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Two reasons why I think it's unwise to move from Firefox.

First, browser engine diversity matters. If all browsers become chromium skins, this gives Google a very unfortunate amount of power. It can affect web standards, de facto web use, all kinds of things; and there's no guarantee chromium will keep being freely released.

Second, pretty much any other possible alternative is worse across a set of metrics that involve accessibility, access to source code, privacy, and safety.

Servo is promising, but a11y isn't there; so it may as well not exist for me.

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I'm a Blind tech educator but this is my first game design! If you support Blind or low-vision learners, please consider sharing the retro audio Space Invaders game i built with Gemini and @Marconius — you can play with any screen reader, right in the browser. I wanted to build something with a simple interface and a progressively hard game mechanic so it would be fun for tech novices and for me. The game is free and open-source and we welcome your feedback. marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…

Audio Space Invaders

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Marco Salsiccia

@Scott Not at the moment unless you navigate up and focus on the gameplay HUD. I need to group those together into single focus elements, and was considering adding a key shortcut for an energy announcement, plus am working on adding a danger noise so you know when you are about to lose. Also realizing that I should make the high scores list inert during gameplay to clean up the interface for us screen reader users. :)
@Scott

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I've just made a MR to document the remaining AT-SPI DBus interfaces. I'll wait a while before I merge it in case anyone wants to look it over (and it would probably be good if it is looked over by people who are not me). gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/at-spi2…

Document the remaining DBus interfaces (!220) · Merge requests · GNOME / at-spi2-core · GitLab

Base DBus XML interfaces for accessibility, the accessibility registry daemon, and atspi library.
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My issue with firefox soft forks is that even in their most ideal form, they can only be reactive harm-reduction, and any reasonable fork necessitates compromises that introduce some amount of risk (delayed security updates, compromised trust anchors etc.)

Perhaps that is the best anyone can do within reasonable costs.

Perhaps the only affordable proactive actions we can take is to reinforce that front against future inevitable assaults.

Perhaps that must be enough. I wish it were not so.

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Sarah Jamie Lewis

I've spent time this year gaming out other possible strategies with people. Because the question of "no seriously how do we move forward in a world where every single mainstream browser engine is aligned towards making the web worse?" is one of the important ones.

The only viable path I can see requires that a collection of organizations/soft-forks commit to co-maintaining a shared base browser fork of firefox (something like the base browser used by Tor for TB and Mullvad)

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Need to send someone their favourite animal, butt only the backside? Want to learn various animal names in Bernese Swiss German? Just want silly stickers?

This fops got you covered!

presenting to you: the Füdliverse!

Available at tailwag.ch/stickers/Fuedlivers… (Signal and Matrix not up to date yet), have fun!

A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A grey hare, a pink hare, a brown rabbit, a blue sabre tooth tiger, a black wolf, a grey wolf, another fox, a dragon, a sheep, a goat, a kobold and a rat
A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A fox, a hyena, a skunk, a lynx, a spirigatto pokémon, a housecat, an orange housecat, a plant cat, a French cat, a green husky, a polygon fox, a wolf
A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A raccoon, a beetle, a cow, a pig, a beaver, an otter, an elephant, a hippo, a marten, a snep, a walruss and a snake
A 3x4 grid of various chibi cartoon animals presenting their rear ends. Top left to bottom right: A deer, a horse, a unicorn, a lion, a magpie, a bat (upside down), a lizard, a dolphin, a whale, a tortoise, a hedgehog and a bear

Füdliverse (Arse-nal of various characters) by Fuchs The Fox

Füdliverse (Arse-nal of various characters)
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Was mir bei solchen Testberichten immer fehlt:
Angaben zur #Datenverarbeitung, #Datensicherheit #digitalePrivatsphäre :

adac.de/rund-ums-fahrzeug/auto…
Und eine Frage an die Wissenden:

Kann ich ein solches Vehikel auch ohne Google oder Apple Account bewegen?

#Auto #EAuto


Renault Twingo E-Tech 2026: So niedlich kommt der Kult-Kleinstwagen zurück

Renault bringt 2026 den Twingo zurück – als Elektroauto. Der Stadtfloh hat einen Mini-Wendekreis und viel Platz im Innenraum. Infos, Bilder, Preis.
Andreas Huber (ADAC)
#Auto #digitaleprivatsphäre #eauto #datenverarbeitung #datensicherheit

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Bird2 BGP Management Networking Daemon is all configured with the Vultr private ASN, as well as the private ASN they assigned me. So that should get traffic from the global Internet to a Vultr gateway router, then to my router runnning on Vultr, then to where I am able to route it from there. The only thing missing is a subnet. But considering Servarica took nine days to assign me a /27, I expect it'll be a few more days for this restricted /24, if I get approved at all.

