I wrote a brief piece about Alice Wong’s passing away over the weekend. It's an honor to think she appreciated my work, and the disability community will miss her.

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🎉🧩 Castopod’s official plugin repository is live!

The new plugin ecosystem for podcasting is ready: discover, install, and share plugins for the upcoming v2.

Learn more at blog.castopod.org/official-cas…

I upgraded an app from using #Gradle 8.13 to version 9.2.1. Not because I wanted to, I dread upgrading Gradle, but because I needed it to work with Java 25.

Predictably, my build definition (`build.gradle.kts`) broke, with some deprecated APIs being removed. This isn't some coincidence, Gradle's APIs get deprecated all the time, nothing's safe.

I don't think I have ever upgraded Gradle without noticing source compatibility breakage. I can't think of any other API I've used that's worse.

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Who would like Rust in CPython 3.15?

@emmatyping and Kirill Podoprigora "propose introducing the Rust programming language to CPython. Rust will initially only be allowed for writing optional extension modules, but eventually will become a required dependency of CPython and allowed to be used throughout the CPython code base."

discuss.python.org/t/pre-pep-r…

#Python #Python315 #CPython #Rust

#chatmail might be a new way to deliver email but it's not a new way to deliver mail :)

"Poste restante" or "general delivery" or "waiting mail" is a mode where one can send a message to a name or, in some countries, pseudonym, @ a post office address and then someone else can come and get it, showing their name or pseudonym (passphrase). en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poste_re…

Curious, which of you know/have used the poste restante mode of delivering postal mail at one point in your life?

  • used "poste restante" delivery multiple times (6%, 14 votes)
  • Used poste restante once (3%, 8 votes)
  • Heard of it but didn't use (27%, 65 votes)
  • Never heart of it. (62%, 146 votes)
233 voters. Poll end: 2 days ago

We knew this day would come eventually.

Chuck Moore, inventor of the #Forth programming language, officially retires from Forth programming.

"It's time to move on."

youtube.com/watch?v=MvkGBWXb2o…

J'ai lu que le ministère de l'éducation est « intéressé » à faire passer les écoles à Linux.
si cela est fait, l'éducation des non-et malvoyants en France sera complétement foutue. L'accessibilité de Linux est inacceptable pour en faire une plateforme d'éducation des enfants.
vous voulez passer à Linux ? Soit. Je suis pas d'accord, mais soit. Dans ce cas-ci, il faut *d'abord* investir en accessibilité de cette plateforme, et puis « s'intéresser » à quoi que ce soit.
J'espère bien qu'il y aura des appels à la justice. L'Acte Européen d'Accessibilité est en vigueur, et si l'état même s'en fout, comment peut-on exiger l'accessibilité aux autres ?
#Accessibilité #Linux #OpenSource #Accessibility
in reply to André Polykanine

Надеюсь дальше интереса дело не дойдёт. Помимо accessibility в целом такое себе. Год назад пересеклись со знакомым, у него на работе начальство обязало пересадить всех на Линукс (кроме себя естественно). Он, будучи админом, да и пользователи были просто офигеть счастливы. Когда половины нужного софта нет, а другая половина кривая как фиг знает что. Не знаю чем дело закончилось, но он оттягивал момент тотального пересаживания с Винды насколько возможно.
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Антиамериканские настроения это модно. Вон в Канаде находятся деятели кто игнорируют американскую продукцию и сервисы, переходя на свои что по качеству хуже, особо одарённые snowbirds не едут в отпуск в южные штаты. Ну а чё, по телевизеру сказали "это хорошо, это так и надо".
in reply to André Polykanine

А суды, фиг знает. Если найдутся заинтересованные и готовые пройти через всё, то да. Правда я не очень представляю о чём этот закон вообще и кому в случае чего можно кидать предъявы. Читать надо. Если разработчикам софта, у которого с доступностью полный здецпи и нарушено то то и это, тогда хорошо, особенно коллективный иск какой-нибудь, а лучше больше чем один. Может в таком случае будет какой-то прогресс.

