yech, if you have the LinkWarden browser extension installed but aren't selfhosting, you're leaking every page you view
It sends an `/api/v1/search` query to the LinkWarden server for every page you view
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I've gotta say the open source TTS space is getting really interesting as of late, with models like Omni Voice and VoxCPM2 having recently been released. At this point, I see no reason to keep using something like Eleven Labs, the quality is pretty much there and you have far greater control. While I'm not sure how useful these would be for a screen reader, I'm starting to see some apps on iOS especially that incorporate AI TTS models for document reading. I hope more of this will come soon, but I'm glad the technology is finally catching up and being made available to use offline.
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Apart from the new #Gnome effort, there also is an interesting experiment of a #Rust terminal-client with #Ratatui -- for others to start from should they feel they need some enjoyable distraction :)
git.sakamoto.pl/j-g00da/deltar…
#Chatmail clients typically use the Rust core library which provides all networking, cryptography, persistence, real-time networking, mail relay/server interop. Documentation to help with writing clients is scattered, but at least there are plenty examples to learn from.
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@liw actually, if you ask so directly: we've heart rumors of a web client beginning to work, but it's a very wild project we won't point to, yet. Quite obviously,. there are challenges around E2EE and security when doing a chatmail web client. Stay tuned :)
New post: The Galaxy Z Fold 7, one month in.
I expected to hate this phone. I thought the fold was a solution to a problem I didn't have. I thought the flip was the right form factor and the fold was a gimmick for people with more money than sense.
A month later, it has changed how I work. Dev work, blogging, AT training, video calls — all better. The inner display turned my phone into an actual multitasking device instead of a single-app pipeline I constantly switched between.
It's not the best foldable on the market. The battery can't keep up with combined phone and tablet use. One UI is still bloated. TalkBack has bugs unique to this device. But the form factor itself? Sold.
Full post covers accessibility, screen reader quirks, hardware, what sucks, and why I'm already eyeing the Clicks Communicator as my next phone because I can't leave well enough alone.
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#Android #GalaxyZFold7 #Samsung #Foldable #Accessibility #ScreenReader #TalkBack #BlindTech #AssistiveTechnology #MobileWorkflow #PhoneReview
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I'd be really interested in reading more about your phone-first workflow--what apps you use for coding/writing, etc. I've wanted something like that for a while now but haven't had the patience to smash my head against a brick wall for a while figuring it out, which you've obviously already done. :)
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@Nolan Darilek @aaron I guess you may be connecting to a remote machine for the development stuff. In any case I'm also interested to know how you are doing it.
@nolan For quick notes, I use 'Quick MD Capture'. For more detailed ones, 'Simple Markdown'. Both from Fdroid.
For code, I made my own editor that is a line editor, each line of code is its own element, and I can add line above, add line below, etc. I can jump between blocks with heading navigation, and zoom into a particular block to have just that code in a text box.
doesn't that take a long time though, if you have to press add line below each time you want to type something else, instead of pressing enter on the virtual keyboard, or am I misunderstanding?
@esoteric_programmer @nolan If I'm just typing the next line, I can press enter or how ever you enter a new line for your input method to add a new one. What I don't have to do is use TalkBack's clunky reading controls to navigate through a giant text box. Only the current zoom level is in the text box (line, inner block, outer block, file)
ah, I see, that sounds interesting indeed. And like, do you build and compile stuff for the phone on the phone too? do we have the android sdk for android?
@esoteric_programmer @nolan I compile in Termux and install via local ADB. If I want faster build times, I ssh to a server and build there, and again, install via wireless ADB possible through Tailscale
you can use local adb from the phone itself? I thought you need a computer for that
hmm, interesting, do you then need some kind of adb client for that, right? can you install adb via termux?
@esoteric_programmer @nolan You can use Termux or other prepackaged ADB shells. If all you need is managing packages/permissions, you can do that with more user friendly applications.
O and also, I'm reading your post, and grrr the fingerprint reader, I have this issue on my phone, I long stopped trying to fix it, so password it is :p
@esoteric_programmer @nolan f-droid.org/packages/in.sunilp…
aShell | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
aShell: A local ADB shell for Shizuku powered android devicesf-droid.org
After having read this post, I realized again how deeply I miss my Nokia 9300. It had two screens and, the most important thing, two keyboards: a usual T9 one under the outer screen and a great QWERTY inside. As I hate touch interfaces, I want the same experience your Fold offers, but with a QWERTY keyboard.
Good news folks, my new EP is now up on Bandwagon for the Fediverse!! #fedimusic #newmusic #ambient_music #electronic_music #synth
bandwagon.fm/69dab94129264dded…
bandwagon.fm/69dab94129264dded…
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I just released the first alpha version of a Swift library which reads and writes the (totally undocumented, AFAIK!) file formats used by Apple Logic Pro. If you're one of the four people on earth who needs this, take a look! github.com/CraigStuntz/LogicFi…
GitHub - CraigStuntz/LogicFiles: A Swift library to read and write Apple Logic Pro file formats
A Swift library to read and write Apple Logic Pro file formats - CraigStuntz/LogicFilesGitHub
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Here we go! The first release of my native Delta Chat client for GNOME is out! github.com/trufae/deltachat-gn… cc @delta @gnome i'm using it in daily basis, and it's quite stable right now, but still lacks many features from the official client, I would love to hear from your feedback if you try it!
Release 0.2.0 · trufae/deltachat-gnome
This is the very first release of DeltaChat for GNOME, a native client written entirely in Vala making use of GTK4 and Adwaita technologies. Please test it out and fill tickets with any issue you f...GitHub
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Hi. Why branch 47?
dnipro@fedora:~/Downloads$ flatpak install deltachat-gnome.flatpak
Required runtime for org.deltachat.Gnome/x86_64/master (runtime/org.gnome.Platform/x86_64/47) found in remote flathub
Do you want to install it? [Y/n]: y
Info: runtime org.gnome.Platform branch 47 is end-of-life, with reason:
The GNOME 47 runtime is no longer supported as of October 15, 2025. Please ask your application developer to migrate to a supported platform.
Info: applications using this runtime:
org.deltachat.Gnome
NVDA Coach: From First Keystroke to Confidence—A Free Tool Changing How NVDA Is Learned blindabilities.com/?p=9490
NVDA Coach: From First Keystroke to Confidence—A Free Tool Changing How NVDA Is Learned
Podcast Summary: Tony Gebhard returns to the Blind Abilities studio to introduce NVDA Coach—an innovative, free add-on designed to change how NVDA is taught and learned around the world. Built from…Blind Abilities Team (Blind Abilities)
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GNOME 50 has finally made it into Tumbleweed! Horray! Time to get my computer zippered up. Oh, I mean, time to run zypper dup.
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@wx1g Yesterday was the release day for 50.1, but it might take a little bit of time before it hits the distros.
50.1 will probably hit the big immutable GNOME thingie before the other distros take it up.
Pro všechny, kdo jsou ve Fediverse obecně a na Mastodonu zvláště noví, nebo kteří to tady zatím neprokoukli:
Jak řešit "syndrom prázdné timeline"? Tedy to, že nevíte, koho máte followovat, takže se tu zdánlivě "nic neděje"?
Jistě, můžete se snažit aktivně hledat obsah, který by vás zabavil: ten ale často bude pocházet pouze od různých botů, kteří jen kopírují obsah z jiných sítí nebo přehazují lopatou upoutávky na články v médiích. Můžete také samozřejmě follownout účty, které už mají hodně followerů - to ale není žádná záruka, že budou ty účty pravidelně aktivní, nebo že budou mít zájem s vámi interagovat.
Lepší mi přijde jít na to z druhé strany.
Zkuste nejdřív ze všeho nějaký obsah nabídnout sami. Zkuste vkládat jakýkoliv zajímavý obsah, fotky a videa - ať už vlastní, nebo převzaté odjinud. A zkuste obsah opatřit vhodnými hashtagy - ty na Mastodonu hrají opravdu velkou roli.
A uvidíte, že si vás časem najdou první followeři a vy jim budete moci případně jejich zájem opětovat a followovat je taky. A timeline se vám začne zaplňovat...
Jděte na to zkrátka z druhé strany: místo abyste se ptali, jak může Mastodon pobavit vás, zkuste se nejdřív zamyslet, čím můžete vy zabavit Mastodon. Je to výměnný obchod - ne jenom pasivní spotřeba obsahu, za který akorát nemusíte platit a nemusíte u toho sledovat hloupé reklamy.