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Skew v2 from @Sinevibes - a unique, multi-curved, reverse delay effect - adds new features like feedback and sound improvements. And one *major* new feature: now it's free.

macOS, Windows, and Linux.

cdm.link/sinevibes-skew-2-free…

Skew UI with curved wavy waveform display, dials for synced tempo, feedback, wet and dry levels, overlap, and intensity.

Sinevibes Skew, 3-playhead reverse delay, improved and now free - CDM Create Digital Music

Santa Sinevibes has rolled into town this week, unexpectedly. Skew, a unique "non-linear" reverse delay effect from Sinevibes, is now available for free with v2, bringing the effect's wide world of warping and multiple curves to everyone -- Mac, Wind…
Peter Kirn (CDM Create Digital Music)
@Sinevibes

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I feel really inept sometimes. I was trying to create a merge request on gitlab.gnome.org, and, for the life of me, I couldn't find the button to create a new merge request. I suspect that the UI has changed since I last did this. It's supposedly on the upper right corner of the merge requests page, but knowing that doesn't do anything to help me. So I started googling and found that gitlab has a CLI, which I didn't know existed, so of course I want it. Now I'm looking at the README to figure out if I can use it on GNOME's instance. htps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli.git
htps://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/cli.git

Edit: My issue was that I wasn't signed in, but I'm still really glad that I found the CLI tool.

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 2 added apps:

* Remember My Sort: LSPosed module that persists Android file picker sort order 🛡️
* 5G: a simple utility to force "NR Only" 5G network mode 🛡️

Further, our monthly quality checker chimed in again. We're still running over all the forges informing the devs of its findings¹.

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

¹ mostly "bugs" in their Fastlane trees

#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

If you wonder about those "bugs", here's an excerpt:

* descriptions (short/full) too long and thus being truncated
* same for changelogs

But the checker also finds where fastlane has been established now, so we can add it; where a repo was renamed/moved – or where it was archived/deleted. Or where the license changed. These are things we then adjust at our end…

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Slovenskí esperantisti oslávili Zamenhofov deň 2025 - výročie iniciátora jazyka esperanto

Esperanto je umelý jazyk, ktorého cieľom je poskytnúť ľudstvu možnosť dorozumieť sa s inými ľuďmi z celého sveta ľahko a spravodlivo (keďže nepatrí žiadnemu národu, nikto nemá príliš veľkú výhodu). Jeho základy položil Ľudovít Zamenhof už v roku 1887 a od vtedy sa jeho komunita postupne rozširuje.

15 december je medzi esperantistami slávený ako "Zamenhofov deň", kedy si pripomíname narodeniny jeho iniciátora.

Na Slovensku sme v 2025 oslavovali v Novej Dubnici. V sobotu 13.12. sme začali pracovnou brigádou v Esperantskom archíve Jana Vajsa. Archív je ešte pomerne nový, ale má dosť veľa kníh, časopisov a iných materiálov. Nie všetky sú však zoradené a katalogizované. Je to mravenčia práce ale opäť sme s ňou dobre pohli.

Večer sme spoločnej dohovali a do nálady nám na gitare zahrala a zaspievala Majka Minichová, predovšetkým ľudové piesne preložené do esperanta.

Ďalší deň sme mali pár prednášok v kancelárii občianskeho združenia E@I. Peter Baláž predstavil nedávne aktivity E@I, novo vydané knihy, Svetový kongres esperanta 2026 v Rakúsku a 2027 v Austrálii, ktoré organizuje.


Maciej Jaskot (profesor španielčiny na Krakovskej univerzite) o mýtoch o učení sa jazykov.

KuboF Hromoslav o novinkách z Wikimedia EO (občianske združenie podporujúce Wikipédiu) a Projektejo - novo pripravovanom nástroji projektového manažmentu pre celú esperantskú komunitu.

Spomenuté boli aj aktuálne projekty podporované programom Erasmus+, ako napríklad SANO zastúpený WMEO a EduLand a Deutsch.info z E@I.

Esperanto – pestrý jazyk

esperanto.sk
#slovakia
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Accessibility poll for people who use screen readers for daily use. I’m writing a guide about alt text.

🧵 Poll 1 of 2:

I’d like your opinion about alt-text length for simple images. How long should it be? (Feel free to comment if you want to elaborate.)

