Krokusvakantie in de Broederij!☀️
Onze bar en verschillende activiteiten nemen ook een weekje verlof.
Toch is er nog van alles te doen of kom wat zonnestralen vangen op een van de bankjes buiten! ☺️
Het Takkenorkest strijkt neer met een muzikaal kampje! 🥁
Van maandag tot en met donderdag in het groot atelier.
#debroederijgent#standaertsite #krokusvakantie #kampje #iedereenwelkom
Deze week in Herberg Macharius...
Dinsdag 4 maart 18:30 > Open tekensessie met levend model
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Woensdag 5 maart 19:00 > Design met Gent
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Vrijdag 7 maart 18:00 > Hot Dog Nights: Pieter-Jan De Smet Live in Herberg Macharius
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Zondag 9 maart 15:00 > Lieven Tavernier Live in Herberg Macharius
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We just released a big update, with support for the following:
- Incoming Links (aka Backlinks)
- Date Correction (creation date only)
- Attachments in Overview
We have also fixed the issue that lead to a seemingly empty library after a system update (or after setting up a new device). For full release notes, see ulysses.app/release-notes
A pleasant, focused writing experience combined with effective document management, fast syncing and flexible export make Ulysses the first choice for writers of all kinds.ulysses.app
The LibreOffice Conference 2024, held in Luxembourg, welcomed also many speakers that are involved in creating, supporting and promoting Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) in several countries.Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
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Ten years ago on this day we went full GitHub model in #curl: pull-request style development. We have since handled over 10,700 PRs in an increasing amount of activity.
daniel.haxx.se/blog/2015/03/03…
Pull requests and issues filed on github are most welcome! The curl project has been around for a long time by now and we've been through several different version control systems.daniel.haxx.se
Woof!
In all hundred or so repos I have on Github, I've only gotten 2 MRs (and merged all both them promptly. 🤣 ) One was for typos in the README and the other for actual copy/paste derived bugs.
I bow in awe of you for managing that many. 👏
Newswire: Tek Talk meeting of 3/3/25 at 8pm Eastern welcomes Lisa Salinger to compare and contrast the Orbit Speak and the BT Speak, two small audio-based notetakers with braille input
The Pat Price Tek Talk Training Room Zoom meeting link follows. Be aware that all Accessible World Zoom meetings are set to automatically record and the
Zoom Client on both your computer and your smart device has a message announcing the recording when you first enter a meeting using these clients. You
must tab or swipe to the Got it/OK button and execute it to acknowledge your awareness of the recording or you will be unable to unmute your device and
speak in the meeting. Here’s the Zoom meeting link:
us02web.zoom.us/j/839935813?pw…
Special note: We are proud to announce that Tek Talk Programs can now be heard on ACB Media 1. Please visit the ACB Media Network Home page at
acbmedia.org/
for upcoming events.
Major sections of this newswire are at heading level 1. Contact information is at heading level 2.
Newswire
Tek Talk welcomes Lisa Salinger to compare and contrast the Orbit Speak and the BT Speak, two small audio-based notetakers with braille input.
Presenter Contact Info
Lisa has been fascinated by technology since starting to use a Versabraille in 1984. She enjoys comparing, contrasting, and teaching technology to help
others discover all that is available. Lisa has held several jobs in the public and private sectors, and is currently working at Hadley as their Access
Technology Specialist. When not working, she provides some private instruction, sings in a local choir, takes piano lessons, reads voraciously, and spends
time with her dog, who has no use for technology.
Email:
lisasalinger@comcast.net
About 10 minutes before each program dial the Zoom numbers or work with your computer link found on your Zoom invitation.
Zoom invitation
The Zoom meeting invitation for this Training Class is the following:
Hi there,
Larry Gassman and Alan Lemly are inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. Tek Talk welcomes Lisa Salinger to compare and contrast the Orbit Speak and
the BT Speak, two small audio-based notetakers with braille input.
Time: Meets Monday, March 3, 2025, from 8-9 p.m. Eastern.
