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Just watched a video of a memorial in London England for a racist American white nationalist where a group of Māori performed 'haka' (The Haka, the one everyone who is not from Aotearoa knows) for a group of UK MAGA shitheads.

I think I am losing my mind which is surprising as I don't remember finding it again. What the actual fuck is going on?

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hi fedi. i'm not really a fan of doing this, and i'm sorry for asking, but i'd really use some help as i need it asap. these past months have been rough to me/my family financially and i want to be able to keep myself afloat.

ko-fi.com/Naydire
i just want to be able to cover the vitals to keep going until i finish sorting things out on my side, as i'm not a fan of this situation. i'm working on it and improving on my mental, and hope it'll not be an issue anytime soon... but for now, anything helps and i would be very glad. i feel ashamed for asking but meh...

thanks for looking at this post, and hope you all are doing well! ​:neomouse_heart:​


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Comcast executives sent an email to employees endorsing free speech and warning that if you use that speech to criticize Charlie Kirk, you’ll be fired. The word “Orwellian” is overused but I can’t think of a better description. 404media.co 404media.co/comcast-nbcunivers…

Comcast Executives Warn Workers To Not Say The Wrong Thing About Charlie Kirk

An email sent to NBCUniversal employees, including journalists at NBC, MSNBC, CNBC, Bravo and more, eulogizes Charlie Kirk as an "advocate for open debate" and reminds staff that even milquetoast statements about Kirk's death can result in their…
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California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
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California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces

The California Legislature on Thursday passed a pair of bills to prohibit on-duty law enforcement officers, including federal immigration agents, from masking their faces, and requires them to identify themselves.
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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…

a looped up set of vintage OEM wired ear buds in Apple white except for being dingy with years of use

Why I replaced my $249 AirPods Pro with $19 wired EarPods

Don't be too quick to dismiss Apple's cheapest earbuds.
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What I often find such an interesting take in #accessibility discussions is this concept of "We will make it work for the majority first, and then add accessibility features".
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how accessibility, and therefore " features" of accessibility work.
For one, making something #accessible for #screenReaders often requires no visual modifications at all, and requires making calls early in the development cycle to not have to rewrite your entire UI using widgets that even support #assistive #technology. Once that call has been made, making elements accessible is often a matter of, what a concept, using the widgets the way they were meant to be used.
#Accessibility #accessible #technology #screenreaders #assistive

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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 Master“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Weather, Forecasts, Moon Phases, and More
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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid

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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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