dormant in 2021. We still see about 40 installs per month from our repo.
Anyone here using it? Is it still working and considered useful, so we should keep it?
The Japanese koto is one of those go-to #instrument for relaxation #Music, but it also has a touch of otherworldliness to it at times, i.e. deliberate dissonances, microtonal nuances, etc. It's a zither with 13 strings, though there have been variants with up to 80. This is a performance by ENOKIDO Fuyuki (20 mins long) with a great selection of pieces. Wonderfully played with loads of expressiveness.. #Ethnomusicology #WorldMusic youtube.com/watch?v=VFK8_9RcaO…
One of the most recognisable and evocative sounds of Japan, the 'koto' is a Japanese stringed instrument made from paulownia wood with a rich musical history...
I heard that KDE could use some fundraising campaign artwork, so calling all artists who may follow me:
If you like KDE stuff like Krita or Plasma etc..
And if you like Konqi and Katie
We could use some artwork: Drawings of Konqi and Katie for fundraising efforts. Here is a good example: community.kde.org/File:Konqui-…
The promo folk will explain more what they need specifically, I'm mostly a messenger.
It is volunteer work (so very likely no payment) and the artwork will have to have permissive license such as CC-BY-SA. And I understand for many artists that's a lot to ask.. But you never know if you don't ask right?
There's different style campaigns for different holiday seasons. If you're interested, let me know here or my email, and I'll give out details how to contact the promo team. You can also chat with them directly through their Matrix channel: community.kde.org/Get_Involved…
Dr. Jane Goodall filmed an interview with Netflix in March 2025 with the understanding it would only be released after her death. In it, she discusses blasting Trump and Musk deep into space and shares the message, "Don't lose hope"
Hoy me está tocando las narices la web del Santander. Me había quedado con este banco porque era accesible, y la nueva versión es una puta mierda pinchada en un palo, el foco se mueve por ahí solo, etc. Creo que voy a presentar una denuncia por falta de accesibilidad.
es una lástima que sean unos abusones que cobran hasta por respirar, pero tanto la web como la app de Abanca son muy buenas, sin embargo como banco los desaconsejo mucho.
Pues a lo mejor tengo que acabar allí. De momento he presentado una reclamación al Santander. Si no, elevaré al Banco de España, y supongo que al final no me harán ni puto caso, pero bueno, por intentarlo que no quede.
Since a speaker at #FediDay25 made the offhand comment that "advertisement is free speech" allow me to offer a quick rebuttal: No, emotionally manipulating people into buying shit they don’t need is not free speech.
Any instance distributing advertisements into the #Fediverse needs to be defederated immediately.
this is a controversial, but interesting topic, imho. I'm all against marketing, and corporate bs, but what do you think about self promoting content? Are things like "hey, I made this" advertisement? What about "we have this community that provides this service"?
@gnomon would you call me, telling folks about my coaching services, an ad? (In among all my meme and activist and personal micro-blog toots)? I would consider that quite different than a paid ad on a third-party account.
What do you think, in the context of this conversation? Just curious.
Electronic Frontier Foundation, because unlike the others listed here & many more I've seen, they include #DisabilityAccessibility as an element of digital freedom. Most groups & individuals I've encountered view it as a "choice" & thusly disabilities as prisons disabled people aren't allowed to leave.
I would shamelessly add @privacyguides ! We work hard to defend privacy rights at Privacy Guides, and every donation helps us fighting even harder 💛✊ infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon…
Step 1: Assemble a great team 🙌
Step 2: Privacy accessible to everyone 🔒
Step 3: Non-profit 💚
Privacy Guides needs your help
to keep fighting for your privacy rights!
If you can afford it,
we would greatly appreciate your financial support.