První týdny to nejspíš bude spíš takový váš soukromý blog - ale v podstatě čím méně budete přemýšlet o tom, jak se přizpůsobit vkusu ostatních, tím spíše si vás najdou právě takoví followeři, kterým se ani nebudete muset přizůsobovat.
Mastodon není příliš vhodný pro pasivní konzumenty. Jistě, dají se najít způsoby, jak ho použít jako svého druhu RSS čtečku. Ale to není jeho hlavní smysl.
#tipy
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Za mě je dobrá taktika primárně sledovat "Živé kanály" a "Populární" - tam se dá najít koho sledovat.
Jen návrh pro ostatní (já nejsem moc sledovač, spíš jsem vytvářeč)
Jen návrh pro ostatní (já nejsem moc sledovač, spíš jsem vytvářeč)
@howking no ano, jasně, ale to je většinou pro nově příchozí taky matoucí. Ano, je to vlastně určitý test inteligence ... úplně pasivní konzumenti, neochotní kliknout ani trochu okolo, se ztratí. Ale třeba v populárním klientu Tusky pro Android tuším ani žádná sekce "Populární" není, ta je jen ve webovém rozhraní...
Samozřejmě, že pokročilí uživatelé si vždycky najdou cestu. Ale přeci jen: spousta lidí, kteří publikují obsah, hledají publikum. A publikum tady nebude, dokud nenajde způsob, jak se dostat k obsahu...
Část obsahu, která vzniká jinde, tady nevzniká proto, že bez toho publika není možné ani vymyslet žádný koncept monetizace toho obsahu či dosaženého počtu followerů. Takže část toho, co uživatelé hledají, tady nikdy nenajdou ze samotné podstaty věci: nezáleží na tom, kolik starter packů vytvoříme, ale prostě to tu není.
Část dopaminu tady se tady najde: a to jsou favy a boosty od těch, ke kterým se dostane náš obsah a líbí se jím. Takž je to trochu o tom, co kdo hledá: něco tu najít lze, něco tu z logiky věci není a nejspíš ještě hodně dlouho nebude....
Just released at-spi2-core 2.60.1 and 2.58.5. The registry daemon now checks that applications are responsive and will not expose applications as children of the desktop if they stop responding for some reason. I also attempted to fix a crash when opening a group chat that contains new messages in pidgin.
To me, the old stable release is important. There are non-rolling distributions with cycles longer than 6 months (Debian stable / Ubuntu LTSS, for instance). They will want to provide bug fixes while trying to avoid regressions or major changes, and new stable releases corresponding to the branch that they ship could provide cues for them to update.
I am not making a new release for the GNOME 48 version of at-spi2-core, per the GNOME policy that 48 is end-of-life (and openSUSE Leap is mostly on GNOME 48, and, to be fair, we haven't been good about picking up the minor version updates--writing this is reminding me that it's on my list of things to check on). I think it would be worth considering whether to include updates even for these older stable versions, albeit on a less frequent schedule, to align with the lifecycles of popular LTSS distributions. But doing this would mean additional work for someone on the release team...
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@pidgin It was reported here: freelists.org/post/orca/orca-m…
The crash is in libatspi. I only mentioned pidgin because it is the one case where I've seen it reported.
There is, however, a different accessibility issue that the same user is reporting, and the root cause is apparently a bug in either pidgin or gtk 2:
freelists.org/post/orca/orca-m…
I haven't looked at the source to pidgin, so I'm not sure if it has any custom atk implementations. It may well be a bug in gtk 2.
[orca] orca main: Regression in Pidgin's submenus on menu bar - orca - FreeLists
[orca] orca main: Regression in Pidgin's submenus on menu bar, orca at FreeListswww.freelists.org
thanks for the information. I don't believe there's any custom atk implementations in pidgin 2.
Most AI voice tools give you two options. Clone an existing voice or pick from a list of defaults. If neither works for what you need, you are stuck.
VoxCPM2 adds a third option. You describe what you want. A young woman, gentle tone, slightly slow pace. A deep male voice with a formal cadence. Whatever you can put into words, it generates from scratch, no recording needed.
firethering.com/voxcpm2-voice-…
#tts #ai #trending #genai #opensource
VoxCPM2 lets you create voices just by describing them and it is open source - Firethering
Most AI voice tools give you two options. Clone an existing voice or pick from a list of defaults. If neither works for what you need, you are stuck. VoxCPM2 adds a third option. You describe what you want.Mohit Geryani (Firethering)
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heads up #Europe, if you want #sovereignty, there is an #European #chat solution that is #decentralized, #OpenSource, free, multi-platform, multi-profile, #encrypted, it is called #DeltaChat
it is doesn't require phone numbers or any data for registration! painless setup, find it in your app store of choice
your messages and data live in your pockets and not in some 3rd party's "cloud" servers, you truly own it!
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now matrix is not a good idea
it doesn't matter that delta chat is smtp internally, it works just fine and the UI is more closer to WhatsApp, Telegram etc.
way better than matrix, that is literally what you should never recommend to people to migrate to WhatsApp
besides, Delta Chat is on a completely different superior level when it comes to resilience, it is not just decentralized but it can also use several servers at the same time so if one goes down user keeps receiving messages
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@GerhardD it also has good multi-profile and multi-device support, and it is super easy to migrate from one server to another if needed (obvious because several can be used at the same time)
also groups and channels are totally controlled by the users and independent from the server, hence why it doesn't matter if the server ("home server" in matrix) goes down, and why you can migrate to other servers while keeping all your groups and chats
becareful when you state about groups on #deltachat. Because there is no concept of group owner/admin on deltachat at the moment. Everyone can kick everyone (PS: I'm a deltachat user, but we are agree not to use deltachat for public group).
@semurjengkol @GerhardD Group admins, and ablity to @ message to folks in groups is I think table stakes features for groups. that I think are on the drawing board and can't come soon enough.
@tchambers @semurjengkol Cannot imagine how that would work. Since the message transmission is kind of stateless, the groups information must be transferred with every message (keys, history, members etc.), just like GPT is doing its context transfer That's not feasible.
@arcanechat : For the stated "decentralization" you need all MTAs to cooperate. If you are added to a blacklist on any of these (you cannot control them) you decentralization falls apart.
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@arcanechat : For the stated "decentralization" you need all MTAs to cooperate. If you are added to a blacklist on any of these (you cannot control them) you decentralization falls apart.
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> For the stated "decentralization" you need all MTAs to cooperate
no, as said you can use several at the same time and/or migrate, KEEPING your group state, contacts, chats, etc, in matrix you are bound to a single home server, and if federation is not allowed between yours and another person's that is it, you need to create a new profile in another server
that is not the case in Delta Chat where servers are replaceable dumb messages relay nodes
> the groups information must be transferred with every message
wrong, have you ever used Delta Chat??? groups work already with state (avatar, description, etc) p2p between members without transmitting whole state every time
and for having admins there is even already some ideas: support.delta.chat/t/spec-prop…
no need for bots or server-side support
Spec Proposal: Super Groups
Delta Chat Spec Proposal: Super Groups Terminology semi-public group: A group that is intended to be used for more or less public interactions, its invitation link can be shared in public spaces like social media or websites.Delta Chat
@GerhardD and btw, Delta Chat already have channels (Telegram style) where there is one admin and other people are just subscribers that can only read, not modify any state nor see the list of subscribers,
this channels are also completely p2p on top of the transport layer, end-to-end encrypted without any server dependency, so they are basically unblockable because admin can always move to another relay node, you are no where to have something like that in #matrix
@tchambers @semurjengkol Well, i tried it years ago. Do you want to tell me, you've implemented MTAs on every (client-)node? Or how do you run "relay-nodes", who does this, and how do you distribute peer-lists?
MTAs are used only to send encrypted blobs around, all the chats and groups concepts are an abstraction in the client side, yes, only the people know about groups, chats and group state, they live in your pockets, not in some sever, the servers have no clue they even exists and hence zero control or influence over it
anyways if you have more questions, do your own research or ask at support.delta.chat
have a nice Sunday
@tchambers @semurjengkol I've been discussing that with one of the development guys years ago. There is a good portion of experience about running MTAs, and related problems. but they didn't wanna hear the arguments. So good luck. 2/2
another possible solution is like old era IRC. In the past they use bots called channel guard (around 30 years ago, before they implement it on server side). Those bots is just like ordinary user. They knows who are channel founder/admin and actively auto kick someone who kicks channel founder/admin and reinvite kicked founder/admin.
