> Carriers are incompetent with this sort of interoperability and they gave up on running their own RCS servers to let Google do it through something called Google Jibe
Oh good so all RCS text messaging across carriers has a single point of failure now: Google
Thanks to @FineFindus's dedication towards implementing this (alongside the individual event .ics export feature) this year, you will be able to use this feature in #GNOME 50 (or the nightly flatpak version of Calendar today): gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-c…
Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #Mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I intend to stay on and continue to advise the new leadership and contribute, because Mastodon—and the fediverse—is one of the very few beacons of hope for a better web.
Buried in this nicely-detailed RCA is a pretty damning fact:
Cloudflare left .unwrap() in mission-critical Rust code.
For non-Rustaceans, .unwrap() handles a type called Result that can either be Ok with a value, or an Err with an Error. The whole point is to gracefully handle errors and not let panics make it to production code.
I use .unwrap() sometimes! Usually when there's a logical guarantee that the result can never be an error. But I make sure to purge it from critical processes for exactly this reason.
Cloudflare suffered a service outage on November 18, 2025. The outage was triggered by a bug in generation logic for a Bot Management feature file causing many Cloudflare services to be affected.
Tomorrow night join @Liz, for Full Circle from 7 P.M. eastern (US time). Their will be a showcase, and in the third hour will be the next episode of Chickenman. So tune in tomorrow night, and see who is hiding in the showcase. HKCRadio.com
Decided with the direction that @freedomscientific is taking JAWS that it's time for me to cancel my home annual subscription and switch over to @NVAccess as my screen reader on my personal machine. NVDA does what I need on it (web surfing, email, writing, and some coding) fine, so I figure why not. And I can always pick the subscription back up if I really need it for something.
Thanks Justin! Great to have you :) You're probably already across this, but there is a "Switching from Jaws to NVDA" guide which is quite handy: github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/… And as someone familiar iwth both - if you do notice anything missing from that guide (whether you need help with it, or already know how to do something not documented there) please do let us know and we can update it for others.
If you can give us more information on those work app you need, we can look and make sure we are at least aware of what isn't working, and hopefully endeavour to get better with them.
Honestly, the biggest thing on my wish list would be making reading through chats in Teams as easy as it is with JAWS with its virtual PC cursor turned off.
That's something concrete to start with, thanks! Just for someone who uses Jaws even less frequnetly than teams - can you please give me a quick description of what that is like, compared to how NVDA does it?
Sure. With JAWS, when you're in the section ;showing the chat history, you can just arrow up and down to jump from message to message. If you hit enter on one, you can then tab through things like any links in the message, an options menu, the options for reacting to a message, etc. Since Teams is a progressive web app, it's probably just some role="application" wizardry. Heck, there may just be a key combo I can hit to get it to work like that.
Gaming while blind is the highest difficulty. I like challenging experiences with intense naratives. Like The Last Of Us, or Alt Frequencies!Specs: I5-13600K, RX 3050, 16GB DDR4, Keycron K4 keyboard, PS5 controller and Madcats fightstick.
ooh that game is fun, once you configure the settings right for accessibility like raising volumes on opponent positional and fighting cues, it's really playable. Problem is, still haven't gotten through more than 2-3 fights in tutorial, so I'll fight you if I ever get through it and maybe some battles after LOL
@Tamasg I'm talking about the original arcade versions of Mortal Kombat! There is an app called Fightcade that will let you match people to play online via an emulator. Tried it out last night and it seems decently accessible! The games are mono, but, that's the game, nothing to be done there.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
Is there a basic media player for Windows? Play/pause, transport, supports all the formats, volume, all the basics. No cluttered UI, no library, no advanced playlist stuff, no video/DVD playback, no magic album art stuff. Just hand it one or more audio files and it plays, with good hotkeys and good accessibility.
yup Foobar, I personally don't mind VLC but I can see what you mean by the clutter, plus it being QT-based is really what I hate about it most LOL. Foobar I can never get used to, too bare-bones for me, but might work for your use case once you set up your config right I think.
@andrew @mcourcel I stopped using Winamp about 15 years ago in favor of Foobar 2000. I really don't like it's default configuration, but same can be said for Winamp.
The Final Straw: Why Companies Replace Once-Beloved Technology Brands
What causes a business to abandon hardware, software, or tools it once relied on? Enumerating the common reasons helps you recognize when it’s time to move on. functionize.com/blog/the-final…
@thunderbird I can't find your repo online anywhere for Thunderbird for Android. I wanted to report some issues. In particular, swiping to delete/archive is just... horrible. Just scrolling through emails will randomly delete mail.
Sorry for any problems finding the repo! Here is the link github.com/thunderbird/thunder… - we also are working on a swipe regression that could be causing some of your issues!
In 2007 I did a talk about #curl at the FSCONS conference. The video is lost in time but today I realized that FSF Europe is still hosting the torrent file.
