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Catima 2.29.0 is out!

This release adds support for finding barcodes in PDF files[1] and dealing with multiple barcodes. It also properly colours the status bar during usage now.

As always, it's available on #GitHub, will soon be available on #IzzyOnDroid and will slowly roll out to other app stores.

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[1] Not sandboxed yet, help welcome in github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…

#Catima #OpenSource #Android


Sandbox PdfRenderer in a Service with android:isolatedProcess · Issue #1804 · CatimaLoyalty/Android

The Android documentation for PdfRenderer states: If the file is from an untrusted source it is recommended to run the renderer in a separate, isolated process with minimal permissions to limit the...
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#android #opensource #github #catima #izzyondroid

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

That said, my thanks also goes to @obfusk who helps me a lot making #IzzyOnDroid safer. She caught several places in need of improvements, providing patches for some of them and giving advice (and proof-reading) for those I established myself. Some of the scripts used in that area also come from her.

So when thanking me for the repo, please everyone include Sylvia and her as well. Without them it wouldn't be the place it currently is! 😍

Hugs to both of you from me 🤗

#izzyondroid @Fay 🏳️‍🌈

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Completely mind boggling to me that we threw away 5 billion phones in 2022.

Some of those could have been repurposed: smartphones are hardly innovating any more. The most eco-friendly phone is the one you already have.

We need to publicly support communities like @postmarketOS who work on making these phones repurposable, and @gnome that work on making a polished mobile experience that serves people, not creepy corporations.

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E-waste: Five billion phones to be thrown away in 2022

Billions of phones will be hoarded in drawers and cupboards or thrown away rather than recycled, studies suggest.
By Victoria Gill (BBC News)
@GNOME @postmarketOS (old account)

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:

* Logger: view and export call logs in CSV format

At apt.izzysoft.de/magisk 5 #Magisk #modules were updated.

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 #magisk #modules

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April 15th, 2024, in the Top 10 Most Secure Mobile Phones to Buy in 2024, the cybersecurity-focused firm Efani, has ranked Purism Librem 5 as as the #1 most secure phone for the year 2024. From their article:

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Librem 5 Ranked #1 Most Secure Mobile Phones to Buy in 2024 – 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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Here's a neat exploration of the curb cut effect for accessibility in @gnome - using accessibility tools to aid in testing automation! Has pros and cons identified in the article, but interesting nonetheless.

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#Fedora #Gnome #accessibility #a11y #Linux #OpenSource


Automation through Accessibility - Fedora Magazine

Using Accessibility as an automation testing tool. Learn about DesktopQE's automation stack to test Desktop Applications.
Michal Odehnal (Fedora Project)
#a11y #Accessibility #linux #opensource #gnome #fedora @GNOME

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Ooh. Coming on July 11...

Best known as the author of Earthsearch, James Follett wrote over 50 radio dramas, and 25 novels. This gripping 3-book series, adapted and abridged for BBC Radio and read by Nigel Anthony, explores what takes place when a West Sussex village becomes cut off from the outside world by an alien force field after a UFO crash-lands.

Following a violent storm, the village of Pentworth is plagued by bizarre events. A strange crab-like mechanical creature is seen scuttling in the shadows, two visiting investigators from the Radio Communications Agency disappear in the local ‘plague swamp’ and the supplies of gas, electricity and water begin to falter. Then, suddenly, an invisible, impenetrable sphere appears, completely enclosing the town. With the residents trapped and unable to escape, a battle between good and evil begins...

