TIL: for some reason, Vivaldi browser does not like NVDA. Or NVDA does not like Vivaldi.

@tips or @NVAccess - is this a known issue?

Your manager is going to use ChatGPT to do your performance review based on minimal inputs. I guarantee it.

Get ahead of the curve and change your middle name to ‘Bigraise.’

Message de chez Bluesky :

"La petite sœur d'une copine doit rendre son mémoire dans 15j et elle vient de commencer car TDAH non-diag et peur d'échouer donc self-sabotage donc svp remplissez son questionnaire pour qu'elle ait des datas rapidement à pouvoir analyser 🥲"

C'est un sondage sur les biais de genre.

forms.office.com/e/wAR9MqGFVL

(en plus, c'est pas très long).

EDIT : Je sais pas si j'aurais un retour mais la personne vous remercie pour vos participations, en tout cas.

I enjoyed this talk by @Felienne and recommend it: "Programming for All: A Feminist Case for Language Design"
youtube.com/watch?v=kbTQlQWAHe… (h/t @joshuagrochow)

The talk covers a lot of ground and this is not at all the most important part, but she calls for study of why people like languages, with the specific example of Rust. I often cite this interaction as representative of an all-too-rare ethos that prioritizes human surfaces of the language ecosystem. Not as an afterthought, but as a major consideration in feature design and stabilization.

This interaction is between the author of the Rustonomicon and a Rust compiler team member focusing on quality of error messages, who often consults the community about quality/verbosity/ambiguity tradeoffs. The latter's bio reads: "We spent decades trying to invent a sufficiently smart compiler when we should have been inventing a sufficiently empathetic one."

*suena el teléfono, número desconocido*

yo: ¿sí?

ellos: buenos días, ¿se encuentra el señor o señora de la casa?

yo: ¿qué se le ofrece?

*cuelgan*

has anyone seen a man page with a nice approach to providing a summary for a command with a lot of command line options, like this?

having something like [-0468openrsyncPRSTWVabcdefghiklmnopqrtuvxyz] always feels silly (it's almost the whole alphabet!) but I don't see an obvious better way to do it

(I don't mean to pick on openrsync here, this is an extremely common thing)

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 11 updated and 2 added apps:

* Hacker's Diet Offline: track your weight and excercise and get a weighted moving average of your weight's change over time 🛡️
* Media Collection: helps you easily catalog and manage your personal blu-ray and dvd collection, including movies and TV series 🛡️

RB status: 696 apps (53.5%)

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo

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}

We did it! 🎉

All 24,976,511 solvable 5x5 nonograms completed in 80 days by over 200k players.

Thank you everyone who participated!

My eyes are so itchy and watery (presumably due to seasonal allergies) that I haven't been able to get much work done in the past few days. I'm writing this toot with my eyes closed most of the time. 😑

Dear #accessibility hivemind, is there an easy way to have #Orca working with a natural-sounding text-to-speech voice, that is not eSpeak, but rather something like #MyCroft's Mimic3 ?

What's the state of the art for screenreader TTS voices on #Linux and how do I get it in #Fedora?

#a11y

Tonight at 4:30 pm I’ll be streaming a new branching interactive fiction game set in occupied Netherlands during World War II and is inspired by real events. It should be completely accessible and below is the steam link and Twitch is RossMinor!

store.steampowered.com/app/384… sist_Collaborate__a_World_War_2_ChoiceBased_Story/

#Blind #Accessibility #Gamedev

Survive, Resist, Collaborate - a World War 2 Choice-Based Story on Steam

A fully narrated branching narrative game set in occupied Netherlands during World War 2. Every choice shapes the fate of a young Dutch civilian.

^{store.steampowered.com}

We do not aim for #deltachat to be another social media app. No #ai summaries or suggestions. No public directory of contacts. No discovery via outside identifiers (mobile phone or email). Just you and your contacts privately messaging, in a solid simple user interface on all platforms. End-to-End encryption enforced on two layers. #chatmail relays know and retain nothing, no content or metadata. #webxdc apps allow for custom interactions on top of chats.

Contributors and donations welcome!

The UK's national drought group is falling ridiculously short when recommending to delete old emails. How about

- stop building any new data centers, progressively tax on their size and resource consumption, no free riding

- legislatively focus on software to become more resource efficient (hint: AI hurts not helps with that)

In any case, #chatmail relays unconditionally remove emails, no user action needed. Everything interesting happens on end devices see en.reset.org/decentralised-eff…

Decentralised, Efficient, Open: Delta Chat Is Our Favourite Instant Messenger – Digital for Good | RESET.ORG

Delta Chat is exceptionally energy-efficient—and offers unique features that make it a genuine alternative to WhatsApp and other messengers.

^{Lana O'Sullivan (RESET - Digital for Good)}

The internet forgets. You don’t have to.

📥 Use the Wayback Machine’s Save Page Now tool to capture and preserve the sites you care about.

🕰️ Try it here ➡️ web.archive.org/save

#Wayback1T @internetarchive #WaybackMachine

this whole Lidarr situation is crazy. The software broke in June and still hasn't been fixed.

They rely on Musicbrainz as their metadata source. They stopped having the software directly talk to the Musicbrainz API because it was too slow and causing too much load on Musicbrainz.

Ok, so first red flag. If Musicbrainz can't handle the load, someone needs to fund Musicbrainz so they can handle people using their API. Even if they required you donate a few $$ for access it would have been fine.

Well, the "solution" was for the Lidarr team to run their own Musicbrainz servers. So they did. It's a lot of data, and even this was too slow to handle the load. My spidey senses are telling me these devs just don't know how to deploy infra.

After all, they're talking too much about running k8s for their current stack and have mentioned that they didn't even have backups to fix the initial outage.

What was the initial outage? Well, Musicbrainz does schema updates that are pretty severe maybe once a year and they try to let all stakeholders know it's going to happen.

Schema change. Big deal, right?

Well, since they run their own Musicbrainz server and it was too slow... they made their own API that directly queries the Musicbrainz database instead of going through the MB API

The schema changes broke their own code.

So now they're rewriting it all because this certainly will solve their problems

And it's been months. There's not really any comparable software. The whole situation sucks.

It's also the only *arr software where the devs are receiving a copy of all your search queries. Nobody else had to do this, but they blame Musicbrainz.

This also explains why when I make changes on Musicbrainz it takes so long for Lidarr to see it. Because they're not serving the realtime Musicbrainz data...

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

🇨🇿 Czech Republic is now OPPOSED to Chat Control, as announced by Prime Minister Petr Fiala:

"On behalf of myself and the entire TOTAL coalition, I want to say clearly: we will not allow the monitoring of citizens' private correspondence. We do not agree that any emails or messages on platforms such as WhatsApp or Messenger can be monitored. Protecting our children is important, but we have to do it differently."

This now leaves eight undecided member states.

#Google: We need to limit #sideloading, #GooglePlay is so much safer!

Meanwhile in the real world:

theregister.com/2025/08/26/app…

Malware-ridden apps made it into Google's Play Store, scored 19 million downloads

: Everything's fine, the ad slinger assures us

^{Iain Thomson (The Register)}