I have a challenge for @Tamasg. I would like to see if he can attempt to make an NVDA addon for the Panasonic CyberTalk synthesizer. Here is a link to the files needed:
dectalk.nu/Software%20and%20Ma…
According to when I did exporting of the DLL functions of ttsapi.dll), it sounds promising, though I'm not a developer by any means, and I know that he is working extensively on the NV Speech Player addon.
AI at its best: the review we requested from Google's "security" console (quotes intended as questioning the term) "failed". I'm pretty sure, with not a single human involved.
Works. </s>
So whenever Google's "safe" browsing warns you about something, make sure to check for yourself (if you can) – do not blindly trust them. Being Big does not imply being competent. Obviously.
But sure, put them into control of everything, what could go wrong…
The reason seems quite obvious here: the app in question is an APK Updater. Oh, does that match the current/upcoming changes in Goog's policy? I'm very surprised (not), this certainly is pure coincidence (not).
And no, we won't remove the app from our repo just because of Goog shenanigans and their "alternative realities". Count the number of malware found at F-Droid+IzzyOnDroid (0), compare that to findings at Play (∞), get to your conclusion (🖕).
(sorry, am fed up with this BS)
@fbinin What is most frustrating there is how that wastes our time. I don't have to give you the term "underhanded" here, your team shares that pain…
Updated my snippet again (gitlab.com/-/snippets/4909577). Recording those events for reference sounds like something more than due (hoping for "backfire" re:trust their "safe browsing"). Hopefully, someone collects such evidence (I know someone who is, he knows about my snippet) and brings it to the right places, in a big box…
@fbinin Hahaha… yes, I tried that back at DroidCon in 2024. Guess they'll only send the PR team, again…
Nevertheless: the two of us can have a coffee together of course! Our stands are even next to each other, so it can be a can of coffee instead of just a cup 😉
Of course and I am very much looking forward to meeting you and others. I am wishing to even meet and make friends, rather than just acquaintance with at least a few there.
Only trouble for others would probably be like: I do not drink, nor smoke, and am pure vegetarian.
That may kill the mood for many. 🙃
@Life_is I cannot speak for F-Droid here. But I can forward that question to our client teams (Droid-ify & Neo Store).
Though in this context, it might be much more subtle: why rejecting their inclusion at Play, when you already can shovel dirt on them before they even apply (by maliciously marking them malicious)? And it pretty much looks like the latter here: of course would they not accept any apps known for being malicious, right? So create the facts you need?
I re-implemented the rate limiting in #curl, coming in the next release. A description.
eissing.org/icing/posts/curl-r…
The curl project merged #19384, #20033 and #20228 which re-implements rate limiting of transfers in libcurl. This will be part of the upcoming 8.19.0 release at the beginning of March 2026.icing's blog
This is a massive MR that aims to merge the entire 2.0 development effort into the official repo. All new code was...GitLab
Apple Fitness+ is now available in Japan, but instead of using local trainers, and despite being one of the most wealthy companies in the world, Apple has dubbed existing workouts with AI-generated versions of the trainers' voices.William Gallagher (AppleInsider)
Wow. This is an intelligent and powerful speech.
It is shocking in its frank admissions. Especially coming from someone who was the head of the Bank of England.
youtube.com/watch?app=desktop&…
Watch live as Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney delivers a special address at the 2026 World Economic Forum in Davos. Follow live updates: https://bit.ly/4...YouTube
RE: mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/11…
This is very serious, please share.
ICE agents are impersonating utility workers to lure people out of their homes.
#OREGON: #ICE agents now posing as Pacific General Electric, NW Natural workers, officials warn “ #Portland metro area officials are warning residents about reports of federal immigration officers posing as utility workers to lure people out of thei…Anna Anthro (Mastodon)
There is a surprising inconsistency with how columns are represented in spreadsheets I have never thought about. There is A, B, ..., Z, AA, AB, ..., BA, ...; if we assume that column indexes start from 0 (like rows), then A = AA = AAA etc.
That's clearly incorrect, so the table rows must be indexed from 0 while table columns are indexed from 1, right? No! If A=1, then Z=27, so AA=28, but we've already determined, that A stands for 1, so AA is basically 28 + 1. Ergo, column labels in spreadsheets are not indexes and they are pure nonsense. QED. :)
Vím, že se opakuju, ale Rusko musí shořet na popel.
Kyjevská radnice hlásí kritickou situaci s vytápěním a elektřinou. Milion lidí je bez energie, 5600 bytových domů nemá dodávky tepla, 600 tisíc obyvatel z celkem třímilionové metropole už město opustilo. (NV)Petra Procházková (Deník N)
PSA: If you want to avoid a meeting, enforce 8 or more participants. Scheduling it will be almost impossible.
link.springer.com/article/10.1…
Abstract Polling all the participants to find a time when everyone is available is the ubiquitous method of scheduling meetings nowadays.SpringerLink
(1/2) We are happy to announce a new milestone for transparency in #IzzyOnDroid: public metadata
Starting today, all info on all IzzyOnDroid apps is now publicly available on Codeberg in our new metadata repository: codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/repod…
You can now submit your updates to listed apps (e.g. AuthorName, links) directly via PRs – and we're looking forward to your contributions! We're now working on updating our documentation, to help you with this. Stay tuned!
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Wobble wobble, all the juggles, makes me wonder, what's your bubble!
