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Oh, reading the story makes me sad. At least we will still be able to get BBC Radio four but I would miss Christmas Eve service on BBC radio Scotland and BBC Ulster. If they offered a paid subscription for those of us outside of the UK, I would actually consider it. Here’s hoping my favorite Christian stations from the UK will not follow suit as I would miss them terribly. radiotoday.co.uk/2025/02/most-…

Most BBC radio stations to become unavailable for international users

A new BBC audio website and app will replace BBC Sounds for users outside the UK later this year
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Probably a hot take in these scorching times

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#linux #foss

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Ich bin begeistert von #WebXDC und #DeltaChat. Es hat mich einen längeren Abend gekostet, aus webxdc.js und jspreadsheet.js eine funktionierende App zum Teilen einer Tabelle in @delta zu bauen.
Mein Anteil: 50 Zeilen HTML mit etwas JavaScript
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sharetable

WebXDC prototype for a shared table in a chat group
Codeberg.org
#deltachat #Webxdc @Delta Chat (39c3)

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When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from "Absalom, Absalom!"

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When William Faulkner Set the World Record for Writing the Longest Sentence in Literature: Read the 1,288-Word Sentence from Absalom, Absalom!

Image by Carl Van Vechten, via Wikimedia Commons “How did Faulkner pull it off?” is a question many a fledgling writer has asked themselves while struggling through a period of apprenticeship like that novelist John Barth describes in his 1999 talk …
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:tapestry_app: Tapestry v1.0.3 brings improved iPad multitasking, new export options for OPML and backing up your data, fixes problems with footnote links, greatly improves connectors, allows Reddit users to choose between Hot, New, Top & Rising feeds and much more.

apps.apple.com/app/tapestry-by…

See the complete list of what's new. Enjoy! usetapestry.com/history

Screenshot from Tapestry showing editing a Reddit Feed with the ability to select the feed type: Hot, New, Top, Rising
Tapestry version history screenshot from the website - https://usetapestry.com/history

‎Tapestry by Iconfactory

‎Tapestry weaves your favorite blogs, social media, and more into a unified and chronological timeline.
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Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2024 AppleVis Report Card applevis.com/blog/apple-vision…

Apple Vision Accessibility: The 2024 AppleVis Report Card | AppleVis

AppleVis is pleased to unveil our 2024 Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card. The only report of its kind to focus specifically on the needs of people who are blind, DeafBlind, or who have low vision, the Apple Vision Accessibility Report Card provi…
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March Goal: 85/$500
I'm disabled & queer, living in extreme poverty. I'm in URGENT need of food, hygiene, medication, clothing, etc. Disability benefits aren't enough to ensure survival or comfort.
Donate: ko-fi.com/qpthepurplesnep
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Wish List: amazon.ca/hz/wishlist/ls/2H98Z…
#MutualAid #Help #DisabilityCrowdfund

Support QuyetPawz on Ko-fi! ❤️. ko-fi.com/qpthepurplesnep

Support QuyetPawz On Ko-fi. Ko-fi lets you support the people and causes you love with small donations
Ko-fi
#MutualAid #help #disabilitycrowdfund

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In case you didn't know, The Wikimedia foundation has loads of other projects as well as Wikipedia. A few I find interesting are:
Wikivoyage - a travel guide. en.wikivoyage.org
Wiktionary - a dictionary. en.wiktionary.org
Wikisource - a collection of public domain books a bit like Project Gutenberg. en.wikisource.org
Wikimedia Commons - public domain images, video and audio. commons.wikimedia.org
There's also Wikidata, which is a database of pretty much anything. I find it too complicated to use but some of you will no doubt get something out of it. wikidata.org
Most of Wikimedia's projects are in multiple languages as well.

Wikimedia project page

Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)

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Tell your friends, The post on my site at eurpod.com/piper-voices-of-ret… has been updated to feature a link to the releases page for the amazing driver Sam Tupy (@samtupy) is producing for BESTSpeech (Keynote gold). I honestly don't know if I'll maintain the older driver. There's certain hacks and character conversions that I could in theory apply and improve it a little, but I don't think that will fix the squealing problem with rapid speech interruptions, because that's a direct problem of rapid teardown and re-initialization of the DLL, along with not having access to the raw data. In technicality, we also didn't have any async callback to the DLL (or really any callback at all), just a straight-up, "here, speak this chunk of text, and hopefully after you're done, we can close the engine. But when you're done, we have no idea of, so hopefully we get to close it in time before you're actually done!" So the work that Sam did to "modernize" this synthesizer is nothing short of a miracle, to be honest, now it behaves way closer to what you would see in Eloquence, DECTalk, any comprehensive synthesizer, and for that I'm grateful.

Piper voices, and other retro NVDA speech synthesizers - Eurpod

Welcome to the post everyone has asked for over time! The one where you can find download links for various Piper (link to repo) voices.
Tamas Geczy (Eurpod)
@Sam Tupy
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Anyone using "App Mount" – apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/a… ? Does it still work? Its last update was 2017, but it still had 200+ downloads this year already, so some folks sem to at least having tried it.

