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If you want to implement and test it you’re welcome to make a PR. The old excuses still work the best. 🙄 So tired of developers who release their products to everyone but only build for themselves and still expect headpats and attaboy’s. We see all of you.


RE: akkomane.social/objects/f82059…


Drew Mochak (@drew@akkomane.social)

In which Simple Keyboard tells blind people everywhere to go fuck themselves. https://github.com/rkkr/simple-keyboard/issues/324
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Drew Mochak

@fireborn For sure. I am ride-or-die Android, in large part due to its freedom, but often we do not acknowledge how often this just means you are “free” to get it wrong. Like there are four different ways to label an input field, that is too many. Corporations are not “free” to ignore applicable laws which “free”/opensource developers flaunt all the time, gleefully in some cases. And it’s worth pointing out that this pressure often leads to a better outcome for disabled people than the opensource model of resolving everything through the free market of pull requests. It’s a huge topic.
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D.Hamlin.Music

@fireborn i think that at least in part this is also due to the still heavily push position that blind people should use iOS and are wrong for not doing so, I have gotten this from individuals, blind services, and organizations like the NFB, even being outright told that I was essentially being blind wrong for asking about android in NFB meetings/groups.
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For a very brief time in late 2024, I resurrected Zello purely because my Unihertz phone had a push-to-talk button. I then lost that phone and mostly forgot about the channel. However, I do have other phones from Unihertz and I'm now running Zello on one of them. I wonder if Android phones will ever be cheap enough for me to just buy a whole pack of them and hand them out at a convention the way I handed out walkie-talkies at the last few NFB nationals. Anyway, if you're bored, here's the channel: zello.me/k/iMdPr

Pushie Talkie

Zello channel
Zello channels
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Simon Jaeger

@fireborn I have the Tank Mini and the Jelly Max. I also have a Jelly 2E I got from a Canadian for very cheap, but haven't set it up beyond determining that it works and isn't totally unusable with Talkback. Looks like a slightly thinner Jelly Star. Zello is running on the Jelly Max but TBH, I have no idea what to use it for now that I have a OnePlus. The Tank Mini has replaced my Star as the media device since it has a massive battery, 32-bit app support, and a headphone jack.
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Simon Jaeger

@fireborn I have a pair of pants with zipper pockets. One of them casually unzipped itself and the Star fell out. I never found it. For whatever reason even though I noticed it was gone almost right away, I wasn't able to ping it. It was last seen at my apartment, which suggests it wasn't getting a data connection. I've concluded it's gone forever. No one at my building, the taxi company, or the ferry has reportedly seen it, and those are the only places I went.
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Thousands of #AntiIsraeli protesters have taken to the streets in Switzerland to protest against #Israel’s #Eurovision Song Contest participant Yuval Raphael being allowed to compete

She survived the Nova Music Festival Massacre by playing dead for hours beneath a pile of corpses

#israel #Eurovision #antiisraeli

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🚀 We just demoed InnoSearch AI at AT Demo Days!

One of our co-founders, Bryan Vuong, shared how we’re transforming the digital experience for blind and low vision users.

At InnoSearch AI, we’ve built an accessible digital platform that simplifies online shopping, flight booking, and more—designed to be clutter-free and fully screen reader-friendly.

📺 Check out Bryan’s full demo here: youtube.com/watch?v=AM2rtkErTM…

Explore more: innosearch.ai/


Innosearch AI: Your Ultimate Shopping Assistant (Find Best Deals & Top Products)

Innosearch AI analyzes reviews, articles & discussions to help you: Compare Products, Find Best Prices, Get Product & Brand Info, Discover Top-Rated Products. Shop smarter, save time & money with Innosearch AI, your one-stop shopping assistant!
www.innosearch.ai

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Microsoft Build 2025 brought bold updates in AI agents, secure development, and developer tooling across Windows, Azure, and GitHub.
I put together a detailed overview for those who missed the keynotes and announcements.
Read here: taylorarndt.substack.com/p/mic…
@microsoft@mastodon.social #Build2025 #AI #Microsoft #Windows #Azure #OpenAgenticWeb #DeveloperTools

Microsoft Build 2025: A Deep Dive into the Future of AI, Windows, and Developer Tools

Microsoft 365 Copilot Innovations
Taylor Arndt (Taylor’s Substack)
#Windows #microsoft #AI #azure #build2025 #openagenticweb #developertools

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#BuyEurope and Made in China - how do they go together?

You can find the answer in our new blog post:
shift.eco/en/german-smartphone…

At a time when national interests often take precedence over common solutions and dialog is replaced by power games, many of us feel a strong need:
➡️ For stability.
➡️ For reliability.
➡️ For responsibility - also regionally.

