- Fully implemented pinch zoom, including center-aware zooming - Added UI setting for experimental features on Android - Implemented document preloaded resources - Added the 'name' and 'areas' IDL attributes for <map> element - Merged input method activation into the EmbedderControl API - Released version 0.0.1
OH MAN. There is a Sennheiser VSM-201 vocoder (one of only about twelve ever made) and a Kraftwerk Robovox in this Florian Schneider auction. Never mind the rare synths and junk.
If only I had a few hundred thousand dollars to throw around. I really hope whoever buys them does something interesting with them and doesn't just stick them in a display case somewhere.
It is my dream to one day have a hardware or software perfect emulation of the Robovox. That just simply doesn't exist yet.
For context, the speech synthesizer used in Kraftwerk's Robovox is the same one found in the Braille 'n' Speak, a notetaker for the blind, which I started using at an early age all the way through high school graduation. It's incredibly robotic, it's pronunciation is terrible, and I love it!
Kraftwerk designed a box that allowed the SSI-263 (or whatever variant chip that is) to be controlled via MIDI for pitch and duration of phonemes.
I actually have a couple of units with that speech chip, so all I need is a bunch of skill I don't have to re-create what they did.
It’s hard to believe, but courtesy of @jcsteh today NVDA 64-bit alpha builds finally added something truly interesting and useful. Technically, it’s not listed under New Features but under Changes, and it says: In browse mode in web browsers, NVDA no longer sometimes treats controls with 0 visual width or height as invisible. This technique is sometimes used to make content accessible to screen readers without it being visible visually. Such controls will now be accessible in browse mode where they weren't before. What this means in practice is that some previously inaccessible controls in browsers are now reachable. For example, when renewing my home internet plan, I had to complete a captcha. The audio option for it never appeared in NVDA, even with object navigation. I had to rely on Be My Eyes volunteers to read it for me. Now, with NVDA Alpha 53246, I can finally access that control and hear the audio captcha myself. Sometimes small changes make a huge difference. github.com/nvaccess/nvda/pull/… @NVAccess
Link to issue number:
Fixes #13897.
Summary of the issue:
Currently, in web browsers, NVDA treats controls with a 0 width or height and no children as invisible. While this makes sense in theory, t...
I don't get why it wouldn't have appeared in object navigation though. This change only stops browse mode rendering from ignoring 0 width/height objects, but object navigation never ignored those in the first place. Simple review might skip the object of interest for other reasons, but not 0 width/height, and disabling simple review should have picked it up. Still, it's much harder to find things that way on complicated websites.
Believe me, I did try hard with this audio captcha, but with object navigation/ exploration there was 0 chance of finding and activating it. Strangely, it appears as a blank line in NVDA's page buffer. So I should press Enter on the blank line to have the audio captcha played.
Countering toxicity and fake takes is not just a technical question (moderation, admins etc) but one of social curation both collectively and privately: which people and groups do you/we trust for what. No tool can automate that.
#deltachat is for private e2ee messaging and mutually curated group chats, and not random social media propelled onboarding. We are with #Signal here and not with #simplex and #matrix who offer public anonymous discovery of large chat groups with lots of unknown folks.
How do you reckon with the notion that your app could be used by groups to organise and cause real harm in the world. Is this just the cost of creating secure messaging? Do you think there are ways to cultivate a positive culture around your software, or is this something you think you should be separate from? (Genuine questions, I'm not trying to “gotcha” you here. I think these are real and difficult considerations for a lot of FOSS projects right now)
very fair questions! We don't take a neutral position on how and who uses and benefits from our efforts. We choose and curate our audiences, collaborations and designs carefully. The challenges with authoritarianism and violence are real even if impact is distributed very unevenly across regions, skin colors and genders. Supremacists tend to thrive and depend on hierarchical (mob) organizing and we are lacking much UX there. Somehow we never quite get to prioritize it :)
Follow these steps to manage a group:
View group members or chat settings
View admin
Edit group name or photo
Add members
Remove members
View pending members
Group troubleshooting
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@machocam it's repeatedly discussed and there are several folks in our teams who are pushing for admin roles in group chats. In fact, we may soon introduce something in that direction but we'd like to talk more about it after it's released. Still some UX and machine room happenings to sort out before.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer has refused to give out any sweets to trick or treaters this Halloween until they show him evidence of their digital ID, it’s been revealed.
