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From the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: Technology User Group Meeting; ReBokeh Vision Technologies, Inc. & HumanWare; Saturday, June 14, 10:00 AM Eastern Time groups.io/g/tech-vi/message/93…

From the Maryland State Library for the Blind and Print Disabled: Technology User Group Meeting; ReBokeh Vision Technologies, Inc. & HumanWare; Saturday, June 14, 10:00 AM Eastern Time

David Goldfield (groups.io)

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Jetzt wird's dienstlich. 😉
„Churchaissance – Neue Kirchen ohne Gott verändern die Welt“.
re-publica.com/de/session/chur…

#rp25 #Kirche #Fedikirche

Churchaissance – Neue Kirchen ohne Gott verändern die Welt | re:publica

Die re:publica Berlin ist das Festival für die digitale Gesellschaft und die größte Konferenz ihrer Art in Europa. Die Teilnehmer*innen der re:publica bilden einen Querschnitt unserer (digitalen) Gesellschaft.
republica
#fedikirche #kirche #rp25

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 26. Mai, um 20:00 Uhr. Du bist eingeladen! bbb.metalab.at/rooms/joh-szv-o… Wöchentlich am Montag besprechen wir neue Formen der digitalen und inklusiven Zusammenarbeit. Mach mit! 🛠️ #make #blind #inklusion
Mobile Braille-Tastatur Metabraille mit 8 Tasten. Das Gehäuse ist türkis und die Tasten sind weiß. Das Gehäuse ist ungefähr fünfeckig. Ein Rechteck wird an der Breitseite durch ein Trapez erweitert. Die Form ähnelt einem Haus mit Fenstern in der Mitte.

Do-It-Blind (DIB) Besprechung

Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.
bbb.metalab.at
#blind #inklusion #make

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From @pluralistic :

"Just a QR Code" is a new site that generates QR codes, operating entirely in your browser, without transmitting any data to a server or trying to cram ads into your eyeballs. The fact that it runs entirely in-browser means you can save this webpage and work with an offline copy to generate QR codes forever – even if the site goes down:

justaqrcode.com/

QR code generators are mostly bad news, so this is great news.

Just a QR Code

justaqrcode.com
@Cory Doctorow

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There are four main timelines on Mastodon:

Home - Your default timeline, posts from people & tags & groups you follow

Explore/Trending - Shows most boosted recent posts, most used tags, most shared links

Local - Latest public posts from people on your server (also called Live Feeds: This Server)

Federated - Latest public posts visible to your server from across the Fediverse (also called Live Feeds: All)

More info about these on the timelines guide:

➡️ fedi.tips/what-are-the-local-f…

#FediTips


What are the Local, Federated and Home timelines? How do I stop them scrolling too quickly? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse

An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediverse
fedi.tips
#FediTips

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Another Nvidia RTX 5090 cable melts despite MSI's "foolproof" yellow-tipped GPU connector
techspot.com/news/108055-anoth…

Another Nvidia RTX 5090 cable melts despite MSI's "foolproof" yellow-tipped GPU connector

Redditor VersauteGurke explains in a post that he'd been experiencing an issue in which his monitor suddenly turned off and showed a DisplayPort not connected message.
Rob Thubron (TechSpot)

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TIL: The #OpenStreetMap website now supports you adding links to your socials in your OSM profile page! 👏😁😁😁

Add them via your OSM profile under “Social Links”
openstreetmap.org/profile/edit…

A screenshot of a small part of my OSM profile page, showing a link to my mastodon profile directly built in.

OpenStreetMap

OpenStreetMap is a map of the world, created by people like you and free to use under an open license.
OpenStreetMap
#openstreetmap
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Pietervdvn

Heh, it breaks the username detection of @mapcomplete_edits as it is not in the API yet...

I've filed an issue: github.com/openstreetmap/opens…


New 'social media links' are not included in the API when querying a user · Issue #6054 · openstreetmap/openstreetmap-website

URL https://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/user/3818858.json How to reproduce the issue? Hi, I did set mastodon in the social links (which are a nice addition). However, my mastodon bot (https://en....
GitHub
@Edits made with MapComplete

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Sooooo... Loblaw and Weston were still PRICE FIXING after being SPANKED for PRICE FIXING in 2017... both companies continued to collude until 2021... and what do you want to bet they've been colluding SINCE 2021, too?!?!?

And now WE have to prove we bought bread at Loblaw stores to get a gift card to spend at, wait for it, Loblaw stores?!?!?

HOW IS THAT A PUNISHMENT?!?

Ontario judge approves $500M settlement in Loblaw bread-fixing case:

cbc.ca/news/business/judge-app… #cdnpoli #polcan

#cdnpoli #polcan

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This post by #RachelByTheBay a few years ago had a big impact on how I think about server infrastructure: "One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly" rachelbythebay.com/w/2022/01/2…

Taking that a step further, I think one small, inexpensive, underpowered (by today's standards) machine can go pretty far with reasonably efficient software.