Sorry for hijacking with a intensive PJ.
so it turns out that when VS Code asks you “do you trust the authors of this folder?” what they mean is that it’ll auto-execute .vscode/tasks.json if it exists, which can include shell commands.
maybe that’s too many features. you can’t hold all these features. put a few features back
theregister.com/2026/01/21/cur…
(I will blog about the details next week)
: Maintainer hopes hackers send bug reports anyway, will keep shaming ‘silly' onesSimon Sharwood (The Register)
So sorry you (and many other code maintainers) have to deal with this slop.
With AI, it's now far too easy for unqualified people to automate their bug bounty submissions. It's a numbers game: submit 1K (or maybe even 10K) alleged bugs and if you land just one bounty, it's worth it.
I was wondering if making people pay for each bounty submission would help deter this behavior? One reason they bulk submit slop is that it's basically free.
I'm not sure of the mechanics here though.
Nigel Farage Breached The MPs' Code Of Conduct 17 Times, Watchdog Confirms
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/farage-registered-more-than-ps380000-financial-interests-late_uk_69709305e4b084d70182d794?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into UK Government @uk-government-FlipboardUK
The Reform leader registered more than £380,000 of financial interests outside of the accepted 28-day period.Kate Nicholson (HuffPost)
🔴 Wat gebeurt er als Trump met één druk op de knop alle Amerikaanse systemen van Nederlandse organisaties uitschakelt?
We deden onderzoek. Wat blijkt?
🎓 81.4% van de onderwijsinstellingen raakt toegang tot documenten en e-mail kwijt
🏛️ net als en 72.6% van de gemeentes
🏢 en 70.4% van de grootste Nederlandse bedrijven
Dit en meer kun je vinden op zijnwealautonoom.nl. Daar verzamelen we van ruim 13.000 Nederlandse organisaties bij wie ze hun websites en e-mail hebben ondergebracht.
Zijn we al autonoom brengt in kaart van welke organisaties het internet in Nederland het meest afhankelijk is.Zijn we al autonoom?
Dear #linuxaudio friends, what are your thoughts on my dream of a new #pipewire / #wireplumber app? 🤔
amadeuspaulussen.com/blog/2026…
PipeWire and WirePlumber deserve better. 😝amadeuspaulussen.com
NVDA, the free and open source Screen Reader for Microsoft Windows - nvaccess/nvdaGitHub
Brief summary Clicking on an .vda-addon file which manifest specifies a higher minimum_version than your installed NVDA version, it should prompt you with a dialog saying that the add on is incompa...Jonathans859 (GitHub)
On this day in 1985, 41 years ago, Greensboro, NC, the city in which I grew up, experienced it's coldest temperature on record, -8 degrees F, or -22.22 degrees C.
I was alive for that, but being less than a year old at the time, don't have any memory of it.
My baby bedroom was the least insulated in that house, though, so that must have been fun keeping it at a reasonable temperature.
Mount Mitchell, NC recorded a temperature of -23 degrees F, or about -31 degrees C, on that same day.
honestly, the janky-ass superflous animations & effects even with all the “reduce motion” #accessibility options enabled seem to exist only to slow down my previously very snappy recent-gen (n-2) #iPhone – this isn’t event planned obsolescence, it feels like hastened obsolescence to make the #Apple money printer go brrr just a little sooner than usual, as a treat 😤
on a device that has the hardware to support 120Hz refresh rates, why am I ever seeing folders & icons get visibly drawn on my screen? 🤪
#LiquidAss #enshittification on display yet again 💩
If only we hadn't been right about #ageverification spreading in 2026. 😤
Let's keep fighting for #privacy and #anonymity 💪
This is not to protect the children.
Instead, It is to force adults to give up their IDs (and normalize the act) so they are easy to be identified whenever they try to spread the truth or post/comment something against the will of the elites.
There are numerous ways to protect the children. This is definitely not one of them.
Oh, cool. My NAS back at home is apparently suffering from Dying Power Supply Syndrome (DPSD) or something. It apparently improperly shut down twelve times yesterday, according to the logs.
Of course, it would do this just a few months after I spent over 2 grand replacing the storage on it with 8 new 12 TB hard drives, replacing the 6 TB drives that were all starting to die.
Looks like maybe a new NAS is in my future when I get back... whenever that is.
Brrr... new introduction time cause my old one is already outdated lol.
I am Sinclair-Speccy, your local resident computer nerd that can’t actually do a lot of tech stuff like people think. My primary interests are #Linux, #OldTech, and #OStan. You’ll usually find me boosting retro tech content and occasionally posting it myself, mostly retro tech ads.
My interest in emulation all started when I managed to run Yggdrasil Linux from the '90s (I know, so interesting /s). Despite having used XP as my first OS other older OSes (mostly Linux ones) interest me more if you look at the media I've posted on my account besides the tech ads.
I’ve moved around a bit online as I started on .art as my friend was there, then bitbang.social and now oldbytes.space.
One of my favourite niche fandoms is OS-tans which is turning operating systems and hardware into anime characters, though I tend to call them tech gijinkas. I even have my own tech gijinkas universe that is hosted on my site.
As for some other stuff I enjoy #mythology, #transformers, #cats, #fantasy, #nature such as #flowers and #plants and #animals, #steampunk, #starwars, #photography, #art, #space, #cyberpunk and #scifi... there is more but I'm not writing them all.
You can check out my website here: sinclair-speccy.github.io/The-… and I hope to expand it into a tech journalism platform or something, though motivation and its static nature kind of stop me...
Unlike in the past I'm not active as I used to be, sadly.
#RetroTech #Retro #RetroTechnology #RetroComputing #VintageComputers #Introduction
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