KDE Dolphin has a thing called kio-fuse which will mount a fuse filesystem to provide paths to access files from other software that isn't KDE-ified.

This works fine as long as your fuse isn't broken. But also there are apps that get marked as supporting SMB natively... like VLC...

so what I've encountered is that VLC playing videos out of SMB shares you browse in Dolphin is broken on FreeBSD; Linux distro users complain about this sometimes too because they need additional packages

VLC can support SMB, but on FreeBSD it's not built with that by default. (ffmpeg needs SMB support enabled too)

Firefox works though!

Just published an article about how an expert learns - from sight-reading to performing music... on cello using eye tracking technology. it's open access, so freely available: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.11…

Even if you don't read the fancy bits, the progression of the heat maps to show the engagement of the eye and mind are very cool ! #research #music #cello

Ecosia’s “Green AI”: false hope for corrosive tech

ketanjoshi.co/2025/12/14/ecosi…

If, like me, you absolutely hate the recently introduced sidebar-like overlay "side-panel" that opens up when you click tickets in #GitLab, I finally found the obscure place where you can turn it off.

It's not in your user preferences or kebab menu, it's… tucked in that little "Display options" icon-only button between the tickets searchbar and the sorting order combobox:

This weekend, I tried out TalkBack 16.2. And rather than rant about the one step forward and a good 3 steps back it took in Braille support, or how it can't take an actual screenshot and describe the screen unless there's one accessible element onscreen it can grab on to, or any of the other stuff I routinely rant about, today, I'll just say thank goodness for the iPhone.

I'm so glad I didn't sell or give away my iPhone 16 or Apple Watch. I'm so glad I got the AirPods Pro 3. I'm so glad it's evident that at least a few blind people work at Apple and are listened to at least when it comes to their most popular product, the iPhone. I'm so, freaking, glad that Apple at least keeps the lights on for Braille on their platforms. And I'm so glad screen recognition is a thing so when I'm playing a video game, I can have the menu read out even though there is no accessible element on the screen. I'm so glad that with AirPods, Voiceover isn't too sluggish and that you can't really tell that, when you swipe passed the visible end of a list, like the settings app, VoiceOver scrolls the screen for you. I'm so glad that at least that bit of magic is still there. You don't *have* to know these things. In Braille, it *feels* like a Braille-first interface, as far as we've made one in the past 30 years. And when VoiceOver gets AI image descriptions, I'll be thankful for those too. In the meantime, hey Siri, describe my screen. I'm so glad that I can almost always keep my iPhone in my pocket and just use Braille. I'm glad I can type my passcode in Braille and it just works! I'm so glad I can read a book and it pans to the next page. I'm so glad I can bind just about any VoiceOver command to arbitrary Braille keys. If I want dots 1-3 with Enter to go to next link, I can make it do so! If I want Space with Enter with O to open the Braille Access app chooser, there it is! Oh also I can press Command, Option, Control, FN, and Shift modifier keys with Braille commands. Just sayin'. At this point, iOS with Braille would be a way more blind-friendly OS than Android. And I think we should make this more clear: Braille-friendly is blind-friendly. Because if your interface is flexible enough to work with Braille, it'll be flexible enough to work with speech.

#android #iOS #VoiceOver #apple #google #tech #technology

There's a new Amazon bot launching today: `Amzn-SearchBot`

"...used to improve search experiences in Amazon products and services...such as Alexa and Rufus. Amzn-SearchBot does not crawl content for generative AI model training."

Doc page shows user-agent & links to source IP list.
Looks like it *does* obey `robots.txt` at least.

developer.amazon.com/amazonbot

#Bot #WebDev #Amazon

About AmazonBot

Customer facing page of Amazonbot crawler which all web content publishers can refer to.

^{Developer Portal Master}

I got the The Oracle archetype!

mastodon.social/@alecaddd/wrap…

#Wrapstodon2025

Wrapstodon 2025 for Aleca

See how Aleca used Mastodon this year!

^Mastodon

Неимоверно устаю. Не знаю даже почему видимо проблемы со сдоровьем и общая запущенность тушки. Но после каждого рабочего дня чувсвую себя еще более разбито. За выходные не успеваю полностью восстановиться. В пятницу дак я вообще как правило зомби. Самое обидно при всем том что я хочу постоянно спать. Уснуть крайне тяжело.

