Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Found 5 owners. Stop it GitHub! stop! it, you're killing my soul in the new repo dialog.
@midzi It was even harder to get to the commandline so I can accept from my local directory. I got it done though. Should investigate if I can look it up and accept from the commandline, once I know what it is, first. I'm glad that real people are using my apps now.
@serrebi You can always use GitHub with the support of tools like Codex or similar ones. Honestly, the only Git command I remember is `pull` — Codex handles the rest for me. Even that nice back-and-forth dialogue between the two LLMs was running automatically. I told it to keep refining things until Gemini had no objections. 🙂
Hello! Sadly Termux doesn't work in other profiles, which include "Secure Folder" and "Private Space" and "Alternative/Secondary apps" or any form of app duplication on phones. As Termux uses the `/data/data/com.termux` directory which is only writable by the main user.
The #Trump admin “captured” #Venezuela President Nicolás #Maduro & his wife & flew him out of the country in an insane nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating pressure on the #oil-rich #SouthAmerica nation.
The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”
The legal authority for the attack was not clear. [there is none]
US AG #PamBondi said #Maduro & his wife would face charges after an indictment in New York. Bondi vowed in a social media post that the couple would “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
#Trump announced the developments on Truth Social shortly after 4:30AM ET & said he would host a news conference at 11AM ET.
#Trump brushed off criticism from US Democratic lawmakers that he did not seek permission from #Congress ahead of time & that the strike was #illegal. He called his Democratic critics “weak, stupid people” & blamed his political opponents for inflation in the US.
He said the operation in #Venezuela was “really genius.”
“All they do is complain,” he said of the #Democrats.
“They should say, ‘Great job.’ They shouldn’t say, ‘Oh Gee, maybe it’s not constitutional.’ You know, the same old stuff that we’ve been hearing for years & years & years,” #Trump said who very likely has never read the #US #Constitution.
Venezuelan ruling party leader Nahum Fernández told The Associated Press that Nicolás #Maduro & his wife were at their home within the Ft. Tiuna military installation when they were captured.
“That’s where they bombed,” he said. “And, there, they carried out what we could call a kidnapping of the president & the first lady of the country.”
#EU foreign policy chief #KajaKallas wrote on X that she had spoken with #US Secy of State #MarcoRubio & the EU ambassador in Caracas. “The EU has repeatedly stated that Mr #Maduro lacks legitimacy & has defended a peaceful transition. Under all circumstances, the principles of #InternationalLaw & the #UN Charter must be respected. We call for restraint.”
#Russia Foreign Ministry said it is “extremely alarmed” & called for “immediate clarification,” acc/to a statement posted Saturday on the ministry’s Telegram channel. The ministry said such actions, if confirmed, would constitute “an unacceptable infringement on the #sovereignty of an #independent #state.”
#Britain PM #KeirStarmer said the #UK was not involved in the #US operation in #Venezuela and that he would seek more information from #Trump. Without condemning the US action, #Starmer said he always believes that #InternationalLaw should be upheld. “But I think at this stage, fast moving situation, let’s establish the facts & take it from there,” he said.
#China strongly condemned the #US strike in #Venezuela & the action against its president, the Foreign Ministry said, adding the Beijing govt was “deeply shocked” & firmly opposed to the operation.
The #UnitedNations said it was “deeply alarmed” by the #US strikes in #Venezuela & the reported detention of President Nicolás #Maduro. It expressed concern the escalation was a violation of #InternationalLaw.
“These developments constitute a dangerous precedent,” Stéphane Dujarric, spox for the #UN sec-gen, said. Dujarric said the UN worried about the implications for #LatinAmerica & the #Caribbean & called on “all actors in Venezuela” to respect #HumanRights & the rule of #law.
Maduro & other #Venezuela ofcls were indicted in 2020 on “narco-terrorism” conspiracy charges. The DOJ released a new indictment Saturday of Maduro & his wife for alleged role in #narcoterrorism #conspiracy.
