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🎁 The giving season is about to start — let's focus on digital rights in 2025!

If you had €50 to support online privacy & digital freedom, who would you donate to?

1️⃣ Electronic Frontier Foundation
2️⃣ Free Software Foundation Europe
3️⃣ NOYB
4️⃣ EDRi

Vote, share & donate! ✨ #PrivacyMatters #DigitalFreedom

Or add your favorite org in the comments! 👇

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation (36%, 106 votes)
  • Free Software Foundation Europe (35%, 103 votes)
  • NOYB (21%, 61 votes)
  • EDRi (6%, 18 votes)
288 voters. Poll end: 4 days ago

#privacymatters #digitalfreedom
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Hey @RogueAmoeba. Mac OS has a feature that ducks system audio when joining a call, e.g. on FaceTime or in Safari. This is a problem for Voice Over users. Even though VO itself is somehow exempted, other apps that use speech, notably the much superrior terminal screen reader tdsr, are not. Neither is any audio (including screen readers) that comes from virtual machines. As far as I understand, this cannot be disabled by the user in any way. Since your apps reach so deeply into Mac OS's audio internals, can any of them be used to bypass this feature, and if so, how?
@Rogue Amoeba

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Potíže s novou vládou. Z Okamury i Motoristů má Babiš těžkou hlavu
Tady vidím velký špatný 😄😄
seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/volby-d…

Potíže s novou vládou. Z Okamury i Motoristů má Babiš těžkou hlavu

SPD i Motoristé si nárokují obsazení dvou ministerských křesel v nové Babišově vládě. ANO je proti, cítí se silné a od malých partají žádá jen tichou podporu.
Václav Dolejší (Seznam Zprávy)
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Fousac

Ani druhá strana to nebude mít lehký.

Jejich hlavní sliby jdou zásadně proti zájmům ANO.
Turek chce dramaticky snižovat schodky a dluhy, rušit dotace a nikomu nic nedávat.
Pitomio pořád básní o czexitu a vyhošťování migrantů. Navíc má v partaji 5 pijavic, co jdou jen po korytech (Majerová, Rajchl...).

A oběma reálně hrozí, že skončí jak Hamáček, když nic neprosadí nebo budou jen tiše sedět a zvedat pracky podle Babiše.

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Takový hezký den to mohl být.
Člověk ráno vstane, všude svítí — vždyť když vyhrála ta lepší vláda, elektřina bude skoro zadarmo. Možná nám i budou doplácet!
Do Německa jsem to valil jen na dvojku, ať ten diesel pořádně hulí. Den jak z pohlednice…
Než jsem se v práci blbě otočil — a cvak! Záda v háji. Sotva se hýbu.
Tak zas marodím. Mě už fakt klepne.

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Who's using Jarvis, the remote for the Personal Voice Assistant?

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/net.i…

It hasn't seen a release since 2018, but we still see 10+ installs (downloads by F-Droid clients) per month. Is it still working? Shall we keep it?

:boost_love:

#serviceToot #FollowerPower #IzzyOnDroid

„Jarvis“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

Jarvis remote control
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#followerpower #serviceToot #izzyondroid

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Chat Control is one of the most important issue for human rights and democracy in the West right now.

There is little time left to fight back!🚨

❓If you don't know what it is: read this article

🇪🇺 If you are in the EU: Contact your MEPs NOW

🇪🇺 If you already contacted your MEPs: Contact your local media TODAY to ask them to report and inform on the dangers of Chat Control.

🌎 If you are not European: Spread the word! Talk about it on social media. Contact your local media. Contact your representatives to share your concerns about similar proposals and the loss of privacy rights. This would affect you too!

This is an urgent matter. We cannot let the West slip in this authoritarian dystopia.
We must stop Chat Control ✊🛑

#ChatControl #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #DigitalRights #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli


Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now!

Chat Control is back to undermine everyone's privacy. There's an important deadline this Friday on September 12th. We must act now to stop it!
Privacy Guides
#privacy #HumanRights #democracy #uspol #chatcontrol #ukpol #digitalrights #canpoli #eupol

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 6. Oktober, um 19:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten auf der Vorderseite. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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NEU: Erklärvideo des Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy zu #Chatkontrolle und #ClientSideScanning.

Das Client-Side-Scanning ist ein Angriff auf Verschlüsselung und untergräbt jegliches Vertrauen in private Kommunikation. Die Bundesregierung muss sich endlich eindeutig dagegen positionieren und die #ChatkontrolleSTOPPEN!

Bitte teilen!

#Chatkontrolle #ClientSideScanning #ChatkontrolleStoppen

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I was at #FediDay25 in Berlin over the weekend. Lots of discussion about how we can get institutions and public broadcasters onto the #Fediverse.

When I was on Twitter, I mostly followed personal accounts from journalists and researchers because I was interested in their hot takes that didn't get filtered through social media departments.
If we want to get them on the Fediverse, it needs to become a place where they genuinely want to be. Public pressure won't be enough.

#fediverse #fediday25
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just finished a fabulous book by Steven Greenblatt describing the life of Christopher Marlowe. Quite an amazing read and lots of insights into renaissance England. Highly recommend. oh yeah, it was read by one of our favorite narrators Edoardo Ballerini! 🙂
audible.com/pd/B0FG972PJV?sour…

Dark Renaissance

Check out this great listen on Audible.com. The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Will in the World reveals the daring and subversive life of Christopher Marlowe―Shakespeare’s contemporary, inspiration, and rival.
Audible

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Is there a device that is:

* Vaguely radio-looking.
* Small, portable, like a Bluetooth speaker.
* Connects to a home server with music.
* Lets one choose music through a screen and good controls. Or a touch screen or something.

