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I've been using the new Microsoft Outlook for a while, and although it was usable and had some nice features, it was never quite as accessible as I was hearing it was from other blind users. I went back and reviewed chapter 4 of David Kingsbury's book, Windows Screenreader Primer from the Carroll Center for the Blind, and changing the following setting made all of the difference! 😎

In the view group, I went into the Reading pane menu and checked the Popout only item.

#Accessibility #A11y

#a11y #Accessibility

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Chystá se nová evropská sociální síť W - viz tenhle článek:

cybernews.com/tech/social-plat…

Jelikož si ještě nepořídili všechny domény, tak na překlepové doméně w-social.eu už vznikla reklama na Mastodon, tak jsem dneska přes oběd něco podobného udělala taky 😄

Mrkněte na wsocial.cz 🐱

Zkuste Fediverse 😉

Zkuste Fediverse - komunitní decentralizovanou sociální síť.
wsocial.cz
in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

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Kayla Eilhart (cz)

@stepan Jestli to chápu dobře, generuje se to furt automaticky z českých instancí podle počtu a aktivity uživatelů, co mají otevřené follow requesty a seznamy sledujících. Poslední refresh tam byl dneska. Nevím, kdo to teď má pod palcem, ale asi se to dá někde najít, viděla jsem snad i zdrojový repozitář někde.
@Štěpán Škorpil

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I'm happy to announce ChapterPod, an app for adding chapters to podcast files, is now available to download!

I've been using this for about 6 months behind the scenes to do all the chapters for Comfort Zone, and it's easily the best tool for the job (for me, at least).

Available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone

apps.apple.com/us/app/chapterp…

ChapterPod App - App Store

Download ChapterPod by Matt Birchler on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like ChapterPod.
App Store

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He conseguido probar, con algo de dificultad, que la suma, resta y producto de reales definidos como clases de equivalencia no dependen de representantes específicos, y que cumplen las leyes del anillo (más o menos). Algún lema sobre positividad. ahora me falta la tricotomía. No sé si habré elegido bien usando secuencias en lugar de cortes de Dedekind. Pero es que las pruebas de supremos e ínfimos me tocan las narices bastante; es un coñazo tener que hacer análisis de casos con eso.

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I couldn't believe that PC Gamer headline was a proper reflection of what was said, but... it was.
The thing which most annoys me is that they seem to believe they have a right to do a damaging thing (which they acknowledge is damaging) in the hope that they might find something impactful to do with it (which they acknowledge they haven't, yet) because there's currently a lot of hype about it, and the only time limit on this is "find something before the hype runs out".
Right now, the zeitgeist is a little bit about the admiration for AI in its abstract form or as as technology. But I think we as even a global community have to get to a point where we are using this to do something useful. That changes the outcomes of people and communities and countries and industries. Otherwise I don't think this makes much sense. In fact I would say we will quickly lose even the social permission to actually take something like energy, which is a scarce resource, and use it to generate these tokens, if these tokens are not improving health outcomes, education outcomes, public sector efficiency, private sector competitiveness across all sectors, small and large, right? And that to me is ultimately the goal. Satya Nadella, Microsoft CEO, Davos 2026 youtube.com/watch?v=1co3zt3-r7I
PC Gamer headline: "Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it" by Tyler Wilde

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Launching their new social network, W, a group in the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.

But their map is wrong.

Here's what Mastodon actually looks like, and what the Fediverse as a whole actually looks like.

arewedecentralizedyet.online/m…

A screenshot of a map showing that Mastodon instances are located around the world.
A screenshot of a map showing that many kinds of Fediverse instances are located around the world.

Social Network User Data Storage

arewedecentralizedyet.online
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If "AI" worked they'd be using it, not selling it.

I.E. if it did what they claimed it would be proprietary secret sauce, not "come use this for free so we can figure out what it might be good for". Still, in 2026.

Remember when blockchain was going to have a zillion world-changing uses, real soon now? Same guys, they pivoted.

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

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RE: hear-me.social/@Lacze/11593625…

The "brilliant" minds behind the new social network wsocial.eu forgot to grab related domain names, so I applaud the efforts of the creator of w-social.eu... encouraging people to be social and simply join the fediverse.

Fun fact: yesterday I almost registered wsocial.lol (1 Euro for the first year) and wsocial.wtf.

I guess if I see an article in mainstream media about wsocial.eu I may do it (if the domains are still available).

Journos, you should cover the fediverse!

#resist

• Łącze (@Lacze@hear-me.social)

• Wsocial https://w-social.eu Social media platform, an alternative to X ~ ~ Check, help, and share the link to the platform 😊 _____ #twitter #x #socialmedia #Europe #freedom #freespeech #News #technology #Mastodon #Media #opensource #foss
• Łącze (hear-me.social -- Tell us)
#resist
in reply to Elena Rossini ⁂

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Elena Rossini ⁂

I was this close to registering a domain name & creating a splash page to expose why wsocial.eu is such a terrible idea.

