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Still in pure admiration of the elderly man who stood up in church yesterday to say that he is a proud veteran whose wish for Veterans Day is that people will finally get it into their heads that war doesn't solve problems.

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There is some kind of issue with my Whatsapp ("Waiting for message, this may take a while" and my messages not sending), so I've been using @matrix with a couple of people, and it's working great. Stuff like location sharing just works, and my favorite different feature is that you can react to a post with multiple emoticons.

It looks like Whatsapp has some kind of key exchange error. I'm not saying matrix never has that (although I've never had it), but it tells you what the error is and gives you tools to diagnose/fix it. But Whatsapp is "User friendly", so it just tells you to wait forever.

@The Matrix.org Foundation

I will release my first original song at the end of November.
The name of this project/band is Echoes of Tomorrow.
The first single is called Breathe Out

There are many “what should we do next” thinkpieces, but this one is mine.

If you want an abstract summary, the idea is “we need to run a year-round parallel campaign apparatus that just introduces people to progressive ideas by making their lives better in whatever ways we can”.

That is a staggeringly huge project and if it does even happen, I can only be a tiny part of it, so I will need your help. Contact info is at the end of the blog post.

blog.glyph.im/2024/11/its-time…


Deciphering Glyph :: It’s Time For Democrats To Get More Annoying

Deciphering Glyph, the blog of Glyph Lefkowitz.
blog.glyph.im

I'm wondering now that he has been elected if his merry go round of fascist entourage will arrange for justice to follow its course and plot a scenario to enact the 25th amendment.

⚙️ #EtchDroid umí vytvořit instalační USB disk z mobilu

🔗 infoek.cz/etchdroid-umi-vytvor…

#android #linux

EtchDroid umí vytvořit instalační USB disk z mobilu – Infoek.cz

infoek.cz
#android #linux #etchdroid

Holy shit "disposable" vapes have 1500mAh Li-ion batteries and a nice chunk of aluminium in them.
#waste #recycling #batteries #ebike #cycling
youtube.com/watch?v=VcVp9T8f_W…

Powering an E-Bike using Disposable Vape Batteries

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#cycling #waste #ebike #batteries #recycling
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Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
Winter blue tardis🇧🇬🇭🇺
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Damn! I am sorry, but I am glad I got off those. I would buy one only if it's needed. that's a lot of waste, I realised.

Elérhető a harmadik iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS 15.2, és a második watchOS 11.2, tvOS 18.2 és visionOS 2.2 béta szifon.com/2024/11/11/elerheto…

Elérhető a harmadik iOS 18.2, iPadOS 18.2, macOS 15.2, és a második watchOS 11.2, tvOS 18.2 és visionOS 2.2 béta - Szifon.com

Egy héttel az előző béták után az Apple ma este elérhetővé tette az újabb verziókat – illetve érkezett még macOS Sonoma 14.7.2 RC2 (23H304) és macOS
Jadeye (Szifon.com)

The 2024 Web Almanac has been published:

almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…

I have contributed to the chapters on accessibility and sustainability.

#WebAlmanac #WebAlmanac24 #HTTPArchive


The 2024 Web Almanac

The Web Almanac is an annual state of the web report combining the expertise of the web community with the data and trends of the HTTP Archive.
Rick Viscomi (HTTP Archive)
#WebAlmanac #webalmanac24 #httparchive

@huijing we are featuring some of your work here almanac.httparchive.org/en/202…

Accessibility | 2024 | The Web Almanac by HTTP Archive

Accessibility chapter of the 2024 Web Almanac covering ease of reading, navigation, forms, media, ARIA, and accessibility apps.
Mike Gifford (HTTP Archive)
@huijing

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#COP29 will be the third consecutive COP held in an authoritarian state, and the second consecutive #COP hosted by a petro-state.

chathamhouse.org/2024/10/azerb…

#cop29 #cop

Video Description and Icon Detection Functions in Jieshuo Screen Reader accessibleandroid.com/video-de…

