Re: last boost (dragonscave.space/@TheQuinbox/โ€ฆ) about Fedra, @TheQuinbox's new Mastodon client, what makes this project notable to me is that it's written in Rust and uses wxDragon, a project to provide Rust bindings for wxWidgets. The result is a desktop application with top-tier accessibility for screen reader users, in a self-contained executable that's quite small by modern standards (~10 MB for Fedra). I hope this project will become a reference for future applications by and for blind people.


Fedra is now open source, and there is no longer any time limit on it! Enjoy! github.com/trypsynth/fedra

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I just saw a short on Youtube about how many musicians find it hard to tell the difference between an augmented and a diminished chord. To me, it's pretty obvious, not because I have a firm grasp of music theory. I really don't. It's always been sub-par. I just play things that sound good to me. The reason it's obvious to me is because of the Casio SK-1 I had as a kid. It had dedicated keys for different types of chords, and someone once told me what they all were, probably when I was about four years old. Stuff like that sticks around forever.
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Hi! We are a volunteer-driven, community project with limited resources, so we focus on the core office suite components. If you'd like an email client built-in, please consider helping our volunteers, or funding a developer: libreoffice.org/community/get-โ€ฆ โ€“ Thank you! ๐Ÿ˜Š

So hรถrte sich manch mรคnnlicher Mitstudent fรผr mich in meinem ersten Semester an der Uni an: "Unter Einsatz immenser, jedoch bis zum Moment der Aktualisierung des Impulses latenter Energien lรถste sich die amphibielle Kreatur von ihrem habituellen Standort und verschwand, einer in erster Nรคherung parabolischen Bahnkurve folgend, in den mehr oder minder transparenten Rรคumen ihrer Existenz." = ยปEin Frosch sprang ins Wasser.ยซ Danach bekam ich ob diesem abgehobenen Geschwafel nur noch Lachflashs. ๐Ÿ™ƒ

Girl-type-entity who almost got 5 and a half hours sleep.

For those of you without ADHD or AuDHD, or insomnia for different reasons, that's about as much as we can expect to get most nights.

It's been about our average over the last month.

Our realistic target is 6+ hours.

Our ideal is 7+ hours. .

Anything much beyond 7 is a luxury we don't get to experience any more, except on very rare occasions.

8+ hours of actual sleep, not just time in bed, on a regular basis just isn't on the cards for us.

#AuDHD #sleep #neurodivergent #neurospicy

Carpe Diem!

Heute ist der zweite Digital Independence Day.

Wรคre heute nicht ein guter Tag, um einen Messenger auszuprobieren, der einen offiziellen Standard nutzt, d.h. den Weg von Instant Messaging zu Independent Messaging zu beschreiten?

Einen ganz einfachen Weg, der deine persรถnlichen Bedรผrfnisse berรผcksichtigt und dabei auch die Souverรคnitรคt deiner Mitmenschen verbessert, findest du hier: imday.de/

Viel Erfolg!

#did #didit #dut #dutmacht #diday #xmpp #messenger #whatsapp

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Carpe Diem!

Today is the second Digital Independence Day.

And I think it is the perfect day to make the step from instant messaging to independent messaging.

Find your personal way to make a change:
English: imday.de/en/
Francais: imday.de/fr/
Deutsch: imday.de/de/

And (last but not least): Following the instruction will also improve the digital sovereignty of your friends.

Good Luck!

#did #didit #diday #xmpp #messenger #whatsapp

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Good morning everyone!!! :)

Iโ€™ve had a long and crappy week especially with this horrible weather.

Always remember to be kind to each other and you matter so much. You deserve the best and most amazing moments.

Today we are gonna be talking about hyperbolic orbits

A hyperbolic orbit describes the path of an object that passes through a gravitational system only once and never returns. Unlike circular or elliptical orbits, a hyperbolic trajectory is open, meaning the object has enough speed to escape the gravity of the body it encounters. In our solar system, some comets and interstellar objects follow hyperbolic orbits, briefly swinging past the Sun before heading back into deep space. These paths have an eccentricity greater than one, a key mathematical signature of escape. Hyperbolic orbits are important because they reveal objects that originated elsewhere. A few examples include Oumuamua and 31/ATLAS.

XMPP @ #FOSDEM

Talk:
Engineering #XMPP Federation: Building Messaging, Voice & Social Features Across Independent Projects - Jรฉrรดme Sautret & Timothรฉe Jaussoin
Sun, 13:15, AW1.126

Visit the XMPP Realtime Lounge in AW Building, Level 1!

