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Accrescent depends completely on donations to run. Today we share a significant update in our new blog post on the future of Accrescent: blog.accrescent.app/posts/the-….

New releases of Accrescent and our developer console are also out, with Android 16 updates and Material 3 changes. Check them out!

github.com/accrescent/accresce…
github.com/accrescent/parcelo/…
github.com/accrescent/console/…

#security #privacy #accrescent #android #appstre


The Future of Accrescent

Accrescent is a novel Android app store focused on security, privacy, and usability. We’ve been building Accrescent since 2021 to improve the security and freedom of everyday Android users by providing an alternative to Google Play which doesn’t comp…
Logan Magee (Accrescent Blog)
#android #privacy #security #accrescent #appstre

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#WenkoffRetro No. 241 🎶❤️
#retromusic

Hudební kalendář je připravený zpříjemnit pondělí všem!🤞

4.8.1901 se narodila černošská jazzová legenda - 🇺🇸 zpěvák a trumpetista
*Louis Daniel Armstrong*, přezdívaný *Satchmo*.

Výjimečně rozsáhlý článek je na CZ Wiki:
cs.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_…

Neradostné dětství a mládí, leč prožité v samém středu jazzové líhně New Orleans odstartovalo padesátiletou hudební kariéru jednoho z nejvýznamnějších jazzových umělců 20. století.

A teď dvě dávky toho nejlepšího:

americký jazzový trumpetista a zpěvák

Přispěvatelé projektů Wikimedia (nadace Wikimedia)
#wenkoffretro #retromusic

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Good. Job seekers are avoiding AI interviewers. They tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.

fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-inte…

This is how richer stay richer, instead of properly hiring HR folks, AI bots. Instead of paying for artists for Ads making or creative writing they use AI bots. They will do anything to gain profits, fire humans & replace with AI except they forget humans also need money to buy their goods


AI is doing job interviews now—but candidates say they’d rather risk staying unemployed than talk to another robot

Job-seekers tell Fortune they’re outright refusing to do AI interviews, calling them dehumanizing and a red flag for bad company culture.
Emma Burleigh (Fortune)

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📣 Do-It-Blind (DIB) online Besprechung am Montag, 4. August, um 19:00 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.
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Parabéns a todos os idiotas úteis do Hamas:

Selon un porte-parole du Hamas, la reconnaissance de la Palestine par plusieurs États occidentaux est «le fruit du 7 octobre»

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Selon un porte-parole du Hamas, la reconnaissance de la Palestine par plusieurs États occidentaux est «le fruit du 7 octobre»

Ghazi Hamad s’est félicité de cette mobilisation occidentale. De son côté, le ministère des Affaires étrangères israélien estime qu’«établir un État palestinien aujourd’hui, c’est instaurer un État du Hamas».
Solène Vary (Le Figaro)

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With the launch of Ghost 6.0, every publication that runs on Ghost becomes part of the #fediverse. You can follow and comment on Platformer or 404 Media articles without leaving your Mastodon feed. This is the future of social media.

Congratulations to @johnonolan and all the team at Ghost!

ghost.org/changelog/6/


Ghost 6.0

Networked publishing, native analytics, and $100M earned by indie publishers
John O'Nolan (Changelog)
#fediverse @John O'Nolan
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Keep in mind that the Apple Watch 11 should be coming out next month, but if that don't matter to you, then you can get a new Apple Watch really discounted... Top Apple Watch deals this August: Prices as low as $169 appleinsider.com/articles/25/0…

Top Apple Watch deals this August: Prices as low as $169

Summer savings are knocking up to $150 off a variety of Apple Watch styles, with prices dropping to as low as $169.
Christine McKee (AppleInsider)

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Quick recap of what happened in the #LibreOffice project and community in July! Software releases, new podcast episodes, updated guidebooks, event preparations and more: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
Photo of Dione Maddern, LibreOffice contributor, with a quote about how she enjoys working with the team

LibreOffice project and community recap: July 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started July with some very positive news: a Danish Ministry is switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOff…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility
stephaniewalter.design/blog/ho…
#accessibility #a11y

How to Convince People to Care and Invest in Accessibility by Stéphanie Walter - UX Researcher & Designer.

Learn how to advocate for accessibility, drive change without authority, and connect inclusive design to business impact, with practical tips, strategies, and real-world examples.
Stéphanie Walter (Stéphanie Walter - Senior UX Designer, Mobile Expert, Conference Speaker, Blog writer and Teacher.)
#a11y #Accessibility

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The 4 Motivations for Accessibility - The Big WHY?
nira11y.com/post/the-4-motivat…
#a11y #accessibility

The 4 Motivations for Accessibility - The Big WHY?