Well, now I've bit the bullet and used Substack's editor for something, and it wasn't really as bad of an experience as I was making it out to be. I'll still write my initial draft outside of the editor, but I can paste it in to their control, and, where I need to make a link, I can select the relevant text, press ctrl-k, type in the URL, and I'm done. I'd still prefer to be able to write everything in markdown and directly import it somehow, but this will do I think.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 16 updated and 2 added apps:

* IP Wizard: calculate subnet masks and IP ranges directly on your device 🛡️
* Anthology: a sleek, fast ebook reader 🛡️

1 #Magisk module was updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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

If you haven't cancelled #Mozilla yet, check out tabstack.ai/

yes that's a captcha-dodger scraper bot for "AIs". as a service. powered by the Mozilla Corporation. now you know how they're planning to make bank.

oddly under-the-cover project, isn't it? not even showing in search engines. I wonder why :thaenkin:

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Europäische PayPal-Alternative: Bezahldienst Wero für Online-Einkäufe gestartet

Sparkassen, Volksbanken und etliche Händler sind schon dabei: Wero als europäische Antwort auf Dienste wie Paypal startet für Online-Shopping.

heise.de/news/Europaeische-Pay…

#Bezahldienst #eCommerce #IT #Paypal #Wirtschaft #news

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Hello from the Activator!


Over the next couple of days, this Braille display will move into my home. For almost thirty years, I've come back to Help Tech displays time and again, despite trying out other display vendors' products in the interim as well. But because of their quality and endurance, I keep returning to these displays, and am proud to add the Activator to the list of Braille displays I own, or owned.helptech.eu/braille-displays-a…

in reply to Jonathan Mosen

@JonathanMosen It definitely is. I was privileged to lay my hands on a proto type when it was still in development. I'm a friend of the Help Tech company, and supported them during the 2022 SightCity virtual conference. And I saw it at an exhibition or two recently, and now have my own Activator here. It must be the most beautiful display they've built so far. Although I was a huge fan of the BookWorm back in the late 90s, too. I know that 8 Braille cells are too few for many, but this little Braille reading device saved me and my sanity on hundreds of commutes to my computer science school back in the day. Remember, this was before even the Nokia smartphone era.

RE: norden.social/@marcozehe/11553…

Hallo vom Activator!


In den nächsten Tagen wird bei mir diese Braillezeile einziehen. Heute habe ich beim Tag der Offenen Tür von Helptech Hamburg ausführlich damit gespielt, sozusagen als Appetitanreger. Ich freue mich, auch von der neuesten Generation der Zeilen von Help Tech eine zu besitzen. Bin seit fast 30 Jahren zufriedener Kunde und kehre, trotz gelegentlicher Ausflüge zu anderen Herstellern, immer wieder zu Help Tech zurück. helptech.de/braillezeilen/acti…

🆕 blog! “OpenBenches 💖 OpenStreetMap”

When Liz and I created the OpenBenches website, it was just designed to be a fun way for people to record memorial benches. Since then things have got out of hand and we now have over thirty-nine thousand benches recorded!

Our plan was never to compete with something like OpenStreetMap. The OSM project is vast, complex, and…

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openb…

#OpenBenches #OpenStreetMap

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/11/openbenches-%f0%9f%92%96-openstreetmap/

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They arrived. the new multiline displays. Cadence tablets. Really interesting, and I love the cells are made of metal. Refresh is somewhat loud. Only 4 keys on top surface of device. I think they could use the outer thumb keys as dots 3 and6 though, if they really wanted to. As long as it is pressed together with another key, then quick double-press to enter just dot3 or dot6 alone. Trust me it is a viable way to type on one single unit.
But the units are meant to fit together. Each has an opposing ril, that docks in. There are rails on the top and side of the device, so they fit together and slide-click into place. Fascinating. Thus, each display is mirror-flipped from the other, but you have flexibility in how to orient it: Side-by-side (as one long 24-cell-by-4 line) or up-down (as an 8-line by 12-cell display.)
Either way you do it, it's going to have a seam and small gap where the two come together. Some might find this a bit annoying when reading content as it won't perfectly flow together, the middle of the line will always have a noticeable gap as words get placed on the next display, or a larger gap between two lines if you choose the top-orientation for docking them. Interesting indeed.