#PamBondi said Maduro & his wife, Cilia Flores, would “soon face the full wrath of American justice on American soil in American courts.”
The #indictment accuses #Maduro of leading a “a corrupt, illegitimate government that, for decades, has leveraged government power to protect & promote illegal activity, including drug trafficking.” #DOJ alleges that the drug trafficking efforts “enriched & entrenched Venezuela’s political & military elite.”
#US #DOJ alleges that #Maduro partnered with “some of the most violent & prolific drug traffickers & narco-terrorists in the world” to bring “tons” of cocaine into the US, acc/to the #indictment.
The DOJ estimates that as much as 250 tons of cocaine were trafficked through #Venezuela by 2020 [start date?], acc/to the indictment.
President Trump holds a news conference on U.S. airstrikes against Venezuela and the capture of president, Nicolas Maduro. He announces that the U.S. will run Venezuela until a transition can take place and U.S. companies will handle oil production.
The #Venezuela mission to the #UN has requested an emergency #Security Council [#UNSC] meeting & has asked the Council to condemn the #US military strikes against the country.
Venezuela’s ambassador, Samuel Reinaldo Moncada Acosta, said in a letter to the UNSC president: “The United States of America always uses lies to fabricate wars. It is an international #tyranny imposed with the #propaganda of death: the recent past confirms this.”
#MaríaCorinaMachado, the Venezuelan opposition leader, posted a statement calling for national unity following the capture of Nicolás #Maduro.
“Given his refusal to accept a negotiated exit, the government of the United States has fulfilled its promise to enforce the law,” she wrote. “We have struggled for years, we have given it our all, & it has been worth it. What had to happen is happening.”
#Machado added that #EdmundoGonzález, who the #US has recognized as Venezuela’s President-elect, must “immediately” take office & be recognized as the country’s commander of the armed forces.
“Today we are prepared to enforce our mandate & take power,” Machado said. “We are going to restore order, release the political prisoners, build an exceptional country, & bring our children back home.”
#Trump put no time limit on the #US #occupation. It would be up to the #UnitedStates to decide when to return the country to Venezulan control. And then he turned to #oil, saying that US companies would fix the infrastructure, “& start making money for the country.” [doubt any will go to Venezuelans]
#Trump referred to a “partnership” between #Venezuela & the #UnitedStates, which he said would make Venezuelans “rich, independent & safe.” Of course, this was a partnership accomplished by a #GovernmentOverthrow.
BTWs Trump’s asides about #DC, #NOLA, & #LA are total bullshit. No murder in NOLA & DC since his illegal intervention? Flat out lies.
#Trump has offered NO details about what the #US running #Venezuela looks like. Will there be an US official there in a leadership position?
As he justifies the #military operation, Trump argued that #Maduro sent members of Tren de Aragua to the US to terrorize the US. Trump’s own #intelligence community earlier this year debunked that claim, finding that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan govt.
In declaring that the #US will be “running” #Venezuela, #Trump has raised a host of questions: Will the US have an occupying #military force? Will it install a pliant government for some number of years? Will it run the #courts, & determine who pumps the #oil? All of this, of course, could enmesh the US in the kind of “forever wars” Trump’s #MAGA base has rejected.
Trump spoke about bringing in US oil companies to remake the #energy infrastucture &, presumably, to exploit oil reserves.
#Trump looks like he’s falling #asleep on his feet as Gen. Dan Caine, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff describes the mission. I’m waiting for him to fall over.
When asked how much running #Venezuela, potentially for years, will cost, #Trump said: “It won’t cost us anything.”
His claim that the #US won’t have to spend any money because it will be “reimbursed” by the #oil the US will take “out of the ground” is a total fantasy.
