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I saw an article headlined ‪"We can again be the country we were after 9/11: We flew the flag, helped our neighbors, opened our hearts, and supported our government."

Are you kidding? We had a government that immediately took away rights and turned the Eye of Sauron inward. It came up with the ominous word "homeland" and stood up a disastrous Department of Homeland Security which is today stomping people on the head, kidnapping people by the thousands, trying to secretly deport planeloads of children in the night, renditioning people to foreign prisons and war zones. I don't want to be that fucking country. I want to be the country we were BEFORE 9-11, before a reactionary extremist trend took hold among conservatives and turned them all into engines of hate and fear. Before the Federalist Society successfully took over the SCOTUS, which was the cornerstone of literally all the massive corruption and criminality happening in government today. Good grief. Some people really remember the post 9-11 history differently.

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Congratulations to the winners of our Summer of GNOME OS challenge 🎉🎉

1. Ada Magicat (40 points)
2. Ignacy Kuchciński (37 points)
3. Forteller (26 points)

This was very much an experiment, but everyone I talked to said it was surprisingly smooth, and they'll continue to daily drive GNOME OS.

Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun! And thanks even more to the GNOME OS team for getting us this far, especially @Valentin, Abderrahim, @alatiera, @AdrianVovk, and @jjardon!

Sharepic with a rainbow background. In the foreground there's the centered text "Summer of GNOME OS", surrounded by a cloud of summer-related symbolic icons.
@Jordan Petridis @Javier Jardón @Valentin David @Adrian Vovk
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Me waiting for the EuroBSDcon 2025 and their load of FreeBSD presenters with their MacBook Pro Apple Silicon and Windows 11 ThinkPad :)

McKusick himself runs a Mac:
youtube.com/watch?v=MfIrVtRvB4…

@chesheer


Gunion: a new GEOM utility in the FreeBSD Kernel - Marshall Kirk McKusick - EuroBSDcon2023

Marshall Kirk McKusick: Gunion: a new GEOM utility in the FreeBSD KernelThis talk describes the gunion(8) utility that was added to the FreeBSD kernel in Feb...
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Question for anyone who is good at bash, or at least better than I am:

I need to get the time it takes between two separate events in seconds. These events are called from an external application by specific conditions that trigger them.

Can I use the time command, or something like it, in a way that it starts a timer, forks to the background, then a second event stops the timer and prints the appropriately formatted output to stdout for further processing?

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Hello @GrapheneOS screen-reader users and other #a11y friends,

There was an interesting debate going on at the end of may where screen reader users were asking for #tts engine included with GrapheneOS base system.
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

I understand this is very unlikely to change in the near future as I am not aware of a TTS system that is open-source and modern enough to be included.
@Accessible Android has a list of TTS engines sorted by language at this page: accessibleandroid.com/list-of-…
Except of eSpeak-ng and RHVoice there is another opensource app called SherpaTTS that can use Piper TTS and Coqui based voices at: github.com/woheller69/ttsEngin…
Including eSpeak-ng, RHVoice, SherpaTTS and the list of TTS engines mentioned by accessible android, is there a viable TTS engine or at least one that is close enough to be viable to get included in the foreseable future?

Another approach I have been thinking about is to add / inject the TTS app or any other app I'd like as a part of the install process. It turns out I am not the only one speculating about that idea and it's not practical and feasible either as it's also breaking the security model.
It's been discussed recently at: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/25899…

Another way on how to install an app on an android device would be using adb install from a computer. I am not definatelly sure on this but GrapheneOS does not allow enabling ADB on production builds. In order to instal a TTS app over ADB we'd need to find a way on how to install GrapheneOS with ADB preenabled on first run. This is a huge security hole as well.

There might be a way to build my own flavour of GrapheneOS, but that's too involved, I'd need very powerfull machine for the actual build process and I would again compromise security by either disabling or handling future updates on my own building each new release on my own.

So given the current state I am afraid we screen reader users are out of luck and there is no way to get this thing running on my own with no help from someone else.

The end result is that I'll either get security or I can look elsewhere to get accessibility.

Please am I getting it right or might I have overlooked something that might help me to install GrapheneOS on my own?

Thanks for reading to the end

#a11y #tts @GrapheneOS @Accessible Android

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GrapheneOS

One of our full time developers is actively working on building our own text-to-speech and speech-to-text integration. It's where all of their effort is currently going. None of the available apps are suitable for inclusion. None are modern enough aside from Sherpa and it has issues including high latency making it unsuitable for use with TalkBack. Our own implementation is going to be significantly better.

ADB works fine on GrapheneOS but you'd have to enable it.

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As someone who is interested in technology, specifically Internet and networking, I have to wonder, has any totally blind individual ever gotten the chance to either work at an Internet provider, or tour a network operation center or data center? And when I say work at an Internet provider, I don't just mean your low level script reading person, I mean the person that can actually go in and look at statistics for customer equipment, reset it if necessary, that sort of thing. The closest I ever got to either opportunity was, back in the late 2000s, when a roommate of mine happen to be a Cable technician for charter, he gave me access to his portal, and within that, I could enter the MAC address of any cable modem on the network, and get all the statistics and if need be, reset the modem. But my roommate was an actual cable technician, he actually did installs and the whole works, something I likely wouldn't be qualified to do. But I would love to do the tech side of that. As far as touring a network operation center or data center, my opportunities there have been even less interesting. The closest I ever got, was when a good friend of mine worked at Facebook as a security guard, and I got to go as far as the parking lot of the main Facebook data center where he worked. I never got any further, despite trying to get a data center tour arranged.