OK, complete! I switched samtupy.com to a better domain registrar, and everything seems to be working! Porkbun is cheaper than namecheap, and more accessible. If anyone experiences any issues please report! Sometimes dns records take some hours to propagate, however still I suspect little to no issues. With that out of the way, happy Halloween!
Oh yeah, I love porkbun. It's always worth looking at the other providers though. Recently moved a .me domain from porkbun to cloudflare as porkbun charged like 7 dollar more at that point. .com costs like 11 at porkbun, how much was it at namecheap?
Also unless you have changed server/IP I think there should be no issues at all. Even if the DNS records are out dated, they should still lead to your IP. But correct me if I'm wrong. I only have the basic knowledge about that kind of stuff.
@jonathan859 The hurtle might have been the nameservers. After transfering away from namecheap, they can disable my dns entries on their nameservers at any time. So the flow goes look up domain -> check nameserver -> IP returned from nameserver. So if they disabled my dns on their nameservers before everyone's records updated to porkbun's nameservers, it's theoretically possible that querying the domain would lead to namecheap's servers which would say "oh, this domain is no longer registered here." Thankfully that seems to not be the case or at least I'm not seeing any reports yet.
@jonathan859 It was $18.48 at namecheap haha, so porkbun was a huge improvement. Indeed I'm sure sometimes a given registrar will get a better deal than another on a certain TLD.
@johann Yeah I use their nameservers if that's what you mean. Their dns record configuration is very accessible sans a very minor and nearly web wide modal dialog focusing glitch that I couldn't care less about. Friends had told me about porkbun for a while now and I recently needed to purchase 2 new domains and was very impressed with it all around. I have huge respect for any service that lets you actually customize even little things like the display, and I appreciate that genuine bits of humanity and amusement show on their site rather than the detached 100% corporate professionalism I see on most other services. I was inspired by that, that's for sure.
🗝️ 3 PM EDT: Surprise! @Derek and Robin have a binaural recording of the Haunted House known as ‘Wicked World’ in Nicholasville, Kentucky, followed by the traditional ‘Nightmare Before Christmas’.
🎸 6 PM: Mellow Vibes with @Liz relaxes you, but might there be one creepy track in the set at least?
⚰ 8 PM: @jmd2000 transforms the barn…It's the Old Wooden Crypt. Every artist he plays will be dead!
We have been made aware of a significant difficulty when using Fusion V2026 with any of our products. Essentially, the function which returns its serial number is completely broken. If Fusion is run, the products cannot be activated or used. If Fusion is closed and JAWS started, which is possible to do, everything works as it should. This has never occurred in any previous versions of Fusion before including 2025. This not only affects our products but any scripts where the serial number is being referenced.
There are some people who have a Fusion license but only use the JAWS component. They ignore Fusion entirely. If that is you, then you can safely use the products. However, if you rely on the magnification element of Fusion, we advise you not to install any of our products into Fusion 2026 until such time as Vispero provide guidance on the matter.
Tonight, @jmd2000 is switching the old wooden barn temporarily for an old wooden Crypt. Join him for 3 hours of non-stop dead people. I promise, you're not gonna wana miss this one. Thanks to @jaybird110127 for the name suggestion. It all starts at 8 PM eastern at hkcradio.com.
✈️ When you read the news about a plane that crashed 3 days ago... and you happen to have traveled with your family in that same plane just 6 days before. Gives you the shivers.
Just a quick note, samtupy.com is undergoing slight maintenance this morning, I expect no to minimal downtime, but if Constant Motion login or score posting / any other service bugs out for a sec in the next couple of hours, please don't be surprised and know that it should be resolved quickly. Thanks.
Osobně si řád převzali herec a spisovatel Zdeněk Svěrák a tenisová legenda Martina Navrátilová, která je v neposlední řadě devítinásobnou vítězkou wimbledonské dvouhry.
