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Hello everyone, me and some folks might have a surprise for you! Note that we are entering highly beta teritory at this point and any amount of the following might not work or could fail spectacularly at any time, but assuming this stays stable, please feel free to join me, @ivan_soto, @Jonathan and possibly a few other friends should they decide to show up for a bit of new years day fun, possibly including more surprises, like this one! anyaud.io/listen?audio=Ai_7xZg… If you wish to interact with us, please reply to this thread for now. Lets hope this works!

New years day 2026 stream – The Any Audio Network

anyaud.io
@Jonathan Rodriguez @Ivan Soto

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/?radd=1… today brings you 22 updated and 2 added apps:

* Payload Dumper GUI: extract Android OTA payloads from local files or HTTP URLs 🛡️
* CleanSlate: ensure privacy and protect sensitive data 🛡️

RB status: 780 apps (60.8%)

2 #Magisk modules have been updated at apt.izzysoft.de/magisk

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:


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
#android #free #apps #AndroidAppRain #magisk #izzyondroid

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accessibility question about file format for screenreading devices

Sensitive content

#Accessibility
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Peter Vágner

@Christopher Duffley @André Polykanine @venetiana 🇵🇸 I would say what you should definatelly do is to make sure the original PDF document is tagged. For example Microsoft Office can generate tagged PDF documents and is readily available. Then if you would like to do something extra publish the same content as a part of your website i.e. an HTML document.
@André Polykanine @Christopher Duffley @venetiana 🇵🇸

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How about a little fridge or no fridge poll thread? Feel free to boost and play along. I will name a thing and we will vote on where it should be kept. Fridge or no fridge.
I realise eggs will polarise nations. But let's give it a go....
#poll #PleaseBoost

Let's start with ketchup, tomato sauce.

  • Fridge (67%, 31 votes)
  • No fridge (32%, 15 votes)
46 voters. Poll end: 2 weeks ago

#poll #pleaseboost

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I suggest you support Standard Ebooks 📚

“Standard Ebooks is a volunteer-driven project that produces new editions of public domain ebooks that are lovingly formatted, open source, free of … copyright restrictions, and free of cost.” ⚖️

See what’s free to read on January 1 👇
standardebooks.org/blog/public…

Please boost 🙏

#StandardEbooks #PublicDomain #PublicDomainDay #Copyright #Ebooks #OpenSource #FreeSoftware #Python

CC @standardebooks

Various electronic devices showing the same ebook on the screen.
#FreeSoftware #opensource #copyright #python #publicdomain #eBooks #standardebooks #publicdomainday @Standard Ebooks

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Happy 75th birthday to The Archers, the longest running radio drama in the world. Its famous theme tune is one of my earliest memories. When I was very young, it used to come on the radio every week day afternoon, and Mum would listen to it.
Then I got hooked, and started listening to the Omnibus edition on Radio New Zealand’s National Programme when I was five or six.
I did that without fail, every Thursday night, until 1982, when Radio New Zealand announced that due to the increased cost of the programme imposed on it by the BBC Transcription Service, Radio New Zealand wasn’t going to carry it anymore. This resulted in my first governmental advocacy effort. As a 13-year-old, I wrote for the first time to a Government Minister, pleading with him to do something about this travesty. It was pretty exciting in my working class family to come home one day and find a letter from the Minister of Broadcasting, Ian Shearer, waiting for me in the mailbox. But it was only to thank me for writing and to tell me that he didn’t have the power to interfere with Radio New Zealand’s operational matters. It was the first time, but far from the last time, that I witnessed governmental buck passing up close. My teenage self thought that he could surely just pass a law to stop this or something. I got to know him in my later work, and you can be sure I reminded him of this moment.
Finally the big day came, I still remember the date, 30 September, 1982. Rather than a typical cliffhanger, the episode ended with a special ending for New Zealand listeners, who were never to be invited to Ambridge again.
Eventually, I was let into a fanatical little club of blind people that were receiving The Archers on cassette from a very kind woman in the UK who recorded it every week. It was like being reunited with family I hadn’t seen for a while.
Finally, the Internet made it easy for me to visit Ambridge every day except Saturdays, and that’s still the case.
The Archers is a brilliant show. The fact that it has run so long allows stories to develop in real time, sometimes they can take decades to run their course.
Some people ask me how on earth you start listening to a show that has run so long, and I tell them that the best approach is to treat it like you are moving to Ambridge yourself, the village in which the characters live. When you move somewhere new, it takes a while to get to know everyone, but you eventually start to work out who’s who.
You can subscribe to The Archers via two podcasts. One gives you the 12 minute episode every day other than Saturdays, the other one gives it to you in one big weekly episode each Sunday, that’s called the Omnibus version.
If you would like to catch up, here’s a quick summary, somewhat tongue in cheek, of the story so far.
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…
#TheArchers