Join from PC, Mac, Linux, iOS or Android:
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Or Telephone:
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Meeting ID: 839 935 813
Passcode: awz
International numbers available:
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Those wishing to subscribe to past Tek Talk program archives can do so using their mobile device and podcast app of choice or using their computers and
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Follow the above instructions to get subscribed.
Contacts:
Larry Gassman: Accessible World Co-Chair
Phone: 714-449-1958
Email:
larrygassman1@gmail.com
Alan Lemly: Accessible World Co-Chair
Phone: 601-919-6907
Email:
walemly@gmail.com
The Accessible World, a division of Helping Hands For The Blind, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, seeks to educate the general public, the disabled
community and the professionals who serve them by providing highly relevant information about new products, services, and training opportunities designed
specifically to eliminate geographic and access barriers that adversely affect them.
Alan Lemly
🎉 V1.0🎉
PodcastPlugins is a set of Free and Open-Source speech-enhancement audio plugins for podcasters.
vst + vst3 + clap + LV2 + AU
Linux + macOS + Windows
Enjoy :)
Huge thanks to @falktx ❤
@x42 @magnetophon @jkdb
Supported by @PrototypeFund
github.com/trummerschlunk/Podc…
#podcast #podcast_creation #podcastproduction #audioproduction #contentcreation #vst #vst3 #clap #lv2 #plugin #audio #sound #soundengineering #audioengineering #daw #mixing #speech #dsp #faust #prototypefund
speech enhancement audio plugins for podcasters. Contribute to trummerschlunk/PodcastPlugins development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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Why am I still wearing a mask in 2025? For exactly the same reasons I wore it in 2021. Because nothing has changed.
Except maybe the way people look at me. But funny looks don’t transmit viruses. Aerosolized particles do.
From: @ducky
mstdn.ca/@ducky@mstdn.ca/11409…
A community for Canadians, First Nations, Metis, and Inuit Peoples of the great white north.Mastodon hosted on mstdn.ca
I couldn't find an existing list of Canadian alternatives to American Internet services, so I've started one:
worktree.ca/taffer/canadian-al…
Please spread far and wide, and let me know if you have any updates for the page!
#canada #cira #internet #cloud #alberta #british_columbia #bc #manitoba #new_brunswick #newfoundland #labrador #newfoundlandlabrador #northwest_territories #nwt #nova_scotia #nunavut #ontario #prince_edward_island #pei #quebec #saskatchewan #yukon #buycanadian #elbowsup
A collection of Canadian alternatives to common Internet services in the spirit of the various Awesome lists.Worktree
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“Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Anyone”
adrianroselli.com/2025/03/be-w…
Sort of an updated version of my 2016 post.
TL;DR: anyone promising you that a total solution to digital accessibility is coming, and they are the ones bringing it, may be lying. Background In 2016 I wrote Be Wary of Accessibility Guarantees from Vendors.Adrian Roselli
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In 2022, I introduced the project DISCMASTER, which is a unique project to make the internals of tens of thousands of 1990s-2000s CD-ROMs findable in a semantic search.
Today, I'm announcing the team has now made DISCMASTER 2, a ground-up rewrite with so much improvement.
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The landscape of free over-the-air (OTA) television is on the brink of a dramatic transformation. Local station owners affiliated with ABC, CBS, FOX, and NBC, backed by the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB), have petitioned the Federal Commu…Luke Bouma (Cord Cutters News)
Learning to Code? Don’t Do It Alone!
Overwhelmed by too many resources? Looking for an accessible space to connect with others on the same journey? Join our Techopolis Discord!
