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Jieshuo+ vs. Jieshuo Lite: Differences and Which One Should You Choose accessibleandroid.com/jieshuo-…

Jieshuo+ vs. Jieshuo Lite: Differences and Which One Should You Choose - Accessible Android

Jieshuo screen reader comes in two versions: Jieshuo+ and Jieshuo Lite. The Lite version is sometimes referred to as the "International" version on the GitHub
Kareen Kiwan (Accessible Android)

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Super exhausted. Some of you are wanting that old version back because you felt it was faster, it seams there's no pleasing everybody. Compare the two if you want, but this new thread-pool and executor dispatching speech queuing events is what we're going to stick with for the future unless you dingbats have better ideas. But try both, if you want, it'll install over your other copy. So.
No thread-pool version: eurpod.com/BestSpeak-older.nvd…
Thread-pool version (newer, better, but may have more delay when speaking): eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo…
This way people won't complain to me that the last version got lost, no it didn't, happy now? Hope so. Sheesh.
in reply to don Elías (como los buses) 🥨

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don Elías (como los buses) 🥨

"Esta es la última de una serie de esculturas en la que retomo las cabezas olmecas para hablar de temas específicos. Esta pieza está compuesta por dos elementos. Por un lado, tenemos una réplica de una cabeza Olmeca tallada en cantera, de aproximadamente nueve toneladas, y un Tesla model 3, el cual fue destruido por el peso colosal de la cabeza. Esta obra fue una comisión hecha con el apoyo y la ayuda de Colima 71, a quienes agradezco mucho por creer y por arriesgarse con mi trabajo"

Chavis Mármol

chavismarmol.com/

#Arte #CDMX

Cabeza Olmeca de 9 toneladas aplastando un Vehículo marca Tesla en Colonia Roma en Ciudad de México
Cabeza Olmeca de 9 toneladas aplastando un Vehículo marca Tesla en Colonia Roma en Ciudad de México

chavismarmol

Chavis Marmol
chavismarmol.com
#cdmx #arte

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Alright folks, this is it. Test the new add-on. Download from: eurpod.com/BestSpeak.nvda-addo… - rapid typing or cycling through stuff should no longer crash the thread since we are managing a thread pool. Previously, handle closing and re-initialization might happen from multiple places—either the main thread would try to re-init before the next chunk, or _speakBg() would close the engine after finishing. This created a race condition where both the main thread and the background thread could attempt to manipulate the engine handle around the same time. only the _speakBg() thread—after finishing the TtsWav call—handles closing the engine now.

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I did some testing with zlib-ng, which Fedora and Arch are already using as a replacement for the original zlib and Debian plans to as well, and I'm not happy with what I found.

[...] With the original zlib, you will always get an identical output stream given the same input stream and compressor parameters [...] I expected that zlib-ng would often produce a different output steam than the original, but what I found was a lot more non-deterministic than just that.

With zlib-ng, feeding the data into the compressor in e.g. 1024-byte chunks always gave me a different output stream than using 4096-byte chunks [...] In fact, every chunk size I tried gave a different output. And that's with fixed size chunks, which is not a given if you're handling e.g. a stream of input.

Even using the same buffer size, I cannot get an identical compressed output stream with Python and Java any more [...]


lists.debian.org/debian-devel/…

#ReproducibleBuilds

Re: [Summary]: Supporting alternative zlib implementations

lists.debian.org
#reproduciblebuilds

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Hmm I don't know, that might be more difficult than solving a typical captcha.

To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/16…


To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good - Slashdot

WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says "Pineapple is delicious on pizza.
it.slashdot.org

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Another week, another new & unsettling recipe for making a computational sausage. Today it was this massive text file enumerating how every button and axis from every known gamepad is reported on every known platform in order to map them to a standard taxonomy:

github.com/mdqinc/SDL_GameCont…

I guess I should have known that ultimately it must boil down to this...


SDL_GameControllerDB/gamecontrollerdb.txt at master · mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDB

A community sourced database of game controller mappings to be used with SDL2 Game Controller functionality - mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDB
GitHub

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Tiktok will be just fine now that the incoming president said he has a "warm spot" in his heart for this social med. We all know what that means... :) mastodon.social/@macrumors/113…

MacRumors.com (@macrumors@mastodon.social)

TikTok Asks U.S. Supreme Court to Temporarily Block Upcoming January Ban https://www.macrumors.com/2024/12/16/tiktok-asks-us-supreme-court-ban-delay/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Mastodon

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Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…

#Shopping #OnlineShopping #News #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #Blind


Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision

Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.
Nas Campanella (ABC News)
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #screenreader #News #shopping #onlineshopping

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Ed Zitron's latest is intense. wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-… The passages about the total shit show of setting up and using one of the best-selling Windows laptops on Amazon are, for me, a reality check about what computers are like for people outside of my bubble.

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
in reply to Matt Campbell

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Brandon Tyson

I 100 percent agree with this. So many things clicked as I read this. Even my banking app, telling me to try this other thing, shown every time I login. And there's no button a lot of the time to just flatly refuse it, it's always "maybe later," "another time," "not now," etc. Or the messages that creep into a commercial screen reader, trying to get you to listen to a podcast. Some AT isn't imune from this either I don't think, just like the example above. Thank you for sharing this.

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CNN.com

-#EdZitron, Never Forgive Them
wheresyoured.at/never-forgive-…

Never Forgive Them

In the last year, I’ve spent about 200,000 words on a kind of personal journey where I’ve tried again and again to work out why everything digital feels so broken, and why it seems to keep getting worse, despite what tech’s “brightest” minds might pr…
Edward Zitron (Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At)
#edzitron

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“Amazon chose not to act” to address safety risks, allegedly “accepting injuries to its workers as the cost of doing business.”

arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

Daddy, why do CEOs get shot?