Why did I stop?

I have a big hunch that their initiative is going to FLOP. Big time.

A fork of Bluesky that requires government ID to post? Bahahahahaha.

Sure you can have rich and powerful friends helping you launch at Davos but getting people excited about a new social network isn't easy.

I will use my limited time in propping up the fediverse instead ✊

W Social

wsocial.eu

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NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.6 now on GitHub as a release. github.com/tgeczy/NVSpeechPlay…
Release notes:
This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably through STDIN), keeping NV Speech Player and the Phoneme Editor fully GPLv2-compliant while still allowing use of GPLv3 phonemizers such as eSpeak NG as separate programs. Functionality is unchanged for users, but the integration is now cleaner, more flexible, and license-safe.

Release NVSpeech Player with phoneme editor version 1.6 · tgeczy/NVSpeechPlayer

Licensing & phonemizer changes This release removes all direct linking against libespeak and other phonemizer libraries. Phonemization is now performed via external command-line tools (preferably t...
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New phoneme editor that supports custom phonemizers via the command-line. This will begin the work of using other phonemizers than ESpeak, like Gruut, ETC. Please note that because of how we split chunks now, since ESpeak is ran through commandline arguments, there may be a slight pause when processing larger files. However, a new "phonemizer settings..." dialog has been added with a few templates so you can switch to another phonemizer than ESpeak.
This also means that V6 will be the first to get a release on GitHub, as it's no longer violating GPL2 to GPLv3, and frees SpeechPlayer from only and directly using ESpeak. Finding a phonemizer that's also multilingual though? Big challenge.
Note that we introduced a new symbol in the IPA output, ||, (two vertical bars) to indicate a pause. You can force a pause via IPA by inserting this, though.
eurpod.com/synths/NVSPPhonemeE…

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Gmail, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn - Big Tech is already scanning your messages. 👀

If you - like us - fight #ChatControl, you must quit these data hungry companies. 💪

➡️ tuta.com/blog/voluntary-scanni…

Images scanned by Microsoft: 11.7 billion scans: <0.001% CSAM

Gmail, Microsoft, Meta, LinkedIn: They already scan your messages - voluntarily! | Tuta

Voluntary Chat Control is already in place since 2021, named Regulation (EU) 2021/1232. Similar to scanning obligations in the UK and the USA, this regulation allows Big Tech to scan all your data.
Tuta
#chatcontrol

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Sucht hier jemand eine Person mit jahrelanger Erfahrung im Testen von Soft- und Hardware? So richtig mit Weiterbildungen und Qualifikationsstempel und so?

Ich kenne da eine Person, die mal nen neuen Job braucht.

Bevorzugt Großraum Stuttgart, mit ÖPNV-Anschluss erreichbar, gerne Teilzeit (25-28h/Woche), gerne was mit Verkehrswende und / oder Energiewende.

(Nein, nicht ich. Keine Angst.)

#getfedihired

#getfedihired

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I am reading Anthropic's new "Constitution" for Claude. It is lengthy, thoughtful, thorough...and delusional.

Throughout this document, Claude is addressed as an entity with decision-making ability, empathy, and true agency. This is Anthropic's framing, but it is a dangerous way to think about generative AI. Even if we accept that such a constitution would govern an eventual (putative, speculative, improbable) sentient AI, that's not what Claude is, and as such the document has little bearing on reality.

anthropic.com/constitution


Claude's Constitution

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
www.anthropic.com

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Interesting that something like this existed. Love that sort of ideas.

Jayson Smith

2026-01-22 09:21:17

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Does anyone have a copy of the Minute Marker tape produced by Brayton and Sons Productions in the early 90's? It was a twenty-minute timer on a tape. There were different drum sounds for fifteen, thirty, and forty-five seconds past each minute, then each minute had claps counting the minutes. One side had a tick every second along with all the other sounds, the other side omitted the ticks. I never had or even saw a copy of the tape, all I ever heard was a promo for it he put in Playback Magazine, audio attached.


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Hallo Fediverse. Wir sind die Westdeutsche Bibliothek der Hörmedien für blinde, seh- und lesebehinderte Menschen e.V. (kurz WBH) aus Münster für Menschen, die auf Grund von Einschränkungen nicht in der Lage sind gedruckte Bücher zu lesen, die Möglichkeit kostenlos Hörbücher auszuleihen. Wir freuen uns nun hier dabei zu sein.

#neuhier #Bibliothek #Münster #Hörbücher #Ausleihe #blind #sehbehindert #lesebehindert #Hörmedien

#blind #neuhier #bibliothek #munster #sehbehindert #horbucher #Ausleihe #lesebehindert #hormedien

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🎉 The DI.DAY folder flyers for XMPP are being printed now, in English and German! 🎉

Grab one at the #FOSDEM #XMPP stand in AW level 1!