#NVDARC small update: The Mac build has finally gone through review, and I've just sent the latest build (Build 5) through to testers. Have fun, Mac people! Again, that test flight link is testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
Probably in the next couple days or so, I'll start fixing some of the most common bugs here as well as checking into some of the most commonly requested features. Thank you for trying #NVDARC!
A pretty small, insignificant #NVDARC update just went out. Check the release notes and check it out. If you haven't got it yet: testflight.apple.com/join/edg8…
If that's small and insignificant, the Pacific is a small, insignificant, body of water. Just a puddle on the earth's surface, if anything. Seriously, though, the keyboard remapping works here, and my autohotkey script is no longer needed. Thanks very much!
I haven't played with this yet, but you might have solved one of the hardest problems that has been plaguing the Mac community for years, that of high audio latency on Windows VMs.
It won't fix gaming (and some people apparently do care about that), but it'll fix other things that are important productivity-wise.
@miki there is no way to do win+tab. Capslock works, so long as you don't have VO's modifier keys set to capslock. In addition, you can remap the capslock key within the app itself to another modifier, tested working
Okay, better than 99%+ of the apps out there. I think cmd+tab would be doable, UTM has an exclusive keyboard mode that does it I think. Are you on Catalyst or native OSX, if the former, that might be more difficult.
@miki so I was actually smart here, and I have two separate apps for iOS and MacOS that share an NVDARemoteKit base between the two. MacOS has it's own native interface, and so does iOS have it's own native interface.
@miki Basically, I made it a goal after October when I graduated from this independence training center for the blind that I was in, that I was going to actually make an effort to learn iOS/MacOS app development, so that I could make cool things for myself and others for iOS especially but also MacOS, and well, here's the start of the result of that work.
@miki I don't just want to make apps, but I want to make apps that feel like they were meant for VoiceOver users. I'm going to figure out all the fun things VoiceOver lets you hook into, and hook into them where applicable.
Now I just wish a framework that let us do this without losing Windows support. There are basically no good options here. Either you go full Mac, or Mac is a second-class citizen at best.
@miki I'm willing to put in the work of maintaining separate code bases, where applicable. If that's what it takes to make fun things, then that I shall do.
Hi, speech queuing massively broke things. If you spam down arrow, it will continue speaking, and each key press won't interrupt it. I had to go back to 1.010 where this works fine.
Speculation: I think your speech queuing works fine, that's not where the problem is, I think you have a problem somewhere in the protocol handling itself, because now that you've made it queue everything, it does what it should. The problem with the previous builds was when NVDA itself received one string while reading another one, those two weren't queued. All of the above was using VoiceOver announcements for me, though I could try with TTS as well.
Alright, yep, this is definitely much better with TTS. I was hoping to avoid configuring my speech rate and voice, but oh well, I'm happy with it as long as it works.
@NikJov Unless you use multiple languages, as I do. Would be great for it to support language switching if it doesn't already; maybe some sort of TTS profiles too.
@jscholes @NikJov Yeah, I was afraid someone was going to ask for this. Understandable as it is, I've never really been sure how to implement something like this. I believe NVDA sends language codes and whatever, but the issue is ... Selecting a voice to use for that language without creating some kind of interface for mapping languages to their voices. First one it finds? I dunno.
@NikJov This is one of the few areas where VoiceOver outstrips the competition. As a language learner, I can set up that mapping, prioritise my list of profiles, set parameters like rate on a per language basis, have it switch speech engines on the fly, and quickly opt into and out of automatic switching via the rotor. It's not perfect, but it does mostly just work.
Contrast that with NVDA's frankly abysmal support for multilingual users. It can only switch between voices of the same synthesiser, uses the same rate regardless of language, doesn't support the concept of multiple voice profiles at all without an add-on, doesn't offer a way to quickly switch languages manually, and gives the user virtually no control over how the voice for each language is selected.
Finally, even though I've said it in an email, not sure if you got it, but thank you for your work, the app is truly awesome regardless of the typical rough beta quirks. Controlling a PC via a touch screen is something that I had as an idea for a long time, and I'm glad somebody took it up.