Please boost for reach. 🙌🏻

#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReaders #AltText #WCAG #UI #FrontEnd

  • Just the context (33%, 1 vote)
  • Lots of details (33%, 1 vote)
  • Balance of brevity/details (33%, 1 vote)
  • It depends (0%, 0 votes)
3 voters. Poll end: in 8 hours

#a11y #Accessibility #ui #AltText #screenreaders #wcag #frontend

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Mark Wyner Won’t Comply

Accessibility poll for people who use screen readers for daily use. I’m writing a guide about alt text.

🧵 Poll 2 of 2:

I’d like your opinion about long description methods for complex images. What is your preferred approach? (Feel free to comment if you want to elaborate.)

Please boost for reach. 🙌🏻

#Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReaders #AltText #WCAG #UI #FrontEnd

  • Adjacent link to long text (0 votes)
  • Long text in figcaption (0 votes)
  • Link in longdesc attribute (0 votes)
  • Use of aria-describedby (0 votes)
Poll end: in 8 hours

#a11y #Accessibility #ui #AltText #screenreaders #wcag #frontend

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Slavné časy bych pod stromeček pořídila někomu, koho na knihách baví jazyková stránka a má, stejně jako já, slabost pro nejapné slovní hříčky. Politická satira inspirovaná Farmou zvířat a vyprávěná sborem zvířecích hlasů je to jen zčásti, zbytek je příběh mladé ženy o vyrovnání se s generačním traumatem. Slibuju ale, že to není jenom k pláči. Autorka používá k boji s marastem tzv. humor a jde jí to moc dobře. Zimbabwského kulturního prostředí se nebojte, vláda nekompetentních egocentriků odtržených od reality podle mě není něco, co bychom si u nás nedokázali vůbec ani představit. :)
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Shortlist International Booker Prize 2022

#kniha #preklad

#preklad #kniha

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Saying Goodbye to Facebook and ReddIt: In this article, I explain why I've ditched Facebook and ReddIt in favor of Friendica and Lemmy. I also mention why I ditched Matrix due to accessibility issues with my screen readers. simplygregario.us/articles/202… #A11Y #Accessibility #Blind #ScreenReaders #Facebook #Lemmy #Matrix #ReddIt #Privacy #Fediverse
A hand decisively drops the Facebook, Matrix, and Reddit logos into a desk-side trash can, while a computer monitor in the background displays a Hugo project with the names Friendica and Lemmy.

Saying Goodbye to Facebook and Reddit | Greg's Place

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#a11y #Accessibility #matrix #privacy #fediverse #blind #facebook #lemmy #screenreaders #reddit

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REAPER Made Easy's end of year wrap up/live listening party will be happening on Saturday December 27th, 8PM UK, 3PM Eastern. We'll be checking out a bunch of the productions people have done with REAPER and OSARA throughout the year.
If you've got something you'd like to share, we're all ears! Send it in here:
dropbox.com/request/mB2KhxVunz…

Anything you've made this year, anywhere in the world, in any language, with any amount of experience is welcome. The only limitations are one production per person so we can play as many as possible, and the majority of what we're listening to needs to have been done with REAPER and OSARA.

Feel free to post questions in this thread or via DM if there's anything you're not sure of.

Looking forward to hearing what everyone's been cookin'!

Scott and Jen

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You no those smoke detectors where the battery gets low and it loudly chirp-screaches at you? Those should be banned. Every time I hear it at my house it's like a shock to my nervous system. Every minute or so and it feels like an electric shock around my arms and shoulders.

It started beepinga little on Saturday, but I thought maybe some bug was messing around with the door bell outside to make it beep for a moment, and it didn't happen that often. I told the person over the place that the batteries need replacing in it yesterday morning, because it started beeping a lot Sunday night, and I came home yesterday and thought for a good 30 minutes that it was fixed, and then...

*beep!* right when I definitely wasn't expecting it. So last night I closed the thin, sliding door to my bedroom, put on my gaming headphones, connected them to my phone through my game controller, put on a book, and got a bit of sleep. At least with that amount of mass between me and the detector, I could pretend it's at some one else's house. I still didn't sleep good last night. Probably from wearing big headphones.

I woke up to a headache and the detector still going off. The headache is gone now but I still feel like I haven't slept well for days.

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It's the last Development Digest for 2025! We're celebrating our Exchange success (but not resting on our labors), sharing our Calendar UI milestones, and grateful for a community contribution to fix a 19-year-old bug!

#Thunderbird #OpenSource

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Thunderbird Monthly Development Digest: November/December 2025 - The Thunderbird Blog

We've landed Account Hub fixes and Exchange email support, and welcomed a key community contribution. We look forward to Calendar UI in 2026!
Monica Ayhens-Madon (The Thunderbird Blog)
#opensource #thunderbird
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