#jabber #interoperability #opensource #federation #messaging

Today at #fosdem26 we listen to @benjaminbellamy the father of @Castopod presenting the project #podilibre to bring freedom and control at every step of the process when producing a podcast.

Check it out at podlibre.org/

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Very nice talks at the #Decentralised #Communication room in @fosdem involving @matrix, and @EPFL is on the map! Join us at matrix.epfl.ch

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM26 #Matrix #Element #Sovereinty #EuropeanAlternatives

I didnโ€™t get a chance to ask the question during the panel, so Iโ€™ll ask it out-loud here :)

I tend to have a mental model of behaviour that I think about on social media: interaction level and collective level.

If you want to moderate interaction level content, then thatโ€™s things like โ€œis this image problematicโ€ or โ€œis this person harassing someone elseโ€ and so on. That seems to be what the DSA mostly addresses? Which is great! We need more protection there

But the collective level is something Iโ€™m curious about: what happens when attacks are designed to be โ€œharmlessโ€ or โ€œnot violatingโ€ at the interaction-level, yet deeply harmful at the collective level? How does one defend against a synthetic threat carefully designed to target a vulnerable collective in a way that no interaction level defense is really capable of handeling?

Do we have regulations around this yet? Is it a problem weโ€™re trying to address at the governance level? (I know the tooling is nearly non existent, but slowly starting to emerge. It would be encouraging to see similar momentum in governance)

#FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 fosstodon.org/@Gina/1159951072โ€ฆ

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@modulux A good example would be identifying a wave of spam from multiple individual accounts, each one being a โ€œnormalโ€ amount of traffic, but the aggregate being a disproportionate amount of volume.

Another would be a group that targets a subset of a community with messages that, individually, do not break any rules but the combined result is that the targeted community members feel so unwelcome that they canโ€™t participate safely in the space without harming their mental health.

When done severely enough and targeted enough, it can erode a community over time to the point where it collapses

#Politique

#IrรจneMontero, ancienne #ministre #espagnole de l'ร‰galitรฉ :

ยซ J'espรจre que la thรฉorie du Grand Remplacement permettra de balayer les fascistes et les racistes de ce pays ยป.

Question :

Le #GrandRemplacement n'รฉtait pas une thรฉorie #complotiste d'#ExtrรชmeDroite ?

#Fascistes #Racistes

๐Ÿ‘‡

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Et ce qui est le plus incomprรฉhensible pour moi que ces gens, ces Europรฉens autochtones parlant un franรงais (ou espagnol dans ce cas-ci) parfait ne comprennent pas que, si jamais leur grand remplacement favori aboutit, c'est *eux* qui ne seront plus utiles et eux aussi, ils seront remplacรฉs. ร‡a commence dรฉja, les politiciens les plus odieux comme Hassan (que tout le monde connaรฎt) parlent dรฉjร  d'une ยซ gauche trop blanche ยป.
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@menelion

Le problรจme ne date pas d'hier.

Il y a des gens de gauche et d'extrรชme gauche qui se dรฉtestent parce qu'ils sont blancs. Ils essaient donc d'effacer, via le "multiculturalisme" et le "grand remplacement", une identitรฉ qu'ils dรฉtestent.

Ils dรฉtestent Noรซl, ils dรฉtestent l'histoire de France, pour eux l'histoire de France commence en 1789.

J'ai un ami sรฉnรฉgalais qui est dรฉputรฉ de gauche au Sรฉnรฉgal. Il me le dit souvent : "Vous avez la gauche la plus bรชte au monde."

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Exactement. Comme j'aime dire, c'est la diffรฉrence entre ยซ On veut qu'il y ait des restos halal ยป et ยซ On veut que 100% de restos en France soient halal ยป. Et si je ne soutiens pas le dernier, on me traite de facho, raciste et j'en passe. C'est vraiment triste que la gauche d'aujourd'hui manigance. Triste et dangereux ร  la fois.
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@menelion

Cette vidรฉo confirme malheureusement mon analyse.

#MichelHouellebecq avait identifiรฉ trรจs tรดt dรจs le milieu des annรฉes 2000 une ligne de fracture idรฉologique majeure.

La question raciale a progressivement supplantรฉ la question sociale. Le discours sโ€™est dรฉplacรฉ vers une lecture du monde fondรฉe sur la culpabilitรฉ collective.

