#serviceToot one of the mirrors at #IzzyOnDroid had a power outage, and is currently in recovery (file system repair) – the USV didn't like to be triggered 3 times in a row 🙈). Good thing there are multiple mirrors, so you shouldn't even notice it – unless you pinned your client to our US mirror…

You can watch the state at our monitor, and thus see when the mirror recovered:

monitor.izzysoft.de/

(one of our builders was affected too – but as with the mirrors, we luckily have more than one)

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@Bodo Danke Bodo! Den meisten Stress damit hatte Andrew, der die Server in den US betreut. Und ja, Murphy hat natürlich zur passenden Unzeit (Dinnertime) zugeschlagen. Wir hoffen jetzt, die letzten Rätsel bzgl. unseres Buildservers noch zu lösen – und auch das bleibt leider wieder größtenteils an Andrew hängen, wir können von hier aus nur mit "SchauMalObsJetztGeht" helfen, da wir den Server derzeit nicht erreichen können, obwohl er fein läuft… Verrücktes IT Zeugs das…
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Danke dir für den kurzen Einblick! Dann erweitere ich meine Wünsche für einen entspannten und erholsamen, sonnigen Sonntag für Andrew gleich mit. 😉

Wie so vieles im Leben, weiß man gewisse Dinge erst zu schätzen, wenn sie nicht mehr rund laufen.
Toi, toi, toi, dass quasi "im Schlaf" des Rätsels Lösung dich/euch finden wird! ✨

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I can’t believe how easy it is to switch to @Tutanota and its excellent apps. I’ve been frustrated by how most alternatives to Apple Mail and Apple Calendar fall short. But Tuta Mail and Calendar work so well — including with my own domains. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ #email #calendar #ios #macos #apple #EUAlternatives

Proton Mail suspended the account of a journalist writing for the hacker zine Phrack at the request of a cybersecurity agency, only reinstating the account after public outcry theintercept.com/2025/09/12/pr…

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Mary Trump: #Trump Rhetoric Ignites Violent Spiral in #America: youtube.com/watch?v=C6Zb4OgiSQ…

Chris Hedges: The Martyrdom of #CharlieKirk: youtube.com/watch?v=34_nScNLga…

Thanks. Other states should follow immediately! c.im/@cdarwin/1151930651416428…


California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
latimes.com/california/story/2…

The person arrested for Charlie Kirk's murder?

As Joyce Vance says,

"The suspect [is] a cisgender white man raised in a religious, Republican home."

So will Wall Street Journal and New York Times now apologize for promoting the lie about bullet casings left behind by the shooter that were marked with "transgender" symbols, whatever the jumping hell that means?

I doubt it.

#CharlieKirk #guns #violence
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"Tyler Robinson comes from a Republican family. His father owns a business installing kitchen countertops and cabinets. His mother is a licensed social worker. His family is white, Mormon, and self-described as 'gun-toting.' There are endless photos of Tyler and his family with guns. His mother posted about him proudly."

~ Ben Meiselas

#CharlieKirk #Republicans #MAGA #Utah #guns #GunCulture #Trump #Mormon
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"He even dressed as Donald Trump for Halloween. The family wasn’t shy about their culture of guns, their politics, or their worldview.

This is who the killer is. This is what we now know. And yet Trump and his cronies immediately blamed the left."

#CharlieKirk #Republicans #MAGA #Utah #guns #GunCulture #Trump #Mormon
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Remember that white house executive order against DEIA, “diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility”?

They went out of their way to add the A for accessibility. So this is very sad but not surprising.

"Trump administration cuts funding to Oregon disability programs"

opb.org/article/2025/09/11/tru…

"Organizations across Oregon received notice from the U.S. Department of Education that they’d lose hundreds of thousands of dollars"

#Oregon #Disability #Accessibility #DisabilityJustice #Education

hi fedi. i'm not really a fan of doing this, and i'm sorry for asking, but i'd really use some help as i need it asap. these past months have been rough to me/my family financially and i want to be able to keep myself afloat.

ko-fi.com/Naydire
i just want to be able to cover the vitals to keep going until i finish sorting things out on my side, as i'm not a fan of this situation. i'm working on it and improving on my mental, and hope it'll not be an issue anytime soon... but for now, anything helps and i would be very glad. i feel ashamed for asking but meh...

thanks for looking at this post, and hope you all are doing well! ​:neomouse_heart:

Comcast executives sent an email to employees endorsing free speech and warning that if you use that speech to criticize Charlie Kirk, you’ll be fired. The word “Orwellian” is overused but I can’t think of a better description. 404media.co 404media.co/comcast-nbcunivers…

California lawmakers pass bill banning law enforcement officers from covering their faces
latimes.com/california/story/2…

was looking at my trusty earbuds worrying what to do if/when they give out

but apparently not only do Apple still sell them (at a doable price and with three different connector options) but people are still this very week publishing culture articles about them 🥳

mashable.com/article/why-i-rep…

What I often find such an interesting take in #accessibility discussions is this concept of "We will make it work for the majority first, and then add accessibility features".
This shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how accessibility, and therefore " features" of accessibility work.
For one, making something #accessible for #screenReaders often requires no visual modifications at all, and requires making calls early in the development cycle to not have to rewrite your entire UI using widgets that even support #assistive #technology. Once that call has been made, making elements accessible is often a matter of, what a concept, using the widgets the way they were meant to be used.

