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Wisst ihr, was lustig ist?

Der Staat fand die erste Beta von barrieren-gutachten.de selbst so unglaublich toll, dass sie ab nächste Woche ein eigenes Portal bereitstellen werden, um die Prüfergebnisse anzusehen.

Ich hab vorab Zugriff bekommen und grad mal durchgeklickt.

Es ist schlechter. Es fehlt jede Detailinfo. Es ist unübersichtlich wie sonstwas. Nachprüfungen werden nicht rausgestellt. Es ist langsam.

Und gekostet hat‘s ein Vielfaches. Es ist performative Transparenz — mehr nicht.

Offenes Barrierefreiheits-Gutachten-Archiv · barrieren-gutachten.de

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Ok so hey #SelfHosting

I want a #SelfHosted web-type Office Suite ala Google Sheets/Docs and I don't want it to be part of some gigantic resource-chewing albatross like #NextCloud

I would like to do all my Word Processing and Spreadsheeting and so forth through a web interface, which is served from my #Debian server (docker is fine) and saves the documents as normal files in a defined directory.

Does such a thing exist? I do NOT need feature-rich, I do not need it to save MSOffice docs that I can send to a printing shop with all bugs intact, I just want to stop losing shit to hard drive wipes, which I'm sorry but nuking my hard drive is a lifestyle choice at this point and I don't care what you think about it.

I have had the thought that maybe #LibreOffice has some sort of plugin or something which could store files in an Object Storage type thingy that I could self-host instead, cause I've been planning to get some sort of bucket online since forever...

#debian #nextcloud #libreoffice #selfhosting #selfhosted

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Well, it's done. Dropped the CLI commands and REPL interface from acsh, keeping only FUSE, and renamed it to acfs. Also added support for properties and interfaces that were missing, and made the cleanup process more robust. The old repo link should redirect, but the canonical repository is now dev.thewordnerd.info/nolan/acf….

acfs

The Accessibility Filesystem
Nolan's Projects

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Just updated the Audio Invaders game @ChanceyFleet and I made! Now with more beeps for easier alien tracking, more chaos in later rounds, updated high score system, and behind-the-scenes tweaks to ensure the game itself doesn't go Kaboom! We take no responsibility for the beeps appearing in your dreams later on. Go blast some aliens! marconius.com/fun/audioInvader…

Audio Space Invaders

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Games for Blind Gamers Game Jam 5 is starting this feburary! As a community we've made over 100 accessible games, and I'm hoping you'll help make our 5th year anniversarry the most successful ever! Check out how Jam 4 went!

youtube.com/watch?v=KN0VVPbxR6…


Top 3 Games For Blind Gamers Accessible Game Contest Winners!

In this video, I check out the top three winners in this year's Games For Blind Gamers Accessible Game Contest!This is an annual one-month contest that encou...
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I have been working on a question all year which can basically be boiled down to: "what rehumanizes?"

For me, the context is tech, but of course, tech needs to learn from everywhere else in order to see its own deficits.

Taking as a given that we are all existing in broken, cumulatively damaging cultures, I really want to move beyond sitting in that grief and move toward us being able to notice and recognize and ultimately protect repair

in reply to Cat Hicks

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Cat Hicks

I think if all we have to offer a struggling junior career person is "bosses are terrible," we are offering them a world in which they can never be ok because they need to have a job. And we know they need to have a job, and it's self-indulgent for us to screech at them about capitalism when we could be sharing tactics.

So offer, "here is one thing that helps manage a terrible boss," at least

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Are there any #mastodon clients which are (in other of importance)

- keyboard driven with Vim like key bindings,
- has nice UI (doesn't matter if it is TUI or GUI),
- display images,
- has native Linux version (I'll survive even Electron),
- remembers position in timeline?

Features like multi column would be great, but after trying many, I'm becoming more modest with my expectations :)

Thanks for tips and boosts.

#Mastodon

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Today I learned that NASA has a collection of free ebooks that can be downloaded as pdfs or ebub format.