It can be implemented in #deltachat groups without any changes on protocol or MTAs. Not even client app need to be modified. Just invite the bot to your group and configured it.
So, anybody wants to code that kind of bot?
on that era, there are more than 1 bots deployed on a single IRC channel usually
@arcanechat@fosstodon.org @tchambers@indieweb.social @GerhardD@olching.social
@GerhardD@olching.social In Deltachat you can select several group members and kick them from the group at the same time.
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I see, so this alternative will not be effective in deltachat without supporting changes on deltachat
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there is no need for any bot, we just need groups with admin, see:
support.delta.chat/t/spec-prop…
@tchambers @GerhardD @davidsm10
Spec Proposal: Super Groups
Delta Chat Spec Proposal: Super Groups Terminology semi-public group: A group that is intended to be used for more or less public interactions, its invitation link can be shared in public spaces like social media or websites.Delta Chat
the reason of why does I mention about the bot is because admin group support is not implemented yet at deltachat (does that proposal has any deadline target?).
I agree, the ideal solution is the one from the core of deltachat.
@tchambers@indieweb.social @GerhardD@olching.social @davidsm10@mastodon.social
@haise yes, I know that, but if YOUR home server goes down, your whole profile is doomed and you need to start from scratch and join the room again with another profile, not to mention if all participants where in the same home server the group is gone
while in Delta Chat you can just use several relay nodes and replace them while keeping your current profile part of the group
If you are a screen reader user in the mood for maximum control over your #synthesizer, try Surge XT. It is the most accessible #softsynth #plugin I know and allows you to control nearly every aspect of the synth. Every time I use it, I am impressed by how much effort the developers put into making all UI elements to work with screen readers. They need to give a master class on how to make #JUCE plugin accessible! #accessibility surge-synthesizer.github.io/ac…
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Are you in touch with developers by any chance? I think the “audio / MIDI settings” screen has issues on Mac. Specifically, the inputs and outputs in the tables have no labels.
@vick21 @x0 discord.gg/spGANHw
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@x0 @vick21 Can confirm, love how open they are to suggestions as well. Surge is the reason I was able to get through my synth sound design class at Berklee, and considering I'm not really too deep into electronic production, I was surprised at how easy it was to use. @bscross32 is an absolute beast when it comes to surge, though he will never admit it lol. He's got a pretty extensive collection of patches on Github here: github.com/ironcross32/Surge-X…
GitHub - ironcross32/Surge-XT-Patches: These are patches for the free and open source Surge XT synthesizer.
These are patches for the free and open source Surge XT synthesizer. - ironcross32/Surge-XT-PatchesGitHub
@ZBennoui @x0 @vick21 @bscross32 It's pretty cool that you can make a flute patch starting from white noise using Surge XT. Since the GUI is accessible, so I was able to follow the video and create my own flute from white noise. haha youtube.com/watch?v=u7u49V3Lox…
Filter Feedback and the Surge Flute2 Patch
One of the questions we get quite often is how some of the woodwind patches in surge - like flute2 and clarinet - work. In this video Paul builds up the comp...Surge Synthesizer Team (YouTube)
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New podcast episode: Put some privacy in your smartphone! 📣 🎧
How can you use an Android smartphone while protecting your privacy? Who should you turn to for more privacy-friendly Android alternatives?
Can you install Linux on your phone?
With @fla from @Framasoft , we answer these questions!
👉 projets-libres.org/en/podcast/…
#podcast #opensource #privacy #eos #iodeOS #calyxos #postmarketos #fairphone #commown #murena #ubuntutouch #grapheneos
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The claims made about GrapheneOS in this interview are extremely inaccurate. It heavily misrepresents the purpose of GrapheneOS and what we've worked on for years. The claim GrapheneOS is a security project rather than a privacy project is misinformation. Contacts are specifically brought up and yet our Contact Scopes feature is ignored. @fla knows GrapheneOS is a privacy project. He replied to a thread with our response to this misinformation only 4 days ago...
/e/ doesn't keep up with providing standard Android privacy patches and protections. It doesn't provide features comparable to the added privacy protections in GrapheneOS including but not at all limited to Storage Scopes, Contact Scopes, Sensors toggle, per-connection Wi-Fi MAC/DHCP privacy and far more. /e/ has a bunch of default connections to Google services and gives highly privileged access to those. It also bundles other invasive services in the OS.
GrapheneOS heavily improves privacy compared to the Android Open Source Project in contrast with /e/ heavily reducing it.
GrapheneOS is far ahead of the standard pace for privacy patches instead of behind and we fix many privacy weaknesses ourselves. We've fixed a bunch of Android VPN leaks and many forms of data leaks to apps.
Since GrapheneOS is a serious privacy project, we have to put substantial work into security too because privacy depends on it.
/e/ tries to provide privacy by bundling a small blocklist of domain names solely used for ads and analytics. This doesn't do anything to address the most privacy invasive behavior by apps which happens via their own services. It doesn't stop apps sending data to arbitrary third parties from their servers or even client side. It can't block anything without the app using a dedicated domain for the unwanted behavior which usually isn't how things are done.
The domains they block are a tiny subset of domains used for those purposes and do not stop the most privacy invasive behavior by apps.
Apps and SDKs have also increasingly bypassed DNS blocklists via DNS-over-HTTPS resolvers, hard-wired IP addresses and most of all moving connecting to third party APIs to their servers where they don't need to leak their API keys.
DNS filtering works fine on GrapheneOS but isn't a viable approach to protecting privacy.
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Exodus Privacy uses a very similar approach to label apps as having trackers based on whether they include a library from a small list they've decided as trackers. Many of those decisions are dubious and it misses that the most privacy invasive behavior by apps isn't done that way. It also has extremely inaccurate labelling of permissions misleading users about how that works. Here's a great example of both with Facebook Lite:
reports.exodus-privacy.eu.org/…
Report for com.facebook.lite 505.0.0.8.102
Known trackers, permissions and informations about this specific version of this applicationεxodus
According to Exodus Privacy, there's no tracking being done by Facebook Lite. This is the information about trackers which is provided to users within /e/ when they use their Play Store frontend. They're telling users one of Facebook's main apps isn't tracking them. They're also certainly not stopping the tracking via their DNS blocklist. The list of permissions shown there and by /e/ is also extremely inaccurate and misleading. It doesn't work that way.
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/e/, Murena and their supporters have spent years misleading people about GrapheneOS. They heavily push the false claims that it isn't a privacy project, isn't usable, isn't broadly compatible with apps and isn't useful to regular people. /e/ and Murena have repeatedly claimed GrapheneOS is only useful to criminals and spies. Here's the leader of both /e/ and Murena stating that as a broader claim about hardening in general:
grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/…
Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is only useful for pedophiles and spies.Translation to English:
> There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything
My hot take is that closed source software shouldn’t be allowed to do DNS over HTTPS, or perhaps even make arbitrary network requests at all
Granted, I use Steam for video games all the time and the majority of the client is closed source and proprietary. The most important difference there I guess is that I actually trust Valve.
@Byte DNS-over-HTTPS is performed over an HTTPS connection to port 443. It's not externally distinguishable from other HTTPS connections. They can host the DNS-over-HTTPS server on the same IP address and even the same domain name as other services used by their app. How would you enforce it not be allowed? If it's not enforced but rather is only a requirement in store policy, then that's not a serious privacy protection. It's also possible for it to be done for a good reason rather than this.
@GrapheneOS this is true. It’s not a serious solution for a protection, and even without the other problems you’d still need to whitelist it for browsers
I just don’t think apps should be able to hide what they’re doing from OS-level interference, but if and only if the user actually controls the OS.
I guess in this case you’d be preventing certificate pinning and then using that to MITM DNS-over-HTTPS and filter results that way. Again, not a serious solution.
@GrapheneOS and all of that wouldn’t prevent the vendor of whatever app from simply tracking externally visible behavior
@GrapheneOS I think it's consequent to only have a small block list because if they would have a bigger one which blocks more invasive trackers, and more security they couldn't claim that your system is only for pedophiles.
My 10 cent
The interviews from the CEO of /e/os basically state that they can't take security and privacy serious. Else they would contradict themselves and that makes the entire system a half-hearted approach.
