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I've worked for CEOs (not directly, obviously, there were lots and lots of middle managers to keep us separate) and I 100% believe they would fire 40% of people holding their institutional knowledge without any idea of what those people do.

EDIT: I've been informed the article I based this shitpost off of might have been AI slop (I didn't read the article, because who reads a thing before a shitpost??). But even so, PLAUSIBLE.

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Don't get me wrong, I love the idea of multiline Braille and the benefits it comes with. I don't pooh-pooh on folks who purchased them, if they are proud and love their investment, that's amazing.
For me there's fundemental physics problems with multiline. No matter the weight (which right now even 4-8 LBS is a lot to be always wearing if you wanted to like a traditional one,) you'll never reduce the width and length. This is where I've always felt like 32-cells was a more natural feel, as with 40 you make it so long that the device begins to look more like a line. I believe the newer multilines opted for the less line-like feel, which is good too. No matter what though, you'll have it remain as wide as a laptop, because of Braille cell's size itself. If you want to have those pins, plus extra pins within gaps to create any tactile graphic that aligns to other shapes, you need that size. We'd need magic floating resizable-type device that slides underneath itself and unslides when it needs more content displayed to truly make my dream work it. It would shrink down in width (not length, again physics) and become smaller, but thicker. Then it would slide out like a little turtle popping out of its shell to reveal more content. Ha. What no that's never going to be a thing.

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I should port at-spi2-registryd to gdbus. There is no reason that it needs to be using libdbus (libatspi might be another matter). I wouldn't want to make anyone else have to muck with the existing code, and libdbus will just make your program abort if you look at it the wrong way.
Of course, I should do a lot of things... Of course, a patch would be welcome if anyone else felt like taking that on.
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Hi! Sadly I can’t participate on codeberg as they have a captcha that blocks account creation, and they sometimes show a captcha during login and page views as well. They’ve decided that blocking AI scraping is more important than accessibility. As for hotkeys, my initial feedback is that following the gmail or Microsoft conventions would be best. However, the interface is not complex enough that I’d find myself using them; at least in my use-case I’m rarely dealing with hundreds of links I need to act on, so the speed of shortcuts wouldn’t add much. But other folks might differ! It’s okay to intercept escape directly; if a screen reader offers a hotkey that would conflict with yours, it blocks that hotkey from ever reaching the page.
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Readeck

thanks for your feedback 🙂

Do you get a captcha once you're logged-in or is it that you can't even register?

Found this codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit… but I reckon that you can't participate; bit of a chicken and egg situation 🫤

(you can register by email if you want, they're the good guys doing their best)


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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

Thanks! Zara is an amazing cat and I love her deeply. Unfortunately, AI has really changed the incentives around accessibility for the worse: big corporations are now all in on accessibility, because the more accessible something is, the better it is for AI. Whereas non-corporate efforts are now actively harming accessibility to keep AI out.
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Mislav Marohnić

This is not me trying to push you to try Codeberg again, but for what it's worth, I've received a reply from one of the Codeberg team that there should not be visual CAPTCHAs anywhere but the signup form anymore. The anti-AI scraping approach adopted roughly 6 months ago is a computational challenge using Anubis. codeberg.org/Codeberg/Communit…

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heise erweitert sein Angebot für Leserinnen und Leser mit Sehbeeinträchtigung. Ab sofort erhalten Menschen mit Sehbehinderung auf alle digitalen Abos des Verlags – einschließlich der Magazine und von heise+ – einen #Rabatt von 50 Prozent.

➡️ heisegroup.de/presse/Mehr-digi…

#Inklusion #heise


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Das Medienhaus heise erweitert sein Angebot für Leserinnen und Leser mit Sehbeeinträchtigung. Ab sofort erhalten Menschen mit Sehbehinderung auf alle digitalen Abos des Verlags – einschließlich der Magazine und von heise+ – einen Rabatt von 50 Prozen…
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European Houses of Big Loot. Contains vaguely lewdish reference.

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Dear business owners large and small,

Post your upcoming events, specials, sales, calendar, news, etc. on your actual WEBSITE.

Telling your potential customers they can find it on some billionaire-owned social media platform is like telling them to fuck off.