#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #EUTech #BuyFromEU #EuropeanAlternatives #BuyEuropean #SupportEurope #unplugTrump

German smartphone manufacturer – but Made in China? Why that's not a contradiction - SHIFT -

A German smartphone with fair manufacturing in China. Why SHIFT shows that #BuyEurope also works with global cooperation.
Leon von Zepelin (SHIFT GmbH)
#shifthappens #shiftphone #shift #europeanalternatives #unplugtrump #eutech #buyfromeu #buyeuropean #buyeurope #supporteurope

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zbus recently passed 20 million unique downloads on crates.io. 🎉 With downloads peaking consistently on weekdays (reaching to 70K on some days) and dropping drastically on the weekends, it's very obvious that most of this use is commercial.

So if you or your company relies on zbus, please consider sponsoring my work. 🙏 Resharing of this message would also help.

github.com/sponsors/zeenix


Sponsor @zeenix on GitHub Sponsors

Use & love zbus and/or want to see busd become mainstream? You could help!
GitHub

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Once upon a time, a blonde became so sick of hearing blonde jokes that she had her hair cut and dyed brown. A few days later, as she was out driving around
the countryside, she stopped her car to let a flock of sheep pass.

Admiring the cute wooly creatures, she said to the shepherd, "If I can guess how many sheep you have, can I take one?"

The shepherd, always the gentleman, said, "Sure!" The blonde thought for a moment and, for no discernible reason, said, "352."

This being the correct number, the shepherd was, understandably, totally amazed, and exclaimed, "You're right! O.K., I'll keep to my end of the deal. Take
your pick of my flock."

The blonde carefully considered the entire flock and finally picked the one that was by far cuter and more playful than any of the others.

When she was done, the shepherd turned to her and said, "O.K., now I have a proposition for you. If I can guess your true hair color, can I have my dog
back?"

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It's taken us a while, but we're finally able to continue work on documenting how to use the #WordPress block editor with a screen reader. Everything has been updated to include both Windows and Mac keystrokes, and has been tested with the latest versions of WordPress, Jaws for Windows, NVDA, and VoiceOver for the Mac, along with Firefox and Chrome.

Part 1: customerservant.com/block-edit…

Part 2: customerservant.com/block-edit…

John and I hope this material is useful!

An In-depth Introduction to the WordPress Block Editor for Screen reader Users (Part One) – Customer Servant Consultancy

www.customerservant.com
#wordpress

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I ran a quick SFTP performance test with #curl built to use #libssh 0.11.1 vs one built that uses #libssh2 1.11.1 over a 400ms latency connection.

One of them managed to perform this at 1049K/sec, the other reached only 249K/sec.

And the winner is...

libssh2

Funny detail: I sped it up for this kind of use case **fifteen years ago** and blogged about it: daniel.haxx.se/blog/2010/12/08…


Making SFTP transfers fast

SFTP, the SSH File Transfer Protocol, is a misleading name. It gives you the impression that it might be something like a secure version of FTP, perhaps something like FTPS but modeled over SSH instead of SSL.
daniel.haxx.se
#curl #libssh2 #libssh

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Austrians celebrate JJ bringing home first Eurovision win in 11 years theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2… #Eurovision2025 #Eurovision #Austria #Culture #Europe #Music

Austrians celebrate JJ bringing home first Eurovision win in 11 years

Austrian-Filipino countertenor praised for melding techno with country’s rich operatic tradition in song Wasted Love
Angela Giuffrida (The Guardian)
#music #culture #europe #Eurovision #austria #eurovision2025

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Neat little MNT Pocket Reform hack:

When I launch a root shell, the keyboard backlight turns bright red and it return to my default pale green when I exit the danger zone again.

It works using the command listed here: codeberg.org/selfawaresoup/uni…

I put the one for the red color in root's .bashrc and the one for returning to the default color in root's .bash_logout.

unix-notes/reform.md at main

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"France Becomes First Government to Endorse UN Open Source Principles, Joined by 19 Organizations"

👉 unite.un.org/en/news/france-be…

The 8 UN #OpenSource principles:

1. Open by default
2. Contribute back
3. Secure by design
4. Foster inclusive participation and community building
5. Design for reusability
6. Provide documentation
7. RISE (recognize, incentivize, support and empower)
8. Sustain and scale

cc @ambnum @numerique_gouv


France Becomes First Government To Endorse UN Open Source Principles | Office of Information and Communications Technology

The United Nations Open Source United community is proud to announce a major milestone: The Government of the French Republic became the first national government to endorse the UN Open Source
Office of Information and Communications Technology
#opensource @Ambassadeur Numérique 🇫🇷🇪🇺 @Dir. interminist. du Numérique
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💡 Why we need lisp machines

｢ They were programmed in lisp the whole way down and could be run code interpreted for convenience or compiled to microcode for efficiency. You could open up system functions in the editor, modify and compile them while the machine was running. Everything worked in a single address space, programs could talk to each other in ways operating systems of today couldn’t dream of ｣

fultonsramblings.substack.com/…

#unix #lisp #retrocomputing

Why we need lisp machines

A personal mind dump on operating systems
Fulton (Fulton’s ramblings)
#lisp #unix #retrocomputing

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 19. Mai, um 20:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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Feeling overwhelmed by endless scrolling and digital noise? 😵‍💫📱

In our latest guide discover how digital minimalism can help you reclaim your time so that you can focus on what truly matters.

