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Inspired by T.V. Raman's latest blog post on Emacspeak, I have started updating my Emacs configuration and exploring the new Emacs packages now supported by Emacspeak. It has become clear that the best solution is to recreate my Emacs configuration from the beginning - slower, but sufficient to get rid of all the old and outdated code that had accumulated.
emacspeak.blogspot.com/2024/07…
#Emacs #Emacspeak #accessibility

Emacspeak --- A Speech Odyssey

emacspeak.blogspot.com
#Accessibility #emacs #emacspeak

apropos of nothing
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Last night Organic Maps was removed from the Play Store without any warnings or additional details due to "not meeting the requirements for the Family Program". Compared to Google Maps and other maps apps rated for 3+ age, there are no ads or in-app purchases, and no user information is collected in Organic Maps. We have asked for an appeal.

As a temporary workaround you can install the upcoming Google Play update from this link: cdn.organicmaps.app/apk/Organi…

This APK should work with Android Auto.

Email from Google about the removal of Organic Maps app
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Organic Maps
Organic Maps
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@kranzkrone @IzzyOnDroid We are building the map app for everyone on the planet, not just for geeks.
@Stefan @IzzyOnDroid ✅
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IzzyOnDroid ✅
IzzyOnDroid ✅
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Does that imply only geeks are using F-Droid? 👀 Kidding of course, and understood: people are intentionally misled to think only PlayStore is safe, though studies even state the opposite… Not your fault nor ours, and we know who does that and why. Monopoly, capitalism… sadly. Keep up your good work, we try the same on our ends. @kranzkrone
@Stefan

Fascinating in-depth piece debunking a long-standing myth about my first computer, the Apple IIGS: userlandia.com/home/iigs-mhz-m…

The Apple IIGS Megahertz Myth

I love the Apple IIGS. It’s a great computer, but could it have been greater? The legend goes that Apple purposefully underclocked its CPU during development to avoid competing with the Macintosh.
Dan Vincent (Userlandia)

Hey @Tutanota , what is this M in the Android logo now? 🤔
@Tuta
in reply to Alessandro B

Tuta
Tuta
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Hi there! It's part of our bigger rebranding process! Stay tuned for some exciting new things coming soon ;)

I do realize I'm screaming into a void, but writing this email was cathartic.

This is why friends don't let friends buy app-controlled (or internet of things connected) domestic appliances.

It's always an excuse to up-sell you shit you don't need, and when that fails, the owners (not you, the corporations!) will jack up the rent.
mastodon.social/@arstechnica/1…


Ars Technica (@arstechnica@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image Smart sous vide cooker to start charging $2/month for 10-year-old companion app “You’ve just lost a LONGTIME and very faithful customer." https://arstechnica.
Mastodon

🚨 BREAKING: Were all social security numbers in the US leaked? Find out more - and how to protect yourself!

👉 Tips to protect yourself
tuta.com/blog/how-to-protect-d…

👉 More details here
latimes.com/business/story/202…

#socialsecuritynumber
#ssn #databreach #socialsecurity #securitytips #digitalidentity

Illustration of a social security card with a big red warning sign in front of it.

2.9 billion records possibly leaked in data breach: Protect yourself

In an epic data breach, hackers claim to have taken 2.9 billion personal records from National Public Data. Most of the data are leaked online.
Jon Healey (Los Angeles Times)
#databreach #digitalidentity #securitytips #socialsecuritynumber #ssn #socialsecurity
in reply to Tuta

The Dubster
The Dubster
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More info here: krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/na…

NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com.
krebsonsecurity.com

Here's a video I want to age like curdled milk. Age so quickly it's out-of-date a week after it's made. The issues I've outlined here should be fairly simple fixes if they follow Apple's accessibility guidelines, so here's hoping someone at Floatplane Media can get some eyes on this.
I've tried to be as fair as possible, not just to make a 'bitch and ditch' style video, and to showcase the issues I have.
Please boost if you have an interest, or know that it can potentially reach someone who can make a difference.
Not my cup of tea to ask for those under normal circumstances, so I will not be making a habit of it.
Thanks.