The science books even include a children’s section with fun activites and coloring books!

science.nasa.gov/multimedia/sc…

#nasa


Science e-Books

From Earth and the other planets in our solar system, to supermassive black holes and the distant galaxies that contain them, explore NASA science and imagery through our library of e-books.
Colleen Kaiser (NASA Science)
#nasa
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if replies were by default Unlisted (Quiet Public), and if this also meant they didn't get published to your followers, it would be possible to follow e.g., the GrapheneOS account to get their news posts without receiving an infinite timeline of them arguing with every loser on the internet about the security of the OS

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we have reached the point where under the right circumstances, your fridge can send you to a mental health facility. because it can show you ads.

eldritch.cafe/@temptoetiam/115…


Abie (@temptoetiam@eldritch.cafe)

Attached: 2 images Fuuuuuuckin hell RT "This Pluribus ad on a fridge caused a schizophrenic woman named Carol to be hospitalized." https://bsky.app/profile/esqueer.net/post/3m74ymbxsgs2k
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I have missed the subway twice because of Face ID. I went to swipe my phone to get through the turnstiles, and found it had been awakening itself and searching for my face unsuccessfully in my pocket. The train closed its doors and drove away as I stood there clumsily entering my passcode using Voiceover, with which it is impossible to type anything efficiently. But hey, at least I always know exactly where my phone is at every single second I’m in public now. Because if I don’t, literally anyone could pick it up, point it at my face without me knowing, and walk away with my unlocked phone. I don’t have to be looking at them either because Apple’s only solution to the fact that blind people can’t look directly at the camera is to turn off the requirement to look directly at the camera. Man I miss Touch ID. And the headphone jack. And buttons… #Blind #Apple #iPhone #Disability
#apple #blind #iphone #Disability

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Seit #Loops föderiert, hab ich begonnen ein wenig in meinen Videos aufzuräumen 😌
Das eine oder andere landet nun auf diesem Loops Account:

@vexplorer@loops.video
Dem sollte man von jedem gängigen #FeidVerse Dienst folgen können 👆
Nichts Besonderes, ab und an Beobachtungen am Wegesrand 🙃
#Video #FediVideo #Shorts #noReel

#video #shorts #fedivideo #loops #feidverse #noreel @vExplorer

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This year we delivered new Digital Wellbeing features for GNOME including Screen Time history and limits, break reminders for movement and eye health, and improved parental controls with Screen Time integration.

This work was coordinated by the GNOME Foundation thanks to a grant from Endless, and implemented by valued community developers @pwithnall and @ignapk with support from design team member @snwh.

#GNOME #Linux #OpenSource #DigitalWellbeing #FOSS #friendsOfGNOME

Screen Time chart and settings in GNOME Settings
Screen Time usage displayed in Parental Controls
Child account Screen Time settings managed by Parental Controls
#linux #foss #opensource #gnome #digitalwellbeing #friendsofgnome @Sam Hewitt @Philip Withnall @Ignacy Kuchciński

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прекрасная, поучительная история. хотя конечно же идиотов, которых сотни тысяч, она ни чему не научит… я даже не могу понять, жалко его или не жалко… просто если слущить с чела всю его русскость, аполитичность и вопросы типа а че там такого, да все там норм. кровавый режим гы-гы-гы… то жалко. а если навесить обратно - то выходит редкий случай рандомной справедливости.

кста у меня одна знакомая такая же точно в бельгии жила. гнездо у них там чтоли…

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Россиянин с бельгийским гражданством поехал в Петербург навестить заболевшего отца

Его задержали на границе и обвинили в «госизмене» из-за переписки с бывшей девушкой из Украины
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The Australia under 16, social media ban? It doesn't include Mastadon.

Will there be a bump in young Australians not exposed to highly manipulated insular social media?

Or will
Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
Snapchat
X (Twitter)
YouTube
Reddit
Twitch
Kick
Threads

work to discredit Mastadon and have it included in the ban?

theguardian.com/media/2025/dec…


Australia social media ban: when is it, how will it work and what apps are being banned for under-16s?

