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Microsoft tests new PowerToys app that can pull audio from video files pcworld.com/article/2596679/mi…

Microsoft tests new PowerToys app that can pull audio from video files

Microsoft is currently developing an update to its killer PowerToys collection of Windows apps that can extract audio from a video file, allowing you to sample music or lines of dialogue from videos.
Mark Hachman (PCWorld)

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Late report of #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today, with 8 updated and 1 added app:

* Hypatia is the FOSS malware scanner formerly provided by DivestOS. This is a hopefully maintained fork of it.

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 #izzyondroid
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@distributed @citizenserious @asandikci I've noticed that when trying to set up Reproducible Builds for it, yeah, see github.com/MaintainTeam/Hypati… (unfortunately still no reply there). Looks like a quickly cobbled-up first release to get started, and they could still need some hands (their organization seems to have a single member only).

Reproducible Builds · Issue #9 · MaintainTeam/Hypatia

We were asked to add your fork to the IzzyOnDroid repo, and gladly complied – so it will show up here with the next sync around 7 pm UTC. At IzzyOnDroid we support Reproducible Builds (see: Reprodu...
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@asandikci @citizenserious @distributed Ah, it's you – sorry, I didn't make the connection 🙈 Can you shortly clarify the state of the MaintainTeam repos? Do you maintain them – or rather collect repos to draw attention to them in order to improve chances to find them new maintainers? Both approaches are great, but expectations would differ of course 😉
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Aliberk Sandıkçı

np 😅 I'have firstly created the organization for maintain some apps myself. But then thought it would be better to make it with a centralized* community. So except pipebender (as noticed in description) I am not maintaining any app for now. My main purpose is draw attention to other apps (firstly Hypatia ofc). In long term I want to create a real organization/foundation** to keep this process more sustainible.
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Aliberk Sandıkçı

I got this idea from nix-community github org*** btw

* I don't like centralized things generally (thats why I'm in fediverse lol) but It will be better to combine efforts to improve sustainibility in long term.
** Idk the difference but you got me i guess
*** github.com/nix-community @IzzyOnDroid


Nix community projects

A project incubator that works in parallel of the @NixOS org - Nix community projects
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@asandikci "Idk the difference": "organization" is what you created with "MaintainTeam" at Github (the forge). It's called "organization" at Github, GitLab, Codeberg etc. A "foundation" on the other hand is a more legal term, see e.g. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foundati…

type of nonprofit organization

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
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Samsung Galaxy S25 Series and One UI 7.0: Flagship Phones That Fail to Prioritize Accessibility accessibleandroid.com/samsung-…

Samsung Galaxy S25 Series and One UI 7.0: Flagship Phones That Fail to Prioritize Accessibility - Accessible

The launch of a new flagship smartphone is always met with excitement and high expectations. For tech enthusiasts, it represents the pinnacle of innovation,
Amir Soleimani (Accessible Android)
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Christine Lemmer-Webber

There's a lot more I could say, there's a lot more I have said in other places. I believe Spritely is the future. I know it's a lot to take in. ActivityPub was a lot to take in, once upon a time.

If you want to dive in, it's all there. All out there to read. We've got tons of information these days. Yes, I know it's a lot to absorb.

If you don't want to dive in, it's a leap of faith. Let me help you make it.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

The future becomes the present when it hits peoples' hands. They start to assume of course, it was an inevitability.

Once Mastodon became a success, the popular response to ActivityPub switched from "I don't believe that could work" to "ActivityPub is obvious, anyone could have done it".

HN reply-guys always gonna armchair philosophize, act like they know everything once it's in front of their faces.

Well let me tell YOU what I think.

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

Here's me holding the secret lore of MIT AI memos that I, and I alone, have at my house and which are not uploaded on the internet please donate to the Spritely Institute (donate ENOUGH and maybe I will seek to get them archived so everyone can read them) spritely.institute/donate/
Christine hugging a box of MIT AI memos which are not, as far as she knows, available anywhere but in her house

Support Spritely! — Spritely Institute

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Christine Lemmer-Webber

"Christine this is really too much"

I appeal to you one final time, one last attempt to thirstpost to a Very Particular Kind of Person into donating to the Spritely Institute

Here is me holding an ORIGINAL COPY of Guy L. Steele's dissertation, RABBIT: A Compiler for SCHEME

Please donate to the Spritely Institute spritely.institute/donate/

Support Spritely! — Spritely Institute

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miki

I used to agree with you on this, but I changed my mind.

