One thing I don't like about #Signal is that it only supports one mobile device per account. I know they want to make it easy for the average user. But for someone who has two phones, it's very limiting.
That's why I prefer #Matrix. Adding another device and decrypting all existing messages doesn't even feel so clunky anymore.
You can use @mollyim, an alternative client for Signal on Android that allows you to set up your phone as a linked device, like the iPad or desktop app.
@Andromxda @mollyim Thanks, I didn't know this. I often don't carry both phones at the same time, so it still doesn't fully cover my use case, but it's better than what Signal offers by default.
Closes #102. Based on provisioning code from signal-cli:
https://github.com/AsamK/signal-cli/blob/master/lib/src/main/java/org/asamk/signal/manager/ProvisioningManagerImpl.java
Synchronizing contac...
@link2xt @mollyim Yeah, but linked devices are useless if they are not on the same network. My phones usually aren't. I take out one or the other. I could probably solve it by having them on the same VPN, but it's all hassle just to workaround the limitation of the service.
@mollyim At least for Signal Desktop this is not the case, my Signal Desktop works autonomously when the phone is offline and I know users who only use Signal Desktop and keep the phone just so they have an account registered.
It was a problem with WhatsApp previously that you had to keep your primary device online, but now even they have autonomous desktop app that keeps working without a phone.
@link2xt @mollyim OK, that's news to me. I assumed the messages were routed through the primary device. If it's not the case, linking devices can actually work for me.
@link2xt @mollyim In general you have to use primary device from time-to-time (once a month?), but they are totally independent. Just be aware until it's delivered to all linked devices messages are kept on server (or until it expires which is something like 2 weeks maybe month). You could also use matrix Signal bridge, which you probably know and then there are no limits on devices, or molly as mentioned earlier or one of other forks which allow this.
I really recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat anonymous login without any phone number or any private data required, you can create as many accounts and add as many devices as you want, all work smoothly no encryption problems with multi-device etc and it has a better interface than #matrix on the level of #WhatsApp and #Telegram super user-friendly and painless to onboard family and friends
And you LITERALLY own your data and can browse it and search it offline
With Signal on Desktop and iPad, you can link your primary Android or iOS account with another device, letting you check and respond to messages in both places or conduct video meetings and calls from the comfort of a bigger screen.
@phx yes, already explained in other comments. I (and AFAIK many people) were under assumption that the messages were routed through the primary device. IMHO "linking device" isn't a great name for the feature in this regard.
yeah linked devices on signal work well on their own. The only problem I have they get unlinked after 30 days without use. Also no sync of past messages is annoying. Threema is better in this respect but has other disadvantages.
@cachondo Doesn't do that on the Mac anyway, and for me that's not how I'd want to use it. I want it to preview massive folders of audio files without having to enter on each one. Different use-case though.
@cachondo Sighted people use it to preview images and videos all the time. That's often how we go through family photos and then open the ones we want to look at in full screen.
hahaha great stuff. I remember the open dialog in goldwave back in the day had a preview thing for the file list, but I've not done any really serious audio work in a looong time.
@cachondo what I also liked on Mac OS is that if you were in a folder of audio files, you could press right arrow to preview the next one. (same with images, I'd guess.) Not sure if this Windows one supports that as exactly, but my other concern would probably be memory footprint (depending on what it uses to run in background.) Neat idea, though. You bet MS will copy it for Windows 12 and just say it's a new OS feature that came out of Mac (which they won't admit.)
@cachondo Can't believe the Assets button now on the release page for GitHub just reads, "button expanded Collapse." Whoever had that bright idea there. It's great though, at first I thought this will be just only through the Windows store, but good to know there's an entire GitHub page for it: github.com/QL-Win/QuickLook/ (perhaps someone will be able to get in touch with the developer for any accessibility concerns)
@cachondo wow, odd, defender flagged it, of course. file: C:\Users\AppData\Local\Programs\QuickLook\QuickLook.WoW64HookHelper.exe " - how dumb. I do like that through the GitHub you can get releases that are a bit newer, like nightly or pre-release, though.
@cachondo @alexchapman lol yeah, I think winget does that for visual symbol statuses (it also may be that it's changing to show progress visually, we just can't tell with screen readers.) Super happy with this now, once I messed around with the view radio button controls I am able to get arrowing to work to play sequential audio files in a folder, not sure why that fixed it. It throws me off that no window is shown for the quick look panel, though.
ah darn. sadly, no right-arrowing through a file list to play them as you scroll one into view. Would be a nice addition to this, otherwise it's perfect. Looks like right now you have to pause what's playing (or stop it, I guess) and then hit space again to play that file. On Mac OS that's just a lot nicer when going through a large list.
@cachondo There's so much interesting stuff like this that you could do with a blind-first file explorer tool. Audio icons for file extensions, maybe even super quiet audio thumbnails, previews for audio and text, keyboard shortcuts to quickly check modification dates and file sizes etc. With a bit of musically-inspired design, you could probably even do some compact audio representation of file attributes.
