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Tip: if you have multiple #Audible accounts, you can switch between them in the iOS app and play all downloaded titles regardless of which account it's currently signed into.

For example if your main account is with the US marketplace but you've purchased some titles on the UK site, you can switch to the UK account, download those titles, and then switch back to your main US login. The UK titles will still be playable under the Library tab alongside your US ones.

#audible

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Welcome to the RB family, APlayer 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/remix…

APlayer is a beautiful and powerful music player with lyrics support, a built-in equalizer, sleep timer, tag editor, and more.

Thanks to some help by its developer, this app can now be built reproducible :awesome:

#ReproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

„APlayer“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

A beautiful and powerful music player
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#reproduciblebuilds #izzyondroid
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su_liam

@TimWardCam @mort Anything that requires someone(the manufacturer) to maintain a digital copy on a functional server somewhere is an inevitable locus for enshittification. Doubly so, if that was an intentional choice by that particular someone(the manufacturer). You definitely know they don’t care at best, and at worst they’re looking for a rug to pull.
@Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE @Mirko Schenk
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Tim Ward ⭐🇪🇺🔶 #FBPE

@su_liam @mort Another one is a textbook I've got which contains URLs for additional online study material.

Which doesn't exist.

I emailed the author and he said that the original publisher sold the label to another publisher, who carried on selling the stock of books containing the URL, and then the original publisher simply deleted the web site.

@su_liam @Mirko Schenk

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Thinking about forgiveness lately and wondering if it's such a good thing. If we forgive bad people (certain politicians, CEOs, misogynists, racists, criminals, etc.) while they refuse to change, where does that get us? OTOH if we use e.g. ostracism as a tool, does that improve the problematic thoughts & behaviour, or entrench it? In other words, how do we best convince people to be less rubbish?

Any resources would be appreciated, whether regarding individuals or societies.
#BoostsWelcome

#boostswelcome
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modulux

I don't have any resources at hand either. My current thoughts: in many cases forgiveness can be a lever to shape or improve behaviour. It's not exactly the same, but it's why in criminal law you don't go after people who attempt a crime but give up; or reduce the penalty if they cooperate with justice. Because, if they have nothing to gain from correcting their behaviour, they might as well continue being maximally bad. I also think people can and do change.

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Contre #Trump on voit bien l’impact limité des #rassemblements et #manifestations… Il est temps de boycotter sérieusement les produits US :
🔸 #CocaCola, #MacDonald : c'est pas un gros effort, ça nous manquera pas !
🔸 #Apple, #Microsoft : go #Linux !
🔸 #Google : degooglisons-internet.org avec l'aide de @Framasoft
🔸 #Whatsapp : go #Matrix !
... liste à compléter ...

#boycott #BoycottUSA #impérialisme #Venezuela #Palestine #BDS


Dégooglisons Internet - Accueil

Les géants du web centralisent nos vies numériques en échange de leurs services Les communautés du logiciel libre offrent des services alternatifs éthiques Le réseau Framasoft souhaite le démontreren les hébergeant
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#linux #apple #matrix #google #whatsapp #Trump #microsoft #palestine #boycott #Venezuela #bds #cocacola #rassemblements #manifestations #macdonald #boycottusa #imperialisme @Framasoft
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miki

@x0 @jdking92 We'll have to do something about this, sooner or later. Resumes basically worked because there was friction when sending them, now companies are inundated with bullshit resumes. Most people I know of are falling back to networks, referrals and OSS contributions (which can also help bootstrap networks and referrals if you're strategic about which projects you contribute to).
@Joseph King @x0

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Can screen readers translate alt text? Text in general? If not, do they at least read the language correctly?

Sight reading, I can pick my way through a lot of not-English; German, Spanish, even a bit of Russian, and from that I can puzzle out a bit of related languages.

Does that work with a screen reader? Or does it read out the eg. German text with English phonetics and make a total hash of it?

