We keep adding more radio apps! New app added to the Accessible Apps directory by Warren Carr: Cloud Radio. Accessible with a few unlabeled buttons. Cloud Radio has all the feature that you want for a radio player ,Recording live streams , scheduled Recording , live lyrics and more accessibleandroid.com/app/clou… #Android #Radio #App
and if you don't want those pesky adds, and you want to show the dev some love, you can pay $6.49 for it. at least in the US that is what it costs. This is what I did for both reasons I said. smile.
thanks to @salihkn I just got VRadio, and paid the $8.99 for the onetime full app for the same reasons as I got cloud radio pro. you guys are all going to break me here! smile.
@salihkn @JamminJerry VRadio is definitely a nice app, but it has something that seriously damages everything. It has no colombian stations and it's not available for download on the play store if you are based in Colombia. That sounds quite discriminatory to me.
If you're in search of a feature-rich radio app, VRadio is a must-try. It's a powerful platform for listening to thousands of stations from around the globe.
I attended today's presentation where Deane Blazie introduced the new BTSpeak. Much of what he discussed can also be found on the Blazie Technologies Web site which was mentioned toward the end of the presentation. blazietech.com/ Here are my notes that I took which have hardly been edited.
Deane said nobody had done an equivalent Bns. Deand and Bryan (one of his sons) were working with Raspberry PI with a Braille keyboard to make a new 21st century Bns. Based on Raspberry PI, inside is a computer module 4, has 4 cores, equivalent to a low end or possibly midrange laptop. About the size of an iPhone Pro 8-key Braille keyboard. Also has music and media player can stream from Pandora Has learning application for learning how to type on a Braille keyboard Comes with Lynx Web browser Runs on Linux Builtin calculator, clock and calendar Hdmi port for monitor Usb c for charging or plugging in keyboards, usb stick for storage Micro Sd card slot He was not sure of max capacity but 256 gb is possible Has wifi Has small CHATGpt app but you need a token Uses Dectalk and ESpeak Dectalk is from Human Voice LLC which is allowing them to use it for free Has capability to do voice commands. Deane said “weather” to get a weather forecast. Has a around half dozen commands. Has dictionary. BTRadio is a Pandora app. Has a Bible Morse code application From systems menu there is an audio menu for speech synthesizer selection From any menu or application you can get context specific help for that program Product will have two versions: basic and a Pro version. Pro will have desktop Linux using Orca. Uses RPI version of Debian Pro version will have LibreOffice. Has a PDF reader. Standard unit supports text and Braille files, need Pro for full Office support. Will we have NLS support: we don’t have NLS working with it. Not sure about Newsline. Has Bluetooth but no headphone jack but it will have an adapter for the USB port for a headphone jack 1.5 ghz Cost 795 for basic Pro costs 1195 Web site: blazietech.com Units are still being developed but can’t be released until software is more refined. Shipping in February BTSpeak architecture cannot run Eloquence Eloquence Was written for intel-based and older versions of Arm but not arm64 Has text editor in basic unit but can use LibreOffice in Pro unit For editor it can do Braille translation just like bns did Has 4 gb of ram and 32 gb of rom
@David Goldfield Was this an online presentation or was this in person? If it's in person where did it took place? How many people have attended and how much they liked this new upcoming device? Were you also able to touch the prototipe? Can you imagine using this to type when comparing with touch braille keyboard on a smartphone? Can you describe some reactions of others?
@David Goldfield Hardwarewise is the PRO model the same? In other words if I am capable enough would I be able to flash PRO image into the standard unit or has PRO image better graphic card and more memory?
@pvagner The hardware is the same, just added software. You can switch from the desktop (Pro) to the Basic (tablet) with a chord command. It's quick too. The tablet has context sensitive help too with H-chord.
@dblazie It might sound a trivial question, but can you please tell me how long it takes from the time you switch it on until the unit is ready? Everything seems to be getting slower and slower these days.
@brianhartgen @dblazie Hi, Brian. There's a waiting period when you first boot up the unit if it's completely powered down. Once it's on you can put it in a sleep mode with fast wake-up times. A complete boot takes around 26 seconds. However, once the unit is on you can just quickly press the power button to lock the unit. Pressing the power button again instantly wakes it up and you're back where you were. Pressing the power button for a few seconds performs a total shut-down.
@michalkasperczak Jeszcze nie wiem. Z jednej strony wygląda ciekawie, ale z drugiej NP. Lynx jako przeglądarka w dzisiejszych czasach może nie wystarczyć a z drugiej strony nie wiem, jak dobrze graficzny interfejs czy dokładniej ORCA będzie działać na malince. No i będą mieli konkurencję w postaci Orbit Speaka, który ma kosztować kilkaset dolarów mniej, a tam pod maską ma być Android. Fakt Orbit na początku nie planuje przeglądarki, ale z drugiej strony nie wykluczyli, że kiedyś może zaoferują możliwość instalowania zewnętrznych aplikacji.