Unless someone actually has an account with those platforms, they can NOT see your posts. Not even if it's set to "public". Yes, really.

This is literally what your website is for. FFS please use it. 🐸

#FuckMeta

#fuckmeta

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Yesterday’s #AWS outage has led me to wonder, not for the first time, if we all have maybe become too dependent on online services. For instance, I read the story about how the outage wreaked havoc with smart beds. I’m also thinking about people who control their kitchen appliances and thermostats with apps. From an #A11Y standpoint all these things are wonderful, no question. But, as was shown yesterday, glitches would have the potential of throwing everything into chaos. There’s also the issue of too much power being in too few hands, but that’s another subject for another time. Right now Sarah and I have Braille overlays for our appliances, and our thermostat from the now defunct talkingthermostats.com still works fine. I’m just not sure I ever want to put control of my appliances and heating/cooling into the hands of an app. #JMO
#a11y #aws #jmo
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Mike Gorse

A few years ago, my a/c stopped working. It turned out that my thermostat was gone, and the tech put in what he had / wanted to put in. So now I have a thermostat that isn't ideal from an accessibility perspective, and sometimes I wish I'd put in something else, like a Nest, but you make a good point, that it could have its downsides, and it might not be the best after all. In general, everything seems to become more complicated over time, and the complexity often brings subtle, unwanted side effects. Same goes for AI, but that's another subject. i miss my old thermostat; at least it had a switch so that I could clearly tell whether it was heating or cooling or off.

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That Vario really might be on its last leg. I need to tap it super hard to get power to work reliably, once I power it off, sometimes it won't power back on without a good slap across its backside. Wow. Poor thing. I at least got all my data off it and reset it, so I'm happy if it does die nothing important will be on it. So, back to the drawing board with HID Braille on Linux. Perhaps my Bluez stack is out of date.

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Suite à la mort subite de mon fairphone 3+, j'ai craqué pour un fairphone 6. Et bah la marque a fait d'énormes progrès !
L'appareil est super bien fini. Les performances sont au top.
Je n'ai pas encore vraiment eu l'occasion de tester, mais les capteurs photos ont aussi l'air d'avoir grandement pris en qualité. Et surtout, l'appli démarre en un instant.

L'écran est nickel!

Et puis on peut se le faire livrer avec e/OS/ (Murena) préinstallé, et ça c'est vraiment cool (bien que facturé 50€)

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I've been experimenting with turning LibriVox's excellent dramatic reading of Wuthering Heights into an immersive 3D audio experience. Just finished Chapter 1 as a test run.
Please check it out and give feedback! audiopub.site/listen/ea8b9f7d-…
Full credit to LibriVox: librivox.org/wuthering-heights…

#Audiobooks #WutheringHeights #ClassicLiterature #wuthering_heights

Wuthering Heights (version 3 dramatic reading) | LibriVox

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#audiobooks #WutheringHeights #ClassicLiterature #wuthering_heights

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Want to work in the open source software area (and support your favorite Android app ;-)) and still earn money? Guess what … Now you can! 😃

DAVx⁵ is enlarging it's (small) team and we're offering a new part-time job (100% remote work) to support our team in the field of

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⬇️ Learn more and apply 🔽

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Community: please RT and share with people you might think are interested!

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We are officially seeking applications for TALKS, WORKSHOPS, EXHIBITIONS, ART and PERFORMANCES for OHS2026 May 23rd and 24th at TU Berlin! Submit yours today: forms.gle/kDGTVqfVAZXmPoph8

We are also seeking SUMMIT FELLOWS for 2026 who will receive a travel stipend and mentorship opportunities leading up to the Summit! Self-nominate here: forms.gle/AnvbihH3sVWxkPyg7

Both applications run until December 21st at 11:59pm EDT.

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❌ Big Techs like Musk's X do not need to own the monopoly.

✅ Luckily there are better Twitter alternatives.

👉🏼 In today's guide we take a look at the best ones so that you can say NO to big tech.

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#Mastodon #BlueSky #X #BigTech

Drake meme: Drake saying no to X and Drake saying yes to BlueSky and Mastodon.