#Accessibility Issues With #Floatplane (from a #VoiceOver Perspective) youtu.be/2sZTsrek08M


Accessibility Issues With Floatplane (from a VoiceOver Perspective)

I've never made a video I wanted to age as badly as this one, but needs must.There are some glaringly obvious issues with LTT's Floatplane app for iOS if you...
YouTube
#Accessibility #voiceover #floatplane
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Pitermach
Pitermach
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So, that play and close button, they’re actually completely unlabeled which makes it even worse. The only reason you hear “play” and “Close” there is because VoiceOver is doing its image recognition magic and guessing by how the graphic looks like (you can tell by the ding sound that goes with the announcement). If someone has this turned off, or the feature just broke randomly (which I’ve seen it do sometimes requiring a redownload of the models or a phone restart), you’d just get a click on those and nothing else.
in reply to Pitermach

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@pitermach Wow, didn't know that actually. I just always have the image thing on because it's useful. If we can raise awareness and bring their attention to it, hopefully it can help. Like I said, I'm not here to shit all over it. I *want* to use it, but the refund email doesn't help.
@Pitermach
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Pitermach
Pitermach
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Oh yeah, that feature saved me so many times it’s not even funny. That’s why I pointed it out, if you can get in contact with a higher level tech support, or if you see this anywhere else in the future you want to tell them those buttons are just straight up unlabeled and need fixing. And yeah, you were. I find screen recordings do often help with situations like this.
in reply to Pitermach

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@pitermach I of course had the screen going, not just VO. I did the whole thing in OBS with quicktime in the background.
@Pitermach
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@pitermach Please do let me know if you think I was fair and constructive though.
@Pitermach
in reply to Andre Louis

Talon
Talon
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@pitermach my only complaint with the video I suppose is you were, in my opinion of course, maybe a little too nice at the beginning. You said multiple times that you're just trying to give constructive critique. I'd have probably just said hey floatplane, I'm a paying customer and as a blind person I have a few issues with your app. If you could fix them, that'd be really great.
Instead they just kinda... gave you a refund? I understand that this is probably some support misunderstanding but like... to an accessibility issue? That feels super tone deaf. lol. Come on LMG. You can do better than this! We know you can! You know we exist, you made a video including accessible Linux! Big sad puppy eyes
@Pitermach
in reply to Talon

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@talon @pitermach I know but people have been canceled for less haha, I really want them to take me seriously. Once they do... Then we pull out the big ones. lol
@Pitermach @Talon
in reply to Andre Louis

Talon
Talon
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@pitermach nah I get it I also usually take the side of overpoliteness, which is why I noticed it immediately. lol
@Pitermach
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Talon
Talon
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@pitermach well... except on mastodon. I do let loose here sometimes. lol.
@Pitermach
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@talon @pitermach Here feels different. Feels like you can cut loose in a different way somehow.
@Pitermach @Talon
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Talon
Talon
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@pitermach yup. Probably because it's not directly targeted. I'm just airing my frustrations in the moment. I hate the situation I'm in because of a thing. I don't hate the people behind it or sometimes not even the thing that caused it. I just hate that I am where I am now because of whatever it is I'm complaining about.
@Pitermach
in reply to Talon

Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@talon @pitermach That's probably the best summation of a thing I've seen in a long while haha
@Pitermach @Talon
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Robin Kipp
Robin Kipp
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@talon @pitermach Nothing wrong with being overly polite as far as I’m concerned, unless the company in question has clearly demonstrated that they don’t have a care in the world for accessibility. That person who offered a refund might just have been an underpaid support rep trained to resolve most situations of customers expressing some sort of negative experience with the app in this very manner.
@Pitermach @Talon
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Talon
Talon
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@robin_kipp @pitermach Oh yes. It's absolutely nitpicking and I would most likely have done the exact same thing which is why I immediately noticed it.
@Pitermach @Robin Kipp
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Andre Louis
Andre Louis
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@talon @robin_kipp @pitermach Had I been 15 years younger, that video would have been terrible. I was so much more angry back then.
@Pitermach @Talon @Robin Kipp

Its been a long time guys, but I'm back, with a Final Hour stream with @meatbag, @TheFake_VIP and tunmi13.

We are starting at 08:00pm UTC.
To save y'all the trouble, here it is in different time zones.
British Summer Time: 09:00pm
Pacific Time: 01:00pm
Mountain Time: 02:00pm
Central Time: 03:00pm
Eastern Time: 04:00pm

You can watch on Youtube or Twitch:
youtube.com/watch?v=lUJg7ijvzY…
twitch.tv/eagle_eyed612


Twitch

Twitch is the world's leading video platform and community for gamers.
Twitch
@Michael Connor Buchan @The Byte Bender 👨🏽‍🦯

Good morning everyone @Friendica Support

I would like to try to understand why from Friendica I can't connect to the Wordpress blog of @.mau. :friendfeed: already federated with @Matthias Pfefferle plugin, which is instead displayed correctly by Mastodon.
The blog is xmau.com/ while the user who publishes is @Notiziole di .mau.