👉 tuta.com/blog/what-is-digital-…

#DigitalMinimalism #MindfulTech #DeclutterYourLife

iPhone displaying a minimal home screen. In front of the iPhone is a screenshot of a Reddit post that says, "Digital clutter is mental clutter. Every app you don’t use… Every notification you don’t need… Every scroll you didn’t mean to take… It all adds up. Not just in your phone. In your mind. In your time. In your sense of self. Digital minimalism isn’t about having fewer apps. It’s about having more life. Start small: • One app deleted. • One hour without your phone. • One walk without music. Silence isn’t empty. It’s where you meet yourself again."

What is digital minimalism? (+How to de-clutter your digital life) | Tuta

If you want to stop spending hours doom-scrolling TikTok or are tired of reading negative news on Facebook practicing digital minimalism is what you need, and you’re in the right place.
Tuta
#digitalminimalism #mindfultech #declutteryourlife

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This week's In-process Blog post is out! A bumper edition, featuring:
- NVDA in Open-Source Promotion Plan
- NVDA 2025.1 Beta 6
- Timings for the .1 Release
- NVDA Remote Access
- Other “Remote” add-onsv

Head to nvaccess.org/post/in-process-1… and check it out now!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Blog #News #Newsletter #Beta #PreRelease #FOSS #Free

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NV Access | In-Process 19th May 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#foss #free #blog #nvdasr #News #newsletter #nvda #beta #prerelease

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Prozess gegen Deutsche Bahn wegen DB Navigator App beginnt
tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/unter…

Die Bahn verwendet also Crashlytics, um (checks notes) Abstürze zu VERHINDERN? Wow, DAS Feature kannte ich noch gar nicht. Ebenso wenig die Nutzung von Adobe zur VERMEIDUNG von Lastspitzen...


Prozess gegen Deutsche Bahn wegen App DB Navigator beginnt

Datenschützer werfen der Bahn Verstöße gegen die Datenschutzgrundverordnung vor. Die App DB Navigator sammle zu viele Daten der Nutzer und leite sie an Unternehmen wie Google und Adobe weiter.
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

@enigma Da hat man sich wohl gedacht: wenn das bei der ePA so prima klappt mit dem im-Kreis-Finger-zeigen, warum dann nicht auch hier? Oh weh… Einem ehemaligen Bahner tut so etwas deutlich weh. Bin früher gern Zug gefahren (nicht nur in der Lok), mittlerweile hat es mir den Spaß daran leider gehörig verdorben… @kranzkrone
@Ԏєηυкι, 手抜き🚀🐧♏ 🔭 ⚫⚪ @Stefan

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The Open Web Index goes public on June 6!
For over two years OpenWebSearch.eu has worked on a federated pan-European Open Web Index to promote independent web search. In June @openwebsearcheu will make almost a petabyte (and growing) of open web data available to anyone who is interested.
Join the kick-off event to learn how to access and use the Open Web index.
openwebsearch.eu/june-event-an…

#NGI #Search


June Event Announcement: The Open Web Index goes public! - OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search

After 2,5 years of intensive research and programming efforts, the entire Openwebsearch.eu project team is excited to grant access to its pilot of the first-ever federated pan-European Open Web Index (OWI).
ows.eu Team (OpenWebSearch.eu – Promoting Europe‘s Independence in Web Search)
#search #ngi @OpenWebSearch.eu

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NVDA 2025.1 Beta 6 is now available!

Read the full details and download from: nvaccess.org/post/nvda-2025-1b…

Changes introduced in Beta 6:
- Updates to translations
- Fix for the COM registration fixing tool: don’t run when cancelling with alt+f4
- Minor fix for SAPI 4 voices
- Fix for Braille display detection
- Minor improvements to the user experience of Remote Access

Please continue to test and give feedback via GitHub!

#NVDA #NVDAsr #Beta #PreRelease #News #ScreenReader #Accessibility

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NV Access | NVDA 2025.1beta6 available for testing

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvdasr #News #nvda #beta #prerelease

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Yet another #recall

“Publix, one of the nation’s largest supermarket chains, has voluntarily recalled pouches of baby food sold in its stores after routine testing found it may be contaminated with lead, according to the company.”
nytimes.com/2025/05/18/busines…


Publix Recalls Baby Food Pouches Over Lead Contamination Concerns

The voluntary recall was prompted after routine testing. It is the second such recall recently of baby food over possible lead contamination.
Mark Walker (The New York Times)
#recall
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