Video Description and Icon Detection Functions in Jieshuo Screen Reader - Accessible Android

After a recent collaboration between the Jieshuo screen reader developer and VIVO to integrate the Blue Heart AI LLM into Jieshuo, driving the AI image
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)

Yeah, don't ask me why blocked users sounds cool in another language, it just does. so, the buffer stays opened lol

Last week's @osm_be @MapComplete meetup was very productive!
(we completed the puzzle! XD)
Still a very cool idea by @pietervdvn to make it
A completed jigsaw puzzle featuring a detailed map of Ghent, labeled "Gentse wijken en buurten" (Ghent neighborhoods and districts), created by Pieter Vander Vennet using OpenStreetMap data.
@MapComplete @Pietervdvn @OpenStreetMap Belgium

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Pietervdvn
Pietervdvn
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@GenTollis mapcomplete.org/theme.html?z=1… is the resulting digital map.

If you make your own puzzle map with it, I'll be claiming tax though: you'll have to send me a picture of the end result ;)


MapComplete - editable, thematic maps with OpenStreetMap

MapComplete is a platform to visualize OpenStreetMap on a specific topic and to easily contribute data back to it.
mapcomplete.org
@GenTollis
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GenTollis
GenTollis
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I don't have any Kruidvat's near me, but I can probably find some other source for printing. There are a few areas on #OSM I've contributed to significantly, so I will definitely be looking into making one or two of these (and sending you tax 😋).
#OSM

Vlaams Belang neemt het initiatierecht op in Antwerpen, samen met VB stellen we alvast ons mobiliteisplan voor:

"Straten weer van ONS"
- TOTALE ban op niet-vlaamse automerken op onze wegen
- Vervanging van de gehele busvloot door Vlaamse Van Hool
- Uitfasering van niet-vlaamse fietsen, met subsidies voor aankoop Norta en Thompson fietsen
- Vloeken in het verkeer mag enkel in het vlaams

Four projects will receive grants to contribute to the NGI @mobifree pilot. Many thanks to all four teams for contributing to a fair, open and privacy-friendly mobile software ecosystem.
@termux Android terminal app and software distro/run-time
OpenAGPS: Privacy-friendly, self-hostable location service
Android Translation Layer: Run Android apps on Linux
LambdaNative F-Droid integration: Portable, Productive and Performant App Development with Scheme
nlnet.nl/news/2024/20241111-NG…
#NGI #mobile

NLnet; NGI Mobifree Grants Awarded for Fair Mobile Software

nlnet.nl
#mobile #ngi @Termux @Mobifree

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125 people have already won sticker packs in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! But we're only just getting started – so if you haven't yet contributed, find out how: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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Starting today: The Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! 🎉 - The Document Foundation Blog

Here’s your chance to learn new skills for a potential future career change, or expand your knowledge and have fun on the way: get involved in the Month of LibreOffice, November 2024! Over the next four weeks, hundreds of people around the world will…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource

Imagine if all the money spent on AI had gone into research for renewable energy and fusion power instead 🤔

The Long Island CW Club teaches #MorseCode to #AmateurRadio operators. We have developed a haptic feedback device to help people who are #deaf feel the code. We need need help from someone with experience to help us develop appropriate #teaching methods over Zoom. We understand closed captions in real time can be added, but we seek #expertise in this area. This is a volunteer position. Contact SmartWebTester@gmail.com if you wish to help. Please boost! Thank you. #HamRadio
#hamradio #amateurradio #deaf #teaching #expertise #morsecode

Excellent #AudioDescription of Remembrance Day on #cbc as always. Usually, I cry because we remember. This year, I cried because we have forgotten.
#AudioDescription #cbc
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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be interesting to contrast described TV with the radio coverage here.