The Pentworth Trilogy: written by James Follett, read by Nigel Anthony, BBC Audio
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As grandes editoras estão a atacar o maior arquivo público digital do mundo o @internetarchive , por causa das suas atividades como biblioteca que fez empréstimos digitais controlados, durante a crise pandémica do COVID-19.
Defende o @internetarchive:
battleforlibraries.com/

Battle for Libraries

Don’t let libraries die. As the future goes digital, major publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ defense of digital books from censorship. It’s time to fight back.
Fight for the Future
@internetarchive

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Now I have a lot more hope and enthusiasm for the Piper voices, so this weekend I will re-train Mac_alex, Keynote, and Votrax using a bit more data, + finetune from the HFC_male variant which will minimize the cutting off of words. These will be released as new RT voices and you will be able to install either type of voice to compare differences amongst them.
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Tamas G

I'm thinking it has more to do with the quality of tuned data and which model you initially finetune from. HFC_male for example appears to have less of them than finetuning from Kusal in my experience, so my guess is it's something related to the dataset that way. (but yes, sadly, even Mac Alex voice has a slight amount of this on some but not all words - it's improved from prior models by some but not fully solved.)
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@pvagner ooh yeah. I wonder how the quality of other language fine-tuned models are. That could make a big difference too - I know there are Hungarian ones too, so I may try to train a Brailab one just for fun one of these days to test that out. Sourcing good quality data for other languages is so much harder, wish it wasn't. So you may need to try to train from scratch with 2-3 hours of data to see if it can do better.
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Tamas G

@pvagner @mush42 I do think it was an issue before streaming came around, but more so with some voices over others. Like Ryan Medium always felt like a super lower quality model to me over something like HFC_male which is very good at not cutting words off in the original model. I'm not sue if a pre-emptive opening of the audio stream is required, this would slow down processing but maybe we can get more consistent wording as balannce.
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Not yet updated to #LibreOffice 24.2? Here's an overview of some of the new features – with subtitles in 30 languages! youtube.com/watch?v=rs9pMn4cff… #foss #OpenSource

LibreOffice 24.2: New Features

A look at some of the new features in LibreOffice 24.2, created by our community of volunteers and certified developers.Learn more: https://wiki.documentfoun...
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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DEZINFORMAČNÉ MÉDIÁ FUNGUJÚ AJ VĎAKA PRÍJMOM Z REKLÁM. POZRELI SME SA, KTORÉ FIRMY NA PROBLEMATICKÝCH WEBOCH INZERUJÚ
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📌 Medzi spoločnosti, ktoré inzerovali svoju reklamu v druhej polovici marca na škodlivých weboch patria:
📍 Runningstore.sk
📍 star-nails.sk
📍 Jysk
📍 Temu
📍 Frilla
📍 Witt
📍 artalo.sk
📍 Kraj
📍 Vidaxl
📍 Dr. Max
📌 Dané spoločnosti inzerovali svoju reklamu najmä na portáloch Hlavné správy, eReport, Veci Verejné a Hlavný denník, ktoré sú podľa projektu Konšpirátori.sk označené ako škodlivé weby šíriace dezinformácie. bitly.ws/3fEiN
📌 Dané spoločnosti sme aj priamo oslovili. Ani jedna zo spoločností sa však k danej problematike po priamom oslovení nevyjadrila.
📌 Inzerciu spoločnosti Glami, ktorá sa v predchádzajúcom reporte zaviazala regulovať svoju reklamu, sme na škodlivých weboch tentokrát nenašli.
Zdroj: infosecurity.sk

konspiratori.sk

Sme verejná databáza webových stránok s neáserióznym, klamlivým, podvodným, konšpiračným alebo propagandistickým obsahom.
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Exclusive: Apple has been working on the most significant update to its Calculator app in years and the version being tested in early betas of macOS 15 sports brand-new features and exciting enhancements to the unit conversion system.
appleinsider.com/articles/24/0…

Apple's macOS 15 to get rare cognitive boost via Project GreyParrot

Marko Zivkovic (AppleInsider)

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Me reading this:

“Come ON! Those have different meanings and add precision!”