I tried this as a "to be controlled" machine on an intel mac and had two issues to begin with. First, is it possible to have the unit host its own server rather than using a relay? Secondly, when adding the software to accessibility settings, I found that it wanted me to get the software from finder. Is there a method of having it just as a switch in the dialog? Vmware, as well as RIM, did this, as I recall, but it's been quite a while since I installed them so my memory may be at fault.
@techsinger I'll have to roll my own NVDARemote Server in Swift, but I think it should be possible. As for the second, there's a bug which means that it doesn't show up automatically in settings until you actually try to control a device. Once you send the first key, it'll pop up.
@techsinger OK, coming back to self hosting. I've done this, but since I had to add a new network connection entitlement, Apple has to review the damn thing all over again. Sigh.
@techsinger Luckily, it only takes them at most 2 days to review a build, so it could be worse, but unfortunately I just don't know how to slow down rofl
SelfHosting week 0, phase 2A, documentation. There is one thing I find quite uncomfortable on @yunohost documentation: the emojis at the beginning of every chapter. They are very annoying to read for a blind user when going back and forth heading by heading with a screen reader. And, worse, when you attempt to isolate links through the "link list" or "heading list", "element list" whatever name used by screen readers for that feature, you cannot choose an item by initial letter and get into it quickly, from the list that pops up. The "element list" feature allows a user to press a shortcut and find items of the same type, organized in a list. Links, headings, form controls, etc. So, if it is the table of contents in a documentation website, you have all chapters ordered. You press down arrow in the list, till you find the desired element then press Enter. Or, better, in a normal situation, if you have to choose "domains" for example, you pop up the link list and type "d", then if Domains is the first, you press Enter on it. Or at least, links with that initial are isolated by pressing the letter over and over again till you find the desired one. But this YunoHost docs are full of those emoticons which maybe are pleasant for sighted folks, but not for blind. Not at all. #accessibility #a11y #blind #docs #SelfHost #SelfHosting #YunoHost
I'd say, it depends. I personally love emojis and find them not only making documentation lighter to read, but also use them as orientation markers (I'm totally blind). However, your point about first-letter navigation is absolutely correct. #Accessibility
I listened to the whole press conference given by Trump on his invasion of Venezuela and unprovoked abduction of a sitting president to fetch the nation's oil. Not a single question by journalists was posed to challenge the legality of the action. If power isn't challenged, there isn't freedom of the press. Trump isn't more democratic than Maduro, he's less so.
"Canada has a long history of defending the international rule of law. We are now dealing with a regime that will kill people in the water, seize ships on the high seas, invade other countries, and kidnap their leaders. All bets are off.
This is the age of gangsters. And Canada must be ready to rise to the threat."
So far Foreign Minister Anand has released a statement that Canada has refused to recognize the legitimacy of the gov of Venezuela since 2019, Plus something something rule of law something...
@driusan In 2004, Canadian special forces Joint Task Force 2 secured the international airport in Port-au-Prince so the US could kidnap Haiti's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, overthrow their gov, and permanently cripple Haitian sovereignty for the next 2 decades. Ditto Libya. Ditto ... There's not much Canada can say in rebuke.
the "distraction from the Epstein files" shit is driving me up the wall. A sovereign was invaded, violated, possibly will be destabilised and looted (certainly that's the plann), but fuck forbid that a US domestic issue does not take centre stage for an instant.
New release, coming soon to my Github: Braille Display calibration tool. Download an early build here: eurpod.com/BrailleDisplayCalib… Requires JAWS, NVDA, a screen reader to output Braille through. That is, this will not run as a standalone tool without a screen reader present.
updated, new checkbox: Blink hole line. eurpod.com/BrailleDisplayCalib… for anyone interested in a tool that can calibrate your Braille display. Multiline or single-line, it's useful. I still got to figure out how best to design it to work with JAWS, because it requires panning right now rather than it displaying it. I may do some refactoring on this for single-line displays so it clears it when reaching the end, it's a small enough tweak.