#springCleaning #IzzyOnDroid

„App Mount“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

mount/umount apps that you don’t like on Android, without root
IzzyOnDroid App Repo
#izzyondroid #springcleaning

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Ora DVX #Meloni all'amichetto nazi je fa er condono "ad personam". Il fisco italiano mette #ElonMusk nel mirino, ha evaso l’Iva di #Twitter: “Ci deve 12,5 milioni” #26febbraio #Bollette

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Il fisco italiano mette Elon Musk nel mirino, ha evaso l’Iva di Twitter: “Ci deve 12,5 milioni”

La Procura di Milano all’attacco per il periodo 2016-2022, prima che il social cambiasse nome in “X”
Rosario Di Raimondo (la Repubblica)
#twitter #elonmusk #meloni #26febbraio #Bollette

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Whether or not you use LibreOffice, it's very wise to save your documents in a free and open format – so that you don't get locked out of them in future! Learn more on Document Freedom Day, coming up on March 26: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
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Document Freedom Day @ LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog

In one month, on March 26, we will celebrate Document Freedom Day 2025. For the first time in a while, the LibreOffice project will play a major role in organizing the event.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource

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Hans Laagland

Op 26 maart aanstaande is het Document Freedom Day, incl. aandacht voor Open Document Formaat (ODF): "Don't get locked out of your data! Open Standards are essential for freedom and privacy. Document Freedom Day is an yearly celebration that happens on the last Wednesday of March." Meer info: digitalfreedoms.org/en/dfd #digitaleautonomie

About Document Freedom Day - Digital Freedom Foundation

The Digital Freedom Foundation is the organization behind global events like Software Freedom Day, Hardware Freedom Day and Document Freedom Day
Digital Freedom Foundation
#DigitaleAutonomie

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Philippe Val se plaint du fait qu'il soit écrit sur Wikipédia qu'il est islamophobe... Alors qu'il dit lui-même qu'il est islamophobe. "Oui je suis islamophobe."

#PhilippeVal #Islamophobie

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Philippe Val se plaint du fait qu'il soit écrit sur Wikipédia qu'il est islamophobe... Alors

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#philippeval #islamophobie

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The top story on WaPo right now deserves its spot: "Elon Musk’s business empire is built on $38 billion in government funding."

"Government infusions at key moments helped Tesla and SpaceX flourish, boosting Musk’s wealth"

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That's more than half of what the DOGE website says it has "saved" through layoffs, firings, contract terminations and funding freezes.

BTW the NYT had a story yesterday that talked about how DOGE quietly removed many billions from its "wall of receipts" after a slew of media outlets called total BS on their math.

nytimes.com/2025/02/25/upshot/…

"These were the original five largest savings on its list:

An $8 billion cut at Immigration and Customs Enforcement. The actual contract in question was worth $8 million. The mistake seemed to stem from an earlier, erroneous entry in a federal contracting database. But contracting experts said that the service should have known better: ICE’s entire budget is about $8 billion, making it implausible that one contract could be so large. The U.S. DOGE Service adjusted the figure on the site after The Times wrote about it, and said in a post on Mr. Musk’s X platform that it had “always used the correct $8M in its calculations.”

Three $655 million cuts at the U.S. Agency for International Development. This was actually a single cut that was erroneously counted three times, as first reported by CBS News. That mistake also seemed to reflect a misunderstanding of the way government contracts work; they sometimes have “ceiling values” far in excess of what will be spent. Experts said this cancellation was unlikely to produce anything close to $655 million in savings even once. Now, the site lists a much smaller savings for these three cancellations: $18 million in total.

A $232 million cut at the Social Security Administration. Here, Mr. Musk’s organization appeared to have mistakenly believed that the agency had canceled a huge information technology contract with the defense contracting giant Leidos. Instead, as reported by The Intercept, it had canceled only a tiny piece of it: a $560,000 project to let users mark their gender as “X.” The DOGE site now shows that small cut instead.

Some of the new canceled contracts added this week appear to make some of the same types of errors.

The largest savings on the latest version of its list is a $1.9 billion cut at the Treasury Department. But The Times reported last week that this contract was canceled last fall, when Joseph R. Biden Jr. was president — and when DOGE did not yet exist."


DOGE Quietly Deletes the 5 Biggest Spending Cuts It Celebrated Last Week

The cuts, highlighted on an earlier version of the “wall of receipts” posted by Elon Musk’s team, contained mistakes that vastly inflated the amount of money saved.
David A. Fahrenthold (The New York Times)

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For BlindMiceMegaMall Members: MiceILA Members Onlyy Sale! Save $$$$ on over 50 Adaptive Product Specials! Everyday and Must Haves! Don't Miss These! Take a minute to Browse! Members Only! groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/86…

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⏰ Reminder: The GUADEC Call for Papers is open until March 16th!
Don’t miss your chance to submit your paper and join us in Brescia, Italy, from July 24-29! 🇮🇹✨

Submit here: (events.gnome.org/event/259/abs…)


GUADEC 2025

Welcome to GUADEC 2025 GUADEC is the GNOME community’s largest conference, bringing together hundreds of users, contributors, community members, and enthusiastic supporters for a week of talks and workshops.
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HEY! If you're a #poet or #artist and are interested in a Book Style cohort, join me & my colleagues as we are hosting a free book club.

We're looking at works primarily by Black writers & artists, I'm revisting some of my older works, and the idea is we create a studio space to engage with works to help us with resistance, archive, memory and more.

elaboratories.org/event/art-po…


Art & Poetry As: A Book Club

This year, we’re embarking on a fresh project that merges the creative energy of a studio environment with the thoughtful structure of a book club.
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#artist #poet
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