✅ Talk to fellow coders
✅ Share experiences & tips
✅ Learn in a supportive, accessible community
discord.gg/fqgx5jAG
#CodingCommunity #LearnToCode #AccessibilityMatters #TechForAll #InclusiveTech #CodeNewbie #100DaysOfCode #WomenWhoCode #BlindCoders #DisabilityInTech
Check out the Techopolis community on Discord - hang out with 131 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.Discord
Consumers are being sold an illusion of ownership. "Buy" a digital movie, an e-book, or a game today? Tomorrow, it could vanish. 🕳️
Senator Ron Wyden is calling on the FTC to crack down on this digital "bait-and-switch." Read the letter & learn what's at stake in our latest post ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/02/28/wy…
Prelinger Archives is in the final year of a three-year grant for mass-digitization of its film collection funded by Filecoin Foundation for the Decentralized Web. Since the start of the […]\nblog.archive.org
Hi everyone, we had a question on the weekend about the best programs, accessible with NVDA under Windows, for:
1. An accessible client to work with multiple calendars via CalDAV
2. A program which can work as a to-do-list.
The user would prefer not to use Outlook if possible. Has anyone got tips please?
CC @bdorer @WestphalDenn
Original message: caneandable.social/@WestphalDe…
Hi #blind community. I am searching for two programs for #Windows. 1. A accessible client to work with multiple calendars via CalDAV 2. A program which can work as a to-do-list.Cane and Able
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Perhaps more than anyone else, Elon Musk has a propensity for posting through it — and it seems that includes his apparent insomnia.Noor Al-Sibai (Futurism)
A couple of days back I posted
"Stop creating international conferences that meet in the US.
This goes beyond conference policies. Some of your attendees will not be able to get into the US and some of those that do risk arrest."
Many people said that the current risk of arrest was low for people in "safe" categories. I sort of agreed but emphasized that the future risk wasn't. Well the future is already here.
kpbs.org/news/border-immigrati…
The young woman had planned to spend a month with a friend in Los Angeles and then fly home to Berlin. But she’s been in federal custody since late January.Gustavo Solis (KPBS)
Samsung launches Galaxy A56, A36 and A26 with One UI 7, Awesome Intelligence, advanced camera features, and enhanced durability.Yash (Sammy Fans)
What's the state of #matrix, #xmpp and #IRC as far as #screenReader -accessible clients are concerned? Desktop (Windows, Mac) and mobile (iOS, Android).
Hoping for some input, please feel free to boost. As far as I know:
Matrix does not have a lightweight, fully accessible client for desktop, but one could be modified, such as #gomuks. On mobile, Element has scrolling issues, which is unacceptable for large rooms.
XMPP has accessible desktop clients (I used to run #Adium on the Mac), also #WeeChat. No idea about mobile.
IRC is perhaps the one which everything supports on desktop, from #MirandaIM through Weechat to the old Freedom Chat, which I could probably rewrite if I had to. Also not sure about mobile, but it would definitely need push notifications, because we can't expect people to stay constantly online on the go. #a11y #accessibility
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today, i have IP-blocked the entirety of alibaba cloud’s IPv4 range (47.80.0.0/13, 47.74.0.0/15, 47.76.0.0/14). And you could ask - domi, what the hell, that’s kinda sorta a lot of addresses?
fucking watch this: that’s sakamoto Mk5, my Ryzen 9 7950X3D server. Never before have I seen forgejo taking this much CPU.
They’ve generated 9GB of access logs (!) and 230GB of generated tarballs (!!!) before I got to my laptop, investigated and ip-banned them. I’m positive that most forgejo deployments in existence wouldn’t survive this.
If you needed another reason to fuck generative AI today - here’s one
Data quake reminds us of the broken results seen back in 2018.Jowi Morales (Tom's Hardware)
A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination—usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full …Simon Willison’s Weblog
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 17 updated (11 RB) and 2 added apps:
* Minimo Launcher: Home screen without distractions
* SocketChat: a simple app to chat with anyone you want on the same network 🛡️
RB status: 474 apps (38.8%)
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
Sunday doodle:
Every time someone launches an Android phone, they fork (copy-paste) the entire code-base for each and every device and Android version. Keeping it up to date is a lot of effort for the vendors, but don't worry - they only do so for a limited amount of time, so that you have to buy a new phone instead!
