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We have reached 100 members on datasci.social! 🥳

Since opening registrations in Jan with 50 members we have doubled in size, following a nice pace of growth. We are now also steadily posting over 100 new posts/week.

With ample capacity to grow, we encourage everyone interested in #DataScience, #NetworkScience, #ComputationalSocialScience, and related fields to join us, or to spread the word about our place. #MastoAdmin

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Growth of members (top, blue) and posts (yellow, bottom) of datasci.social. Members are growing steadily, rate of posts is now over 100/week. The gap in january was due to a missing data source.

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Lots of fun in Brussels today exploring the technical aspects of interoperability in the DMA at the @EU_Commission with @matthew, Cisco, @mozilla, @FAU and Meta. competition-policy.ec.europa.e… and webcast.ec.europa.eu/dma-works…

Interoperability workshop

DMA workshop - The DMA and interoperability between messaging services
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@Mozilla @Matthew Hodgson @European Commission @FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg

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sepsal jsem poněkud dlouhý, ale docela přehledný seznam softwaru, který používám a doporučuju

byl bych rád, kdybyste mi ho zkritizovali

možná tam sami najdete i nějakou inspiraci pro sebe :nkoHide:

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doporučený software

většina doporučovaných aplikací je relativně etická (uživatelská data neslouží reklamě), většina z nich je dokonce svobodná 🕊️ a až na výjimky zdarma…
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I spent several hours over the last few days implementing WASAPI audio output for NVDA for some reason. As I suspected, I don't think it's really any more responsive, but I'm hoping it might eventually fix some tricky bugs with the old WinMM implementation, though it'll probably introduce a bunch of its own. Still quite some way to go before it's fully featured; e.g. it doesn't support any device other than the default yet, nor can it recover if a device disappears. #NVDASR
#nvdasr

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Jamie Teh

I'm also providing an option to allow NVDA synth drivers to pass raw memory pointers for audio data instead of converting to a Python bytes object, which is a lot of unnecessary memory copying and overhead when the ultimate audio buffer is just raw memory (no Python objects) anyway. I've updated eSpeak and OneCore already and it works quite nicely, though I don't really notice a difference on my system.
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Jamie Teh

@leonardder Currently, it's API breaking for synths which choose to use it in that they won't work with the old nvwave. Synths using the old method will still work with the new nvwave though. However, I realised there's a way to implement the raw pointer thing with the old nvwave. It can just convert to a Python bytes buffer on the fly.
@Leonard de Ruijter

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Von #TikTok kommt nicht so viel ins Fediverse. Das hist halte ich aber für überaus wichtig:
Auf TikTop gibt es anscheinend einen extrem zuverlässige #Filter, der einen an ein Wunsch-Ideal angleicht. Diese Videos hier im Thread zeigen sehr gut
- was der Filter kann
- wie die Leute darauf reagieren
Ich würde hart empfehlen mindestens 3-4 von denen zu schauen!

twitter.com/memotv/status/1629…

(via @puresick , thx!)

#tiktok #filter @Daniel

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I am profiling #GNOME Shell (MASSIVE thanks to #fedora enabling frame pointers for all packages in 38 making this possible) and noticed clock_gettime() taking up a huge chunk. Turns out I hit
bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.c…: many #AMD laptops are forced to use a very slow clock source (HPET instead of TSC). #Lenovo fixed it with a BIOS update for some laptops but not mine. :sadness: Kernel param tsc=reliable results in big speedups (up to 30% in browser benchmarks) but unsure if it impacts stability :/
Flame graph profile of gnome-shell showing clock_gettime() taking ~10% of the time. Particularly, most of the time is spent in the read_hpet() function that reads the slow HPET clock source.
Results of three benchmarks from https://browserbench.org/ on Fedora 38 and Firefox from Flathub, comparing TSC versus HPET clock source. The results: JetStream2 82.722 (TSC), 76.437 (HPET); motionmark 311.47 (TSC), 236.40 (HPET); speedometer 88.9 (TSC), 79.5 (HPET).

202525 – TSC marked unstable on AMD Ryzen 2000

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#gnome #fedora #Lenovo #amd

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NVDA 2023.1 Beta 2 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome you to download the beta and provide feedback.

