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New tutorial posted by Kareen Kiwan: Easily create a sound scheme for Jieshuo Screen Reader tinyurl.com/y9r7pw4p

Easy way to create a Jieshuo sound scheme - Accessible Android

Jieshuo screen reader enables the user to listen to sounds for many events and gives them the capability to create their own sound sets that are called "sound schemes." Here's an easy way to create a sound scheme
Kareen Kiwan (Erişilebilir Android)

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Cada vez que leo a Ursula K. Leguin me asombra su genialidad. El día antes de la revolución es un relato perfecto, que condensa toda una vida de lucha política en 66 páginas. Su protagonista está a punto de conseguir aquello por lo que lleva trabajando desde su infancia. Pero ya no le importa, porque la vejez y el agotamiento pesan más. ¡Y qué bien descrita está la vejez! Este relato reflexiona sobre la condición humana, la vida en prisión, el deseo... pero, sobre todo, emociona.
#literatura
#literatura

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Nice to see this #a11y patch get into #Mastodon github.com/mastodon/mastodon/i…

Add alt text label similar to twitter to encourage authors to make images accessible · Issue #18394 · mastodon/mastodon

Pitch Twitter recently enabled a small ALT label in all images with alt texts and it greatly improved the visibility of alt texts. Mastodon should add this feature as well. Motivation This would be...
GitHub
#a11y #Mastodon

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Las mentiras de Ayuso sobre el veto a Bolaños, la sanidad, las residencias y la ley de vivienda.

La presidenta de la Comunidad de Madrid ha asegurado este miércoles que el ministro quiso presidir el acto del Dos de Mayo o que Reyes Maroto no confirmó su asistencia. Ambas afirmaciones son falsas eldiario.es/madrid/mentiras-ay…

Las mentiras de Ayuso sobre el veto a Bolaños, la sanidad, las residencias y la ley de vivienda

Un día después del choque institucional entre el Gobierno de Isabel Díaz Ayuso y Ejecutivo central por la festividad del Dos de Mayo, día de la Comunidad de Madrid, la presidenta regional ha concedido este miércoles una entrevista a la Cadena Ser en …
Fátima Caballero (elDiario.es)

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We believe in a layered, defense-in-depth approach to security, and that is why we are excited to announce our partnership with SNLT to offer premium Faraday sleeves and bags compatible with our product line.

puri.sm/posts/belt-and-braces-…


Belt and Braces: Introducing Faraday Sleeves and Bags from SLNT – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.
Purism SPC

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There'll be no Joy of Coding episode today, as I'll be hanging out with @killyourfm and @ryanleesipes to chat with them on the Thundercast!

When the episode is posted, I believe it'll be posted (with links / instructions for your favourite podcast app) at blog.thunderbird.net!

The Thunderbird Blog -

The Thunderbird Blog
@Ryan Lee Sipes ⚡🦅 @Jason Evangelho 🐧🎒

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Gaming for the blind

OK. I am really confused... I want to get into gaming some. And being blind, I obviously need games I can play. The question is which equipment should I get. I do have a decent sized PC, an AMD Ryzen 9 3900GHz, 32 GB, 1 TB SSD, but the graphics card is a bit under-dimensioned, a GeForce GT-1650 super, or something. I am thinking of upgrading to this one: mindfactory.de/product_info.ph…

However, considering that the upcoming Forza Motor Sports is an Xbox game, should I even bother upgrading my Windows PC and make it gaming-capable? Is the PC a compelling gaming platform for us? Note that due to the theme, The Last Of Us Part I is probably not really my cup of tea, even though it is accessible. Any advice from experienced blind gamers is appreciated.

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in reply to Marco Zehe

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ohanditdidntgo

Gaming for the blind

Not strictly hardware focused, but if you're looking for game recommendations then there's been a few games that launched in the last two or three years that might be perfect for those with limited or no vision.

Blind Drive - A game where you have to navigate a car through a high speed car chase using nothing but audio clues.

The Vale - Not played this one myself but it's got a 9/10 rating on steam and seems pretty alright.

in reply to Marco Zehe

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Drew Mochak

Gaming for the blind
That should do fine. I love gaming on PC! I have done it that way for many years. I have no idea how well it will run Forza (since it is not out yet) but those look like good enough specs for it to run decently. Strongly prefer it over consoles as you are not then tied into the lock-in/upgrade model of needing a new gaming machine every 5 years or so. I already upgrade my PC about as much so I find the consoles to be redundant.

