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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.

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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.
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@NVAccess

gecko_ia2 vbuf: Don't treat controls with 0 width or height as invisible. by jcsteh · Pull Request #19146 · nvaccess/nvda

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...
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Jamie Teh

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.

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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.

#matrix #signal #deltachat #simplex

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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!
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Sam Tupy

@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.
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Happy Halloween from HKC Radio!

🗝️ 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!

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The Home of Kickass Creatives | HKC Radio

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@Derek Lane @Liz @John Dowling, Jr.

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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.

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Navrátilová k vyznamenání: Nikdy jsem nechtěla udělat ostudu. Tohle potvrzuje, že jsem ji neudělala
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Navrátilová k vyznamenání: Nikdy jsem nechtěla udělat ostudu. Tohle potvrzuje, že jsem ji neudělala

Osobně si řád převzali herec a spisovatel Zdeněk Svěrák a tenisová legenda Martina Navrátilová, která je v neposlední řadě devítinásobnou vítězkou wimbledonské dvouhry.
Vladimír Kroc (iROZHLAS.cz)

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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-…

Matrix-Stammtisch

Was Matrix-Stammtisch Wann Jeden zweiten Montag des Monats, ab 20:00 Uhr (ab dem 10.11.2025) Wo CCCAC, Schützenstraße 11, 52062 Aachen
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Many things happening in #LibreOffice right now! Markdown support is coming, we've had events in Italy, Cuba and the Czech Republic, and the software is being updated: blog.documentfoundation.org/bl… #foss #OpenSource #freesoftware
Group photo from Latin American LibreOffice event

LibreOffice project and community recap: October 2025 - The Document Foundation Blog

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…
Mike Saunders (The Document Foundation)
#FreeSoftware #foss #opensource #libreoffice

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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.

Thanks all for the hugops during the outage!

matrix.org/blog/2025/10/post-m…

#homelab #selfHosting #sre


Post-mortem of the September 2 outage

Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communications
Matthew Hodgson (matrix.org)
#homelab #selfhosting #sre

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🎉 There's a new beta version of Signal!

Signal for Desktop v7.78

Check out the Signal Community thread for more info: community.signalusers.org/t/be…

#signal #signalapp #signalupdates


Beta feedback for the upcoming Desktop 7.78 release

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.
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#signal #signalapp #signalupdates

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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.

Of course, vigilance remains important.

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Danish Presidency backs away from 'chat control'

The Danes will seek to propose a voluntary detection regime in the CSAM proposal, instead of controversial mandatory detection orders
Claudie Moreau (Euractiv)
#chatcontrol @Signal @Meredith Whittaker @Fight Chat Control
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Jiří Eischmann

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.

Flathub is full of simple tools like for example this one:
flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.…


Install Video Trimmer on Linux | Flathub

Trim videos quickly
Flathub

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#PragmaConf25 Day 1 Highlights —

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 🤯

#pragmaconf25 @Chris Eidhof @Arkadiusz Świętnicki🇵🇱
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