If I paste the address of this post xmau.com/wp/notiziole/2024/08/…

in the Friendica toolbar, I get an error, while if I paste it on mastodon, I can view the post (here is an example: mastodon.social/@

Furthermore, if I try to search on Friendica for the user @Notiziole di .mau. I can see it, but if I try to follow it, I still get an error.

NB: I also have federation problems with Lemmy and not just with Friendica

Have any of you figured out what the problem might be that prevents Friendica and Lemmy from federating with that blog (but not Mastodon)?

@Matthias Pfefferle @Friendica Support @.mau. @Notiziole di .mau.

Mini-dovolená v Orlických horách.

Bude mi ctí, pokud ohodnotíme mou firmu na firmy.cz/detail/13496609-marie…

Marie Glöckner (Letohrad) • Firmy.cz

Aktuální ověřené informace: adresa, telefon a e-mail Marie Glöckner, Letohrad. Telefon: 777 318 …
Firmy.cz

Abyste si nemysleli, že kecám, potomci při vyklízení stáje objevili další obratle....😕

@Tusky

Hi, thanks for your wonderful app. I am very grateful for all your work.

I've noticed the following case, when a caption for a video is long it covers the video controls.

I'm running 26.0

mastodon.social/@danluu/112947…

Thanks


Dan Luu (@danluu@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image How good can you be at Codenames without knowing any words? https://danluu.com/codenames/
Mastodon
@Tusky

Stick scritches 🧹 #Caturday
#caturday

Welcome Viktor Petersson as #curl commit author 1296: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1431…

Adds OpenSSF Scorecard documentation to `Security.md`. by vpetersson · Pull Request #14319 · curl/curl

As per our conversation today @bagder - adding the much deserved OpenSSF badge :)
GitHub
#curl
in reply to daniel:// stenberg://

Viktor Petersson
Viktor Petersson
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Thanks! Honored to be a committer, even if it was just text changes to `SECURITY.md` :)

Určitě znáte skvělou webovou aplikaci pro Mastodon Phanpy 🐘. Nyní je možné pracovat na překladech do češtiny, a komunita kolem Phanpy by ocenila vaši pomoc. Pokud máte čas a chuť přispět, každá pomoc je vítaná! Překlad můžete začít na Crowdin zde: crowdin.com/project/phanpy. Díky moc všem, kdo se zapojí! 🌟 A za #boost fotku Wicka :-)

Phanpy — Translation Project on Crowdin

Help us translate Phanpy and bring it to the world!
Crowdin
#boost
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Jan
Jan
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No jo, ale u půlky pojmů to bude chtít diskusi nad překladem.
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Archos
Archos
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@Jann
Jo taky jsem se zarazil už u pár věcí. Třeba se připojí ještě pár lidí, ono víc hlav víc ví 🙂👍
Ale chápu, času má každý málo a ještě je čas dovolených.
@Jan

Včerejší večeře ve Francouzské restauraci GH Pupp 😋❤️❤️

hmmm

Google might be cutting support for 'the world's most popular ad-blocker,' but this Windows Registry trick will help Chrome and Edge users keep intrusive ads at bay for a year longer windowscentral.com/software-ap…

Google might be cutting support for 'the world's most popular ad-blocker,' but this Windows Registry trick will help Chrome and Edge users keep intrusive ads at bay for a year longer

Using the Windows Registry, you can extend uBlock Origin's support in Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge for one year.
Kevin Okemwa (Windows Central)

A person message from Big Finish chairman, Jason Haigh-Ellery bigfinish.com/news/v/a-person-…

A person message from Big Finish chairman, Jason Haigh-Ellery - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
www.bigfinish.com

An update and an apology from Big Finish bigfinish.com/news/v/an-update…

An update and an apology from Big Finish - News - Big Finish

Award-winning, full-cast original audio dramas from the worlds of Doctor Who, Torchwood, Blake's 7, Class, Dark Shadows, The Avengers, Survivors, The Omega Factor, Star Cops, Sherlock Holmes, Dorian Gray, Pathfinder Legends, The Prisoner, Adam Adaman…
www.bigfinish.com

LSD, the dream emulator in #openbsd

automa.triapul.cz/lsd/

Quick guide on how to play the occult game using the mednafen emulator.

#serpico #gaming #tutorial

Puffy is inside the LSD dream emulator.

