No one wins.
When using Microsoft Word or Google Docs, don't just make text bigger and bolder to make it a heading. That will work for sighted users, but screen reader users will miss that and just hear it as normal paragraph text. Use actual heading styles, like level 1 through 6.
In the late 1980's there was an MS-DOS program called PIANOMAN. Yup, in the docs, it's written in all caps like that. This program would let you compose, play, edit, and save tunes, and even compile them into self-contained executables to give to others who didn't have a copy of PIANOMAN themselves. This program's claim to fame was that it could create pseudo-polyphonic music through the monophonic PC speaker by playing different notes extremely rapidly. This was a shareware program (try it for a while, if you like it, send in a registration fee to get the latest version and another disk of sample songs). I just found the shareware distribution of version 4 on Archive.org. One of the included tunes, which exists here only as a compiled, self-contained executable, is a version of a Tom Lehrer classic. Naturally, I figured some folks might be interested in this. It's set up to play repeatedly until a key is pressed, so I've only included three playings in this recording, and the last one fades out. Enjoy! #TomLehrer
Content warnings: creating anticipation and disappointment since whenever they were invented.
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Human Rights Watch Refuses Aziz Ansari Riyadh Comedy Festival Donation
variety.com/2025/tv/news/human…
LOL.
Human Rights Watch Refuses Aziz Ansari Riyadh Comedy Festival Donation
Human Rights Watch says it 'cannot accept' donations from Aziz Ansari and other comedians who performed at the Riyadh Comedy Festival in Saudi Arabia.Ethan Shanfeld (Variety)
Here’s a true fact I learned today:
If you put solar panels over all the fields where corn is grown for ethanol today, you could power all of North America and still harvest shade crops underneath them.
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Anthropic stole the books I co-wrote in order to train their planet-burning hallucination machine, so I've filed a claim. They wept that if every plagiarised author does so, the company will go bankrupt. Boo emdash hoo. www.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com
I saw it written SillyCon Valley, and I can't unsee it.
if you are writing a UI
that loads data
"the data is not loaded yet"
must be OBVIOUSLY VISUALLY DISTINCT from
"the data is loaded, and it is empty"
that is all
It was never about Gaza...
We saw so many activists and activist organizations saying that they would boycott Israel as a means of changing the political situation.
Then a ceasefire happened, and they still insist on a boycott.
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It wasn't about Gaza. We call them "anti-Israel" but it's really anti-peace, and anti-Palestinian too.
#Israel #Boycott #Antisemitism #Eurovision
The Netherlands: Ceasefire won't impact decision to withdraw if Israel participates in Eurovision | wiwibloggs
"If a ceasefire is reached in the near future or the conflict evolves differently, that will not change our position for Eurovision 2026."William (Wiwibloggs)
У меня есть приятель (у него есть «остаток», — на нашем жаргоне это значит, что он не совсем слепой, немножко видит). Так вот, он говорит, что ему прям вот супермегаудобно платить часами и что он бы в жизни не отказался от них только ради этой функции. Ну в смысле, платить в кассе в магазине, например.
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satan's Sunday
“Apple is now treating federal agents—who are public employees exercising government power—as if they’re a vulnerable minority group in need of protection from ‘discrimination.’ This isn’t just a misapplication of content policies; it’s a fundamental inversion of what those policies were designed to do.”
techdirt.com/2025/10/10/apple-…
#USpol #apple #censorship
Apple Decides ICE Agents Are A Protected Class, Because Apparently Government Accountability Is Now “Hate Speech”
Just when you think corporate content moderation can’t get any more absurd, Apple has managed to redefine “protected class” in a way that would make Orwell proud. According to int…Techdirt
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🕚Z На початку години слухайте #НашГолос радіопрограма у Канада, передачі якої ведуться українською та англійською мовами. Програма спрямована на українську діаспору Ванкуверського регіону: транслює як і сучасну, так і традиційну українську музику у виконанні артистів з України, Канади та Сполучених Штатів. Він також представляє новини та погляди з України та української громади в Канаді. Слухай сюди. theglobalvoice.info:8443/broad… #TGVRadio #Україна 🎤📰🎶🇺🇦🌻🌿🔱⚔️🍲🐎🇨🇦🍁🦫🔁
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HTML’s Best Kept Secret: The output Tag
Make your dynamic content accessible by default with the HTML tag that time forgot.Den Odell
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károvaná košieľka 💦
the main trick all of these new performance mallocs do is "deferred free", gross
If someone values smallness and simplicity, they most likely don't look for rust or rust-based programs :>
@pj Ouch. I like Rust, and I'd rather not write any more new C or C++ code than necessary because, while I value smallness and simplicity, I value safety and correctness more. But I recognize you have a valid point about the size and complexity of the Rust project, and it does make me uneasy.
stretching is also a thing
hay humans: recommendations for good strings midi things? We want to maybe add them to a few of our tracks to pad things out a bit, especially if the songs are slow and depressing...as they inevitably are.
