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Alright, I'm living up to the "vortex" that I used to use as a handle or part of a handle in various places.
While looking at something else, I noticed that the at-spi2-core docs were lying and saying that every single enum value has existed since the beginning of time. Hopefully I've just fixed that and not broken something else while mucking around, but it was like a vortex hitting the docs, so no guarantees.
Also just made a pyatspi maintenance release (and sent it to Tumbleweed).
And now I'm done with anything remotely productive for today.
I want some Thai food, but that'll have to wait until tomorrow.

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Ready for something that's going to blow your mind, especially my fellow folks with disabilities? Hold onto to your hats and other accessories because this one is wild. The other day, I got a text from an Orientation and Mobility instructor that I had worked with back in the day. For those who are confused, to put it simply, an Orientation and Mobility instructor is the person who teaches someone with a visual impairment how to get from point a to point b without getting killed. Anyway, said instructor asked for permission to use old pictures she had of me for a retirement party slideshow. I said yes. Nothing too out there, at least not yet. A friend of mine who also worked with her got the same text message, but then more. This instructor asked for a memory video to be recorded on a platform that's not accessible, which my friend explained to her. Instead of understanding, she straight up asked him if his sister could help him record the video. Okay fine, general populace deciding to be ignorant is one thing, but someone who teaches independence? This is a level of what the fuck I don't know if I can deal with.
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@ZBennoui @shefoof Oh oh. That's way less of an annoyance, but still. Oooof. I'm still freezing out over her asking if a family member or friend could help you shoot the video. There's nothing that says you had to use the site she gave you. Hell you probably could have shot it on your phone and sent it to her, and I imagine it would have been ok. VO tells you if you're in frame.
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@jdking92 @ZBennoui @shefoof She didn't ask me, my friend got asked first and he messed with the platform or whatever and something was weird on the accessibility side of things. He told her that whatever she wanted done wasn't accessible, my guess was she wanted some sort of video recorded so it could be automatically added to a memory slideshow or something, one of those things where you can't just send a video you have to record through the site or whatever, I don't know, but I didn't see it, and honestly she's lucky she got told no by him and not me, I wish she would have asked if someone could help me, I wouldn't have been nice like my friend was. I'm already over stupid people.
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@jdking92 @ZBennoui @shefoof I don't care how well-meaning you are when you say some stupid shit like that to me, I don't have to be nice, I don't care if there's this expectation that as a person with a disability I should be kind all the time, I don't live by that expectation and it's not my job to educate the ignorant. It's 2026. The internet exists if you can get past the bullshit, these things aren't hard to find answers to.
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@ZBennoui @shefoof I definitely hear that loud and clear. Educating people really is exhausting and it's not our job to do that all the time. Like you said, the internet exists. If folks can't do web searches to get answers to their questions, they have bigger problems to worry about. I'll educate the people who clearly care about this sort of thing and are trying their hardest to be good folks, but the assholes of the world? Naa fuck them.
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This song is currently included as a demo project in Apple's #LogicPro. I'm too young to have used Logic 9 when that was out so I'm not sure about those, but of all the demos that came with Logic Pro X and now 11, this one's my favorite by far. Wonder what Apple will do with Logic 12 coming out about two weeks from now. youtu.be/eTkFpdLogEg

Ellie Dixon - Swing!

SWING SWING! - https://EllieDixon.lnk.to/InCaseOfEmergencyIDTHE SWING MUSIC VIDEO IS HERE!! ⚾Hope you have a ball with this one ✨I wrote this song when I was...
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I’m SO excited to have finished my first round of prototypes for my new keyboard clicker fidgets!!

Remember Apples legendary iMac G3 computers from circa 1998-2005(ish)?! You’ll love my new project!

Custom designed keyboard clicker fidgets (with real switches) - available in rainbow 🌈 colours, printed with translucent filaments, topped with textured keycaps.

I strive to create creative, unique and useful fidgets. Let me know what you think!! (Listing coming in a few days!) #BrittBuilds3D

Strawberry Ice, Tangerine Ice, Lemon Ice, Apple Ice, Blueberry Ice, and Grape Ice. — Names all borrowed from Apple’s iMac G3 naming scheme. 🖥️

Rainbow coloured keyboard fidget toy with wrist strap.
Example of the ‘ice’ style for these keyboard clickers. The base transitions from light translucent blue to ice white with blue keycaps with various textures.
Photo of all of the colours: Strawberry Ice, Tangerine Ice, Lemon Ice, Apple Ice, Blueberry Ice, and Grape Ice.
Throwback photo , overhead, of the Apple iMac G3 computers
#brittbuilds3d
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≠ HER PENIS ≠

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Looks promising


West Bend QuikServe Compact 2-Slice Toaster with Extra Wide Slots and Cool Touch Exterior, in Black (77224)

The West Bend QuikServe Toaster browns bread in less than two minutes, one of the fastest toasters on the market. Items are held to toast, then released to bottom serving tray. Toast, bagel, and gluten free settings.
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The rise and fall of Stack Overflow is a case in point of the parasitic nature of LLMs. LLMs feed their models on places like Stack Overflow to be useful to users, so users flock to them to avoid the eternal snarky comments and just get an answer to their problem right away. But this is a dead end. No new answers will be generated if no one uses Stack Overflow or similar places.