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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

It depends. If the user speaks both languages, and the lang attribute on the HTML has been set correctly, then the screen reader will read the correct text in the correct language. If the HTML lang attribute is not set, the user can change the language manually using a screen reader hotkey. However, these things assume the user has installed and configured voices that speak both languages. For example, I currently do not have a Russian voice installed (because I don't understand Russian anyway), so my screen reader will just read out unicode character codes, because it has no way of pronouncing the Russian alphabet. There are also addons that can recognize the language text is written in, and change the screen reader language automatically even if the language attribute isn't set, but most folks don't bother with these. As for translation: there are third party addons that can take all the text spoken by a screen reader, translate it into another language, and then speak it. However, this introduces lag, and sends everything the screen reader says off to a third party translation service. I would only use something like this if I was, for example, playing a Japanese game where I knew all text would be in Japanese, so my screen reader would just translate to English before speaking. I wouldn't just leave it on all the time.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Also, if it's not a western, colonial European, or east-Asian language, screen reader support for it will be terrible. As far as I'm aware, there is zero support for any indigenous languages spoken by the people living in what are now Canada and the United States, in any screen reader or text to speech voice, anywhere. Same goes for many middle-eastern and African languages, as well as stuff like Irish Gaelic. If you speak those languages and are blind, your only real choice is...learn a different language and never use your phone or computer to read anything in your native language. Somehow, I doubt anyone on the fediverse is surprised by this.
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Borris

@jakobrosin I am using a local NVDARemote server on a Raspberry Pi on my Tailnet. I don't like the idea of NVDA hosting the connection, because I've seen instances where clients dropped. Restarting NVDA would fix it, but you can't, because it broke. So I use an external controller that can be restarted separately over SSH if it breaks like that, and it has. So I'm glad I did that, or I'd have lost access to my machines.
@Jakob Rosin

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If you use #eloquence in #NVDA, an extremely uninteresting bugfix is now available. Previously, automatic language switching in NVDA didn't work for any language with a dialect specified, like English United States. This is now fixed. It literally just changes from calling languages en-gb and en-us to calling them en_gb and en_us to make NVDA happy. But if you need that, you can get the bugfix here: github.com/fastfinge/eloquence_64/releases/tag/v6

Release v6: bugfix in automatic language switching · fastfinge/eloquence_64

This is just a bugfix release to ensure Auto Language switching works for languages with dialects. Previously, NVDA could not switch to using any language with a dialect during auto language switch...
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#nvda #eloquence

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Sean Randall

I've not had chance to play with my hardware project with the baby, but I occasionally still kick the monologue system from 1993.
I'd love a software-based doubletalk, but ... well. not making too much progress. This is the raw audio data and that's about as far as I've gotten.

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The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs

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The Curious Case of the Shallow Session SPAs

Buried at the end of this year's installment of my semi-annual series on network and device reality is a mystery: multiple, independent data sets from the Web Performance community indicate sites built as Single-Page Applications ("SPAs") receive, on…
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I bought myself a new keyboard with Christmas money, and after just a day of using it, I'm honestly kind of stunned by how much of a difference it's making.
I picked up a Keychron K10 Max from Amazon and got it yesterday, and I don't think I ever want to go back to a membrane keyboard again.
For context: before this, I was using a Logitech Ergo K860. It's a split, membrane keyboard that a lot of people like for ergonomics, and it did help in some ways — but for me, it was also limiting. My hands don't stay neatly parked in one position, and the enforced split often worked against how I naturally move. It also wasn't rechargeable, and the large built-in wrist rest (which I know some people love) mostly became a dirt-collecting obstacle that I had to work around.
Another big factor for me is that I often work from bed. That means my keyboard isn't sitting on a perfectly stable desk. It's on a tray, my lap, or bedding that shifts as I move.
The Logitech Ergo K860 is very light, which sounds nice on paper, but in practice it meant the keyboard was easy to knock around, slide out of position, or tilt unexpectedly. Combined with the split layout, that meant I was constantly re-orienting myself instead of just typing.
The Keychron, by contrast, is noticeably heavier — and that turns out to be a feature. It stays put. It doesn’t drift when my hands move. It feels planted in a way that reduces both physical effort and mental overhead. I don't have to think about where the keyboard is; I can just use it.
For a bed-based workflow, that stability matters more than I realized.
With chronic pain, hand fatigue, and accessibility needs, keyboards are not a neutral tool. They shape how long I can work, how accurately I can type, and how much energy I spend compensating instead of thinking.
This new keyboard feels solid, responsive, and predictable in a way I didn't realize I was missing. The keys register cleanly without requiring force, and the feedback is clear without being harsh. I'm not fighting the keyboard anymore. It's just doing what I ask.
What surprised me even more is how much better the software side feels from an accessibility perspective. Keychron's Launcher and its use of QMK are far more usable for me than Logitech Options Plus ever was. Being able to work with something that’s web-based, text-oriented, and closer to open standards makes a huge difference as a screen reader user. I can reason about what the keyboard is doing instead of wrestling with a visually dense, mouse-centric interface.
That matters a lot. When your primary interface to the computer is the keyboard, both the hardware and the configuration tools need to cooperate with you.
I know mechanical keyboards aren't new, but this is my first one, and I finally understand why people say they'll never go back. For me, this isn't about aesthetics or trends. It's about having a tool that respects my body and my access needs and lets me focus on the work itself.
I'm really grateful I was able to get this, and I'm genuinely excited to keep dialing it in. Sometimes the right piece of hardware, paired with software that doesn’t fight you, doesn’t just improve comfort. It quietly expands what feels possible.
#Accessibility #DisabledTech #AssistiveTechnology
#ScreenReader #NVDA
#MechanicalKeyboards #Keychron
@accessibility @disability @spoonies @mastoblind
#Accessibility #screenreader #nvda #assistivetechnology #disabledtech #mechanicalkeyboards #keychron @spoonies group @Accessibility @Disability and Accessibility @Group 4 Blind & VI people

