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Is there a device that is:

* Vaguely radio-looking.
* Small, portable, like a Bluetooth speaker.
* Connects to a home server with music.
* Lets one choose music through a screen and good controls. Or a touch screen or something.

Basically I want the convenience of a Bluetooth speaker without having to fuck around with a phone. I want a dedicated radio-like box that knows how to talk to my home music server.

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Ross of Ottawa

check out some of the products from Ocean Digital. I have a couple that are many years old but they still make me I've I think.

Had tried many before I kept these. They do Internet radio with simple presets and also will connect to home server eg NAS (via DLNA) for playing playlists and/or selecting by artist, album, title.

Probably other similar products around but have been mostly happy with these.

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Wow, what a great use of MCP for interacting with Chrome Devtools: addyosmani.com/blog/devtools-m…
I tried this with gemini-cli and it works quite well. Obviously, any other MCP client will work!

Give your AI eyes: Introducing Chrome DevTools MCP

Chrome DevTools MCP is a newly announced tool that allows AI coding assistants to **see and interact with a live Chrome browser
Addy Osmani (addyosmani.com)

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I keep seeing things about the big Audacity redesign. My only question is: how accessible will it be? As I recall, there were accessibility regressions in the past that were not addressed. I know Reaper is the one everyone likes these days, but I have a soft spot for Audacity. It was the first editor I learned to use. It taught me a lot of core concepts. I don't do much audio editing these days, but I still hope Audacity becomes a solid option for screen reader users.
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Zach Bennoui

It will be, I can pretty much guarantee that. The company behind it also develops MuseScore, and when version four came out, they did a huge accessibility push. The UI engine they're using is the same one that will be used in Audacity, and I would be extremely surprised if accessibility was not heavily considered during this redesign. I think that's one of the problems they're trying to fix, as right now at least on macOS accessibility with the current version is pretty bad.

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Well I have done it! I am now taking a personal #NVDA challenge. I have just uninstalled #JFW from my computer. I am going to see if between now and November 4th I can make it without using JFW at all. I already know of one area that I am going to have troubles, so if anyone who knows how to write things for NVDA wants to try to help, this is your chance. If someone could write an addon for NVDA that will allow someone to go to a web site, and save it as a favorite into a folder on there computer like #Leasie for JFW can do that would be greatly appreciated.
#nvda #JFW #leasie
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JamminJerry

@NVAccess I do have a salution. someone wrote an addon for me that does exactly what I wantted, and needed. I am sending them a donation as soon as I can to thank them for writing it. I am also trying to talk them into releasing it for the NVDA app store. they said if they do that they would want to put a bit more work into it, but me personally I think it is perfect. smile.
@NV Access
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JamminJerry

@NVAccess and there you go. while it isn't on the store, it is now out in the public. he just posted the following on mastodon.

Simple NVDA add-on to add to a folder of shortcuts, similar to how Internet Explorer handled favorites: github.com/tspivey/addFavorite…


GitHub - tspivey/addFavorites

Contribute to tspivey/addFavorites development by creating an account on GitHub.
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What a busy day! Yeah, Saturday ended up being a work day. Besides purchasing the AirPods Pro 3 and selling my 2 Pro, I also moved my work machine from NVDA alphas to the stable release, version 2025.3. I usually run NVDA alphas even on my work machines since I can easily downgrade if something goes wrong, and I can usually live with a few add-on incompatibilities. But with the 2026.1 alphas going 64-bit only, a good number of add-ons have been affected, including all the Eloquence and IBMTTS ones. I just can’t handle an Eloquence-less world yet, LOL! Also the horrible on-device image captioning! Let's just call it an experiment, and leave it at that. Unless the underlying model gets altered, it will disappoint many users down the road.
@NVAccess
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I love voice control. I hate how it takes my battery though. So I tied it to my action button. One click toggles it on. Then I do what I need to do. And I turn it off again. Another option is to leave it in command mode. That way, it's not constantly listening for dictation, but you can still use dictation to dictate. Additionally, you can turn off commands you know you won't use. I hope this helps someone who may be struggling to keep up with fast moving ableds. Happy Sunday, or Monday, as the date line flows.

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Hell yes! 🧑‍💻🖥️🛟
Quote from @a11yChief: Imagine you go to a site you know, and their latest update has broken accessibility. You can’t pay for what you want, or find what you need. Now imagine someone built you a panic button you could press that lets you rant about what’s broken and why, so other people with more spoons can advocate on your behalf. It lets other screen reader users know there might be issues, and to stay away. A hotkey, a button or two and an angry smash of the enter key.

