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I like you lot. You are doing the possible and with inginuity. I'll probably get the BT Braille when it comes out because a notetaker is what I've been hoping for after so long. The last time I had a notetaker was a Braille Sense but I would love one that has the ability to run actual apps. Imagine playing a mud on your Braille notetaker with tintin?
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I can't tell y'all how much I love #Emacs. It was the first interface that really intrigued me. It was the first interface where I felt like there was so much I could learn about. And Emacspeak brought it to life for me. Headings spoken by a deeper voice. Italics spoken by a higher, rather fuzzy voice. Bold spoken by a deep voice, almost like headings. Because headings are bold, and large. A calendar where I could move around the actual calendar, not just a list of events. Want to know what date next Friday is? Find Friday of this week, and simply press Down arrow. Or C-n if you're really into Emacs. And there it is. Oh and Nov-mode (nov.el). I can't say enough about that package. An EPUB reader that doesn't choke on a huge book. And Markdown-mode and Org-mode, and even HTML-mode. With Emacspeak, I could hear the syntax highlighting. That way, I knew if I didn't close a bracket pair, or quotes, not only by the punctuation itself, but how the voice sounds.

And now Emacspeak hasn't been updated in a year. Luckily, I think T.V. Raman has made fixes up to Emacs 30. But beyond that, I don't know. I hope it's not abandoned forever. I maybe could use Emacs through Orca, or BRLTTY, or maybe Speechd-el, if I can figure out how it's supposed to be set up and used well. But it feels like such a pail imitation of Emacspeak. But then, unconfigured Emacs doesn't feel all that special either.

#Emacs #foss #Emacspeak #accessibility #blind #linux

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Moment épique: 1.2.Train approche les 10 000 billets vendus en mai!

Hier à 23:59 : 4409 billets 🤓

Une petite règle de 3 s'impose:
(4409/13) × 31 ≈ 10 500.

Je n'aurai jamais imaginé ça après un an de galères en partant de zéro.

Il y a deux éléments clés:
1. le soutien total des clientes et des clients
2. rester optimiste (le plus possible)

Ma barre d'énergie est au maximum:
🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥 🟥

Le niveau de gratitude est infini:
❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

Merci pour tout votre soutien sur l'aventure 1.2.Train!✨

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Interesting enough, I got this link in #Symfony developers Slack! WCAG 3.0’s Proposed Scoring Model: A Shift In Accessibility Evaluation smashingmagazine.com/2025/05/w… #WCAG #Accessibility

The #LibreOffice project is active on many social media platforms – and we have blogs in various languages too. Learn what we did in 2024: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource

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Less than a week to go before an #embedded week kicks off in Nice!, Linux Media Summit, Embedded Recipes, #PipeWire workshop, #GStreamer Spring Hackfest, back-to-back-to-back! Join us! collabora.com/news-and-blog/ne… #OpenSource #Linux @embeddedrecipes @gstreamer @pipewire
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If you’re like me and enjoy watching streams or listening to multiple audio sources, check out my newly updated @pipewire based script! It makes muting or unmuting sound from different sources really easy.

Find it here:
github.com/zikusooka/toggle-pw…
Context: joseph.zikusooka.com/?p=2637

#ZikTIPs #Linux #PipeWire #Multimedia

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Coming up this afternoon at Embedded Recipes, George Kiagiadakis presents "PipeWire and Bluetooth: the road to LE Audio". Watch live at 1:30 PM CEST! youtube.com/watch?v=U5L8XHkP-l… #Bluetooth #LEAudio #BlueZ #OpenSource @embeddedrecipes @pipewire

"Despite this dismal success rate, companies are going all-in on AI, driven largely by the belief that everyone else is doing it. Nearly two-thirds of CEOs (64%) say “the risk of falling behind drives them to invest in some technologies before they have a clear understanding of the value they bring to the organization,” according to the study."

fortune.com/2025/05/09/klarna-…

Apple hat heute haufenweise neue Barrierefreiheitsfeatures angekündigt, die mal wieder eine Menge Potenzial haben, für viel mehr Teilhabe zu sorgen: apple.com/newsroom/2025/05/app…

Am besten ist wahrscheinlich, dass sie im App Store künftig zeigen wollen, mit welchen Bedienungshilfen eine App zugänglich ist. Das ist wegweisend und nicht weniger als der wichtigste Fortschritt für Barrierefreiheit insgesamt.

