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Today's #AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid brings you 8 updated & 2 added apps, the latter enlarging your "green suite":

* Fossify Contacts
* Fossify Phone

Replacing your orange, now ad-ridden Simple Tools apps.

On the security front, the new APK checks are now fully in place. 2 more apps with debug keys have been removed (no longer maintained), and Dotterel switched to a proper release key.

Enjos your #free #Android #apps with #FDroid and the #IzzySoftRepo :awesome:


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

This is a repository of apps to be used with F-Droid. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#android #free #fdroid #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo
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The daughter (she’s 13) has been having a miserable time at school recently because the Austrian gymnasium system is about the least ADHD-friendly school system on the planet and it obsesses about stuff like maths and grammar and testing, none of which she’s good at. So I thought I’d sneak a photo of the last couple of pages of her notebook and share these illustrations she’s done which I think are pretty damn good. If you think they’re good as well, let me know as she needs all the encouragement she can get right now.
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as a non-native speaker I must admit it was a little hard for me to read. But I wouldn't tell her that: it looks beautiful, and I assume seeing the original it would be easier for me to read anyway. And I very much liked her idea of having that "ALT text" applied to her paintings! Say what you want: it LOOKS beautiful.

And marvelous! Hadn't you mentioned her age… well, looking at my "art work" from that time, I'd NEVER thought that. But well, I'm not a "graphic designer" nowadays either 🙈

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I'm making more progress on the new Wayland accessibility protocol extension I'm developing with funding from the GNOME Foundation. Here's the current draft spec, with a new interface for accessibility consumers (e.g. screen readers): gitlab.freedesktop.org/mwcampb… Still working on implementing this. The document notes the current known protocol limitations, which are still major.

staging/accessibility/accessibility-v1.xml · accessibility · Matt Campbell / wayland-protocols · GitLab

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@swick Forgive the very late response. Why do you say D-Bus is the better IPC for things that don't influence surface commits or input delivery? I like the idea of using a Wayland protocol extension for any IPC with the compositor for these reasons:

1. The Wayland protocol is simpler.
2. WAYLAND_DISPLAY is a standardized way of connecting to the compositor, that already works with nested compositors.
3. Some compositors (e.g. wlroots ones) don't use D-Bus at all.

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Interesting blog post about the roadmap for the backend of the Xilem Rust GUI toolkit: linebender.org/blog/xilem-back…

I especially like this aside, and am proud that I played a part in making this happen:

> AccessKit support in particular is table stakes, by now. The Rust ecosystem is converging on the idea that accessibility (or at least, screen reader support) should be integrated early on in the design of GUI frameworks, not tacked on at the end.

Roadmap for the Xilem backend in 2024

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REMINDER: If you're in China, you want to download the apps you may want from indie developers like myself as they will become unavailable in March. readwrite.com/apple-implements…

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Apple implements new app verification in China amid tightened regulations - ReadWrite

Apple adjusts its China App Store process in response to new regulations, requiring apps to present a government license.
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🍦 New Article: The decline of React gomakethings.com/the-decline-o… #WebDev #FrontEndDeveloper #100DaysOfCode #CodeNewbie

The decline of React

Over the last week, I’ve been seeing a wave of articles and Mastodon posts from people who I would consider advocates of React about how React is actually bad now. The first one I saw was from Tom MacWright.
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The RDAccess add-on (Remote Desktop Accessibility) adds support for Microsoft Remote Desktop, Citrix, or VMware Horizon remote sessions to NVDA. When installed on both the client and the server in NVDA, speech and braille generated on the server will be spoken and displayed in braille on the client machine. This enables a user experience where managing a remote system feels as seamless as operating the local system. github.com/LeonarddeR/rdAccess

GitHub - LeonarddeR/rdAccess: Remote Desktop Accessibility for the NVDA screen reader

Remote Desktop Accessibility for the NVDA screen reader - GitHub - LeonarddeR/rdAccess: Remote Desktop Accessibility for the NVDA screen reader
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Balabolka Portable 2.15.0.862 (text-to-speech on demand) Released portableapps.com/news/2024-01-…

Balabolka Portable 2.15.0.862 (text-to-speech on demand) Released | PortableApps.com

A new version of Balabolka Portable has been released. Balabolka is a Text-To-Speech (TTS) program that uses the Microsoft Speech API (SAPI) voices installed on the system to read text aloud or save it to an audio file. It's packaged in PortableApps.
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PA.c Platform 29.0 is here with new Freeware license filtering (personal, business, etc) improved app compatibility checks and a ton of translation updates. It's open source and free so download today! And please make a donation if you can.
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PortableApps.com Platform 29.0: Freeware License Filtering and Improved App Compatibility Checks | PortableApps.com

PortableApps.com is proud to announce the PortableApps.com Platform 29.0 release. This release adds the ability to filter available freeware apps based on license (personal, educational, business, none), support for app compatibility edge cases, and …
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Folks, I hope you are all prepared for an incredible #GUADEC2024 because it is going to be *great*. I’m so stoked. I hope we can do Denver justice in just the few days most people will be here, but I think between the talks, location, and social events, we will do pretty well. 😁