Would you use it?

@Richard Hyman

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@stalwartlabs PLEASE remove the minimum 25-seat requirement for a license. There are a ton of people who would be interested in running Stalwart and desire some of the Enterprise features, but if you don't make it easy for hobbyists and self-hosters to champion your software they won't be able to speak from experience.

You can fund open source without requiring users fork over $60/yr minimum. That's what I'm currently paying for Fastmail. If I have to pay $60, I might as well keep using Fastmail which will also give me premium support whereas your $60 license will not.

I know there's a trial license option, but that isn't sufficient. Extend the olive branch by making the first tier flexible at 1-500 seats instead of 25-500.

@Stalwart Labs

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> I další mužští lídři pirátských kandidátek připisují masivní úspěch svých kolegyň především kampani Kroužkuj ženu.

Ale prdlajz… prostě ve sněmovně voliči chtěli ženy. Já jsem třeba ani nevěděl, že nějaká taková iniciativa existovala. A tohle je přesně ten důvod, proč…

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„Kdybych vyzval ke kroužkování mužů, ve straně končím.“ Někteří přeskákaní piráti nesou neúspěch těžce

Piráti získali osmnáct poslaneckých křesel, patnáct z nich připadlo ženám. Ty většinou přeskočily i muže na prvních příčkách kandidátek. To v části strany vyvolává pnutí.
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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brought you 22 updated apps. But our gardener also removed 3 apps which were no longer maintained and rarely downloaded anymore:

* Taiga Mobile: client for the taiga.io project management
* Oxen Wallet
* Runner (a step counterr)

We hope you can enjoy our beautiful garden at #IzzyOnDroid – and do our best to keep it well maintained :awesome:

#AndroidAppRain #izzyondroid
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IzzyOnDroid ✅

To give you some numbers: had we kept all apps that were ever added to IzzyOnDroid, we'd now be at about 2.5k apps in our repo. But since our repo started back in 2016…

* 687 apps have been removed
* 437 apps have been removed when they reached F-Droid (back when we still removed them at that point)
* 1.294 are listed as of today

So in summary, 2.418 apps were here altogether.

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IzzyOnDroid ✅

Oh, PS: 2 of the updated apps were "resurrected" ones today: one was "dormant" since 2018, the other since 2020. Trying to upstream our app metadata (Fastlane structures) we are reaching out to many devs, and these two felt motivated enough to pick up development again and make new releases. One of them even 2 releases in short succession :awesome: That was Senslogs, from 2018, which is now even confirmed as Reproducible Build: apt.izzysoft.de/packages/fr.in… 🥳

We hope you enjoy them!

„Senslogs“ – IzzyOnDroid F-Droid Repository

monitor internal sensors
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Now I have several blog posts in my head, which isn't really the best place to keep them... I think I remember reading a Stephen King interview where he talked about having a goal to write a certain number of words every day. I need to get back into the habit of doing that. Even if I only write a little every day, it is better than nothing and will eventually lead to having something completed. I have trouble linearizing things sometimes and start to obsess over exactly how to say what I want to say, but I'm not sure there's a way around that other than to just start writing.

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I keep reading posts that admonish people for speaking about a particular thing. We're told there's no harm there's no downside this person can do nothing to you. Stop and the activity will stop. I read, I reread and I still shake my head in disbelief because here's the thing, both approaches hath been tried by some of us and guess what, absolutely nothing changes. Furthermore telling people they shouldn't feel however they feel, whether it's fear, anxiety, frustration or anything else is ineffective. And to indicate that no damage can be done is short sighted because if people are inconvenienced, anxious, fearful or their ability to enjoy an activity or platform they once enjoyed is diminished by the actions of another, something has been done to them, some harm has been caused. If some feel the need to try the ignore and stay silent approach great go with it for as long as it works for you. But if others can't or choose differently, maybe they're not wrong they're just taking a different path because perhaps they need to do so for whatever reason.

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Dali jsme si dneska rande s @archos ve Varech a oba jsme koukali, proč nám chodí požadavky OSCloud.cz na zřízení nových účtů a přístup k našim skvělým OpenSource službám na serveru… A pak najednou kouknete na záznamy z JOpenSpace 2025 a div vám nevypadnou oči z důlků.
Tohle jsou přesně ty momenty, kdy si říkáte že ten čas, co za tím je, stojí za to 🩶

Diky všem kdo šíří povědomí o OS projektech a třeba se i přidají!