#бложиг

If you want to add more security to your Mastodon account, you can set up a system called "two factor authentication" (also known as 2FA). This prevents anyone else logging into your account even if they find out your email and password.

2FA works using a special app on your phone which gives you a short code number to type in when you log in.

I've done a non-technical guide all about 2FA and how to use it, including answers to many questions:

➡️ fedi.tips/using-two-factor-aut…

#FediTips #Mastodon

Using Two Factor Authentication (2FA) on Mastodon | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse

^fedi.tips

Pundit who always want to have it both ways say another analyst can't have it both ways even thought they aren't.

Film at 11.

Je suis trop fière de vous annoncer que je suis passée sur France 3 😁

J’avais trop le trac et beaucoup de mal à trouver les mots mais ça se voit pas trop.

C’etait dans l’émission Météo à la Carte :

france.tv/france-3/meteo-a-la-…

Tradition : les boules de Noel en verre, un savoir-faire ancestral ! - Extrait vidéo Météo à la carte

Dans le petit village de Riotor, la neige a déjà métamorphosé les paysages du Massif central, offrant un décor féerique. C’est dans cette ambiance hivernale ...

^{France Télévisions}

I tried making a Neocities account today. I was stopped dead in my tracks by an unlabeled field with protected input in the signup form. I thought it was the password field, but there's a labeled password field with protected input a little further down, so I have no idea what that first one is. Just a little further down is an hcaptcha challenge that forces me to give my email address to hcaptcha because hcaptcha can't be bothered to implement actual accessibility

#blind #accessibility #hCaptcha #neocities

Bro got his priorities straight. 💪

#archlinux #linux

Multiple times now Firefox has thrown away all my tabs and I don't know why.

Thank the BSD gods I can just restore the ~/.mozilla/firefox directory from a ZFS snapshot that was taken an hour earlier

> Rob Reiner and his wife murdered by their son

some people will do anything to get out of their family holiday traditions

After my talk at @gnome Asia Summit, I’ve published the source code of Jollpi, a Python-based text editor I’m rewriting with a modern stack.

Built with Python 3, @GTK 4 and GtkSourceView 5, using a modern async architecture and standard Python packaging (pyproject.toml, pip).
It installs cleanly and integrates like a regular Linux desktop app.

Feel free to try it and share feedback.

Source code: gitlab.com/zulfian1732/jollpi-…

#GNOMEAsia #GNOME #GTK #Python #OpenSource

Zulfian / jollpi-text-editor · GitLab

GitLab.com

^GitLab

Sustaining inclusive programs takes commitment, especially in challenging funding seasons.

As we welcome the December 2025 @outreachy cohort, we’re grateful for the organizations whose support helps keep this work strong and moving forward:

➡️ Equalizer: @wikimediafoundation, #Bloomberg
➡️ Promoter: @tarides #Cisco
➡️ Includer: #CUNY, @debian, @getsentry
➡️ Welcomer: @creativecommons , @mozilla, @gitlab, @gnome and #RedHat

Your partnership enables paid, remote internships and meaningful participation in open source for people facing systemic barriers.

Thank you for standing with us and investing in a more inclusive ecosystem

#Outreachy #OpenSource #Inclusion #Community

Are you kidding me ?!

My AirPods never worked under Arch (within the Bluetooth debugging budget I had given myself)

Here, on NixOS, copy and paste the example configuration, add bluetui for controlling pairing and boom, it just works

I’m blown

#nixos #nix #bluetooth #archlinux #arch #linux

Das #FBI will die #Antifa bekämpfen, und die wissen nicht einmal, wo deren Headquarter steht? 🤣😅😂

#USA

Je možné, že když na Spotify přehrávám dlouhý playlist na random, tak to ve skutečnosti není random? Mám dojem, že mi to háže prioritně pořád ty samé písničky. Jestli už si nemůžu ani pustit písničky na random bez „algoritmu“, tak tyjo to se fakt asi vrátím k mp3kám.

#spotify #random

RE: social.coop/@scottjenson/11570…

No, but I wish we were.

Almost everything about 'modern' desktops is worse than what we had 20 years ago.

A lot of big political stuff is happening in Bulgaria right now and I can't inform myself properly because I don't know which sources are good and reliable. Thank you oligarch media, Russian propaganda and conspiracy weirdos poisoning the online discourse.

Сигурен съм, че тук има и българи, които четат постовете. Имате ли съвет и препоръки?

#Bulgaria #BGpol #pol #disinformation #EU #Euro