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If you are on the hunt for a privacy-focused #Gmail alternative check out my post about some great alternatives like @Tutanota, @protonprivacy, #Mailbox, and others. #privacy #privacymatters

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The application installed at searxng.cz was updated.

Changelog:

Update SearXNG to 9a4fa7cc4f0



The application installed at peertube.arch-linux.cz was updated.

Changelog:

Update PeerTube to 6.2.0

Full changelog



Hey Mastodon!
#helpwanted

I've been quietly working on a fast and lightweight neural Text-To-Speech (TTS) model for NVDA/SAPI.

The next step is training the model, and that requires some serious GPU power. Unfortunately, those resources are a bit out of my reach right now.

This is where I could really use your help, if you're interested!

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in reply to Musharraf

Hey, I'd like to contribute some financial support. Can you ballpark how much you'd need to spend to train a voice?
in reply to Scott

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in reply to Roberto Perez

@rperez030
Thanks for your contribution. Really appreciate it!
For this month, Pneuma Solutions provided GPU resources for training. But I still accept donations to ensure we have enough resources for future training needs.
I'm happy to receive your donations via my colleague's paypal address:
paypal.me/geotts
or
Email:
info@geotts.ge
Please mention mush42/tts in the transaction note.
in reply to Musharraf

@alexhall I have a GPU that I would love to rent out for this project. How would I get started?


Please vote for an implementation of VJOURNAL in Thunderbird. 👇 This would REALLY improve the ecosystem and usability of open protocols! Currently there is almost no software on the desktop to sync your notes and journals with a CalDAV server and TB could fill a huge gap here.

connect.mozilla.org/t5/ideas/s…

Peter Vágner reshared this.



This dumb password rule is from Banque de Tahiti.

You have to enter your password using this *very* Frenchy keypad. You don't have lowercase letters, the blanks are not spaces but just non-clickable gaps, but as a compensation you have some weird symbols that your keyboard does not have a key for (e.g. `µ`).

No accessible version available.

dumbpasswordrules.com/sites/ba…

#password #passwords #infosec #cybersecurity #dumbpasswordrules




If anybody makes a strong “100%” claim on accessibility or security, or claims to fully—or even mostly—automate compliance:

Do not walk away.

Run away.
RE: toot.cafe/@aardrian/1127978669…


#DisabilityIN The Evinced CEO referred to the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Working Group as one of the three pillars of creating accessible content. Using it can guarantee “100% accessibility”.

#accessibility #a11y


in reply to Seirdy

a single technology automatically making it possible to guarantee “100% accessibility” is at least as ridiculous as a single technology guaranteeing 100% security. This doesn’t just apply to automation/overlays; it applies to every technology used on any nontrivial project.

Replacing the word “accessibility” with “security” and vice versa is a good bullshit detector for marketing material.

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in reply to Seirdy

i wish everyone who works on overlays a speedy retirement
in reply to Seirdy

A Lisp REPL kind of works for the first.

Assuming you can implement the method you need.

Ultimately, nothing short of allowing the user to remake the entirety of the program's human-interaction layer to their liking will provide 100% accessibility.



#DisabilityIN Luncheon Plenary: “Nothing About Us Without Us: Accessibility Innovation, Leadership, and Impact”

Microsoft’s CAO discussed one challenge of #accessibility is non-practitioners creating accessible content. She talked about advances in tooling to solve that, using this slide.

#a11y

in reply to Adrian Roselli

#DisabilityIN The Evinced CEO referred to the W3C ARIA Authoring Practices Working Group as one of the three pillars of creating accessible content. Using it can guarantee “100% accessibility”.

#accessibility #a11y

in reply to Adrian Roselli

access capitalists, grifters who are holding back us back from what needs to be done while profiting off disabled people's oppression.


[Blog Post] An Important Update on AppleVis Founder David Goodwin and the Future of AppleVis applevis.com/blog/important-up…

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in reply to AppleVis

Right now, the most important question to me is, if someone is free to answer, how is David doing?
in reply to David Goldfield

@DavidGoldfield i saw him post on this topic yesterday. He was very thankful for all the support. He said he's on the road to recovery. I'll check and see if there's any further updates.


Recently, user Jordan shared a small but meaningful experience made possible with #NVDA: "When NVDA by NV Access reads alt text from your favourite #restaurant menu, now I just found a new #dessert I want to try! Thanks to NVDA, my day is getting off to a perfect start."

