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I keep fighting with myself whether I should just go back to Instagram. On the one side, fuck Meta and everything they do. On the other, why bother. Like, I wanna be social, a lot of irl people are there and apparently it's still number 1 when it comes to sharing what's going on in your life with sighted people who can't be bothered to you know, chat the oldschool way. But meh, I need to stay consistent for once, and I wouldn't have a lot of benefit as well. Problem is they just wouldn't care enough to come to Mastodon or Pixelfeed or st.

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Removed some followers, bots and inactive alts in particular. Not that I'd want to broadcast my entire life story but I only have this account and plan to keep it like that cuz several are just overkill, and I'ed rather have a little overview who I throw some of my stuff at. So congrats, if you read this you're not a bot and still active, and I appreciate your follow.
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Beta 2 of Braille display Calibration tool: Added a pause function, where you can hit P or enter to pause.
I'm still labeling it beta until I know quirks are ironed out for people.
Whether you're using a single-line or a multi-line Braille device, calibrating the dots and a way to clean them by raising, then gently wiping, can really work.
Here at home, I'm testing this tool using the Brailliant BI 40X as well as the Cadence. I have some others here, but these give me a good idea on how well it works for different display types.
github.com/tgeczy/BrailleDispl…

Release beta-2 · tgeczy/BrailleDisplay_calibration

This beta adds pause functionality. Fixed checkbox behaviors.
GitHub
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Misinformation thrives in stressful times. I know we all want to share news right now but when you feel the urge to share something on your feed consider asking:

* Who posted this? Are they a reporter, or do they have what looks like a reliable source?
* Have you heard of this news site before?
* Where is this photo from? Did they take it? Could it be something other than what the poster claims? Is there a way you can tell if it is what it says it is?

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VoiceUover users who type in languages with accented letters. When I write in Spanish with the Spanish keyboard, I have to hold my finger down on say the an and then drag right to get the acute acute. the not tilde is right there on the spanish keyboard, but you have to drag quite a lot. Is there a VO shortcut to get altogether characters, for example drag down to select?

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@NVAccess Hello. I want to inform you that the NV-Access YouTube channel seems to have been marked as Made for Kids. This means that comments are disabled on your videos, and subscribers to your channel are not able to receive notifications when you upload a new video, among other restrictions that limit the outreach of your channel. I'm not sure if the team was already aware of this, but I wanted to let you know, as I am a subscriber who would like to be notified about new content from you.
@NV Access

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Happy World Braille Day!

Each January 4th, the birthday of Louis Braille, the day aims "to raise awareness of the importance of Braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people."

un.org/en/observances/braille-…

#WorldBrailleDay #WorldBrailleDay2026 #Braille #Blindness #Accessibility

Image of several cells of a Braille display with purple shading and the text "Happy World Braille Day, 4th January" in white with the NV Access logo, also in white.

World Braille Day | United Nations

The purpose of the day is to raise awareness of the importance of braille as a means of communication in the full realization of the human rights for blind and partially sighted people.
United Nations
#Accessibility #blindness #braille #worldbrailleday #worldbrailleday2026

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RE: witter.cz/@mh/1158324888007795…

Man would expect, that #headphones costing 340€ sold by a well established brand like #Sony would consider some basic security. And when a vulnerability is discovered, that they would quickly announce and deploy a fix.
But no. I still don't know whether my WH-1000XM headphone have this security hole fixed or if it ever will be fixed. Sony is just silent about it. 👎️
sony.cz/electronics/support/wi…

Matěj H.

2026-01-03 18:05:13

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There was also a talk by the authors at 39C3

media.ccc.de/v/39c3-bluetooth-…



Bluetooth Headphone Jacking: A Key to Your Phone

Bluetooth headphones and earbuds are everywhere, and we were wondering what attackers could abuse them for. Sure, they can probably do th...
media.ccc.de

#headphones #sony

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Amusing, audio game, Bloodshed, background music playing extremely fast at game over, takes over six minutes to slow down

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@Sam Tupy

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Maybe it's the constant turmoil of the world and/or me longing for simpler times in life, but today I found myself setting up the development environment for Rockbox, the alternative mp3 player firmware. I haven't even had a player for over 12 years.

Rockbox was the first real open source project I started tinkering with back in 2008. Obviously my skills back then weren't good enough to get any changes accepted, but learning to set up various toolchains, building my own custom patched binaries and just hanging around a well-maintained project (and getting rejected for not abiding by the rules) turned out to be invaluable experiences later in life.

Just for fun I did a simulator build (Rockbox has truly excellent simulators for all their supported players) and was at home straight away. Nothing much has changed in all this time. So much of the tech I use has been enshittified in the past 10 years that using a piece of software whose UI has been essentially unchanged since when I was a teenager felt just incredible.

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Sean Randall

I quite like voicedream and eloquence together, but given that I find what to read on a computer much of the time anyway, a card in my clip which syncs whenever I charge it works fine for me too.
Voicedream can't pause between tracks, which I find invaluable, and I also struggle to get it to reliably resume whilst wearing air pods.

I also prefer the distraction-free, single-use device, and especially when doing things around the home don't even have my phone about my person some of the time. Something weighing about 15g is a most convenient carry and I've just grown used to using these things over the last decade or so.

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I got stranded at the Utrecht Centraal because they cancelled all the busses. It's insane that they did this when all the snow has already been cleared. If private cars are running, then busses should run too. I've experienced delays and cancellations, but I've never experienced the transit company just straight up giving up. This is the most disillusioned I've been with Dutch transit. The company should have their contract revoked.

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it took some annoying network refactoring but I've moved my Wireguard tunnels from individual hosts behind my firewall to the firewall itself so the firewall can do the needful incl using blocklists instead of having to do per-host firewalls which is really stupid, especially when a bunch of my stuff is in VNET jails. I have zero desire to force a firewall configuration onto my VNET jails.

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Wenn Stromausfall ist, kommt nach Charlottenburg direkt Werder. 🤔

(Der RE1 fährt einmal weiträumig um das durch Stromausfall kaputte Stellwerk in Zehlendorf/Wannsee herum. Nicht halten aber vorbeifahren werden wir in Berlin Staaken, Dallgow-Döberitz, Elstal, Priort, Marquardt und sehr zum Unmut aller eigentlich nach Potsdam reisenden Leute: Golm. Ich bin froh, dass es diese alternative Route gibt)

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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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Tech Singer

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

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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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