Start the year with some new chargers, especially when you can get two chargers and cables for under $15.Oliver Haslam (CNET)
Watch everyone now bend over backward to justify this as some sort of forced move that Cook HAD to do.
Tim Cook, reluctantly supporting Trump, because it's the savvy move for Apple…
Tim Cook… reluctantly supporting Trump…
Tim Cook… supporting Trump…
Are we getting it yet?
mastodon.social/@appleinsider/…
In a bid to gain favor with the president-elect, Apple CEO Tim Cook has contributed $1 million of his personal finances to the inauguration fund. https://appleinsider.Mastodon
Celebrate Braille Literacy Month! Join us on Thursday, January 16 at Noon ET for the live webinar, Ten Power Tips for Using Braille with JAWS. We'll walk you through setting up your braille display, discuss important commands, and demonstrate valuable features designed to help you be more productive when using braille and JAWS.
Register today: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
#JAWS #FreedomScientificTraining #Braille #BrailleDisplay #BrailleLiteracy
Celebrate Braille Literacy Month with us as we show you ten power tips for using braille with JAWS. We'll walk you through setting up your braille display, discuss important commands, and demonstrate valuable features designed to help you be more pro…Zoom
While the digital world offers an abundance of online news sources, accessibility is still a work-in-progress far too often. It is commonplace to spend more time navigating to content than re…The Idea Place
If you have an aging computer and want to give it new life, there are plenty of lightweight Linux distributions that will serve you for years to come.Jack Wallen (ZDNET)
Welcome to the RB family, Tack 🥳
apt.izzysoft.de/packages/xyz.z…
Tack is a modern metronome app for Android with a beautifully designed interface that has all the features you need for practicing a music piece accurate to the beat.
With release 4.5.0, the app is now RB – thanks to the help of @patzly (the app's author) 
#IzzyOnDroid #reproducibleBuilds #Android
Beautiful metronome with a powerful Wear OS integrationIzzyOnDroid App Repo
To celebrate A Rock Somewhere's Grammy nomination for Best Global Music Performance, here’s our first ever live performance together of the song in Amsterdam...YouTube
The FTC has ordered accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1 million over allegations of false advertising and misleading product claims.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
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Samsung teams up with Instacart to let you place a grocery order directly from your AI-enabled refrigerator's screen.Artie Beaty (ZDNET)
A new chapter in the “Star Trek” saga unfolded today with the premiere of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
I want express my sincere THANKS to YOU and the 130,000+ others who have subscribed to the AskBob newsletter since 2005. This year I celebrated the 19th anniversary of this newsletter, and there are over 3000 articles here now.Bob Rankin (Ask Bob Rankin)
Android looks like it's making it easier for people to get up and running with Bluetooth-connected hearing aids.Stephen Schenck (Android Authority)
President-elect will be sentenced for his 34 felony convictions on 10 January, Judge Juan Merchan rulesapple.news
Many of our clients are unfamiliar with VPATs, but their buyers are requesting that they produce a VPAT before their product or service will be considered forKris Rivenburgh (Accessible.org)
On December 10, 2024, Google TTS, officially branded as Speech Recognition & Synthesis on the Play Store, rolled out its latest update:Amir Soleimani (Accessible Android)
On December 10, 2024, Google TTS, officially branded as Speech Recognition & Synthesis on the Play Store, rolled out its latest update:Amir Soleimani (Accessible Android)
The Freedom Scientific training team offers ongoing opportunities for you to join us in live training sessions and advance your skills. We’re excited to announce our jam-packed January training sch…Freedom Scientific Blog
Oggi siamo andati a Grazzano Visconti, piccolo paesino in stile medievale nella campagna piacentina.
#Gite #Lombardia #GrazzanoVisconti
A new issue of #ThisWeekInGNOME is now online!
#181 Happy New Year!
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Update on what happened across the GNOME project in the week from December 27 to January 03.thisweek.gnome.org
Remember how the orange pissant and his fascists claims drugs are flowing into the US from Canada.
Well, well, well it looks like the other way.
Coutts drug bust seized $2M in cocaine bound for Canada
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Authorities at the Coutts, Alta., border crossing seized 189 kilograms of cocaine, with an estimated value of about $2 million, that was being shipped into Canada.Calgary
Following the example of GitLab and other VC-funded open source companies, @element goes 'open source almost everything' with "Synapse Pro";
"Synapse itself remains open source, and Element will continue to develop it proactively, just as it has for the last 10 years ... Available under a commercial license, Synapse Pro will help fund and accelerate the continued open source development of Synapse for the benefit of all of Matrix."
element.io/blog/synapse-pro-sl…
Synapse Pro is Element’s best practice Matrix homeserver. It transforms the performance and economics of huge public sector deployments.Steve Loynes (Element Blog)
🥳 Big news! While half of Europe is hanging out in Hamburg at 38c3, we got bored and accidentally our web frontend.