LSD

The Dream Emulator in OpenBSD
automa.triapul.cz
#gaming #OpenBSD #tutorial #serpico

🔓 #odemceno denikn.cz/1487129/v-praze-mate…
zpravobot.news/@enkocz/1129723…

V Praze máte radši auta než děti, věřím ale, že vystřízlivění přijde, říká slavný dánský architekt Gehl

Celý život poslouchá „my nejsme Kodaň, tady to nepůjde“. Slavný dánský architekt Jan Gehl ale úspěšně vedl proměnu řady měst včetně světových metropolí. Působil také v Praze – té jeho tým před lety navrhl proměnu magistrály, která zůstala v šuplíku.
Prokop Vodrážka (Deník N)
#odemceno

Join us this weekend at FroSCon – the Free and Open Source Software Conference – near Bonn, Germany! froscon.org/en/
Photo of LibreOffice merchandise and flyers

FrOSCon

froscon.org

LibreOffice reshared this.

Last spring, Washington State passed a bill banning commercial octopus farming.

Today, we (myself and 99 others, led by Jennifer Jacquet, Becca Franks, Peter Godfrey-Smith, and Walter Sanchez-Suarez) have a letter in Science supporting the US OCTOPUS Act, which would do the same nationwide.

science.org/doi/10.1126/scienc…

in reply to Carl T. Bergstrom

Carl T. Bergstrom
Carl T. Bergstrom
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Octopuses cannot be farmed humanely.

They are highly intelligent, extremely curious creatures that fare poorly in monotonous environment without natural stimulation. They are naturally solitary and experience intense stress in crowded environments.

Farming conditions are horrible for them.

(It's also highly inefficient, ecologically, to farm carnivores.)

Here's the full PDF: carlbergstrom.com/publications…

Ahoj komunito! Určitě znáte skvělou aplikaci Phanpy 🐘. Nyní je možné pracovat na překladech do češtiny, a komunita kolem Phanpy by ocenila vaši pomoc. Pokud máte čas a chuť přispět, každá pomoc je vítaná! Překlad můžete začít na Crowdin zde: crowdin.com/project/phanpy. Díky moc všem, kdo se zapojí! 🌟 Díky za #boost :-)

Phanpy — Translation Project on Crowdin

Help us translate Phanpy and bring it to the world!
Crowdin
#boost

Tak hele jo, k tomu globálnímu oteplování:
Tropický noci: Meh
Lesní požáry: Smutný
Sucho: Nepříjemný

ALE

Jestli ještě jednou, budu lovit ve 3 ráno v ložnici po posteli takovýhle hovado, co u nás vůbec nemá co dělat a ještě k tomu skáče a kouše, tak se stěhuju do Finska.

in reply to Archos

Tomáš
Tomáš
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@archos
Beelzebub, pán hmyzu, princ pekla a velitel 6666 legií démonů.
@Archos

Since 2020, Next Generation Internet (NGI) programmes, part of the European Commission's Horizon programme, fund free software in Europe using a cascade funding mechanism. This year, according to the Horizon Europe working draft detailing funding programmes for 2025, we notice that Next Generation Internet is not mentioned any more as part of Cluster 4.

The signatories of this open letter say: The European Union must keep funding free software

apc.org/node/40261

@NGIZero #NGI0

The European Union must keep funding free software | Association for Progressive Communications

www.apc.org
#ngi0 @NGI Zero open source funding

Windows Finally Expands FAT32 Formatting From 32GB to 2TB pcmag.com/news/windows-finally…

Knowbility seeks participants to make the digital world more accessible to people with disabilities knowbility.org/blog/2024/knowb…

Guardian Angels – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World jimmyakin.com/2024/08/guardian…

Guardian Angels – Jimmy Akin’s Mysterious World – Jimmy Akin

jimmyakin.com

Generosity and dedication have led to over 250 issues of MicroTimes magazine to be scanned in.

archive.org/details/microtimes

But now we're looking for missing issues to scan in. Do you have: MicroTimes Volume 2 Number 12, Volume 3 1-3, 6-12, Issue 78, 151-152, 154-155, 159-160, 162, 165,182-199, 201-215, 217-end? Reach out.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org

Spectrum Cable TV & Internet Customers Are Being Targeted With A New Scam cordcuttersnews.com/spectrum-c…

Spectrum Cable TV & Internet Customers Are Being Targeted With A New Scam | Cord Cutters News

Recently the number of scammers targeting customers of large cable TV companies have grown. One of the biggest recently has been callers claiming to give customers half off internet for a year if they prepay for six months in advance.
Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)

Best Carbon Monoxide Detector for 2024 cnet.com/news/best-carbon-mono…

Winaero Tweaker 1.63 Released groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/75…

Winaero Tweaker 1.63 Released

groups.io

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Recording Available; Cybersecurity Workshop groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/75…

From the Florida Outreach Center for the Blind: Recording Available; Cybersecurity Workshop

groups.io

Cítím a počujem, svaly. :kekw:

edit: potom budem jesť mesiac cottage
edit1: toľko piva som vypil že až

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