Huge thanks to @padeluun from @digitalcourage for making this possible, to @jssfr for baking the recipe photo, to @marcuwekling for #DIDay and to everybody who contributed!

High-res version: shop.digitalcourage.de/flyerfo…

#DIDit #DUTgemacht

Three panel folded flyer in English, DI.DAY recipe for XMPP Messaging / Jabber, with four app-branded muffins on a plate. Full text available from Digitalcourage e.V.

Faltblatt (Folder) zu XMPP in englischer Sprache

Faltblatt zum Digital Independance Day (englischsprachige Ausgabe) Hier: XMPP / Jabber  Dieses Faltblatt wurde von Freiwilligen ausgearbeitet, um auf das gute freie ...
Digitalcourage e.V. – Shop & Unterstützungsbedarf
#xmpp #fosdem #dutgemacht #didit #diday @Digitalcourage @padeluun ⁂ @Marc-Uwe Kling @Jonas Schäfer

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FOSDEM is the biggest free and open source software (FOSS) event in Europe, and will take place on 31 January and 1 February in Brussels, Belgium. And the #LibreOffice project and community will be there! Meet us and grab cool merchandise: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware
Banner saying that LibreOffice will be at FOSDEM 2026

Meet the LibreOffice community at FOSDEM 2026! - TDF Community Blog

Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice
in reply to Zelda 🎀

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The Matrix.org Foundation

the options for inviting someone to a chatroom are either by matrix ID (if they already have one), or by email (where they will get an email invite that should resolve to a matrix invite once they sign up, although it's quite fragile), or by linking the room via matrix.to - e.g. "come to matrix.to/#/#matrix:matrix.org". matrix.to should work pretty well; what problems did you see? is this to an invite-only room or a public chatroom?

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Does anyone have a copy of the Minute Marker tape produced by Brayton and Sons Productions in the early 90's? It was a twenty-minute timer on a tape. There were different drum sounds for fifteen, thirty, and forty-five seconds past each minute, then each minute had claps counting the minutes. One side had a tick every second along with all the other sounds, the other side omitted the ticks. I never had or even saw a copy of the tape, all I ever heard was a promo for it he put in Playback Magazine, audio attached.

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I assume I am not the only one feeling this way, but I feel like I have gottten way more lazy with the release of AI.
Take coding, for example. Instead of going but hunting myself, I just ask claude: "Hey, can you find the bugs in this project for me?". I really feel lazy lol, and I want to change that.
Take writing as well. many times, I will plug something I wrote into things such as chat gpt and ask it to correct spelling and such for me, which is bad for my brain activity. It makes me think less, and I do not like it.
in reply to TheFriedChip

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Jonathan

Yeah. I get that. The fact my concentration span decreases + that AI does a lot of shit for me and I put less and less effort into understanding is a problem. I also realise that I have quite the double standart. I dislike Gen AI for many things like Vibe Coding and Music generation shit, for example, but on the other side I use it daily, often also for accessibility reasons. I absolutely get the problem.
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Jonathan

@ondrosik @techsinger I frequently delete the memories, and also changed the personality, which results in it thinking it would need to point it out everytime, e.g. I say: Tell it like it is; don't sugar-coat responses. And each time it points something out it's like, here is result XY, totally straight forward and serious, no talking around etc. Bit difficult to explain since I'm mainly using it in german, but still dumb I have to do that in the 1st place. Yes I know good prompting and such, but well what can I do if the AI's just dumb in the 1st place.
@ondrosik @Tech Singer
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ondrosik

Well, I feel the same sometimes. For example i use AI for vibecoding because I don't have so much time to learn programming and I think that If I will try to do it myself it will newer be done. But i create music and I dont delegate this to AI. To be fair, I tryed suno for fun but I don't distribute suno creations as my music. I sometimes use AI for translating my text from slovak to english but here I realize that by doing this I lost my ability to write in English. BTW this text is not corrected by AI. At the other end, I am translating NVDA and I dont want to delegate this to AI at all. And yes, sometimes I am just lazy. For example I need to take some medicaments in various times during a day. I have to create 11 dayli events to be notified. I throw the instructions to gpt and downloaded just the ics file, imported to the calendar and it works. I realize that AI spent electricity and water to just doing simple text file for me.

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Heute hatte ich wieder sehr viele sehenswerte Videos ohne Untertitel in der Timeline. Diese like & booste ich aus Prinzip nicht, denn es ist frustrierend, nicht nachvollziehen zu können, worum es geht & was gesagt wird. Das tue ich Follower*innen nicht absichtlich an.

Könnten wir daher bitte auch bei Videos verstärkt darauf achten, dass möglichst alle teilhaben können? Gerade bei offiziellen Statements gibt es in der Regel mehrere Quellen, wählt bitte die mit UT.

#Barrierefreiheit #Untertitel

#barrierefreiheit #untertitel
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