Schwuler "Tagesthemen"-Chef geht zu Axel Springer Als ich die Überschrift gelesen habe, dachte ich zuerst es geht um den Herrn, dessen Namen man nicht nennen darf, weil man dann gleich mit Anzeigen überzogen wird queer.de/detail.php?article_id… #ARD #ÖRR #Tagesschau #Tagesthemen #gay #queer #lgbtQ
So this is really bad. I know. But y'all I feel better these days than I have in years. Why? Because LLM's not only make me feel like I'm doing things and making things, but they actually do make things. Slowly yes, with lots of answering questions and guiding it, but it really helps.
So now I have Emacs with Emacspeak on my Android phone, working on an MUD client, got accessible Lemuroid so I can get TalkBack descriptions of games, about every thing I could ever want besides some Braille stuff. And when I get tired of all the Emacs stuff, I'll try and rangle BRLTTY into accepting Contracted Braille input and try and get a Braille Access-like mode going. And then see if I can get BRLTTY to work as well in Termux as it does in Linux. Like no joke, LLM's have opened this up to being a possibility for me.
Now I get it. These are just nice-to-have things. But shoot y'all, it's freaking fun!
Hm. How did you get a mud client working on android? that one I'm super interested in. Not so much emacspeak, but a linux shell that wasn't utter garbage would be nice.
@fireborn TalkBack will speak (usually) only new incoming text, terminal window is explorable by touch, line by line, you can hit volume keys for control or FN, with state announced, and focus tracking sometimes works. Enough for reading info files and nano.
In November 2026, a historic milestone awaits humanity's Voyager 1. The legendary probe will reach the "one light-day" mark, meaning it will be so distant that communication requires a 48-hour round trip!
Audio descriptions are necessary for making videos accessible. They narrate the crucial visual elements that would be necessary for understanding the plot without the ability to see the screen. They describe non-verbal cues like gestures, facial expressions, or eye contact.
Spotify subscribers -- prepare for a price hike, as the company has announced another increase for users in the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia driving the cost notably above Apple Music. appleinsider.com/articles/26/0…
Spotify subscribers — prepare for a price hike, as the company has announced another increase for users in the U.S., Estonia, and Latvia driving the cost notably above Apple Music.
The latest episode of 99% Invisible is pretty good, but had a moment near the end that I found super valuable. (30: minute mark)
They discussed the value of being senior and reaching out to younger folk in the field to give them support. Going from "I don't know how to do this" to "My way is how to do this" to finally "There's a million ways to do this, just do it better than I did" is one of the most rewarding things. You never know the kind of impact that you will make, particularly if you were successful.
Identify the folk that will move the folk forward and do what you can to support them.
Come see Roman as he hosts a conversation with The Memory Palace‘s Nate DiMeo on Thursday, January 22, 2026 (7pm PT) at KQED in San Francisco. Get your tickets! Michael Bierut is one of the best known designers in America.
⚔️ Der Deutsche Presserat hat sein schärfstes Schwert gezogen: Für ihre falsche „Skandal“-Story über angebliche Geheimverträge zwischen EU-Kommission und NGOs erteilte er der WELT eine Rüge. Diese muss sie nun auf der Seite des Artikels veröffentlichen – was bisher nicht geschieht.
🔎 Bei dem Artikel handele es sich um eine „gravierende Irreführung der Leserschaft und einen schweren Verstoß gegen die journalistische Sorgfaltspflicht“, urteilt der Presserat. Das ist ein äußerst wichtiges Signal, auch für alle anderen Medien!
📣 DIE Welt muss die Rüge jetzt dort veröffentlichen, wo auch die gerügten Artikel stehen. Aber bisher hat sie das nicht getan, auch unsere Emails beantwortet sie nicht. Damit darf sie nicht durchkommen. Für ihre Verletzung des Pressekodex sollte sie zumindest gerade stehen.
🔁 Helft uns, den Post zu verbreiten und Druck zu machen, damit DIE WELT die Rüge auch öffentlich macht!
Der Deutsche Presserat hat die Springer-Zeitung DIE WELT für ihre Berichterstattung über Nichtregierungsorganisationen (NGOs) gerügt. Damit reagierte er auf eine Beschwerde von uns.
Announcing The Linux Command Line Seventh Internet Edition and Third Print Edition
Good News Everyone!
I have just released the Seventh Internet Edition of my book. Along with the Internet Edition release we're just a few days from the general availability of the new print edition which is based on the aforementioned Internet Edition.
I read chapters of an earlier edition to decide whether I could recommend it to aspiring members of the Linux community. I've been enthusiastically recommending it since then. I also notice that this edition is a tagged PDF file, which will make it more accessible to readers who use screen readers (e.g., people who are blind or who have low vision). You can find out whether a PDF file is tagged by running the pdfinfo command.
