This is great
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.Nitter
Цікаво, що буде з українським будинком після того, як з нього знімуть риштування війни. Оптимістично припустимо, що це все-таки колись трапиться. Поки що має...Еспресо (UAZMI)
@nomad Jo, takové znám. Třeba u nás je jeden chodník oficiálně cyklostezkou, protože dotace tehdy byly akorát na cyklostezky 😉
Nejlepší je ale "mrzačící zařízení" na konci. Cyklista je buď zlikvidován tím zařízením, nebo před ním seskočí do vozovky, kde ho sejme projíždějící auto. Leda by tedy zastavil nebo hodně zpomalil 🙃
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Question for my #blind followers: Would you be interested in buying, and if so, how much would you be willing to pay, for a screenless Linux-based computer with Braille keyboard and TTS output, like the BT Speak (blazietech.com/bt-speak-pro), but with these distinguishing features:
- Actually open-source software
- RK3588 SoC (4 performance cores, 4 low-power cores)
- Faster and more robust software updates
- Option to boot from SD card (full-sized), for fearless OS tinkering
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Welcome to Blazie Technologies, maker of BT Speak and BT Braille accessible computersBlazie Technologies
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Alfabet Braille'a, syntezator mowy, elektroniczny analizator obrazu i inne urządzenia pomocne niewidomymNr odcinka : 253Nr odcinka dostępnego: 134Data premie...YouTube
this isn't totally in my field of knowledge, e.g. I use USB headset and nodm as my display manager, but it looks mostly fine. If it works, and you have sound on boot, this may not be helpful.
I noticed that you enable the user services for pipewire:
sudo -u "$TUSER" systemctl --user enable --now pipewire.service pipewire-pulse.service wireplumber.service || truesudo loginctl enable-linger "$TUSER"
ah, argh. you wanna know today? Upgrading pipewire from 1.2.X to 1.4.X for the LEAudio Bluetooth bits I wanted. Well well. Turns out, the Stormux script sets WirePlumber 0.4-style Lua tweaks. On WirePlumber 0.5 those are ignored, so BlueZ endpoints don’t come up until your full user session finishes and policy loads. O, M, G. Also disable seat monitoring so WirePlumber registers BlueZ endpoints without a logged-in seat. (This is the key for pre-login use.) But it's really not about the shared pulse socket. You would just need to move your “no suspend” ALSA tweak to wireplumber.conf.d rules. Oh, and the Bluetooth tweak. so:
"cat > "$xdgPath/wireplumber/bluetooth.conf.d/50-autoconnect.conf" <<'EOF'
# WirePlumber 0.5
bluez5.auto-connect = [ a2dp_sink hfp_hf hsp_hs ]
bluez5.default.profile = "a2dp-sink"
EOF
# Allow BT endpoints without a logged-in seat (pre-login audio)
cat > "$xdgPath/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/10-disable-seat-monitoring.conf" <<'EOF'
wireplumber.profiles = {
main = {
monitor.bluez.seat-monitoring = disabled
}
}
EOF
cat > "$xdgPath/wireplumber/wireplumber.conf.d/50-fenrir-no-suspend.conf" <<'EOF'
monitor.alsa.rules = [
{
matches = [ { node.name = "~alsa_output.*" } ]
actions = { update-props = { session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 } }
}
{
matches = [ { node.name = "~alsa_input.*" } ]
actions = { update-props = { session.suspend-timeout-seconds = 0 } }
}
]
EOF"
“There is indeed such a thing as a dumb question, and learning to ask the right questions may be the most valuable fruit of a good education.
Many essays on ChatGPT pose various questions to the software, but I want to pose one to the engineers developing these Large Language Models (LLMs) and to the enthusiastic adopters of this technology: What is the problem for which LLMs are the solution?”
Really great 2023 article by Jeffrey Bilbro
plough.com/en/topics/life/tech…
Jeffrey Bilbro discusses the trade-offs of using technology to eliminate human intellectual and creative effort.Plough
A team snap (minus a few) from our town hall. It's amazing to see how much we've achieved and what's to come!
& a BIG thank you from us to you.
Our mission wouldn't be possible without your support ❤️
"Accessible recruitment is more than a policy - it’s a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person
most capable of doing it."
tetralogical.com/blog/2025/08/…
#accessible #recruitment #accessibility #a11y
Accessible recruitment is more than a policy - it’s a way to ensure that every candidate can perform at their best, and each role is filled by the person most capable of doing it.TetraLogical
Séisme en Afghanistan: les secouristes ont aidé les hommes... mais pas les femmes
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Les normes culturelles afghanes, qui interdisent tout contact physique entre les hommes et les femmes qui n'appartiennent pas à la même famille, ont poussé les secouristes majoritairement masculins à ne pas venir en aide aux femmes.
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Les normes culturelles afghanes, qui interdisent tout contact physique entre les hommes et les femmes qui n'appartiennent pas à la même famille, ont…Elena Gillet (Slate.fr)
Jeden z umelcu si na Unreleased hodil lekce kytary. Bez meho pricineni. Coz me tesi zaprve proto, ze nase samoobsluha funguje a za druhe, ze ten nastroj lidi vyuzivaji kreativne.
Sem se kouknul borcovi na IG a tam toto. Jako wtf.
Lekce tu:
unreleased.art/forgetbrennan
IG tu:
instagram.com/forgetbrennan/
Tenhle tyden se stavil u nas ve studiu, tak z toho bude i nejaky pekny content ne-jenom-lekci.