Twitter alternatives: Best social platforms to replace X. | Tuta

Negative headlines, fake news, and Grok AI summaries continue to fill X users’ feeds, so it’s no surprise people are ditching Musk’s platform. Luckily there are alternatives.
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#Mastodon #bigtech #bluesky #x

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Small improvements can make a big difference. Our next major update to #LibreOffice (due early next year) will show page ranges under headings in the Navigator. Find out what else the developer and QA communities are working on: qa.blog.documentfoundation.org… #foss #OpenSource
Screenshot of Navigator, showing a heading and page range

QA/Dev Report: September 2025 - LibreOffice QA Blog

General Activities LibreOffice 25.2.6 was announced on September 8 Olivier Hallot (TDF) improved the help for Select Function in Calc’s formula bar, expanded help for the selection of chart data sources, added AutoFilter and Pivot Table/Chart to the …
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#foss #opensource #libreoffice

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New post: If you recognize me in public, don’t come over to talk about my work. It’s about boundaries, burnout, and remembering that even unpaid creative work is still work.
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#Writing #Blog #Boundaries #CreatorCulture #Burnout #Accessibility #Linux #OpenSource

If You Recognize Me in Public, Don’t Come Over to Talk About My Work — fireborn

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Kirill

Пускай хотят и сами переходят, это их проблемы.
Не знаю что ещё не объявляет. Просто вспомнил впечатления одного знакомого, который на старый ноут поставил Debian, было интересно на Линукс посмотреть, так как никогда не сталкивался. Говорил что Orca по сравнению с NVDA так себе по удобству. Я-то десктопный Линукс уже и не помню когда видел, к счастью нет необходимости.
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Kirill

Ну а так всё стандартно, если говорить про работу в браузере например. Где-то что-то не озвучивается и/или не срабатывает, с чем обычно под Виндой не возникает проблем. И прочие Линуксовые приколы. Видимо за 10 лет особо ничего не изменилось в лучшую сторону. И даже наоборот, судя по статьям чувака которые ты тут репостил.

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The Project Gutenberg community mourns the passing of our CEO, Dr. Greg Newby (@gbnewby).

Without his years of leadership, Project Gutenberg wouldn't be what it is today. Learn more about him and his contributions at

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It's hard to explain just how much work is involved in training a guide dog puppy. This is an unexpected training moment with a set of Halloween pumpkins. We work to socialise our puppies to *everything* they might encounter as a qualified guide dog.

Quintin is 5 months old today.

#IrishGuideDogs
#PupInTraining
#MastoDaoine
#DogsOfMastodon

#dogsofmastodon #mastodaoine #irishguidedogs #pupintraining
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Mikołaj Hołysz

@TheQuinbox They somehow got a Chokehold on Visa / Mastercard, and can make them unbank anybody they don't like. They forced Pornhub to shift policy via payment processor pressure. They removed games from Steam via similar tactics. Not to mention FOSTA / CESTA, which make sex work related content the only section230 exclusion in the US.

They found a weak point (payment processors), and executed ruthlessly to exploit that point as much as possible. We don't hear them whine. We don't hear them complain. We see them get results, quietly and effectively.

I don't like their politics one bit, but God do I admire the tactics.

@Quin
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Quin

I just don't see any real reason to be against sex work? Like, you're simply exchanging goods and services for money. What's the problem? Maybe that's my "radical libertarianism" speaking but that sounds like part of a free society to me. How much of the incel problem for example could be solved by these incredibly lonely horny guys having a way to, above board, just go get laid as one example?
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Mikołaj Hołysz

@TheQuinbox I disagree wwith the politics of anti-sex work activists, whose tactics I find interesting. They seem to be one of a few groups who actually accomplish a lot of their goals in the 21st century, with relatively minimal societal support, mostly using non-traditional tactics instead of petitions and large in-person protests. That piques my interests. I have no interest in contributing to that particular cause, but the techniques? The techniques can probably be learned from.
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Andre Louis

You're reminding me of the craziest keyboard youtuber guy I can think of, Thomas Ran. If anyone's keyboard-crazy it's him. youtube.com/watch?v=BJITkKaO0q…

IBM Selectric typewriter review - and how it works!

Skip to 15:57 for a typing demonstration.Follow me on Twitter for updates on my keyboard videos! https://twitter.com/chyrosran22My other keyboard reviews: ht...
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