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“When using Windows machines, Firefox users routinely encounter ... barriers, such as overriding their selection of default browser, or pop-ups and misleading warnings attempting to persuade them that Edge is somehow safer” -me
gizmodo.com/microsoft-windows-…

Microsoft Broke a Chrome Feature to Promote Its Edge Browser

Windows borked a feature that let you change your default browser, and some users saw popups every time they opened Chrome. It's the 1990s again for Microsoft.
Thomas Germain (Gizmodo)

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Welcome François Michel as #curl committer 1136: github.com/curl/curl/pull/1106…

Disable quiche pacing while is not actually performed by curl by francoismichel · Pull Request #11068 · curl/curl

Hi, Just a one-line commit that disables pacing in the quiche library as currently curl does not perform pacing when sending the QUIC packets. When pacing is enabled, quiche assumes that packet are...
GitHub
#curl

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Today is #worldpressfreedomday
📻📺🗞️

Together with 45+ pro-privacy organizations such as @threemaapp @mozilla @nextcloud and others we are calling on democratic world leaders to uphold encryption, privacy & press freedom: tutanota.com/blog/posts/press-…

Our asks are simple:

▪️ Do NOT undermine encryption via overreaching legislative initiatives 🔒

▪️ Do NOT block or throttle technologies providing secure, encrypted services 🔒

#privacy #encryption #pressfreedom #pressfreedomday #worldpressfreedomday


Press Freedom Day: 40+ organizations call on world leaders to uphold encryption & privacy

On Press Freedom Day a coalition of 40+ ogrs have united to defend strong encryption.
Tutanota
#privacy #encryption #worldpressfreedomday #pressfreedom #pressfreedomday @Mozilla @Nextcloud 📱☁️💻 @Threema

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Un mes de empleo y sueldo para el líder de un sindicato policial: “Eres un niñato. Si quieres, me detienes”.

El secretario general de la Unión Federal de Policía, Víctor Duque, se negó a identificarse ante unos compañeros en el marco de una trifulca durante la Feria de Algeciras: “No me digas lo que tengo que hacer, que lo sé antes de que tú nacieras. No tienes ni idea de quién soy” eldiario.es/politica/mes-emple…

Un mes de empleo y sueldo para el líder de un sindicato policial: “Eres un niñato. Si quieres, me detienes”

La Dirección General de la Policía ha impuesto una sanción de un mes de suspensión de empleo y sueldo al secretario general de la Unión Federal de Policía (UFP), Víctor Duque, por un incidente ocurrido con otros agentes, estos de servicio, en la Feri…
Pedro Águeda (elDiario.es)

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Hilo de investigación 🧵👇

El Parlamento europeo se plantea rescatar de la quiebra con dinero público el fondo de pensiones voluntario de sus diputados
ow.ly/Aslc50Obp7r

El Parlamento europeo se plantea rescatar de la quiebra con dinero público el fondo de pensiones voluntario de sus diputados

El fondo de pensiones privado y gestionado desde Luxemburgo, al que pudieron unirse los eurodiputados entre 1991 y 2009, está abocado a la quiebra como muy tarde en 2025
infoLibre
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Beyond #Qatargate: the EU needs a compulsory register that targets all covert lobbying

Instead of a misguided 'foreign agents' law that will negatively target NGOs, the EU needs a robust compulsory transparency register that targets all covert #lobbying
corporateeurope.org/en/2023/04…


Beyond Qatargate: the EU needs a compulsory register that targets all covert lobbying

Instead of a misguided 'foreign agents' law that will negatively target NGOs, the EU needs to respond to the Qatargate scandal with a robust compulsory transparency register that targets all covert lobbying, with legally binding sanctions and enforce…
corporateeurope.org
#lobbying #Qatargate

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LibreOffice isn't just software – it's a whole community of people, working together to create something awesome! Find out what they did in April, and join them: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl…
Community members at an event in Brazil

LibreOffice project and community recap: April 2023 - The Document Foundation Blog

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month noting Microsoft’s plans to raise the prices of its office software in Germany – and other se…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)

LibreOffice reshared this.

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daniel:// stenberg://

@dionrhys ah thanks. I'm still polishing the exact formatting of the JSON: github.com/curl/curl-www/issue…

OSV spec · Issue #240 · curl/curl-www

Hey! I'm from the OSV (and OSS-Fuzz :) ) team. Really excited to see #237. It looks like the current export is not spec-compliant, and we'd like to help work together on making this more compliant ...
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@Dion Williams

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"It is strange and striking that climate change activists have not committed any acts of terrorism. After all, terrorism is for the individual by far the modern world’s most effective form of political action, and climate change is an issue about which people feel just as strongly about as, say, animal rights. This is especially noticeable when you bear in mind the ease of things like blowing up petrol stations, or vandalising SUVs. In cities, SUVs are loathed by everyone except the people who drive them; and in a city the size of London, a few dozen people could in a short space of time make the ownership of these cars effectively impossible, just by running keys down the side of them, at a cost to the owner of several thousand pounds a time. Say fifty people vandalizing four cars each and every night for a month: six thousand trashed SUVs in a month and [they] would soon be disappearing from our streets. So why don’t these things happen? Is it because the people who feel strongly about climate change are simply too nice, too educated, to do anything of the sort? (But terrorists are often highly educated.) Or is it that even the people who feel most strongly about climate change, on some level, can’t quite bring themselves to believe in it?"

