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Für blinde Musiker*innen, die die zugänglichen Keyboards und auf NKS basierenden Bibliotheken nutzen, weil sie eben sprechend sind und somit zugänglich, im Gegensatz zu vielen anderen solchen Keyboard-Systemen, ist das eine verdammt schlechte Nachricht. Sehende können vielleicht auf Alternativen ausweichen, wir haben aber solche nicht. Wie bitter! Hoffe das ganze Ökosystem wird irgendwie gerettet.

heise online (@heiseonline@social.heise.de)

Native Instruments meldet Insolvenz an Das Berliner Musiktechnologieunternehmen Native Instruments, auch Muttergesellschaft von iZotope, Plugin Alliance und Brainworx, hat Insolvenz angemeldet. https://www.heise.
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Yesterday at work:

me: "Codex, figure out why <component> doesn't see <hardware>, even though <hardware> is clearly present on machine."

(left unsaid: component runs in container, other stuff (also in containers) sees hardware fine).

*2 minutes later*

Codex: "You have foo installed at version X (likely from ubuntu repositories), vendor's hardware support matrix page says that <hardware> only supports Foo at versions y+, I advise you to install from official vendor repo. If you run foo, it shows a "hardware not recognized" warning."

Me: "You don't have sudo, write a sh script runnable with sudo."

Codex: "script is at ..."

Me: "./script.sh; reboot"

*2 minutes later*

Oh that worked. Would have taken me hours of debugging otherwise.

The whole thing took about 15 minutes, most of which was installing packages over a slow network connection.

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Sign in with Apple polls!

Have you ever used this with a website and received essentially none of the emails the site sent (particularly a question with Kickstarter)?

(Sign in with Apple lets you use Hide My Email to create an address that Apple restricts to validated addresses that an app or website has registered with Apple and added DKIM and SPF records to define correct email origin servers.)

  • No or almost no email (30%, 10 votes)
  • All or almost all email (42%, 14 votes)
  • Some or most email (27%, 9 votes)
33 voters. Poll end: 14 hours ago

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Need to view the recovery key for a FileVault-encrypted Mac in order to, for example, reset its login password? If you opted to allow your Apple Account to be able to decrypt your Mac, the key is stored and viewable in the Passwords app on your signed in devices like any other credential; just select your Mac's name in the list of accounts, and then click or double-tap the key to show it. #TipTuesday
#tiptuesday

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Café Libertad | Lust auf Austausch, Vernetzung, einfach gemütlich einen Kaffee trinken oder auch nur abhängen? | Dann kommt vorbei und lasst und gemeinsam die Zeit hier im Café Libertad gestalten | Jedem 1. Sonntag im Monat 15:00 bis 19:30 Uhr.

Willkommen beim Café Libertad


Hier wollen wir mit Euch zusammen an jeden 1. Sonntag im Monat zwischen 15:00 und 19:30 Uhr im Murx einen Offenen Freiraum mit anarchistischer Grundausrichtung schaffen, in welchen es um Austausch und Vernetzung gehen soll. Natürlich kann man auch einfach nur gemütlich einen Kaffee trinken, oder auch nur abhängen. Es besteht kein Konsumzwang, wenn gewollt kann selbst etwas zu trinken oder zu essen mitgebracht werden. Die Getränke des Cafés gibt es auf Spendenbasis.

Willst Du Dich beim Café Libertad einbringen oder mehr über den Hintergrund erfahren, empfehlen wir Dir den Langtext dazu zu lesen, Du findest ihn auf der Webseite des Murx und auch direkt unter murx-heidelberg.de/cafe-libert… Wir freuen uns wenn Du uns deshalb ansprichst.