My 10 cent
The interviews from the CEO of /e/os basically state that they can't take security and privacy serious. Else they would contradict themselves and that makes the entire system a half-hearted approach.
@GrapheneOS I'm using /e OS on my Fairphone 4. I want to switch to Graphene, but I don't know how, and I'm scared of losing all my stuff.
@FelixTheAnimator @GrapheneOS
You need to backup your data first and then put them back in the phone after the installation. If you're not too technical, I'm sure there can be someone in your area to help you.
You need to backup your data first and then put them back in the phone after the installation. If you're not too technical, I'm sure there can be someone in your area to help you.
@FelixTheAnimator @GrapheneOS I dont think you can install GrapheneOS on a Fairphone, only Pixel devices are officially supported:
grapheneos.org/faq#supported-d…
I suggest buying a used Pixel, installing GrapheneOS on it, playing around, then migrating your stuff over when you are comfortable. Nice and slow - nothing to be scared of. Graphene is very easy to install if you follow the official instructions.
grapheneos.org/faq#supported-d…
I suggest buying a used Pixel, installing GrapheneOS on it, playing around, then migrating your stuff over when you are comfortable. Nice and slow - nothing to be scared of. Graphene is very easy to install if you follow the official instructions.
GrapheneOS Frequently Asked Questions
Answers to frequently asked questions about GrapheneOS.GrapheneOS
@GrapheneOS
Second time I try to follow this account, and second time I get a week of bashing against competitors instead of promoting your vision and merits. You even boost those posts. Infinite noise/signal. How unfortunate.
Will try again in a couple years.
Second time I try to follow this account, and second time I get a week of bashing against competitors instead of promoting your vision and merits. You even boost those posts. Infinite noise/signal. How unfortunate.
Will try again in a couple years.
@ideaferace @GrapheneOS Correcting false claims about the project is not bashing competitors, especially since projects like /e/OS, iodéOS, and CalyxOS which the GrapheneOS project account sometimes mentions aren't competitors to GrapheneOS, these projects are not what they claim to be.
As for the “brouhaha,” well, unfortunately that’s sometimes the effect of social media, but many people don’t visit the official website.
Some good source that might interest you :
kuketz-blog.de/grapheneos-der-…
synacktiv.com/en/publications/…
sciencedirect.com/science/arti…
An underestimated aspect of GrapheneOS : It provides a solid base for reducing addiction on social media and useless stuff.
GrapheneOS: Der Goldstandard unter den Android-ROMs – Custom-ROMs Teil7
Keine Frage: GrapheneOS ist derzeit das sicherste und datenschutzfreundlichste Custom-ROM bzw. Android-System.www.kuketz-blog.de
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@Xtreix yeah, it's a common problem with social activity. I'm not here to spectate fights, not to check their website craving every update.
Tant pis.
Tant pis.
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@GrapheneOS Very glad that you are fighting misinformation on this matter! So unacceptable for a podcast trying to give you good publicity to call GrapheneOS a "security project".
Unbelievable! We can't let this go on any further, they need to be shamed for years to come for the spread of this blatant misinformation with the scope of attacking and harassing GrahepeneOS!
And you really think that a thread on a niche microblogging platform helps promoting your product and vision? Don't you have a homepage to put your beef on which you could link instead of filling the timeline of your followers?
I'm interested in GrapheneOS, not whatever beef you have with others.
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It's hard enough for every alternative OS to find people to use it. It's even harder when those alternatives are fighting against each other. Also I don't care who started it and who's right. This is not a childrens sandbox and you are not five years old. Get your shit together, make a statement on your website, post that statement and move on.
@truhe We're providing accurate information about GrapheneOS and how it compares to another operating system. The reason we're doing that is because they've spent years misleading people about GrapheneOS and are continuing to do it. If they stop misleading people about GrapheneOS including in these kinds of interviews, then we won't need to post responses addressing it. GrapheneOS has been massively harmed by concerted efforts to mislead people about the purpose, features and approach we have.
@truhe /e/ and Murena have done a huge amount of harm to us by widely propagating their false claims about GrapheneOS privacy, usability and app compatibility. They've misled many people into believing it isn't a privacy project, isn't usable, isn't compatible with most apps and much more. GrapheneOS is a privacy project providing a much higher level of privacy than they do along with great usability and far broader app compatibility. We're addressing it because it has greatly harmed us.
@truhe The thread we posted is certainly about GrapheneOS. It provides very useful information about why we approach things in the way we do with features like Contact Scopes rather than DNS filtering. We post these threads to directly address content misleading people about GrapheneOS. A group attacking us is being provided with a platform to make inaccurate claims about GrapheneOS without it being challenged and without us having an opportunity to directly respond, so we're responding here.
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@truhe GrapheneOS exists to protect the privacy of our users. That includes protecting people from sophisticated attacks on their privacy by corporations and states. GrapheneOS doesn't exist to simply provide an alternative to mainstream options. We aren't inherently on the side of other projects providing alternatives.
The anti-privacy talking points from Gaël Duval in the video at grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/… aren't an isolated incident but rather /e/ and Murena have been saying it for years.
Gaël Duval is the founder and president of the /e/ foundation along with the CEO of Murena. Duval and his organizations have consistently taken a stance against protecting users from exploits. In this video, he once again claims protecting against exploits is only useful for pedophiles and spies.Translation to English:
> There's the attack surface, on that front we're not security specialists here, so I couldn't answer you precisely, but from the discussions I've had, it seems that everything
@truhe /e/ and Murena have repeatedly claimed GrapheneOS is only useful to criminals and spies. During the recent state-sponsored smearing of the GrapheneOS project in the French media, Gaël Duval assisted with pushing their false narrative that GrapheneOS is only useful to criminals. These groups aren't on the same side as us. Their primary goal is earning as much money as they can with privacy as a way to brand and market devices. They're undermining the privacy movement and aren't allies.
@GrapheneOS You now wrote five mentions to me explaining the beef you have and repeating the arguments, after I said, that using threads on a niche microblogging platform is not the best way, and neither is talking about everything the others do wrong (to you).
I followed your account to get news on Graphene OS and what I'm getting is some war between forum trolls. I get your point, I get why your doing it, but seeing this from an outside perspective where I'm just interested in getting news
@GrapheneOS about my next smartphone OS, this feels out of place and not helpful.
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@truhe is it posssible that you are confusing a rss feed of news from a website with a social media platform where people talk to each other? @GrapheneOS
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@truhe If we hadn't posted about it, you wouldn't be aware of /e/ and Murena holding the views they do on people wanting to protect themselves from privacy and security vulnerabilities. There are clearly benefits to us spreading the word about it. Many people have misled into believing GrapheneOS is not a privacy project by these groups and we're addressing it directly. We can also post more content about our privacy features, and we are mentioning those as part of these posts too.
@GrapheneOS
I think the point was not to post thr information, but rather where/how.
It was suggested to post the full explanation on the website/blog and link it with a short introduction on the fediverse.
A suggestion which i also agree with.
@truhe
Maximizing users at all costs is not the goal. These OSs are not alternatives to GOS and do not compare in the slightest. Why is it you turn a blind eye to scams committing crimes against GOS, and thats not called fighting, but GOS defending themselves is?
"Also I don't care who started it and who's right."
I mean, do I even need to comment on this? Seems pretty clear how disgusting this is to say.
This is not a childrens sandbox, and you are in no position to talk down to them like some parental figure. This is real, and your apathy to their adversity is disappointing.
@HybridStaticAnimate A better comparison would be a marketing channel fighting with another marketing channel while people expected other content on that channel. The cause is valid, but are constant posts here the best way to react? It feels like watching two youtube channels fighting with each other. Where are the articles on the homepage correcting everything, which could stay online and be linked from here?
Its not a better comparison, the official GrapheneOS accounts are not marketing and are not intended for marketing. Defending wont stop until the attacks stop. And yet I notice a distinct lack of criticism aimed at the agressors.
Mastodon has a tiny character limit so GOS has to break up the posts. Its easier to cram nonsense into one post than it is to properly refute it. The website isnt for this purpose.
@HybridStaticAnimate The "lack of criticism" aimed at the aggressors in my case results in not buying or using their products. I don't need every detail to come to this conclusion, just the information, that they say secure devices are only for pedos, criminals and spies. This is the talking of german right wing parties like CDU and AfD, which I won't tolerate.
