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one of my favorite (depressing) things to do is being in a large room of tech coworkers and figuring out the worst high frequency male name to female ratio, like the number of Davids vs. number of women.
Here's to all the open source developers who put hours and hours of their lives into a project they built, put it out into the world, and now it sits with approximately zero users.
Thank you for putting labor into the world to try and help others, even if it's never been recognized.
Brag about your project here if you'd like!
Edit: if you saw this earlier, come back and check out all the cool projects people have shown off since!
I'd give one more suggestion: invest a little bit more into accessibility. Thus you'll have a massive media presence in big disability circles, and then everyone else will know about it.
Audiobookshelf is on the way to getting my favorite selfhosting service. Deployment with docker was more than simple, accessibility is taken care of, questions on the Discord are answered fast, friendly and understandable, and it made me start enjoying audiobooks again, well since it made me start listening to them again. Big like, can absolutely recommend to check it out.
@klittle667 Hmm, what do you mean with organised? I have one library for podcasts, one for ripped audible stuff and one for older stuff which is quite unsorted because of missing metadata etc. The Audible stuff is great since it takes Audible itself as metadata provider. I haven't added a lot though so I still have quite all right overview for now. For apps I use Plappa on IOS, it's not perfect but works well, on Android, which is my primary system I use LitLyric, and that one is really great imo.
Fair enough. I probably need to give it another go. WHen I last tried it some time last year I found the interface a bit difficult to navigate but I'll give it another go.
@johann Currently in a docker container thanks to the ridiculously easy docker compose on a Raspberry Pi 5 which is exposed to the public through tailscale and a reverse proxy on a vps. Mainly for security reasons and because I can use my already existing storage hardware. I notice a little lag when trying to start playback from a device outside my network, but I'm unsure whether that's abs, tailscale, or anything else on my part. It works awesome though so I see no reason to change it very soon. We only have mehish cable internet, that and the current prices for ram storage and co made me wait getting an actual home server, the pi is enough for my needs for now though at some point I'm looking to expand to something running proxmox. Few probably way more than you wanted to know lmfao. I'm in a talking mood today I guess.
A 256 GB USB SSD for now, the OS is also on there so it's booting from there. Planning to connect my 4TB USB HDD as well, but that's a good point. Not sure if it'll work.
and I love the new Prologue App for iOS. It is fully functional with VoiceOver and swipe up and down gestures on items, really awesome. Is there a similar option for Android?
@felixule Oh interesting, will check this out as I'm also using IOS more frequently again. Also yeah, there is a good option. No TalkBack actions or so, though I don't really feel they're needed either, but everything is labeled. github.com/shane9b3/LitLyric--…
So, ich bin jetzt erst mal zwei Wochen AU und dann entscheidet der Psychiater, wie es weitergeht. Und ich bin so dankbar für meinen Hausarzt, der ist wirklich super ❤️ Chefin ist informiert, und alles weitere muss sich jetzt zeigen. Erst mal Ruhe. So viel Ruhe.
One of my favorite new productivity hacks is building little bespoke Nix environments for various things I'm working on. They can be packaged in a single flake.nix and easily moved between projects, are automatically activated when entering a directory with direnv and a 1-line .envrc, can package shell scripts and automatically install any commands those scripts run as package dependencies just by calling them in the script with the ${pkgs.coreutils}/bin/sleep} syntax, can build and install custom git repos into your system, etc. Some examples:
I have a Godot dev environment which automatically builds and installs my heavily patched Godot tree while I merge PRs upstream. It also has a couple shell scripts for working with audio--normalize converts audio to wav if needed and normalizes it, while loop lets me specify a start/duration/fade duration and either previews or saves loopable audio with the configured duration cut from the end and faded in at the beginning. This is most of what I would have used Reaper for before, but packaged in a setup I can drop into any Godot project. And if I need more sox simplifications, I can make scripts for those as well.