Wann: Jeden 1. Sonntag im Monat, 15:00 bis 19:30 Uhr

Wo: Freiraum Murx, Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg-Altstadt

ÖPNV: Rathaus/Bergbahn, Heidelberg oder Alte Brücke, Heidelberg

Barrierefreiheit: Weitgehend barrierearm

Wichtig: Solltet Ihr Euch krank fühlen, dann bleibt bitte daheim, das Café Libertad gibt es an jeden ersten Sonntag im Monat und wir freuen uns Euch zu sehen wenn es Euch wieder gut geht. Natürlich haben wir wenn Ihr Euch nicht sicher seid vor Ort auch Corona-Tests und Masken.

Info: Leider ist es uns nicht möglich Informationen zum Café Libertad auch in der gut besuchten 'Demo-Info Rhein-Neckar' Telegram Gruppe zuverlässig zur Verfügung zu stellen, da genau diese Beiträge nach kurzer Zeit gezielt wieder gelöscht werden. Wir bedauern dieses unsolidarische Handeln ausdrücklich und versuchen es weiter.

Adresse: Oberbadgasse 6, 69117 Heidelberg | ÖPNV: Rathaus/Bergbahn, Heidelberg und Alte Brücke, Heidelberg | Barrierefreiheit: Weitgehend barrierearm | Webseite: murx-heidelberg.de | Instagram: @murx_hd | Fediverse: @murx@loma.ml | Bluesky: @murxhd.bsky.social

#CafeLibertad #Freiraum #OpenSpace #Murx #Anarchismus #Input #Mitgestalten #Heidelberg #Altstadt @Heidelberg

#Heidelberg #input #Altstadt #Anarchismus #Freiraum #openspace #mitgestalten #cafelibertad #Murx @Heidelberg

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What is with these websites with seemingly random soft hyphens ­ placed everywhere?

Here's an example. It makes reading with a screen reader very difficult.
When research­ing a famous his­tor­i­cal fig­ure, access to their work and mate­ri­als usu­al­ly proves to be one of the biggest obsta­cles. But things are much more dif­fi­cult for those writ­ing about the life of Marie Curie, the sci­en­tist who, along her with hus­band Pierre, dis­cov­ered polo­ni­um and radi­um and birthed the idea of par­ti­cle physics. Her note­books, her cloth­ing, her fur­ni­ture (not to men­tion her lab), pret­ty much every­thing sur­viv­ing from her Parisian sub­ur­ban house, is radioac­tive, and will be for 1,500 years or more.

openculture.com/2023/11/marie-…


Marie Curie's Research Papers Are Still Radioactive a Century Later

Image by The Wellcome Trust When researching a famous historical figure, access to their work and materials usually proves to be one of the biggest obstacles.
OC (Openculture.com)

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Canceled my Spotify subscription this year and started using @AntennaPod, and my god what an update to my QoL.

No algorithms shoving perceived interests down my throat, no analytics tracking my every move, and no ads other than any the shows themselves decided to embed in an episode.

Seriously, if you can, give it a shot for at least a week, or swing a donation their way. We all need projects like these to flourish

antennapod.org/


AntennaPod – The Open Podcast Player

AntennaPod is a podcast player that is completely open. The app is open-source and you can subscribe to any RSS feed. AntennaPod is built by volunteers without commercial intere...
AntennaPod
@AntennaPod

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On my way to Brussels for XMPP summit then FOSDEM. Contact me here or on XMPP if you want to discuss Libervia, see a demo, or talk about related topics (XMPP Pubsub, e2ee, activityPub or email gateways, forums, multiparty A/V calls, metadata reduction, serverless, data policy, etc).

You can also directly come to our booth (XMPP & Realtime Lounge).

Please note that this year we are in AW level 1 instead of the usual location.

#Libervia #XMPP #summit #FOSDEM #Brussels

#xmpp #libervia #fosdem #brussels #summit
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So far with Moltbot, just on their web interface I have:
Sent a message to A T Guys support using the contact form on the website, getting around the CAPTCHA
Rickrolled myself by having it find Rick Astley on my computer and play using Winamp
Created a 20 song playlist of 90s bangers from files on my hard drive
Connected with Home Assistant and controled my speakers
Taken a screenshot of my computer
This thing can do good and very bad things. But wow the potential is there however you define it.