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To celebrate the first official Digital Independence Day - with some help of other #opensource enthusiasts - we convinced someone from my family:
✅ to install #Linux on their Mac computer,
✅ created a #Mastodon account for them,
✅ and assisted them in the transition.

It worked out!

Thank you to the anonymous supporter! ;)

#unplugtrump #didit #diday #dutgemacht #foss

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#linux #foss #opensource #Mastodon #unplugtrump #dutgemacht #didit #diday
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A longish thread on the invasion of #Venezuela.

We are again watching world media be willingly manipulated. Parroting the propaganda they’ve been fed. Normalising international criminality. Sane-washing what is patently not so, and ignoring globally irresponsible behaviour.

A case in point is watching them bend over backwards to try and make coherent the patently incoherent, contradictory rationale the Trump administration has given for its actions in Venezuela.

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#Venezuela
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Madeleine Morris

Trump cannot think longterm, but those around him do. Giving tacit permission for China to invade Taiwan or Russia to take over Ukraine also paves the way for the US acquisition of the parts of the world they want. And an extreme rise in militarism which requires the suspension of all sorts of everyday rights that are taken for granted in stable democracies.

The US far right needs to be able to point at monstrous aggressive instability to force through their goals of a white, christian US.

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Madeleine Morris

It is hard to keep your eye on two games being played at the same time. But this is what has been happening all along. This is why the hard right white Christian nationalists in the US tolerate (and even embrace) Trump.

Not because he has the ability to agree with them ideologically, but because his flagrant global irresponsibility destabilises settled orders enough to make their goals possible.

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Should you attend FOSDEM this year, make sure to drop by our stand – and maybe also listen to our talks :awesome: I've just updated the news post at our OpenCollective with details for you, see opencollective.com/izzyondroid…

At our stand, you will find us (with stickers), @SylvieLorxu (the Cat Ima!) also with Catima stickers, @electrikjesus with Bliss goodies, and our friends from @shiftphones with their goodies.

Come to meet us all!

#IzzyOnDroid #FOSDEM #FOSDEM2026 #FOSDEM26


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#fosdem #izzyondroid #fosdem2026 #fosdem26 @SHIFTPHONES @Sylvia @Jon West

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there's a certain day of the week every year, that allows you to calculate the day of the week for any date that year -- in your head!

for 3 years out of four, it's January 3
in the fourth, in leap year, it's January 4

so for 2026, this day, called Doomsday, is Saturday

The Doomsday Algorithm
rudy.ca/doomsday.html

the easiest part of the Doomsday algorithm is the even months

all of these Doomsdays are Saturdays in 2026 --

April (4th month) 4th
June (6th month) 6th
August (8th month) 8th
October (10th month) 10th
December (12th month) 12th

the other months are fairly easy too, and pretty soon you will be able to do any date this year

check out the 2026 Doomsday calendar below

you can also extend this to other years and even centuries, but it's a bit trickier

the Doomsday Algorithm was originally devised by John Horton Conway, a famous mathematician, who died of COVID in 2020

Doomsday calendar for 2026 with the Doomsday in each month highlighted

Doomsday Algorithm

The Doomsday Algorithm gives the day of the week for any date (and you can do it in your head)
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