Today's hack: an open source plain text business stack. I absolutely detest how just about every business app out there doesn't care about accessibility, because why would a blind person run a business? Now we have recutils for plain text data manipulation (likely CRM), HLedger for accounting, Himalaya for injesting email into and updating the recutils CRM, etc. Now if I work with an accountant, I'm done managing my own stuff in the inaccessible QBO--just figure out what they need, write a shell or Python script to do the conversions, and package it in the environment. As of now the whole thing is in one flake.nix, along with Pandoc and a few other nice-to-haves. I can clone the repo in any Linux/mac environment running Nix and Direnv and the whole reproduceable setup gets installed automatically. Wish I'd found this years ago.
Ok interesting. This is the 1st time I'm noticing that navigating straight by element, like pressing B in browse mode with #NVDASR will firstly announce the label, and then the element, button in this case. But when arrowing through stuff in browse mode it says the element first and then the label, so button "something" rather than "something" button. About time this get's customisable, though not beeing super important.
There have been opened some issues in the past regarding the order of speech and braille output. For example, we have issue #4629 which covers Reading Column & Row Titles before the content instead...
The repository provides code for running inference with the Meta Segment Anything Audio Model (SAM-Audio), links for downloading the trained model checkpoints, and example notebooks that show how t...
The XMPP Standards Foundation (XSF) is exited to announce the 28th XMPP Summit taking place in Brussels, Belgium next year - just before FOSDEM 2026. The XSF invites everyone interested in development of the XMPP protocol to attend, and discuss all …
We have reached peek. The Canadian slop minister post about how we shall fight CSAM and deepfake on the deepfake CSAM generator formerly known as Twitter.
Somebody, rightful so, criticise the move.
Someone dared to reply "but he must post on that verified account to reach his target audience"
In the new season of Autocracy in America, I will ask how the Trump White House is rewriting the rules of US politics. First episode: How ICE and the National Guard are being used not just to enforce immigration, but to project power
it’s not open sourced. It’s just some documentation on how to interact with it. Something that should have been released one day 1. The documentation isn’t even under a CC license or equivalent.
They are not "open sourcing" anything. All they are doing is publishing an API which should have been public forever. They are doing nothing to help people maintain these devices when they fail.
It's a huge contrast with how hifi manufacturers used to behave. My Quad amplifier from the 1970s came with a user manual which included the circuit diagram. As a result, it's easy to repair and still works exactly as well as it did when it was new. It is extremely rare that present day companies support their customers so well, and while what Bose is doing with these speakers is welcome, it is certainly is not helping customers so well as was common 50 years ago.
This follows the headlines and investigations by multiple national regulatory bodies about Grok stripping clothing off in images of women and children.
So in other words, Twitter has said it will only allow their AI service to make CSA images and revenge porn, if you agree to pay them.
Honestly the utter crust of Evan Solomon, Minister of AI, posting about the dangers of CSAM and how deepfake sexual abuse is violence ... and doing so exclusively from his paid subscriber account on the deepfake CSAM platform X. h/t Luke LeBrun on BSky
May 2026 be the year we can finally use some #Markdown for our posts on #Mastodon. 9 years since it was first discussed [1], never really rejected nor endorsed by @MastodonEngineering – It is about time to finally add it now. Boost if you agree ;)
Basic markdown formatting in toots would be nice, you know; bullet points numbered lists italic bold strikethrough !Z͙A̮̥̳̹͉̙L͕̝̦̭̹ͅGO̭̲̩̘͝!̭̩̲͚̀ ̶̰̲̳H̭͔́e̗̯̪̲͔̫̗͘ ̰̩̯̲̰̘̩c̣̺̬o͏̣̞m̤͟e̹͈͇͉̺s͔͕̙!͏!
1. Don't prepare for snow so you can save money 2. Wait for snow 3. When snow comes, declare total inability to deal with it 4. Make sure no one takes the phone to help stranded passengers on flights you sold them. Tell them that you are busy. Don't book them hotels or give them any comfort like food, drinks or beds. 5. Raise prices for the few seats on flights you do operate 6. Profit!