Why do you automatically assume the goal is promotion? GrapheneOS is not a business and doesnt provide a product. Youre trying to downplay serious issues with implicitly juvenile descriptors to make it seem frivolous, but its not. Last I checked, providing accurate information for others to educate themselves was a good thing.
@HybridStaticAnimate Last time I checked they announced a long term partnership with Motorola preloading Graphene OS starting 2027. So it's also about promotion. And I'm not against correcting false claims, but ALL I'm seeing here is a beef I'm absolutely not interested in and never is a microblogging platform a good way to correct those things in many threads over many days. They have a homepage, which they don't use. They don't even mention Motorola on their page.
@truhe @HybridStaticAnimate No, that's an outrageously false claim. We've been debunking misleading claims by Murena and /e/ on GrapheneOS for several years and they've been engaging in it far longer than that. Unlike Murena, GrapheneOS isn't a for-profit business with the goal of promoting products to make as much money as possible. A major part of our goals is informing people about privacy, security and GrapheneOS which we're doing with these threads addressing inaccurate info about it.
@GrapheneOS I understand that. I will unfollow you then, because I wanted to get news on Graphene OS, not corrections of stuff Murena said and wish you and your project the best. I'm eagerly waiting for next year for non-Google phones arriving for GOS to switch to it 💜.
This is not accurate. They announced a partnership with Motorola but they did not announce devices with GrapheneOS preinstalled, whether or not they can do that still needs to be determined. And if they cant, thats fine, that was never a requirement of the partnership.
Money isnt exchanging hands. GrapheneOS does not currently profit from this. Youre falsely tying this to promotion. Its just an announcement on future plans.
And GrapheneOS doesnt yet support Motorola devices so there is little reason to put it on any page.
This isnt beef, and your interest in the situation is irrelevant. Countering misinformation at the source is an effective method and has been better than other methods for a very long time. People are going to blindly believe the first thing they read or hear if its not countered, and they arent going to go to an unrelated page that they have no idea exists.
@GrapheneOS
Thank you for pointing contact scopes, I was not aware of this feature. We have edited the transcription to reflect this. Thanks for your work on Graphene, and have a nice day.
Thank you for pointing contact scopes, I was not aware of this feature. We have edited the transcription to reflect this. Thanks for your work on Graphene, and have a nice day.
Contact Scopes is one of the core features of GrapheneOS and is shown in any prompt for contacts access. Storage Scopes is a similar feature for the media and storage permissions. Similar features for Camera, Microphone and Location are being developed by us. Android has a standard Mock Location feature but we want to replace that with a per-app Location Scopes implementation.
The podcast and article still wrongly claim GrapheneOS isn't a privacy project.
How is GrapheneOS not a privacy project when it adds much stronger privacy protections, keeps up far better with standard privacy patches/protections and puts far more care into the services being private?
There's a third party comparison between AOSP-based operating systems at eylenburg.github.io/android_co… which has sections on both privacy and the default Google services included in the Android Open Source Project and additional ones which are being added.
> However, there is not a lot that is being done about privacy.
How does this hold up against an actual comparison of what's offered? GrapheneOS closely keeps up with current privacy patches and protections, while the other 3 operating systems lag far behind.
GrapheneOS provides Contact Scopes, Storage Scopes and other major enhancements to privacy while the others don't do much beyond increasingly ineffective DNS filtering that's easy to bypass.
Every product mentioned here but GrapheneOS is highly insecure, Postmarket and Ubuntu Touch are based on GNU/Linux, which lacks of many modern hardens, such as memory safety, application sandbox and verified boot.
Btw Android is a Linux distro.
CalyxOS, /e/OS and iodeOS are outdated in security patches and major AOSP releases. They also contain non-free privileged Google binaries.
privsec.dev/posts/linux/linux-…
xcancel.com/search?f=tweets&q=…
Linux Insecurities
There is a common misconception among privacy communities that Linux is one of the more secure operating systems, either because it is open-source or because it is widely used in the cloud. However, this is a far cry from reality.Tommy (PrivSec - A practical approach to Privacy and Security)
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this article is amazing. Anyone interested in soldering as a blind person should check it out! Much goes over my head and I feel it could have focussed more on basic principles for the complete noob like myself, but it will provide a brilliant reference! ski.org/soldering-basics/
Soldering Basics for the Visually Impaired: Techniques and Tools
This overview of blind soldering techniques was adapted from an article by Bill Gerrey as backgroundreading for a Blind Soldering […]Charity Pitcher-Cooper (Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research)
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Introducing, the Magic Switch! mynoise.net/vlog.php?ep=202604…
Three Ways to See Sound, and a Switch
Exploring the world of sounds and the passion behind myNoise, with Dr. Ir. Stéphane PigeonDr. Ir. Stéphane Pigeon (myNoise)
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Say hello to `threadcat`! 🧶🐱
It's a little Rust tool which takes the URL to a Mastodon thread, and converts it to a Markdown file. It also downloads all attached media files (and their alt texts)!
That way, it's really easy to get a "first draft" for a blog post from a thread you wrote!
Installation: `cargo install threadcat`
➡️ codeberg.org/blinry/threadcat ⬅️
threadcat
Converts a Mastodon thread to Markdown, and downloads all contained media files.Codeberg.org
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Looking for beta testers: TagFit — tag your stuff, never wear mismatched clothes, and stop throwing out expired food.
Hi everyone, My name is Juanjo Montiel. I'm a blind software developer with over 20 years of experience in software development and accessibility. I currently
work at Microsoft as a software engineer, and in my spare time I love building tools that help people be more independent. TagFit is one of those tools,
and I'm looking for beta testers.
What is TagFit?
TagFit is an iOS app that helps you organize your belongings using NFC tags and printable QR code labels. Here's what it does best:
Never wonder "what am I wearing?" again Stick a small NFC tag or QR label inside your clothes — your jacket, your black trousers, that shirt you can never
tell apart from the other one. Scan it with your phone and TagFit tells you exactly what it is: color, size, material, washing instructions, and more.
Combine outfits with confidence
Struggle with matching clothes? With TagFit you can create sets — "Monday outfit", "Job interview", "Gym clothes" — and group the right pieces together.
Better yet, share your wardrobe with a friend or family member so they can help you put together combinations that work. Then, when you're getting dressed,
just scan the items one by one and TagFit confirms you're picking the right pieces. No more wearing the wrong shirt with the wrong trousers.
Track your food and never miss an expiry date
Point your camera at a product and TagFit reads the expiry date directly from the packaging. It also scans the barcode to auto-fill the product name and
brand. You get notifications before things expire, and it even tracks "once opened" periods (e.g. "use within 3 days after opening").
Adding items is fast
You don't need to type anything. Just record a voice message — say something like "Blue cotton shirt, size M, wash at 30 degrees" — and AI turns it into
a structured item with all the fields filled in. For food, scan the barcode and the expiry date, and you're done. The whole process takes seconds.
Print your own labels
You don't need to buy special labels — just get a sheet of adhesive paper (any stationery shop), and TagFit emails you a printable PDF with QR codes. Stick
them on jars, boxes, containers, wherever you need them. For clothes, NFC tags are the best option: they're small, washable, and you don't need to point
a camera — just bring the tag close to your phone and it reads instantly.
Other highlights:
Cloud sync and sharing — Sync across devices and share containers with family or housemates (e.g. a shared "Fridge" container where everyone can add items).
Multi-code detection — When multiple tagged items are in the camera frame, VoiceOver announces each one with its relative distance (close, medium, far),
so you can find a specific item in a drawer or shelf. Sound feedback — Distinct sounds for every scan event, so you always know what's happening without
waiting for VoiceOver to finish speaking. Interactive tutorial — A step-by-step guide that walks you through everything the first time you use the app.
5 languages — English, Spanish, French, Italian, and Portuguese.
Accessibility is not an afterthought
I use VoiceOver every day. Every screen, every button, every flow has been built and tested with VoiceOver from the start.
What I'm looking for
I'd love feedback on the overall experience, any VoiceOver issues I may have missed, and how well the scanning features work with your actual products
at home. All feedback is welcome. TestFlight link: testflight.apple.com/join/8Gks…
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Okay, Martin! You've really done it this time! This app is absolutely brilliant! I've been looking for something like this for years!
The Great Toy Robbery 2.11 is here. Now with native Linux support plus some game pad and audio fixes. l-works.net/tgtr.php
The Great Toy Robbery - LWorks
LWorks creates accessible audio games for the visually impaired and blind community. Affordable, engaging games since 2002.l-works.net
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Yay, awesome! I started playing superliam xd. I am stuck in the lab, currently. Iam not on my personal mac, but I will download it once I get back home from the holidays, since it's easter here.