Brawls, blackmail and Judi Dench: 75 staggering moments from 75 years of The Archers

From Jill’s flung flapjack to Nigel’s tragic fall, the Great Flood, Helen’s acquittal and a priceless cameo from Dame Judi, here’s an anniversary feast of epic Ambridge moments
Felicity Cloake (The Guardian)
#thearchers

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Obloha v roce 2026: výjimečné zatmění Slunce, polární záře i velký vánoční úplněk
magazin.aktualne.cz/obloha-v-r…

Obloha v roce 2026: výjimečné zatmění Slunce, polární záře i velký vánoční úplněk

Rok 2026 nabídne příležitostným pozorovatelům i zapáleným lovcům nebeských jevů zajímavou podívanou. Na obloze se vystřídají meteorické roje, dechberoucí planetární seskupení, noční svítící oblaka i vzácné zákryty.
Šárka Nádeníčková (Aktuálně.cz)

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Člověk chvíli vyrazí u nás na kolo a hned tohle 🤷
Já to nebyl ☝️
denik.cz/regiony/cheb-chebsko-…

Lidé na Chebsku pocítili otřesy. Nejsilnější měl sílu třetího stupně

Na západě Čech se opět zachvěla země. Podle aplikace SeisLok Geofyzikálního ústavu AV ČR měl zatím nejsilnější otřes sílu 3,03 magnituda, dosáhl tedy na třetí stupeň Richterovy stupnice. Otřesů se projevilo několik, doprovázelo je typické hučení.
Petr Przeczek (Deník.cz)

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As we welcome a new year we have more Debian events lined up for 2026, and we’re happy to announce another MiniDebConf in India. MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026 will be held at Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur on 14th and 15th March 2026. lists.debian.org/debian-devel-… #debian #DebianIndia #MiniDebConf #MiniDebConfKanpur #01

MiniDebConf Kanpur 2026

lists.debian.org
#debian #debianindia #minidebconf #minidebconfkanpur

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New Accessible Book and Document Reading app to try. This was posted by the developer on an email list I am on. Please pass it on... Hello everybody,

I’d like to share my new iPhone and iPad app I’ve just released: Vox Libri.

App Store link:
apps.apple.com/us/app/vox-libr…

Vox Libri is built to help people read books and documents in a flexible, personalized, and fully accessible way. It is designed to work well with VoiceOver and braille displays, and to support different reading preferences: on-screen reading, braille reading, or high-quality text-to-speech.

The interface is available in English and Spanish, and you can use any device-supported language for voices.

Key features include:
• High-quality text-to-speech for natural read-aloud.
• A braille reading mode compatible with braille displays.
• A highly customizable reading screen (font, size, colors, spacing, themes).
• Support for common formats: TXT, PDF, DOCX, RTF, HTML, Markdown, and EPUB.
• Accessible navigation through chapters, headings, pages, bookmarks, and sections.
• Hands-free reading using headphone controls.
• On-device AI translation, summarization, and simplification when supported by the device.

I am working in versions for MacOS and WatchOS…

If you try Vox Libri, I would sincerely appreciate any feedback from BlindApple users—especially around accessibility, braille workflows, navigation, and overall reading comfort.

Thank you and regards
Jonathan Chacón

#New #Accessible #Book #Document #Reader #Blind


Vox libri App - App Store

Download Vox libri by Jonatan Chacon Barbero on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more games like Vox libri.
App Store
#accessible #book #blind #new #document #reader

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Damit können wir aushelfen. Dabei sind. DJ Maulwurf und Marius, Fanny und Anja aus Deutschland, und Zuzia und Gregor aus Polen. mastodon.world/@Philsan/115819… mastodon.world/@Philsan/115819… @Ohrfunk troet.cafe/@Ohrfunk/1158191048…

Atari Scene News (@Philsan@mastodon.world)

A compilation of #AtariST computers tunes by Lotek Style, that Torsten ‘mOdmate’ Keltsch would have liked https://youtu.be/THrDkvzLi5A #atari #demoscene #chiptunes
Atari Scene News (Mastodon)
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I'm still trying to get through more of the Wandering Inn. So when the author released a truly large chapter and said they were taking a month break, I rejoiced. Because maybe I can get closer to caught up. I'm still way ahead of the audio and want to read that at some point, but some day I hope I can catch the chapters as they are released. So my resolution is to read a chapter or two of this thing a day, and maybe in a few months or ten, I'll have caught up. I'm on 8.59 now, audio is probably about 80 chapters behind me. I sincely hope that the author doesn't switch to AI narration or something before she gets to book 60 of this thing. I estimate, if all audio were published now, it'd take 60 to 80 books, countless hours, and I'm all inn.
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johann

Man, I am caught up on all the chapters, but I miss so much details, when looking at the subredit, for example, people talking about things I don't even remember reading.
I think it’s because it just registers in my brain differently, or something, like tts vs the actual human naration.
But yeah it’s crazy the end of year chapter is almost the same length as the first Harry Potter book lol.