One machine can go pretty far if you build things properly

rachelbythebay.com
#rachelbythebay
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Matt Campbell

As I told Rachel at the time, and as I've mentioned here before, there was a BBS in my city (Wichita, Kansas) in 1995 that ran 65 lines on a single machine, some kind of high-end 486. I thought that was amazing back then. Now, with the right software, one could probably serve a few hundred concurrent users with real-time chat, games, etc. on a tiny consumer router.
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Andrew Hodgson

I've often heard stories from older folks who I worked with when they first had jobs in the 90's. They would talk about how they ran most of the company from a single NT or Netware box, running directory services, mail, proxy server, etc. During the 2000's with security and reliability concerns this all changed of course and we've continued to find ways of efficiently packing in more services on a single box ever since.

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NC #1046 Be My Eyes at CSUN, WWDC 2024 Wishlist, Dolphin for the Visually Impaired, SD Card Speeds by Allister Jenks, Security Bits podfeet.com/blog/2025/05/nc-10…

NC #1046 Be My Eyes at CSUN, WWDC 2024 Wishlist, Dolphin for the Visually Impaired, SD Card Speeds by Allister Jenks, Security Bits - Podfeet Podcasts

Hi, this is Allison Sheridan of the NosillaCast Apple Podcast, hosted at Podfeet.com, a technology geek podcast with an EVER so slight Apple bias. Today is Sunday, May 25, 2025, and this is show number 1046.
podfeet (Podfeet Podcasts)
#1046

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Decided to publish my Zig JWT work as a library.

Source: github.com/BrainBlasted/jwt.zi…

Docs: brainblasted.github.io/jwt.zig…

The the existing libraries didn't satisfy me when it came to documentation, usability, or tests. I hope my library provides a good experience in all of the above areas. Would be interested in some code review and general opinions on the API.


GitHub - BrainBlasted/jwt.zig

Contribute to BrainBlasted/jwt.zig development by creating an account on GitHub.
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LibreOffice is available in 120 languages – which may be a record for such a large piece of software! And this is all thanks to our Native Language Communities, who translate the suite's interface and help content. Here's what they did last year: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Screenshot of LibreOffice user interface in Armenian

LibreOffice Native Language Projects – TDF’s Annual Report 2024 - The Document Foundation Blog

By helping to translate and market LibreOffice around the world, native language projects bring enthusiasm and passion to the global community.
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource
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LibreOffice

@Microplastics101 That's not very helpful feedback, Steve 😕 Millions of people use Impress so it clearly is "functional". Why not help the volunteers who give you a free office suite, with specific feedback (LibreOffice version, operating system, document format, what you're trying to do, what you can't do etc.) Otherwise we can't make any improvements with such curt and vague "feedback"...
@Microplastics101

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🛠️ "Breaking the spell: how to fix GObject"
with Emmanuele Bassi at #GUADEC2025
📅 24 July 🕒 09:00 CEST 📍 Brescia

After 25 years of GObject, it’s time for a new direction.

🔗 events.gnome.org/event/259/con…

#GNOME #GTK #OpenSource

The image shows graphically what's announced in the post. It contains the GNOME logo, the name of the speaker, the photo of the speaker and the title of the talk. It moreover contains a graphical rappresentation of the city of the conference, Brescia, and the dates of the conference.

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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#opensource #gnome #gtk #guadec2025
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Emmanuele Bassi

@diegovsky @zbrown You probably want to read this: bassi.io/articles/2023/08/23/t…

The presentation is going to be slightly more to the point


The Mirror

This is a rough strawman I put together after various discussions I had during GUADEC 2023 on the future of the GObject type system, introspection, language bindings, and the GNOME application development platform.
halting problem
@zbrown @Diegovsky

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🔒 𝐄𝐧𝐜𝐫𝐲𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐬 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐍𝐞𝐠𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐞 🔒

Together with ~90 orgs & individuals, we've sent an open letter to the EU Commission to uphold strong encryption.

No government can change the laws of math.

Read the open letter ⤵️
tuta.com/blog/open-letter-agai…

Fight together for privacy in EU with Tuta

Open letter against ProtectEU | Tuta

New name, same problems: The EU now calls Chat Control "ProtectEU", but it comes with the same issues as before.
Tuta

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Do any #blind people reading this either own the (expensive) Monarch tactile graphics device or have access to one through school or work? If so, is it at all open to third-party apps running on the device itself? Failing that, has anyone figured out the specs of the computer that's certainly inside it? It's expensive enough that it would be great if it could serve as a blind person's general-purpose computer.
#blind

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Matt Campbell

Since the original post on this thread is still being boosted, I'll summarize and opine a bit on the answers that @pixelate posted in the thread.

The Monarch is running Android 13, and it does allow third-party applications to be installed, apparently by installing APK files.

The hardware is a Rockchip RK3566 system-on-chip with a quad-core ARM Cortex-A55 CPU and 4 GB of RAM. That's roughly comparable to a Raspberry Pi 3, and coincidentally the same SoC and amount of RAM as my Quartz64 SBC.

@Devin Prater :blind:

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Jage

@pixelate What I'm aiming to learn more about is what the Dot Pad can or can't do vs. the Monarch. I know the Monarch has more homegrown software but if the Dot has a suitable API, then it may be more appealing for the price. I know there is this. github.com/dotincorp/

Dot Incorporation

Dot Incorporation has 3 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.
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@Devin Prater :blind:
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