@Archos

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Nate Graham's latest blog post: "a Mac-like experience on Linux"

pointieststick.com/2025/10/04/…

#KDE #Plasma #GNOME #OSX


A Mac-like experience on Linux

In 2016, after being a Mac guy for 23 years, I took the plunge and made a full-time switch to Linux. I did my research, and over and over again encountered the idea that GNOME was good for MacOS re…
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#gnome #KDE #plasma #osx

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In case anyone else needs to put a Windows ISO onto a USB stick and, for some strange reason, needs to do it from Linux, I figured out that I can't just dd the ISO to the USB device, or I end up with an image that my computer doesn't detect as being bootable. I found this tool that worked like a charm: github.com/WoeUSB/WoeUSB

GitHub - WoeUSB/WoeUSB: A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux

A Microsoft Windows® USB installation media preparer for GNU+Linux - WoeUSB/WoeUSB
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Web Accessibility in Mind Conference 2025: youtube.com/watch?v=qq7VeohVxV…
#a11y #webdev #webdesign #UIDesign #accessibility #conference #events

Web Accessibility in Mind Conference

Užívejte si videa a hudbu, kterou máte rádi, nahrávejte originální obsah a sdílejte vše s přáteli, rodinou i celým světem na YouTube.
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#a11y #Accessibility #webdev #webdesign #events #conference #uidesign
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Sunday.

I'm most pleased to report that at 12:17PM yesterday afternoon, Kim delivered our son Bertie. He came out with the right numbers of toes, fingers, ears (sadly he seems to have inherited mine) and so forth.
It's suddenly astonishingly real, this child we've been trying for (and waiting for) for over 13 years.

Kim's labour was ... Intense. Bertie was a bit on the large side. Seeing her go through something so intensely physical was a real experience. Being at the business end of things during the delivery was an incredible thing also. I was lucky enough to help deliver the head and cutting the chord was special too. Kim did need a couple of stitches, but I don't think the pain relief for that was anywhere near the levels of joy from having her newborn son on her chest while they put those in.

But he's here, all 4.74 kg of him. the induction process started last Sunday, which meant that having the waters broken at about 10:00PM Friday night felt like an age. Building up through early labour was slow and very painful and, I suppose laborious is an appropriate word, but the delivery process itself, the whole "push" thing, was amazingly fast - the midwives were surprised that the head was there so quickly.

Kim's a little sore, but remarkably nowhere near as badly than when she was butchered having Lily, who weighed a good 2 pounds less.

The housework all got done in plenty of time. The mother-in-law has a week with us to be of some use and play with her new grandson. Our daughter is thrilled. even the dog is protective. It couldn't really have been a better end to the start of the next phase in our lives.
So please boost a toot to little Bertie Randall. May his life be full of all of the joys the world has to offer.

a newborn baby is dressed snugly in a white onesie decorated with illustrations of small, stylized dogs in blue, yellow, and beige, and partly wrapped up in a blanket. Baby Bertie has a light complexion and very short, fine hair on his head. his eyes are open, and he's got slightly furrowed brows in this image. with his right hand up near his face, with fingers gently curled.
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Sean Randall

Wednesday.
As we hit a hundred hours of Bertie, it's overwhelming to think about how few of the hours I have spent asleep.
No complaints, of course, and i'm so grateful for the hundreds of well-wishes from friends, colleagues and acquaintances that have come pouring in. A good number of those were here, so thank you, followers.

Apart from a small issue latching to feed, Bertie's postnatal weight loss is within the normal range and he's certainly doing plenty of lung and bowel work! It's surprisingly easy to just see the hours slip bye with a baby in your arms. Cuteness factor is totally off-the-scale.

It's been a whirlwind of well-wishers, midwives, health visitors, registrars and whatnot: the flood has yet to abate; we have more people to see and boxes to tick for the remainder of this week and well into next.

He's got a birth certificate now though, an NHS number, and we met one of his birth-mates today, a girl born the same day in the same hospital happened to be being registered at the same time. Looking forward to spotting little Alma in the future, and maybe we'll find out if they went for Rose as a middle name sometime. I quite like Alma Rose. She was about half his birth weight; but I'm sure she won't hold it against him!

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