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Reading the "European agentic AI landscape" report and it doesn't start well. And note, I'm not per se opposed to AI. But this sort of unjustified affirmation of the consequent bothers me:

"The EU must address systemic barriers that limit its ability to
strengthen the agentic AI ecosystem and generate value."

Oh, really, must it now? Why then I suppose no-one could have anything to argue against that.

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Please help sign this online petition.

A new bill in Indonesia would massively expand censorship of LGBT+ content online. Tell lawmakers to reject this dangerous legislation now!

This petition was created by their partners at the Pelangi Nusantara.

action.allout.org/en/m/a68f74a…

#lgbt #indonesia #humanrights #censorship


Stop Indonesia’s bill to censor LGBT+ lives online

Indonesia is moving to ban LGBT+ content across digital platforms. Activists warn this will fuel harassment and arrests. Urge lawmakers to reject the Broadcasting Bill and defend free expression – censorship is not protection.
action.allout.org
#censorship #HumanRights #lgbt #indonesia

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Leyendo noticias de Administración electrónica, acabo de ver esto, que se presenta como favorable, y a mi no me lo parece (y eso que yo sí pienso que la IA y los LLMs pueden tener utilidad).

"Europa destina ahora una mayor proporción de capital riesgo a la IA agentic que Estados Unidos, con Francia y Alemania emergiendo como los principales centros. Una constelación más amplia de ciudades innovadoras, como Ámsterdam, Estocolmo, Múnich y Barcelona, ​​está fortaleciendo el papel de Europa en este espacio. Los financiadores públicos, como el EIC y el EIT Health, desempeñan un importante papel catalizador, atrayendo a los principales inversores globales al ecosistema europeo de IA agentic."

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The iPad was announced 16 years ago today. How?

How has it been that long?
How has the iPad not made PCs irrelevant yet?
How long until Apple just admits that iPad OS is a failed experiment with 7 too many window management options that make using the iPad more frictionful than a real computer at almost every single use case.

I still use mine almost every day but if my current 2018 iPad Pro stopped working for some reason I’m not sure I’d replace it. It just doesn’t quite know what it’s for. Still.

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I tell ya, you could give Windows the newest and even better hardware in tons, and it would still be sluggish, laggy, unresponsive, straight up ignore input or take a minute to process, especially when booting up. This is a fucking top tier Lenovo laptop, I don't care how much bloatware there is on there, you have the resources, go and use them man, no reason to have my screenreader lag, only process one out of 3 keys and force me to reboot before even having done anything.

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I tried using Claude Code on the desktop app today. Not to get technical, but Claude's where it's at if you're working on a large project like I am. It helps me follow a plan through beginning to end in an ordered way. Chatgpt is useful for other things, but this thing's generally accessible, is a great code pair, and it's willing to teach me as we go so I can do some of the coding. Heaven't started coding a lot yet, but I have a plan file outlined, and I'll start a refactor tomorrow.

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OK, what are these big, awful, horrible problems which are supposed to befall me if I upgrade to the newest version of iOS as a voiceover user? Got a notification from Dice World and so of course immediately updated on my primary device because I’m that kind of stupid. So far, seems to be yet another massive wave of nothing. Thoughts welcome.

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Remember folks, Apple also delayed the release of one of their show because the subject might offend the snowflakes in the white house

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sava…

So if you think their leadership is silent about what's happening, consider they are tacitaly supporting it.

journa.host/@theintercept/1159…

The Intercept (@theintercept@journa.host)

Internal Slack logs shared with The Intercept show outrage over Cook’s coziness with Trump and Apple's silence on Pretti's death. https://theintercept.com/2026/01/27/apple-tim-cook-trump-alex-pretti
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