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The more and more I use the Cadence, the more I realize how Mac OS and iOS treat it just as a standard HID display. Perhaps the reason my panning keys don't work is because the keys themselves are not seen as mappable ones in that standard driver. I'm saying this because under Mac OS 15, it treats it as a single-line display. That's right, only showing me 12 or 24 characters at a time at the top, leaving the rest blank. I do believe Mac OS 26 and iOS 26 must have been first to introduce multiline display support. If so, it explains things more: The standard HID driver now sees that the Cadence has 4 lines, but you cannot reorient them to either a vertically stacked 12-cell-by-8 line display nor reassign the thumbkey buttons. Perhaps iOS needs an official Cadence driver along with Mac, until that comes it works over Standard HID but not 100% well. That's the landscape with iOS
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Tamas G

I'm almost tempted to try the IOS 26.2 RC to see if maybe quietly a new Cadence driver dropped, but since it's so close to release, may as well wait for it. I don't know. It's such a new display on the block that quite frankly I just think there's low awareness and OS vendors haven't done much. Of course, Cadence's own NVDA driver (github.com/tactile-eng/cadendu…) works really, really well. Panning's great, typing is amazing, all of it as I'd want, minus the reorienting to vertical stack from a horizontal one, all works. But they were the ones to build that add-on, of course it does. Ah well. I don't mind being an early adopter of it if it means being a voice that can help shape not only this multiline display's trajectory but also how multiline support comes along within various screen readers. Why the hell not. I expected pain points, don't color me surprised here for that one.

Releases · tactile-eng/cadendum

Cadence add-on for NVDA. Contribute to tactile-eng/cadendum development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Re last: That's what I've been telling on and on and on to those, especially European people, who are yelling "Go! to Linux!! Right now!!! Gafam is evil, aaaah!"
Sorry, no. *First* you propose an accessible alternative or at least do something for it like sit down with accessibility experts, obtain grants and financing, so I could see I'm not forgotten at least, and *then* we'll think what to do next. #Accessibility
#Accessibility
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André Polykanine

@Yinshi Невыгодно — это точно. Налогов дохренища, GDPR грёбаный душит, ни посмотреть, что называется, ни пукнуть лишний раз как-то не так нельзя, иначе штраф-тюрьма-закрытие бизнеса. Отвратительный бизнес-климат, это правда. Но зато денежные люди, многие платят.
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Kirill

Про GDPR знаю, да. К счастью не разрабатывал бэкенд с учётом требований, но общее представление имею. Особенно небольшим командам, кому и без того есть что делать, заморочек добавляет знатно, да и в целом для проекта. А ведь помимо есть же свои законы в каждой стране, вроде немецкого Bundesdatenschutzgesetz, что тоже надо исполнять. Во Франции наверное тоже какая-то своя подобная фигня существует.
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The XMPP Newsletter for November 2025 is out!

Read about the latest updates in the #XMPP universe and our #standards!

xmpp.org/2025/12/the-xmpp-news…

Enjoy reading!

#jabber #chat #interoperability #rtc
#opensource #decentralization #federation #messaging #newsletter

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The XMPP Newsletter November 2025 | XMPP - The universal messaging standard

In this issue: XMPP Summit 28 & FOSDEM 2026, Europe’s Decentralized Messaging Survives “Chat Control” Threat, Stop Telling Us XMPP Should Use JSON, Movim Blog - The difference between XMPP and ActivityPub explained through the Blog feature, …
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#xmpp #opensource #Jabber #federation #chat #interoperability #decentralization #newsletter #standards #messaging #rtc
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Thought: if #open, #federated, and #distributed solutions were the most #accessible solutions, people with disabilities would be some of the biggest allies in pushing adoption. I already constantly have to get my friends, co-workers, etc, to switch tools for me. If we're working or playing together, the tool needs to be accessible if I'm involved. But unfortunately, that's almost never the case, and I find myself having to force my friends to switch away from open tools and into closed ones:
* Jitsi meet doesn't offer captions or transcripts, and still had an unlabeled button or two last I checked. So I usually have to force people working with me to switch to Zoom.
* github is still more accessible than Forgejo and codeberg, even with the recent regressions. So I won't contribute to projects that aren't on github.
* None of the existing Matrix clients offer good accessibility; they either lag, have unlabeled controls, the message list won't scroll, messages won't read as they come in, etc. So I have to force people onto Slack or Discord.
* Neither Only Office or Next Cloud offer a web interface that works for collaboration with screen readers, so I have to force people to use Google Docs.
* Linux accessibility remains a joke compared to Windows or mac.

And on and on it goes. #opensource#fediverse#federation

#accessible #opensource #fediverse #federation #federated #open #distributed

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USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an

In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/…

#USA #Europa #Trump #Sicherheitsstrategie


USA kritisieren Europa und kündigen Einmischung an

In ihrer neuen Sicherheitsstrategie greifen die USA Europa scharf an und kündigen eine Einmischung in die Politik der EU zugunsten rechter Parteien an. Die US-Regierung wolle nun "Widerstand" in Europa kultivieren.
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#Trump #USA #Europa #sicherheitsstrategie
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Emmanuele Bassi

Mainly because removing all widgets is complicated and needs additional bookkeeping: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/i…

There's a merge request that needs to be completed: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/-/m…


dispose_template causes unparenting twice when using widget subclasses (#5834) · Issues · GNOME / gtk · GitLab

Steps to reproduce Compile and run this snippet: https://gitlab.gnome.org/-/snippets/5743 Close the window See the critical:...
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You know the trope of not finding your glasses because they are atop your head? I think I may have topped it. I’m in the shower, one towel on my hair, the other wrapped around my person, and I looked at the towel rack and wondered where my towels were. For much longer than it should have taken to realize I was holding them.