The majority of the tech industry has no valid vision how to contribute to a liveable future for humanity on this planet. Their dystopian fantasies don’t match with human needs. That’s why we will keep sliding from one bubble to the next. Everything has to be artificially inflated to hide the massive abyss of meaninglessness behind it all.
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@jcsteh Hey I read about your App2Clap project. I'm curious how you can isolate audio from one particular application. For years now, I've been using Total Recorder to record system audio. Before definitely Windows 7 and possibly Vista, in other words, as late as XP, I could record audio as received by the system, exclude applications, do accelerated recording, etc. But then with the newer audio driver, I had to record after processing by Windows, which meant all audio was resampled to the default output sample rate, I could no longer exclude apps, etc. When you said App2Clap requires Windows 11, that gave me the impression that Windows 11 restored some of that older functionality, but I really can't find anything, and Total Recorder hasn't been updated in years. Thoughts? Thanks.
I have Visual Studio 2022 Community installed, at least enough of it to build Paperback by @TheQuinbox
Here's a link to the sample, but I can't help you any further with this. Ultimately, I think you're going to have more mileage and flexibility using OBS or REAPER, but I also understand the desire to avoid being entangled in yet another tool. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samp… @TheQuinbox
Application loopback audio capture - Code Samples
Demonstrates how to capture system audio either from a specific process tree or for all process except a process tree.learn.microsoft.com
As someone who's seen a lifetime's worth of corporate union avoidance strategies, Ruby Central's attempts to discredit gem.coop and prevent it from blossoming into a community-led competitor mirror that combination of misinformation and abuse of power so perfectly that I'm unable to see it in any other way. What's happening in Ruby right now is the closest thing I can imagine to a union busting campaign in open source.
Uh... cool.
My Synology NAS seems to be doing this thing where no services are available after a restart. I can't get to the web interface, samba isn't available, and a bunch of scripts don't seem to work from command line. I really didn't have let's go through a bunch of logs and see what's broken today on my non-existent bingo card, but here we are, I guess.
My Synology NAS seems to be doing this thing where no services are available after a restart. I can't get to the web interface, samba isn't available, and a bunch of scripts don't seem to work from command line. I really didn't have let's go through a bunch of logs and see what's broken today on my non-existent bingo card, but here we are, I guess.
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@SylvieLorxu I tryed installing catima on my parent's phone. Unfortunately, catima doesn't exist for iOS. What alternative app would you suggest for iOS?
Sorry, I don't use iOS.
I know apps.apple.com/us/app/oss-docu… is FOSS, but I don't know how good it is.
OSS Document Scanner
Scan documents, tickets, bills, cards ... anything you want!Then you can detect text in them, share the detected text or the whole document as a PDF.The whole app is open source!App Store
Sorry, wrong link, meant this one: apps.apple.com/us/app/oss-card…
OSS CardWallet
OSS Card Wallet is an Open Source app to scan and store all your cards. You either scan using your camera or by importing an image. The app will automatically detect you cards and barcodes within the photo and will crop the image.App Store
The year is 2025. AI has taken the world by storm, self-driving cars are on the roads, and brain-computer interfaces are being tested on humans. Yet, amidst all this modernity, blind and visually impaired individuals are still stuck utilizing a CAPTCHA service that requires your email address, uses a web browser cookie, and only (sometimes) functions if you scale back your privacy settings. SMH
You: FrameWork is promoting this Linux distro by DHH and he's a bad man so we should boycott FrameWork
Me: FrameWork is selling laptops with Windows, which is a a worse crime than having shit opinions so we should boycott FrameWork
Truly excellent writeup about the current clusterfuck that is Framework (computers):
Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support?
There are alternatives!
Get a refurbished ThinkPad through Minifree, preinstalled with Libreboot and funds the further development.
Or get a vintage ThinkPad with modern internals.
Also, there is:
European Laptop Manufacturers
European Laptop Manufacturers and why you should consider same.buy-european.net
alright I'll play your game.
Tuxedo, Slimbook, NovaCustom, and Star Labs all sell Windows so they're supporting genocide in Gaza, why don't you care about genocide?
also can you point me to a CPU that isn't built with a supply chain that thrives on human rights abuses, that's a good one too
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 15 updated and 1 added apps:
* Compass Navigator: a compass app with auto declination adjustments using the device's builtin GPS 🛡️
RB status: 728 apps (57.1%)
3 #Magisk modules were updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
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
Very thankful for the handful of people we have in this community who report not just the spammers, but the trolls, the sealion-ers, the harassers, the bullies.
We're not omnipresent and we can't possibly know everything that's going on across the fediverse; we rely on member reports to find and take action on bad behaviour, not just on mastodon.art, but on other instances.
Part of hosting and building a safe community is having clear, strong boundaries and enforcing those boundaries -
#FediHelp needed: the final phase of our metadata reorganization is now in progress. During our cleanup, we a.o. found a bunch of no longer maintained apps which we think might be considered "niche" – but are not sure which of those are really still useful, and thus should be kept.