Discover a world of progressions, tutorials and resources to elevate you on your guitar journey below.unreleased.art
Massive Angriffe auf Ukraine - Regierungsgebäude in Kiew brennt
Nach schweren Angriffen ist eines der wichtigsten Regierungsgebäude in Kiew in Brand geraten. Noch ist unklar, ob der Kreml gezielt den Sitz des Ministerkabinetts ins Visier genommen hat. Mindestens drei Menschen wurden getötet.
#audiopub Just gained a big update! We finally now have a notifications system, so you’ll know imediately when something’s happening on audios you're interested in! You automatically get notifications for events related to your own uploads, but if there is an audio by someone else you're interested in, click the follow notifications button for that audio.
Notification badges will appear in the title and the notifications link if you have unread notifications. It will automatically update as you get more notifications, without the need to refresh the page! So if you just keep the site open you could just glance at it every now and then and stay completely up to date. Go check it out, and enjoy the peace of mind of not having to chase down your own comment threads anymore ❤️
Volvo (and Polestar) are in crisis mode as their flagship cars are plagued by software problems.
It’s said that car companies don’t “understand” software, but the larger issue is that they don’t *appreciate* software.
I mean, they don’t understand leather tanning or high-end speaker design either, but that doesn’t stop them from sourcing premium materials and great sound systems. But software is always bought from the lowest bidder (Infosys in the Volvo/Polestar case)
insideevs.com/news/770572/volv…
Volvo's EVs, including its flagship EX90, are riddled with software bugs. Its CEO says the automakers is focusing on fixing these as quickly as possible.Rob Stumpf (InsideEVs)
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
Source code and a downloadable app to try it yourself: github.com/samhenrigold/LidAng…
tfw when you when your lid when uhh angle your lid sensor - samhenrigold/LidAngleSensorGitHub
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Mozilla adds CoPilot chatbot to Firefox in the latest nightly builds, plus previews new Task and Timer widgets for the New Tab page. https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/09/firefox-adding-copilot-chatbot-features?v2 #CoPilot #firefox #opensourceFLOSS.social
The full name is Trump's Department of War Crimes
theintercept.com/2025/09/05/pe…
A current DoD official and many military legal experts say the U.S. attack on a boat in the Caribbean near Venezuela broke international law.Nick Turse (The Intercept)
Imagine if before every journey you had to give 48 hours notice to do it. That's the reality for disabled people across many countries. Wanna take a train? Gotta book the assistance 24-48 hours in advance. Relative gone into hospital and you need to go see them? Tough, should have planned in advance.
This is why I am so vocal about level access trains and working lifts. If we design accessibility into our infrastructure, it becomes more useful to more people.
cupoftea.social/@moof/11515640…
TIL that the assistance service at Barcelona-Sants station is only available if prebooked 48h in advance, because they allocate staff each day based on the requested demand.CupOfTea.Social
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 16 updated and 3 added apps:
* WiFi Audio Streaming: stream audio over your local network, Android 2 Android and even desktop 🛡️
* Open Notes: a simple and intuitive note-taking app 🛡️
* BikeBridge: a companion for your e-bike and components 🛡️
And of course Neo Store now with integrated download stats 😃
RB status: 703 apps (53.8%)
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
Where Europe is dumping its problematic waste
correctiv.org/en/europe/2025/0…
Europe reveals that waste disposal companies from Germany, Austria and Italy continue to export old tyres and other waste – in some cases toxic – to the Czech Republic.
Over the past two decades, millions of tonnes of waste have been dumped in Mydlovary – including significant volumes from neighbouring Germany, a country championed for its waste separation and recycling systems. According to the managing director of one German waste disposal company, Mydlovary is ‘the biggest hole in Europe’ for rubbish dumping.
How European companies dump old tyres and hazardous waste in the Czech Republic to cover radioactive sludge from the nuclear industry’s pastMarius Münstermann (CORRECTIV)
Excited to announce #Catima is in the top 5% of most popular apps on #IzzyOnDroid, ranking place 62 of 1307.
Even more excited to see our new IzzyOnDroid download statistics, supported by #NLNet, land in #NeoStore!
Curious as to how it works? It's actually pretty simple! Server logs are fed, per server, into codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s… and the results are summarized using codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-s…, creating easy to consume JSON files. Then, Neo Store consumes them :)
This repository contains scripts to turn your server logs into the "IzzyOnDroid download stats" format, which can then be collected by https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-stats-collector.Codeberg.org
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iod-stats-builder - This repository contains scripts to turn your server logs into the "IzzyOnDroid download stats" format, which can then be collected by https://codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/iod-stats-collector.Codeberg.org
Unity moves on common tracks. 🇺🇦🛤️🇪🇺
Ukraine’s first EU-gauge railway between Uzhhorod and Chop is now open, backed by €28.6 million from the EU’s Connecting Europe and Ukraine Facilities.
This means:
✅ Faster border crossing
✅ More trade
✅ Better links to 🇸🇰🇭🇺🇦🇹 – and beyond
Part of the EU-Ukraine Solidarity Lanes, this project will help bring Ukraine closer to the EU.
We #StandWithUkraine as it rolls forward towards 🇪🇺 🚆
More: europa.eu/!gypNxR
Ukraine opened its first railway line based on the European Union standard for track width, marking a significant step in deepening the country’s transport integration with the EU.Mobility and Transport
You ask, we deliver 👉 Mail lists will soon be resizable. 😍 🎉
Stay tuned!
Dan Langille
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Imagine full volume in the coffee shop…
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in reply to feld • • •I tried. I failed. I issued.
github.com/samhenrigold/LidAng…
See github.com/samhenrigold/LidAng…
MacBook Pro - 15-inch, 2019 - LAS not available
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