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Spontaneous autumnal piano improvisation

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sa vyhováram že chodím pešo

Just got an error message when attempting to go to a website that actually made me LOL: "The connection has failed success.". Well, okay then! :P

does anyone else see fedi hashtags as mostly useless if you're not on a server that federates widely? Even here on transfem.social hashtags feel so empty. I talked about this on bsky a bit
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Seirdy
Seirdy
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I subscribe to 100-200 and they often do populate my feed with a post I wouldn’t have seen otherwise, which is enough for me.

Nutrition

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Yishay Garbasz
Yishay Garbasz
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re: Nutrition
multivaitamins pills are a lot less effective then their hype. The way to bind them into pill form effectively is way to expensive to use by many of them. Here they use blood test and if you have a deficancy then they might purscribe a specific vitamin supplement but not a multi.
in reply to Yishay Garbasz

Seirdy
Seirdy
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re: Nutrition
@Yishay yeah i was recommended multis and omega-3 EPA+DHA based on bloodwork, but that was ages ago and my diet has since completely changed.
@Yishay Garbasz

"PSOE y Sumar pactan un iVA del 21% a los pisos turísticos" es de esas cosas que según las oyes dices ESPERA ESPERA, QUE NO ERA ASÍ YA? y te dan más ganas de sacar antorchas.

One of the authors I follow, @clacksee, has made two of her #books free for today.

For some light-hearted #SciFi with plenty of hope, there's The Left Hand of Dog: whitehartfiction.co.uk/product…

If you'd rather read about old ladies getting justice by any means necessary, there's A Bit of Murder Between Friends: whitehartfiction.co.uk/product…

I can highly recommend both.

EU readers should use her Payhip shop: payhip.whitehartfiction.co.uk

#bookstodon
@bookstodon


White Hart Fiction

Author of sci-fi without the pew-pewSi (she/her) is a Canadian misanthrope who lives in London. She shares her home with her partner and an assortment of waifs and strays.
White Hart Fiction
#books #scifi #bookstodon @Shouty person @bookstodon group

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I wrote about the need to review your icons when localizing, in order to make sure you're actually communicating what you intend to. ericwbailey.website/published/…

Don’t forget to localize your icons

Culture impacts how icons are interpreted, understood, and used.
ericwbailey.website

One of my favorite Singapore food writers / recipe developers lives in the Netherlands now.

“Having grown up in perpetual summer, living in the Netherlands with the cold as a constant companion often makes me hanker for foods that I’d never craved for in Singapore.”

That’s what I feel too: the perpetual summer.

The newsletter name is a joke because there are no Singapore noodles in Singapore:

sgpnoodles.substack.com/p/bak-…

#Food #Singapore


Bak zhang

making braised pork and glutinous rice dumplings out of season
Pamelia Chia (Singapore Noodles)
#food #singapore
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Minor tip from someone who's had to spend a lot of my life hiding said life: Learn to use a screenreader and find headphones you can use so you too can turn off your screens and work, communicate and play with less risk from dangerous elements in your vicinity.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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I grew up first using hardware speech synthesizers with headphone jacks, and then when software synthesis became possible, my family told me it was unnatural to use it out loud.
I found I could absorb more with headphones anyway, and besides that, I have never lived alone, so it's always been the obvious for me to keep it in my head.
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The Gaptangle
The Gaptangle
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Going further with this, there are also ways which I need someone to chime in on because I don't know them these days--I'll boost you if you do--of doing some things so that no one would see them even if your screen was on with some of the screenreaders. Even stealthier.
in reply to The Gaptangle

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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the JAWS virtual viewer can be hidden by default, so any results of things like document OCR, AI responses, or Research It lookups are not visible.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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NVDA's screen curtain works with configuration profiles, so you can have it automatically applied in a private app.
It's also available on whenever the screen reader is running if you activate it with a double-tap of the hotkey or from the preferences dialog box.
in reply to The Gaptangle

Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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Both JAWS (by default( and NVDA (with an addon), also support splitting audio. This effectively puts the screen reader into just 1 of your ears. SO there's no possibility that someone could pop in a second of your wireless earbuds and hear what you're doing, for example.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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Finally, the idea of the invisible interface in apps such as Tweesecake were used in older twitter clients.
The first of these was Jawter. JAWS scripting language didn't support any sort of system for making onscreen windows other than the virtual viewer I bound global hotkeys to navigate your timeline without needing a UI.