Putting aside it being Manjaro powered, it's awesome to see more Linux powered handhelds gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/zota…

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We created a safer AV1 decoder, rav1d, by forking the dav1d decoder and rewriting the C code in Rust. It works well except our Rust is 5% slower than the C. We're not sure why so we're offering a $20k bounty to figure it out and make the Rust code faster. memorysafety.org/blog/rav1d-pe…

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*How secure is UnifiedPush?*

It’s a legitimate question that comes up from time to time. While the question is fairly short, the answer requires a few details. Behind the question of security, it’s also often about privacy.

unifiedpush.org/news/20250513_…

#UnifiedPush #PushNotifications #Android #FCM #Privacy

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Microsoft's current market capitalization is approximately $3.34 trillion USD. This makes it one of the most richest companies in the world. It just cut workforce by 3% (around 7k). Microsoft is spending heavily on AI and major investor in OpenAI, while slashing costs elsewhere to safeguard profit margins reuters.com/business/world-at-… Microsoft is planning to cut another 10000 jobs while spending 80 billion on AI data centre this year but yet to see any profit from OpenAI investments or AI data centre

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In other words, all job cuts by Google, Microsoft, IBM, Meta, and other big tech directly result from AI investments that have yielded zero returns so far while paying zero money to original book writers, artists, journalists, and open-source developers as they stole their hard work. To compensate for that loss in AI, management came up with an idea to cut workers. Such a master stroke 😂

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So, now that I have a cheap (~$100) Motorola modem feeding the internet to my Asus RT-96U, life's good again. I looked it up, and it turns out a lot of people have seen that random 412.3 GBPS speed, but even more strangely, many have seen it with Wi-FI. In one instance, (techist.com/forums/threads/thi…) the person could actually operate internet out of their card listing this speed but probably not delivering it, which is so odd.
All I can say is that the 2.5 Gig port on the CAX80 got extremely, extremely hot when it went down. I tried pushing the factory reset pin for 8 seconds, nothing, then just smashed it 15 times, and it still wouldn't reboot until I unplugged it. The moment I switched that router into "bridged" mode, it kind of blew up in not a good way. I actually wanted a Wi-FI 7 router more for LG WOWCast to soundbars, which is nice, but for some reason the Cax80 didn't steer the TV and soundbars on the same band to make it work.
Then, with my external HDD on the router's USB as media server, it would stop indexing after 300 folders automatically with TwonkyDLNA, and I'd have to manually rename folders to get them scanned. What a quirky router.
Would never buy Netgear, ever again. The RAX80 is the Wi-FI only version of that modem and I bet it suffers from those oddities.
Finally, a dedicated router that's good will let you do everything. SSH, advanced WI-FI settings, bluetooth coexistance, all of it. Not the CAX80.
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the other thing that started to bother me was that as we got our home security system from Vivint, we added at least 8 to 10 new devices to the network. All of those added load, with channel utilization hitting 80% at one point across my network. Sadly if we ever add any more chimes, cameras, ETC, those all will also take up a slot in the Wi-FI bandwidth allocation. This is way more constrained on a Wi-FI modem combo, actually, since most of them (including, yes, that $400 Cax80) have built-in antennas. For the same price (RT-BE96U) you can really get the top of the line single-router device with external antennae, much nicer if you do want to point it towards a part of your home.
I'm not sure. I had the Cax80 for only about 2 or maybe a little over years, it really wasn't an "old" router by any standards, and for this migration to a dedicated router to be the thing to take it down, well, I didn't expect.
The other weird tip, I had to clone the MAC address of my desktop to the WAN port of the Asus router. Xfinity kept locking in the MAC within their cache and refusing any DHCP assignment. Oh yeah, that alone took me 2 hours to figure out, gosh darn it. Then I got it working briefly, rebooted devices, and boom, Netgear got stuck powering up and wouldn't factory reset. What a day, just, what a day. The only upside is still getting some work done over hotspot as the routers on my desktop were futsing around. Ugh.
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