was looking at my trusty earbuds worrying what to do if/when they give out
but apparently not only do Apple still sell them (at a doable price and with three different connector options) but people are still this very week publishing culture articles about them 🥳
mashable.com/article/why-i-rep…
Don't be too quick to dismiss Apple's cheapest earbuds.Haley Henschel (Mashable)
Tahoe may not be quite ready for you though.weblog.rogueamoeba.com
"Oh, you have this special interest. Is there any way you can make a job out of it?"
Shut up and let me enjoy stuff.
Both of my late parents reached 90y and I never heard a bigoted word from either of them.
nondeterministic.computer/@mjg…
Spending time with my in their 70s parents and they're very successfully managing not to be racist or transphobic so I still don't buy the "They're a product of their age" argument
uhoh, Granny Robinson says the whole family is MAGA
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Use Delta Chat and you won't have these issues tbh.
Proton has now proven they're not who they tell you they are.
theintercept.com/2025/09/12/pr…
The journalists were reporting on suspected North Korean hackers. Proton only reinstated their accounts after a public outcry.Nikita Mazurov (The Intercept)
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Welcome to the RB family, Weather Master 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.p…
inspired by the Google Pixel weather app, Weather Master meanwhile provides a lot of additional features.
Working hard on it, Pranshul finally succeeded, thanks to CI builds (here: Github actions), so it now has the shields up.
#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid
Weather, Forecasts, Moon Phases, and MoreIzzyOnDroid Repo Browser
f-droid.org/packages/org.breez…
Seams to be more clean?!
A feature-rich weather app with good visualizations and many sources.f-droid.org
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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the "Groypers" who follow Nick Fuentes are the alt-right that hate Charlie Kirk and others because they support Israel and the jews
so this could very well be right-on-right violence
Google has released its AI Edge Gallery app. This app is for using AI models that you can download onto your device, for privacy and quick usage. This allowsDevin Prater (Accessible Android)
> Bella Ciao is also on the Groyper playlist. This kid was a Groyper.
haha what? why would the alt-right and Nick Fuentes do this? 🫡 🤡
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!
New blog post!
I released libadwaita 1.8: nyaa.place/blog/libadwaita-1-8…
Another six months have passed, and with that comes another libadwaita release to go with GNOME 49.nyaa.place
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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…
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...YouTube
You drive the truck to haul things and you drive the sedan when you need to go downtown.
I've met Kirk, I've been to the conferences. It's been a few years now but recent reports have been that many more devs are running Thinkpads and Framework laptops.
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#216 Growing Community
thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2025/…
Updates on what happens across the GNOME project from week to weekthisweek.gnome.org
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?
I did it. My Z-Wave controller passthrough into a FreeBSD jail with a stable device name is working, and my Home Assistant VM can talk to that.
blog.feld.me/posts/2025/09/pas…
I have a HomeAssistant VM running under Bhyve in FreeBSD and I'd like to begin deploying Z-Wave devices instead of these terrible WiFi-basedblog.feld.me
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?
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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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@GrapheneOS Thanks for the positive info and nice sounding prompt reply.
Now I need to make up my mind if I should find someone else who will install current release for me and install TTS or use something else I can tinker with such as lineage in the mean time.
Huge thanks
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.
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)
> LeBlanc said it would have taken eight years to begin construction of the rail project, without the assistance of the major projects office, though it’s unclear where that number comes from.
It came out of his ass. Our out of a chatbot from the office of the minister of cheatbots..
François Legault has had SEVEN F*CKING YEARS and has done NOTHING about Québec bureaucracy.
In fact, he's only added to the provincial burdens w/ shitastic legislation and laws.
WORST. PREMIER. EVER.
#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 
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
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.
I really think there is a sense in which they feel entitled to OUR human decency since they killed off all of their own.
It feels as if our "bleeding hearts" actually do matter to them. They want to hurt & destroy us but they also want us to cry for them. They want the sympathy & compassion & simple human recognition that they refuse to give.
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.
#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
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...TheLastProject (GitHub)
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.
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 ...GitLab
I've played this game before, eh. It will never happen... *sad panda face*
railwaygazette.com/high-speed/… #cdnpoli #ALTO
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
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.
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