-- "Fighting in a World on Fire"

Also called Lanchester's Paradox

Fighting in a World on Fire (2023, Verso Books, Verso)

Fighting in a World on Fire - BookWyrm

Social Reading and Reviewing
bookwyrm.social

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"El 26 de abril de 2023 se anunció que se ponía en marcha en Francia, Alemania, España, Italia y Reino Unido un nuevo tipo de cookie para redes móviles. Esta tecnología llamada TrustPID ya no vive en nuestros navegadores: la "supercookie" depende totalmente de nuestros operadores telefónicos. Ha llegado de forma un tanto silenciosa y viene activada por defecto, lo que da que pensar de cara a las reglas del GDPR."
No quiero que me rastreen, ¿cómo se apaga eso?
mangelesbroullon.wordpress.com…

TrustPID, la «supercookie» de los operadores telefónicos

Los operadores telefónicos también quieren una parte del pastel de la publicidad segmentada, y han creado su propia cookie para ello.
Angeles' blog

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The King’s Coronation is to be broadcast with live accessible commentary and audio description. This type of accessible commentary is different to audio description. Whilst audio description has traditionally been pre-recorded and mixed into the main audio after filming, this accessible commentary will be transmitted live as the event happens. rnib.org.uk/news/the-kings-cor…

The King’s Coronation to be broadcast with live accessible commentary and audio description

The coronation of King Charles will be an occasion to bring the country together. The coronation of King Charles III will be broadcast with live accessible commentary on the red button on BBC1 and live audio description on ITV1 on Saturday 6th of May…
RNIB

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25 years ago, brave leaders made the impossible come true by signing the Good Friday (Belfast) Agreement.

It not only ended 30 years of the Troubles, but also opened a new era of cooperation.

After a quarter of a century of peace, we recently renewed our commitment to maintaining peace and prosperity with the Windsor Framework.

It will preserve peace by avoiding a hard border on the island, while also protecting the integrity of the EU’s Single Market.

➡️ europa.eu/!K8nW4f

Press corner

Highlights, press releases and speeches
European Commission - European Commission

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Add-on store is coming to NVDA:
According to Sean, an NVAccess developer, assuming no blocking issues are raised, the Add-on store should be merged to alpha by the end of next week.
Try build:
ci.appveyor.com/api/buildjobs/…
This try build includes user documentation though the user guide is still under review.
PR 13985, for comments that should be addressed by NVAccess:
github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/…

Add-on store by feerrenrut · Pull Request #13985 · nvaccess/nvda

This is intended to act as a base for "stacked pull requests" to build up this feature until it is considered ready to merge into NVDA. Link to issue number: None Summary of the issue: Historically...
GitHub

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New blog post: Valgrind 3.21 is out
nnethercote.github.io/2023/05/…

In which I describe my contribution to the release, and some thoughts about the state of Valgrind development.

Valgrind 3.21 is out

Valgrind 3.21 was released last week. The release announcement has the full details of the changes.
Nicholas Nethercote

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This is a fascinating read. As a recent lover of game shows, i have heard a lot about Barbara Lowe. Looks like a lot of it was not true, very sad. I personally think Jeopardy should invite her back if she would be interested. theringer.com/tv/2023/5/2/2370…

The Enduring Mystery of Barbara Lowe and the Lost ‘Jeopardy!’ Episodes

In 1986, Barbara Lowe Vollick won five games of ‘Jeopardy!’ in a row. Her episodes were then taken out of circulation.
Claire McNear (The Ringer)

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@libreoffice

FYI
Pagebreak UI bug in vaersion 7.4 / 7.5?

I set document and application background to black (and text in green) for ease on my eyes, and a manual page break indicator looks like it should up to 7.0.4 which I use now (see screenshot).

When I upgraded to 7.4.5 (Devuan backports) and also tried 7.5 via flatpak, I noticed the small gap between the pages was no longer black around the dotted page break line but seemingly the standard application colour.

Very distracting for me.

Page break indicator on black document and application background as set in version 7.0.4.
@LibreOffice

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#LivingBlindfully Transcript: Living Blindfully episode 226, Voice Dream Reader has a nightmare week and ignites a subscription debate, how do E-Scooters disrupt your life, and do police sometimes fail to take crimes against blind people seriously? - livingblindfully.com/lb0226tra…

Transcript: Living Blindfully episode 226, Voice Dream Reader has a nightmare week and ignites a subscription debate, how do E-Scooters disrupt your life, and do police sometimes fail to take crimes against blind people seriously? – Living Blindfully

www.livingblindfully.com
#livingblindfully
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