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“Oh damn people are using the more precise in a general sense to ‘sound smarter’” this is awful

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“Do I… do I sound like a TOTAL ass when I speak ?”
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The Nerd Urban Dictionary - Chris Anderson - Medium

These are perfectly good words in their native sci/tech/biz context, but risk being pretentious when used u̶t̶i̶l̶i̶z̶e̶d̶ in day-to-day conversation Note: Many of these terms are more precise than…
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Canceled For A Ridiculous Reason? (TLDR: Lower streaming hours collectively for the show caused by episode lengths also generally being shorter, unlike for other Trek series) giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star…

Star Trek: Lower Decks Canceled For A Ridiculous Reason? | GIANT FREAKIN ROBOT

Is it possible Star Trek: Lower Decks was canceled for an absolutely ridiculous reason? We think there's a good chance.
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Alonealastalovedalongthe

Especially because they don't have to release streaming numbers, these corporations don't have any reason to behave rationally in their business decisions.

These companies are so big that this isn't a question of numbers, math and making things add up, it is a question of narratives and the narrative right now is that corporations should be cutting employees and assets.

As long as most executives fall in line like sheep, the narrative is preserved.

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Two of our longest standing team members just celebrated their 10 years at Tuta! 🥳 🎉

Let's make some noise for Hanna & Bernd 🥂 🍰
👉 tuta.com/blog/road-to-success

(And before you ask: They are married - but not to each other! 🤣)

Hanna & Bernd cutting a 10 Years at Tuta cake.

Celebrate with us: Tuta Mail turns ten today!

To date Tuta (formerly Tutanota) has enabled millions of people to leave Gmail and other privacy-intrusive services. Our road to success was not always easy, but incredibly fun!
Tutanota

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Shout out to all the 1st generation Nigerian American students about to be falsely accused of cheating, because some amateur hour AI cheating detector software recognizes that you write just like cousin Chukwuma back home! 🇳🇬🤷🏿‍♂️

theguardian.com/technology/202…


TechScape: How cheap, outsourced labour in Africa is shaping AI English

Workers in Africa have been exploited first by being paid a pittance to help make chatbots, then by having their own words become AI-ese. Plus, new AI gadgets are coming for your smartphones
Alex Hern (The Guardian)

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Very impressed with the new Split #Braille Feature in #JAWS. Being able to read Teams chat with half my display whilst typing someplace else is tremendous. They seem to have well thought out the different modes and views. Shame about the cells wasted with the split and lack of customisability of the viewport widths. If I won the lottery I'd throw a few hundred k at #NVDASR for comparable #BrailleDisplay development
#nvdasr #braille #jaws #brailledisplay

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Tamas G

@cublanco oh yeah, the webpage customization features are terrific. (I also haven't quite figured out on all my sites why certain regions are considered a "glance" area, but the method JAWS has for identifying those I would welcome in NVDA too.) It's those slight pamperings that do add up in time you spend doing it manually

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Another Zapatista song.
These #rebels want to build "A world with room for many worlds" and I love this idea of a non totalitarian ideology where different communities are free to find their own way of organising.

A world where many worlds coexist.

hechos contra el decoro - un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos
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#JukeboxFridayNight


hechos contra el decoro - un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos

un mundo donde quepan muchos mundos cancion del album la danza de los nadie. HECHOS CONTRA EL DECOROvienen bajando del monte..
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modulux

That's one of my favourite groups, they have such cool songs and lyrics.

There's a pretty eclectic album called EZLN, el fuego y la palabra, that has an anthology of songs on the movement. You may already know of it, but in case you don't, unanotaquecae02.blogspot.com/2…


Varios - EZLN: El fuego y la palabra

Artista: Varios Álbum: EZLN: El fuego y la palabra 20-10 Año: 2009 Género: Rock País: México Lista de canciones: - Disco 1 Fermín Muguruza -...
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Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don't come with a requirement that drivers watch the road fortune.com/2024/04/18/mercede…

Exclusive: Mercedes becomes the first automaker to sell autonomous cars in the U.S. that don’t come with a requirement that drivers watch the road

Mercedes is the first automaker to sell level 3 autonomous cars to U.S. consumers, after announcing plans to do so last year.
Rachyl Jones (Fortune)
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