Peer-to-peer basically requires that your users have reliable access to power and reliable internet connectivity. Most people use mobile devices, which don't satisfy any of these criteria.

Even if everybody was using Graphene OS and wasn't subject to Apple's and Google's draconian power saving policies, you can't escape the physical realities here.

I think this is the real reason why people don't use torrents any more. You can't do that on mobile, and it's not because of the APp Stores.

Somewhat-centralized / federated solutions, operated by large non-profits, seem like a much more reasonable model, Signal and Wikimedia being shining examples here.

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Have you ever wondered which free virtual instruments exist out there? Yeah, they don't cost a single Penny, but you can create some awesome music with them. The list is far from complete, but its going to grow over time. Here you go, make the best of it. timtam.github.io/musicalsight/…

MusicalSight

Web site created using create-react-app
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Be wary when adding additional context only for #screenReader users. An example:

Say you're working on an e-commerce site, and some products have two prices to show how great a sale discount is. The before and after is made visually apparent via some aspect of text formatting, and you want to make it explicit for screen reader users too.

The first step is to ask if this is necessary. If a user encounters two consecutive prices and one is lower than the other, they may intuitively understand what's going on without any explicit signposting, and can verify how much they're gonna pay during the checkout process. Only your users can provide this verdict.

If it's determined that some additional context is helpful, you could format it as something like: "Was $14.99, now $8.99" (optionally swapping the prices). It's short and punchy in braille and speech, perfectly descriptive of the situation at hand, and mirrors how it may be spoken out loud on an ad.

Resist the temptation to go further than this. You do not need to say "original price: $14.99, current sale price: $8.99". This is much longer and more verbose, while adding nothing. It also implies that you think screen reader users need to be told what a price is and explained the concept of a sale, even though you're not doing so for other audiences.

You also don't need to spell out the word "dollars", format the price in words, repeat the product name, and so on. If you find yourself with screen-reader-only text like: "The current price of 500 Grams of Premium Oolong Tea was fourteen dollars and ninety-nine cents, and is now on sale for eight dollars and ninety-nine cents", it has gone way too far.

In short: Set out to identify the problems that actually need solving, and only solve those problems.

#accessibility

#Accessibility #screenreader
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Another ringing endorsement of cryptocurrency:

El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment

ticotimes.net/2025/02/02/el-sa…


El Salvador Abandons Bitcoin as Legal Tender After Failed Experiment

Understand the implications of Bitcoin's downfall in El Salvador. Learn about the failed economic bet and its impact on the country's financial stability.
AFP (The Tico Times | Costa Rica News | Travel | Real Estate)

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Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more 9to5mac.com/2025/02/04/twitter…

Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more

The makers of Twitterrific just launched a new iPhone app for social and web feeds. Tapestry brings together Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, and more.
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:tapestry_app: 🎉 Tapestry by Iconfactory is here! Your favorite blogs, social media, and more in a unified and chronological timeline with no algorithms and no tracking! Try it for FREE from the App Store: apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by…
#TapestryApp #iOS #SocialWeb #OpenWeb

‎Tapestry by Iconfactory

‎Tapestry weaves your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.
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#ios #openweb #socialweb #tapestryapp

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Carbon dating puts Saskatchewan first nation settlement site as 10,800 years old.

For settlers needing a reference point, this is as old as the oldest parts of Stonehenge, and five thousand years older than the pyramids. #archaeology

cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatchewa…

#archaeology

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Spent a moment this morning reading some old Beautiful Soup bug reports and freshly appreciated my spouse. Example:

bugs.launchpad.net/beautifulso…

Leonard gives a calm and thorough explanation of why and how the issue emerges from another library, and how the reporter can pragmatically mitigate.

I'm just feeling mushy right now about the man I'm lucky enough to have married. 💞


Bug #2037284 “< and > are removed from text after control charac...” : Bugs : Beautiful Soup

Normally when parsing an xml file, bs4 converts html entities in a piece of text to the character they encode. Ex. given '', `soup.find("item").string` becomes ''.
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