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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 20 updated and 2 added apps:

* CashCompass: a budget manager
* BFP Calculator: BMI - ideal weight calculator

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with 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 #apps #AndroidAppRain #IzzySoftRepo

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I would like to send this to every American cafe that sells ‘chai tea’: please learn to make chai, not just tea scented dishwater

seriouseats.com/chai-recipe-83…

#Recipes


The Science and Technique of the Perfect Cup of Chai

Chai, in the context of Indian cuisine, refers to tea made from boiled black tea with spices and boiled and aerated milk. Learn why tea type selection matters and how to properly brew, spice, and rest the perfect cup of chai.
Serious Eats
#recipes
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Librsvg 2.58.0 is out! This is the release for GNOME 46.

Fixed one panic in :lang selectors, and limit CPU consumption for feTurbulence's numOctaves property.

gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/librsvg…


2.58.0 - stable · GNOME / librsvg · GitLab

librsvg crate version 2.58.0 The most significant change in this release is that librsvg no longer uses gdk-pixbuf for loading raster images (for eample, when there...
GitLab

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Watching this with interest: first #AI (ChatGPT) based screen
reader:typeahead.ai/

This could change the screen reader paradigm and I'll try the #Windows version when it's available, but I worry that using it for work and remaining #GDPR compliant will not be possible.

This also heralds a much bigger paradigm change - the UI for everyone will change and the GUI as we know it may well disappear.

Typeahead: AI-powered Screen Reader

Typeahead is an AI-powered screen reader for Mac to empower blind and visually impaired users. It uses ChatGPT to navigate through web and desktop apps.
www.typeahead.ai
#Windows #AI #gdpr

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Just got info from a Tech-VI subscriber regarding the Eclipse Soundscapes app available for iOS and Android.

iOS App Store Link
apps.apple.com/us/app/eclipse-…

Google Play Store Link
play.google.com/store/apps/det…

From the iOS App Store link
The Eclipse Soundscapes app is a multi-sensory experience for people of all learning styles to engage with astronomical events, including total solar eclipses. Inside this app, you will find countdowns to major astronomical events in your area, and real time narrations of those events with illustrative audio descriptions provided by the GBH National Center for Accessible Media. You can also explore the cosmos with high quality photos, educational information, and accessible learning tools.


‎Eclipse Soundscapes

‎The Eclipse Soundscapes app is a multi-sensory experience for people of all learning styles to engage with astronomical events, including total solar eclipses.
App Store

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Impressive, since switching from gitlab-ci to earthly, pipeline runs with container builds went from >20 minutes down to 3-8 minutes.

What a little bit of better caching can do for you.

It's no longer fully self-hosted, but earthly is trivial to self-host if I want to bother at some point.

git.shivering-isles.com/shiver…

And given earthly hands out 6000 CI minutes for free, it actually cuts cost compared to starting a VM on hetzner or locally.

#earthly #gitlab #selfhosting


shared/earthly · a14fb784645bfd08668a2567a173b6cc432ac384 · Shivering-Isles / Infrastructure GitOps · GitLab

GitOps-based setup for infrastructure, including all tooling and instructions for bootstraping
GitLab
#gitlab #selfhosting #earthly

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Heal an ailing web

Leadership, hindered by a lack of diversity, has steered away from a tool for public good and one that is instead subject to capitalist forces resulting in monopolisation. Governance, which should correct for this, has failed to do so.

zeldman.com/2024/03/16/heal-an…


Heal an ailing web - Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design

On the occasion of the web’s 35th anniversary, its inventor, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, had this to say:
L. Jeffrey Zeldman (Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design)

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👉🏻 My curated weekly UX Research, Design, Accessibility & Tech Newsletter is out:
- Neurospicy stickers
- Estimating the work beyond the work
- Portfolio advice
- Personalization UX
- Navigating B2B design
- AI and design systems
- Accessibility advocate toolkit
- The devaluation of front-end
- How to interrupt people
- Geo Cities GIF search
- A guidebook to design better AI experiments
- Gradient tools
- Figma multi edit, etc

Newsletter on my blog: stephaniewalter.design/blog/pi…

Pixels of the Week – March 17, 2024: The work beyond the work, RAS syndrome & how to interrupt people

Pixels of the Week – March 17, 2024 by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.

UX Research, Design & Tech resources: neurospicy stickers, estimating the work beyond the work, Redundant Acronym Syndrome, portfolio advice, personalization UX, navigating B2B design, AI and design systems, accessibility advocate toolkit, the devalu…
Stéphanie Walter (Stéphanie Walter - Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Conference Speaker, Blog writer and Teacher.)
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David Goldfield

Hi. I don't know if this is appropriate for a mention in your newsletter and if it isn't that's OK. In case it is I operate a service called Tech-VI where I send out emails primarily covering blindness assistive technology.
Archive:
groups.io/g/tech-vi
RSS Feed:
groups.io/g/tech-vi/rss
To subscribe via email, send email to
tech-vi+subscribe@groups.io
Personal Web Site:
www.DavidGoldfield.com
Also, does your newsletter have an RSS feed?

tech-vi groups.io Group

This group is an announce-only list. It has been established to distribute announcements regarding blindness technology for the visually impaired.
groups.io

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Mastodon's search system has many special commands called "operators" which let you tweak what the results show.

To use an operator just include it in your search, and it will filter the results in the way you want. For example if you just want results that have polls, include the operator "has:poll". Operators let you filter searches by date, author, post type, language and more.