This week I got confirmation from @nlnet that they are going to sponsor the implementation of spaces in Matridge, the XMPP/Matrix gateway based on slidge.im
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Long live open, federated chat platforms made for humans!
slidge.im — Gateways from XMPP to Other Networks
Slidge is a chat gateway library for XMPP built in Python, and a set of gateways for other networks.slidge.im
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This year, I will have been podcasting for 22 years, since the very beginning of this form of content delivery. I love it, and I enjoy sharing what I know about the process of making podcasts, as well as learning from others.
Some time ago, I started an email list for blind people creating podcasts, or for those who would like advice about getting into podcasting.
I’ve been hosting this on its own domain, but in recent times, increasingly, self-hosted Mailman solutions are being hit with delivery problems, particularly to Microsoft-hosted email addresses.
These problems can take a lot of effort to troubleshoot, and my schedule doesn’t permit devoting too much time to it. So I have decided to move the group to a professionally run email group provider, which handles these things because groups are all they do.
Unfortunately, over the last month or two, we’ve lost all the people who were subscribed via Microsoft addresses, but I am hoping word of mouth will eventually get everyone back.
So, if you were once on the group but got bounced off, or this is the first time you’ve heard about it and would like to be a part of it, here is the URL with a simple sign-up form to become part of the Blind Podcasters group.
gaggle.email/join/blindpodcast…
Join - Blind Podcasters
Gaggle Mail is the simplest way to setup and manage a group email address for small groups and clubs.gaggle.email
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@ChocolatePie I just signed up and have gotten this thing that's wanting me to sign up with gaggle mail. Is that necessary or can I close that site?
@ChocolatePie Gaggle mail is the host of the email list. Signing up with help you maintain subscriptions if you subscribe to multiple lists hosted on there, but it isn’t necessary.
@maerlynofmiria it helps if you're subscribed to multiple lists, but if it's only 1, it isn't necessary.
Trying to learn to use lldb, since it seems to be the preferred debugger for WebKit.
Every time I type a character, it appears to briefly print the target (or a notice saying, "no target") on the last line of the screen, then clear it. I wonder why it is doing that.
I've encountered a similar issue with vim, so, a while ago, I added a thing in yasr so that it can optionally not read things printed to a certain part of the screen. So now it appears I can use that for lldb and work around the main screen reader issue that I'm having with it. Edit: This also prevents new text from being read, since it initially appears on the bottom line, so it isn't ideal either. Oh, but yasr seems to be receiving <esc>[1;74r and not handling it correctly, so that is likely part of my issue.
Also found a way to crash yasr, but, since it is probably only affecting me, and only if I deliberately do the thing that made it crash, I feel like spending time fixing this crash isn't what I should be doing at the moment.
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Hello! You can now finally find all of the FastSuite apps on one page! Going forward, the apps will be hosted here. masonasons.me/pages/FastSuite.…
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@Jonathan @frog67 OK, it now seems to be working. Part of the issue was MalwareBytes Browser Guard which claimed to have detected a trojan on the page, which is likely a false positive. Part of this could have been due to Xfinity's Advanced Security. The weird thing was that most of the time those services did not activate when I visited the page; the error seemed to be coming from the browser itself. I honestly don't know what to make of it but I kept telling these services that I wanted to visit the page anyway and now it's working.
I've just put out version 0.2.0 of Taskmon, my teeny tiny Task Manager replacement for Windows. Changelog:
Added a basic status bar.
Added a run dialog for launching new tasks.
Added Always on Top and Remember Window Position options.
Added 14 new columns:
GDI objects;
User objects;
Integrity;
Peak working set;
Virtual memory size;
Session;
Architecture;
User;
Command line;
Disk I/O;
Private bytes;
Page faults;
Priority;
and Process start time.
Add the ability to suspend and resume processes.
Added an option to change process priority.
Fixed an issue where CPU usage showed 0% on first run.
Fixed beep when pressing space after letter navigation in the settings column list.
Removed duplicate error message when launching a program fails.
Taskmon will now respect your system dark mode setting.
Download: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r…
Enjoy!
Added a basic status bar.
Added a run dialog for launching new tasks.
Added Always on Top and Remember Window Position options.
Added 14 new columns:
GDI objects;
User objects;
Integrity;
Peak working set;
Virtual memory size;
Session;
Architecture;
User;
Command line;
Disk I/O;
Private bytes;
Page faults;
Priority;
and Process start time.
Add the ability to suspend and resume processes.
Added an option to change process priority.
Fixed an issue where CPU usage showed 0% on first run.
Fixed beep when pressing space after letter navigation in the settings column list.
Removed duplicate error message when launching a program fails.
Taskmon will now respect your system dark mode setting.
Download: github.com/trypsynth/taskmon/r…
Enjoy!
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@Quin I'm thinking out loud if something might break by just renaming this into taskmgr.exe and replacing the original windows built-in task manager with this. Similarly how even microsoft now manages two different codebases of notepad.
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@pvagner I was wondering that too. I suspect Windows would clobber it during a repair or update or whatever, which isn't entirely unfair in many cases; all sorts of stuff likes to screw with Windows files it probably shouldn't, so Microsoft have gotten a bit protective there. Still, might be worth an experiment at some point. :)
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Same thing as what classic taskmanager does. You just define a registry alias with the debugger string, it might already exist. Could add it to the app in settings, an install and uninstall button. The trick with this is if you do that you legitimately cannot invoke the regular task manager anymore even by running it directly, that alias is at a higher level. So no fallbacks for you. Which means you absolutely better be feature complete before you do that.
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Interesting problem. The command line of a process ends up getting cut off. see here: python.exe; CPU %: 16.41; Memory: 4370480 K; Threads: 37; Started: 17:05:23; Command Line: "C:\python313\python.exe" "C:\python313\Scripts\whisper-ctrans; Architecture: x64
oh shit yeah. That would do it. May be worth adding some kind of process info dialog to get full readouts
I think you should add the dialog anyway. Give it a read only field with all available information, with a few action buttons like end task
Oh, that works, I was thinking a dialog that just did things and didn't need an OK or cancel button
I love the control shift grave thing. Keep your task manager open at all times and not have to wait 13000 years for it to open
that, it does. I think your earlier project might have come up a tiny tiny bit faster. But maybe that's win10 vs 11.
@Bri Hehehehe it was. But Taskmon makes its processes tab look like a toy roflrofl
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Yeah, it is. I think my biggest disappointments with windows 11 are the task manager, and the new notepad. You had one job!
@Bri and keyboard issues. I can see enough to click things and even though the right keyboard command is being pressed, sometimes I just need to click something to get it to actually respond...
@Bri when you hit a keyboard command and nothing happens - it's the keyboard handler somewhere locking. e.g. start menu not coming up immediately
@Bri Task manager itself does this, it has bigger columns but they do still get cut off and you have to use control+c to see the full thing, which copies an ASCII table almost. The behavior you're looking for visually shows up as an elipsis that you can scroll right to read, as in file managers. NVDA sees the full text in that case. Auto-fitting the column is not it, that will cause one big column to blow out the size of the control itself.
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Running Podman 
in production for years now, and I don't miss the Docker daemon one bit.
I just published a deep dive on managing OCI containers the Unix way: daemonless, rootless, and natively integrated with systemd via Quadlets.
I cover:
- Real secrets management
- Auto-updates via systemd timers
- The Docker compatibility layer
This is the guide I wish I had when making the switch.
Read it here: blog.hofstede.it/podman-in-pro…
#Podman #Linux #DevOps #Systemd #Homelab #Sysadmin #Containers
Podman in Production: Quadlets, Secrets, Auto-Updates, and Docker Compatibility
An opinionated production-ops guide to Podman on Linux servers - why I prefer it over Docker, how Quadlets replace Compose files, and practical patterns from real deployments including secrets mana...Christian Hofstede-Kuhn (Larvitz Blog)
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amazing guide, thanks for that! I started to write something similar last year, but never got far.
I quickly skimmed it and I have one practical tip though: It would be good to add how to create a service user, configure lingering, set XDG_RUNTIME_DIR and check if podman is working properly (including reboots, in some cases podman falls back to keep running data on file system which is persistent, not temporary, and refuses to start) - you'd never guess how I struggled with it a few years ago when I was starting with podman on a remote VM over ssh.