Source: postmarketos.org/blog/2017/05/…
What if someone instead modified an existing Linux distribution to make it run on smartphones, and made sure that each phone only need one unique package so that the rest can be shared and upstreamed? This could extend the life of countless phones around the world.
And it is exactly what the folks at #PostmarketOS are doing!
I just sent patches to port #COSMIC to #AlpineLinux[1], so it'll soon[2] be possible to install this promising new DE on a few of the hundreds of ARM and x86 things that #postmarketos supports!
1) gitlab.alpinelinux.org/alpine/…
2) gitlab.postmarketos.org/postma…
This adds the COSMIC DE from system76. I only enabled x86_64 and aarch64 for now, since that's all I've tested. Quick note on the weird pkgver/_upstreamver...GitLab
"At least 146 measles cases have been ID'ed in W TX, incl. 20 hospitalizations & 1 death.
"MX has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to TX & 7 states due to a measles outbreak."
"Thanks to vaccines, #Measles was declared eliminated from the US in 2000. Anti-vaxers hosting measles parties are sending their own kids to the hospital."
-J Cabellero
The US has a #PublicHealth crisis.
arstechnica.com/health/2025/02…
borderreport.com/news/health/m…
Mexico has issued a warning to its citizens asking them not to travel to Texas and seven other states in the U.S. due to a measles outbreak.Salvador Rivera (BorderReport)
If you're looking to switch away from fascist enabling unaccountable tech giants these directories are all pretty good in their own way:
1. switching.software/
2. privacyguides.org/
3. alternativeto.net/
4. ethical.net/resources/
5. selfh.st/apps/
6. european-alternatives.eu/
7. prism-break.org/en/
There is also e.g. this nice bit of guidance too optoutproject.net/the-cyber-cl…
New Year, New Digital You! New Years are an opportunity for committing to resolutions, starting new habits, discarding what no…Janet Vertesi
From the creator of 'Peaky Blinders', a new show about an all-female crime gang
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/02/nx-s1-5293407/from-the-creator-of-peaky-blinders-a-new-show-about-an-all-female-crime-gang?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Television @television-npr
An easy read with some nice pictures which gives a nice introduction to the right to roam movement in England: adventure.com/right-to-roam-en…
In 2024, Damien Gabet walked 500 miles from southeast England to the England-Scotland border. But this hike included a series of trespasses.Damien Gabet (Adventure.com)
@sesivany that's one of the most positive surprises I had about the Czech countryside. We go off-trail hiking all the time for mushrooming and even camping.
As a kid in Brazil we loved exploring the forests around but twice my friends and I were shot at for "accidentally trespassing" unmarked land.
I was a guest on the most recent episode of the Accessibility + Gen AI Podcast, hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon. We had a really fun, wide-ranging conversation …Simon Willison’s Weblog
@ragb do you think it's harder to build a relationship with a new guide dog or to learn the failure modes of a vision LLM?
(I'm not sure how the process of developing an intuition for how to use vision LLMs for assistive technology works)
@ragb I'm trying to establish how useful the comparison is in terms of onboarding new assistive tools
I'll probably stick to the screenreader comparison in the future, but I like having an excuse to talk about dogs!
I caught up on the meeting between Trump and Zelensky, and I think it's one of the most disturbing and humiliating moments I've ever seen in foreign diplomacy.
As SNL pointed out, it was a trap. I recommend watching last night's sketch about it. It's incredibly difficult to parody such an existential meeting for Ukraine, but they did a great job highlighting the real purpose behind it.
youtube.com/watch?v=CUpOMSJ1Md…
Elon Musk (Mike Myers) interrupts a heated meeting with Donald Trump (James Austin Johnson), JD Vance (Bowen Yang), Marco Rubio (Marcello Hernández) and Ukra...YouTube
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XRP/SOL/ADA up 25-65% in the last hour or so.
So now we’re doing pump-and-dump schemes with the full faith and credit of the United States.
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