#amazon #BigTech


Amazon facing strike threats as Senate report details hidden widespread injuries

Amazon ignores strike threats, denies claims of “uniquely dangerous warehouses.”…
Ashley Belanger (Ars Technica)
#bigtech #amazon
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Season's greetings with three new and updated guidebooks for #LibreOffice, thanks to our awesome Docs community! Read them and do magical things with the suite: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Guidebook covers with Christmas decorations around

Season's Greetings! Three new LibreOffice Guides released - The Document Foundation Blog

Our team member Peter Schofield just updated the Impress, Draw and Math guides to the latest LibreOffice 24.8 release.   The Impress, Draw and Math guides are the authoritative guides for the end user.
Olivier Hallot (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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@RaccoonForFriendica Finally we have a Weblate project for the translations of the app UI, changelogs and metadata. Hope this will help us all create a better user experience and correct some localization mistakes!

#raccoonforfriendica #procyonproject #foss #opensource #friendica #fediverseapp

#friendica #foss #opensource #raccoonforfriendica #FediverseApp #procyonproject @RaccoonForFriendica

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Stoked for today's Oxide and Friends: @ahl and I will be joined by @pfrazee.com to talk about the wild ride that @bsky.app has been on -- and get into the technical underpinnings in the AT Protocol. Join us, 5p Pacific!

discord.gg/QrcKGTTPrF?event=13…

Join the Oxide Computer Discord Server!

The Oxide Computer Company and friends; home of the Oxide and Friends podcast. | 3907 members
Discord
@Adam Leventhal @Paul Frazee @Bluesky

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So it's unclear if #PeakDesign provided any info to the police that may have led to #LuigiMangione's arrest, but we do know this:

>> [Peak Design CEO Peter Dering] told the Times that he called the NYPD tip line to share what he knew and vowed to do “whatever is possible” to identify the shooter, including consulting Peak Design’s legal team to see what he could share with police.

Don't do business with this company.

theverge.com/2024/12/13/243207…


Peak Design denies snitching on Luigi Mangione

Rumors claim Peak Design “traced” the UnitedHealthcare shooting suspect via a backpack serial number, but the company says it didn’t, and that it can’t.
Mia Sato (The Verge)
#luigimangione #PeakDesign
in reply to Artemis

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Artemis

If anyone wants to send #PeakDesign a message (no threats or other misbehavior obviously) letting them know that WE know and won't forget about that the company is run by a snitch, here's their contact page:

peakdesign.com/pages/support#c…

I just like to directly inform companies when I'm putting effort into negative word-of-mouth about their brand—it's important to me that they know I am personally doing my part to damage their sales if at all possible.

Support Center

The easiest way to get immediate answers to your Peak Design questions.
www.peakdesign.com
#PeakDesign
in reply to Artemis

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Artemis

#PeakDesign's statement about it really boils down to "Dering didn't *actually* give away customer information—he just proactively called the cops to ask if they wanted him to try to find customer data." The data either didn't exist or he was told it violated their privacy policies, but he really wanted to be a collaborator. Very reassuring: in this case there wasn't even any useful info—he just wanted to reaffirm his loyalty to the pigs and then brag to the press about it for some reason.
#PeakDesign
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#AndroidAppRain again at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid, today with 11 updated and 1 added apps:

* SimbaDroid: a simple SMB file server 🛡️

RB status: 374 apps (30.6%)

at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk today 8 updated and 1 added #Magisk #modules

* zRAM Swap Manager

Count Count says: 123 modules there now 🤪

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid #modules

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Wow, is this as good as it sounds? If yes, then another wow! ec.social-network.europa.eu/@E…

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)

Attached: 1 image 🛰️ Connecting you from space – to every corner of Europe and the world. Securely. Today, we signed the contract to develop IRIS², Europe's solution to secure satellite connectivity.
European Commission on Mastodon

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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)

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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the Best-Selling Piano Album of All Time (1975)

Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne).
Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)

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this morning I've made the choice to close 300 forum sites that have about 275k monthly active users, nearly all from the UK.

I've run forums for over 28 years, and did so to build families for those without families, to try and create a cure for social isolation and loneliness, to combat suicide, to create joy and love out of nothing but connections between people.

and it worked. it still works.

but on the 16th March 2025 I will delete the virtual servers running it all... that date is important, it's the last day before the UK Online Safety Act goes into enforcement.

I run these communities philanthropically, giving my time and money to do so, I ask nothing back, I just help build a nicer World.

but the scope of the Act is too broad, and my forums come under it... it does not matter that it's run by an individual and not a company, that it loses money every month... merely by being linked to the UK and allowing users to speak to users... it's within scope.

the penalties of non-compliance would be so devastatingly ruinous to me, that I don't see I have a choice... I must now perform a social harm to protect myself.

this is devastating.

lfgss.com/conversations/401475…

I cannot even express what these forums have achieved... the marriages, births, support for those with cancer, the love, the communities they have created.

LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced) | LFGSS

Why Reading https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/illegal-and-harmful-content/time-for-tech-firms-to-act-uk-online-safety-regulation-comes-into-force/ and we're done... we fall firmly into scope, and I have no way to dodge it.
www.lfgss.com

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LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 is available for testing qa.blog.documentfoundation.org…

LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 is available for testing - LibreOffice QA Blog

LibreOffice 25.2 will be released as final at the beginning of February, 2025 ( Check the Release Plan ) being LibreOffice 25.2 Beta1 the second pre-release since the development of version 25.2 started in mid Juny, 2024.
x1sc0 (LibreOffice QA Blog)
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