I have used similar windowless interfaces for other things in my career, such as global access to an internal telephone directory at work,
and things like global history retrieval for both speech and clipboard in the past.
When I had to use flashcards at college, they piped straight to my speech synthesizer or Braille display without a visible interface, too.

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Jack-Frostodon
Jack-Frostodon
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@cachondo Global clipboard history I feel could be redone even easier now with Ditto being a thing, wonder if apps such as @app could wrap Ditto into a library and allow for global management of clipboard, clip-groups as focussible buffers, etc. And with Ditto being a stable foundation, the actual clipboard management need not be reinvented.
@TweeseCake @Sean Randall
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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I will just add, having thought on this a little more overnight, that software with an invisible interface is only useful in a limited set of circumstances. Obviously screen curtains are now standard with all common screen readers, and there's only so many keys on the keyboard.
If I were designing a UIless tool today I'd probably have a layer system in place, simply because of that.
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Sean Randall
Sean Randall
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@x0 sorry, yes it is. I didn't even notice that. I use the feature quite rarely.
@x0

hello #London
#london

For Subscribers in the United States: BlindShell Classic 3 From the BlindShell U.S. Web Site groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/81…

For Subscribers in the United States: BlindShell Classic 3 From the BlindShell U.S. Web Site

groups.io
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Ricky Enger
Ricky Enger
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You've directed this to U"S. subscribers, so perhaps you might know if there actually is a U.S. site for the Blindshell anymore? I know the primary company is in the Czech Republic, and the previous U.S. distributor is no longer in partnership.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@ricky_enger Hi, Ricky. When I go to www.blindshell.com it redirects to blindshell.com/us
I assumed this was a site for those in the U.S.
@Ricky Enger
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Ricky Enger
Ricky Enger
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Ah, thank you. I suspect they'll redesign that page to make the list of distributors more prominent. I just gave it a cursory glance after having seen the main site this morning, and they looked the same" In any case, thanks for posting.
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@ricky_enger Today's @doubletap podcast has an interview with BlindShell and U.S. distribution is addressed. Whether BlindShell addressed it adequately is another story.
@Ricky Enger @Double Tap
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Jage
Jage
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@ricky_enger I believe they are working on bringing the U.S. site up, but the distributor network is still in place minus Blindshell USA.
@Ricky Enger
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Ricky Enger
Ricky Enger
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@Jage This is great to know. Is AT Guys still distributing? And what about support? This is my main concern, as I would love to keep recommending this phone for the population I work with, but there definitely needs to be a solid support system after purchase"
@Jage
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Jage
Jage
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@ricky_enger Yes we are still selling the 2 at the moment. We are weighing interest in the 3 and also considering the amount of support it takes. We will always support our current customers.
@Ricky Enger
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Timothy Wynn
Timothy Wynn
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@Jage Speaking of distribution, while other features such as AI Assistant doesn't seem transferable, the ability to copy/paste and make conference calls do seem to be back-portable to its second gen variant. Do you know if that is going to be the case? I don't have nor want one, but I am asking to see if this is artificial feature-limiting or if they will continue to support their previous devices for as long as feasible for the sake of their customers. @ricky_enger @DavidGoldfield
@Jage @Ricky Enger @David Goldfield
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David Goldfield
David Goldfield
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@Jage @twynn @ricky_enger One thing that I can't seem to find is the version of Android on the Classic 3. Does anybody know?
@Jage @Timothy Wynn @Ricky Enger
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