Installing Gajim on macOS is now only a single click away. This release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files 🗃️ and support for link previews 🔗.
Thank you for all your contributions ❤️ Let us know what you think!
Managed to catch a gnome-shell message "cannot reopen /dev/dri/card0: device busy" when plugging a USB-C dongle for an external monitor. So I logged out, and restarted my session *after* plugging in the dongle - surely it won't need to fuck with the device then? - and it started working.
(This is a dongle for an external monitor that I had never managed to make work. Apparently all I needed was to plug it in before starting my session.)
(Why was GDM happy with plugging in the middle...?)
So all I can do is experiment. I’m refining the settings for ɜ, ɚ, and ɝ. For ɜ, I’ll set cf1 to 530, cf2 to 1350, and cf3 at 2400. For ɚ, I'll use cf1=500, cf2=1350, and cf3 at 1700, with pf settings to match. For ɝ, I'll use cf3 at 1600, with similar pf settings. I'll keep 'r' for the tap/trill, and we'll see where it comes out when I get to it. Probably nowhere. But this is how a speech engine like this comes together. :D (LOL I asked GPT to convert the sounds into their IPA notations on this post)
Fun fact! There isn't a fixed number for IPA representations because the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is a system with about 107 core symbols for sounds, plus numerous diacritics (around 31) and suprasegmental marks (around 17), allowing for countless combinations to represent sounds across all human languages, creating unique "strings" for each word or utterance, and what NV Speech Player needs to do is map these in languages to how they actually sound out by the voice in terms of frequencies. So yes, quite a task. That's why it may not come together for awhile and I'm focusing on responding to Jira tickets at work :D
Due to an influx of spam evading Gmail's anti-spam measures, I have had to create a filter that routes all messages containing "MILF" straight to the Trash folder. I apologize in advance to any legitimate MILFs attempting to contact me.
~2 years grinding working on an app, and now you can vibe code it in like a week
amazing what we've done with technology now. Sure we're going to have to spend time sifting the turds from the gold, but there will be more gold than ever RT: mastodon.social/users/dansup/s…
I spent 7 years working on @PixelFed@pixelfed.social almost daily, and I've wanted to build an app ever since.
I'm a PHP/JS dev though, and thought it was impossible.
So I forked a react-native pixelfed client in 2023 and slowly learned.
@RandomDamage I just had Claude find a bug in a python tool (deleting files silent failures, not using absolute paths) whose authors are AI haters. Took Claude about 10 seconds to spot it
They've already accepted and merged it, I'm still debating whether or not I tell them that they could have fed it through Claude and avoided this embarrassment
Favorite new word: affricates. Sounds like a fruit right? But it's not! Don't eat those affricates! a phoneme which combines a plosive with an immediately following fricative or spirant sharing the same place of articulation, e.g. ch as in chair and j as in jar. Yup, those.
Love to see the age range for this shite... I bet most of these people are under 40 and NOT raised properly...
Incidents include passengers accused of inappropriate touching, instigating fights, uttering threats, sneaking onto flights, refusing to sit during landing/takeoff, consuming their own alcohol, vaping cannabis, and a wide range of “intoxicated and unruly” behaviour... ctvnews.ca/canada/article/inde…
From assaulting flight attendants to smoking onboard and even indecent exposure, Canada’s transportation authorities logged more than 100 reports of disruptive air passengers in 2025.
550K likes, 4,190 comments - noeldeyzel_bodybuilder on December 27, 2025: "I had a “survival” year in 2016, sometimes we need these years to teach us the lessons we need to grow and flourish🙏🏼
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Anyone know whether the Debian standard live CD (without any desktop environment), has a way to enable Speakup? I don't really need or want a desktop environment on my live CD, though I recognize that on modern hardware there isn't really a disadvantage to having one. There's also a Mate live CD so if all else fails I can just customize that.
@clv1 Thanks; I knew about s for speech in the installer CD but wasn't sure whether the live CD had that as well. I've never used it before and I know some live environments just toss you straight into a console/desktop. I'm going to test this shortly.
One trick I discovered to find what are the boot options of a given Linux image is, after burning the live image to the USB pen, open your file explorer and give a look at the .cfg files in the root of the pen. they belong to syslinux, which is the boot loader used in most distro live images.
@clv1 This is helpful; thanks. I'm very new to installing and using Debian directly on actual hardware. It was all VPS and Raspberry Pi for me until maybe six months ago.
@clv1 Waiting on the image to actually copy now, but looking at the cfg files, I notice there is an option to start the installer with speech but I don't see an option to start the live environment with speech. The live environment includes the installer and it's possible that if I just go to a blank TTY, that *will* be the live environment. We'll find out soon.