What goes for Stack Overflow goes essentially for the whole internet. Like a mold growing on food, consuming it, and dying once the food is gone - LLMs will kill large parts of the 'old' internet before long.

Graph showing rise and fall of Stack Overflow usage between 2008 and 2026 in numbers of questions asked per month. There's a clear bell curve visible coming from 0 and going to 0.

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Well over lunch, I discovered something funny. ChatGPT has access to Espeak inside its own sandbox environment, so it can run Espeak and generate IPA forms for what Espeak would output. Huge help. So, we fixed US English, next up is patching other languages. Both UK and US English now sound like they should in NV Speech player. Add-on link: eurpod.com/nvSpeechPlayer-2025…
(or original link works too, always latest there if you have a nice Browser like Firefox that doesn't cache downloads.)
Oh, and it also adds a dummy normalizer for empty IPA phonemes (that have no mapping right now.) We send a dummy 10-frames of audio in that case so speech shouldn't stall during say-alls.
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@BTyson @maysoncabo nah, but I think introducing US English letters changed some of the British ones, so the IPA tokenizer also needs to know the nuance between letter types per language and how ESpeak represents that data. Bleh. Sadly that DLL change wasn't much, it did make S's a bit softer which is probably enoough of a downside to not keep it for now anyway. But yeah, really don't know what beyond the ends-of-pitches clipping they did different in their inflection logic, but the entire player itself changed and that may have been enough to offset inflection differences too.
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#Catima 2.41.5 is out!

Catima is a simple Android app to store event tickets/plane tickets/store discount codes and more in.

Version 2.41.5 is the last iteration of the barcode encoding feature. It removes automatic encoding in favour of deciding encoding once on adding a card (extracted from pkpass files, otherwise ISO-8859-1) and then sticking with that. It also fixes some other bugs.

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Coming soon to an app store near you!

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


Release 2.41.5 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

Fix list widget sometimes opening wrong card Fix several bugs with shortcut handling Fix About activity not using pure black title bar in OLED mode Fully remove automatic barcode encoding detection...
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Yeah, I just added the `android:showWhenLocked="true"` to the `LoyaltyCardViewActivity` in the manifest and it works!

It has a little "flick" in the beginning, showing the lockscreen widgets over the Catima's activity for like a frame of a second, but hey, it has a "beta" label when you go to the settings to enable the lockscreen widgets, so I thing it will be fixed in the future.

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I'M BEGGING - ICE will track you with your phone

THERE IS A WAY TO NULLIFY AND STOP IT. Please read.

No promotions, no affiliation, not sponsored. I just use this service myself - they have no idea who I am. Please, I'm saying this to protect people I'm not benefiting from this post.

ICE with Webloc is able to scan entire neighborhoods and obtain mobile phone service data. On of the most critical pieces of information they log is your IMSI. Its like your car's VIN number, it identifies that device uniquely, and is the identifier the cell tower sees when your phone connects to it.

Now your IMSI and its location is logged, and cataloged to track your location over time; where you work, hangout, live, etc.

YOU NEED TO ROTATE YOUR IMSI TO MAKE THE DATA USELESS, and rotate it often.

My cell service provider does this automatically every 24 hrs. I only know of 1 cell provider that does it = Cape.co. There are other privacy focused providers, but they focus on minimal data collection (Cape does that too) and other security practices first.

Cape:

  • Rotates your IMSI every 24 hours (or you can refresh it manually)
  • Prevents man-in-the-middle attacks and Stringrays with Enhanced Signal detection. If the cell tower your phone attempts to connect to does not match to a known CAPE middle core, it will not connect. It also alerts in the app when suspicious connections are attempted and automatically blocks them.
  • Collects 0 PII - not even your billing info. They known the phone number they are servicing and that's it - not your name, address, DOB, nothing. If they receive legal demand to hand over your data they cannot, as they don't know who you are and never logged it in the first place.

Normally I'd include a coupon here, but to show you I'm extremely serious, I'm not going to include it. If you really want $10 off for life you can find a coupon somewhere, and they have a promotion rn, but I will not directly benefit from this post.

FUCK ICE AND THE FASCIST HELLSCAPE.

that is all. Visit: Cape.co

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Minnesota is really putting the facts of the 'opposition' party on show.

Walz says "I'm gonna deploy the National Guard," but actually deployed the state troopers to protect the Gestapo.

Now Frey's up on stage saying that MPD is just too busy protecting the economy to deal with crimes against humanity, so all protesters should go home. Because MPD won't protect them.

This is not opposition; it's collaboration and gaslighting.

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