Been screwing around with Nixos today and holy crap, this is the fastest I have ever setup a Mastodon instance.

Added everything in as described on the wiki and BOOM! The instance came up and I could create an account.

I still know NOTHING about Nixos other than some YouTube knowledge but I kinda feel like this can replace Ubuntu for my servers that I run.

Also... I DIDN'T KNOW CHANING THE FAVICON WAS BUILT INTO MASTODON NOW. I have just updated the esper.lol one.

#nixos #mastoadmin

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@schmaker Na šířku chodníků se v Praze nehledí. Ještě víc totiž nadávám tady na ten chodník. Tady bejval úzkej železniční most. Při reknostrukci tratě most zbourali, postavili mnohem delší, ale chodník pod ním vyasfaltovali v původní stopě. A ten zbytek vysypali kamením tak velkým, že se po něm nedá chodit. Chodník, kde se dva chodci proti sobě nevyhnou. 🤦‍♂️
Nadávám tu několikrát týdně cestou do Lidlu.
Na druhý straně je chodník širší, ale zas tu dál není kde přejít tu rušnou silnici.

Uf to mě to sejří... To jsem zas pustil páru na socky, sorry...

Beyerdynamic wird an chinesische Investoren verkauft 😢

Wer noch keinen dt770 pro hat: Jetzt noch zuschlagen - besser wird's nicht mehr.

Und es schadet vielleicht auch nicht, sich ein paar Ersatzteile auf Lager zu bestellen. Irgendwie kann ich mir nicht vorstellen, dass die Versorgung mit Ersatzteilen so weitergehen wird...

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#music #headphones #kopfhörer #beyerdynamic

Give a talk at the upcoming LibreOffice Conference 2025 in Budapest! The Call for Papers is still open: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…

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We're proud to announce a new stable release of Mixxx: version 2.5.2! This version contains updates and fixes for some issues reported by users. We'd like to thank all users for giving feedback as we would like to emphasize once again the importance of testing.
Please join our testing-force.
This update also contains updates to controller-mappings and improvements in the building procedures.
Have a nice #Mixxx.

mixxx.org/news/2025-06-13-mixx…

🎉 Best News Of 2025! 🎉

Google’s dominance on search is declining – for the first time ever!
👉 tuta.com/blog/google-search-do…

Time to update our private browser recommendations: tuta.com/blog/best-private-bro…

What's your pick for 2025 - which browser should we add?

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I post this just to show how I wanted to reply to the last post in the conversation from the screenshot, but I couldn't because @Azarilh blocked me.

“I admit this
If this would happen (which I really hope will not) I will stay with #VivaldiBrowser for as much as it would be able to survive, and then move to a #GeckoBrowserEngine-based #browser.
After all, #Chromium doesn't invade my #privacy, as #Bing, #Google, #Yahoo etc. do.”

Am I wrong?

@podfeet interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device that enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology. #a11y #CSUN2025 podfeet.com/blog/2025/06/csun-…

Be My Eyes is featured as App of the Day on the App Store! 🎉

What started as one idea from our founder has become a global movement, with 850k blind & low vision users and millions of volunteers.

Thank you to everyone who’s helped us get here. 💙

apps.apple.com/us/story/id1561…

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Open Source Accessibility Summit!
Sunday, Oct 12, Raleigh, NC USA
"Improving the accessibility of open source software"
2025.allthingsopen.org/open-so…
#opensource #oss #a11y #accessibility #events #event #raleighNC

LibreOffice isn't just an app – it's a worldwide community of people who work on code, documentation, QA, design, marketing and more. Meet us at local events, like recently in northern Italy: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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Purism Featured in Fortune- Secure Phone Made in the USA. While Big Tech claims U.S. smartphone manufacturing is “impossible” or “too expensive,”

Purism CEO Todd Weaver is proving otherwise.

