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What a busy day! Yeah, Saturday ended up being a work day. Besides purchasing the AirPods Pro 3 and selling my 2 Pro, I also moved my work machine from NVDA alphas to the stable release, version 2025.3. I usually run NVDA alphas even on my work machines since I can easily downgrade if something goes wrong, and I can usually live with a few add-on incompatibilities. But with the 2026.1 alphas going 64-bit only, a good number of add-ons have been affected, including all the Eloquence and IBMTTS ones. I just can’t handle an Eloquence-less world yet, LOL! Also the horrible on-device image captioning! Let's just call it an experiment, and leave it at that. Unless the underlying model gets altered, it will disappoint many users down the road.
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I love voice control. I hate how it takes my battery though. So I tied it to my action button. One click toggles it on. Then I do what I need to do. And I turn it off again. Another option is to leave it in command mode. That way, it's not constantly listening for dictation, but you can still use dictation to dictate. Additionally, you can turn off commands you know you won't use. I hope this helps someone who may be struggling to keep up with fast moving ableds. Happy Sunday, or Monday, as the date line flows.

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Hell yes! 🧑‍💻🖥️🛟
Quote from @a11yChief: Imagine you go to a site you know, and their latest update has broken accessibility. You can’t pay for what you want, or find what you need. Now imagine someone built you a panic button you could press that lets you rant about what’s broken and why, so other people with more spoons can advocate on your behalf. It lets other screen reader users know there might be issues, and to stay away. A hotkey, a button or two and an angry smash of the enter key.

Would you use it?

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@stalwartlabs PLEASE remove the minimum 25-seat requirement for a license. There are a ton of people who would be interested in running Stalwart and desire some of the Enterprise features, but if you don't make it easy for hobbyists and self-hosters to champion your software they won't be able to speak from experience.

You can fund open source without requiring users fork over $60/yr minimum. That's what I'm currently paying for Fastmail. If I have to pay $60, I might as well keep using Fastmail which will also give me premium support whereas your $60 license will not.

I know there's a trial license option, but that isn't sufficient. Extend the olive branch by making the first tier flexible at 1-500 seats instead of 25-500.

@Stalwart Labs

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> I další mužští lídři pirátských kandidátek připisují masivní úspěch svých kolegyň především kampani Kroužkuj ženu.

Ale prdlajz… prostě ve sněmovně voliči chtěli ženy. Já jsem třeba ani nevěděl, že nějaká taková iniciativa existovala. A tohle je přesně ten důvod, proč…

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„Kdybych vyzval ke kroužkování mužů, ve straně končím.“ Někteří přeskákaní piráti nesou neúspěch těžce

Piráti získali osmnáct poslaneckých křesel, patnáct z nich připadlo ženám. Ty většinou přeskočily i muže na prvních příčkách kandidátek. To v části strany vyvolává pnutí.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 22 updated apps. But our gardener also removed 3 apps which were no longer maintained and rarely downloaded anymore:

* Taiga Mobile: client for the taiga.io project management
* Oxen Wallet
* Runner (a step counterr)

We hope you can enjoy our beautiful garden at #IzzyOnDroid – and do our best to keep it well maintained :awesome:

#AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

To give you some numbers: had we kept all apps that were ever added to IzzyOnDroid, we'd now be at about 2.5k apps in our repo. But since our repo started back in 2016…

* 687 apps have been removed
* 437 apps have been removed when they reached F-Droid (back when we still removed them at that point)
* 1.294 are listed as of today

So in summary, 2.418 apps were here altogether.

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Oh, PS: 2 of the updated apps were "resurrected" ones today: one was "dormant" since 2018, the other since 2020. Trying to upstream our app metadata (Fastlane structures) we are reaching out to many devs, and these two felt motivated enough to pick up development again and make new releases. One of them even 2 releases in short succession :awesome: That was Senslogs, from 2018, which is now even confirmed as Reproducible Build: apt.izzysoft.de/packages/fr.in… 🥳

We hope you enjoy them!