I never give money to any privacy org that takes money or favors from Google, Facebook, or other companies running surveillance infrastructure (and being used by governments). Last I checked, EFF does take such money, but I'm willing to be corrected if they've changed course. #privacy
Hey @RogueAmoeba. Mac OS has a feature that ducks system audio when joining a call, e.g. on FaceTime or in Safari. This is a problem for Voice Over users. Even though VO itself is somehow exempted, other apps that use speech, notably the much superrior terminal screen reader tdsr, are not. Neither is any audio (including screen readers) that comes from virtual machines. As far as I understand, this cannot be disabled by the user in any way. Since your apps reach so deeply into Mac OS's audio internals, can any of them be used to bypass this feature, and if so, how?
SPD i Motoristé si nárokují obsazení dvou ministerských křesel v nové Babišově vládě. ANO je proti, cítí se silné a od malých partají žádá jen tichou podporu.
a teď jak z toho. Má možnost je odmítnout a hledat podporu jinde, jenže oni ho obratem potopí a “za trest” vydají ke stíhání… Má teď možnost volby tygr nebo tygr. Jsem zvědavý, jak z toho “pan nejlepší” vybruslí
@LukeAlmighty jj jen se těším, až SPD v tom Babiš vykoupe a udělá že sebe obětního beránka 🤣 Co si budeme vyprávět, ČSSD to pod taktovkou ANO, taky moc daleko nedotáhla.
CELÝ DÍL NAJDETE NA https://herohero.co/studion A V RÁMCI KLUBOVÉHO PŘEDPLATNÉHO DENÍKU N https://denikn.cz/podcast-studio-n/„I volič, který prohrál, může na...
Jejich hlavní sliby jdou zásadně proti zájmům ANO. Turek chce dramaticky snižovat schodky a dluhy, rušit dotace a nikomu nic nedávat. Pitomio pořád básní o czexitu a vyhošťování migrantů. Navíc má v partaji 5 pijavic, co jdou jen po korytech (Majerová, Rajchl...).
A oběma reálně hrozí, že skončí jak Hamáček, když nic neprosadí nebo budou jen tiše sedět a zvedat pracky podle Babiše.
Euro prudce klesá po zprávě, že rezignoval nový francouzský premiér
(ČTK)
https://www.ceskenoviny.cz/zpravy/euro-prudce-klesa-po-zprave-ze-rezignoval-novy-francouzsky-premier/2730573
Takový hezký den to mohl být. Člověk ráno vstane, všude svítí — vždyť když vyhrála ta lepší vláda, elektřina bude skoro zadarmo. Možná nám i budou doplácet! Do Německa jsem to valil jen na dvojku, ať ten diesel pořádně hulí. Den jak z pohlednice… Než jsem se v práci blbě otočil — a cvak! Záda v háji. Sotva se hýbu. Tak zas marodím. Mě už fakt klepne.
důležitý je si to udělat hezký. Neboj, oni ti teď dají protekční, naprosto zdarma léčbu. A možná na tom vyděláš, když budeš chabrus na záda jak důchodce… To jsou přece ti, co se teď budou mít nejlíp.
The selection of apps being offered on @accrescent remains pretty random, with barely any infos about these provided within the app. Neither the Play Store the F-Droid approaches to this are perefect, but this is way worse. 😬 Still wondering what the target audience for Accrescent is...
Tato kniha je, kdyby to někoho zajímalo, zdarma k dispozici na webu Městské knihovny v Praze. (Ovšem bez obrázků, pokud se něco ohledně práv nezměnilo.)
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🌎 If you are not European: Spread the word! Talk about it on social media. Contact your local media. Contact your representatives to share your concerns about similar proposals and the loss of privacy rights. This would affect you too!
This is an urgent matter. We cannot let the West slip in this authoritarian dystopia. We must stop Chat Control ✊🛑
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I'm sure I recently saw a post to the effect that when a measure becomes a target it stops being an effective measure - or something very much like that. Now I can't find it. Does this ring any bells for anyone? 🔔
I feel like WhatsApp and Facebook messenger need to have a way to disable calls entirely. Why? Because some humans are the reason I need to enable do not disturb. humans need to learn some manners.