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#AudioMo Day 16: In December of 2013 I visited #Estonia to go and visit @jakobrosin for the first time.
I decided to record as much of the plane-flight from the baggage hold as I could manage, so I set my Olympus LS-100 going, attached some mics to the suitcase straps internally and sent it on it's way.
Here, we have 9 minutes of what I like to call 'Ethereal Suitcase Music' as it wends it's merry way from baggage check-in to the plane.
Listen for the really strange and as yet unidentified noises the recorder captured at points along it's journey.
If you have any ideas what these might be, I'd be very curious. I've been waiting for over 11 years to find out.

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So, this time, i caught NVDA crashing, the same way it did yesterday, and it played an eror sound. I was curious to see if it would do it again, and right be for i hit record, it did. That time, it had no problem recovering, but i decided to leave Vertual Recorder open, to see if i can capture erors. I was in the interface of my Mastodon clyant, TWBlue browsing threw my home timeline as i usually do. About three minutes in, i heard an eror sound, and it stoped speaking intirely! It took me time to get Narrator up, so i can at least restart NVDA threw Task Manager. @NVAccess, hears what happened on my end. And guies, please don't take this as an attack, i just want this issue to be fixed. Thank you, for trying to help me yesterday, and i hope this can help bring foard a solution. Aside from this, i really do like NVDA's new features, and i support the project.
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there's a big problem with that. To put it lightly, the screen reader was unusable. I had to use narrator to get to the task manager, kill that NVDA process. Unfortunately, there is probably no Logg at all, and if there is if you can tell me where it is in a directory, I can see if I can find it. Whatever this is seems to be dependent on the severity. Sometimes, it can recover easily, but this time for some reason it took me over 10 minutes to figure out how to kill the bad process, and restart on my main copy. Thankfully, I never installed the update for my main copy, because, I don't know how much worse the crash would have been.

Since i'm on my laptop, let me correct my bad phone'serrors.

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If you press windows+e to open explorer, then alt+d to go to the address bar. Type %temp% (note the percent signs either side of the word temp) and press enter. In THAT directory are the nvda log files - nvda.log for the currently running or most recently running instance, nvda-old.log for the one before that, and also nvda_crash.dmp if NVDA itself has crashed. Please email those to us.

"Smart glasses offering a combination of sensory substitution based 'raw' vision and AI-based scene description and OCR appears to be technically and economically the most feasible and sustainable way toward meeting expectations, needs and interests of many blind people." artificialvision.com/neuralink…

And yes, I did already check this statement with a number of totally blind people, including a congenitally blind and a late-blind person.

#BCI #NeuroTech #blind #blindness

I got interesting news from the fedora accessibility room today! this concerns blind and visually impaired #linux users exclusively, however:

For a bit of time, specifically pipewire >=1.4, one can start pipewire as root. That includes the regular daemon and the alsa layer, because jack emulation is a library loaded inside programs. Anyway, more recently than that, pipewire-pulse got the ability to be launched via root, as a system service:

gitlab.freedesktop.org/pipewir…

I'm not sure if ubuntu can use any of this yet, I suppose not, but most other distros which aren't debian based should be able to do so, for example arch, gentoo, probably nix and fedora starting with 42. This means that your system can start talking much, much sooner without the use of scripts, as long as you enable the system services instead of the user ones, or well, apparently the user units don't conflict, weird as that might sound. Either way, the same security is achieved, because who cares if root apps can listen to your microphone, the battle is lost if those apps are already root anyway!

In particular, this means that one can start espeakup with the system and it'll speak as soon as possible. Not in the initramfs, not at the enter decryption key prompt, but that's still huge progress in case your system crashes and so on.

What do y'all think, does this change anything, or it's still the same for you because you use scripts anyway, or because your systems rarely crash in such a way where that'd be required?

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yes, from what I know, that's already a thing, technically. You can install it with orca enabled, then press alt+windows+s on the login screen to turn it on, and maybe again in the desktop? not sure. But yeah, definitely something that can be done, something I talked about with them before. No usb audio recognised and such, yeah, now that's a huge issue, that requires some serious troubleshooting. Maybe post about it in the a11y room, or in fedora's general support channel?