There's a complete list of operators and more tips about Mastodon searches at:

➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-search-for-…


How do I search for stuff on Mastodon? How do I use hashtags? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips
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For my #blind friends, I'm curious about your experiences with reading #PDFs through #OCR software. Specifically, beyond the use of Envision AI, which tools have you found to be the most accurate and reliable for this purpose? I'm always on the lookout for better alternatives. Feedback on both desktop and mobile platforms would be greatly appreciated, particularly in terms of accuracy of text recognition. accuracy (and obviously usability, but accuracy) are all I care about.
Feel free to boost for reach :)
#blind #ocr #pdfs
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Peter Vágner

@meatbag I'm on linux and the best I have found working for me is #ocrmypdf github.com/ocrmypdf/OCRmyPDF
It uses #tesseract under the hood and for static text it's okay. For tables and other material that is difficult to parse it's not usefull.
When PDF has a text then the tools I am using for reading these include #firefox and #evince
#firefox #evince #ocrmypdf #tesseract @The Programming Linguist

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Tamas G

@technocounselor oh thanks! It was definitely on the whim, and what was crazy? I posted about the power button on the BTSpeak mailing list. After I made that recording Bryan Blazie called me to help me fix it even though he was in between flights at an airport and only had 5 minutes. Just wow. Immediate customer support. When else do you get that? Give me one company.
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Tamas G

@technocounselor I remember the old Blazie Engineering company had virtually 24/7 tech support. Like even on weekends, if you had something wrong, you called them up and they'd either tell you how to fix or get you to send it in and find ways you could ship it to them. Absolutely zero has changed about that spirit today and that probably excited me more than it should have too about it.
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Jay Pellis

@technocounselor If this thing could somehow help me learn linux, I'd be up for it. Don't know if there aare any text/audio tutorials out there etc. For example, I installed a text adventure/interactive fiction game interpreter on the Icon Braille plus through its command line. Don't remember what the name of it was or exactly how I did it but it ran great, spoke all text automatically and everything. Wonder if the pro version of the BT can do that?
@Allison Meloy

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For Putin’s election in occupied Ukraine, voting is forced at gunpoint - The Washington Post apple.news/AyDXpIvnyTTmFf6f7ai…

For Putin’s election in occupied Ukraine, voting is forced at gunpoint — The Washington Post

Russian soldiers are pressuring people to vote in occupied Ukraine as Vladimir Putin seeks to cement his illegal annexations and create a facade of legitimacy.
apple.news

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Tak jsem si tak vzpomněl, že bych vám mohl ukázat, kolik se toho vejde do batohu za litr na #AliExpress

Musim uznat, že mi kapacita udělala celkem radost, ale - byť jsem zpátky jel na kole i koloběžce na střídačku, tak na kole mě dost tlačilo sedlo a na koloběžce zas moc nešlo jet, protože mě škrtilo zapínání přes hrudník :D

Musim uznat, že kvalitativně je vlastně docela supr, jediná moucha je fakt zatím zapínání přes hrudník, protože je dělaný na svlečenýho asiata a ne pořádnýho českýho chlapáka. :)
Na tu hmotnost si s tim bágl poradil víc, než statečně a dvě madla shora jsou super, když ho člověk v roztaženým stavu potřebuje někam přenést.

Black backpack expandable from 26 to 44l
Picture of unloaded backpack content - 5 beers, 1 ketchup, bread, grapes, 1 bottle of wine, kefir, 1 thermobottle with water, 1 thermomug with coffee, 2 bags of grated cheese, 1 deodorant, grilled corn seeds, 1 bottle of syrup, 4 little sacks of fruit puree, 4 little snacks, 2 cubes of yeast, 1 pack of sausages
Picture of fully loaded backpack
#aliexpress
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The Indian government has filed an antitrust investigation into Google Play store because charging a 10%-30% is excessive relative to the value provided to developers.

Android has 95% marketshare in India which makes it a monopoly so this is unlikely to be a precedent worldwide.

techcrunch.com/2024/03/15/indi…

TechCrunch is part of the Yahoo family of brands

techcrunch.com

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Good morning, #HephalumpWorld! Tea is still just a thought.

A grey morning here at the ol' Imperial Palace. Kittys are fed and on patrol.

Why is convicted rapist Donald F Puppyfucker not yet in custody? AmeriKKKa is a 3rd world shithole.

#IncarcerateDonaldPuppyfucker
GOP = #GroupiesOfPutin (AKA #Nazis)

Fuck you, 🚀boy. Eat shit and die.

Israel is a terrorist state.

Today's agenda: Dunno. I thought we'd be struggling to survive in the aftermath, or eaten by vermin, by now.

An atomic bomb nanoseconds after detonation, from the Alamogordo tests.
#nazis #hephalumpworld #incarceratedonaldpuppyfucker #groupiesofputin

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Teste seit heute die #UnifiedPush Version von #Molly (Signal Fork). Benachrichtigung über neue Nachrichten erfolgt via #ntfy. Bereits nach einem Tag Test lässt sich sagen: Akku-Verbrauch ist geringer als mit #WebSocket bei Signal.

github.com/mollyim/mollyim-and…


GitHub - mollyim/mollyim-android-unifiedpush: Molly with UnifiedPush support.

Molly with UnifiedPush support. Contribute to mollyim/mollyim-android-unifiedpush development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#UnifiedPush #ntfy #molly #websocket
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