Still love the Cadence for day to day. I could be in a meeting reviewing code on it, since Google Meet does cancel out the sound it makes, and so much more fits. About one sentence or full line of code. Reviewing indentations can work just as well, although one line of code may be several unindented lines of Braille if the line splits at a word. Still, not hard to scan lines for indents. Works well. I know it can't do unbroken graphics to the same extent as DotPad or Monarch or Graphiti, but gosh darn it, 96 characters of text in a multiline pocketable style was too attractive to not pass up, and will be very worth it when I travel next year. I can fit one in a pocket, since it is about the size of an iPhone Pro.

#ArcaneChat 2.33.1 is on its way to #GooglePlay and #FDroid and should be available in the upcoming days, can't wait? for other download options check arcanechat.me/

Among the enhancements are:

More metadata protection: protect message recipients

More resilience: new experimental feature to use several addresses per profile (multi-relay)

in reply to Тимур Сагденов

what do you mean by "I tried but failed"?

it is super easy to do, you only need to go to chatmail.at/relays select one relay you want to add, click the QR code that will appear in the relay page, that will prompt you to add a new address to your existing selected profile

in Advanced settings > Relays you can see your list of relays/addresses and add/remove or change or select which one should be your main address (used for sending)

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Protests outside of an Apple Store in Portland, Oregon continue in retaliation to ICEBlock being removed, as protestors show up in Santa suits to demand the app's return and Apple stand up to authoritarianism.
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Advice for frequent travelers: Get a travel router. It makes everything easier and more secure. At a bare minimum, use a custom DNS like 1.1.1.1 or 8.8.8.8.

Where I am, I have a really stable 100+Mb connection, but deathly slow DNS. Switching to my own travel router on the same connection makes things DRAMATICALLY faster, even routing back through my home network.

I just published a Substack on the coding resources I recommend for beginners. I cover FreeCodeCamp, W3Schools, Codecademy, Udemy, LinkedIn Learning, and the Apple App Development class from @techopolis.social. I also mention Sean Allen, Paul Hudson, Traversy Media, and Fireship.
taylorarndt.substack.com/p/cod…
#Coding #LearnToCode #iOSDev #Tech

Unless they speak a language other than French, wear fabric, or baubles, or are transitioning...

Even w/ it being a Federal program, the CAQists/PQists, etc. will sabotage it w/ their xenophobic, bigoted, pure laine policies.

montreal.citynews.ca/2025/12/0… #cdnpoli #polcan #LGBTQ+ #CAQASTROPHE #polQC #QCpoli #polMTL #MTLpoli

KI-Tiervideos wirken auf viele süß, überraschend, herzerwärmend, emotional, aber sind komplett gefälscht.
Sie zeigen Fantasietiere, vermenschlichte Szenen, perfekte Gefühle.
Doch genau das ist das Problem: Diese Videos verzerren unser Tierbild.
Wildtiere wirken wie Haustiere, Stress wie Zuneigung. Menschen können echtes Tierverhalten immer schlechter einschätzen. Tierleid wird übersehen, echte Tiere missverstanden.

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I need you to stop scrolling and read the most human piece of writing I've read in a very, very long time.

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Thanks, @WeirdWriter.

Edit: If you feel like you got a lot out of this piece, I'm sure Rob would definitely appreciate some subscribers to his newsletter and tips/a paid subscription if you can afford it! It's not easy making a living as a writer.

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Seriously people, if you're going to put work into making your blog look beautiful you HAVE GOT to see what it looks like with large minimum font size (not zoom). At my default 20pt minimum font size this blog gives me roughly 4 words per line.

I'm not going to read the damn article like this, no matter how good the words are. Yes, I can switch to "Reader View" but I shouldn't have to.

#accessibility #LowVision

An earlier version of Trump's National Security Strategy specifically said that the US should try to break up the EU, to get Italy, Austria, Hungary and Poland to leave

defenseone.com/policy/2025/12/…

From the Blinux list, my thoughts below the quote:

"Hello to all.

This is partly a (re)introduction and some good news (news for definitely not all, but some) of you.

This message is actually send to two lists, as I have no clue how big intersection of the member lists there are (I suppose huge, but not complete), so sorry for double receiving, you who are in both lists.

And now, with the disclaimers out of the way... I started to be interested in Linux, say ten or twelve years ago (don't remember exactly). Through a set of happy coincidences, I managed to get a job at Red Hat in the desktop team, and because accessibility was in the times of the reorg an important thing, a tools and accessibility team actually was created. It is quite a small team, and the majority of people on it do not have work time to do anything with accessibility (we're maintaining some of the Gnome apps, we do RHEL packaging, testing etc.).

However, I am working on the accessibility related things every day, so don't be afraid to ask something, mention your issues, and such.

Personally, in terms of distributions, I use GNome on Arch (personal laptop) and Fedora (work laptop), so I have the most experience with these setups, but I definitely used Mate, and tried Kde for some time as well.

And, that's it for now. "

So, a small team, that barely has time to do what the team is about. This is really sad. This is what people with disabilities get from one of the biggest Linux companies there is.