Come on #Fediverse, if you can, put some money where your heart is. The people from Framasoft are working hard on #PeerTube and are only looking for €75.000. With less than 40 hours to go, you can be part of the difference we want to see in the world :)

Soon we will be able to livestream from our smartphone to the fediverse!

Framasoft is a French non-profit, based in Lyon.

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Australian man interrogated at LA airport and deported back to Melbourne for his writings about pro-Palestine protests. His social media posts, too, which he said he deleted before flying, were used as material.

"Clearly, they had technology in their system which linked those posts to my Esta … a long time before I took them down,” he said. “Because they knew all about the posts, and then interrogated me about the posts once I was there.”

theguardian.com/australia-news…

Ghostty will soon be visible to accessibility tooling on macOS. This is increasingly important in the world of AI since this means that tools like ChatGPT, Claude, etc. can now read Ghostty's screen contents too (with permission). This feature is also relatively rare!

Only the built-in Terminal, iTerm2, and Warp also support this. Kitty, Alacritty, and others are invisible to a11y on macOS.

Beyond the screen contents, Ghostty's structure is also visible, navigable, and resizable such as its split as can be seen in the attached video. Ghostty and iTerm2 are the only terminals that expose structure too (splits, tabs).

This is a v1 implementation that is primarily read-only. I plan on iterating and improving a11y interactions in future versions.

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@miki I’m not totally sure. Right now our behavior mostly mimics iTerm. It’s admittedly not optimized for humans right now and more for AI (I note that in the PR), but the foundational work is all the same. It’s just all the last mile to get to the next spot.

My thinking thoigh was to break down the terminal into more accessibility groups e.g per command then per N lines of output, and notify AX framework that new data exists.

@miki
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Autoreading on Mac is though (see that writeup I made on Github at one point) because Voice Over has no built-in queuing mechanism, and you really need one in a terminal. This is not a problem on any other platform, most screen readers let you decide whether you want new speech to interrupt all existing utterances or to queue up.

This means you basically need to handle speech yourself (Mac OS and all other platforms have APIs for that and they're decent), but that opens another can of worms, as then you need a way to manage speech preferences somehow.

Dnes mě i přes neděli lovil v práci pan generální.
Napřed mi mazal med kolem huby, pak zkoušel oddanost práci a pak vytáhl nejvyšší kalibr.
Pořídil pro mě úplně nový Mercedes Tourismo, který bude jen můj, nikdo jiný mi ho nebude řídit, nikdo mi ho nebude týrat...
Nebudu to natahovat místo linky do Londýna jsem od příštího měsíce Long Executive trip driver ❤️
Příští stížnosti na dopravu budou z cest po UK a Evropě 😇

Long COVID is Now the Number One Chronic Illness in Children.

"Repeatedly mass infecting kids with COVID is not a public health strategy. It's a fast pass to declining population health"

"So many children are getting Long COVID because COVID causes Long COVID, and children are not “immune” to COVID, they are not becoming healthier with each infection, and the adults around them are doing nothing to mitigate the virus."

"So if COVID is a virus that can disable them, damages their blood vessels, raises their risk of heart failure and cardiac arrest, causes autoimmune disorders, diabetes, and a range of mental health and cognitive problems, then we’d be doing something really awful by failing to deal with, or even acknowledge it. Maybe even unforgiveable."

Source: archive.md/c8aSv

@auscovid19

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NV Access is pleased to announce that version 2025.1 of NVDA, the free screen reader for Microsoft Windows, is now available for download. We encourage all users to upgrade to this version. This release introduces NVDA Remote Access, provides speech, braille, OCR & Office improvements, Native selection in Chrome & edge

Full info & Download: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1/

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #FOSS #NewVersion #Update #News #Free

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What would a Doctor Who missing episodes drama be like? blog.lovarzi.co.uk/doctor-who-… #DoctorWho
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