„Senslogs“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

monitor internal sensors
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Now I have several blog posts in my head, which isn't really the best place to keep them... I think I remember reading a Stephen King interview where he talked about having a goal to write a certain number of words every day. I need to get back into the habit of doing that. Even if I only write a little every day, it is better than nothing and will eventually lead to having something completed. I have trouble linearizing things sometimes and start to obsess over exactly how to say what I want to say, but I'm not sure there's a way around that other than to just start writing.

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I keep reading posts that admonish people for speaking about a particular thing. We're told there's no harm there's no downside this person can do nothing to you. Stop and the activity will stop. I read, I reread and I still shake my head in disbelief because here's the thing, both approaches hath been tried by some of us and guess what, absolutely nothing changes. Furthermore telling people they shouldn't feel however they feel, whether it's fear, anxiety, frustration or anything else is ineffective. And to indicate that no damage can be done is short sighted because if people are inconvenienced, anxious, fearful or their ability to enjoy an activity or platform they once enjoyed is diminished by the actions of another, something has been done to them, some harm has been caused. If some feel the need to try the ignore and stay silent approach great go with it for as long as it works for you. But if others can't or choose differently, maybe they're not wrong they're just taking a different path because perhaps they need to do so for whatever reason.

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Dali jsme si dneska rande s @archos ve Varech a oba jsme koukali, proč nám chodí požadavky OSCloud.cz na zřízení nových účtů a přístup k našim skvělým OpenSource službám na serveru… A pak najednou kouknete na záznamy z JOpenSpace 2025 a div vám nevypadnou oči z důlků.
Tohle jsou přesně ty momenty, kdy si říkáte že ten čas, co za tím je, stojí za to 🩶

Diky všem kdo šíří povědomí o OS projektech a třeba se i přidají!

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Nate Graham's latest blog post: "a Mac-like experience on Linux"

pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/…

#KDE #Plasma #GNOME #OSX


A Mac-like experience on Linux

In 2016, after being a Mac guy for 23 years, I took the plunge and made a full-time switch to Linux. I did my research, and over and over again encountered the idea that GNOME was good for MacOS re…
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In case anyone else needs to put a Windows ISO onto a USB stick and, for some strange reason, needs to do it from Linux, I figured out that I can't just dd the ISO to the USB device, or I end up with an image that my computer doesn't detect as being bootable. I found this tool that worked like a charm: github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

GitHub - WoeUSB/WoeUSB: A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux

A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux - WoeUSB/WoeUSB
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Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=qq7VeohVxV…
#a11y #webdev #webdesign #UIDesign #accessibility #conference #events

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #events #conference #uidesign
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Sunday.

I'm most pleased to report that at 12:17PM yesterday afternoon, Kim delivered our son Bertie. He came out with the right numbers of toes, fingers, ears (sadly he seems to have inherited mine) and so forth.
It's suddenly astonishingly real, this child we've been trying for (and waiting for) for over 13 years.

Kim's labour was ... Intense. Bertie was a bit on the large side. Seeing her go through something so intensely physical was a real experience. Being at the business end of things during the delivery was an incredible thing also. I was lucky enough to help deliver the head and cutting the chord was special too. Kim did need a couple of stitches, but I don't think the pain relief for that was anywhere near the levels of joy from having her newborn son on her chest while they put those in.

But he's here, all 4.74 kg of him. the induction process started last Sunday, which meant that having the waters broken at about 10:00PM Friday night felt like an age. Building up through early labour was slow and very painful and, I suppose laborious is an appropriate word, but the delivery process itself, the whole "push" thing, was amazingly fast - the midwives were surprised that the head was there so quickly.

Kim's a little sore, but remarkably nowhere near as badly than when she was butchered having Lily, who weighed a good 2 pounds less.

The housework all got done in plenty of time. The mother-in-law has a week with us to be of some use and play with her new grandson. Our daughter is thrilled. even the dog is protective. It couldn't really have been a better end to the start of the next phase in our lives.
So please boost a toot to little Bertie Randall. May his life be full of all of the joys the world has to offer.

a newborn baby is dressed snugly in a white onesie decorated with illustrations of small, stylized dogs in blue, yellow, and beige, and partly wrapped up in a blanket. Baby Bertie has a light complexion and very short, fine hair on his head. his eyes are open, and he's got slightly furrowed brows in this image. with his right hand up near his face, with fingers gently curled.
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