NVDA changes lives by providing access to #education, #employment & #connection. If you'd like to support our mission, you can #donate to NV Access here: nvaccess.org/support-us/#donat….

#ChangingLives #RealImpact #MakingADifference



Newbie questions


Hi !Friendica Support,
I'm not finding much documentation about following and connecting.
Is this how it works:
If the only relationship between A and B is that A follows B, then:
- A is a fan and follower of B.
- A and B are not considered connected.
- There is a unilateral friendship between A and B.

If B also follows A, then:
- A and B are considered connected.
- There is a mutual/bilateral friendship between A and B.

Also, from this page:

When you receive a friendship notification from another Friendica member, you will have the option of allowing them as a "Follower" or as a "Friend". If they are a follower, they can see what you have to say, including private communications that you send to them, but not vice versa. As a friend, you can both communicate with each other.

How do you cause a “friendship notification” to be sent? What form does it take when it arrives? I've been experimenting with 2 accounts, but have not seen a friendship notification.

Thank you,
Dirk

in reply to Dirk

Hi Dirk. It depends on the account type and network. For example my Fendica account is setup to accept all friends requests as "followers". So I get no notification when someone adds me as a friend. But if you follow a Mastodon account, and yo are on Friendica, perhaps they get a notification.

In Friendica you can tweak these things a lot. Let me know if you have more questions.

in reply to Tio

Thank you @Tio
Two more questions:

1. How do I set up my Friendica account to accept all friend requests as "followers"? And what are the other options?

2. I told my sister to take these steps in order to follow me:
a. Go to Contacts
b. Type my info in the “Add new contact” field and click Connect
c. On the page that comes up, click Submit request
She followed the instructions, and without any input from me, we are now mutual friends. Why didn't Friendica ask for my approval?

Thanks for the help!

@Tio
in reply to Dirk

@Dirk Maas @Tio Go to settings>account>advanced account type. Unless you have standard, you wont need to approve everyone if they want to follow you. love-all will make them all friends, soapbox will make them all followers.
@Tio @Dirk
in reply to anubis2814

Thank you @anubis2814! I just checked and my account type is standard. But with my sister it acted like it was love-all. I'm not sure how to explain that, but I'll keep an eye on things going forward.
in reply to Dirk

Hm I see. Is your sister also using friendica and on the same server?
in reply to Tio

@Tio Yes, also using Friendica and on the same server.
@Tio
in reply to Dirk

I see. So you didn't get a notification when she added you as a friend/follow but when I did you received. Interesting. Maybe was it that you already had her in your list of friends? Just checking...
in reply to Tio

No, she was not on any list – I knew she had an account, but that's all. I had tried to find her account, but could not.

Two unexpected things happened: (1) She became a follower of mine without any notification to me or input from me, and (2) I became a follower of her – again without any action taken on my part.

in reply to Dirk

We have some issues with the latest update of our Friendica perhaps. Maybe these are related...I will dig deeper.
in reply to Dirk

  1. Yes @anubis2814 is right. You can change it form there.
  2. It depends what kind of account you have. Maybe you have it setup to accept all friends requests by default. Please check that. And by the way to add someone as a contact is even easier: use the top search bar and paste someone's profile (url or name). Enter. Now you can submit a friend request. I just clicked to follow you did you get any notification?
in reply to Dirk

@Dirk Maas As far as I've ever seen its just A follows you. Following and friendship are the same thing. Though you can both follow and ignore someone too.
@Dirk



If, like me, you've put off upgrading from a gas range to an induction electric range, I have some fantastic news. In most of America, you can now pre-order a battery-equipped range, which just sips from your normal household outlet, and can work during a power outage. #ElectrifyEverything
copperhome.com/products/charli…
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Discover how to automate cloud backups for critical data using AWS tools like Lambda, S3, and CloudWatch, ensuring reliability and security. #DEVCommunity
dev.to/emma_olatujoye/automati…



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PyGObject, the #Python bindings for #GTK, have recently merged support for asynchronous programming, closing an orthogonality gap between Python's async support and GTK having been single-threaded / event based since forever: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/pygobje…
This ends a decade of using projects such as gbulb that kindly bridged that gap.