Been watching the latest podcast from The Linux Cast about Linux myths via the Pipeline app. Yeah, heard more than a few of those myths before, and all them were busted by the hosts. youtube.com/watch?v=rAQoCEn7d_… #TheLinuxCast #LinuxMyths #podcast
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#Merz sagt, er "werde Politik für die Mehrheit der Bevölkerung machen, die gerade denke und 'alle Tassen im Schrank' habe".
Sag doch gleich "Deutschland, aber normal", wie es die Faschos sagen, mit denen Du regieren wirst, sobald die schwache Koalition bricht, die aus der heutigen Wahl entsteht. spiegel.de/politik/spd-spitze-…
Bei seinem letzten Auftritt vor der Wahl hat Unionskanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz die politische Konkurrenz als »grüne und linke Spinner« verunglimpft – und erntet dafür nun seinerseits harsche Kritik.
Amid the indiscriminate dismantling of the federal government by the Trump administration’s Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, federal workers, thousands of whom could lose their jobs, are fighting back.
"Libs Of TikTok is targeting the 50501 movement. This is, honestly, a sign that the 50501 protesters are making some real impact. If you missed this, the movement started on Reddit and its name comes from its main goal — 50 protests, 50 states, one day of action." reddit.com/r/50501
Alina Habba, who is ostensibly a lawyer, claims on Fox & Friends that Trump "made the law" with his executive orders (executive orders are not laws -- only Congress can make laws)
🔹 Co to je? Vaultwarden je open-source alternativa ke správci hesel Bitwarden. Umožňuje bezpečně ukládat, spravovat a sdílet hesla bez závislosti na komerčních službách. 🔑
🔹 Proč ho používat? ✅ End-to-end šifrování pro maximální bezpečnost 🔒 ✅ Synchronizace hesel mezi zařízeními 📱💻
Picture a doctoral student with low vision trying to make sense of a crucial research paper. The screen reader stumbles over poorly formatted equations. […]
I recieved some interesting news today about the Blind Geek Zone website that I closed last year. Apparently Sam Tupy was able to retrieve most of the audio files and pages from the site before it's demise. He's offered to put the site up so that others can get to everything once again and I plan on letting him do that. I'm very happy that someone was able to recover things as unfortunately I was not. Basically it's of only historical value but I thought it was very nice of him to contact me.
That's fabulous news. Not only did you put a lot into that site but it's important that we preserve our history and so I'm very happy that the files on BGZ will be archived. Please let us know more as you hear more and thank you for your work on BGZ.
🤯 OMG! Someone just posted on Reddit bragging how he fed 13 MILLION records to Gemini to clean up. What records? "mostly dead scrambled data institutions, college, student records, course materials, research datasets. Used Gemini for cleaning, deduping, and organizing. Super useful for universities, EdTech, and students handling large study resources." #FERPA #Privacy #HigherEd #EdTech #Google #Geminireddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/commen…
Lol yeah I just saw the post. Still cool though as long as you're not feeding it any private or classified data. This is what LLMs are really good for I guess, organizing and making sense of tons of random stuff.
Here's something @jaybird110127 will probably appreciate.
I recorded the alarm of my vintage Sharp CT-661G talking alarm clock with an EM pickup coil, and noticed that it has substantial aliasing. I put a high pass filter at 12 kHz on the audio, so that only the aliasing is audible, then ran it through a band shifter effect in Reaper a couple of times. The result is rather interesting.
I dunno what it is, but something about Dreamy Train makes it the perfect #cozy#audiogame. I wish it had an #English dub or official English translation from #Japanese, though Google Translate works fine. Yes, it's simple (you can play the entire thing with three buttons), but...I dunno. Something about driving my train through a continent obviously based on Japan with a vaguely Cute Japanese woman giving me instructions in a language I don't speak is really Zen. Transport World Simulator and Tube Sim just stress me out. But Dreamy Train has just enough to keep my attention, without getting my adrenaline up, and enough content not to feel too repetitive or grindy. mm-galabo.com/dreamytrain/#a11y
Data without logs sure leaves us open for speculations. I took a quick look at what the curl.se website traffic situation looks like right now. Just as curiosity.
So, @micahflee has a great piece about how authors should leave Substack because it is "brologarchy garbage" and more expensive than alternative Ghost.
And, got to wondering if authors knew how many potential subscribers they were losing by publishing on the much hated platform.
Here are the results of yesterday's poll on the subject. 81% of 472 people said they would never subscribe to someone's #Substack even if they really wanted to subscribe to their newsletter.
For #marchintosh and #globaltalk , I am running a RealAudio and RealVideo server. If you wanna remember and experience what streaming in the 90s was like, head on over to 68kradio.ddns.net ! The site has been tested on MacWeb 2.0 and NetScape 2.0, and yes, you can listen on a 68k Mac! A PowerPC is recommended for the best experience.
