GUADEC day 2 is kicking off shortly! Come watch remotely. Track 1: youtube.com/live/18Ir6RXkIeA
#GUADEC #GUADEC2025 #GNOME #Linux #OpenSource
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At NV Access we are always interested in understanding the satisfaction of our NVDA users.
Plus we like to understand clearly what is important to you and also identify what we can do more effectively.
We encourage you to complete the NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2025 to assist us with improving the NVDA user experience. It is a short, three question survey, which is anonymous and does not require signing in.
Complete at: nvaccess.org/survey
#NVDA #NVDAsr #Accessibility #Survey #ScreenReader
At NV Access we are always interested in understanding the satisfaction of our NVDA users. Plus we like to understand clearly what is important to you and also identify what we can do more effectively.Google Docs
@b_rain The survey is anonymous & you don't need a Google account. But, you are always most welcome to send us your thoughts directly! The questions in the survey were:
1) On a scale 0-10 how likely are you to recommend NVDA (0 = not at all, 10 is very likely)
2) What are the main reasons for your score (text field to type any feedback you'd like to give)
3) Is your use of NVDA primarily for accessibility testing? (Yes or No).
Feel free to email us at info@nvaccess.org if you would like.
Welcome to Blazie Technologies, maker of BT Speak and BT Braille accessible computersBlazie Technologies
I bluntly do not understand why the British seem to not only tolerate but even prize their own subjugation, but that the people doing the subjugating are doing it with smoothbrained nonsense like this.
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England faces 5 billion litre a day shortfall for public water supplies by 2055 – and a further 1 billion litre a day deficit for wider economy.Environment Agency (GOV.UK)
This time next week we'll have our first NLnet office hour. Every last Wednesday of the month we'll be available for a chat at 16.00 CEST. It is open to anyone for questions or remarks. As this is our first session, we're very interested to learn what kind of topics will come up. And if there are any suggestions about the office hour itself, we're also keen to hear it.
For a link to the Matrix room see: nlnet.nl/events/20250730/Offic…
#NGI0 #FOSS #fundingfoss
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The Wireless Power Consortium launches faster Qi2 25W wireless charging, with "major Android smartphones" finally adopting the standard alongside the iPhone (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
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With the launch of the faster Qi2 25W wireless charging standard, Android manufacturers are apparently finally ready to adopt Qi2 charging.Dominic Preston (The Verge)
Privacy is a marathon, not a sprint.
It's common to be overwhelmed by the constant attacks on privacy we read about every day, and to burn out trying to fix every problem all at once.
This is by the attackers' design, of course. Big tech companies and governments want to paralyze you with choices and actions, so you give up on the fight entirely.
It's okay to take a breath, clean up slowly, and train yourself over the long-term to improve your data privacy health over time.
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#Privacy #PrivacyHabits #PrivacyGuides #HealthyHabits #PrivacyTraining #Training #SelfImprovement #Article
Improving privacy can get overwhelming at first. It's important to move one step at a time, but remain persistent. Good privacy is like good health habits.Privacy Guides
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Ever see a bunch of restaurants on delivery apps sharing an address and possibly even large chunks of their menus?
I used to see this stuff and thought it was some tax evasion scheme, but no – they're ghost kitchens.
This looks like an existential danger to traditional local gastronomy with shit like big chains pretending to be small locally-owned shops. And of course systemic work and food safety violations because it wouldn't be late-stage capitalism without those…
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this became very popular during COVID due to everyone doing deliveries and nobody wanting to get food from Denny's delivered, but they'd do it if it was called SUPER AWESOME BURGERS
However, this still existed long before then. I don't know how you conclude that there is any food safety violation going on though. They're still working out of a licensed commercial kitchen...
#Resonarium:
An expressive, semi-modular, and comprehensive physical modeling/waveguide synthesizer.
Resonarium is still in development. The primary focus at present is stability and performance. Use at your own risk, and expect bugs or crashes.
Download:
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@polarity made a video about the synthesizer:
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#PeaceLoveMusic #Synth #OpenSource #DAW #Musicoroduction
An expressive, semi-modular, and comprehensive physical modeling/waveguide synthesizer. - GitHub - gabrielsoule/resonarium: An expressive, semi-modular, and comprehensive physical modeling/wavegui...GitHub
@dch I hate checking status and doing management tasks with their web interface and PlexDash is also sorta inconvenient, so I'm making my own tied into my Phoenix/LiveView home automation / internal network homepage website thing
I have a fake phone-style landing page on my intranet with a grid of buttons like "apps" which some are links to internal hosted services, others open a LiveView page... it's growing features as I think of them.
I have live co2 measurement for my office on the top bar as well as the live glucose for my mother so I can see how she's doing at a glance. Need to get some live bandwidth up there too, maybe my server load and CPU temp too...
so many ideas.