Changes introduced in Beta 2:
Updates to translations
Update to eSpeak, fixing a bug with Italian speech.
Fixed bug with the new global command to report the destination of a link.

nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2023-1b…


NVDA 2023.1beta2 available for testing

Beta2 of NVDA 2023.1 is now available for download and testing. For anyone who is interested in trying out what the next version of NVDA has to offer before it is officially released, we welcome yo…
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This new accessibility feature for Android is superb. Check out Reading Mode #reading #dyslexia #blind #lowvision
youtu.be/EPP4G4B3Dkc

Reading mode: A more accessible screen reading experience on Android

To help everyone catch up on the latest content, the new Reading mode on Android creates a more accessible reading experience that’s especially useful for pe...
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#blind #reading #dyslexia #lowvision
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Dan Keck

Thanks for sharing this; I didn't know about it! Reading Mode seems very promising as a way to visually read an article more comfortably, or have it read out loud. I like how it has more options than Chrome's simplified view feature, and seems to be available on more web pages.

I've assigned Reading Mode to my accessibility button, and I'll be playing around with both it and TalkBack.

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New Fractal room creation dialog by Kévin Commaille is looking great ✨

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/fractal…

Screenshot of Fractal with the new "new room" dialog above the main window. The dialog has a flat headerbar with a close button, a large title, and a few listbox rows with the name, topic, room visibility, and encryption settings. There's a pill button to create the room at the bottom.

room-creation: Use AdwEntryRow and other fixes (!1233) · Merge requests · GNOME / fractal · GitLab

Updates the interface with modern libadwaita widgets (AdwEntryRow, AdwToastOverlay). Also make it more responsive (GtkScrolledWindow, AdwClamp) and use template callbacks. It was not possible to create...
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Re the below: long ago, I heard from an Apple educational tech person about the creative way students shared test answers with each other using their locked-down Macbooks. All normal communication methods were blocked during tests, but students could create ad-hoc wireless networks with their choice of names, and see ad-hoc wireless networks advertised. So you had ad-hoc networks called 'What's question 3?' and 'Question 4 is Springfield' and so on. Kids are clever!

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2023-02-24 21:01:00

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I do not know if he intended to share it with me, but our 11-yo shared a Google Slides deck titled "The New Chat Room" that is approximately 500 slides long, where each slide is students in his class posting pop culture pictures &/or memes & using the Slides comments to chat with each other about them—I knew that students used this kind of hack to get around school content filters but seeing it in action is something else

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Kyle 🎙 🎶

Maybe I'll try this Honeygain thing again. They do seem to have Linux apps as well. So if it's not a violation of their terms or something, I can stick their app on my servers. I don't recall hcaptcha being a problem when I last had their app on Android and Fire TV devices. Then again, it's been a couple of years since I had an account with them, so I'm not sure I even have one now. If not, I'll use your link and get one if I can use my servers to pay their own bills.
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Kyle 🎙 🎶

@Trenton Matthews OK I think I figured out one part of the JumpTask thing. It's on the Binance blockchain, so it can at least be exchanged for the BNB Binance coins, which do have a determinable value, and can be swapped via Stealthex and other similar no-account exchanges, and I should even be able to trade it out for bitcoin and send it to my Coinbase account so that I can pay my server bills with it. Not sure I'd be able to keep much of it for anything meaningful though, as the low transaction fees on the JumpTask side will certainly skyrocket when I try to exchange the jump tokens for something I can use.
@Trenton Matthews
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Kyle 🎙 🎶

@Hunter Jozwiak @Joe Steinkamp I guess I just never had one long enough to play any games on it. I only had it long enough to try to use its basic functionality. Speech crashed out on me twice, once not coming back at all, and once coming back, but only after about 3 minutes or so. The damn screen kept waking up for no reason and all I was doing was moving with it inside of a bag. Yeah great for battery life. And then if something tells me "slide to answer," I should be able to slide. But this is exactly what the thing told me to do if I made a test call to it and its screen was locked. It popped up a screen that had the number of the caller on top and said "slide to answer" on bottom. There was no button or anything, just "slide to answer." I slid one finger, two fingers, 3 fingers and even 4, in every possible direction, nothing worked to answer that phone. Two days later someone told me I should have double tapped two fingers somewhere, anywhere, on the screen. But if that's what I was supposed to have done, I would have thought that the phone would have told me "double tap two fingers to answer." But it said slide. Then there's the lack of a home button, physical or virtual, which made it impossible to even get to the home screen without talking to its miserable AI voice assistant backwards Iris thingy, and opening an app that was not on the first page of the two-page home screen was just as difficult. Apparently these things have no concept of "all applications" or an app drawer that I can just open by sliding two fingers up the home screen, assuming I could even get to the home screen.