There was a tense exchange at a White House event Friday between President Donald Trump and Maine Democratic Gov. Janet Mills over his executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports.
"You'll never win another race." This should be alarming, democrats really need to stand up and actually do something. It's getting to a point now where he's not afraid to make threats, this needs to be shut down immediately.
A feature of the Apple ecosystem I don't think I could give up is universal clipboard. I frequently need to copy an image from my computer to my ipad for notes or a bit of text from my phone to my computer. It just works and it solves a real problem with using multiple devices these days. support.apple.com/en-lamr/1024…
With Universal Clipboard, you can copy content such as text, images, photos, and videos on one Apple device, then paste the content on another Apple device.
@ZBennoui Lucky you! I yet have to see it working when I need it too. Gave up on those "universal" features quite a while ago. Airdrop is probably the only thing that works reliably for me. Hand-off would be cool but it's more frequently an obstacle than help. I may just be an unlucky one!
Their phony “statistics” aren’t just an attempt to justify DOGE’s destruction of the government. Trump and Musk’s goal is even more duplicitous and shady.
x64 editions of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 don't have native audio in VMWare; you need a special driver for it. A 2006 forum thread linked to a drivers and tools page on the VMWare site which, of corse, doesn't work anymore since Customer Connect and the move to Broadcom. So I checked the wayback machine, and not only was the drivers and tools page up there, I was also able to download the audio driver and slipstream it into my Windows XP x64 ISO using NLite! Archives are precious things, people! Cherish them with all your heart; they might just disappear in an instant.
I was pleased to sit down with Pam MacNeill of the Disability Disruptor’s Podcast for a New Zealand exit interview of sorts, discussing the serious problems that plague disability services, leadership and activism in New Zealand. It was also a delight as always to discuss these issues with @graemeinnes, a fearless and tireless leader who continues to do impactful work, including with the United Blind Leaders group in Australia. The issues we cover, including the necessity for blind people to control our own destinies and lead the agencies that provide services to us, are of vital importance. castro.fm/episode/uml6GE
Read transcriptGraeme Innes Graeme Innes AM is a lawyer, author, and company director. He is the Chancellor of Central Queensland University, a member of the board of the National Disability Insurance Agency, and a member of the board of the State In…
Hey this is random, but I know you might have something to do with the NFB. What happened to their online store they used to have before 2020? I did order a folding cane from them once, but now apparently the only way to get a good carbon fiber cane from them is to call or email and hope for a reply. This is a far cry from the actual online shoppable marketplace they had in 2019, I'd expect them to take less than 6 years to put a new online market up. If I was the web master, I'd not have gotten rid of the old one. nfb.org/programs-services/inde…
Please boost and spread the word. European alternatives for popular services from the USA. This page is far from perfect or complete but just an illustration that there are alternatives. european-alternatives.eu/alter…
The fact that github even gives forks a main branch with the same UI affordances as the upstream by default seems like a design mistake but as long as they keep doing that, you should know that you should avoid using it. hynek.me/articles/pull-request…
Have you always wanted your own TeamTalk server, but you just don't have the money or the knowledge to host one yourself? TT Fire-Up is a new service from Seediffusion G4p offering hosting and administration help for the blind community's favourite conferencing platform free of charge. seediffusion.cc/tt.html
Love this thing. Have the odd thing that won't upgrade with it, but most of my software is kept updated with this thing. github.com/marticliment/UniGet… Mostly ok for accessibility, but parts of it needs work.
UniGetUI: The Graphical Interface for your package managers. Could be terribly described as a package manager manager to manage your package managers - marticliment/UniGetUI
@Bubu I would not say that it's the norm here, it's just not my style. I have enough other hobbies. Normal meals here are cheap plus healthy, that's very different in many other countries. Also when moving to a different flat, not having to move around all kinds of cooking tools helps. :)
🚀 We finally released the very first version of the FOSS Public Alert Server. Version 0.1.0 includes the most essential features and is a good step toward the first stable release.
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@mollyim additionally allows setting up Android phone as a linked device since 2023: github.com/mollyim/mollyim-and…
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At least for Signal Desktop this is not the case, my Signal Desktop works autonomously when the phone is offline and I know users who only use Signal Desktop and keep the phone just so they have an account registered.
It was a problem with WhatsApp previously that you had to keep your primary device online, but now even they have autonomous desktop app that keeps working without a phone.
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in reply to Jiří Eischmann • • •I really recommend you to give a try to #DeltaChat anonymous login without any phone number or any private data required, you can create as many accounts and add as many devices as you want, all work smoothly no encryption problems with multi-device etc and it has a better interface than #matrix on the level of #WhatsApp and #Telegram super user-friendly and painless to onboard family and friends
And you LITERALLY own your data and can browse it and search it offline
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