OTTAWA - This morning, in an unscheduled press statement, the Prime Minister's Office has said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned off geolocation services for all his electronic devices "for no particular reason whatsoever".
En su día hice mi practicum en derecho internacional público. Y uno quiere creer. Pero cuesta un montón. Cuando la matalobos de la Comisión Europea se congratula, cuando el Bundeskansler lo llama legalmente complejo, cuando cualquier persona con un mínimo de integridad sabe que lo que se ha hecho es profunda, manifiesta, e indiscutiblemente ilegal... Da la sensación de que soy la última persona que queda que no se pasa la Carta de Naciones Unidas y los principios westfalianos por el forro.
Hmmm, I don't think my "Real ATC" plugin for Miriani-next is quite ready yet. For the uninitiated, #Miriani is a space related #mud (Well, actually, #moo). It generates flight control messages as ships take off and land. And I thought: what if I could have them voiced by AI, generating a random voice each time? There's a model called voxcpm that, if you don't feed it with any voice data, will just generate a voice of its own for your text. But...it's maybe not quite there. The original text I gave it was "This is Outreach to sector 30 flight control, a Hale starship is about to land." This is what it returned.
Because yay boredom and yay I now have usable Kontakt stuff, this is the first thing I've ever done with any of it. It's a sort of remix of House Of The Rising Sun.
well damnet! I can't do it! the timing is off. I think yours is a bit faster than the original. lol. or maybe the karaoki version I used many years ago was a different BPM, but I can't do it. I am not talented like you audio people out there. I was trying to put my voice over top of your song. lol.
The barcode encoding feature added in Catima 2.41.0 caused a very minor change in how barcodes where generated, which for some users led to failures to use their cards (github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…). This is now fixed by slightly changing how automatic mode works.
QR code card added to Catima prior to v2.41, referring to https://xtra.colruytgroup.be/xtra/qr/961198520459603760316514. Was working fine until v2.40.x (scanned OK at the cash desk) Using v2.41.1, ...
Мордор может потерять миллиарды долларов инвестиций в Венесуэлу из-за свержения Мадуро.
Падение режима Николаса Мадуро, который был захвачен американским спецназом и предстанет перед судом Нью-Йорка по обвинению в наркотерроризме, подвесило в воздухе судьбу миллиардов долларов инвестиций и кредитов, которые Венесуэла получила от России.
По подсчетам Reuters, с 2006 по 2017 год Кремль выделил в общей сложности $17 млрд венесуэльскому правительству, а также государственной нефтяной компании страны PDVSA.
Первые деньги — $2,2 млрд — получил предшественник Мадуро Уго Чавес, который в 2009 заключил контракт на закупки российского оружия — танков Т-72 и зенитных комплексов С-300. Спустя 8 лет Венесуэла была должна Москве уже $3,5 млрд, вернуть которые не могла из-за экономического кризиса и санкций. В 2017 году Владимир Путин и Мадуро договорились отсрочить платежи по этому займу на 10 лет, с выплатой основной суммы в 2024-27 гг.
В конце 2010-х крупным кредитором Мадуро стала «Роснефть», в обмен получившая доли в крупных нефтедобывающих проектах Венесуэлы. Российские деньги правительство Мадуро использовало, чтобы избежать дефолта по долгу, расплачиваясь к Кремлем нефтью, которую на мировом рынке перепродавала «Роснефть», рассказывали источники Reuters. В 2020 году, после введения санкций в отношении PDVSA, «Роснефть» продала все активы в Венесуэле специально созданной госструктуре «Росзарубежнефть», полностью принадлежащей государству.