I recall asking last year on a mailing list about this. Someone said that the graphical installer inside the desktop isn't accessible with orca, or at least not friendly. The only option for now is a text mode installer with Speakup, but it's outside the desktop. In any case, it you want to start the desktop, Orca should work well, just press the classical key alt+win+s to start orca.
There seems to be a problem or something with FastSM where when I'm reading the notifications buffer, posts don't fully read. They stop at the middle of sentences and when I click the view function to view the post in full, its blank. This is an interesting bug.
I suggest you to mention @Bri as the main developer. Bri, the original message was: "There seems to be a problem or something with FastSM where when I'm reading the notifications buffer, posts don't fully read. They stop at the middle of sentences and when I click the view function to view the post in full, its blank. This is an interesting bug."
I'm still amazed that, as a blind person, I'm typing this on Linux, with an Android phone in my pocket, and not really having any major issues with either.
I'm loving this song at the minute. Loggins & Messina - House at Pooh Corner. Heard it years ago by a duo called Makena and thought they had wrote it. No it's a Kenny Loggins song. youtube.com/watch?v=fbt0Ik_LL2… #NowPlaying
Provided to YouTube by ColumbiaHouse at Pooh Corner · Loggins & MessinaSittin' In℗ Originally released 1971. All rights reserved by Columbia Records, a divis...
So this song was sampled by Daft Punk and a guy called Todd Edwards for their track Face to face. Actually one of the easy samples to spot in this youtube.com/watch?v=UKYWWfR_GK…
Listen, order & watch now: https://bio.to/daftpunk“Face to Face” is taken from “Discovery” available on all platforms: https://daftpunk.lnk.to/DiscoverySubsc...
The Kenny Loggins one is the little vocal thing that appears a few times. Vocal actually says "christopher rob"... Used to think it said something different back in the day.
Rekapitulace roku 2025 Pustil jsem se do menší rekapitulace roku 2025 na mém blogu. Masakr návštěvnosti z vyhledávačů, který pozorují jiné weby, na svém blogu zatím nepozoruji, naopak vyhledávače jako zdroj čtenářů rostly. Jak na tom byly ostatní zdroje a jaké byly nejčtenější články? #blog #rekapitulace #statistikyblog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/15/r…(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)
Pekna cisla. S tim AI vyhledavanim (hlavne google ai overview). Nemas tam nejake necekane navstevy na rootu webu?
My jsme meli dost zasadni "incident", kde nas AI overview dalo do medailonku Asher Rotha, ale ne jeho url, ale nasi homepage. Tak se tisice jeho fanousku proklikavali na join.unreleased.art a my vubec netusili, co s tim delat. (neudelali jsme s tim nic)
"No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies.
There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. "
Kritik an der Nutzung eines Altbots ist Fundamentalopposition und man rede damit die Mühen der Inklusion schlecht.
Oh man.
Ich würde mich echt freuen, wenn mehr Menschen darüber nachdenken würden, dass technokratische Implementationen im seltensten Fall die Problemstellung lösen.
Die Ausgabe eines Altbots ist für blinde Menschen nicht überprüfbar. KI-generierte Texte sind idR nicht hinreichend. Den Altbot Text kann man dann weder löschen noch korrigieren. Der Text ist im Reply versteckt (manchmal nicht mal im ersten Reply) und in der Timeline nicht sichtbar.
Dazu kommt, dass für Blinde die Navigation mit Screenreader erheblich aufwendiger ist, als für uns Sehende.
Schreibt eine Bildbeschreibung in das Bild. Bitte.
»curl — Projekt beendet Bug-Bounty-Programm: curl-Maintainer @bagder hat das Ende des Bug-Bounty-Programms angekündigt. Unbrauchbare KI-Meldungen nahmen wohl überhand.«
Ach was, die KI ist künstlich aber nicht intelligent oder was nun?!?? Ich bin sogar der Meinung, dass dies was die KI angeht noch das rel. kleinste "Problem" ist. Schade dass deswegen das curl Bug-Bounty aufgelöst wird.
what do you wish someone had told you about the Git command line interface when you started using Git for the first time? Especially curious about what you wish you'd known if you ended up choosing to use a IDE/GUI interface to Git.
(mostly interested in replies from people who started using Git in the last 5-10 years)
I've only played a couple of minutes, but Usurper Reloaded looks really #accessible and like loads of fun. With all kinds of content for an alpha 0.1. I never played the original BBS #game, so I don't know how it compares. Run the .bat file to get the console version: github.com/binary-knight/usurper-reloaded/
queer.de/detail.php?article_id… #ARD #ÖRR #Tagesschau #Tagesthemen #gay #queer #lgbtQ
macOS is now only a single click away. This release brings a simplified macOS setup, easier sharing for files 🗃️ and support for link previews 🔗.
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