I got the chance to play with one of these in a store 10 years ago and decided then that I wouldn't take one if someone paid me to take it. This latest experience, even though I had seen it coming and decided I was up to the challenge, turned out to be far worse. Now, not only would I not take one if someone paid me, but I wouldn't even wish it on my worst enemy if I had one. I bit the Apple, and by God it bit back ... hard!

@Hunter Jozwiak @Joe Steinkamp
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Kyle 🎙 🎶

I suppose that's because Japanese companies used to make all our electronics. They know the hardware and the software inside and out already, a feat that I couldn't accomplish. After having one of those horrible monsters in my possession for 24 hours, I couldn't help but give it up. It was just too counterintuitive and far too complicated for me. Let me just say I now know why special classes are needed to teach people how to use that crap.

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#Tiktok is stupid. I mean we all probably know this yeah? Today I posted this video. It's my own music, being played at a gig, and it apparently 'violates their community guidelines.' What is it. Too dark? Does the trumpet look like a friggin bong? Did someone film a little bit too close to a pair of titties? I mean what is that all about? youtu.be/HUtTZk2R35c

Jamtastic - The Perpetual Question (Live in Belgium)

On February 22 2023, in a little venue in Belgium, we played a free gig to a few people.It's a somewhat rainy evening and we're playing a set live, that has ...
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Právě jsem koupil upgrade na desktop za skoro 10k (CPU + 2x 1TB SSD) .
Dlouho jsem na HW nesahal, ale situace začala být kritická :D

Budu to také přeinstalovat, mám lehce strach, že na něco zapomenu, nic kritického bych na discích mít neměl, vše kritické dávám do cloudu/NAS... Tak držte palce :D Kolik kapacity máte v vašem primárním zařízení vy ?

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Several years ago, a radio station in Seattle (I think) posted audio of one of their hosts viewing surveillance of some guy trying to break into a pickup truck in their parking lot. After hearing this I immediately thought "This needs to be on an AM sports station complete with sound effects." So, I made that happen... sort of.
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What if breaking into cars with mops was a sport?

On February 1, 2018, KIRO posted an audio clip of John Curley giving commentary of surveillance footage of a vandal trying to break in to one of their employ...
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Little Snitch reported today that Sonos tried to connect to a domain called tmp.sonoschina.com. I can't find much information about this domain, other than it is China-based but is out of a US ARIN IP block.

This is the first time I've seen something like that from Sonos. I said no thanks. I get that the hardware is made an assembled there, but this makes me worry maybe the data's going there, too.

A screenshot of the Little Snitch firewall for Mac OS asking whether to allow Sonos to connect to sonoschina.com.
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Kyle 🎙 🎶

You didn't think your Mac was sending data to China where it's made and assembled did you? OK maybe not assembled, but its components are most definitely made there. Still, Apple, Microsoft, Google and Facebook all sell your data to many places around the world, including but not limited to China. I expect my other proprietary devices to do the same. It's why I deGoogle my phones, run GNU/Linux on my computers and am very careful about what I ask any "smart" speaker.
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Trenton Matthews

Speaking of Android, not sure if you’ve ever used the Airdroid application before:

airdroid.com/
, but at least on the Mac side it works decently well with VoiceOver and MacOS 13.2.1.

I love using it for reading/sending off SMS messages (especially since Google’s Messenger requires you to scan a QR-Code). I myself do not have a monitor for my Mac currently.


AirDroid | Delight Your Multi-Screen Life

AirDroid is an Industry-leading developer specializing in mobile device management, including file transfer, remote access, remote support, device security management, monitor & alerts, Kiosk mode, and more.
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Trenton Matthews

Your best app then, is to use ‘Commander One’:

mac.eltima.com/file-manager.ht…

, and get the Pro version for $30 US or 25.11 Pound Sterling.
Thankfully, there’s a 15 day trial.

I myself love it’s interface!

Besides Android file transferring/mounting, it also has a built-in FTP client, being able to connect to cloud services (including dropbox), and also has a terminal emulator.

A great finder replacement/alternative.
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Commander One: Dual-panel File Manager for macOS

Commander One is a free dual-panel file manager for Mac. Finder alternative and FTP manager for macOS.
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The white-gold, black-blue dress controversy raised scientific questions about visual perception, but the way our eyes and brains work explain the illusion businessinsider.com/science-of…

Black and blue or white and gold? How your brain sees 'the dress'

In February 2015, the viral illusion had viewers in a hot debate over whether the dress was black and blue or white and gold. Here's the science.
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Encryption guarantees the right to privacy. 💪

Join the privacy movement now:
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Secure email: Tutanota free encrypted email.