It comes with a bunch of new features, which we'll post about in the next couple hours and days, but the one which will probably be most obvious is that we now feature a built-in, automatic dark mode based on your browser / OS preferences 🌙 .
Check it out at search.jabber.network !
The top 25 public chat rooms on the Jabber network.search.jabber.network
Another bit you may have noticed, especially if you visit the home page regularly, is that avatars now always load correctly.
The old website had a weird fun Python runtime type error which occurred sometimes when the browser had an avatar in the cache already.
Because we deleted the almost 10k lines of Python code and replaced it with Rust, that can't happen anymore 
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(Also, it's now faster and less memory use, which is nice.)
You can now add hashtags to your #xmpp / #jabber channels on search.jabber.network! Just add a series of hashtags to the end of your channel's description.
Note that we maintain an allowlist of tags here: search.jabber.network/tags/ Tags which are not on that list are ignored.
Suggest new tags we should add/allow in the replies to this thread!
New Year, new release ✨
In Movim 0.29 you'll discover two important changes, Stories and Briefs 😯 !
Yes Movim is the very first XMPP client that introduces fully standard Stories (xmpp.org/extensions/xep-0501.h…). Share your day with your friends, from any device, in a few easy steps ❤️
Briefs allows you to publish short content on your profile and complete the existing more complete articles publications 📝
Checkout the complete release note to know everything about those exciting new features: mov.im/community/pubsub.movim.…
New year, new #release ! This time with plenty of new exciting features, let's have a look at…mov.im
Want to try out XMPP, head over to join.movim.eu/ and find a XMPP server where you can create a free account.
Movim is a social and chat platform that acts as a frontend for the XMPP network.
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today with 16 updated and 2 added apps:
* Git Sync: git client for syncing a repository between remote and a local directory
* Sunup: UnifiedPush provider using Mozilla's push server 🛡️
RB status: 384 apps (31.2%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. 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
The Matrix Holiday Special, client updates, and 38C3. That and more happened over the year end holidays in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2025/01/03/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (matrix.org)
The FTC has ordered accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1 million over allegations of false advertising and misleading product claims.Kyle Wiggers (TechCrunch)
Introducing Refine, an app to tweak advanced and experimental settings in GNOME. It is an alternative to GNOME Tweaks, and is a pet project I'm currently working to experiment with PyGObject and dconf, while following the data-driven, object-oriented, and composition paradigms.
The entire codebase is made up of widgets that provide all the functionality needed to add an option. For example, instead of adding each option programmatically in Refine, the ultimate goal is to have it all done in the UI file.
For example, if we want to add an option to enable or disable middle click paste, all we need is the following code in the UI file:
$RefineSwitchRow {<br> title: _('Middle Click Paste');<br> schema-id: 'org.gnome.desktop.interface';<br> key: 'gtk-enable-primary-paste';<br>}<br>RefineSwitchRow widget will do whatever it needs to do to ensure the option is available, grab the setting if it's available, and display it to the user. Many of these widgets provide extra functionality, such as a Reset button.You can get Refine on Flathub: flathub.org/apps/page.tesk.Ref…
Everything else (source code, screenshot, etc.) is in the project website: tesk.page/refine/, as well as the Flathub link.
#GNOME #Flatpak #Flathub #FOSS #OpenSource #GTK #Libadwaita
Refine, an app to tweak advanced and experimental features in GNOME, has reached 100,000 downloads on Flathub!!
flathub.org/en/apps/page.tesk.…
Refine is an alternative (not replacement!) to GNOME Tweaks, designed to be data-driven and take advantage of the composition paradigm.
If you appreciate Refine and have the means to help a developer out, please consider donating to support my work: tesk.page/#donate
#GNOME #GTK #GTK4 #Libadwaita #FOSS #OpenSource #Flathub #Flatpak #Refine
Transnational hacking and FOSS bonding in action! Family trip brought me across the Atlantic, but got a chance to meet @pan and bring a FairPhone for development. It's amazing when we can not only hack, but also meet and enjoy the human part of it :)
Marco Arment
in reply to Marco Arment • • •Have you considered the possibility that Tim Cook just… supports Trump?
Like so many other mega-rich CEOs?