And I especially thank you for showing the traefik approach! I'm now manually configuring nginx, and it's quite a boring task.
Now I know what I'll be reading tomorrow!
I made the switch about two years ago and use Podman for embedded systems development. It's much easier than spinning up a VM and combined with VSCodium makes a nice IDE that allows remote debugging.
I've been on holiday in Japan for a bit over a week with my family. I really like it here. Some noteworthy things:
1. Everyone talks about this, but the variety and quality of food available in convenience stores - 7 11, etc. - is truly astounding. I wondered if perhaps it was highly processed, low quality, etc., but it really isn't. I hate cooking enough that if I lived here, I reckon I'd never cook again. 😂
2. Overall, people are much quieter and more considerate here. Even in relatively crowded spaces where I'm used to it being super loud - public transport, train stations, shopping centres, crowded streets, etc. - it's just so much quieter.
3. The bathrooms are so clean! Men's bathrooms in a lot of countries, including Australia, are often pretty smelly and awful. I've not experienced that once here. It just goes to show that it *is* possible for people to not behave like animals in public bathrooms if they want to. This seems to be an extension of people being generally more considerate overall.
4. My (albeit limited) experience is that there are far more physical buttons, far less ridiculous and unnecessary touch interfaces and much more use of braille and tactile markings on buttons. Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese braille, so this hasn't been as helpful as it could have been, but that's my fault. :)
5. Mobility accesssibility for blind people is probably better overall, but with some notable absences. Train announcements are consistent and super helpful, plus there are audible indications like music, bird sounds, etc. to aid with navigation and location, assuming you know what they mean. (I haven't figured them out yet.) Some escalators, elevators, bathrooms, etc. have audible indicators to help you find them. There are tactile ground markers all over the place, though of course they're still only useful if you have some sense of where you need to go. On the flip side, I've seen very few audible trafic lights, and the ones I have seen are far too subtle, difficult to locate and hard to distinguish. This lack seems kinda strange given how far ahead Japan is in those other areas. Australia is far more consistent and practical in this one area IMO.
6. The public transport system is incredible; frequent, fast, efficient. To be fair, I live in Brisbane, so any decent public transport system impresses me.
1. Everyone talks about this, but the variety and quality of food available in convenience stores - 7 11, etc. - is truly astounding. I wondered if perhaps it was highly processed, low quality, etc., but it really isn't. I hate cooking enough that if I lived here, I reckon I'd never cook again. 😂
2. Overall, people are much quieter and more considerate here. Even in relatively crowded spaces where I'm used to it being super loud - public transport, train stations, shopping centres, crowded streets, etc. - it's just so much quieter.
3. The bathrooms are so clean! Men's bathrooms in a lot of countries, including Australia, are often pretty smelly and awful. I've not experienced that once here. It just goes to show that it *is* possible for people to not behave like animals in public bathrooms if they want to. This seems to be an extension of people being generally more considerate overall.
4. My (albeit limited) experience is that there are far more physical buttons, far less ridiculous and unnecessary touch interfaces and much more use of braille and tactile markings on buttons. Unfortunately, I can't read Japanese braille, so this hasn't been as helpful as it could have been, but that's my fault. :)
5. Mobility accesssibility for blind people is probably better overall, but with some notable absences. Train announcements are consistent and super helpful, plus there are audible indications like music, bird sounds, etc. to aid with navigation and location, assuming you know what they mean. (I haven't figured them out yet.) Some escalators, elevators, bathrooms, etc. have audible indicators to help you find them. There are tactile ground markers all over the place, though of course they're still only useful if you have some sense of where you need to go. On the flip side, I've seen very few audible trafic lights, and the ones I have seen are far too subtle, difficult to locate and hard to distinguish. This lack seems kinda strange given how far ahead Japan is in those other areas. Australia is far more consistent and practical in this one area IMO.
6. The public transport system is incredible; frequent, fast, efficient. To be fair, I live in Brisbane, so any decent public transport system impresses me.
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I love that the train stations in Japan all have numeric identifiers and those are always included in the onboard announcements. This makes it easy to work out how many stations you are from your destination and helps you identify the station in case you miss the name.
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Seriously wish they would do that in the train system in Brisbane, LOL. Then again they can’t even seem to keep the trains running for long enough to worry about it.
Oh damn, I am probably very old school.
I've spun up an 4GB memory aarch64 vm on my laptop to build some packages patched to run in the android virtualization framework environment. Now building the linux kernel takes 17 hours and counting.
I've spun up an 4GB memory aarch64 vm on my laptop to build some packages patched to run in the android virtualization framework environment. Now building the linux kernel takes 17 hours and counting.
kaskade 2.0 has been officially released. Get it here.
tunmi13.itch.io/kaskade
I have tested it on my end and it works fine, however if you experience any bugs or inconsistencies, let me know.
Also, keep in mind that everything (including this game) is still 25% off. Kaskade is currently $5.99USD at the time of this post.
tunmi13.itch.io/kaskade
I have tested it on my end and it works fine, however if you experience any bugs or inconsistencies, let me know.
Also, keep in mind that everything (including this game) is still 25% off. Kaskade is currently $5.99USD at the time of this post.
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loving this game so far, but damn level 30 is such a struggle now, can bearly survive even when I got tuns of health drinks and grenades
TapType v3.0 is out! This release includes two of the most requested features.
French language support: Full AZERTY layout with a 50,000 word dictionary and all announcements translated.
Traditional keyboard mode: A new way to use TapType without swiping. Every tap types a character immediately. Visible buttons for space, delete, enter, shift, numbers, and emoji are built into the keyboard surface. Word predictions appear at the top, tap one to accept it. Hold and drag to explore keys with no delay. Two-finger tap opens the mode selector through the prediction bar. Enable it in Settings, Keyboard, Traditional keyboard.
The traditional mode still uses the same spatial layout under the hood, so your muscle memory carries over. It just removes the need to learn swipe gestures before you can start typing.
Also new in v3.0: delete by character setting. Up-down swipe gesture for newline. Emoji favourites now use up-down swipe instead of long press. Bug fixes for foldable device passthrough, word deletion after cursor movement, and repeated character announcements. The entire app is fully localized in English, German, Spanish, and French.
Download: github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-re…
TapType is a free Android keyboard for blind users. No visible keys, you tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial algorithm predicts the intended word. Fully accessible with TalkBack.
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #ScreenReader #TalkBack #Keyboard
French language support: Full AZERTY layout with a 50,000 word dictionary and all announcements translated.
Traditional keyboard mode: A new way to use TapType without swiping. Every tap types a character immediately. Visible buttons for space, delete, enter, shift, numbers, and emoji are built into the keyboard surface. Word predictions appear at the top, tap one to accept it. Hold and drag to explore keys with no delay. Two-finger tap opens the mode selector through the prediction bar. Enable it in Settings, Keyboard, Traditional keyboard.
The traditional mode still uses the same spatial layout under the hood, so your muscle memory carries over. It just removes the need to learn swipe gestures before you can start typing.
Also new in v3.0: delete by character setting. Up-down swipe gesture for newline. Emoji favourites now use up-down swipe instead of long press. Bug fixes for foldable device passthrough, word deletion after cursor movement, and repeated character announcements. The entire app is fully localized in English, German, Spanish, and French.
Download: github.com/aaron-gh/taptype-re…
TapType is a free Android keyboard for blind users. No visible keys, you tap where QWERTY keys would be from muscle memory, and a spatial algorithm predicts the intended word. Fully accessible with TalkBack.
#TapType #Accessibility #A11y #Android #Blind #ScreenReader #TalkBack #Keyboard
Release TapType 3.0 · aaron-gh/taptype-releases
TapType v3.0 — Release Notes French language support TapType now supports French with a full AZERTY layout, 50,000-word frequency dictionary, and all keyboard speech, announcements, and UI fully tr...GitHub
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@aaron the traditional keyboard mode is so fast.. I still prefer the prediction mode for myself.. Great work as always..
@pvagner one of the requirements for traditional mode was that it had to be faster than gboard otherwise I wasn't releasing it. .
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My dad is partially sighted with poor motor control. He likes audiobooks but every player I tried had tiny buttons and too many screens.
I’ve now made this one. Two screens, big controls, high contrast.
When I want to send him a new book, I just text him a link — he taps it and the book appears in his library.
