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Update beta 1 release already to fix the checkbox bug: It should now properly show on screen to blink hole line, we wire it up correctly now, I was missing a single line, of course, argh, C++ is amazing though really small binary woah Just re-download from the Github page the binary is latest.
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Check it out. Braille Display Calibration tool is now on GitHub for you all to admire in its full 96.4% C++ glory. It will get updates here from now on, but the private binary will also stay current.
github.com/tgeczy/BrailleDispl…

Release Beta1 · tgeczy/BrailleDisplay_calibration

This is an initial release. It supports all major features I would want in a calibration tool. Best works with NVDA; JAWS still may have issues on multiline displays.
GitHub

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WTF?

The #Trump admin “captured” #Venezuela President Nicolás #Maduro & his wife & flew him out of the country in an insane nighttime operation that was accompanied by a flurry of strikes following months of escalating pressure on the #oil-rich #SouthAmerica nation.

The US is now deciding next steps for Venezuela, Trump said Saturday on Fox News, adding, “We’ll be involved in it very much.”

The legal authority for the attack was not clear. [there is none]

#law
apnews.com/live/trump-us-venez…

#Trump #law #Venezuela #oil #maduro #southamerica
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Nonilex

When asked how much running #Venezuela, potentially for years, will cost, #Trump said: “It won’t cost us anything.”

His claim that the #US won’t have to spend any money because it will be “reimbursed” by the #oil the US will take “out of the ground” is a total fantasy.

This will cost the US billions.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Trump #law #us #congress #InternationalLaw #criminal #Venezuela #warcrimes #theft #piracy #oil #sovereignty #maduro #warpowers #abduction #landgrab
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Nonilex

The news conference is over. Despite multiple questions about how #Venezuela will be run, no details were provided.

#Trump repeatedly said “we’re gonna do” this & “we’re gonna do” that, but never gave info about HOW.

There were vague allusions to #MarcoRubio & Pete #Hegseth & a “group” but no specifics.

This is nuts.

#law #Congress #WarPowers #criminal #Maduro #abduction #LandGrab #sovereignty #WarCrimes #oil #theft #piracy #InternationalLaw

#Trump #law #congress #InternationalLaw #criminal #Venezuela #warcrimes #marcorubio #theft #piracy #hegseth #oil #sovereignty #maduro #warpowers #abduction #landgrab
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I tried this as a "to be controlled" machine on an intel mac and had two issues to begin with. First, is it possible to have the unit host its own server rather than using a relay? Secondly, when adding the software to accessibility settings, I found that it wanted me to get the software from finder. Is there a method of having it just as a switch in the dialog? Vmware, as well as RIM, did this, as I recall, but it's been quite a while since I installed them so my memory may be at fault.

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SelfHosting week 0, phase 2A, documentation.
There is one thing I find quite uncomfortable on @yunohost documentation: the emojis at the beginning of every chapter. They are very annoying to read for a blind user when going back and forth heading by heading with a screen reader. And, worse, when you attempt to isolate links through the "link list" or "heading list", "element list" whatever name used by screen readers for that feature, you cannot choose an item by initial letter and get into it quickly, from the list that pops up.
The "element list" feature allows a user to press a shortcut and find items of the same type, organized in a list. Links, headings, form controls, etc. So, if it is the table of contents in a documentation website, you have all chapters ordered. You press down arrow in the list, till you find the desired element then press Enter. Or, better, in a normal situation, if you have to choose "domains" for example, you pop up the link list and type "d", then if Domains is the first, you press Enter on it. Or at least, links with that initial are isolated by pressing the letter over and over again till you find the desired one.
But this YunoHost docs are full of those emoticons which maybe are pleasant for sighted folks, but not for blind. Not at all.
#accessibility #a11y #blind #docs #SelfHost #SelfHosting #YunoHost
#a11y #Accessibility #blind #selfhost #selfhosting #docs #yunohost @YunoHost
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I listened to the whole press conference given by Trump on his invasion of Venezuela and unprovoked abduction of a sitting president to fetch the nation's oil. Not a single question by journalists was posed to challenge the legality of the action. If power isn't challenged, there isn't freedom of the press. Trump isn't more democratic than Maduro, he's less so.

#trump #maduro #venezuela

#Trump #Venezuela #maduro

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"Canada has a long history of defending the international rule of law. We are now dealing with a regime that will kill people in the water, seize ships on the high seas, invade other countries, and kidnap their leaders. All bets are off.

This is the age of gangsters. And Canada must be ready to rise to the threat."

charlieangus.substack.com/p/ve…


Venezuela - The Lesson for Canada

Make no mistake, the attack on Venezuela by the Trump regime is not about removing a rogue leader; it is a deliberate attack on international law.
Charlie Angus / The Resistance
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Alison Creekside

@driusan In 2004, Canadian special forces Joint Task Force 2 secured the international airport in Port-au-Prince so the US could kidnap Haiti's democratically elected president, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, overthrow their gov, and permanently cripple Haitian sovereignty for the next 2 decades. Ditto Libya. Ditto ...
There's not much Canada can say in rebuke.

@doomscroller.social @the5thColumnist

@Richard W. Woodley ELBOWS UP 🇨🇦🌹🚴‍♂️📷 🗺️
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Tamas G

updated, new checkbox: Blink hole line. eurpod.com/BrailleDisplayCalib… for anyone interested in a tool that can calibrate your Braille display. Multiline or single-line, it's useful. I still got to figure out how best to design it to work with JAWS, because it requires panning right now rather than it displaying it. I may do some refactoring on this for single-line displays so it clears it when reaching the end, it's a small enough tweak.