If I didn’t have appointments, I would call that a sign I should go back to bed. 🤣🤷🏻‍♀️

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MissConstrue

@FreakyFwoof @msbellows One of my dad’s friends had been blind since birth. This never stopped him from going with the guys when it was hunting season. Now, it is important to note here that “hunting” mostly meant going up to the cabin and drinking beer without women and children.

But sometimes, they’d load themselves in the Jeep, and they’d let Mitch, who was blind, drive. He was probably a better driver than those drunken idiots. 🤣🥳. Oh, the 70s. How we all survived is a miracle.

@M.S. Bellows, Jr. @Andre Louis
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MissConstrue

@FreakyFwoof @msbellows

One very funny hunting story, which to be truly appreciated requires voice and accent portrayals, but the gist was: It was deer season, and Mitch fired, and hit a duck. In front of a game warden. The ensuing conversation of the game warden trying to decide what to do about an out of season duck shot by a blind man who was aiming at a deer, is one of the funniest Florida conversations that has ever Florida'd. 50 years later, we all still laugh about the $50 duck dinner which the game warden attended.

@M.S. Bellows, Jr. @Andre Louis

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RE: piaille.fr/@romain_leclaire/11…

Suite à cette amende, Emmanuel Macron et tous les politiques français ont décidé de quitter X.

Ou pas.

Romain Leclaire :mastodon: (@romain_leclaire@piaille.fr)

Bruxelles frappe fort – X écope d’une amende historique de 120 millions d’euros pour ses pratiques trompeuses C’est un jour important pour la régulation du numérique à l’échelle mondiale.
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Zemřel Patrik Hezucký, moderátor, bavič a Marešův parťák z Ranní show

Zdroj: idnes.cz/kultura/film-televize…


Zemřel Patrik Hezucký, moderátor, bavič a Marešův parťák z Ranní show - iDNES.cz

Ve věku 55 let zemřel Patrik Hezucký. Moderátor, bavič, ale především dlouholetý hlas Ranní show Evropy 2, kde dělal kolegu Leoši Marešovi, se poslední měsíce potýkal s vážnými zdravotními problémy.
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AoC, day 5, tasks 1 and 2.

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Wow, downloading Xcode and build tools, and the simulator, 22 GB easily. Then I must get our internal repo, another 13 gigabytes easily. You think I could ever work off a hotspot or one of those home internet plans that uses 5G data? Nope, never. Not with the work I do.
I'm also curious how much XCode has improved. In terms of drag & drop, connectors to delegates and stuff like that.
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Tamas G

@FreakyFwoof lol is unlimited, truly unlimited? Sadly probably yes over there. Here they tell us "unlimited" but most 5G home internet plans are actually at a 1 TB cap - the way fixed line is now trying to compete is by saying, "oh, we lifted all data caps!" So now my cable has no data meter even, I can't see at all how much I've used as they just stopped counting. Funny how that worked out in an ironic way because fixed-line were the first to aggressively jump on data caps, after seeing how mobile data companies could do it and still call a plan unlimited with a 5 GB secret cap back in the day.
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Pro life my ass

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A federal vaccine advisory committee voted on Friday to end the longstanding recommendation that all U.S. babies get the hepatitis B vaccine on the day they’re born.

For decades, the government has advised that all babies be vaccinated against the liver infection right after birth. The shots are widely considered to be a public health success for preventing thousands of illnesses. But U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s committee voted to recommend the birth dose only for babies whose mothers test positive or whose infection status is unknown.

#USpol

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#uspol

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darn it I wish I didn't like the 22 kHZ quality Eloquence so much, it's all I ever use. On iOS, I check the "higher quality" box. I need it and want it, it'll be a sad day when I'm forced to use 11 kHZ Eloquence. One reason I don't use JAWS much despite it having Split Braille. 22 kHZ Eloquence is the bomb, it's the beast, the bee's knees. It sounds so much better and not like an AM radio Eloquence (11 kHZ)

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Today, we fined X for non-compliance with transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).

We're holding X accountable for:
🔹Deceptive design of its ‘blue checkmark’
🔹Lack of transparency of its advertising repository
🔹Failure to provide access to public data for researchers

More information: link.europa.eu/bcmC87

Commission fines X €120 million under the Digital Services Act

Today, the Commission has issued a fine of €120 million to X for breaching its transparency obligations under the Digital Services Act (DSA).
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So helping my wife make a 40 question google form. It looks like splitting questions in to sections is not accessible since you can't move the sections after they are added. Same for questions, I added them in the order we wanted but they are now in a random order and cannot figure out how to move them. I assume it is a drag and drop them. The shuffle order for questions checkbox settings has always been unchecked? Is there a better/more accessible platform for form creation out there?
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