Теперь же судьба венесуэльских нефтяных месторождений оказалась в руках администрации Дональда Трампа, который обвинил Венесуэлу в «краже» нефти у США. «Мы построили венесуэльскую нефтяную промышленность с помощью американского таланта, напора и умений, а социалистический режим украл ее у нас», — заявил Трамп. Он добавил, что США намерены отроить заново венесуэльскую инфраструктуру и «продавать очень много нефти» в том числе другим странам.
По словам Трампа, проблем с Россией из-за операции в Венесуэле не будет, а с Путиным судьбу Мадуро он «никогда» не обсуждал.
Стремительная операция США, которая, по данным Associated Press, продолжалась лишь около получаса, вызывала скупую реакцию в Москве. МИД выразил «глубокую озабоченность» американскими ударами по венесуэльской территории и «серьезную обеспокоенность» сообщениями об аресте Мадуро. Он также потребовал освободить Мадуро и его жену Сесилию Флорес, которым в США грозит несколько пожизненных сроков.
Путин с одной стороны, как коллега по авторитарному цеху, идентифицирует себя с Мадуро — и в этом смысле возмущён и напуган, а с другой стороны, как лидер страны, претендующей на статус сверхдержавы, Путин ассоциирует себя с Трампом — и в этой части страшно тому сейчас завидует, рассуждает политолог Аббас Галлямов.
«Это будет очень тяжёлый день для руководителей российского силового блока. Крика из серии „почему они могут, а вы нет?!“ будет много», — пишет Галлямов.
So, I had a cartoon character moment this morning.
I was shaking an old container of cayenne powder to make sure it hadn't clumped up, and a fine mist escaped and sent me into a sneezing fit the likes of which I have never had before. Just one right after the other in rapid succession.
At some point I just started laughing at the absurdity of it. Even after it reached my eyes (although it wasn't as bad as cutting onions).
Basically, today I learned that the absolute sneezing fits people in old cartoons have when someone sticks black pepper under their noses is real.
I did get a response back regarding narration on Rhythm Doctor: Access to the narration is temporarily restricted on the Microsoft Store build. The code is in there, but some text and tweaks need some adjustments for the Xbox console. Since updating the game on the Xbox Store would take time and effort, we think it would be more efficient to focus on properly replenishing the narration. This will be done after our holiday break ends, so please bear with me for around a week or two.
i saw a post saying i'm "probably too stupid to understand" that altbot is harmful and that i "mean well" but don't get it.
i've spent the last week listening to feedback from blind users, turning off altbot temporarily to amplify their voices, experimenting with new approaches, asking for input. i made deliberate choices to run local models instead of cloud APIs for privacy. i tracked power consumption because i care about environmental impact. i funded a server partly out of pocket and partly through community donations specifically so i could say for certain that nothing leaves the machine.
i chose a 24gb vram constraint over using massive proprietary models because ethics and privacy mattered more than capability.
you can criticize altbot. you can say it causes more harm than good, that's fair and i've been processing that feedback. but "too stupid to understand" when i've been publicly working through this in real time? thats just... mean. and on top off me currently moving to a different continent? leaving my friends and family behind, going to somewhere where I don't know if I will find satisfaction and friends again..
things are hard. and when things are hard words tend to hurt more.
I'm trying. that's more than a lot of people do. but its all I can do.
Keep doing your good work. To many here, politics is far more important than mere facts; those people will not hear arguments, their only desire is to prove you wrong. They are not arguing in good faith, anything AI related is bad by definition. As long as it's AI, curing cancer is basically equivalent in amount of required outrage to operating gas chambers.
In this polarized world, this happens everywhere, but it's much more common on a platform where a significant number of users literally migrated because they hated the owner of the site they used before.
Happy 33rd Anniversary to Star Trek Deep Space Nine, which first aired #OTD 3rd January, 1993. Debuting in the shadow of STTNG, DS9 soon proved its worth. It had a superb cast, powerful storylines and arguably one of the richest narratives of all. #StarTrek
právem silnějšího, na to si budeme muset v nové realitě asi zvyknout. Proto mě vyloženě serou ti, kteří by chtěli vystoupit z EU a zároveň mají plnou hubu suverenity. Vypadá to, že v budoucnu budeme buď součástí velmoci, nebo vazalem velmoci.