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In #JapaneseFolklore there's a #yokai known as yama uba, which translates as mountain hag. These strange old witches live alone in remote areas. They can appear as kind old ladies offering travellers a place to stay, only to eat them alive during the night. Some believe that yama uba are the haunting spirits of old women who were abandoned in the woods or mountains by families during food shortages when there wasn't enough to feed everyone.
#folklore #ukiyoe
🎨1.Matthew Meyer
2.Katsukawa Shunsho
An old haggard woman stands holding a decapitated head. In front of her is a pit filled with human bones. A crow perches on her head. In the background is a small house, pond and leafless tree.
A ukiyo-e print if an old woman with grey hair. She holds a basket and walking stick.
#folklore #ukiyoe #yokai #japanesefolklore

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Inspired by the creative use of some nifty JAWS scripting and the power of iOS shortcuts as demonstrated by @IllegallyBlind, I have decided to try my hand at creating something similar for NVDA and I think I've succeeded. Note that I'm fairly new at this and by no means a coder so this is the simplest of simple, in fact, I'm still quite amazed that it works, actually.
What we need:
1. The NVDA Speech Logger addon available at:
github.com/opensourcesys/speec…
2. The following iOS shortcut:
icloud.com/shortcuts/999808bd1…
How to use:
1. Install both: the addon in your NVDA and the shortcut in your shortcuts respectively.
2. In NVDA's settings head over to the Speech Logger category and set the output path to your Dropbox root (that's what the shortcut assumes you're using, feel free to modify as needed);
3. Start logging the local speech with the assigned gesture (by default NVDA+alt+l);
4. Assuming the shortcut is configured properly (Dropbox authorized and all that jazz), launch it and a viewer will pop up with the fresh version of the log file at the time.
One nuissance I've found with this is that the viewer overlay will not surround the VO gestures so you need to focus it first through exploration before you can start reading the log. Also the gestures for the first and last item on the screen will move you to whatever else should be on your screen right now so you have to explore again to close the viewer. I assume that's a VO bug.
Also bear in mind that, while logging, anything your PC says will ultimately land in a regular text file and nothing apart from your Dropbox account is protecting it. Use with caution.
Feel free to suggest feedback.
#Accessibility #Tip #VoiceOver #NVDA #iPhone #iOS #Windows #Blind

GitHub - opensourcesys/speechLogger: An NVDA add-on to log speech to a file. Includes support for logging remote sessions.

An NVDA add-on to log speech to a file. Includes support for logging remote sessions. - GitHub - opensourcesys/speechLogger: An NVDA add-on to log speech to a file. Includes support for logging rem...
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#Accessibility #blind #Windows #ios #tip #iphone #nvda #voiceover @Drew Weber 🤠
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

And (probably not only) on Google Play, these labels are often nothing but a farce – see e.g. foundation.mozilla.org/de/camp… (TL;DR: those data are provided by the app authors/vendors voluntarily – and they are often not really "interested" in making them public; Google does not verify them but even explicitly states it's not their responisbility). 🤷‍♂️

So on Android, there are (basically) two kind of sources: the intransparent Play Store – and #FDroid 👆


False and Misleading Loopholes in Google’s Data Safety Labels

Mozilla researchers find discrepancies between Google Play Store’s Data Safety labels and privacy policies of nearly 80 percent of the reviewed apps.
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#fdroid

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TIL there's a feature where a non-cellular Apple device like a Mac can make phone calls *even if the iPhone isn't nearby or turned on*, by talking directly to the carrier over VoWiFi. I guess the iPhone has to get the SIM card private keys somehow and send them to the other devices?

support.apple.com/en-us/HT2030…

cc @zhuowei

Make a call with Wi-Fi Calling

With Wi-Fi Calling, you can make or receive a phone call if you have a Wi-Fi connection in an area with little or no cellular coverage. Learn how to make a voice call using Wi-Fi Calling.
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Poslední žijící český válečný pilot Emil Boček předal ocenění a oslavil stovku

Emil Boček, poslední žijící český válečný pilot, slaví sté narozeniny. Absolvoval téměř tři desítky operačních letů. Po válce se pro komunisty stal nepohodlným. Rehabilitace se dočkal až po roce 1989. Aktivní je dodnes.
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