I have Sonos controls I built out too
On the second day of GUADEC, I'm going to talk about implementing a formal technical governance scheme in GNOME, on Friday, July 25, at 09:40
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Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
My colleague Georges Stavracas will talk about the state of the XDG desktop portals, and the plans for the future of this shared application development API, on Friday, July 25, at 11:40
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Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.GNOME Events (Indico)
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 20 updated and 2 added apps:
* FixupXer - URL Enhancer: removes tracking parameters from URLs to protect your privacy and make links cleaner 🛡️
* Simplest Notes: a clean, minimalistic app for quickly taking and organizing notes 🛡️
Current RB status: 663 apps (50.5%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
***Attention! If you miss MSN/Windows Live Messenger, AIM, and/or ICQ, this is for you! If you use a screen reader and want a 100% accessible messenger client, this is also for you.*
This works with Windows XPthrough 11, and I'm logged into it as I write! It's called Escargot, and it revives Windows Live/MSN Messenger. This is the original software, but it has been patched so that it connects to the escargot.chat server and not the Microsoft one. It is 100% free and accessible with NVDA and I'm sure JAWS as well. They also have projects for AIM (AOL Instant Messenger) and ICQ, including for Android and IOS, and are working on a web client for MSN. (I don't know if AIM or ICQ are accessible with screen readers, as I have never tried them). Anyway, if you're over twenty-one (my personal request), have read my profile here, and wish to add me, I am dandylover1@escargot.chat. You can find everything here.
Note: If you already have Windows Live/MSN Messenger on your system, you will still need to download their version and create an account. Your Microsoft, MSN, or Hotmail one won't work for signing in. Also, remember to click on RUN_AFTER_INSTALL.exe, in order to patch the program to the Escargot server.
#accessibility #AIM #Android #AOL #blind #chat #Escargot #EscargotChat #ICQ #IOS #Messenger #MSN #MsnMessenger #Microsoft #NVDA #Talkback #technology #Voiceover #Windows #WindowsLiveMessenger
Happy birthday to pharmaceutical #chemist Alice Ball (1892-1916) who developed 1st effective treatment for #leprosy. Though her life was cut tragically short, her research saved 1000s from exile & painful, ineffective lifelong treatment for leprosy, & she was a trailblazer for both women & Black scientists.
Ball studied #chemistry at UW earning a BSc & 2nd degree in pharmacy 2 years later. She published “Benzoylations in Ether
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#printmaking #sciart #BlackInSTEM #womenInSTEM #histsci
Zeker 1500 #demonstranten bij sit-in tegen uithongering van #Gaza op #Amsterdam Centraal
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In de welkomsthal van station Amsterdam Centraal werd donderdagavond op grote schaal gedemonstreerd tegen de uithongering van Gaza door Israël. Demonstranten zijn vervolgens in een lange stoet door de stad aan het wandelen.Sjaak Mechelinck (DPG Media)
Trump economy in action!
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"We're going to get the drug prices down ... 1,000%, 600%, 500%, 1,500%, numbers that are not even thought to be achievable"US President Donald Trump made bo...YouTube
Dropkick Murphys announced Wednesday they will no longer be performing at any more Punk in the Park shows after learning the festival’s organizer donated to the Trump campaign.Madison Lambert (NBC News)
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Happy to have this post on #opensource & #COTS finally be public govloop.com/community/blog/fre…
#FOSS is so key to effective digital transformation.
Government is prioritizing technology solutions that encourage speed, savings and innovation. Open source software — a type of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) solution — aligns with that approach.GovLoop
First post on the Arch Linux development blog:
Specifications - David Runge
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Contribute to duilib/duilib development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned.Bert Hubert's writings
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Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?Brian Merchant (Blood in the Machine)
mind the WCAG automation gap
"What can automated tools test without humans?"
#WCAG #accessibility #automation #AI #hype
Maybe training everybody’s LLM on Reddit was a mistake, Andor edition
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Amen to this. One of the things that really galled me about the spate of tech layoffs is the undercurrent of "gee, y'all just weren't working hard enough" instead of "corporate leadership didn't know WTF to do, made a bunch of shitty choices, and now y'all are on the unemployement line while execs collect bonuses and see their stock go up".
When, not if, things implode, it should be the C-suite that gets sent packing, not the workers.
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Slowly reading through Ed Zitron's last article on AI and there's one thing that stands out: it's clear that the AI bubble might send us straight into another 2007-style financial meltdown.mas.to
I would strongly suggest organisations disable Microsoft Translator for Edge. It's enabled by default, and allows users to automatically translate webpages (without prompt after first use) to native language by sending the entire page content to MS. This includes intranet sites and SaaS services.
It links to a privacy policy that sounds fluffy and nice and - ya know - it isn't. The Microsoft Translator privacy policy for M365 or Azure doesn't actually apply to it.
I love it how the #BBC literally instructs you on why and how you should use a VPN to bypass #Ofcom regulations. Nicely played, BBC!
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All websites hosting pornography will have to check the age of their users from Friday.Graham Fraser, Liv McMahon & Grace Dean (BBC News)
the fuck kind of captcha is this
i love the idea of having to gesticulate at the computer for 40 seconds in order to search the web as, like, an art piece, but come on
CBC investigation finds some big grocers promoting imported food with Canadian branding
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No one is shocked that the oligarch do that. And they'll get away with as the con-servative Governments around the country will bless them.
Nick's world 🌎 👨🦯 🗽
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