#accessibility #blind #linux #foss #gnu

i've made 45 bilingual (eng/esp) copies of the Riot Medicine Field Guide, a concise companion book to the Hakan Geijer's robust protest medic text. i printed these specifically to distribute to action medics, though the content is informative for anyone and functions as a good hook for anyone interested learning more about street medicine.

if you would like one for yourself or as gift to someone ('tis the season!), please email me the address at <fallrise@riseup.net> and i will send one -- i am happy to cover the ~$4 shipping, but am willing to accept donations. if you have a medic crew and would like some for yourselves or for trainings, i can send you a box.

original texts can be found digitally at: riotmedicine.net/

#protest #riot #medic #medicine #guide #books #english #spanish

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he producido 45 copias bilingües (esp/eng) del libro Medicina Para Motines: Guia De Campo, un complemento al texto grande sobre la medicina por manifestaciones, escrito por Hakan Geijer. los imprimí para distribuirlos a médicos con experiencia, pero el contenido es informativo y interesante por todos, y el libro sirve bien como introducción por ellxs que se interesan la medicina de la calle.

si ud. quiere un libro por su uso o como regalo a alguien, favor de mandarme un email (fallrise@riseup.net) con la dirreción postal y mandaré una copia. tengo la capacidad a pagar el gasto de envío (~$4 USD), pero sí aceptaría donaciones. si ud. es parte de un colectivo de médicos y quiere varias copias por usar en el campo o para entrenamientos, le puedo mandar un cajita.

se encuentran los textos originales en forma digital en (aunque el libro de texto está solo en inglés): riotmedicine.net/

#protest #riot #medic #medicine #books #guide #espanol #ingles

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Bývalý kouč Štybara o Pogačarovi: Neuvěřitelné, kolik toho dokáže sníst. V čem je výjimečný? isport.blesk.cz/clanek/ostatni… prostřednictvím @wallabagapp

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Proběhl upgrade na nejnovější verzi — rychlejší, stabilnější a připravené na vaše skvělá videa.
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#vhsky #peertube #fediverse #oscloud

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👉🏽 Common misconceptions about #WCAG
by Ela Gorla of @TetraLogical

"the way the guidelines are discussed often leads to mixed assumptions about what they cover and how they should be used."

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RE: tldr.nettime.org/@dk/115606531…

wow, @pluralistic has really made a splash with #enshittification, very exciting to see. I hope people take a breath and try to understand the underlying challenges that makes confronting antidisintermediation so challenging, many of use have been engaged in this struggle for years. If it was easy, we would have smashed big tech ages ago, cc @ntnsndr, @techworkersco, @disco_coop


The latest round of tech working mobilization inspired by Cory's "enshitification" framing is amazing to see, tho I can't help bracing myself for the inevitable wasted energy as people rush forward without understanding counterantidisintermediation

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Auch auf die Gefahr hin, wie eine Karen zu klingen:

Habe ich irgendeine rechtliche Handhabe (Stichwort: Ruhestörung), wenn an einem Weihnachtsbaum-Stand mitten in einem Wohngebiet Stunde um Stunde laut gesägt wird? Oder muss ich das tagsüber zähneknirschend hinnehmen?

Ich arbeite von zu Hause aus und drehe langsam durch, weil ich akustische Reize nicht gut filtern kann.

#Carney ran on a build Canada platform that hasn't proposed any real nation building, rather we get pandering to foreign petro oligarchs.

Here's some nation building actions that should already be underway:
1. Get our govt data out of the USA. House it in the EU until we have a domestic datacentre.
2. Get schools across the nation off american software and networks. Like stop forcing my kid to use an enemy chromebook. This will take a large investment in infrastucture to update schools.
3. Retrofit schools, colleges and universities with renewable energy and batteries. Gift the installs and equipment to help reduce school electricity costs (and work toward climate action).
4. Similarly assist FN and especially Inuit communities getting off diesel generators. The soot is speeding melting in the Arctic.
5. Like the national railway that our ancestors built, build a national fleet of electric truck-trains (truck with 7-10 reefers). The railways are often plugged and reducing productivity.

#CdnPoli

in reply to J. B. Crawford

My take on the the points you make about LLMs:

LLMs have the potential to turn content into a diff between what you already know and the current state of the world. The problem with making any kind of content is that no two readers are the same and have the same level of knowledge. This means that you'll always get some people who find parts of your content too hard to understand, not because they're stupid, but because they don't have the necessary prerequisites yet. You will also get some people who find parts of your content unnecessary, as they contain information they already know. Those two groups might overlap!

LLMs fundamentally change this paradigm. Because they're cheap enough to run to produce content aimed at a single reader, they can take into account what the reader already knows, what preliminaries the reader is missing, and what they're trying to get out of that content in the first place.

This requires combining the LLM with some kind of knowledge tracking system, which is hard for the usual privacy / "walled gardens" reasons, but I think we'll eventually get something like that for education at least.

Our Soldering Workshop proposal has been officially accepted for FOSDEM 2026.
On 31 January, from 10:00 to 17:00, participants will assemble the RVPC, an open-source hardware and software retro-style RISC-V computer. olimex.wordpress.com/2025/12/1… #fosdem #riscv #oshw #floss