We're already well into 2026, but here's a recap of what the #LibreOffice community did in December last year: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #openSource #freesoftware

Yes! Yes yes yes, Hallelujah! #Slack added the Copy Message option by my request to the context menu. Now you blindies don't need to turn off and on your virtual cursor, browse/focus mode or whatever, you just press Ctrl+C or go to the context menu and select Copy Message! 🕺🏻
#Accessibility #Blind #JAWS #NVDA #Windows

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It is absolutely *wild* to me that media organizations still do not put RSS/Atom :rss: feed info front-and-center on their websites.

One needs to dive into HTML code or use external tools to discover their feeds.

It is wild because this is one of the easiest, least-effort ways to reach their audience. Encouraging RSS/Atom use is a phenomenal way of becoming less reliant on gatekeepers like huge social media platforms.

Come on! :angrycat:

in reply to Kevin Beaumont

If you're wondering what consequences X has faced: none. At all. A few months ago when Grok called itself MechaHitler, the service was shut entirely for days, the same day. When this women issue happened, Elon laughed.

Grok is still outputting non-consensual deepfake pornography and sexual abuse material at a rate of 1 post per second. Example search:

from:@grok filter:media

Direct link:
x.com/search?q=from%3A%40grok%…

I hope Cisco enjoy directly funding sexual abuse material.

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I love how I still hear stuff like "And you really understand this?" "How do you even understand this?" When using a screenreader in public. No actually I don't understand this, I just let it babble and magically know what I'm focused on, every blind person has that super power. But seriously, it's just practise, it's not that deep. Why do you still ask or talk about this? Is it really that ultra remarkable?

Just figured out (out of necessity) that I have a better way of OCRing my vm's screen than using Seeing AI. If I specify a monitor when starting qemu, then I can telnet into the monitor, and there's a screendump command that will dump the screen to a file, and then I can use tesseract to OCR the image.

Unfortunately, none of that is helping me right now. I get "Guest has not initialized the display (yet)." So I'm just as mystified as before. Reminds me of the children's song I used to listen to where a climber went over the mountain to see what he could see, but the other side of the mountain was all that he could see.

in reply to Mike Gorse

Now I have this function in my .bashrc (I have the monitor on port 4444):

ocrvm()
{
rm -f a.png a.txt
echo screendump a.png |nc -N localhost 4444 >/dev/null
tesseract a.png a >/dev/null 2>&1
more a.txt
}

It isn't very polished--it creates files called a.png and a.txt in the current directory, but, meh, it does what I need.

Edit: I found my original issue--something was wrong with the virtual drive that I have set for the UEFI image. And I love having this little OCR scriptlet now--it makes it really easy to monitor the status of a vm while it's booting up and I don't have a screen reader available yet.

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long, long post
#wordpress hates all #blind people, hates innovation.
#drupal is clunky and GPL v2 only which makes me unable to extend it the way I want.
#grav has unlabeled buttons everywhere.
#classicPress is a damn old version of #wordpress
did I skip anything?
ah, yes, #joomla, the 403 monster.
starts installation, looks nice, until it eats itself mid install.
really graceful.
#cms #cmsBattle or everything sucks or I missed some random cms that I'd probably want to support but didn't found I even ask #ai
it found garbage.
I thought that accessibility will be treated well at least in one place, but sadly it's drupal which is really clunky and don't get me started on random breakages.
this is my rant
sorry for it but I had to get it out of my chest
#technology #accessibility

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Everyone hates OneDrive, motherfuckers boingboing.net/2026/01/05/ever…

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#XSF Announcement

The XSF is considering to participate the #Google Summer of Code 2026!

If you are interested as a contributor or mentoring #XMPP project start reading here:
wiki.xmpp.org/web/Google_Summe…

#GSoC #chat #messaging #jabber #standards #opensource #interoperability #rtc #specifications

Hey @FreakyFwoof, I've just started this one. Interested to know if you think it's worth carrying on!

Harry Potter and the Hero's Path, By TheJackOfDiamonds
AU Ritually abused by the Dursley's, young Harry Potter learns to count on himself. After discovering magic at a young age, he practices to become stronger to protect those weaker than him.
March 2006-November 2025.
323493
words in 52 chapters.
fanfiction.net/s/2869936/1/Har…

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in reply to Gerhard Hallstein

@Gerhard Hallstein willst du damit RSS Feeds importieren? Wenn ja dann schau mal auf opml.sekbaer.de/ vorbei (hab da mal ein kleines Script schreiben lassen) da kannst du deine OPML Datei hochladen und die wird dann in eine CSV Datei konvertiert, die du dann herunterladen kannst. Auf Friendica gehst du dann unter Einstellungen ---> Kontakte importieren. Dort auf "Durchsuchen" klicken die csv datei auswählen und auf "Einstellungen speichern" klicken.
Du solltest dann die RSS Feeds in deinen Kontakten.

cd#436 Sara: Liberation EP *
Olin 1990-luvun alkupuolella siinä määrin aktiivinen erityisesti pohjoismaista indiemusiikkia käsittelevillä internet-alustoilla että pari ruotsalaista levy-yhtiötä erehtyi luulemaan minua jonkinlaiseksi influensseriksi ja lähetti muutaman promolevyn täysin pyytämättä. Tämä artisti ei olisi kuitenkaan missään tapauksessa saanut hyväksymismerkintääni: Saran lauluääni on yhtä kimeä ja yksisävyinen kuin Kate Bushia esittävällä japanilaisella animaatiohahmolla, eikä sitä pysty kuuntelemaan 30 vuotta myöhemminkään paria minuuttia pidempään. #musadontti #musiikkimastodon #cd-maraton
discogs.com/release/22784633-S…

Me Getting some blindness-specific stuff in for my latest post for the Squeaky Wheel thesqueakywheel.org/audio-desc… #Disability #Humor #Comedy #Blind #blindness

Ihr könnt den #DiDay ja für ne gute Idee halten — das tu ich prinzipiell auch, weil er lokale Vernetzung und Dezentralisierung stärkt.

Aber vielleicht denkt ihr nochmal darüber nach, ob man das in direkter Assoziation mit einem „D-Day“ oder einem „Unabhängigkeitstag“ haben mag, wo beide Begriffe ganz eng verwoben mit der Befreiung von Unterdrückten (oft Schwarzen, Sklaven, …) durch Europäer verwoben sind. #Dudegemacht

in reply to Casey

Und dann denkt bitte auch an die Barrierefreiheit von dem Kram für behinderte Menschen. di.day ist noch immer nicht zugänglich, obwohl mir zugesagt wurde, dass das bis morgen der Fall sein würde. Die darauf gelisteten Alternativen sind zu großen Teilen unzugänglich. Es gibt keine Linux-Distro oder auch nur Konfigurationsmöglichkeiten, um das einzige freie System für technisch unvisierte, behinderte Nutzendenkreise ausreichend zugänglich zu machen.

Are you into #opensource ? And in the #eu ?
There is a Call for Feedback by the European Commission for a 'European Open Digital Ecosystem Strategy' For strategic approach to #foss in Europe, and a framework for using open source within the European Commission. You can respond until 3 February. It is useful to respond even if your point has already been submitted by someone else. The number and repetition of arguments is used as a weight. ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-r… cc #fosdem