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Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case - The Beaverton

thebeaverton.com/2026/01/mark-…


Mark Carney turns off geolocation on phone just in case - The Beaverton

OTTAWA - This morning, in an unscheduled press statement, the Prime Minister's Office has said that Prime Minister Mark Carney has turned off geolocation services for all his electronic devices "for no particular reason whatsoever".
Brigid Klyne-Simpson (The Beaverton)

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En su día hice mi practicum en derecho internacional público. Y uno quiere creer. Pero cuesta un montón. Cuando la matalobos de la Comisión Europea se congratula, cuando el Bundeskansler lo llama legalmente complejo, cuando cualquier persona con un mínimo de integridad sabe que lo que se ha hecho es profunda, manifiesta, e indiscutiblemente ilegal... Da la sensación de que soy la última persona que queda que no se pasa la Carta de Naciones Unidas y los principios westfalianos por el forro.

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Hmmm, I don't think my "Real ATC" plugin for Miriani-next is quite ready yet. For the uninitiated, #Miriani is a space related #mud (Well, actually, #moo). It generates flight control messages as ships take off and land. And I thought: what if I could have them voiced by AI, generating a random voice each time? There's a model called voxcpm that, if you don't feed it with any voice data, will just generate a voice of its own for your text. But...it's maybe not quite there. The original text I gave it was "This is Outreach to sector 30 flight control, a Hale starship is about to land." This is what it returned.
#MUD #miriani #moo

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Okay, *one* last release for Android 5 users.

#Catima 2.41.2 is out

github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

The barcode encoding feature added in Catima 2.41.0 caused a very minor change in how barcodes where generated, which for some users led to failures to use their cards (github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…). This is now fixed by slightly changing how automatic mode works.

Coming soon to an app store near you.

#IzzyOnDroid #FDroid #GitHub #GooglePlay


QR code card working in 2.40.x is broken in 2.41.1

QR code card added to Catima prior to v2.41, referring to https://xtra.colruytgroup.be/xtra/qr/961198520459603760316514. Was working fine until v2.40.x (scanned OK at the cash desk) Using v2.41.1, ...
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#fdroid #github #googleplay #catima #izzyondroid

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So, I had a cartoon character moment this morning.

I was shaking an old container of cayenne powder to make sure it hadn't clumped up, and a fine mist escaped and sent me into a sneezing fit the likes of which I have never had before. Just one right after the other in rapid succession.

At some point I just started laughing at the absurdity of it. Even after it reached my eyes (although it wasn't as bad as cutting onions).

Basically, today I learned that the absolute sneezing fits people in old cartoons have when someone sticks black pepper under their noses is real.

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I did get a response back regarding narration on Rhythm Doctor: Access to the narration is temporarily restricted on the Microsoft Store build. The code is in there, but some text and tweaks need some adjustments for the Xbox console.
Since updating the game on the Xbox Store would take time and effort, we think it would be more efficient to focus on properly replenishing the narration.
This will be done after our holiday break ends, so please bear with me for around a week or two.

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RE: chaos.social/@omidz4t/11582763…

We support folks who in turn support friends and family in #Iran, to provide resilient private chatting. #deltachat is running pretty reliably and well so far. See also chaos.social/@delta/1158087058…


omid (@omidz4t@chaos.social)

Attached: 1 image While people are protesting in Iran, I am trying to be their voice. I want to say that these suffering people are in danger of a complete internet shutdown.
chaos.social

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2025-12-30 13:16:53

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Iran may be on the verge of Internet shutdowns again. If you have friends or family in #Iran, now is the time to let them onboard for example with tiiiz.ir -- because using in-country servers helps to stay connected. If you need support for setting up a relay in or for Iran, send us a DM and we'll see to connect you with other knowledgeable operators.
با آرزوی فردایی بهتر...

tiiiz.ir home

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#deltachat #iran

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Tag 7 der landesweiten Proteste, die bereits mehrere Todesopfer forderten. Während die mutigen Menschen im #Iran ihr Leben riskieren, hat sich #Merz nicht zu den Demonstrationen geäußert. Aber Deutschland als größter Handelspartner der IRI innerhalb der EU trägt Verantwortung. Videos in den Sozialen Medien zeigen wie Protestierende unter Lebensgefahr Überwachungskameras abmontieren. Geliefert u.a. von Bosch, der der IRI zwischen 2016-18 ca. 8000 Kameras verkaufte. Wegsehen ist ein Verbrechen.
Bild: IranInt Eine Demonstration in der Hauptstadt Teheran. Bundeskanzler Merz schweigt zu den Protesten, obwohl die mutigen Iraner*innen unsere Solidarität verdienen. Deutschland trägt Verantwortung, denn deutsche Firmen haben dem iranischen Regime u.a. Überwachungskameras zur Gesichtserkennung geliefert.
#iran #merz
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My new year's resolution is to continue ignoring all technologies that I am told ignoring will result in me being left behind. I embrace the being left behind. I will become a forest witch, speaking to myself in invented programming languages. In the dark I will twist little bits of wire together to make flickering lights that amuse squirrels. I will let the 8-bit soil from which I came reclaim my body.

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There's really no doubt about why Mr "Drill baby drill" is obsessed with Venezuela, and why he's buddy buddy with Jamal Khashoggi's murderer.
aljazeera.com/news/2025/9/4/ve…

Venezuela has the world’s most oil: Why doesn’t it earn more from exports?

Venezuela holds the world’s largest proven oil reserves, more than five times more than the United States.
Mohammed Haddad (Al Jazeera)
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Frédéric Jacobs

RE: mstdn.social/@Free_Press/11582…

Happy New Year of International Law Violations 😥


Aure Free Press :verified: (@Free_Press@mstdn.social)

Attached: 1 video TRUMP BOMBS CITY! Power outages in CARACAS, VENEZUELA as Trump bombs the city. US Helicopters dropping US Paratroopers into the city! #AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNew…
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