Das Client-Side-Scanning ist ein Angriff auf Verschlüsselung und untergräbt jegliches Vertrauen in private Kommunikation. Die Bundesregierung muss sich endlich eindeutig dagegen positionieren und die #ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN!
Twitter was the place where the news happened, not where it was reported. You want to be where Taylor Swift announces she got engaged, not where news outlets report on her engagement. Bringing news outlets onto the Fediverse is not going to recreate the magic that Twitter had.
True. Yet it's a critical mass problem. Taylor Swift will join the Fediverse if enough people are here. News outlets may help to pave the way. Or even better, the journalists not the news sites themselves.
@lostgen yes, public broadcasters have a moral obligation to be here. Cross posting an RSS feed onto the Fediverse is not going to move the needle. Original, interesting content will.
I was at #FediDay25 in Berlin over the weekend. Lots of discussion about how we can get institutions and public broadcasters onto the #Fediverse.
When I was on Twitter, I mostly followed personal accounts from journalists and researchers because I was interested in their hot takes that didn't get filtered through social media departments. If we want to get them on the Fediverse, it needs to become a place where they genuinely want to be. Public pressure won't be enough.
No shit Java can't get the HiDPI settings properly.
xdpyinfo reports my screen is bigger than it is. dpi is 256, not 96 like it claims. (not sure what Java does to be honest. so maybe it's a red hearing)
just finished a fabulous book by Steven Greenblatt describing the life of Christopher Marlowe. Quite an amazing read and lots of insights into renaissance England. Highly recommend. oh yeah, it was read by one of our favorite narrators Edoardo Ballerini! 🙂 audible.com/pd/B0FG972PJV?sour…
Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Will in the World reveals the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe―Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival.
* Vaguely radio-looking. * Small, portable, like a Bluetooth speaker. * Connects to a home server with music. * Lets one choose music through a screen and good controls. Or a touch screen or something.
Basically I want the convenience of a Bluetooth speaker without having to fuck around with a phone. I want a dedicated radio-like box that knows how to talk to my home music server.
@vivia any server, really... I've been using navidrome, which works fine with a web client, but all the subsonic apps I have found are absolute garbage. I haven't tried musicpd but have had multiple recommendations. Also haven't tried jellyfin.
check out some of the products from Ocean Digital. I have a couple that are many years old but they still make me I've I think.
Had tried many before I kept these. They do Internet radio with simple presets and also will connect to home server eg NAS (via DLNA) for playing playlists and/or selecting by artist, album, title.
Probably other similar products around but have been mostly happy with these.
Kinda funny how easy it is to complain about something when you're not the one having to actually deal with the core of the problem. And just leaving that there.
We went from "we will deport the worst of the worst" to "we will deport anyone here illegally" to "we will round up anyone who looks wrong" to "people who live in cities are the enemy" essentially overnight.
Wow, what a great use of MCP for interacting with Chrome Devtools: addyosmani.com/blog/devtools-m… I tried this with gemini-cli and it works quite well. Obviously, any other MCP client will work!
I keep seeing things about the big Audacity redesign. My only question is: how accessible will it be? As I recall, there were accessibility regressions in the past that were not addressed. I know Reaper is the one everyone likes these days, but I have a soft spot for Audacity. It was the first editor I learned to use. It taught me a lot of core concepts. I don't do much audio editing these days, but I still hope Audacity becomes a solid option for screen reader users.
It will be, I can pretty much guarantee that. The company behind it also develops MuseScore, and when version four came out, they did a huge accessibility push. The UI engine they're using is the same one that will be used in Audacity, and I would be extremely surprised if accessibility was not heavily considered during this redesign. I think that's one of the problems they're trying to fix, as right now at least on macOS accessibility with the current version is pretty bad.
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 ...
Well I have done it! I am now taking a personal #NVDA challenge. I have just uninstalled #JFW from my computer. I am going to see if between now and November 4th I can make it without using JFW at all. I already know of one area that I am going to have troubles, so if anyone who knows how to write things for NVDA wants to try to help, this is your chance. If someone could write an addon for NVDA that will allow someone to go to a web site, and save it as a favorite into a folder on there computer like #Leasie for JFW can do that would be greatly appreciated.