Pour la gauche et l'extrรชme gauche lโ€™ยซ homme blanc ยป est รฉrigรฉ en figure du mal historique, moral et politique.

๐Ÿ‘‡

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@menelion

Exactement.

D'ailleurs, le patron du #PCF (#PartiCommunisteFranรงais), #FabienRoussel, a estimรฉ que le #racisme #antiblanc existait.

Rรฉsultat ?

Plusieurs #insoumis lui ont reprochรฉ de ยซ banaliser des notions venues de lโ€™extrรชme droite ยป.

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@4zv4l I'm totally blind, people like me use special software called screen readers which convey the information for us in speech and/or Braille. Not every app or website is inherently ready for it. It is called digital accessibility, or simply #Accessibility. There are standards and (in several locations) laws enforcing it. The most prominent world standard everyone bases their local laws of is Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG, most commonly read as "wick-cagg"). Unfortunately, I didn't find any Matrix client for Windows or web accessible for screen reader users.
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@menelion @4zv4l What? Elements.io is quite accessible both on app and on browser. I don't know about other apps though.
There should also be possibility to manage matrix and xmpp chats through thunderbird but I haven't used it.
What's quite weird in matrix is the identity verification method when you associate devices to account that asks you if emojis match. So you have to learn emoji by heart like the game "simon says" but for the rest, the Element web and mobile clients are pretty good.
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@menelion We spend a lot of time on accessibility in Element Web/Desktop - it should work fairly well with NVDA and JAWS; we have several screenreader users in the community (as well as govt customers who require WCAG 2.2 AA) to keep us honest. We are *very* appreciative of screenreader bugs though, so if you're hitting problems please do let us know. @4zv4l @matrix
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@menelion @4zv4l github.com/element-hq/element-โ€ฆ is the place to file issues for Element Web - you can see the a11y issues here: github.com/element-hq/element-โ€ฆ - 74 open, but 284 closed. And specifically github.com/element-hq/element-โ€ฆ for screenreader issues (9 open, 12 closed)

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#XMPP Community

XMPP is listed at the โ€˜Digital Independence Dayโ€™ (DIDAY) as an alternative chat option and the community created switch recipes to enable users to migrate to independent messaging.

xmpp.org/2026/02/xmpp-listed-aโ€ฆ

#jabber #interoperability #opensource #messaging #europe #fosdem #whatsapp #di_day

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โœจ Heute ist wieder Digital Independence Day! โœจ

aka DI.Day / DUT โ€“ und zukรผnftig auch jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat.
๐Ÿ‘‰ Schon im Kalender? Falls nicht: jetzt! ๐Ÿ—“๏ธ๐Ÿ’ฅ

Zum DI.Day รถffnet bei uns der @cccp seine Tรผren:
๐Ÿ“ freiLand | Haus 5 | machBar
๐Ÿ•’ Sonntag, 01.02.2026 ab 15:00 Uhr
Fragen? Hรผrden? Komm vorbei! Wir helfen dir!

๐Ÿš€ Wichtigster Schritt nach dem Wechsel: drรผber reden!
Am besten mit einem DI.DAY Post Generator Bild: qznc.github.io/dot/diday.html

#dit #dut #ditit #dutgemacht

@CCC

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Eine weitere Einordnung: Das Bild findet man am Rechenzentrum in Potsdam. Es wurde von dem Kรผnstler Fritz Eisel unter dem Titel "Mensch bezwingt den Kosmos" zwischen 1969-1971 dort angebracht. Das Rechenzentrum ist fรผr uns in Potsdam ein wichtiger Ort. Zu DDR Zeiten war es das Datenverarbeitungszentrum des Bezirkes Potsdam und heute ist es ein Ort fรผr รผber 300 Kรผnstler:innen. Zum anderen ist das RZ der David gegen Goliath im Streit um den Wiederaufbau der Garnisonkirche.
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#natureblogru #ะปะธัะฐ #mastoanimals

Heute ist wieder ein #DID oder #DUT oder #diday.

Wer nach einer Alternative fรผr seinen #Messenger sucht, kann mal ein Blick in #XMPP werfen. Es gibt verschiedene Seiten, auf denen ihr euch informieren kรถnnt.

XMPP ist ein dezentrales, offenes und somit Unabhรคngigkeit System zum chatten.

Hier mal ein paar Beispiele:

anoxinon.media/blog/xmpp1/

imday.de/de/

joinjabber.org/

freie-messenger.de/xmpp/

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