I'm excited to launch @matrix Stammtisch #Aachen on the 2nd Monday of each month with the great support and in the premises of @cccac, starting on 10th November! We invite you to an evening to exchange experiences and ideas, verify each other‘s devices, tune your homeservers, read, discuss, or write MSCs, or whatever you bring to the table. Learn more at ccc.ac/post/2025-10-30-matrix-…
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Here’s our summary of updates, events and activities in the LibreOffice project in the last four weeks – click the links to learn more… We started the month by posting the LibreOffice Podcast, Episode #5 –Accessibility in Free and Open Source Softwar…
@sintrenton @zleap You can submit these things as enhancement requests: bugs.documentfoundation.org – But as we always say, we're a volunteer-driven project with very limited resources. The best way to get new features is to help the community, or fund developers 😊
@zleap I understand completely about limited resources! I work with digital accessibility and many organisations creating plug-ins etc for assistive technologies are very much in the same situation. Keep up the awesome work you've been doing all these years! (I've sent a few quids your way earlier, but should really look back into it again).
In early September, The Matrix Foundation homeserver went down.
I'm extremely proud of our SRE team. They had a Disaster Recovery Plan and monthly exercises to apply it, resulting in no data loss despite a 24h outage.
I've learned a lot about how to properly backup/restore a Postgres database when writing this post with SREs. We also learned how to better prevent and be resilient to human error.
Hello everyone! The Signal team is releasing a new version of Signal Desktop, v7.78.0-beta.1. If you’re interested in participating, join the beta here.
* This update improves accessibility for screen reader users by skipping repeated timestamp announcements when new messages arrive in a thread. * We also fixed a bug that could prevent notifications from appearing on Windows.
It's done! #chatcontrol is officially off the table after the danish EU council presidency drops it for good. It's a small but important victory!
Thanks again to @chatcontrol for coordinating grassroots interventions, and everyone else, especially on the fediverse, for joining efforts to fundamentally preserve end-to-end encryption 💜 Also to @Mer__edith and @signalapp for their strong end-to-end encryption work and stances.
It is not even off the table or dropped, just someone saying they will change it from "mandatory" to "voluntary" and try to push it this way. Then propose changing it to mandatory once the tech is built.
@link2xt as far as EU decision processes go, the current danish EU council presidency that has been leading the efforts to implement mandatory client side scanning, dropping the effort, is significant. It's not just "someone" saying something. These decisions take time and if they don't change course now, they risk making any (voluntary) client side scanning illegal. Will there be renewed efforts to break e2ee? Of course. But it's a victory for now nonetheless.
Denmark, currently presiding over the EU Council, proposes a major change to the much-criticised EU chat control proposal to search all private chats for suspicious content, even at the cost of destroying secure end-to-end encryption: Instead of mand…
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has." Margaret Mead
Very few people, with skills and tools already available - made mobilizing and organizing possible, to fight and win, against the behemoth Chat Control.
Its really big and beautiful. Thank you to the person who made fightchatcontrol.eu :)
IMHO it's gross generalization. Yes, there are many tools with expert UI, but there are also many tools with simple UI. It's like pointing at Photoshop and saying proprietary software doesn't have simple photo editors.
1. Joys and challenges of a sightless coder by Arkadiusz Świętnicki ( @nuno_nuno ) - Brilliant! If this talk didn’t touch your heart, you are not built right
2. AI from Scratch: Let’s Build and Train a Perceptron in Pure Swift by Johannes Fahrenkrug - Loved it, even simpler explanation regarding AI than 3blue1brown
3. The Attribute Graph: SwiftUI’s Invisible Hand by Chris Eidhof ( @chris ) - Layout computers, presentation using Klaus code 🤯
Desempeñando con diligencia las tareas que tengo asignadas y velando por los intereses generales con sujeción y observancia de la Constitución y del resto del ordenamiento jurídico, y actuando con arreglo a los siguientes principios: objetividad, integridad, neutralidad, responsabilidad, imparcialidad, confidencialidad, dedicación al servicio público, transparencia, ejemplaridad, austeridad, accesibilidad, eficacia, honradez, promoción del entorno cultural y medioambiental, y respeto a la igualdad entre mujeres y hombres.
Dnes mě čeká půl dne běhání po doktorech. No jo, holt už jsem starší model 😄 Samé odběry, kontroly, testy… ale co, když je to zadarmo, tak ať si mě užijou! #dobréRáno
Ale pokud je to prevence, má to potenciál ušetřit 👍 Ať dobře dopadneš.
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