We look forward to hearing how you go! I know the favourite-saving issue has been a big one for you, so do please let us know if you find a solution - and of course, do let us know of any other niggles or problems which crop up!
@NVAccess I do have a salution. someone wrote an addon for me that does exactly what I wantted, and needed. I am sending them a donation as soon as I can to thank them for writing it. I am also trying to talk them into releasing it for the NVDA app store. they said if they do that they would want to put a bit more work into it, but me personally I think it is perfect. smile.
What a busy day! Yeah, Saturday ended up being a work day. Besides purchasing the AirPods Pro 3 and selling my 2 Pro, I also moved my work machine from NVDA alphas to the stable release, version 2025.3. I usually run NVDA alphas even on my work machines since I can easily downgrade if something goes wrong, and I can usually live with a few add-on incompatibilities. But with the 2026.1 alphas going 64-bit only, a good number of add-ons have been affected, including all the Eloquence and IBMTTS ones. I just can’t handle an Eloquence-less world yet, LOL! Also the horrible on-device image captioning! Let's just call it an experiment, and leave it at that. Unless the underlying model gets altered, it will disappoint many users down the road. @NVAccess
We appreciate all the constructive feedback on the quality of the image description, and yes we got that loud and clear, thank you. Note that regardless of the quality or what we do with it - that doesn't stop you using the various add-ons which provide image description (notwisthstanding that they won't have been updated for 64-bit yet, but that's expected).
You're welcome, and I do appreciate your stance on that! Of course, I'd rather see something worthwhile coming out of your implementation of the feature as a lot of time and engineering effort have been dedicated to it. But with offline AI models especially smaller ones, it would be tough to get anything useful.
"Online models often use higher processing power and can give better descriptions than local models. We have opted for local models for freedom, ease of use and data privacy reasons. Using online models generally require you to pay to use them, and set up API keys. Local models ensure your data is never sent to a third party, usage is free, and you don't need to set up keys." 1/2
2/2 "The model we are currently shipping with is Xenova/vit-gpt2-image-captioning, however we plan to add the option to download more models. Newer & better models are always coming out, so we've designed the code to be easily upgraded... We expect the quality of local models to continue to improve to a point where they are competitive with online models. I'm not aware of a clear statistic of accuracy rate for this model, but with any models, expect accuracy to vary."
Thanks for the clarification. Honestly though, in my experience (and from others I’ve seen testing it), this model hasn’t produced a single accurate or useful caption. The outputs are extremely short, generic, and often just plain wrong. I understand the code is designed to swap in better local models as they appear, which is great — but at this point it’s hard to be optimistic about offline models. The quality gap compared to online ones still feels very large. Hopefully future updates will narrow that gap.
not that I have much to contribute to this, but I know I am running OLlama on my laptop, and I connect to it from my desktop, and it has an offline moddle. it is a pretty big moddle, I think, but it can get pretty detailed if I ask it to. I don't know anything about moddles that are under say a gig in size, as I am pretty sure the moddle I have running is over a gig. I don't know how large it is though.
@JamminJerry I do prefer online models for accuracy. Yes - with online models we may face security risks. But it's up to us to decide which images to share with online models and which images not to. And why should I dedicate over a gig of SSD and vast CPU/ GPU capabilities to that when online models can get the job done? It's a huge waste IMO. Of course, it's just my preference. @NVAccess
@JamminJerry Then an offline module may never meet your needs, and that's ok - the good news is that NVDA HAS been able to meet your needs for online image description for over six years now :)
Beko Pharm
in reply to IzzyOnDroid ✅ • • •IzzyOnDroid ✅
in reply to Beko Pharm • • •@bekopharm Feedback is always welcome! Especially if an app is no longer working – or, as in your case, an old "niche" one is still working fine 😉
And yeah, cleanup – in connection with a metadata reorg. Entering the finish line soon 🤞