Airline ticket prices are skyrocketing due to the chaos at Schiphol, the Telegraaf reported. Some 3,500 flights to and from Schiphol Airport have been canceled since January 2 due to snow.
#respekt Trump: Nepotřebuji mezinárodní právo. Omezuje mě jen moje morálka — Ten tvor je regulérním šílencem, který sám sebe považuje za spasitele. Držme si klobouky. respekt.cz/informacni-servis/i…
Seems there's an up-tick of drinking idiot juice in Saskatchewan? The Saskatchewan RCMP Operational Communication Centre has released a list of 2025's most ridiculous emergency calls, to warn people to stay off the lines unless there's a serious situation. It comes as its 911 call-takers and dispatchers fielded more than 422,000 calls last year, 15 per cent more than the year before.
Some alleged emergencies from last year: a friend had cooked one caller's pork chop without consent. A family member's loud snoring was keeping another awake. A restaurant was taking too long with the lunch order of still another. And, perhaps most dire, someone had lost their phone and wanted an officer to call it so they could hear it ring.
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It's 2026 and we have no fully satesfying messenger for blind people. WhatsApp, well no need to say anything. Telegram, Image (can't imagine most germans switching) and IOS apps get less accessible e.g. no voice over focusable edit feald etc. Signal, Desktop client is trash for screenreaders, ignore request to add TalkBack actions to Android apps, accessibility doesn't seem to be a high priority Delta Chat, Yeah actually not to bad, though no web client through a browser, but as long as there is a portable app for Windows I guess that's doable, not sure atm. What did I miss?
@x0 I tryed to at least prefer it over WhatsApp by using a WhahtsApp Bridge bot, it has potential, but well yeah the client situation is sad, cuz it could be really great.
Not mad at Whatsapp, and we know people working on it that are actively fixing accessibility things, so if there's feedback to share, share it to them. I do miss the old Desktop app.
@cubic I do the same because almost every modern client is absolute bloat and nothing is my standards of accessible. I use Miranda NG with XMPP and for those that don’t have jabber, I have a VOIP phone number for SMS with JMP. Honestly, this has worked out the best, just going back to SMS and VOIP numbers over XMPP because every client is utterly terrible
@WeirdWriter @cubic Wow, that looks quite cool. Sad that I'm in germany, even if they'd allow me to sign up I assume it would cost some fee for german people to text the american number.
@thoralf No good/accessible Desktop clients. Setup overhead (at least for non techy people like my parents would be). I've tried it a while and I liked the WhatsApp bridge for example, but well, not convinient for reasons above.
The basic setup with the default server shouldn''t be more complicated than setting up a Signal account. And the multi device handling is much better than the crap Signal is doing.
Signal Desktop isn't too bad, more manageable than Telegram on iOS IMO. So is Threema, the Android/iOS apps are actually pretty good, the desktop app is manageable.
@ToniBarth Haven't tried Threma yet. Will also wait when I read about selling to this and that company. I don't use it so don't care much/have emotions about it, but seeing companys beeing sold around has never been a good sign, at least in my eyes. I don't speak from much experience though lol. Anyway Signal Desktop is probably still worse than WhatsApp Desktop currently is, just my opinion. And yes probably this is naive and I should lower my expectations, or you know, throw some cash how the FOSS devs would say, but seriously. Is manageable all I get as a sr user? Like, we're talking about messengers here, an essential tool that has been around for, long. It's not that hard.
Companies get sold all the time. In fact, Threema has been sold in 2020 already and so far nothing bad has come of it. Stay vigilant, but so far a company being sold to a capital invest company is nothing unusual.
And the WhatsApp website is broken again. When you arrow through the chat list in NVDA focus mode it only says section section section. Please can there just happen some sort of wonder and an accessible, nice messenger with good web clients but also native desktop client appears which can actually can compete with WhatsApp? I wouldn't use it if it wasn't for everyone else, and I'm already locked from tons of other social media. It is not possible to quit WhatsApp in germany without loosing 80% of information from your social life.