Welcome to the RB family, Weather Master 🥳

apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.p…

inspired by the Google Pixel weather app, Weather Master meanwhile provides a lot of additional features.

Working hard on it, Pranshul finally succeeded, thanks to CI builds (here: Github actions), so it now has the shields up.

#reproducibleBuilds #IzzyOnDroid

Congratulations to the winners of our Summer of GNOME OS challenge 🎉🎉

1. Ada Magicat (40 points)
2. Ignacy Kuchciński (37 points)
3. Forteller (26 points)

This was very much an experiment, but everyone I talked to said it was surprisingly smooth, and they'll continue to daily drive GNOME OS.

Thanks to everyone who participated, it was a lot of fun! And thanks even more to the GNOME OS team for getting us this far, especially @Valentin, Abderrahim, @alatiera, @AdrianVovk, and @jjardon!

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@feld

Me waiting for the EuroBSDcon 2025 and their load of FreeBSD presenters with their MacBook Pro Apple Silicon and Windows 11 ThinkPad :)

McKusick himself runs a Mac:
youtube.com/watch?v=MfIrVtRvB4…

@chesheer

Hello @GrapheneOS screen-reader users and other #a11y friends,

There was an interesting debate going on at the end of may where screen reader users were asking for #tts engine included with GrapheneOS base system.
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…

I understand this is very unlikely to change in the near future as I am not aware of a TTS system that is open-source and modern enough to be included.
@Accessible Android has a list of TTS engines sorted by language at this page: accessibleandroid.com/list-of-…
Except of eSpeak-ng and RHVoice there is another opensource app called SherpaTTS that can use Piper TTS and Coqui based voices at: github.com/woheller69/ttsEngin…
Including eSpeak-ng, RHVoice, SherpaTTS and the list of TTS engines mentioned by accessible android, is there a viable TTS engine or at least one that is close enough to be viable to get included in the foreseable future?

Another approach I have been thinking about is to add / inject the TTS app or any other app I'd like as a part of the install process. It turns out I am not the only one speculating about that idea and it's not practical and feasible either as it's also breaking the security model.
It's been discussed recently at: discuss.grapheneos.org/d/25899…

Another way on how to install an app on an android device would be using adb install from a computer. I am not definatelly sure on this but GrapheneOS does not allow enabling ADB on production builds. In order to instal a TTS app over ADB we'd need to find a way on how to install GrapheneOS with ADB preenabled on first run. This is a huge security hole as well.

There might be a way to build my own flavour of GrapheneOS, but that's too involved, I'd need very powerfull machine for the actual build process and I would again compromise security by either disabling or handling future updates on my own building each new release on my own.

So given the current state I am afraid we screen reader users are out of luck and there is no way to get this thing running on my own with no help from someone else.

The end result is that I'll either get security or I can look elsewhere to get accessibility.

Please am I getting it right or might I have overlooked something that might help me to install GrapheneOS on my own?

Thanks for reading to the end

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One of our full time developers is actively working on building our own text-to-speech and speech-to-text integration. It's where all of their effort is currently going. None of the available apps are suitable for inclusion. None are modern enough aside from Sherpa and it has issues including high latency making it unsuitable for use with TalkBack. Our own implementation is going to be significantly better.

ADB works fine on GrapheneOS but you'd have to enable it.

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@Rhababerbarbar We're making our own implementation for inclusion in GrapheneOS. It will be similar in design to Sherpa but faster. It will initially just be English. People can still install Sherpa and other TTS implementations if they want them. We just need something available out-of-the-box for blind users to install GrapheneOS and also basic usability. It's fine if people need to install other TTS implementations for other languages, etc. but we can add that too.
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I have asked a friend and @GrapheneOS community chat members for the help with initial setup and now I am fully configured with RHVoice as my current TTS of choice.
Except of one GPS navigation app I am used to everything is working fine for me including proprietary stuff for my work like Microsoft Teams, banking apps including Poštová banka, George and Revolut and the other apps I like such as Bitwarden as a password manager, Arcanechat, Conversations, ElementX, FairEmail, Open Key Chain for chatting and emailing, Antennapod, BubbleUPNP, Foobar 2000, Kore, Voice, NewPipe, ytdlnis for podcasts, music, audiobooks and videos, , Catima for lojalty cards and tickets, some other apps. For downloading apps I am mainly using F-droid and Aurora store. I am not signed into the google account but I am using play services for push notifications and other compatibility reasons for apps which need it.

Thanks for everything you are doing, it's fantastic and I like it verry much.

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All location-based apps should work, but some may expect network location to be available which it isn't by default. You can enable Network location and Wi-Fi scanning in Settings > Location > Location services if you want network location without needing to use Google Play for location. See grapheneos.org/features#networ….

If you installed apps before sandboxed Google Play and they depend on it, you may need to reinstall the apps depending on it so they detect it properly.

Toronto to Quebec City high-speed rail construction could begin in four years

ctvnews.ca/canada/article/high…

Never a priority. Not even shocked a second by this.

#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 13 updated and 1 added apps:

* PhotoSphereGallery: Gallery and viewer for spherical photos (360°) 🛡️

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

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