Basically I want the convenience of a Bluetooth speaker without having to fuck around with a phone. I want a dedicated radio-like box that knows how to talk to my home music server.

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Ross of Ottawa

check out some of the products from Ocean Digital. I have a couple that are many years old but they still make me I've I think.

Had tried many before I kept these. They do Internet radio with simple presets and also will connect to home server eg NAS (via DLNA) for playing playlists and/or selecting by artist, album, title.

Probably other similar products around but have been mostly happy with these.

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Wow, what a great use of MCP for interacting with Chrome Devtools: addyosmani.com/blog/devtools-m…
I tried this with gemini-cli and it works quite well. Obviously, any other MCP client will work!

Give your AI eyes: Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP

Chrome DevTools MCP is a newly announced tool that allows AI coding assistants to **see and interact with a live Chrome browser
Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com)

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I keep seeing things about the big Audacity redesign. My only question is: how accessible will it be? As I recall, there were accessibility regressions in the past that were not addressed. I know Reaper is the one everyone likes these days, but I have a soft spot for Audacity. It was the first editor I learned to use. It taught me a lot of core concepts. I don't do much audio editing these days, but I still hope Audacity becomes a solid option for screen reader users.
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Zach Bennoui

It will be, I can pretty much guarantee that. The company behind it also develops MuseScore, and when version four came out, they did a huge accessibility push. The UI engine they're using is the same one that will be used in Audacity, and I would be extremely surprised if accessibility was not heavily considered during this redesign. I think that's one of the problems they're trying to fix, as right now at least on macOS accessibility with the current version is pretty bad.

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Well I have done it! I am now taking a personal #NVDA challenge. I have just uninstalled #JFW from my computer. I am going to see if between now and November 4th I can make it without using JFW at all. I already know of one area that I am going to have troubles, so if anyone who knows how to write things for NVDA wants to try to help, this is your chance. If someone could write an addon for NVDA that will allow someone to go to a web site, and save it as a favorite into a folder on there computer like #Leasie for JFW can do that would be greatly appreciated.
#nvda #JFW #leasie
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JamminJerry

@NVAccess I do have a salution. someone wrote an addon for me that does exactly what I wantted, and needed. I am sending them a donation as soon as I can to thank them for writing it. I am also trying to talk them into releasing it for the NVDA app store. they said if they do that they would want to put a bit more work into it, but me personally I think it is perfect. smile.
@NV Access
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JamminJerry

@NVAccess and there you go. while it isn't on the store, it is now out in the public. he just posted the following on mastodon.

Simple NVDA add-on to add to a folder of shortcuts, similar to how Internet Explorer handled favorites: github.com/tspivey/addFavorite…


GitHub - tspivey/addFavorites

Contribute to tspivey/addFavorites development by creating an account on GitHub.
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@NV Access

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What a busy day! Yeah, Saturday ended up being a work day. Besides purchasing the AirPods Pro 3 and selling my 2 Pro, I also moved my work machine from NVDA alphas to the stable release, version 2025.3. I usually run NVDA alphas even on my work machines since I can easily downgrade if something goes wrong, and I can usually live with a few add-on incompatibilities. But with the 2026.1 alphas going 64-bit only, a good number of add-ons have been affected, including all the Eloquence and IBMTTS ones. I just can’t handle an Eloquence-less world yet, LOL! Also the horrible on-device image captioning! Let's just call it an experiment, and leave it at that. Unless the underlying model gets altered, it will disappoint many users down the road.
@NVAccess
@NV Access

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I love voice control. I hate how it takes my battery though. So I tied it to my action button. One click toggles it on. Then I do what I need to do. And I turn it off again. Another option is to leave it in command mode. That way, it's not constantly listening for dictation, but you can still use dictation to dictate. Additionally, you can turn off commands you know you won't use. I hope this helps someone who may be struggling to keep up with fast moving ableds. Happy Sunday, or Monday, as the date line flows.

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Hell yes! 🧑‍💻🖥️🛟
Quote from @a11yChief: Imagine you go to a site you know, and their latest update has broken accessibility. You can’t pay for what you want, or find what you need. Now imagine someone built you a panic button you could press that lets you rant about what’s broken and why, so other people with more spoons can advocate on your behalf. It lets other screen reader users know there might be issues, and to stay away. A hotkey, a button or two and an angry smash of the enter key.

Would you use it?

@Richard Hyman

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@stalwartlabs PLEASE remove the minimum 25-seat requirement for a license. There are a ton of people who would be interested in running Stalwart and desire some of the Enterprise features, but if you don't make it easy for hobbyists and self-hosters to champion your software they won't be able to speak from experience.

You can fund open source without requiring users fork over $60/yr minimum. That's what I'm currently paying for Fastmail. If I have to pay $60, I might as well keep using Fastmail which will also give me premium support whereas your $60 license will not.

I know there's a trial license option, but that isn't sufficient. Extend the olive branch by making the first tier flexible at 1-500 seats instead of 25-500.

@Stalwart Labs
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