Submit a talk and plan your trip over at guadec.org 👀

#GNOME #GUADEC #Denver #DenverCO #Colorado

#gnome #GUADEC #colorado #guadec2024 #denver #denverco

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Doctor Who Audio Adventures (SPM Productions)
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Doctor Who Audio Adventures (SPM Productions)

Dramatized Science Fiction Anthology This is a series of audio dramas based on the BBC’s hit sci-fi show, Doctor Who. It has a full voice cast, original stories, original sounds, and music al…
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@AudioDramaDirectory I just finished this story and would like to share my initial impressions from someone who's into both audio theater as well as #DoctorWho. On the positive side I liked the acting of the newly regenerated Doctor's character. I won't give away much of the story but it was a refreshing change from many other DW stories for a couple of reasons. Unlike other stories that introduce a new Doctor this incarnation isn't behaving oddly during most of the story. He only collapses once due to his regeneration and his confusion is short-lived. Another thing that makes it refreshing is that it's not the typical alien monsters take over the planet story. Lisa Smith, the new companion, is pretty spunky and has some great dialog with the Doctor when she first realizes that he's an alien. The character of Lisa's mom also gives us some great dialog as well as believable acting. The theme music is reminiscent of that of the TV show but it's different enough to make it stand out. I do have some criticisms, mainly that there were some long, visual scenes without dialog. At times it felt like I was listening to an audio sound track of a TV episode which needed some audio description which is where you have a secondary audio track describing visual scenes when no dialog is present. AD is available on many movies and TV shows for those who are blind. One example is the first few minutes of the story where, among other things, we hear a Dalek who, as I suspected and which we learn later on, has attempted to kill the previous incarnation of the Doctor. Btw, this Dalek voice was quite good and I hope that this production team gives us a good Dalek story down the line. Some of the sound mixing could have been improved as the music sometimes overpowers the dialog. At the end of the story when the Doctor and Lisa enter the Tardis there was an absence of any Tardis-like background sounds; no hum, nothing from the console and so the mixing in that brief scene seemed somewhat unfinished. In general, though, I really enjoyed the story and found the writing to be excellent. and am looking forward to future episodes with this new Doctor and companion. This story contains one or two instances of profanity.
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I'm liking this new song from Derek Webb (who doesn't seem to be on the fediverse), "Inside Out": youtube.com/watch?v=nebckv05iD…

My understanding is that it's his response to the hate that he and his friends are getting from bigoted evangelicals.

Assuming a karaoke track of this song is made, I wonder if I'd get in trouble belting out the line "I do not fear your God's hell" at my favorite karaoke bar here in Wichita, Kansas.


Inside Out

Provided to YouTube by TuneCoreInside Out · Derek WebbInside Out℗ 2024 Derek Webb MusicReleased on: 2024-01-19Auto-generated by YouTube.
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RIP.

Dave Mills, who created the Network Time Protocol in 1985 to synchronize time across different computer systems and networks, died at age 85 on January 17.

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Inventor of NTP protocol that keeps time on billions of devices dies at age 85

Dave Mills created NTP, the protocol that holds the temporal Internet together, in 1985.
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maybe allowing backend devs to run unsandboxed precompiled software besides distro packages was a mistake
RE: mastodon.social/users/whitequa…

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*stares at deno.land/x/plug@1.0.3*

a library for simplifying downloading shared libraries from the web, and loading them in your native process? with no signature verification? /at all, not just by default/?

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After only ~8 total hours of work, I have Ghostty running on iOS devices. This is core terminal emulation and Metal rendering. I'm not completely sure about this, but I think this is the first instance of a terminal emulator being Metal-rendered on an iOS device.

Excluding UI toolkits, this is 95+% by lines of code a shared Zig core that works now on Linux (w/ GTK and OpenGL), macOS (AppKit), and now iOS (UIKit).

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Looks like making accessibility more serious and professional has hurt it. So much is business, so little is community. Mechanic accessibility has replaced getting genuinely interested and excited about making the web and other technology easy to use for disabled people.

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No Accessibility Without Disabilities · Eric Eggert

People who are tasked with remediating accessibility often have little experience of how people with disabilities actually use the web. Learn how to fix that.
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Microsoft just announced that they were breached by the SVR, the same Russian intelligence agency that broke into Solarwinds.

This is a big deal, and Microsoft owes all of us a much more detailed description of what happened.

msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2024/0…

Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard | MSRC Blog | Microsoft Security Response Center

Microsoft Actions Following Attack by Nation State Actor Midnight Blizzard
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Why do developers bother users by settings that can be easily obtained automatically?

Like the dark mode for example:
🌙 My whole device is set to dark mode.
🌙 Apps understand that and are rendered in dark mode automatically.
🌙 All my browsers understand that and render dark UI automatically.
🌙 Browsers tell my dark mode preference to websites.
☀️ Website ignores it, shines at me the light theme but offers a dark theme switch in menu. 🤦‍♂️

Website in light theme, offering a switch to dark theme in menu
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