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Toronto to Quebec City high-speed rail construction could begin in four years

ctvnews.ca/canada/article/high…

Never a priority. Not even shocked a second by this.


High-speed rail construction could begin in four years, LeBlanc says

The federal government wants construction on a planned high-speed rail line between Toronto and Quebec City to begin within four years.
The Canadian Press (CTVNews)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* PhotoSphereGallery: Gallery and viewer for spherical photos (360°) 🛡️

2 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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It does seem to bother the fash that people won't cry for them.

Sure people on the right wing make a big show of what a tragedy it is, but that's political & to spite the libs.

For fascists who are killed, the people capable of compassion won't mourn them, & everyone else will try to capitalize on political opportunity.

It seems like this gets under their skin, like they think they are entitled to the compassion which no one in their own tribe ever exhibits.

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Artemis

It's so fucking parasitic. The fash don't have anything of their own. They just try to leach it from us.

Those of us who have chosen to be human...to extend empathy to others...are vermin in their eyes.

UNTIL

they need something from us which they don't ordinarily value.

It's not just empathy. It's also things like scientific knowledge. They denigrate, destroy, etc. but then they want the medical care they defunded.

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Can anyone recommend a headset for use with Jaws, J-Say and Dragon? My wife is still looking at the Poly Focus 2 which is wired or wireless but it sounds like USB wired would be the way to go for accuracy ETC. The hyper X cloud flight we have now works ok but she likes jaws in her left ear so I wonder if that is interfering with the microphone.

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#Catima 2.38.0 is out!

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

This release adds support for .pkpasses, removes the Stocard importer (as Stocard no longer exists) and removes images from the widget below Android 12L.

Do note that the widget change is not what we want. If anyone understands this crash and has a fix, I'd love to hear it, so we can support images on all Android versions: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


Widget crash issue

Thanks for the new widget! Great! But there is a problem: if the cards have no pictures, everything works. If you add a picture to at least one card, the application closes with an error and the wi...
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#github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid
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Sylvia

Please note that the #FDroid release is sadly still delayed due to gitlab.com/fdroid/admin/-/issu….

There is also F-Droid's request to Google on issuetracker.google.com/issues….

I'm watching the F-Droid issue and it looks like Google may release a new version of aapt2 that can run on the older hardware of the F-Droid buildserver but that doesn't seem to have happened yet. Hopefully this changes in the near future.


aapt2 fails to run on the buildserver - AGP 8.12.0-alpha07 is latest compatible (#593) · Issues · F-Droid / admin · GitLab

Affected apps under this label: https://gitlab.com/fdroid/fdroiddata/-/merge_requests/?label_name%5B%5D=AGP-8.12.0 Between 8.12.0-alpha07 and 8.12.0-alpha08, aapt2 started to want a CPU that supports BMI1, CPUID, SSE4_1, SSSE3 ...
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I've played this game before, eh. It will never happen... *sad panda face*

railwaygazette.com/high-speed/… #cdnpoli #ALTO


Canada aims to start Alto high speed rail construction in four years

CANADA: The Alto high speed rail project is to benefit from a Major Projects Office which the government has established to identify projects that are in the national interest and streamline their assessment and approval to accelerate development.
Railway Gazette International
#cdnpoli #alto

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Nedavno jsem tu nadaval na kulturu faktur v US. Dneska jsem narazil na borce, co nadaval ze za sluzbu vytezovani faktur chteji 5Kc/kus a ze on to radsi da do Gemini a ma to zadarmo.

O hodinu pozdeji psal, ze mu to na fakturach z US davalo celkovou cenu 0Kc ... firma "uplatnila predplaceny kredit jako slevu".

Jsem si vzpomel, jak nam kdysi ucetni nadavala, at to nedelame.

AI revoluce je obcas parodie sama na sebe.

#faktury #ai

#AI #faktury

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I'm sure a lot of you know that pressing alt, shift, win, and control on modern Windows opens the annoying MS Office thing. But it turns out you can combine that with letters to launch Office apps and services. For instance, all modifiers with w opens MS Word, n opens One Note, p opens Powerpoint, and so on. Also, here's a reminder that win-control-f24 toggles the trackpad. That's useless on its own, but you can remap that shortcut with AutoHotkey or a similar tool.

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Is there any possible way for MacOS to be able to find your location without WiFi being enabled? Surely this must be possible. I mean even with a 3rd party GPS or something. I have a hotspot here that has GPS capabilities, why can't I wire that up so it can read that location data from its API or whatever
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feld

I ask because I have automation that ensures WiFi is always off when I'm connected via Ethernet. The MacOS networking always resets the order of preferred network devices so WiFi is first, and even when I "roam" from Wifi to Ethernet it will keep the existing sessions alive over WiFi which defeats the purpose.

So I need WiFi completely off when I don't want to use WiFi.

It would be easier if there was a "DO NOT CONNECT TO WIFI" option but the radio is still on -- then this functionality would still work

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So, like, thanks to the SoundSource app from @RogueAmoeba I am able to move the sound coming from my Chrome window to the left of VoiceOver. Why is this important? Well, I am in a meeting and this helps me concentrate better on what my screen reader says. To top it off, I applied 10-band EQ to the Chrome source to shape the sound to fit in better with VO.
I do wish I could pan different sources, not just the main output, though!
@Rogue Amoeba

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The Uncertain Future of Nova Launcher: A Look at Its Impact and Current State accessibleandroid.com/the-unce…

The Uncertain Future of Nova Launcher: A Look at Its Impact and Current State - Accessible Android

An uncertain future looms over Nova Launcher, a name synonymous with Android customization and a vital tool for many users, including those with visual
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