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.
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
Cosonic Intelligent to acquire Beyerdynamic for €122M, aiming to expand global reach and strengthen high-end audio innovation.Goh Beng Yeow (Porta-Fi)
koniec najlepší
edit: tbh táto pieseň mi dodáva kontext k jej ďalším
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#younggiftedblack #ninasimone"To Be Young, Gifted & Black" performed by @NinaSimoneMusic (includes interview)Recording session: Live at @MorehouseCollege in...YouTube
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[bottom image] a photo of eu07 after a recent crash, with its eyes going inwards](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/677666 "[top image] an eu07 loco looking like it's licking a lemon
[bottom image] a photo of eu07 after a recent crash, with its eyes going inwards")
Join us in Budapest and tell us what you’re doing with LibreOffice! The Document Foundation invites all members and contributors to submit talks, presentations and workshops for this year’s LibreOffice conference in Budapest at ELTE’s Faculty of Info…Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
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Educators: We must teach the next generation to speak truth to power.
Also educators: Not like that.
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.
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Download the most advanced FREE DJ software available, featuring iTunes integration, MIDI controller support, internet broadcasting, and integrated music library.Mixxx DJ Software
to sú hipisáci hrajúci blues? to som ešte nevidel asi 
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Out now on Blu-ray and DVD: http://www.criterion.com/boxsets/326-the-complete-monterey-pop-festivalYouTube
🎉 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?
When it comes to most secure browsers Firefox is the best alternative to Chrome on our list - and, no, incognito mode doesn't cut it.Tuta
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?
Allison interviews Celeste D’Costa from Imaginable Solutions about their Guided Hands assistive device for people with limited hand mobility. The device enables anyone with limited fine motor skills to write, paint, draw, and access technology.Steve Sheridan (Podfeet Podcasts)
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. 💙
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Learn about Share a Vision on Mac App Store. Download Be My Eyes and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.Apple Inc (App Store)
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About the Open Source Accessibility Summit The Open Source Accessibility Summit will be a one-day in-person event that brings together members of the disability, accessibility, and open source communities to define a roadmap for improving the accessi…All Things Open
Marco Marega writes: Hi, I’m Marco, an Italian translator and Member of The Document Foundation. Twice a year I take part in an event in Pordenone to promote LibreOffice within the stand “Linux Arena” of the PNLUG Linux User Group.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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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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Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.Purism SPC
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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.
"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
Why The vOICe vision BCI for the blind can likely defeat Neuralink Blindsight (and other brain implants for restoring vision)www.artificialvision.com
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:
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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?
We can and it works, so why not.GitLab
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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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Let's popularize videos shared by the people, for the people!support.joinpeertube.org
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.”
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Alistair Kitchen says he was detained and questioned about views on Israel and Palestine before being deported from LA to MelbourneCatie McLeod (The Guardian)
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.
@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.
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.
Demo on how to use the new NFB Newsline feature in the BT Speak. NFB-NEWSLINE is a free service provided by the National Federation of the Blind, giving user...YouTube
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
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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The story behind Doctor Who missing episodes is almost as gripping as Doctor Who itself. Could the hunt for lost material be transformed into a TV drama?Alex Skerratt (Lovarzi Blog)
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As some people already mentioned here or here, Copilot purposely stops working on code containing hardcoded banned words from Github such as gender or sex. I am labelling this as a bug because this...GitHub
#ninasimone #antibesNina Simone live at Jazz à Juan — the International Jazz Festival in Juan-les-Pins, Antibes, France on July 24th, 1965. Nina performed tw...YouTube
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in reply to Schmaker • • •@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...