Chris 🌱 reshared this.

in reply to chrysn

I'm not sure he is on the fediverse, but huge kudos to long time GNOME contributor Benjamin Berg for this. This is such an amazing gift that he has worked on for the last couple of years and it really levels up PyGObject. 🤩 #Python #GNOME



Is Ohio Ballot Access Deadline a Reason for Democrats to Push through a Virtual Roll Call Vote Before the Convention to Choose Joe Biden? Almost Certainly Not electionlawblog.org/?p=144570


Report: Microsoft shuts down DEI team, ex-lead claims similar programs at risk gamedeveloper.com/business/rep…


Good job everyone still using Twitter because "I'm just a smol bean how else will I promote my work UwU 🥺👉👈"


9 Things You Didn’t Know About the Ancient Olympic Games
smithsonianmag.com/history/nin… #olympics


Okay, #Emacs users, does anyone still use Helm? Gonna get back into it, and setup is kinda different, so yeah. I loved it though when I had it working last time.
in reply to Devin Prater :blind:

@Devin Prater :blind: Perhaps emacspeak has some code to handle helm auto completions. I think with speechd-el I did not managed to use it properly. Or that might be just me not being clever enough. I'll try looking into it again.

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Pacman 7.0 Package Manager Released, Here’s What’s New linuxtoday.com/news/pacman-7-0…


Nano 8.1 Command-Line Text Editor Released, Here’s What’s New linuxtoday.com/news/nano-8-1-c…



Tech firms are using troves of content they don't own to train their AI models. One dataset includes Taylor Swift lyrics, MrBeast videos, and even two clips from PCMag. pcmag.com/news/nvidia-apple-ai…


#GUADEC2024 starts this weekend! Are you ready? Make sure you're registered and be sure to check your email for event updates and links. Haven't signed up yet? There's still time, let us know if you're attending in Denver or online here: events.gnome.org/event/209/

#GUADEC #GNOME



A short story about a layoff.

redeem-tomorrow.com/layoff



The Apple Watch Series 9 is On Sale For $309.99 Its Lowest Price Ever on Amazon cordcuttersnews.com/the-apple-…





Nekonečné hledání dobrého italského piva došlo k provizornímu cíli. Ale je to IPA, tak jsem možná jen ne dost zkušený. Pekelné hořké. #birraitaliana


Element Web is completely broken with Firefox ESR. I don't blame the devs here, they didn't make the policy. But it baffles me that management apparently decided they simply don't support that and won't even do anything to make sure affected users can migrate their existing chats (as not everyone will have a key backup or a second session to allow verification).

This is e.g. the default browser on Debian stable and this is affecting a lot of users that had no idea they were using an "unsupported browser" until it just suddenly broke. It's one thing to not support Firefox ESR (though I think that would still be the wrong choice). It's another to just leave users that could not have reasonably known that without any kind of fix.

github.com/element-hq/element-…



#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* Update Me: Install and update your favorite modded apps securely with a beautiful UI

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo :awesome:



Přispívání do OpenStreetMap: proč vlastně?

Před několika měsíci jsem začal přispívat do OpenStreetMap a celkem mě to chytlo. Rozhodl jsem se tedy napsat seriál článků o tom, v jakých formách lze přispívat. Seriál ale musím začít tím, že napíšu o tom, proč vlastně přispívat a kde všude může být vaše práce vidět.

#Mapbox #Maptiler #mapy #OpenStreetMap #OSM #Strava #Sygic #TomTom

blog.eischmann.cz/2024/07/16/p…

in reply to Sesivany's blog

na seriál se těším. Mám chuť přispívat, ale nevím z jakého konce to vzít, tak snad mě to pomůže nasměrovat. Zatím jsem ve stádiu chytání pockemonů ve #SteetComplete a editace pár detailů v okolí mého bydliště.
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in reply to Štěpán Škorpil

Záleží co tě zajímá případně co tě trápí. Pokud si na něco netroufáš, nebo nevíš jak danou věc opravit, můžeš se zeptat. Buď tady (pár nás tu je - já třeba sleduji tagy #OSM a #OpenStreetMap ) případně máme emailovou konferenci a propojené místnosti jabber/matrix/irc/telegram/discord

openstreetmap.cz/komunita



Something you may have missed yesterday -

The Biden Administration is going to unveil a nationwide rent control proposal.

It's going to be challenging to implement, and will require control of both chambers, but they're working on it.

washingtonpost.com/business/20…