It always comes back to the last book he was playing, ready to play again.
The settings are configurable via a link too.
This is very much made for my exact specific needs with him, but it’s open source and free if it helps anyone else.
apps.apple.com/gb/app/easy-aud…
github.com/griches/EasyAudioBo…
#iOS
#Accessibility
#Audiobooks
#OpenSource
#AI
Easy AudioBook App - App Store
Download Easy AudioBook by Bouncing Ball Games on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more games like Easy AudioBook.App Store
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For people wanting similar functionality on Android I highly recommend Simple Audiobook Player.
There's a related project on f-droid for android devices:
> Homer turns any Android tablet into a dedicated, easy-to-use audio player for seniors. Caregivers configure the app and manage content, while loved ones enjoy audiobooks and podcasts independently - without confusion or mistakes.
Has a big ui for the visually inpaired. The caregiver has to be present to configure the app though. I like the idea in your app of controlling things via texting.
f-droid.org/packages/com.studi…
Homer Audio Player for Seniors | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository
Caregiver-managed audiobook and podcast player for seniorsf-droid.org
Well this is fun! This NVDA Remote Companion app just got an android version. Haven't tested it. github.com/gozaltech/NVDARemot…
GitHub - gozaltech/NVDARemoteCompanion: A cross-platform NVDA Remote client
A cross-platform NVDA Remote client. Contribute to gozaltech/NVDARemoteCompanion development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
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@accessibleandroid It's pretty good, but has a few issues with speech interruption, and the app doesn't make it obvious you need to enable the accessibility service to send keys to the remote computer. You also can't interact with the remote pc without connecting a keyoard.
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Paralino, an easy-to-use encrypted location sharing app can use UnifiedPush to notify your devices!
Interestingly, to our knowledge, this is the first proprietary application to support the protocol. However, this support is part of an effort to open up the clients.
This entry was edited (Friday, April 3, 2026, 7:56 AM)
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Congratulations!
It's a shame that #Paralino isn't open source, which makes it hard to trust its #e2ee credentials, but still a nice boost for UnifiedPush.
It really should be adopted as the standard for notifications, as it demonstrates that Google's infrastructure is not necessary. As I've understood it, there's zero need for developers to use Firebase, at least for notifications.
Now let's hope Paralino also opens up the servers, and goes FULLY open source.
A good comparison of some of the multiline braille options.
TMA Tactile Talk:Multi-Line Tactile Displays in Practice w/Dave Williams Jennifer Wenzel & Ed Rogers
youtube.com/watch?v=TOJEW9r0wW…
TMA Tactile Talk:Multi-Line Tactile Displays in Practice w/Dave Williams Jennifer Wenzel & Ed Rogers
youtube.com/watch?v=TOJEW9r0wW…
TMA Tactile Talk:Multi-Line Tactile Displays in Practice w/Dave Williams Jennifer Wenzel & Ed Rogers
This is a recording of our Tactile Talk on Thursday, March 5th, 2026 with Dave Williams (Dot Inc.; Braillists Foundation), Jennifer Wenzel (American Printing...Tactile Media Alliance (YouTube)
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After three intense months of work from more than a dozen contributors, #deltachat 2.48 releases are rolling. Maybe the most feature-packed releases ever?
- "zero metadata" messaging
- native Audio/Video calls on Android and iOS, as well as UbuntuTouch
- Group and Channel descriptions
- A new background audio player
- Revamped Download-on-Demand
and, last but not least, the long-awaited next-generation of messaging resiliency through "multi-path" routing ....
Delta Chat: Zero metadata, group descriptions, native audio/video calls and much more!
With the latest 2.48+ releases, a chat message reveals close to zero metadata to servers. For cryptographers and messenger enthusiasts, here are the key points on how we turned email very close to ...delta.chat
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@Pug f-droid offers 2.48.0 since yesterday. maybe the index inside the f-droid app needs a refresh if you do not see the update
Finally got on the XMPP train. It only took for ever. Reachable at fireborn@conversations.im
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@freya Not the best keyboard navigation support, but decent enough. Seems to have better support for group conversations than Miranda NG. What would be most ideal would be a native app built around Snikket's sdk. snikket.org/blog/borogove-the-…
Introducing Borogove, the new Snikket SDK
Our in-development SDK finally has its own name.Snikket Chat
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One day of #Marschine left, so here's one I made earlier.
In 2024 I decided to try to make something that sounds like the D&B that was used a lot in 90s racing video games. I called it Thingy Racer.
I originally posted this on here after I made it, but I quite like it so here it is again.
I feel like trying to make something else like it but better.
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You're very welcome. Thank you for participating. :) One more than I thoguht would honestly.
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SFTPGo is an open-source file server supporting SFTP, FTP/S, WebDAV, and HTTP/S.Use local storage or cloud backends like S3, Google Cloud, or Azure.
Includes a web interface, multi-user support, permissions, and automation making it a solid option for secure file sharing or replacing legacy FTP setups.
👉 github.com/drakkan/sftpgo
👉 more privacy-friendly tools: digital-escape-tools-phi.verce…
#OpenSource #SelfHosting #FileSharing #Homelab #Privacy #DigitalMinimalism
Digital Escape Tools – Privacy & Security Software 2026
Discover the best privacy tools and secure software in 2026. Open-source apps, encrypted services, and guides to protect your online privacy and fight surveillance.digital-escape-tools-phi.vercel.app
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For any fans of retro speech synthesis, a legend has spoken at last - well at least a legend for me. In the early 00's, Wirtualna Polska, one of the leading web portals providing free-of-charge mailboxes, daily news, TV schedule and many things that made Internet attractive at that time, has released their own speech synthesizer dubbed, very creatively, Syntezator Mowy WP. The main goal of it was to read out messages and contact status changes in their instant messaging app, WP Kontakt, later Spik, pronounced like the English word "speak". It was an exe running in the system tray, waiting to be sent text. It wasn't compatible with any SAPI version and other than WP Kontakt, it was only ever used in various instant messaging software, mostly through third-party plugins. It's based off Festival but the voice base belonged to WP. Years have passed, the instant messaging scene in Poland, once ripe with local products, was taken over by the international solutions the likes of Facebook Messenger and Whatsapp and so Spik and the accompanying TTS ceased being developed further. The installers for both the male and female voices are hard to come by (the male one is still hosted by several general purpose websites with installers for all sorts of things but I still pulled it off one of the old copies of the original website that the Internet Archive has to offer). The link for the female voice is dead there and the only single lead I got by Googling the original installer's file name is a web folder of someone on a Polish file hosting website - sadly, this one's expired too, so unless someone's got a copy of it locally, it may very well be lost media. The original software can be installed but won't speak. Thanks to one friend tinkering a little, it started speaking through all sorts of modern things and the attached recording is the male voice reading huge numbers - it could actually go upto heptillions. #RetroTech #Accessibility #Blind #TextToSpeech
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If you know the filename for the female voice installer, it might be on discmaster.textfiles.com/, which is a huge searchable archive of CDRoms included with magazines, software collections and ftps. They have a lot of Polish magazines in there too so if any of them ever included it it could be in there.
@pitermach Thanks - great resource that is! Sadly, no dice - only the same male voice installer I've already got in a 2002 issue of Chip.
@spacepup if y'all ever get this voice working properly I'd love it. Been investigating that one too but I couldn't easily write an NVDA add-on at the time for it because it has the festvox integration. I then considered, if it's just regular festival data, it may be possible to just use it directly within estival, but that route also failed me. So yeah, very pleased y'all got this working. I would like to have a solid Polish voice to compare against when developing TGSpeechbox so while this isn't the most clearest example of one, it could work better than SMP does.
@spacepup @Tamasg Have a poke around the following Github repo, you might find some inspiration regarding Polish there: github.com/turekcom
And speaking of friends and tech things, another person took a stab at having an iOS app created that is a completely VoiceOver accessible FMDX and Kiwi SDR tuner with all sorts of nifty features like automatic RDS read out by VO, tuning through the rotor and headphone controls, all of the web interface features like the presets, built-in chat etc. as well as recording the played radio output. Having been involved in testing, I can say this is the closest we may get to having an actual global radio receiver on a mobile device. Android version in the making. testflight.apple.com/join/bbTv… #Radio #Accessibility #Blind #iOS
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This was a very cool tip. Been enjoying testing it out over the past few days. So much easier to use than the web frontends that I have tried. Thanks for mentioning it.
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