So if you use one of them and still find it useful – or recently tried one of them and it didn't even work, can you please check codeberg.org/IzzyOnDroid/Every… and leave a comment? Thanks!
metadata reorg subtask: deciding about dormant apps which might be considered niche
This is a spin-off from #10 where I'd like some input from the team, concerning how to handle the following unmaintained apps which might be considered niche: * [ ] [`com.ionicframework.backingtrainer763961`](https://apt.izzysoft.de/packages/com.Codeberg.org
I had already removed Phaedra from welovecodeberg some time ago. Partly because it's too old. And partly for personal reasons.
We are joined by @zersiax again to give us an update on the state of accessibility in Linux and whether things have improved since we last spoke.
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#linux #podcast #opensource #a11y #accessibility
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@fireborn @elementary Definitely not. We all just wish you guys got even more help, recognition and gratitude than you're currently getting :)
@fireborn @elementary Lynux curious here because of Microsoft's bullshit. Is Elementary the best distro if I just want to poke around?
Who called them sea monkeys when shrimpanzees was right there?
so, my current de-stressing activity is learning English round hand from period copy-books. the lines in copy-books that aren't just practice letter-forms are horrifically boring, extremely cringe moral mottoes, and I'm running out of stuff to practice writing
current texts include the long-term nuclear waste warning message, old copypasta like "then who was phone", city names, scientific names, this alphabetic poem from an 1806 manual
any ideas for one-liners or very short texts? or, I guess, anything you want put in fancy script, albeit by a beginner
The family of English Round Hands
In my previous post, I briefly wrote about what I called the English Round Hand’s “sub-styles”. Today I want to take the time to explain what I meant and show you what those styles are.Sybille van Zuylen (Penna Volans)
Explanation Of New Approach On Security Patches
Our security preview releases provide early access to Android Security Bulletin patches prior to the official disclosure. Our current security preview releases provide the current revision of the November 2025 and December 2025 patches for the Android Open Source Project. We recommend enabling this.
The only difference between our regular releases and security preview releases are the future Android Security Bulletin patches being applied with any conflicts resolved. The downside of security preview releases is we cannot provide the sources for the patches until the official disclosure date.
The delay for being able to publish the sources is why we're now going through the significant effort of building 2 variants of each release. Our most recent 3 releases have both a regular and security preview variant:
2025092500 and 20250925012025092700 and 20250927012025100300 and 2025100301
You can enable security preview releases via Settings > System > System update > Receive security preview releases.
Our plan is to keep it off-by-default with a new page added to the Setup Wizard which will have it toggled on as a recommendation. We'll prompt users on existing installs to choose.
We're maintaining the upcoming Android security patches in a private repository where we've resolved the conflicts. Each of our security preview releases is tagged in this private repository. Our plan is to publish what we used once the embargo ends, so it will still be open source, but delayed.
The new security update Android is using provides around 3 months of early access to OEMs with permission to make binary-only releases from the beginning. As far as we know, GrapheneOS is the first to take advantage of this and ship the patches early. Even the stock Pixel OS isn't doing this yet.
During the initial month, many patches are added or changed. By around the end of the month, the patches are finalized with nothing else being added or changed. Our 2025092500 release was made on the day the December 2025 patches were finalized, but we plan to ship the March 2026 patches earlier.
Previously, Android had monthly security patches with a 1 month embargo not permitting early releases. For GrapheneOS users enabling security preview releases, you'll get patches significantly earlier than before. We'd greatly prefer 3 day embargoes over 3 month embargoes but it's not our decision.
Security preview releases currently increment the build date and build number of the regular release by 1. You can upgrade from 2025100300 to 2025100301 but not vice versa. For now, you can switch back to regular releases without reinstalling such as 2025092701 to 2025100300, but this may change.
Not good. So due to Google's NDA we have the choice between installing (temporarily) closed source software or being 3 months late on security updates.
Not being allowed to release source code has the same feeling as a third party doing a code audit and giving a security certificate that essentially says "trust me bro".
Its necessary to move towards a fully community driven open source OS for mobile phones.
Is autistic self-identification valid?
I just completed a quantitative research paper comparing autism traits in medically diagnosed autistic people with the same traits in self-identifying autistic people and I can definitively say with more stats behind it than I care to ever think about again, THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE!
#autistic #neurodiversity #neurodivergence #autism
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IS AUTISTIC SELF-IDENTIFICATION VALID?
Read now (7 mins) | A Glimpse into the Subversive Subplot of my Master's in Psychology DissertationDr. Angela Kingdon (Autistic Culture | Late Diagnosis Club)
Can you touch type?
- Yes. (60%, 6 votes)
- Nope. (30%, 3 votes)
- Other. (10%, 1 vote)
Oh gosh, then it's a huge super mega YES! I learned that at school and I'm infinitely grateful to my late typing teacher, may she have a blessed existence wherever she is now.
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