Tag 7 der landesweiten Proteste, die bereits mehrere Todesopfer forderten. Während die mutigen Menschen im #Iran ihr Leben riskieren, hat sich #Merz nicht zu den Demonstrationen geäußert. Aber Deutschland als größter Handelspartner der IRI innerhalb der EU trägt Verantwortung. Videos in den Sozialen Medien zeigen wie Protestierende unter Lebensgefahr Überwachungskameras abmontieren. Geliefert u.a. von Bosch, der der IRI zwischen 2016-18 ca. 8000 Kameras verkaufte. Wegsehen ist ein Verbrechen.
My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.
"There's no way you wrote this yourself, you must have used ChatGPT" is the new "there's no way you wrote this yourself, your husband must have helped you."
How long before the first email from a relative to Maduro arrives, asking for help in using a pile of cash that have stashed away and want to send to "your country"?
There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby drill" is obsessed with Venezuela, and why he's buddy buddy with Jamal Khashoggi's murderer. aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/ve…
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TRUMP BOMBS CITY!
Power outages in CARACAS, VENEZUELA as Trump bombs the city.
US Helicopters dropping US Paratroopers into the city!
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNew…
I'm willing to bet the answer is no but I wonder if there's a single country thats learned that letting their leaders carry around tracking devices controlled by Americans or using American's cloud infrastructure is a security concern yet.
Governments: we'd like to not depend on Americans but we just don't have any choice. There aren't any alternatives. Their local nerds: I just set up my Mastodon instance and also Nextcloud on a Raspberry Pi.
There are some regulations big tech love because despite costing them, it's insignificant compared to the barrier of entry that they create for new entrants.
Seeing Poilievre praising the occupation of Venezuela by the US makes me happy our voters told him to fuck off (he lost his own riding). Imagine another Trump running Canada.
Trump is an idiot of course, but won't it benefit Ukraine? Like, Maduro's regime falls, USA start selling Venezuelan oil, oil prices fall, Russian economy goes boom faster because russia is a gas station and nothing more. Am I missing something? Also, it seems, Venezuelans are also rather happy about Maduro being defeated (at least what I read).
@menelion Don't get me wrong, I'm glad he's gone, but invading a country and then running it instead of the opposition who got the votes isn't right at all. Stealing their oil is also wrong. This signals to others that invading and decapitating countries is fine as long as you can come up with reasons.
Also the best way to help Ukraine is to stop doing business with its allies, sanction own companies who still do business there, and send money and weapons to Ukraine.
I’m happy to share that my new iPhone reading app, Vox Libri, has just been released on the App Store. It’s built specifically to offer a comfortable, distraction-free, and fully accessible reading experience—especially for blind and low-vision readers, braille users, and anyone who benefits from a highly customizable interface.
What Vox Libri does • Read your way: on-screen reading, braille display support, or high-quality text-to-speech. • A reading screen you can truly tailor: font, size, spacing, colors, and themes. • Smart navigation through chapters, headings, pages, bookmarks, and document sections. • Hands-free reading with headphone controls. • Import and read common formats: TXT, PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, and EPUB. • On-device AI features (when supported by your device): translation, summarization, and simplification. • Full English and Spanish support across the interface and reading experience.
If you try it, I’d really value feedback from this community—especially around VoiceOver/braille workflow, navigation, and anything that could be improved for real-world reading.
I tried this and really like it. My only issue with it is that it seems to add pauses when encountering new paragraphs, Where the normal TTS engine wouldn't be doing that. I'll probably right to the dev about this, otherwise really good and reminds me a lot of VoiceDream. The person who made this is also blind as well.
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