What's striking about accessibility is its binary impact on brand perception. Companies that ignore accessibility are increasingly perceived as "evil" - as deliberately excluding people with disabilities...
Nir Horesh (NirA11y)
#a11y #Accessibility

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Our In-Process blog is out! This week featuring:
- NVDA Satisfaction Survey 2025
- NVDA 2025.2 Beta 5
- How to test an NVDA Beta?
- Extra voices updates (Including Eloquence and Vocalizer)

Read more at:
nvaccess.org/post/in-process-4…

#NVDA #NVDAsr #ScreenReader #Accessibility #Blog #News #Newsletter #Update

NV Access | In-Process 4th August 2025

www.nvaccess.org
#Accessibility #blog #screenreader #nvdasr #News #newsletter #update #nvda
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Pratik Patel

FYI:On the extra voices wiki, the two links to the Microsoft platform voices are no longer working.

Links:

Language downloads: microsoft.com/en-us/download/d…
Speech Platform runtime: microsoft.com/en-us/download/d…

Download Microsoft Speech Platform - Runtime Languages (Version 11) from Official Microsoft Download Center

Speech Recognition and Text-to-Speech Engines for Microsoft supported Languages
Microsoft Store - Download Center
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Pay €7.99/mth for ad-free or pay with your data and see personalized ads on Instagram. 🤔 No thanks Meta, we will take neither.

✅ A better option? Switch to Pixelfed!

Find out more on the best Instagram alternative here 👉 tuta.com/blog/instagram-altern…

Image comparing the data collected from Pixelfed vs the data collected from Instagram. Pixelfed: Data not collected. Instagram: Health & fitness, financial info, contact info, user content, browsing history, usage data, diagnostics, purchases, location, contacts, search history, identifiers, sensitive info, other data.

Instagram Alternative: Best alternatives to Instagram in 2025 | Tuta

Pay €7.99/month for ad-free or pay with your data and see personalized ads. No thanks Meta, we will take neither. In this in-depth guide, we look at the best Instagram alternative in 2025.
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I'm a huge advocate for making apps accessible, but I find myself saying "fuck it" when dealing with Liquid Glass.

It's not possible to maintain contrast across a range of app content with a text label that's non-deterministic. When someone who's empathetic to the needs of others gives up, it's a huge loss.

Apple has a well earned reputation for accessibility and Alan Dye is fucking that up for a lot of folks who need affordances.

We should not be choosing between the lesser of two evils.

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Tom Bortels

Does curl cache the discoveries it makes regarding fastest-responding IP results? I suspect the answer is "no of course not".

Maybe it should? An optional, probably short-lived, cache of "I did a dns lookup and here's the lag and thruput on the following IPs" might be handy.

Because a common use-case for me is repeatedly invoking curl against the same site and API with different query parameters - and I can see that optimization decision as being handy info to retain across executions for at least a few minutes.

Maybe an optional --cache-performance-data option.

PS. I dig the transparency on thought process - thank you for posting, and for curl. It's damn handy.

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What's new in versions 1.3 and 1.4 of Open Document Format (ODF), the native format in #LibreOffice? blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource
ODF logo

What's new in ODF 1.3 and 1.4 - The Document Foundation Blog

ODF ensures that documents remain accessible, portable, and free from restrictions. Now that version 1.3 has been widely adopted and version 1.4 is on the horizon, it’s time to have a look at the new features and upcoming releases. ODF 1.
Italo Vignoli (The Document Foundation)
#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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#Tuba v0.10.0 is now available, with many new features and bug fixes!

✨ Highlights:
- New Composer
- Grouped Notifications
- Play media from third-party services in-app with Clapper
- In-app web browser
- Collapse long posts
- Mastodon quotes
- Iceshrimp Drive
- 'Featured' Profile tab
- Local-only posting
- Search History
- Alt text from file metadata
🧵

As always, there are too many changes to list here, if you're more interested, check out the full release changelog:
github.com/GeopJr/Tuba/release…

Screenshot of Tuba. The user is in the notifications tab showing a grouped notification. At the top there's a star and 2 avatars. Right below them the text "KEL & AUBREY [blobhaj emoji] favorited your post" and right below that a post by BASIL.
Screenshot of Tuba. The user is on the Iceshrimp Drive view. There's 5 folders at the top following the system accent color and random images and other files below. Some files have badges at the top right of a pencil, person or crossed-out eye. It's similar to Nautilus.

Release v0.10.0 · GeopJr/Tuba

Added New composer (#623, thanks @bertob) In-app web browser (#1323) Collapse long posts (#1354, thanks @bugaevc) Grouped notifications (#1193) Clapper is now the default video player (#1308) Clap...
GitHub
#tuba

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The untrammeled greed of the founders of Philz Coffee -- and the financial looters who are buying the company -- is exceeded only by their pure contempt for the employees whose shares in the company are being vaporized.

How can this be legal? Because "capitalism" rules.

missionlocal.org/2025/07/philz…


Philz Coffee close to closing deal to sell to private equity firm for $145 million

Employee stocks will be canceled as part of the deal; former employees point to culture change across Philz Coffee.
Jessica Blough (Mission Local)
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NonPlayableClown

The list itself is a compilation of travel logs and multiple interactions with him. I do not buy, especially with how the NSA been spying on us since 2001, that they didn't know.
I strongly believe, especially with Epstein's connection to MOSSAD, that he blackmailed high profile people.