@pitermach @michalkasperczak Mam jednak wrażenie, że spóźnili się tak o jakieś 15 lat. Pamiętacie Icona od Levelstar? Ten sprzęt potrafił w zasadzie to samo, a był produkowany w 2007? 2008? roku. Gdyby jeszcze Blazie chciał udostępnić oprogramowanie tego notatnika każdemu chętnemu za darmo, to może miałoby to jakiś sens, a tak? Może jedynie trochę starszych niewidomych z sentymentu dla twórcy to kupi.
@midzi @michalkasperczak Też prawda, z resztą z tego co pamiętam jednym z głównych założycieli projektu Icon był jeden z inżynierów pracujących w Blazie nad braille N’ Speakiem. Może gdyby oprogramowanie faktycznie było otwarto źródłowe to wytworzyła by się wokół niego jakaś społeczność ale tak nie wiem, ile ludzi będzie chciało dać na to tyle kasy. Jeśli ktoś szuka bardzo prostego notatnika, który startuje w kilka sekund, a tacy z się zdarzają, to albo kupi tego orbita jak chcę mowę, albo któryś z monitorów posiadający notatnik gdzie z resztą orbit też może się sprawdzić.
@bryansmart @pitermach From the little I've read this feels like something that wants to be for hackers. Text-based web browser? I can work with that. But it might not give us a shell or something equally silly, then it's just useless.
@tspivey @bryansmart @pitermach Yeah, I'm unsure what demographic this is trying to hit. Any hacker is going to spend $1195 on a MacBook Air and run a Linux VM, not on a Raspberry Pi in a case. If it was $200 or 300, it might be a fun novelty item, and perhaps this will be a hit with the same type of folks that want inexpensive AT like the Orbit. I feel like this could be an excellent candidate for a 3d printing project, and those who don't want to print could just buy.
The BTSpeak is visible on your home network with a /Public directory so you can move files to and from it with your desktop computer. The Pro version has Libra Office suite which supports Microsoft Word formats. You would be using the Orca screen reader in the Pro version.
Protože se měnila legislativa a ruší se VTP, dovolím si pár poznámek o tom, jak dnes technická kontrola probíhá.
Na #STK stačí přijet s ORV (malý techničák), to je jediný doklad, který potřebujete k provedení technické prohlídky #auta . Zároveň ale musím upozornit na to, že do první technické určitě bez VTP (velký techničák) nejezděte!
Potíž je totiž v tom, že administrativně ne všechny položky z VTP se dostaly i do elektronického techničáku (potvrzeno na dvou ze tří aut, která jsme vezli), takže se vám úplně klidně může stát, že bude na stanici problém vydat známku kvůli tomu, že vám například chybí zápis alternativních rozměrů kol a technici to tak ověřují podle dat ve VTP.
Zároveň chci upozornit na velice dobře schovanou, ale skvělou možnost si svůj VTP zkontrolovat ještě před výjezdem na adrese dataovozidlech.cz/otevrenaData… - stačí zadat VIN (identifikační číslo karoserie) nebo číslo technického průkazu
Klidně z vesela boostujte, tohle se týká snad každýho druhýho člověka tady :) @Autíčkáři CZ/SK
According to the article that I read, the malware exploits weak ssh passwords. One generally shouldn't be using password authentication in ssh, and definitely not insecure passwords - that's exactly how to compromise a high-quality security tool by administrative malpractice. I always turn off password authentication and require public key authentication or Kerberos. On my server, ssh is available only via a Wireguard tunnel anyway.
I recently needed to test the support of a dynamic accessible description – a element’s description that is initially one (or no) value, then changes to…
Who knew Milton Babbitt's "Semi-Simple Variations" could be so funky? True, he played jazz sax in dance bands as a youth. But he's mainly known for his ultra-mathematical compositions - sort of like Schoenberg squared. Indeed, he worked in the math department at Princeton before they let him teach music!
Adding bass and drums helps. Three dancers... well, that's a bit over the top.
Semi-Simple Variations by Milton Babbittfrom the album FOR ALL I CARE by The Bad PlusBlog link:http://thebadplus.typepad.com/dothemath/2009/03/tbp-video-sem...
Yipe, that's not what we want to see either! Have you tried any of the steps in this article on troubleshooting memory issues? wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:T…
The #GUADEC2024 Call for Participation is now open! We are accepting both in-person and remote presentations. All submissions are due by Feb 18. Learn more: foundation.gnome.org/2024/01/1…
We're so happy you want to support us - and we understand your concerns. You can find out why our payment processor needs this information and more details here: mozilla.org/en-US/privacy/webs…
Today at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid not just some #AndroidAppRain with 11 updated apps, but also some "evaporation": 12 apps have been removed as they used expired debug keys, more will follow them the next days. Some background on this can be found at gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…
For some more background: I'm currently implementing additional checks for better app security, see gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/… – once done and working, details will follow with a blog article.
