The Android Airplay client DroidPlay (apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.t…) hasn't seen any update for 10 years. We still see regular downloads from F-Droid clients for it. As there are not many alternatives, we'd still keep it in our repo if it's still useful.

Anyone here using it? Does it still work, or should we rather drop it?

EDIT: solved, we'll replace it with a much more recent fork already available in our repo 🥳

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

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@Megamichi Thanks! That challenged me, so I've searched our repo – and found we already have a fork of it:

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.g…

was last updated in 2024. Even the screenshots are identical. And the readme says it was forked from the last version, so it's not just a newer compilation of the same code.

And it even has a counter part: apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.g…

TL;DR: We will keep it for 1 month, with a note pointing to the successor, then remove it. Thanks again!

It's wild (and unsurprising) to me that journalists act tough when they have ample opportunity to negatively comment on accessibility, but don't ever mention accessibility wins.

Despite all the noise I made with accessibility on GNOME Calendar, no journalist has gone further than "better screen reader support and keyboard navigation", meanwhile most didn't even mention it whatsoever.

#accessibility #a11y #journalism #GNOME #GNOMECalendar #GNOME49

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А, ну я таких подробностей не знаю, сам понимаешь, ты в этом вопросе гораздо больше в теме. Рассказать про уровни изоляции транзакций в Postgres или как управлять этими самыми транзакциями в Спринге например, эт пожалуйста. А для фронтенда нужен второй мозг, желательно с опцией выключения)

PSA, the new Android 16 update will surreptitiously reenable fingerprint device unlock even if you had intentionally disabled it before. Depending on where you live and your threat model, this might not be safe! Americans have little protection against law enforcement compelling biometrics unlock. To make matters worse, the fingerprint unlock settings are found in a different part of the security settings UI than the rest of the device unlock settings. If you update to Android 16, make sure your device unlock settings are what you intended.

#android #android16

The European Commission has issued a survey ✍️ on the Governance and #Sustainability of Critical Open Source #Software. Your input is highly beneficial for identifying best practices, shared needs, and possible pathways for collective efforts 🎯, as well as for translating them into actionable #recommendations for public administrations both at national and EU level. 🤓
It's a relatively short survey, takes maximum 15 min to complete. Deadline: 5 Oct 2025.
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#opensource

Either real-time bidding data or app SDK data is being bought and used by ICE to seize people from the streets. If you didn’t believe that the adtech stack is a human rights concern, I’m not sure what more evidence you need. 404media.co/ice-to-buy-tool-th…

*smh* the problem AI is designed to solve is the problem of paying wages.

No wonder megacorporations are desperate to normalise this slop.

Depress or eliminate wages, eliminate all these upstart people not born to the right parents.

The eugenicist project behind it is clear with even the tiniest bit of pattern recognition.

bbc.com/news/articles/c99glvn5…

This might be a longshot, but I recently bought the AULA F108 Pro keyboard. The one part I missed about this keyboard is that it has a screen (I'm blind). Now, I didn't know what that screen does until I got it, but it turns out that's how you do something even as simple as pair the 2.4G dongle. There's a nob directly to the right, but I don't know how to get the keyboard into a good, known state where I can figure out where to turn it to get to 2.4G pairing mode. I was wondering if anyone has any advice here? The software isn't accessible either (I got it into wired mode somehow, probably default) to mess with it - though I can't say I'm surprised at this point. Thanks!
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📣 Hey, #Google "disable" Google apps is not "uninstalling" them. You can't dodge the EU’s #DMA rules by redefining language.

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Even though I have spoken publicly on the topic of digital accessibility before, many of those instances weren't streamed online so whoever wasn't there where it happened, couldn't catch it. Next week I am presenting at the Wagtail Space 2025 in a talk entitled "Who's that code snippet? A Screen Reader guessing game", alongside Laura Wissiak who came up with this amazing idea at this year's A-Tag in Vienna and has agreed to take me for this fun ride as well. Expect tricky ARIA and HTML code and lots of Pokemon. Can you catch them all? wagtail.org/wagtail-space-2025… Our talk is on Thursday, Oct 9 at 3:30 PM CET. See you there! #Accessibility #A11y #Wagtail

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Miliardář Elon Musk plánuje vytvořit konkurenci pro internetovou encyklopedii Wikipedia. Na svém účtu na sociální síti X uvedl, že jeho společnost xAI zaměřená na rozvoj umělé inteligence pracuje na alternativě s názvem Grokipedia. irozhlas.cz/veda-technologie/t…

How I maintain release notes for #curl

daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/10/01…

#curl

Anyone here using the "spynet Camera" app (using your Android device as IP camera)?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.s…

It's unmaintained since 2017, but we still see daily installs. We can of course not tell if the then installed app worked satisfactorily – so we need your feedback whether we shall keep it or not 😊 Thanks in advance!

:boost_love:

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

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@Lenni That's exactly the open question: whether this apps offers any features not covered by the alternatives…

Just "being old" and "no longer maintained" alone are insufficient reasons for removal. No demand, not working, security issues are other points pro removal – being niche but still considered safe would speak against removal.

Such decisions always require careful weighting of arguments. Which is why, when in doubt, we reach out to those using our repo 😉 So thanks for your feedback! 🤗

Are you eager to know what is the #future of #Turris? Visit our #booth this weekend during @linuxdays in #Prague and be among the first ones to see the new #OmniaNG IRL! New #powerful #opensource #secure #wifi #router is here! Big #unveil this Saturday (unveil at 10:30 in Czech, recap in English at 13:00), online stream and recordings will be available linuxdays.cz/2025/program/
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Have you worked through the updated Microsoft Excel with NVDA module yet? If you haven't, now is the time! Thanks to @KaraLG84 for picking up a number of errors I missed, we've just updated the version in the shop (and in your downloads if you've bought it): nvaccess.org/product/microsoft…

And fun fact - Did you know Excel is 40 years old as of yesterday?!

Version Museum has a great history of the spreadsheet program:
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A big month for progress on mucosal Covid vaccines!

- A 35th mucosal vax in clinical trial
- Encouraging preclinical results for intranasal self-amplifying mRNA vax from Spain
- News on progress with the Covid infection studies laying the groundwork for testing mucosal vax in human challenge studies

Plus more clinical results for self-amplifying mRNA vax & fascinating pandemic preparedness news from Singapore

Nextgen Covid vax update @PLOS absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2025/…

#Covid #Covid19 #Vaccines

On this day eleven years ago I stopped contributing to the #rockbox project (Open Source mp3 player firmware): daniel.haxx.se/blog/2014/10/01…