I also doubt that close acquaintances and friends didn't know the shit he's done.
Like the dude even left jail to go to work, what does that tell us?

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Interesting review on an upcoming book regarding nuclear energy from a Marxist standpoint: multiracialunity.org/2025/08/0…

#NuclearEnergy #EnergyTransition


The Poverty of Green Philosophy: A Book Review

by Ellen Isaacs August 3, 2025 The Poverty of Green Philosophy, A Marxist Case for Nuclear Energy in a Cooperative World, by Bill Sacks and Greg Meyerson (to be published October, 2025) Most Americ…
The Multiracial Unity Blog
#energytransition #nuclearenergy

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Hot take: PipeWire shouldn't run as a per-user service. It should always run as a system service, under its own user, listening on a system-wide socket, and the currently logged-in user should be given access to that socket via logind or whatever handles such things now. Same for wireplumber and pipewire-pulse. I speculate that this will go some way toward solving the problems that @fireborn reported with audio on desktop Linux. fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/i-w… Tell me why I'm wrong.

I Want to Love Linux. It Doesn’t Love Me Back: Post 2 – The Audio Stack Is a Crime Scene — fireborn

fireborn.mataroa.blog
@aaron
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Elijah Massey

That would definitely be a good thing for console screen readers that run as root or their own system user like Fenrir or eSpeakup or BRLTTY, and for any screen readers that run before login like console screen readers or Orca on a GUI display manager. Also, it seems weird to regard audio as a user resource rather than a system resource, since computers usually have one sound card and selected audio output, not a separate one for every user. I thought the point of multi-user operating systems was to share system resources between different users, where running Pipewire as a user service gives these system resources to only one user and prevents other users from accessing them.

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Hi everyone, some updates have been made to my OBS audio routing guide. An audio recording is now available, as well as the ability to monitor the status of your sources. Check out the guide for more details. jonathanr.me/2025/01/05/monito…

Monitoring output from microphones and routing audio with no lag using OBS Studio – Jonathan Rodriguez

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The current administration in the US has, through various funding agencies such as the NSF and NIH, has recently suspended virtually all federal grants to my home university, UCLA (including my own personal grant, although that is far from the most serious impact of this decision), on the grounds that UCLA was “failing to promote a research environment free of antisemitism and bias”. One can certainly debate whether these grounds were justified, or whether they merit the extremely draconian damage to the very research environment that this decision is claiming to protect, but if nothing else this unprecedented decision does not appear to have followed the usual standards of due process for actions of this nature; for instance, there appears to have been no good faith effort by the administration to receive a response from UCLA to its allegations before implementing its decision.

The suspension of my personal grant has a non-trivial impact on myself (in particular, my summer salary, which I had already deferred in order to allow the previously released NSF funds to support several of my graduate students over this period, is now in limbo), and now gives me almost no resources to support my graduate students going forward; but this is only a fraction of a percent of the entire amount being suspended. A far greater concern is the impact on the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) ipam.ucla.edu/, which despite receiving preliminary approval earlier this year for a new five-year round of funding (albeit at significantly reduced levels) from the NSF, now only has enough emergency funding for a few months of further operation at best if the suspension is not lifted. (1/4)

Home - IPAM

Institute for Pure & Applied Mathematics
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road safety pro tip: back in the days before smartphones, "loose objects in the cabin" was the #1 cause of distracted driving crashes

this includes both things moving around unexpectedly, and messing with items when you shouldn't 😒🍌

sootoday.com/opp-beat/driver-s…


Driver slips up while trying to reach for banana: OPP

Hungry driver in southern Ontario was fortunate to sustain only minor injuries after veering across the centre lane of a highway and smashing into a tree
SooToday Staff (SooToday.com)
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"UN says booming solar, wind and other green energy hits global tipping point for even lower costs"

Clean energy is far cheaper to add than fossil fuel energy, despite fossil fuels having 9x the government subsidies worldwide!

We've hit the point where good financial sense aligns with saving the planet

#climatechange #climatehope #cleanenergy #fossilfuels #solar #wind #geothermal

apnews.com/article/climate-cha…

#climatechange #fossilfuels #cleanenergy #wind #solar #climatehope #geothermal

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 9 updated and 1 added apps:

* LockLock: a lightweight, privacy-first app locking solution 🛡️

RB status: 671 apps (50.9%)

4 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

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


IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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Want to cancel your Adobe subscription but don't want to pay a massive cancellation fee?

1. Sign up for a disposable credit card with a low spending limit (e.g. $5); I use privacy.com/
2. Switch your Adobe billing information to use it; the $1 preauth will go through and your old card will be removed from the account
3. Cancel your account (optional)
4. Cackle for the next 9 months as Adobe repeatedly tells you your account is past-due and it'll be cancelled if you don't pay the fee


Virtual Cards That Protect Your Payments | Online Payment Security

Protect your payment security. Shield your financial information and protect against credit and debit card fraud with secure, randomly-generated virtual card numbers.
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