This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
@mondstern Nein, zumindest derzeit noch nicht. Ob und wann es so etwas vielleicht gibt, kann ich nicht sagen. Bei meinen Toots eben war aber ein Link auf das zugehörige Issue dabei, da kannst Du nachschauen. Damit Du nicht lange suchen musst: gitlab.com/IzzyOnDroid/repo/-/…
Ich glaube aber kaum, dass Du für eine dieser Apps ein Icon gemacht hast. Das waren zumeist recht alte, schon lange nicht mehr gepflegte.
A New Speech API and Framework I wrote the beginning of what I hope will be an appealing speech API for desktop Linux and beyond. It consists of two parts, a...
As a former Speech Dispatcher maintainer, and one who has thought about something similar for the last year or so, I'm fully behind this project. Looking forward to following, and helping where I can.
This post makes the valuable point that community donations are not always helpful/welcome, or directed to the right place. Lots of people have positive intentions to help out by throwing money in a pot, and it's a balancing act to be grateful for that willingness while acknowledging that you don't need or want the funds, or that receiving them would complicate your financial situation in some way: meta.chaos.social/2024/01/10/r…
this is also why, in an ideal world, I would make just enough to just about cover the instance, and not more. Luckily this is not a problem, we're not even close, but if it was, I would turn off donations as soon as that goal was reached. Receiving profit always comes with complications and overhead, no matter whether it's donations or not, and simply running the instance is already quite enough. I would rather operate at a loss for as long as I can than deal with that, to be honest. I want this space to exist, and since I'm in the fortunate position of being able to share, I'm happy to do that. But I don't want it to become a job, not even part time. Don't want to lose whatever this is by risking any of that. So yeah, definitely resonate with the blog post to some degree.
@talon I don't run an instance, but I would be greatful if I made money from something that isn't supposed to make money. However if that were the case, still responsibility would have to be taken to not waste the money or drop the quality of my running the instance. I would do my best to classify any extra as a freebie or whatnot. But that's just what I'm saying, the hardest part would be turning those words into action.
@kev Making money means overhead. Which means you usually end up spending money to manage the money. Or you spend time. Don’t want any of that. The more money you make the more money you lose to things like taxes as well. Don’t want that either. If you care about the instance you can help me run it, and then give the money that would otherwise sit here or be lost to more taxes to someone who needs it more. This is wholly non profit. We are here because we want to be here and that’s pretty much it.
@kev Responsibly spending the money is a factor, for sure. But people often discard things like a person's tax position. If my income went over a certain point, my tax rate would be multiplied by more than ten over night, and my net income would actually be decreased by over 25%. By receiving more money, I would earn a lot less. That's not a risk I'd be willing to take on income I wasn't spending or didn't need. It's much easier for people who are unemployed, or independently wealthy, to treat any increase in income as a good or insignificant thing. @talon
@kev Many factors. But a big one for me is just giving back as well. Providing the instance for people to use feels like a kind of donation from me as well. It just feels good to provide some kind of social media home for people who would like one but can’t or don’t want to manage their own. All of the admins and mods helping also directly came from the instance as well. So it’s a whole mix of things for me personally. @jscholes you for example helped out in a very significant way as well and I’m grateful.
📣 Creators: Celebrate the public domain with our Remix Contest! 🎞️📚🎶 Use the materials that have entered the public domain—like Buster Keaton's The Cameraman—to create a short film for a shot at $1,500 USD and ultimate bragging rights! Details: blog.archive.org/2023/12/05/pu…
The mouse that became Mickey will finally be free of his corporate captivity as the copyright term of the 1928 animated Disney film, Steamboat Willie, expires along with that of […]\n
The web should be a platform that helps people
and provides a positive social benefit.
As we continue to evolve the web platform,
we must therefore consider the consequences of our work.
But, hey, I might be wrong and the #W3C now fully believes in its new ethical web principles. In which case, they will no doubt take action and expel members that only exist because their business model relies on violating them.
#Google is fundamentally incompatible with the W3C’s ethical web principles and should be expelled from the W3C as it relies on violating section 2.5 (The web must…respect people’s privacy).
Also, §2.2 (The web should not cause harm to society).
Im Januar 2024 richtete das Aktionsb. neue Soziale Medien einen offenen Brief an die Hochschulrektorenkonferenz (#HRK). Darin werden die #Hochschulen in Deutschland aufgefordert, ihre X/Twitter-Präsenzen zu beenden und stattdessen auf dezentrale Plattformen im #Fediverse wie #Mastodon umzusteigen. Diese seien besser geeignet, den Regeln eines demokratischen und nachhaltigen Miteinanders zu entsprechen. Ich bin Erstunterzeichner des offenen Briefs! Mitmachen. 👇
This week, we’ve been looking at harmful complexity in web projects, and why choosing React for mostly static web projects is bad.
These days, it’s common for mostly static websites to have a little bit of dynamic content.
Nikon, Sony and Canon fight AI fakes with new camera tech - Digital signatures to provide way to tell real photos from deepfakes asia.nikkei.com/Business/Techn…
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