Will the ban be delayed or postponed, and how will age verification work? Here’s everything you need to know
Josh Taylor (The Guardian)

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🎉 OpenUK Awards 2025 Ceremony has arrived, celebrating the very best in open technology. Tonight, we gather for the Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony at the House of Commons, hosted by Dame Chi Onwurah MP – a spotlight for all things open source. Who will take home the awards? 🏆 Stay tuned as we celebrate the visionaries of open source. openuk.uk/awards/ #openukawards #opensource

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#opensource #openukawards

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If you have a #Dell laptop whose function keys act normally but whose Home and End keys do not, apparently the fix is the following.

* Restart your machine and at the Dell logo, repeatedly tap the F2 to get into BIOS.

* Look for POST Behaviour.

* FN Lock: Ensure this setting is Enabled.

* Make sure Lock Mode Secondary is selected.

Now I just have to find a sighted person to do this for me, because in 2025, BIOS is still inaccessible.

#blind #accessibility #A11Y

#a11y #Accessibility #blind #dell

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Last week I found a modern laptop for $140 US at best buy, so I bought one. It comes with 4 GB RAM, which is completely inexcusable in 2025, and an Intel Celeron N150, which is ... surprisingly usable.
It has USB C and A, an SD card slot, a barrel charge port, and no ethernet. It does not charge via USB C.
The keyboard is pretty standard. It feels a bit mushy, but I could write on it without complaint.
Replacing the RAM was extra-annoying because four of the eight screws are covered by the rubber adhesive strips on the bottom, so you have to carefully remove both of them with a pry tool if you want to have a hope of sticking them back on again, and then you *definitely* need a spudger to pry open the largest collection of clips I've ever seen. Some of them broke off inside the laptop even though I was careful.
I couldn't get my Windows installer to boot, and eventually realized this laptop has secure boot enabled by default. It also has the typical function row problem. Both were easy to turn off, but not without sighted help.
For whatever reason, even though this uses a Realtek chip for audio, the recovery and installer environments don't autodetect them, so I used a Zoom H1Essential as a generic soundcard. The Windows install went off without a hitch, but Windows also came up with no wi-fi. At this point, I could have gone to the HP support site and downloaded the driver, but I like making my own life difficult, so instead I connected my Pixel to the laptop and turned on ethernet tethering. After a few minutes, Windows Update found the wi-fi drivers and I could suddenly join a network, no restart required.
I still don't have audio though, and there are a few other devices in the "Other Devices" category of device manager, so I'll have to download some drivers from the support site after all.
I got interrupted while doing this, but I got as far as installing Firefox and browsing the HP site with it. The laptop was getting pretty warm during all the Windows updating, but I didn't notice substantial slowdown when browsing around HP's support pages. I have an N150 mini PC at home and it just feels like a slightly slow computer. If the laptop doesn't have serious thermal issues, this would be completely usable for typical office work.
One last thing: One of the keys on the right is the copilot key, which sends the key combination ctrl+shift+f23. I don't know if this can be turned into an applications key in the typical sense, because it's not a single key that can be remapped. I'll probably poke around in the bios in case there's a setting in there. I think remapping F23 to applications would work for some scenarios, but any app that responds differently to regular applications vs. shift+applications vs. alt+applications would have problems. In fairness, the only examples that come to mind are Reaper, and Windows's ridiculous new context menus, which I always disable anyway. So maybe that key remap would be a good enough hack for many people.
Anyway, all things considered, a modern Celeron laptop with 16 GB RAM for under $200 is a pretty good deal, and most of the difficulty of disassembling it came from not knowing how. It's back up to $219 now, which is no longer a price worth talking about. Also, DDR4 RAM prices have been going up a lot, so finding cheap RAM wasn't very fun. I'm not sure if those will ever come back down.

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Wish #Codeberg wasn't so inaccessible to screen reader users. I hate Microsoft, GitHub, and all the AI slop that comes along with it, but I can actually navigate by repositories using standard screen reader navigation keys on GitHub, headings in the readme don't announce the name of the repository before the text every single time, etc. I will say though, major props to Codeberg for making an accessible CAPTCHA. Codeberg is a fork of Forgejo, and it is open source, so yes, I could technically go modify it. But that's not really what I want to do. I just want a git platform I can use. It seems like GitHub is still that, for now. Hopefully not for long though.
#codeberg
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