Not too many seeders of that content left though... 😎
there should be an “original file” field where you can re-download exactly what you uploaded
if it’s the same ogg as in the torrent, can you seed it for a bit? I already added it to my client and i’ll seed it indefinitely (if I ever receive the file)
The Cadence uses a technology best described as micro-magnetic bistable actuators. "Bistable" means the pin is stable in two positions: fully UP and fully DOWN. It uses a pulse of energy only to flip the switch. Once the pin is up, a permanent magnet (not electricity) locks it in place. It sits there for free. You could leave the device on a single page for 100 years and it wouldn't drain the battery. Fascinating. Imagine a tiny permanent magnet attached to the bottom of the pin. Surrounding it is a copper coil. To raise the pin, the device shoots a quick millisecond pulse of electricity through the coil, repelling the magnet and shooting the pin up. Once it hits the top, it "latches" (magnetically sticks) to a metal plate or catch. To lower it, it shoots a reverse pulse, pulling it down where it latches again. look up: US Patent 10,249,217. US Patent 10,163,367. US Patent 9,812,033.
Facinating, and that certainly has potential. I assume then that means the pins have little-to-no give, similar to the Orbit. However that system seems as though it could be more resilient than Orbit TrueBraille.
@KaraLG84 not quite. It uses a motorized mechanical carriage (a tiny motor and cam system) that physically drives underneath the cells to push the pins up or down. This is why the Orbit refreshes cell-by-cell (like a wave) rather than the whole line popping up instantly. The motor has to travel across the line to set the pins. Once the motor pushes the pin up, it rests on a mechanical ledge. It is rigid (signage quality) like the Cadence, but it got there via a slow motor, not a fast magnetic pulse. Cadence dots can be pushed down, although not as squishy as older Piezo tech, just not fully firm like Orbit's. Still, when you push down, you feel a resistance under your finger, so heavier-handed Braille readers would still be "checked" by Cadence, and thoose with neuropathy in their fingers could read it.
In this episode of Double Tap, Steven Scott and Shaun Preece speak with Brian Clark and Wunji Lau, the Director of Marketing from Tactile Engineering, about ...
My list is remarkably similar. Except for text editor (vim) keyboard layout (US international), desktop (XFCE), blog system (my own), and mobile phone email client. What made you choose Aqua mail over for example K9?
@derickr I honestly can't recall why anymore but there was something with K9 that didn't work for me or that didn't feel right. And then it just stuck.
Debian, KDE Plasma and you never Game. Sounds familiar, though I privately run Debian stable. And I would suppose that your mail setup is more than just postfix ;)
Debian, KDE Plasma and you never Game. Sounds familiar, though I privately run Debian stable. And I would suppose that your mail setup is more than just postfix ;)
My favorite thing about infinite scroll is when your connection hiccups and nothing else will load so you have to reload the entire page and scroll a dozen times just to get to where you were so you can start the fuck over and hope your connection doesn’t hiccup again.
Right now, the plan is to have Release be the default in flathub starting next summer. We'll keep everyone updated on those plans on our blog and here on Mastodon. :)
Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: "Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications" windowscentral.com/microsoft/w…
hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.
Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-…
TL;dr Google/Apple increasingly wield their world-wide #appcontrol in the political interests of various governments, and not in the interest of user security or privacy. The article lays out three areas of fighting back ...
Hello. Could you please send me a working proxy for Delta Chat? I am in Russia, and without a VPN, Delta Chat does not work here on the default server.
I am rapidly coming to the conclusion that folk who embrace technology like Delta Chat, Mastodon, Linux, De-Googled phones, FOSS, etc. will only ever provide a back-up service to mainstream society when the 'stuff hits the fan', so to speak.
The contemporary version of the Amateur Radio operators who traditionally provide the backbone of reliable communications in times of disaster, if you will.
I'm not sure decentralisation will ever reach a 'critical mass' in my lifetime.
Google/Android are starting to retreat on the developer verification, see details under "Empowering advanced users" at link below (still remains to be seen what it will actually look like)
@NVAccess I'm telling people how awesome speechplayer is, but some people say the engine with espeak sounds harsh. It's rather unfortunate that Debian doesn't compile speechplayer. I love that it's always in the nvda, and that Fedora includes it by default. I would love it if speechplayer was standard, it's so much better than traditional espeak in my opinionated opinion.
While we don't include it seperately ourselves, you can still download all the ocmponents if you're up for setting it up yourself? github.com/nvaccess/nvda/wiki/…
Thank you so very much for this one!! Seriously!! Thank you!! Does this mean, I can get good Ol original Ben back? Does this also mean I can have the awesome speechplayer with the weird accent once again? I loved how it said oo sounds and stuff, it reminds me of one of the debian maintainers lol. It's so uniquely great to me. Do you use speechplayer yourself? I'm very much obsessed with it.
I must admit I haven't tried from those files recently, but do let us know how you go and what you think - I'm sure others would be interested in your experience (and perhaps even moreso if you document the process you go through so they can try too).
It sounds like a plan, thank you very much! That is exactly what I will do, I would even make a repository for it and share it, and there would be a read me with instructions and little details for if something breaks, this is that and the other. It would be very deep and detailed. I guess I should start by firstly reading the link that you sent me earlier and trying to get it working. I'll try on winders as I know that's where it's probably most worky as it's an nvda addon after allington. After that, I'll see how feasible it is to build it on macOS/linux, I'll try debian first than fedora. Debian sadly seemingly doesn't compile speechplayer in espeak which is rather silly, so I'l; be fixing that promptly. I'll also make a speechplayer standalone speech dispatcher module and see if I can do some talkyTalky with Yuri about speechplayerSA on iOS, as he was able to put speechplayer in espeak on ios which is perty darn great!! Seriously!! Do you realise just how great speechplayer in espeak is? I'm sure you do.
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