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My next adventure is figuring out Linux, to be specific, it's gonna be Ubuntu 25, on my Medion Laptop which won't be helpful running Windows anymore since it already consumes 5/8GB Ram idling around. And I wanted to build myself an own opinion on Linux and it's accessibility for a while now. Already got the installer to talk, though I haven't installed it yet. Firstly had to figure out how to boot into that thing cuz each Laptop manufacturer has it's own magic procedure that might or might not work to get into whatever kind of boot menu they decide to add or don't.
Anyway this evening I hope I can get through the setup process. I have already spend to much time with it yesterday lol, went to bed at 1 AM on a work day.

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My new Mastodon/Bluesky client, FastSM, which is based off the old work from me and @TheQuinbox, is now available in really, really early alpha! You can download the latest build, which gets updated with each new commit, at github.com/masonasons/FastSM/r…
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I will say that our puppy socks has the cutest little bark ever. I’ve got a recording of it sitting in my Voice Memos. But I think he’s gonna be one of those dogs that likes to be around people. He tends to whine or follow us around the house when we’re moving around and doing other things. He just loves being around all of us. and he loves to play first thing in the morning when we all wake up.

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Grimalkin's Fall Festival Virtual Day is now archived for all to see!! Catch many new artists, the youth of Girls Rock Camp D. C. and my own band Rainbow Portal in this multimedia extravaganza! #music #live_music #musician #musicianLife
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Grimalkin Records VirtualFest '25 : Grimalkin Records, Sihn Starr Cartia : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Premiered Oct. 18th, 2025Grimalkin Virtual Fest '25 - Oct. 18th, 2025 at 4pm-7pm PT // 7pm-10pm ETJoin us for our virtual music fest starring queer, trans,...
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#music #musician #MusicianLife #live_music

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Okay so tonight I have to brag. So with Termux, Emacs, and Emacspeak, there were 2 big problems I still had from when I got AI to rig DecTalk up. First, the tone used for "blank line" and indentation was not working. Second, after a while the Emacspeak sounds would stop working even though DecTalk still was.
So, Claude Code, Opus 4.5, fixed the tone issue, something about sox and Termux specific stuff, and made the Emacspeak sounds thing less of an issue than it was. It still happens, but on first launch without putting Termux in the background and such, it stays alive.

The coolest part, I was using Claude Code inside of Termux on the bus going out to eat. And by the time I got home, it was all fixed!

#AI #foss #emacs #Emacspeak #accessibility #blind

#Accessibility #foss #emacs #blind #AI #emacspeak

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Across the U.S., people are rising up against ICE raids and state violence—and the risks are real.

Peaceful protest is a constitutional right. But this Trump regime has made clear it will not respect that right when power is challenged.

I wrote 13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting to help you stay safe, protect one another, and show up with purpose and clarity as we defend our communities.

Please read & share widely. Our safety depends on each other.

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13 Rules to Protect Yourself While Protesting

Read and share as communities across the United States rise up against ICE raids and state violence Peaceful protest is enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
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I am curious, so today, lets do some Mastodon research on typing verbosity on your #ScreenReader, when typing on a physical keyboard. What is your Typing echo set to? #accessibility #a11y

  • Characters and words (6%, 3 votes)
  • Words (24%, 12 votes)
  • Nothing (63%, 31 votes)
  • Characters (6%, 3 votes)
49 voters. Poll end: in 2 days

#a11y #Accessibility #screenreader
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You cannot just write "potato is being blocked on my laptop" as the subject of your support request, and then just leave it at that. I don't know, either. Knowing computer people though, there are probably seven different incompatible versions of potato, and "potato" could be anything from a word processor to a network diagnostic tool. You thought I was joking, huh? So did I! But googling for potato software reveals an AI tool for biologists, some kind of audio mixing tool, an instant messenger, a text annotation tool, a background transcription tool, and more. All of these programs are all called just "potato". Also, the AI answers above the search results happily tell me, with no context: "Start using potato in your project by running npm i potato. The children components of your potatoes may themselves have components and your potatoes might rapidly look like small tree-like structures of components." I'll...get right on that. Potatoes that look like trees and have children is the one thing all of my projects are missing!
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🇨🇦Samuel Proulx🇨🇦

This is exactly what the Germans said during world war II. If you don't believe Alligator Alcatraz, and the detention centers ICE is running in Honduras, are concentration camps, you are just like the germans who claimed they were "just following orders". Your president is actively planning an armed invasion of my country of Canada, so don't expect any simpathy from me. Let's hope there will eventually be an equivalent of Nuremberg trials, and all of you enabling the modern SS will also get the justice you deserve.

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I've gone through @bce 's product purchase process, including product browsing, configuration, adding to cart, viewing cart, and checkout pages to make sure they are accessible to screen reader users. I've replaced all tables with hierarchical headings, and made sure all inputs are labelled. I'm testing with LibreWolf on Debian with Orca. If any blind users out there could test with their setups and have any feedback, it would be greatly appreciated! Thank you!

Here is the link to the top level products page:
bce.center/products

CC: @jackf723

Note that once this web software is stable, it will be released as FOSS to assist other blind entrepreneurs as well.

#blind #a11y #accessibility #fosh #foss #freehardware #freesoftware

#FreeSoftware #a11y #Accessibility #foss #blind #fosh #freehardware @Jack-Frostodon @Brain Computer Enterprises

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Segunda oportunidad para @delta , esta vez usando el cliente/fork #arcanechat desarrollado por @adbenitez@masto.es

Second chance to #deltachat, this time using the @arcanechat client/fork developed by @adbenitez@mastodon.social

#im #p2p #privacy #messenger

#privacy #messenger #p2p #deltachat #im #arcanechat @Delta Chat @adb @adb @ArcaneChat
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#introduction

Hello, I’m Colleen from Glasgow UK

I’ve found Mastodon in my decision to stop using FB/Insta/Threads etc, and so far am loving it - not least due to the lack of adverts :)

I’m an accountant by trade; pianist, dog and cat lover, and avid reader in my spare time.

#s that I’m following so far:
#music
#dogs #dogsofmastodon
#catsOfMastodon #cats
#art #hitchhikersguide
#joy

#music #art #cats #introduction #dogs #catsofmastodon #dogsofmastodon #s #joy #hitchhikersguide

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Hillarious. how stupid do they think we are?

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#deltachat does

- no bindings to public handles/numbers

- no address-book upload

- not do public contact or group discovery

- not have critical persistent server state (!)

Social identification is private, between people though ephemeral #P2P #E2EE messages.

Servers see messages with random sender and recipient addresses, but those can not be mapped to a phone number or public handle. Servers see IP addresses. But you can use Tor, or a VPN, if you want to hide that.

It' not all bad :)

#p2p #deltachat #e2ee

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This is how I felt when I discovered a wild amount of Québec government stuff (especially health care stuff) is stored on Azure servers in the USA.

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A-Dub 🥝 (@adub@beige.party)

do you have an official New Zealand digital identity? did you know that our super private details aren't stored on sovereign NZ servers? "The government stores our most important data on US-owned cloud infrastructure, making it subject to US laws.
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