I don't even mean the web desktop client with this, I mean the web.whatsapp.com thing. The web client is as stupid though, focus mode to jump through messages and chats, but want back to anything else, browse mode and web navigation with tables and all that other crap. How can we fuck up a messenger as hard as possible. Meta, yes!
Mmm and now simply when I arrow around through the chat list in browse mode it jumps focus to some random older chats. Fuck this pile of garbage, please please why is noone doing anything about this nonsense.
@TomGrant91 For instance, I arrow up to the search box, then arrow down back into the chat list and it will not focus on the newest chat, it'll just bump focus to some random older chat in the list.
I'm unbelievably still on the accessible client! The app version I've always had without going on the web! I know, don't ask me how, but I'm still using that.
@TomGrant91 Even if I got the accessible desktop client back, as long as I use WhatsApp I need the website because I need to chat with my Taxi or other people from my work Laptop on which I can't just install and mess with random apps. The issue I'm currently describing is only related to the website. While beeing mixed with the already existing frustration about the web windows client. Everything from this platform is shit. Heck Meta is shit all said.
@TomGrant91 I'm interested in them, but tbh looking at how much spy shit they produced with for example Instagram only on a phone I don't wanna get a dedicated Meta device. And the one time where Zucky presented his awesome AI and it didn't work at all, because internet issues, yeah L bro meh. I have my phone for AI.
This world can be a very cruel place sometimes, and some of the best people are taken way too soon. Unfortunately, for those who might have known her, Janeen, lost her battle with a very sudden illness tonight. She taught me a lot. We were very bouncy, but I always had a special place in my heart for her, and she would light up a room. And as the text notification that gave me this news was a ding sound, I guesss when a bell rings, an angel gets its wings. Again, 2026 it's barely been a week, do better than this
Osobně nějaký vyšší množství reklam nepozoruju. Ale to je hlavně kvůli tomu, že proti tomu aktivně bojuju. Pár tipů: - Vyserte se na komerční sociální sítě nebo přítomnost na nich minimalizujte. To zrovna tady asi nemusím rozebírat. 😄 - Nainstalujte si adblock do prohlížeče. Nejlíp funguje uBlock Origin (addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firef…). K tomu budete potřebovat Firefox. Jasně, má problémy, ale lepší alternativa aktuálně prostě neexistuje. Navíc podporuje rozšíření i na Androidu. Jiný (ale horší) možnosti: - Fork Firefoxu, ale tam většinou přicházíte o včasný security updaty. Nedoporučuju. - Fork Chromia se zabudovaným adblockem. Tady můžu s čistým svědomím doporučit asi jen Vivaldi. Ale ze zkušenosti to nefunguje tak dobře jako uBlock Origin. - Jinej fork Chromia, kam si nainstalujete uBlock Origin Lite. Ale zase, je to okleštěná verze (kvůli nepodpoře Manifestu V2), nefunguje tak dobře. - Nainstalujte si na Android DSN filtr. Možnosti jsou (od nejjednodušší): - Využijte nastavení Private DNS a hoďte si tam libredns.gr (podrobnej návod najdete v sekci DNS over TLS -> Android) nebo joindns4.eu/for-public. Výhoda je, že nemusíte nic instalovat a nezabere vám to VPN slot, ale spoléháte na třetí stranu. - personalDNSfilter (play.google.com/store/apps/det…), asi nejjednodušší lokální filtrace. - Invizible Pro (f-droid.org/packages/pan.alexa…), podporuje navíc DNSCrypt a Tor, ale nastavení není pro slabý povahy. 😄 - Pokud to je aspoň trochu možný, používejte web místo appky. Reklamy a trackery v appkách se blokujou mnohem hůř a někdy to ani nejde. - Nepoužívejte Google. Osobně můžu doporučit startpage.com (má kontextový reklamy, ale daj se vypnout přes adblock) nebo searxng.cz (provozuje @oscloud). - Ideálně se vyhněte chytrejm hovadinám, který nefungujou bez appky. Jasně, u hodinek apod. je to složitější, ale fakt nepotřebujete lednici nebo pračku s Wi-Fi.