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It's the death day for MacUpdater. It was a great service, going to really miss it.

corecode.io/macupdater/

Going to have to switch to a terminal-based updater. Some combiantion of homebrew and topgrade, probably.

github.com/topgrade-rs/topgrad…


GitHub - topgrade-rs/topgrade: Upgrade all the things

Upgrade all the things. Contribute to topgrade-rs/topgrade development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub

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Happy New Year from HKC Radio!

A word about content today. The Digital Domain Online Radio Show will air its annual New Year's Day special tonight at 7 PM EST. It does feature some Christmas leftovers, which is why our Christmas replays are running still. For those who simply do not wish to Christmas anymore, @nick really sympathizes.

The replays will quietly end during the show and regular automation will resume.

@Nick Giannak III
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Them: Can you confirm you have no more than 15 personal electronic devices in your carry on?

Me: (excitedly infodumping) Well, it really depends what you consider to be a device. Many of these computers themselves contain multiple smaller computers. Consider these microSD cards (waves a small anti-static bag around), each of which has a tiny ARM processor - designed by a trans person from the BBC Micro team, if I might go off at a tangent for a moment. Or the battery controller chip on the LiPo pouch protection circuit, which significantly reduces the probability of a thermal excursion. And let's face it, nobody wants a spicy pillow in their lap at 30,000 feet-

Them: Just say yes. (Pleadingly) Just yes. That's all I'm asking. I'm begging you.

#39c3 #AuDHD

Photo showing a number of personal electronic devices including a Bluetooth Thinkpad keyboard, a couple of laptops adorned with Chaos-adjacent stickers, a Tanmatsu, a DECT phone (no base station, awww), a Mysterious Clamshell Device, some headphones, a BangleJS watch, a Pimoroni Tufty running a CO2 monitoring app, a FOSSAsia name badge showing the word "Don't" and a little tub full of the smaller personal electronic devices....
#AuDHD #39c3
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Just interested in peoples attitudes to AI
Please boost

  • love it love it love it (1%, 9 votes)
  • makes everything in my life easier (2%, 14 votes)
  • the speed its being developed is worrying (28%, 199 votes)
  • needs regulating in public hands (50%, 355 votes)
  • I wasnt asked if I wanted it (60%, 424 votes)
  • its dumbing down the world (72%, 509 votes)
  • huge energy cost is adding to climate breakdown (84%, 593 votes)
700 voters. Poll end: in 1 week

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the soviet anthem is blaring in the streets.... a halal cart guy has just murdered a hot dog cart guy in cold blood for selling pork... landlords are being sent to the rikers island gulag, and everyone who was in rikers before is being freed if they say the shahada. wall street is ablaze and the stock market has been replaced by a mosque. every screen in times square bears an image of mayor mamdani with joseph stalin sucking his cock. what have we done

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This year at #39C3, it felt that the congres was bursting at the seams. Nearly all of the assemblies I know complained about having less room and less tables then requested. The infrastructure review posted numbers e.g. about ~20% more DECT-phone calls, more internet usage then ever, ....

And, by chance, I consulted the wikipedia page about CCC:de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_Co… , which also lists the (approximate) number of visitors: 16K this year and only 14.5K last year. Time to go to #leipzig again?


jährliches Hackertreffen

Autoren der Wikimedia-Projekte (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)
#leipzig #39c3

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Thinking back to last year I remembered the us-east-1 outage, how it affected Signal and how some of the users freaked out that they have to rely on US hyperscalers.

Wouldn't it be useful if @signalapp (and maybe similar providers) published their infra requirements with little crosses and ticks, so alternative providers could aim for "good enough for Signal" service levels?

Related articles by @bert_hubert :

berthub.eu/articles/posts/the-…


The (European) cloud ladder: from virtual server to MS 365 - Bert Hubert's writings

We have extensive discussions about our enormous dependence on American clouds, but what exactly are we talking about? And is Europe equally dependent on all types of cloud? This article is aimed at policy makers, but it may also provide some clarity…
Bert Hubert's writings
@Signal @bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦
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