@archos Ono to má prostě milion funkcí, přepínátek a parametrů na různejch místech. 😄 V zásadě to dělá to, co jsem potřeboval (mamutovo.cz/@Razemix/115418290…) v jedný aplikaci. Ale jsou tam jistý omezení: - Podporuje to jenom DNSCrypt, takže jakejkoli DNS server, co si tam vybereš, musí bejt šifrovanej. I kdybys tam chtěl nastavit vlastní Pi-hole. - Podporuje jen jednu URL pro blocklist. Takže buď musíš používat jen jeden (což mně nevadí, já používám prostě github.com/StevenBlack/hosts), nebo si někde udělat vlastní agregaci. - Nemá jednoduše vyřešenou client authorization pro onion services. Musíš vyexportovat nastavení, upravit v zipu config a naimportovat to zpátky, viz github.com/Gedsh/InviZible/iss…. Tohle je trochu nedomyšlený, v Orbot je to prostě otázka pár kliknutí a vložení klíče.
In the latest v3 torspec a Onion service may require an authorization token. Lack of support for this authorization method in InviZible make this feature useless if your intent is to use an authori...
I have a rather peculiar #Android problem. - I use personalDNSfilter (zenz-solutions.de/personaldnsf…) to block ads system-wide. It's basically like running a local pi-hole using a local VPN. - I would also like to use Orbot (#Tor) and run some apps (specifically Nextcloud) that don't natively support proxying through Orbot's VPN.
The problem is, Android won't let me run two VPNs at the same time. And blocking ads without a VPN would require rooting my phone, which I don't want to do. However: - personalDNSfilter can expose the DNS server on port 5300 without using the VPN (which is useless in itself). - Orbot can expose its HTTP and SOCKS proxy without using the VPN (which is also useless in itself).
Is there some way to setup a custom VPN that would combine these two things, i.e., let me route some apps through Orbot's proxy and use the local DNS server (provided by personalDNSfilter) at port 5300? I was looking at OpenVPN for Android (github.com/schwabe/ics-openvpn), but I'm honestly really confused. Help please? 😅 Boosts appreciated.
someone told me about this song, and I really love it. I hope you all enjoy this cover, and I also decided to change up the reverb on it, so I hope you like ...
Claude upravil podminky pouzivani sluzby. Zajimave na tom je, ze nektere funkce (zalohy dat) se nedaji koupit, nejsou soucasti ani nejvyssiho $200 tarifu. Jediny zpusob, jak je ziskat je sdilet svoje data na uceni modelu.
Povoleni pri potvrzovani znem T&C defaultne "ON", ale to je klasika.
Po Googlu je to tak druhy z top 4 postytovatelu modelu, kde se nejaka zasadni fukcionalita neda koupit za penize, ale jenom za sdileni dat.
Update #Serbien: Das Land versinkt seit Tagen im Schnee und öffentlichen Dienste versagen komplett. Die Student*innen kündigten nun an, morgen rund um Krankenhäuser, Gesundheitszentren, auf Leitstreifen für Blinde, Gehwegen und Zugängen zu Gebäuden, mit Fokus auf die kritischsten Stellen, den Schnee zu räumen. 1/3
Beste NS, I can’t quite put my finger on it, but I think there is a flaw somewhere in your reasoning that if you run half as many trains, you can also make them half as long.
maybe it is like "every switching of a single point machine takes like one man-hour so we only use the rolling stock available in the current state of the switches"
To, na čem jsem s @archos pomocí pracoval v posledních dnech, je konečně tu!
Ode dneška vám @zpravobot každé ráno přinese informaci o počtu postů z předešlého dne doplněný o několik snad i důležitých zpráv, které pro vás vybral Claude AI.
Tak si to užijte, zasledujte Zprávobot a zůstaňte naladěni, rozhodně to pro dnešek není všechno…d8-D
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